Chernobyl & Pripyat

Pripyat

Pripyat is a ghost city in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine–Belarus border. Named after the nearby river Pripyat, the city was founded on February 4, 1970, as the ninth nuclear city (aka an “atomgrad”, a type of closed city) in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of 27 April 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster.

 

Photography

Ole Johan Aanestad

Camera

iPhone 11 Pro Max

Lens

 

Edit:

Adobe Lightroom CC – 2020

Presets/Profiles

W•I•B (Variants of Profiles)

Location

Pripyat, Ukraine