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…
Category: Chernobyl Photos
Photos of the Chernobyl Zone and Pripyat.
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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.…
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…
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…
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…
Rossokha Vehicle Graveyard and Duga radar, known as the Russian Woodpecker, captured on my old Soviet Kiev-4 camera.