Kindergarten “Druzhba” (“Friendship) in Pripyat is one of the rarely visited places in the Chernobyl Zone. Located on 3 Lenin Avenue, it’s right next to the checkpoint at the entrance…
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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…
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…
“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.…
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…
Last year I came across this beautiful book titled “Coats of Arms and Flags of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”, depicting all Soviet republics along with their traditional folk…
Only few steps away from a kindergarten we find a cosy nursery. Tall windows illuminate walls painted in my favourite “zone blue” and what’s left of the soft, cuddly bears.…
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…
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.…
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…
Not often we have a chance to find a place in the Chernobyl Zone so well preserved. Decades of looting, tourism and exposure to elements have taken its toll on…
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.
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…
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…