Tatarian Karaboka Village Contaminated with Plutonium

Tatarian Karaboka is a village which got contaminated with plutonium in 1957 when part of het cooling system of Mayak broke down and exploded, blowing hugh quantities of radio-active material over 25.000 square kilometers. Many people in the village developed radiation related diseases. (Half life book page 11)

Unique identifier: GP0V77

Type: Image

Shoot date: 01/09/2001

Locations: Eastern Europe, Russia

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Robert Knoth

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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