Dance and music teacher Lesya Kostenko (left) leads a dance rehearsal at the Chernobyl Community Center in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Her students, 14-year-olds Ira Dovstenka and Olya Shvitka, are from the resettlement village Nove Zalissya.
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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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Dance and music teacher Lesya Kostenko (left) leads a dance rehearsal at the Chernobyl Community Center in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Her students, 14-year-olds Ira Dovstenka and Olya Shvitka, are from the resettlement village Nove Zalissya.
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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 10694
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Original caption: .Dance and music teacher Lesya Kostenko leads a dance rehearsal at the Chernobyl Community Center in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Her students, Ira Dovstenka (in white), Olya Savechenko (singing) and Olya Shvitka (in black) are all 14-year-old girls from the village Nove Zalissya, 7 kilometers away. Borodyanka is a small town (population 16,000) 30 miles west of Kyiv and 48 miles south of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where many Chernobyl evacuees were resettled in 1986..-------------------.
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