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.
Ekaterina Ivanovna opens the gate to the courtyard of her house in the village of Smelizh. For over seventeen years, she worked as a salesperson at a local store that closed in 2015. Now food is brought to the village by a mobile shop three times a week. But Ekaterina Ivanovna, who lives alone, also has her own farm that feeds her: a vegetable garden, chickens, rabbits and a calf.
