http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcmorte/tags/ghosttown/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:01:35 -0800 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:01:35 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm1.staticflickr.com/161/buddyicons/67795318@N00.jpg?1170693896#67795318@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcmorte/tags/ghosttown/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcmorte/384778142/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/marcmorte/">Marc Morte</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcmorte/384778142/" title="20 years after the Chernobyl disaster"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/126/384778142_9df7e4c278_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20 years after the Chernobyl disaster" /></a></p> <p>The amusement park in the abandoned city of Pripyat.The park had to be inaugurated on 1 May 1986, but the Chernobyl accident on April 26 left the amusement park derelict forever, Ukraine, Pripyat was a city of 50.000 inhabitants, mostly workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. Two days after the accident the soviet government evacuated the city promising that they will be able to return to their homes soon. Since 1986 Pripyat has been a ghost city, and their former inhabitants were placed in other cities.</p> Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:01:35 -0800 2005-06-14T13:25:01-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Marc Morte) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/384778142 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster <p>The amusement park in the abandoned city of Pripyat.The park had to be inaugurated on 1 May 1986, but the Chernobyl accident on April 26 left the amusement park derelict forever, Ukraine, Pripyat was a city of 50.000 inhabitants, mostly workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. Two days after the accident the soviet government evacuated the city promising that they will be able to return to their homes soon. Since 1986 Pripyat has been a ghost city, and their former inhabitants were placed in other cities.</p> Marc Morte abandoned ecology europe ukraine ghosttown amusementpark derelict sovietunion ussr chernobyl nuclearpowerplant nuclearenergy ecologicaldisaster ghostcity pripyat pripiat nucleardisaster aplusphoto