Tag: Pripyat

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 ...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Speaking of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, it is impossible to ignore another artifact generated by it, in a certain sense: the cult game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It influenced many of today’s stalkers who went to Pripyat for the first time, r ...

Tame fox Simeon has long been a celebrity. He is not only unafraid of people, but also willingly walks with tourists along the Pripyat and even more willingly accepts a variety of treats. Recently, he has become the star of social networks – “he ...

Lesnoy (Forest) was arranged like a small town. It had four streets: one with barracks and dormitories, and three with 2-room mobile homes (with kitchens, a porch, and a toilet). Also, there were three stores for groceries, vegetables, and industrial ...

Poliske is located almost 60 km (37 mi) from Pripyat. It became one of the main evacuation support stations for the settlements most affected by radiation. Pripyat residents were placed in the homes of local residents, some received housing here. The ...

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 ...

Park of Glory in Chernobyl. The Chernobyl City Park was created in the 1950s on a place called Zamkova Hora, a naturally high terrace above the floodplain of the rivers Pripyat and Uzh, where a real castle towered until the end of the 19th century. ...

Pioneer camp “Skazochny” (“Fairy Tale”) is located on the banks of the river Uzh, 30 km (18.5 mi) from Pripyat. According to the ChNPP civil defense plan, all personnel had to be evacuated to here in case of an emergency. Therefore, for the f ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The forest, now known as Red Forest, is 202 hectares (499 acres) of coniferous trees, mainly pines, on the outskirts of Pripyat. It fell under the Western radiation trail immediately after the accident. The deadly level of radiation for pine trees is ...