CPOY 76 Team Picture Story Silver: Bryansk Region
The Bryansk Region is located in Central Russia southwest of Moscow and near the borders of Ukraine and Belarus. As a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, part of the territory the Bryansk region was contaminated with long-lived radionuclides. Currently, many of the residents continue to live in contaminated areas. During the Soviet era, it was a highly developed agricultural region. But after fall of the USSR it lost this importance.
A chapel located on the site of a burnt church in the village of Svyatsk. The village of Svyatsk was evacuated after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986. But every year on August 28, former residents of the village meets on this place. Former residents come from all over Russia and from Ukraine and Belarus.
