Russian village within Chernobyl evacuation zone, 1996

Bryansk Region, Russia. Grocery shop stands empty in a village within the Chernobyl evacuation zone, local products heavily contaminated by radiation. However, a decade since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster some residents come back to restore abandoned homes, breed farm animals and cultivate the lands as they feel like belonging here. Leonid Sverdlov/ITAR-TASS

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