Pripyat, a city in Soviet Ukraine, was an ideal place to live before April 26, 1986.
Foreign Policy: Soviet leadership ‘responsible for Chornobyl’s victims’
A woman holds flowers in front of the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutich, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the accident site, and where many of the power station's personnel used to live, during a memorial ceremony early on April 26, 2016.
