For many years I have been exploring and documenting the Chernobyl exclusion zone, yet each visit around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has always left me with a sense of…
Forgotten Chernobyl Posts
It’s been 40 years since the largest nuclear disaster in human history. The Chernobyl accident affected hundreds of thousands. Pripyat residents whose lives were torn apart in an instant, Chernobyl…
After several years of searching I have finally obtained a copy of the famous book depicting Pripyat, released shortly before the Chernobyl Disaster. The book contains many widely known and…
On the northeastern outskirts of the ghost city of Pripyat, with its eerily abandoned concrete apartment blocks, lies a little village most people have never heard of. You won’t find…
Last month I shared with you a really unique book about Chernobyl – the 1986 Pripyat Photo Album. Once widely available in shops and libraries of Pripyat, today it is…
The HBO’s Chernobyl series is highly rated and I lost count how many times I’ve seen it. As you might know, it was filmed mostly in Lithuania, and while Vilnius…
Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov was a Senior Reactor Control Engineer, working in the control room of Reactor No. 4 on the night of the Chernobyl Disaster. Toptunov graduated from the Moscow…
While much of the world knows about the devastating Chernobyl disaster of 1986, there are countless personal stories from that time that remain lesser-known. One such story is captured in…
HEALTH OF THE NATION – WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY says the writing on the roof of Hospital in Pripyat. I installed one of my pinhole cameras opposite the main hospital…
Three years ago, I installed one of my pinhole cameras in Leonid Fedorovich Toptunov’s apartment. On the evening of April 25, 1986, while preparing for night shift at the Chernobyl…
On 26 April 1986 at 1:23:49 a.m. Moscow time accident occurred at power unit 4 of the Chomobyl NPP, which as regards its scale and consequences became the major and…
In autumn 2021 we visited Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov’s grave, leaving fresh flowers and reflecting on history. Some claim that Dyatlov was the main person responsible for the accident at the…
1986 Calendar For Parents – one of many books scattered in one of the small libraries on the ground floor of the 16-storey buildings near the central square. The opening…
This inconspicuous brick building in the Chornobyl-2 military town doesn’t get a second look from most tourists rushing to see the Duga radar and control rooms. Located by the road…
The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (Lithuanian: Ignalinos atominė elektrinė, IAE) is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania, named after the nearby city of Ignalina. As…
The widespread decommunization of Soviet-era symbols across Eastern Europe hasn’t spared famous political figures. Statues of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Vladimir Lenin, once standing in every city, town and village…
No doubt most of my readers have seen the news about the spike in radioactivity near the Chernobyl Power Plant last night, from the typical 1-4μSv/h up to 65.5uSv/h (reported…