Tag: Zone

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 ...

In the forest near the giant antenna Duga-1, a town was built for the military units serving at the facility. Chernobyl-2 had all the necessary infrastructure for a comfortable life. The town had its own shop, kindergarten, school, club, greenhouses, ...

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 ...

If you wander around the Zone long enough, sooner or later you will come across strange white houses measuring 4-6 meters (13-20 ft). They stand in the most unexpected places: on the industrial site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in abandoned ...

In the military areas of the Soviet Union, there was an unspoken rule: the farther away from the commanders’ gaze it was, the more it functioned like a principality with its own rules and laws. They established a daily routine, and set up auxiliary ...

The Krug (Circle) is an auxiliary system for the Duga-1 radar station. Its official name is the Return-oblique Ionosphere Sounding Station (abbreviated VNZ in Ukrainian). It consists of two huge circles with a diameter of 300 meters (984 ft), on the ...

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 ...

Near the city there is the so-called “Field of Miracles.” Here they buried Pripyat residents’ contaminated cars. Pripyat garages, and the vehicles stored in them, were subject to contamination, but some were “lucky” – a few people managed ...

The village of Kopachi is closest to the Chernobyl NPP. It was almost completely demolished almost immediately after the accident and buried in the ground. One of the few surviving buildings is a kindergarten, built in 1967 for the 50th anniversary o ...

Checkpoint Dytyatky is located half way between Ivankiv and Chernobyl. The checkpoint (KPP) Dytyatky, named after the village of the same name nearby, is the main entrance to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (ChEZ) and the 30-km Zone. In total, there are ...

Around the Zone of Chernobyl. There are many villages along the almost 100-km (62-mi) perimeter of the Exclusion Zone. Most of them were under threat of evacuation, and some were cleared out but then residents were brought back. Soon after the disast ...

Chernobyl is a small town with an area of 5 sq km (2 sq mi). In 1986, 13,700 people lived there. It was founded in 1193 on the bank of the Pripyat River, on the famous trade route “from the Varangians to the Greeks”, and, like all ancient cities, ...