Pavel Fomin was a safety manager at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He rushed to the plant after he saw the explosion. His wife and children eventually got evacuated, but he stayed to help.

Of course, the accident didn’t just take the lives of thousands of people and destroy the habitability of the land and rivers for miles around it: it also ripped away the identity of Chernobyl ...

Mayya Gil, who was originally from Ukraine, died after being struck by a truck in Brooklyn on Thursday, Jan. 23 ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone ... Illegal entry into and stay in this area is subject to both administrative and criminal liability." Over 100 people from several countries including the United ...