This is the last part of the Analog Series until my next trip to the Chernobyl Zone, which hopefully will happen in a few months. All of the photos were…
Category: Chernobyl Photos
Photos of the Chernobyl Zone and Pripyat.
Part 6 of the Analog Chernobyl series, where I capture the eerie beauty of the Chernobyl Zone using film cameras owned by many of Pripyat residents in the 1980s.
Marketplace located a walking distance South from Lesi Ukrainki Street was once a thriving place full of local residents looking to buy everything from fresh meat and vegetables to clothes…
Komatsu D155W was an amphibious remote controlled bulldozer produced in Japan from 1971 until 1993. It can be found between the office building and the main production hall of the…
Another visit to “Emerald” children’s summer camp in April 2018. This idyllic place hidden only few steps from the main road in the deep woods by the cooling pond was…
Most of you have heard of the Russian Woodpecker, but have you ever wondered what powered this massive structure? I have never seen any photographs from this place and it…
The old Checkpoint Pripyat with remains of thick lead oxide glass windows installed to protect the guards and dosimetrists in the nearby testing station from radiation.
Nowadays it is really difficult to find hidden gems in Pripyat. The city has been visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists, countless stalkers, explorers, and even vandals. While not…
Car ride from Kyiv to the Chernobyl Zone is not an exciting experience in itself, and most people eagerly check their phones, prepare cameras and chat about Chernobyl rather than…
RBMK-1000 reactors were 11.8m tall and 7m in diameter, therefore installing them inside the building required specialist equipment. There were two portal cranes capable of handling this task in the…
Many of you have heard of Chernobylite by now – the latest game from a Polish game developer The Farm 51. Chernobylite is (as of June 2020) an early access…
If the rumours about the most recent Chernobyl forest fires turn out to be true, one of the most iconic places in the Chernobyl Zone is lost forever. “Emerald” childrens…
Kindergarten No. 3 “Sunshine” located on 16a Lenin Avenue in Pripyat. The building has a typical layout for preschool educational facilities in Pripyat and it’s in pretty bad shape, however…
The story of the Bridge of Death depicted in the HBO “Chernobyl” series is fictional. There is no record of Pripyat residents watching the events unfold from the bridge and…
A kindergarten on the Northern edge of Pripyat converted to a contaminated soil research laboratory nicknamed ‘Radek’ (лаборатории «Радэк»). The building contains thousands of soil samples from the entire Zone…
One of the most contaminated objects in the Chernobyl Zone is the famous Claw. It was used to clear the debris around the ruined Reactor no. 4 in 1986 and…