Field Coverage

Life after Chernobyl

1 July 2005

""Samosjoly"", or ""self-settlers"", is the generic name for people who, in spite of the official ban, returned to their homes inside the 30 km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following the accident in 1986. Baba Nastja and Ded Nikolaj are just the two of about five-hundred samosjoly. In August of 2005, the couple will celebrate 60 years of marriage.

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