Chernobyl - Pripyat - The radioactive ghost town (CALVENDO wall calendar 2024)

Sensitive, moving, poignant – photographs that get under your skin (monthly calendar, 14 pages)

The city of Pripyat - Ukrainian Прип'ять is located in the Kiev Upper District, in the north of Ukraine. It was built for around 50,000 people in connection with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The city was a flagship because it became one of the most prestigious cities in Ukraine. Pripyat has been awarded the Soviet Union's Architecture and Planning Prize several times. It's no wonder, then, that the population increased so rapidly and jobs were in great demand. Wide streets, high-rise buildings and cultural events tailored to the population were a special feature. One can only imagine how cruel it is to be torn from one's home from one second to the next. On April 26, 1986, the nuclear power plant exploded and lethal, radioactive radiation escaped. The city of Pripyat was completely evacuated. People became homeless, both locally and mentally, and were never allowed to return to their lives. School, radar station, ghost station, the Palace of Culture, hotels, café, the unfinished construction of the cooling tower, the amusement park, the hospital, the kindergarten, the swimming pool, the boxing ring, the encased reactor number 4 in its sarcophagus where the explosion took place, the cinema and theater have been captured very compassionately and stirringly by the photographer, Bettina Hackstein, in her Lost Place series of Pripyat and Chernobyl. The photographer shows images of a moving contemporary testimony from the exclusion zone. A historic moment when all of Europe, if not the entire world, held its breath. Warning memories that will hopefully never be forgotten so that such a sad catastrophe never happens again.

High quality calendar with 12 beautiful images. We care about our environment. We therefore only use FSC-certified papers from responsible forestry. We avoid overproduction and therefore significant amounts of waste because we produce as needed in individual production in Germany (Made in Germany). We keep our transport routes short and ensure climate-conscious logistics.

14 pages consisting of 1 cover | 12 monthly pages | 1 index page | Cardboard backing

• QUALITY - High-quality photo calendar with 12 beautiful motifs on light-resistant picture printing paper, robust spiral binding with hanging bracket (A5 with table stand).
• SUSTAINABLE - significant waste reduction through needs-based individual production, environmentally friendly FSC-certified paper, production in Germany, climate-conscious logistics.
• PERFECT GIFT - Calendar for friends and family, for children and adults, young and old, for Christmas, birthdays or in between.
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• Sensitive, moving, poignant - photographs that get under your skin by author: Bettina Hackstein

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