Bench Seat
A bench seat in an abandoned building in the deserted town of Zalissia, Ukraine.

Zalissia is within the 30Km Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. Established by the USSR military soon after the 1986 disaster, it initially existed as an area of 30 km radius from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant designated for evacuation and placed under military control. Its borders have since been altered to cover a larger area of Ukraine.

The Exclusion Zone covers an area of approximately 2,600 sq km (1,000 sq mi) in Ukraine immediately surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant where radioactive contamination from fallout is highest and public access and inhabitation are restricted. The Exclusion Zone's purpose is to restrict access to hazardous areas, reduce the spread of radiological contamination and conduct radiological and ecological monitoring activities.Today the Exclusion Zone is one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world and draws significant scientific interest for the high levels of radiation exposure in the environment.
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