Before the nuclear accident occurred on Saturday the 26 April 1986 , there were 5 schools that provided education for young middle and high school students. At that time, schools in Pripyat had both classrooms and corridors filled with Soviet propaganda featuring Lenin or Stalin, and many other type of educational posters. For example, the classrooms were full of prints similar to Alinari (one of the oldest photographic firms in the world, founded in Florence, Italy, in 1852. Many of their pictures representing various place in Italy were hung inside train’s wagon).
Wagon type Bz 45000. Interior of the compartments - Photo by Francesco Balbi © 2005
In the same way, there was no classroom in these school during in 186 without plenty of poster of famous people linked to the world of science and nuclear physics, being them Soviet or not: Rutherford, Kurchatov, Loffe, Newton, and many, many others.
Photo of a lonely desk in the middle of a classroom of an abandoned school.
Hasselblad X1D 21mm f/11 0.3s