Abandoned cemeteries in the Chernobyl zone. Ghosts of the past ..

Abandoned cemeteries in the Chernobyl zone. Ghosts of the past ..

Abandoned cemeteries in the Chernobyl zone. What is special about these places in Chernobyl?

In the Chernobyl zone, where 31 years ago there was an atomic catastrophe, many abandoned cemeteries. People left these places because of high radiation.

The abandoned cemetery in the village of Rudnya-Veresnya in the Chernobyl zone

Abandoned cemeteries are always frightening. And this cemetery is in an abandoned radioactive village.

The abandoned cemetery

Abandoned graves in Pripyat, near the morgue:

Abandoned cemeteries with a high level of radiation near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where the explosion occurred in 1986:

Photo by Nikolay Onischenko

For many abandoned cemeteries in the Chernobyl zone former residents are courted: