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Source Gallery: https://izismile.com/2019/06/26/nature_takes_chernobyl_back_65_pics.html
Archived Source Gallery: https://web.archive.org/web/20240317193848/https://izismile.com/2019/06/26/nature_takes_chernobyl_back_65_pics.html
The gallery has more photos such as this.
Why is the powerplant's name in a weird language? Yeah, we first heard about the Chornobyl disaster through Russian-language news aired from Moscow, and they obviously used the translated name, "Chernobyl". But, that's like talking about "Londres" instead of London if you first happened to hear about some events in London through French news.
It's a place in Ukraine, and in Ukrainian it's Chornobyl.
Also, the powerplant was named after a somewhat nearby village. Then, because it needed a lot of workers, they founded a whole new city right next to the construction site of the Chornobyl powerplant. And that city was named Prypiat, according to the river flowing past it.
So, the photos are from the town of Prypiat, near the Chornobyl atomic power plant.