"The Ferris wheel in central Pripyat is probably one of the most known items in images from the town," said Wright. The amusement park was due to open on 1 May 1986, five days after the disaster ...

Chernobyl ghost town frozen in time: Eerie photos show how abandoned Pripyat is still deserted following 1986 nuclear power plant disaster New photographs paint a haunting image of what remains of ...

The Ukrainian city of Pripyat will forever remain youthful as it didn’t have the chance to mature beyond its 16 years of existence. The purpose-built city had its potential cut drastically short ...

At its peak, nearly 50,000 people lived in Pripyat, an industrial city established in 1970 near the Belarusian border. It had everything one might need, from a grocery store to a restaurant.

THE CHERNOBYL disaster was the worst nuclear catastrophe in history, and HBO’s miniseries has captured the devastation from the 1986 explosion. Here are shocking images which show the extent of ...

Eerie: The city of Pripyat, top right, and the Chernobyl power plant, centre, are surrounded by the forest An exclusion zone covering an area of more than 1,000sq miles around the abandoned plant ...

Pripyat, a city of 50,000 people founded in 1970 to house workers from Chernobyl, was the closest to the number four reactor and the most seriously affected.

Discover the eerie ghost city of Pripyat, frozen in time since the Chernobyl disaster. A once-thriving Soviet atomgrad, now abandoned and reclaimed by nature. Watch now to uncover its haunting legacy!

We spent the week together, exploring Chernobyl and the nearby abandoned city of Pripyat. There was something serene, yet highly disturbing, about this place.

Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did.