twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian sound of its was evacuated within three hours. could you please step aside i'm working on you getting in my shorts thank you they left most of what they had here as they were told they were leaving only for a couple of days but none of them has ever returned oh thing they saw people moving their old sound was the fourth floor of the church of noble nuclear power plants devastated by a volatile explosion. ok

where are we going. number we need to go into previous post office geniuses be pretty recently i received a notification to pick up a letter here in preview at the national that's impossible for the post office hasn't been working for twenty five years i don't think it's for real. or show me stumped range but according to the stamp this really has come from here do you know where this post office is yes i know the book. the full. extent. of it in the little people still all these trees that you see they've all grown

streets the accident was and right now we're going to be passing the house where i was born. the fifth hickey. we came to the chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate a very strange story this place has been deserted for a quarter of a century but recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in previous i'm holding one of those here and indeed the stamp here proves that it came from the ghost town a huge. case of. the frankly speaking i don't know what to look for. that is much more you describe these

notices have no addresses nor names of those who had sent them. thank you. i thank you no. which is going to be honestly speaking i don't think we're going to find anything here. most of the things that remained here and in the apartments were later buried. but i knew i didn't keep them because they were very radioactive . and the rest was stolen by scavengers.

here's a letter which someone for you to send from here. because there is a photo inside. it's lucky you. have all the times i've been here i've never seen anything like this. this is this is. do cell phones work here. they work at the nuclear power plant and sometimes they work here. hello how i looked with the who we are calling our high i'll be away from work tonight can i pick my daughter up from kindergarden. scuse me who is it calling i beg your pardon i must have done the wrong number. i don't get it.

our investigation brings us to one of the gardens and this one is truly a horrifying scene most of the things one can see here have been left untouched ever since the catastrophe and this site which gives probably the best description and most dramatic one of the chernobyl tragedy is that children's toys i lay literally side by side with military gas masks. which. at the moment of this is my kindergarten i do i used to go here. we used to be many children in p.p. a lot of the greatest authorities from all over the soviet union came here to operate the nuclear power station all the mostly young people that are still and they thought that they were waiting for a bright future. so this town experienced a baby boom. on the spot no one used the gas masks would look out there because the

catastrophe happened on a saturday. they'd been kept here and were left untouched. after a couple of ministers what was in that letter you found. there is a photograph inside. here have a look. look through the proper trickle it seems it was written by a child a small girl. just to try their story i was so glad having received your letter so i decided to reply at once my mom got me any adult she's so beautiful that i'm sometimes afraid to play with her when i go to school in the morning i put her by the window and make a bet for her in the evening i love her dearly the weather has already been very warm here we'll be having a holiday soon my parents and my it will go to

a rally will be inflating balloons and after that there will be a concert in the house of cultural activities my sister will be dancing there even though she's small she's already a great dancer for missing you very much please come and visit us from this country we're missing you very much pretty easily as come visit us in the summer less rhythms here women are supposed learn it mentions the first may vents in the previous house of culture and kids from this kindergarten were to perform at a concert there. when was that letter written. of course did all the date on the envelope as it was meant to be sent and go to school just the day before the catastrophe.

not going to nobody on the eve of the catastrophe many celebrations had new claim for saturday and sunday why did they always schedule wedding celebrations and children sponsors for the weekend that was even when the tragedy happened we didn't call off the festive events for the living children were breathing this year as it was a hard day and the events were out in the open many people were in the parks and i know that there were weddings in the house of culture in the end we were informed that it was very serious and that we were to go home and pack up for evacuation. may the first was one of the biggest communist holidays in the soviet union the labor day people's house of culture still has a collection of posters with soviet leader they were meant to be carried at

a traditional demonstration and the stage over here was meant to become a venue for a holiday concert. alexy alexei if not all question look what i found a simple one it's a fireman suit. could it be that it belonged to one of those firefighters who fought the blaze at the nuclear power plant. then you know that's a little no question but you get most of them died just the water and their gear was still radioactive for. revolution then it was destroyed almost immediately afterwards. let you know that used to be an amateur theatre here maybe it's there's got to be honest i feel we're stuck with basically got any ideas where we could go next. well there used to be a library here you could check out the rangers profile cards.

you know the city was very beautiful work but it was meant to be kind of a role model for others. like the best place communist society could ever built perfectly planned and constructed. was meant to be a paradise for those building communism. wait a minute i found a note inside this picture book it looks like a page from someone's diary. it is dated april the twenty fifth nineteen eighty six we're preparing an experiment at the

station we'll be bringing the reactor to a stop we have some heated debates most of us assure that we're doing everything right but still cannot come to a conclusion the times it seems we're talking on different languages combo of make it come from nowhere was a confrontation before more workers did not want to keep the unstable reactor in operational. flew from for control according to conversations and documentation that have been published already the reactor was out of control. on the twenty fifth of april the employees were saying that it was faulty solution but the bosses were demanded that they should finish the experiment that you know that they were performing on the unstable reactor of the. danish time ago and i saw a picture and daughters are book with a babylonian tower i joked that we have now finally built it that's been me in the grey of the steroid.

