
Inside Slavutych, the city created by the Chernobyl explosion
Read full article: Inside Slavutych, the city created by the Chernobyl explosionA woman walks past an administrative building on April 8, 2016, in Slavutych, Ukraine. But even after the disaster, the Chernobyl power plant had to continue working. "A distance of no more than 50 kilometers from Chernobyl power plant, the existing railway tracks and the unpolluted territory," she tells CNN Travel. Overnight, Slavutych went from being a satellite city for Chernobyl power plant to a post-Soviet town trying to find its place and purpose in crisis-torn Ukraine. "Slavutych feels like a city in a capsule," she tells CNN while boarding the train to the nearby city of Chernihiv (the only other train out of Slavutych goes to Chernobyl.)