Tag: Exclusion Zone

Tourist Trips in Chernobyl to the Exclusion Zone have become commonplace, and Chernobyl itself is a national landmark. The first visitors, whose arrival was not related to any professional activities, appeared already in the late 1980s. In the early ...

This Chernobyl Museum is located in Kyiv. The old fire station building, built in the early 20th century, looks like a fortress with thick walls and a tower. In 1992, at the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a museum was opened here ded ...

The word “stalkers” was first heard in the distant 1970s, in the Strugatsky brothers’ novel “Roadside Picnic”. A little later, based on this book and the script by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the film “Stalker” was made. The plot of t ...

Borka is one of Wild Animals in Exclusion Chernobyl Zone. Borka (namesake of the famous Chernobyl catfish) was found as a youngster in the vicinity of a forest fire. The piglet was “assigned” to the fire station yard. He grew up the in the compan ...

Giant catfish living in the canal that supplied water from the cooling pond to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant reactors became “celebrities.” At lunchtime, the fish swim to the bridge over the canal for treats. The staff is happy to bring left ...

Russian traveler Nikolai Przhevalsky described a new breed of wild horses that he encountered in Mongolia in 1879. Since the 1970s, it has been considered extinct in the wild. They became nearly extinct due to direct pursuit by humans, destruction of ...

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 ...

Vilcha is the fourth largest former settlement in the Exclusion Zone. It is located at the beginning of an abandoned 50-km-long (31-mi) railway line, and is, in fact, the conditional western border of the Exclusion Zone, kind of a gateway to it. Vilc ...

Narodychi is a large village, documented since the 15th century. Narodychi district ranks third in the level of radioactive contamination, after Chernobyl and Polissia. The level of gamma radiation here after the Chernobyl accident reached 10 millir ...

In the center of Chernobyl town is the Memorial Park “Wormwood Star.” White crosses stand along its main alley. There are a lot of them, 188 in all, with two signs hanging on each: the “beginning” and the “end” of a settlement with that ...

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 ...

The Yanov railway station was built according to the same standard design as Vilcha in 1930, near the village of the same name. It became famous thanks to the computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R., when it became the abode of one of the most dangerous monste ...