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Keywords
Children
Day
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Nuclear (campaign title)
Nuclear waste
Outdoors
Playing (activity)
Radiation victims
Small group of people
Children Playing in Front of their Apartments in Kunashak
Children playing in front of their apartments. They all have been evacuated together with their families from Muslyumovo, where they lived near to Techa River. Muslyumovo has been contaminated with radioactive material from 1947 until the early fifties when the Mayak Chemical Nuclear Complex dumped their radioactive waste in the Techa River which flows through Muslyumovo. Techa river is still highly radioactive, it is forbidden to swim, or drink from the river or grow vegetables at the banks. The village was never evacuated, most of its inhabitants are sick because of the radiation.
Unique identifier:
GP0T6T
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/09/2001
Locations:
Eastern Europe
,
Russia
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Robert Knoth
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Mayak Victims Documentation
Photographer Robert Knoth visited Mayak and its surrounding villages in 2000 and 2001. His black and white photographs capture the ordinariness of day-to-day life while at the same time reminding us that this is far from a 'normal' community. Knoths moving portrayal of a community living in one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the world, will be accompanied by testimonies from the people of Mayak collected by humanitarian journalist Antoinette De Jong, who accompanied Knoth.
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Mayak Radiation Victims Documentation (Photos & Videos)
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