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Staged doll
Title: Staged doll
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Description: Quite a lot of the details you see walking around in Pripyat feels staged. Why else should there be "new" dolls and gasmasks conveniently placed for all photographers?
Keywords: doll, staged
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Reactor 3 & 4
Title: Reactor 3 & 4
Location: Chernobyl, Ukraine
Description: The bulding is supposed to be symetric around the chimney. Left half is the undamaged reactor 3, right is the card house that was built on the remainings of reactor 4 after the accident 1986. 90,000 workers built the Sarcophagus in 250 days after the accidet, about 50% of them are dead according to one of our guides. Even if the fatalities are not that high, these worker where nothing but heros!
Keywords: reactor 3, reactor 4, sarcophagus
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Pripyat welcome sign
Title: Pripyat welcome sign
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Description: Pripyat a city founded 1970 to be the home for the workers bulding and running 12 nuclear reactors. At the time of the accidetn Pripyat had a population of about 50,000 and 4 reactors where up an running.
Keywords: Pripyat, sign, 1970, welcome
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Wolf spider
Title: Wolf spider
Location: Tulear, Madagascar
Description: This wolf spider was sitting on my mosquito when I woke up one morning. It's family Lycosidae, but thats the closest I have managed to get.
Keywords: wolf, spider, insect
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Ferris wheel
Title: Ferris wheel
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Description: Pripyat was model city in Soviet Union and many propaganda movies where made here. The funfair where to be opend for the first time on May 1 1986, the comunistic high-light of the year, the accident made that never to happen by just five days.
Keywords: Ferris wheel, funfair
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Schools out
Title: Schools out
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Description: Our visit to an elementary school was probably the most "touching" part of the visit to "Chernobyl". At the shool time had been staning still and in some classrooms note books where stil open ready to continue class after 22+ years of recess.
Keywords: recess, school, abandon
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Lada
Title: Lada
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Description: Average salary in Ukraine is 380 USD (2008), average car in Kiev is a nice SUV, how does that add up? Any way Living there I would drive a Lada or a Niva...
Keywords: Lada, emblem
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Cart
Title: Cart
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Description: GDP per capita in Ukraine is $4k USD, average salary in Ukraine is $234 USD (both numbers from Wikipedia in March 2009) but when you walk the streets of Kiev the average car seams to be a modern SUV. I have no idea how the maths of that adds up...
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