The suicide rate in Stary Vyshkov is exceptionally high, even for the stressful life in the contaminated Chernobyl zone, experts say. “To dump all these people here and leave them to their own ...

Visitors are rare in the 19-mile-radius Zone of Exclusion around the reactors ... two elderly peasants have become invisible, but that Chernobyl itself has, as if it were a subject too awful ...

For her next project she decided to go to Chernobyl and film a documentary about life in the Exclusion Zone. Please visit her website and see a trailer for the film.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Twelve times a month ... Anton Yukhimenko, who leads tours of the dead zone, said that wild boars and foxes had begun to take shelter in the abandoned city, and that ...

Earlier this year, Ukraine opened up the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to tourists ... If this isn't rustic life at its timeless, bibulous best, what is? Sponsor Message But, of course, there's ...

Here's what daily life looks like in one of the ... Source: Reuters As a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a nuclear exclusion zone was established in 1986 around the area most heavily ...

Thirty years on and perhaps as many as a million deaths later, parts of the dead zone ... life. “There is little money for anything in Ukraine: for health, housing, welfare. You get by ...

(Read more about the Chernobyl disaster.) Thirty-one years after being designated a dead zone ... he has spent a year of his life in the exclusion zone. “You wander through empty villages ...

Once satisfied with his life pursuit, Yitz traveled to the ... (See photos taken on illegal visits to Chernobyl's dead zone.) A visitor to the abandoned Chernobyl synagogue pauses for a photo.