In 1986, nearly six years after Stalker premiered in EFT Roubles Moscow, a reactor within the Chernobyl atomic powe,

r plant went critical and exploded in Ukraine. it had been the worst nuclear disaster in history, until the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. The workers who ventured into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

established after the disaster called themselves ‘stalkers,’ and today the guides who take curious tourists to the nearby town of  LOLGA Pripyat often use an equivalent term for themselves.