Photojournalist and tourist guide Anton Petrus, from near Kiev in the Ukraine, took the photos in Pripyat the city famous for the Chernobyl disaster which shook the world in 1986. (Anton Petrus/Caters News)

It’s a city frozen in time by the world’s worst civil nuclear accident in history. Pripyat, Ukraine was the site of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, and it’s now a city filled with eerie remnants of tragedy. Ukrainian photojournalist Anton Petrus traveled to Pripyat to capture scenes of the desolate ghost town, 30 years after the disaster.

“I first visited five years ago and the first thing I thought was, ‘’,” Petrus said.

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After the nuclear plant explosion, the city was evacuated, its population dropping from nearly 50,000 to zero. The abandonment leaves today’s visitors to find ghostly fragments of a past Ukraine: an unfinished chess game, newspapers from 1986, rusting hospital furniture.

“The hospital I took pictures in was terrible,” he said. “Some of the guys I was with likened it to Silent Hill – it’s only lacking the nurses with knives.”

The photographer described the classrooms being the most difficult to photograph. “It seems that if you listen hard enough you will hear the children’s voices,” he said.