The last city of the Soviets | New Humanist

“In the main secondary school of Slavutych, a town of 25,000 people
founded in 1986 in the north of Ukraine, is a full-length mural that
tells a strange tale about technology, revolution and human progress. A
Neanderthal plays with a Rubik’s Cube. Byzantine monks bring
Christianity to ancient Rus. Red Guards storm the winter Palace. A
beaming Yuri Gagarin, in a spacesuit, rises from his parachute like
Botticelli’s Venus. And in the centre of it all, a blonde girl in shorts
runs from an exploding nuclear power station, as figures in protective
suits fight to put out the conflagration.”