Once thriving communities 2 now only ghost towns remain. nature is reclaiming the countryside. life came to a sudden end here with a nuclear accident in nearby chernow. at the time a few people refused to leave the exclusion zone. is 90 years old she couldn t bring herself to leave her animals behind to starve and she couldn t imagine a new life in a city apartment. nasheed get here when you would almost everyone from our village who was resettled is dead now. only one man and a few women from my village are left. it women are a bit stronger anyway almost all the men are dead he. believes as husband died in 2016 now her son leonid lives with her. he couldn t leave his mother to fend for herself and she didn t want to move to belarus capital minsk with it s