The Ferris wheel at the amusement park in Pripyat. <br />
The brand new park was planned to be opened to the public during the celebrations on May 1, 1986, but disaster struck first.<br />
Pripyat was built 1970 as a modern city for personnel at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant a couple of kilometers south. After the nuclear disaster at reactor 4 on April 26 1986, the town's 48.000 inhabitants was evacuated to other parts of the country. Pripiat is today a radioactive ghost town contamined with plutonium isotopes whose life expectancy is twenty-four thousand years.<br />
Pripyat, Ukraine.<br />
August 2008.