Russian village within Chernobyl evacuation zone, 1996

Bryansk Region, Russia. Dosimeter registers almost fivefold excess radiation background of the mushrooms gathered and dried by the few residents left so far in the local village of Svyatsk a decade since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Svyatsk used to be the large and well-off Old Believers village numbering some 700 residents most of which had to leave due to radioactive contamination of the area. Leonid Sverdlov/ITAR-TASS

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Bryansk Chernobyl Contamination Decade Dried Excess Fivefold Leonid Mushrooms Numbering Radiation Radioactive Registers Residents Sverdlov Svyatsk Well-off

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