And all unexpectedly left because of the terrible event. All escaped from one of the greatest dangers for modern man - a nuclear catastrophe, which imposed a curse on this place, a curse from which it is impossible to get rid of for thousands of years. Today it is the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Like the mythical forgotten city, swallowed by the forest, it quickly turns into a green and peaceful place, but it will be remembered forever as the worst place in the history of nuclear tragedy. In 1986, a nuclear accident occurred in this area. For more than 20 years, no one has been allowed to live here, and today it stands as dumb evidence of the terrible consequences of a nuclear disaster. For all mankind, this place is a restricted area.
On the outskirts of the city there are empty villages surrounded by forests. Many of them became a haven for an unexpected symbiosis of wild forest dwellers and descendants of abandoned pets from Chernobyl. This is a story about some animals that have turned this abandoned place into their home. They do not seem to feel that it is infected. But, although it is radioactive, there are no more pesticides, industry and traffic. Ecological tragedy has a bitter-sweet taste. This man-made disaster that destroyed the area and made it uninhabitable for people, but turned it into a unique reserve for wild animals. Oddly enough, nature has licked wounds and conquered this territory.
And although we probably do not know what kind of future awaits the radioactive animals of Chernobyl, but it is certain that now there are a lot more of them than before.
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