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Pripyat was once a model city of the Soviet government and was established in 1970 (4th February) for the workers of the nuclear power plant and their families. The average age of the city’s inhabitants was, at the time of the accident only 25 years old. Pripyat had all the luxuries of a modern city – a railway station, port, hospital and even a fairground.

The city had everything, until the day of the accident, which was on 26th April 1986. As you (probably already) know, the day the accident happened, the state officials still had not warned the 50,000 inhabitants about the threat of radioactive pollution; neither had they provided them with iodine pills which would have helped against the effects of the radiation. The power plant accident caused the level of radiation to exceed natural levels by up to a thousand times.