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Thursday, 26 April, 2001, 12:25 GMT 13:25 UK
In pictures: the Chernobyl anniversary
Fifteen years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, people have been remembering the catastrophe in Ukraine and around the former Soviet Union.
![]() A woman places a candle at a memorial in Slavutich, the town where Chernobyl workers lived
![]() A priest prays for the victims during an anniversary service marking the disaster
![]() Some of the relatives are overcome by emotion during the ceremonies
![]() Widows weep by the graves of their husbands who died in the disaster
![]() The village of Duduchi in Belarus was abandoned after the disaster, but on remembrance day residents have the chance to return
![]() Zoya Gnetova walks around her house which she has been forced to leave due to high radiation levels
![]() Relatives far away in Moscow also remembered the catastrophe
![]() The plant itself was closed last December and will be entombed in a massive sarcophagus
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