Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Abandoned-Toys-in-Pripyat-27MZIFIRK6L1.htmlConceptually similarAbandoned Toys in PripyatGP030VICompleted★★★★★★Gas Masks in Pripyat SchoolGP0310JCompleted★★★★★★Radioactivity Information Board in Pripyat HospitalGP0310GCompleted★★★★Abandoned Baby Shoes in PripyatGP03123Completed★★★★★★Abandoned Baby Shoes in PripyatGP0312XCompleted★★★★Abandoned Hospital in PripyatGP03126Completed★★★★Abandoned Flat in PripyatGP0310MCompleted★★★★Abandoned Amusement Park in PripyatGP0310NCompleted★★★★★★Abandoned Classroom in PripyatGP0310ICompleted★★★★View AllGP0312YAbandoned Toys in PripyatToys in a kindergarten lay the same way as they were left after the catastrophe. A child's gas-mask next to a doll is only another cruel paradox: A week before the nuclear accident children were trained to use safety equipment against nuclear danger. But no single gas mask was used in the day of accident because of an order from the party leadership.Before the Chernobyl accident, the town of Pripyat was considered the "glory" of the former Soviet Union. More than 48,000 inhabitants were living here - less than 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Many of them were employed directly in the power plant. Today Pripyat is like a ghost town.In original language:Verlassenes Spielzeug in PripyatVor dem Unfall in Tschernobyl galt die Stadt Pripyat als "ruhmreiche Perle" der Sowjetunion. Die Stadt Ð weniger als drei Kilometer vom Tschernobyler AKW entfernt Ð hatte mehr als 48.000 Einwohner, von denen viele im Kraftwerk beschaeftigt waren. Heute ist Pripyat eine Geisterstadt. Spielzeug im Kindergarten liegt dort noch genauso wie zum Zeitpunkt der Katastrophe liegen gelassen. Die neben einer Puppe liegende Kinder-Gasmaske gemahnt an ein weiteres grausames Paradox: Eine Woche vor dem Atomunfall war den Kindern die Benutzung von Schutzausruestung gegen Strahlengefaehrdungen gelehrt worden Ð aber auf Grund einer Anordnung der Parteifuehrung war am Tag des Unfalls, dem 26. April 1986, keine einzige Gasmaske benutzt worden.Locations:Eastern Europe-Pripyat-UkraineDate:28 Jul, 2005Credit:© Vaclav Vasku / GreenpeaceMaximum size:2592px X 1944pxKeywords:Close ups-Day-Destruction-Dirty-Gas masks-Indoors-KWCI (GPI)-Nuclear (campaign title)-Nuclear accidents-Nuclear energy-Nuclear radiation-ToysShoot:Chernobyl 20 Years After the Nuclear DisasterDocumentation of regions and people affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, photographed nearly twenty years after the event.
