When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine — There's a silence in Pripyat that's unsettling but also hauntingly peaceful. There's no traffic or commotion in the streets or on the sidewalks. In fact, there are no cars or people ...

Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of ...

The word Chernobyl became known worldwide shortly after the 1986 blast. The small town Pripyat, situated just 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, up to this day serves to remind about the ...

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Walking through empty streets where laughter once filled the air feels deeply unsettling. These abandoned places tell stories of dreams that crumbled, disasters that changed everything, and ...

On the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, The Athletic’s Richard Sutcliffe recalls a visit to the nearby town of Pripyat, once home to a proud and ambitious football club, ...

British cinematographer Danny Cooke has captured the abandoned city of Pripyat in the Chernobyl Zone Of Alienation on film using a drone. Cooke shot the footage when he was in Chernobyl on assignment ...

Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 ...