Hanna Zavorotnya at her farm in Kupovate inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. She is a self settler (Samosely), one of the babushkas who refused to leave the Zone. In the summer after the evacuation (following the Chernobyl disaster 1986) she and her family turned back to their farm. Zavorotnya and the other women who remained of the village lived through Stalin’s Holodomor – the genocide-by-famine of the 1930s that wiped out millions of Ukrainians – and then the Nazis in the 1940s. After the Chernobyl accident many were simply unwilling to flee an enemy that was invisible. Kupovate, Ukraine

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Location: Kupovate, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ivankiv Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © Juliane Thiere / Alamy / Afripics
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