on the 29th of April 1986 49,360 people were evacuated from Pripyat, having been told not to take anything with them, as they would be returning in a matter of weeks.
Due to the severity of the reactor 4 meltdown they never did return.
As the radiation has killed all the microbes in the area, the dead forests cannot decompose.
To this day the city lies empty, gradually degrading as tourists trample, and slowly destroy it.
On a mostly unrelated note, this record is fucking sick as hell.
