Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet| 1hr : 01mins
Director: Slawomir Grunberg | Producer: Slawomir Grunberg
Focus Years: 1996 | Country: United States
Synopsis:
For forty-five years, the Chelyabinsk province of Russia was closed to all foreigners. Only in January of 1992 did President Boris Yeltsin sign a decree changing that. Shortly afterward, I made my first trip to this region, which later Western scientists declared to be the most polluted spot on earth. In the late 1940s, about 80 kilometers north of the city of Chelyabinsk, an atomic weapons complex called "Mayak" was built. Its existence has only recently been acknowledged by Russian officials, though, in fact, the complex, bordered to the west by the Ural Mountains, and to the north by Siberia, was the goal of Gary Powers's surveillance flight in May of 1960. The people of the area have suffered no less than three nuclear disasters: for over six years, the Mayak complex systematically dumped radioactive waste into the Techa River, the only source of water for the 24 villages which lined its banks. The four largest of those villages were never evacuated, and only recently have the authorities revealed to the population why they strung barbed wire along the banks of the river some 35 years ago. Russian doctors who study radiation sickness in the area estimate that those living along the Techa River received an average of four times more radiation than the Chernobyl victims.
Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet
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