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Cultural Impacts
Main article: Cultural impact of the Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl tragedy has inspired many artists across the world to create works of art, animation, video games, theatre and cinema about the disaster. The HBO series Chernobyl and the book by the Ukrainian writer Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl, are two well-known works that talk about the catastrophe that destroyed millions of lives. The Ukrainian artist Roman Gumanyuk created a series of artworks called "Pripyat Lights, or Chernobyl shadows" that includes 30 oil paintings about the Chernobyl accident. The series of artwork was exhibited at the National Fine Art Museum of Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek, the Kasteev State Museum of Arts of Kazakhstan in Almaty, the Vashchenko Art Gallery of Gomel in Belarus, and at the Museum of Chernobyl in Kharkiv in Ukraine in the years 2012-2013. The video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl released by THQ in 2007, is a first-person shooter based on the Exclusion Zone called "The Zone" that features elements such as freedom of action, the time of the day affects the gameplay, and weapons with realistic force that wear out and misfire every now and then. A prequel called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky was released in 2008 following with a sequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat released in 2010. Finally, the horror film Chernobyl Diaries released in 2012 is about six tourists that hire a tour guide to take them to the abandoned city of Pripyat where they discover they are not alone.

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In July 2019, the Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the Chernobyl site will become an official tourist attraction, Zelenskyy said "We must give this territory of Ukraine a new life" after Chernobyl has seen a rise of visitors since the HBO mini-series.