Tag: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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 ...

The film Stalker  by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986), based on the story “Roadside Picnic” by the Strugatsky brothers, was immediately a cult favorite, but, although not officially banned, it was not shown in the central cinemas, ...

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 ...

One of the most interesting objects in Chernobyl is the repair and operational base of the river fleet. It is on a peninsula that is formed by the river Pripyat and the Chernobyl backwater. This place is now known as the “Island of ships.” A flo ...

This legendary secret object thr “Duga-1” still boggles the mind. They said it was a zombie radar to control the will of the Soviet people, or even a brain “burner.” This myth is used in the plot of the famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. computer game. No ...

The history of Combine Cemetery. The left bank of the Pripyat River is the least studied and wildest part of the Zone. On one side, it is blocked by the river’s powerful current; on the other, the state border and many kilometers of another Zone be ...

This funny bear sculpture stands near the existing facilities in the 1st district of Pripyat. It invariably attracts the attention of visitors to the Exclusion Zone and has become not only a favorite subject for photographing, but also captured in th ...

Pripyat, also known as Pryp’yat’ or Prypiat is a ghost city in northern Ukraine. Pripyat, the ninth so-called atomograd in the Soviet Union, was founded on February 4, 1970. This satellite town of Chernobyl provided housing for station s ...