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Attention, Dear Comrades!

The city council of people’s deputies reports that,
due to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,
an unfavorable radiation situation is developing in the city of Pripyat.
Party and Soviet bodies, military units are taking the necessary measures.
However, in order to ensure complete safety of people,
and, above all, children,
it is necessary to conduct a temporary evacuation of city residents
to the nearest settlements of the Kiev region.

To do this, every apartment house today, on the twenty-seventh of April,
starting at fourteen zero-zero, buses will be served accompanied by 

police officers and representatives of the city executive committee.
It is recommended to take with you documents, essential things,
as well as, for the first time, food.

The leaders of enterprises and institutions have determined a circle of workers
who remain in place to ensure the normal functioning of the enterprises of the city.
All residential buildings for the period of evacuation will be guarded by police officers.
Comrades, temporarily leaving your home, please do not forget to close the windows,
turn off electrical and gas appliances, turn off the water taps.

We ask to keep calm, organization and order during the temporary evacuation.

(Radio announcement of the evacuation of Pripyat, Ukraine, April 27, 1986.)

[RK, 6/8/21]