‘CHERNOBYL’ MINISERIES SENDS CURIOUS TOURISTS TO LITHUANIA
Aug 03, 2019
2 minutes
Image: Mindaugas Kulbis
An HBO miniseries featuring Soviet-era nuclear nightmares has sparked global interest in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and boosted tourism in Lithuania.
The Baltic country, which served as the filming location for “Chernobyl,” has become a destination of so-called atomic tourism since the program aired earlier this year.
At Ignalina nuclear power plant, Mikhail Nefedyev was staring grimly at the row of blinking green lights
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