Summary In Krasnokamensk in the Siberian Steppe, near the Chinese border, is Russia's largest uranium mine. Founded 40 years ago, with 55 000 inhabitants, - it has been a secret city for a long time. Only after the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned there Krasnokamensk appeared in the world. The verdict on the city was unanimous: 'contaminated, condemned, abandoned.' Krasnokamensk is the hometown of Olga Delane. In 1993 at the age of sixteen she left her birthplace for Germany. Now Olga visited the place of her childhood and youth. She has to face the contradiction between her childhood recollections and the reality she finds. What do the residents, the mine workers know about radiation exposure? How do people live, how do they survive there? View more details
Directed : Olga Delane Marianne Kapfer
Written : Olga Delane
Stars : Alexander Chamraev Alexej Nazarov Galina Postoeko Eduard Volgin
Genres : Biography Documentary
Release date : Feb 8, 2015
Countries of origin : Germany Russia
Language : Russian
Summary In Krasnokamensk in the Siberian Steppe, near the Chinese border, is Russia's largest uranium mine. Founded 40 years ago, with 55 000 inhabitants, - it has been a secret city for a long time. Only after the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned there Krasnokamensk appeared in the world. The verdict on the city was unanimous: 'contaminated, condemned, abandoned.' Krasnokamensk is the hometown of Olga Delane. In 1993 at the age of sixteen she left her birthplace for Germany. Now Olga visited the place of her childhood and youth. She has to face the contradiction between her childhood recollections and the reality she finds. What do the residents, the mine workers know about radiation exposure? How do people live, how do they survive there? View more details
Genres : Biography Documentary
Release date : Feb 8, 2015
Countries of origin : Germany Russia
Language : Russian
