Chernobyl Documentary, Episode 05 Svetilovichi is a village, which had been several times decontaminated. However, some of the surrounding areas still show high contamination levels. The village Svetalovichi maintains their social live, they have a community center and a Kindergarten and have established methods on how to live with the contamination levels present. They monitor for ... Read More

Chernobyl Documentary, Episode 04 In the close surrounding area of the village in Stolbun the dose rate is negligible. After the break down of the Soviet Union people officially created their Russian Orthodox Church here. Before, the people in Stolbun have celebrated their orthodox religion secretly in their living rooms. The Orthodoy church became in Stolbun ... Read More

Chernobyl Documentary, Episode 03 Sheika, a village nearby Bartholomejevka, shows a high dose rate too. Even though the sign “Sheika” still exists, Belarus officials insist that this village doesn’t exist on the map. Here, people live without electricity, telephone and water. The interesting situation is that some people received from the Belarusian government an apartment at ... Read More

Chernobyl Documentary, Episode 02 The film continues with another village, called Bartholomejevka. Not many people live here anymore. The dose rate is at around 2 μSv/ hour. An older couple lives here together with few left over neighbors in a village. They don’t understand why their other neighbors left their community. People here maintain their own ... Read More

Chernobyl Documentary, Episode 01 Sivinka is the first location within the highly radioactive contaminated Gomel-Vetka region. Today no one lives here. The dose rate exceeds 5 μSv/ hour. However, the school of Sivinka had been used until 5 years after the Chernobyl accident. Due to the devastating economic condition in Belarus people reuse the building material ... Read More