A sign bearing the name of Pripyat, the ghost town left behind by the Chornobyl ... is located in central Pripyat, behind the square where the department store building, Enerhetyk Palace of ...

It's now a ghost town. Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat deep inside the now-established Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a highly radioactive area of 1,000 square miles that encompasses the ...

An abandoned room inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture Picture: Michael Day / Barcroft USA Credit: Michael Day / Barcroft USA The 50,000 residents of Pripyat - now a ghost town - were evacuated ...

The town of Pripyat, just a few kilometres from Chernobyl ... The Exclusion Zone has since been widened and it now covers an area of 2,600 square kilometres (1,600 square miles).

Today, Pripyat is still relatively ... Nearby, the ghost town of Kopachi is also open for tours. Tours of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — a 1,000-square-mile restricted area surrounding the ...

Adam arrived at Pripyat with his girlfriend on October 10 and spent six days exploring the forbidden ghost town with an unofficial guide. During his trip he entered various buildings including the ...

The abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine ... shrubs and vines sprout throughout the downtown square and overtake the walls of every building in the town. Entering the buildings is ...

Immediately following the disaster, civilians were evacuated from an 1,000-square mile area surrounding ... in their fur.) Today, Pripyat is still a ghost town. But it's attracting a strange ...

Residents of Pripyat, a model Soviet town built in the 1970s to house Chernobyl ... of an area of about 2,600 sq km (nearly 1,000 square miles, or roughly the size of Luxembourg).

Eventually, more than 100,000 people were evacuated from the vicinity and a 1,000-square-mile exclusion ... in the park is seen the ghost town of Pripyat close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant ...

Image caption, Wright has visited a number of times and so far has spent nine days in the zone where he has concentrated on photographing the abandoned town of Pripyat, once home to the plant's ...