While we were exploring abandoned buildings, we found a lot of toys.
Young couples felt good and secure in the town of Pripyat, so nothing held them back from having children. Chernobyl from before the catastrophe could be called the Google headquarters of USSR - young and talented people found their home there, living the “Soviet Dream”.
Slavutych - a city you’re probably going to stay in during your trip to the exclusion zone, bears a lot of resemblance to Pripyat. It’s a town dominated by young people, in fact it’s one of the youngest cities in Europe. Most of them work in the exclusion zone, maintaining the remnants of their parents, and grandparents workplace.