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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Lens: Nikon AF Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G IF-ED DX
Galleries: Black and White, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Sep 1, 2008

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Prypiat is an abandoned city in the Zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. It was home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. The city was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident.
Until recently, the site was practically a museum, documenting the late Soviet era. Apartment buildings, swimming pools, hospitals and other buildings were all abandoned, and everything inside the buildings was left behind, including records, papers, TVs, children's toys, furniture, valuables, and clothing, etc. that any normal family would have with them. During the evacuation, that took place two days after the accident, residents were only allowed to take away a suitcase full of documents, books and clothes that were not contaminated.

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12/27/2008 05:07:14 AM
Excellent use of the fisheye! You said "until recently" - have they begun to clean up the stuff left behind now?
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