Category: Educational Facilities

25th July 2021
21st November 2020
4th April 2020

Kindergarten No. 3 “Sunshine” (Дитячий садок “Сонечко”) is located on 16a Lenin Avenue in Pripyat. The building has a typical layout for preschool educational facilities in Pripyat and it’s in…

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.…

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…

24th November 2019
31st May 2019
30th May 2019

A 10-minute walk from a major road in deep, crunchy snow takes us to a small village of L. deep in the woods of the Chernobyl Zone. After passing few…

26th May 2019

Middle School No. 1 in Pripyat is located in the Northeast part of the city at Druzhby Narodiv (Friendship of Nations) Street, close to the Pripyat Hospital and Pripyat Cafe.…

23rd May 2019

The Middle School No. 4 in Pripyat is located in the IV Microdistrict in the Northwest part of the city. It was still under construction in April 1986 and never…

20th April 2019
14th October 2018

A collection of teaching aids from one of the schools in the Chernobyl Zone, depicting statistical facts about the industrial and agricultural output of the USSR republics.  

12th October 2018

A collection of Soviet propaganda found in a secondary school deep in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.    

4th May 2018

The Zone is blue. I see this colour everywhere, in schools, kindergartens, hospital, Jupiter, in Pripyat’s modern flats and old wooden houses crumbling apart in some forgotten, remote villages. It…

15th December 2017

Rarely visited Secondary School in Chernobyl Zone.  

7th December 2017

Mashevo Secondary School is among the best preserved locations in the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, mostly thanks to the village’s remote location, over an hour drive from Chernobyl town and…

26th May 2017

Kopachi (Копачі in Ukrainian) was a small village south-east from the town of Pripyat with population of 1114 in 1986. Due to the proximity to the Chernobyl Power Plant it was…