90 year old Ivan Shamyanok has been living for the last 30 years on the edge of the exclusion zone in Belarus. He and his wife refused to leave when they were offered to relocate after the explosion at Chernobyl. He's constantly checked by doctors who say that he's in good shape.
Shamyanok says that the secret to a long life is not to leave your birthplace. "Will people move back? No, they won't come back. The ones who wanted to have died already," said Ivan.
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