Photo essay by photographer Paal Audestad. The Chernobyl exclusion zone. ‘The Zone of Alienation’, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone,The Exclusion Zone, The Fourth Zone, or simply The Zone (Ukrainian official designation: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, zona vidchuzhennya Chornobyl’s'koyi AES, colloquially:Чорнобильська зона, Chornobyl’s'ka zona оr Четверта зона, Chetverta zona) is the 30 km/19 mi exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.
Geographically, it includes northernmost parts of Kyivs’ka oblast’ and Zhytomyrs’ka oblast‘ of Ukraine, and adjoins the country’s border with Belarus. A separately administered Belarusian zone continues across the border.
Filed under: Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, humanitarian photojournalist, Manchester photographer, manchester photojournalist, Morecambe photographer, Paul Audestad, Stephen Sidlo, Ukraine, Zone of alienation
