Residents sell homes for 300k amid radiation fears
Residents of settlements where the East-Ural radioactive trace was recorded have begun actively selling off their homes, worried about their health. For example, in the settlement of Beregovoye, where fewer than 1,500 people live, at least 19 apartments are for sale.
Consensus
- Residents of villages in Chelyabinsk Oblast, located in the East-Ural Radioactive Trace, are selling apartments due to fear of radiation.
- The Kyshtym disaster occurred on September 29, 1957, at the Mayak chemical plant due to a cooling system failure causing an explosion of a container with radioactive waste.
- The affected area includes parts of Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, and Tyumen Oblasts.
- Approximately 10,000 people were evacuated from hazardous zones after the disaster.
- The village of Beryozovoye is located near Lake Poroхovoye in Kaskinsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast.
- Two-bedroom apartments in Beryozovoye with old renovations are being sold for 300,000 rubles.
- Three-bedroom apartments in Beryozovoye are being sold for 400,000 rubles.
- Sellers in advertisements specify that the homes were built before the 1957 disaster.
- Current radiation levels are reported to be normal.
Points of divergence
- Inheritors do not want to move into apartments left by relatives who died from cancer caused by radiation. — vm
- Lake Poroхovoye was listed in the 2023 investment passport of Kaskinsky District as part of the radioactive contamination zone after the Kyshtym disaster. — vm
- In May, specialists evacuated fragments of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket in Yakutia and conducted radiation measurements of soil and water bodies. — vm
Coverage (2 sources)
- Residents of Chelyabinsk region started selling property from 300 thousand due to radiation fear — Вечерняя Москва
- In Chelyabinsk region, apartments are sold for 300 thousand rubles due to fear of radiation — Вести