Tag: Chernobyl NPP

The Pripyat flows through the territory of two states, Belarus and Ukraine. It is 775 km (481.5 mi) long, the basin area is almost 115,000 sq km (44,400 sq mi), which makes it the largest, in terms of water content, right tributary of the Dnipro. The ...

The Exclusion Zone has 188 settlements. Among them are only two cities; the rest are Dead villages, from small settlements of a few dozen houses to fairly large, urban-type settlements. Time, fire, decontamination, and purposeful elimination destroy ...

Soon after the accident, construction began on Pripyat’s younger brother, Slavutych. The new atom-town was also given the name of a nearby river: Slavutych, one of the ancient names of the Dnipro. On the shore, a bay was dug and equipped, where bui ...

One of the main monuments in Chernobyl is dedicated to the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, not only firefighters, but also people of other expertise who participated in the aftermath of the nuclear reactor’s destruction. The inscription on ...

Closer to Pripyat is the recreation camp “Izumrudnoye” (“Emerald”). It is a real paradise, located on the bank of the Chernobyl NPP cooling pond. Before the accident, soldiers from the garrison of the secret town Chernobyl-2 liked to rest he ...

Yanivsky Zaton is an artificial reservoir created for solving transport problems in the city of Pripyat. In the 1970s – 1980s, water transportation was used extensively to move passengers and goods from Kyiv and Chernobyl to Pripyat. Passenger ferr ...

According to the master plan, Pripyat should have been almost two times larger. New homes were being constructed in parallel with the increasing power of the nuclear power plant. At least two more units were planned for commission at the Chernobyl N ...

This small town in Kyiv oblast, standing on the Pripyat River, became world famous after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The history of Chernobyl. Actually, its history begins in the 12th century. An interesting fact – from the 1 ...

The Soviet mobile S-75 anti-aircraft missile system was developed in 1957. Its tasks included the destruction of targets flying at speeds of up to 1,500 km/h (932 mph) at altitudes of 3-20 km (1.8-12.4 mi), changing positions, and ambush operations. ...

When the rubble was shoveled aside near the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chernobyl NPP, highly active fragments were loaded into special 1-cubic-meter (35-cubic-ft) containers made from a metal grid. Then they were laid at the base of the walls of ...

Ukraine has a long and very powerful tradition of mosaic art. Therein lies the reason that St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is considered the most complete collection of original 11th century mosaics in the world, made in the Byzantine tradition. In 1960 ...

In the second half of the 1950s, nuclear power engineering began to develop in the USSR, and already in the next decade the idea of building a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was discussed. Over two years, in 1965-1966, 16 sites were surveyed to find ...