The Chernobyl disaster: 30 years on (Day 1)

Preserved like a modern-day Pompeii, the abandoned city of Pripyat, in northern Ukraine, is a chilling monument to the world’s worst nuclear accident, which happened 30 years ago next Tuesday ...

Built on the river of the same name, in 1970, and declared a city in 1979, Pripyat was one of nine atomic cities built by the former Soviet Union to house the workers (and their families) of the Chernobyl nuclear-powerstation.