Photos from Pripyat, abandoned Chernobyl workers' town


Here's a massive, haunting collection of photos from Pripyat, Ukraine, the industrial city that housed Chernobyl's workforce. It's been an abandoned radioactive no-go zone for some 23 years now, gradually sinking into ruin, and it just gets more and more beautiful and melancholy.

Ukraine, Pripyat. 2009

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Cory Doctorow

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