ORBITA, Ukraine — The apocalyptic photographs of the abandoned town of Pripyat and its rusting amusement park, abandoned schools, and reforested streets have become the icons of the April 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster.
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RFE/RL: A Ukrainian town whose dreams died in Chornobyl’s fallout
A typical Soviet department store, Univermag, long-ago devastated by looters, stands in Orbita, an abandoned town in Cherkasy Oblast.
