Amazing beauty and supposedly clean water, all encased in a breathtaking natural landscape. You shouldn’t expect, though, to see any vacationers, children playing in the waters or older people fishing around its banks.

Lake “Karachay” is located in the southern Ural Mountains in western Russia, and it is known as the most polluted lake in the world, hiding within it, a “ticking time bomb”, ready to explode!

Since 1951, the Soviet Union used the lake as a nuclear waste dump, while, according to a report by Washington, it has levels of radioactivity so high, that humans can die within an hour!
Big percentages of cesium and strontium supplement the… “image”. In order to better fathom the magnitude of the risk, measurements of radioactivity far exceed those of Chernobyl after the disaster, as the radioactivity of the lake is concentrated in one spot only.