i'm on top of tallest building it is the best vantage points to see the chernobyl nuclear power plant straight after the disaster it was covered by steel lead cold the search underneath it are still tons of radioactive fuel and deadly levels of radiation but if you don't know that from here it almost looks a life. quite a few of those now we know the apartment we're looking for should be somewhere here . do you know where this drawing came from. it appears here several years ago

actually i don't know the elevator shaft is open so be careful we need to go this way or your let's go. i tension a new model here. i turn shannon. i knew. i tension on one of the new breads got up on the council of the town i reports it was a usual saturday and it was a very warm day we did not feel like studying but after the second lesson teachers were called for a meeting and left us to ourselves at the time we heard that something bad had happened at the reactor. many of the children's parents worked there and they talked about what they had heard from them goulston from i learned that there had been a blaze at the station and several people were injured. but we could not imagine how serious it was felt that a fire was nothing to be afraid of at school we were taught that atomic energy was

the safest in the world. ultimately getting. close to a kid when the tragedy happened we played outdoors with to the rooftop and saw the blaze at the station there was smoke coming out of the building from the explosion really ition levels were already stream way high. horse everyone young and old was exposed to huge radiation doses. still works. still. there's almost nothing left here. the most can you look through you are maybe there is some information about this person there yes just a second yes that yes i have something he was one of those who was supposed to be performing an experiment at the station which means that during the moment of the explosion he should have been there all of the workers who were working at the

fourth block were immediately sent to a hospital as they were severely or radiated i mean we could go to the hospital maybe we can find something they're going to get. that is a good idea that's the image. of what about his family. i don't know. i have no information on them. the injuries were different. but the majority were exposed to the

fourth radiation levels. and received third or fourth degree burns and. one patient died of burns and me and the others were treated as a helmet a cool facility. and then the abort to mosco sucky ability shows with a level of radiation bring shaw for disoriented and the rest. i know the injured are being brought here from the power plant they are all covered in radioactive dust and. we are receiving strong those disappeared to and we are

completely i'm ready for what has happened i don't believe in all this at that it just can't be happening this is real hell we spoke. with because i know i found it inside with a patient record cardinal. we need to leave what's happening we are leaving.

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with. it. it should make your decision quicker the radiation levels are very high here.

just medical stuff but the sucky please tell me what is this cross doing there it's also on the can just see it's a protective cross there are four of them in the ukraine west and they form a square garden just in the south in the east and in the west this is the northern one. your cell phone works you have

a fever which has no there's no signal whatsoever. well then we're stuck. and there's a post here hold this book and have them use you and there's a village not far from here. well both because they are on the other side of the river a few elderly couples live there in the form they might have a radio phone upgrade if you die and at least we can stay overnight.

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as we walked through the field i saw a herd of wild horses you know where they come from beirut they were brought here straight after the catastrophe in the ninety's and it was an experiment to see how they would survive the radiation and now they've grown into a huge population the same happened to all the other animals there's no people here that's why they for. well safe walking. what is this village who lives here there's a couple of elderly people that live here but as do women if they were evacuated out of the cash they're going to take are they here they were is to say well they

came back they resettled here of their own free will oh hello and my free will and you go right now hello hello there how do you live here on your own there's no transportation facilities caspar pointed out other provide us with the free bus to the city for you they want when we need something from home article it used to be one some months how often we were unsure on how this is a stressful for them but now it's less often. this horse is used by everyone in this election when they need to carry some final push was. not maybe one of the most delicious people who are there near the stove maybe. that was i will give you blankets and pillows and someone had that controls on

a blanket or something and set ourselves up for. it. i still don't understand me those post notices. you remember the old man who appeared just across the river. apparently he's a post man. and once a fortnight it cruises up and down the river and delivers mail. so you think he did

it for. you maybe i don't know who's new or maybe somebody else maybe it was a mistake. here it's interesting that a lot has a simple chemistry at first but there's such an easy solution. apart from researchers we have seen do you think anyone will ever come back here. i don't know . the start congregates they built in one thousand nine hundred six it was in temporary they said it was temporary because it would last for twenty to thirty years now they're building a new one. this one's supposed to last one hundred years and you know it's funny when they also call it temporary that means that both you and i and our children will be gone and it'll still be standing there after all who walks through. and have a look at these pictures i still don't understand why describe this town as beautiful to me it looks like an ordinary saudi town typical buildings and planning there

were thousands of towns like that across the country it was beautiful because we lived here you know i've been having this feeling that you just cannot let go of all that happened here. i was if you continue fighting the zone ok now can i forgive it christiane. well let's just maybe try talking to the zone. it's not sending me letters in order to well those i received were not directed to me either yes when you've been through this they were not meant for you. and you would never have found them in the first place.