Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

In the aftermath, Pripyat was evacuated just a day after the explosion, turning it into a ghost town almost instantly. This tragic history remains palpable in the stillness of the streets, where ...

At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

Once a home to 50,000 people, it was urgently abandoned three days after the explosion in Chernobyl’s reactor No.4. Within hours, the site became a ghost town and has remained relatively ...