Сhornobyl may have taken place in 1986, however something about it is clearly feeling very 2019. A couple of weeks ago, Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s gripping best-seller, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, won the coveted Pushkin House Book Prize, having already been awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. Meanwhile, this evening a the series Abandoned Engineering, shown on the Yesterday UKTV channel, will be visiting Pripyat – once a showpiece city meant to represent the future of the Soviet Union which was abandoned after the explosion at Chernobyl.
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Visitors walk in the ghost city of Pripyat during a tour in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on June 1, 2019.
