It's as if humanity has left the Earth: 31 years ago there was an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Pripyat was once a thriving city, where about 50,000 people lived. But on April 26, 1986, when a terrible accident occurred at one of the reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, everything changed in a moment.

After the emergency evacuation of the population, Pripyat was abandoned and now looks like a deserted, dilapidated and creepy place. The Chernobyl disaster was the first accident in world history at a nuclear power plant, which received the 7th level on the International Scale of Nuclear Events (the second in 2011 was the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan).

Today marks 31 years since those terrible events, and we have prepared for you some photos that will tell you how Pripyat looks in our time.

(18 photos in total)

Source: dailymail.co.uk

A whole sea of gas masks left in an abandoned building, the walls and roof of which are rotting and crumbling.

Emptiness: the treatment room in the hospital is dilapidated, tiles are falling off the walls, and the couch is surrounded by old abandoned things.

Preserved cash register and glass bottle in an abandoned school cafeteria, where mold is spreading on the walls and tables. The broken windows are now open forever.

Books and newspapers are scattered in disarray on the floor as a mute reminder that Pripyat was once a prosperous city.

An empty hospital ward, in which dozens of beds have found their rest.

Sketchbooks and unfinished drawings are scattered around the school classroom along with broken furniture and broken lamps.

Remnants of everyday life. The once bustling and bustling city was located just three kilometers from the nuclear power plant.

Glass syringes and a medical journal are left to sleep forever on hospital windowsills.

Pripyat is still closed to the public due to high radiation levels, but many graffiti artists infiltrate the abandoned city to use its walls as an empty canvas.

Oral hygiene instructions on the school wall. 31 people died directly from the explosion at the reactor, but many people still suffer from cancers that developed due to exposure to radiation.

An abandoned kindergarten. Dust has covered the floor and tables, and the walls are slowly crumbling.

Heart breaks: a children's book left by someone in a hurry.

The old barge is rusting, abandoned to live out its life all alone.

Maria Semenyuk, a resident of the Chernobyl zone, sits near her house with domestic chickens.

A man walks past the plaques with the names of abandoned villages.

Frighteningly beautiful: the sun is shining over the Pripyat forest, which nature has been slowly restoring for 30 years.