RIA NOVOSTI

The photo exhibition entitled “We Want All to Remember” dedicated to the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and fate of Pripyat town, opened on December 2 in Tvorchestvo (Creativity) Show House in Taganka, Moscow.

The rarest videos and photographs on show depict the Chernobyl accident, mitigation of its consequences, and the tragic fate of Pripyat, the hometown of the nuclear plant personnel.

Organizers schedule master classes on radiation safety, issue-related presentations covering the Pripyat town environment, Shelter confinement facility, nuclear reactor blast, and accident management.

Visitors first meet people dressed in radiation protection suits, who take background radiation measurements using dosimeters, and then pass through a roadway gate, which images the entrance checkpoint in Pripyat.
The organizers say they like the idea to create a museum city, and the present social event aims to contribute to this initiative.

In 2006, the international NGO PRIPYAT.COM Center and Literaturnaya Ukraina newspaper initiated continuing collection of signatures for granting Pripyat the international status of a museum city and granting the 10 to 15 kilometers of the exclusion zone around Pripyat, including Chernobyl city itself, the status of an eco-historical reserve, a monument to the world’s greatest technological disaster.

The museum city status will protect Pripyat from looters and vandals, and also save it from intense destruction to make it a reminder and warning of probable future accidents for many years to come.

The exhibition is open until December, 13.