Many Soviet artworks are still in Pripyat, from murals to paintings and peeling posters. The painting featured here is in the post office. This is a classroom at one of the 21 schools in town.

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.

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 ...

Armed with a camera and a dosimeter Geiger counter, cinematographer Danny Cooke explored the remains of Pripyat and Chernobyl. He pieced the footage together in a three-minute video that boasts ...

Cooke visited Pripyat and Chernobyl in June while working for CBS News on a “60 Minutes” episode. He created the video to showcase his camerawork from the shoot for his portfolio.

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.

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.