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Everybody knows Prypat, the ghost town, but nobody knows about Poliske, the second biggest agglomeration of the Chernobyl’s forbidden zone. This city was strongly contaminated. Its evacuation didn’t happen until 6 years after the catastrophe.


I can see in front of me this snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and the wolf footprints. I have been in Tchernobyl’s forbidden Zone for two days. I didn’t want to come back. I had already spent too long in this place between 2009 and 2011. Four months to lose myself in this forbidden land…