Haunting images of a once-busy city now abandoned and preserved in time look like a scene from a post-apocalyptic horror film. Pripyat city in the Ukraine once housed the families of thousands of men and women working at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. But on 26 April 1986 disaster struck when an explosion at the plant caused radiation to leak from its nuclear rector.
Ukranian government escort looks at the deserted city from the hotel roof
A damaged bicycle frame inside the hallway of the abandoned Pripyat Hospital
The front desk at the abandoned Hotel Pripyat
An inside view of the lecture hall at the Soviet-era Palace of Culture
An abandoned room inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture
A view of the deserted sports hall
Headless mannequin found at a general store
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