Author: delta

19th May 2019

The water in the Pripyat River dock rarely freezes enough to be safe to walk on, so I had a rare opportunity to climb the floating crane located there. The…

15th May 2019
7th May 2019
6th May 2019

Few interesting theories surround Jupiter Factory in Pripyat, but are they really true? Located on the south-west outskirts of Pripyat and opened in 1980, Jupiter factory employed nearly 3500 people…

5th May 2019

I came across several architectural concept drawings of Pripyat dated 1968. The first one appears to depict the Palace of Culture, later named Energetik, followed by the river station where…

29th April 2019

Climbing the last remaining light tower at the Central Stadium in Pripyat . The other three have collapsed over the years and the structure is seriously weakened with floor sections…

20th April 2019
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17th January 2019

Chernobyl-2 was a town near the Duga-1 radar system built to accommodate technical staff and their families, consisting of several 4 storey apartment blocks and some major public buildings such…

17th December 2018

“Agitator” (ru. Агитатор) was a fortnightly magazine published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (центральный комитет Коммунистической партии Советского Союза). It covered various topic…

16th December 2018
3rd December 2018

War Memorial Park is located on the eastern outskirts of Chernobyl City. After the Chernobyl Disaster several new monuments were built on its grounds to commemorate the victims and liquidators.…

19th November 2018

Yesterday we have taken a tour around the abandoned outskirts of the Chernobyl City, I have also mentioned the better part of it, where the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Administration headquaters,…

18th November 2018

When people hear the name Chernobyl they usually think of the wind hauling between the abandoned buildings in Pripyat, eerie Sarcophagus covering the remains of the the Ractor 4 and…

6th November 2018