Vakil' Batrshin stands on a road in New Muslumovo, where his family was resettled. He moved to the area when he got married. After years of living beside the radioactive contaminated Techa river, he became ill with Lymphoedema as a result of radiation exposure from contamination after the 1957 nuclear disaster, according to his government certificate. New Muslumovo is the same village as the original Muslumovo but is farther from the Techa river. Tragically, New Muslumovo was built in an area with exceedingly high levels of naturally occurring radioactive radon gas – the leading cause of lung cancer in non smokers. Residents were warned when they moved into the new houses not to build basements, but many did anyway. They have nowhere else to store the potatoes and carrots they grow.