every visit and emotions twenty five years ago what is now a preview what's his home before the chernobyl falwell changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos of it still feels like home. i spent my best childhood years here along to cheer me up and even those who've never been here before come and feel they can be pretty silly want to come back here. alexander is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six the variation is one of youngest districts in the late one nine hundred eighty s. houses sprung up here literally overnight many of those who had to leave their homes in the chernobyl area found their home here a total of three hundred thousand people had to be resettled from the contaminated land this new life came at a high price for some reason the soviet authorities meddled with the evacuation from the contaminated zone fifty thousand people residents the town just three kilometers from the exploded reactor were subjected to a great deal of radiation the town's former deputy mayor says this drea