Gerd Ludwigのインスタグラム(gerdludwig) - 11月28日 03時54分

A battered doll keeps company with Vladimir Lenin in a kindergarten in Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986 reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant blew up. The radioactive fallout spread over thousands of square kilometers, driving more than a quarter of a million people permanently from their homes. In 2011, the Ukrainian government legalized trips to the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Chernobyl has since become a disaster-tourism destination.

The most riveting attraction for visitors is the ghost town of Pripyat. Formerly home to almost 50,000 people, Pripyat is now in decay: dolls are scattered in abandoned kindergartens, floors are rotting and paint is peeling from the walls.

Today however, Pripyat bears less than honest witness to its abrupt abandonment as tourists have stealthily started to alter the landscape by re-arranging items when left unaccompanied.

You can learn more about the Chernobyl catastrophe from my book and iPad app, which resulted from decades of covering the aftermath of the disaster: “The Long Shadow of Chernobyl.” @thephotosociety @ナショナルジオグラフィック @natgeocreative #Chernobyl #CNPP #Pripyat #stilllife #abandoned #destruction #radiation #doll #Lenin #LongShadowofChernobyl

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