Monument to the Liquidators of the nuclear accident of 1957. It stands just meters away from a driving school and a busy road.
The Kyshtym disaster on 29 September 1957, was one of the worst accidents at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise ‘Production Enterprise Mayak’ (the FSUE ‘PE Mayak’), a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in the Chelyabinsk province in the South Urals, Russia, during which a spent nuclear fuel tank exploded, spewing massive amounts of radiological contamination.