Chelyabinsk
August 31st, 2005
Chelyabinsk in Russia might just be the least desirable bit of real estate in the northern hemisphere, according to Sprol:
Over the last five decades Chelyabinsk’s history reads like a contemporary version of the Book of Revelations. Not one, not two, but three nuclear obscenities have brutalized this region in the name of the Cold War. Radiation levels are so high that to compare it with Chernobyl would be like comparing a 361 car pile-up with a fender-bender between two Lexus SUVs in a 5 MPH school zone. Yet so few people, including its citizens, know the true shock of Chelyabinsk’s nuclear recklessness.
It’s a hell of a story.