In winter, Chernobyl plant workers walk to the Slavutych, Ukraine, train station every morning before dawn and return home after dark. None of them know how long their jobs will continue or what the city will do once they are laid off.
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This photograph is part of Michael Forster Rothbart's After Chernobyl documentary photography project.
© Michael Forster Rothbart 2007-2010.
www.afterchernobyl.com
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In winter, Chernobyl plant workers walk to the Slavutych, Ukraine, train station every morning before dawn and return home after dark. None of them know how long their jobs will continue or what the city will do once they are laid off.
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This photograph is part of Michael Forster Rothbart's After Chernobyl documentary photography project.
© Michael Forster Rothbart 2007-2010.
www.afterchernobyl.com
www.mfrphoto.com
607-267-4893 o 607-432-5984
5 Draper St, Oneonta, NY 13820
86 Three Mile Pond Rd, Vassalboro, ME 04989
info@mfrphoto.com
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: 10/2008 File#: Canon 20D digital camera frame 50862
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Original caption: .Slavutych, Ukraine, is the new city built after the Chernobyl accident for evacuees from Pripyat, the abandoned city in the Exclusion Zone. Nearly 4,000 out of the 25,000 inhabitants still work at Chernobyl today, commuting through Belarus on 3 special "elektrichka" trains that depart between 6:30 and 7:30 each morning. In the evening, the workers walk home from the train station past the Silpo supermarket..-------------------.
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