Author: delta

6th January 2020

Zymovyshche was a village located about 6.5km (4 miles) North-East from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, across the Pripyat River. The village’s name originates from the nearby Zymovyshche Lake, and…

5th January 2020

“Goldfish” Kindergarten No. 13 in Pripyat was located between Łesi Ukrainki and Prospekt Budyvelnikiv streets. Constructed as one of the standard Soviet buildings this kindergarten had capacity for 320 children.…

31st December 2019

Photos don’t give justice to the overwhelming size of the unfinished cooling towers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the most iconic pieces of Chernobyl artwork can be…

30th December 2019

In the North-West side of Pripyat we can find what remains of the massive greenhouses. Once measuring 285 x 75 metres (935 x 250 feet) and now partially collapsed and…

19th December 2019

Contrary to popular belief, the Chernobyl Town is still inhabited and busy. It’s a beautiful snapshot of a long gone era, a battlefield between humans and nature, with crumbling buildings…

11th December 2019

Rossokha Vehicle Graveyard and Duga radar, known as the Russian Woodpecker, captured on my old Soviet Kiev-4 camera.      

8th December 2019

Villages of the Chernobyl Zone captured on a 35mm film with soviet Kiev-4 camera.    

4th December 2019

Class Albums like this one I found in School No. 2 in Pripyat were popular across the Soviet Union. Pupils would start it when they join the school and fill…

2nd December 2019
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24th November 2019
16th November 2019

Located in the woods outside of Pripyat, the bakery is a rarely visited by tourists as it’s not included in the routes. The remote building hasn’t been looted as badly…

28th October 2019
28th October 2019
15th September 2019

The kolkhoz (collective farm) in the Zymovyshche village in the Chernobyl Zone is easily recognizable by the grain mill, but there are some other interesting things to be discovered there.

24th August 2019

Sanitary and Epidemic Station, located on vulytsia Entuziastiv (Enthusiasts Street) on the Western edge of Pripyat, right next to the Pripyat Hospital no. 126. It was equipped to handle any…

4th August 2019