Ambientazione storica e geografica del posto

Chernobyl is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Ivankiv

Raion of northern Kiev Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about 90 kilometres (60 mi) north of Kiev, and

160 kilometres (100 mi) southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel. Before its evacuation, the city

had about 14,000 residents, while around 1,000 people live in the city now.

USSR’s map in red the Ukraine

The city was evacuated on 5 May 1986, 9 days after the nuclear accident at the nearby Chernobyl

Nuclear Power Plant, which was the most disastrous nuclear accident in history. The plant is 15

kilometres (9 mi) north of the Chernobyl city. Pripyat is a city much closer to the plant; it was built

in the 1970s as a home for the power-plant's workers, and its population of 50,000 was evacuated

30 hours after the accident. The city of Slavutych, built for those evacuated from Pripyat, also

received the population evacuated from Chernobyl.

La zona contaminata dopo l’esplosione

Although Chernobyl is mostly a ghost town today, a small number of animals and people still live

there, in houses marked with signs that read, "Owner of this house lives here". Workers on watch

and administrative personnel of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are also stationed in the city. There

are two general stores, and a tourist hotel.

The leader of the Soviet Union was Michail Gorbachev who claimed that the decline of the Soviet

Union was characterized in a big way by the explosion of Chernobyl reactor 4.