Red Forest
See also: red forest
English
Etymology
red+forest. Calque of Slavic (Russian Ры́жий лес (Rýžij les) and Ukrainian Руди́й ліс (Rudýj lis)). From the reddish colouration of the forest leaves and trees in the contamination zone.
Proper noun
Red Forest
- A forest, a red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.
Translations
a highly radioactive and highly contaminated forest, a red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine
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