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…
Category: Villages
Usov is a very little known and rarely visited village near the Belarusian border in the North-West part of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, across the Pripyat River from the Power…
The kolkhoz (collective farm) in the Zymovyshche village in the Chernobyl Zone is easily recognizable by the grain mill, but there are some other interesting things to be discovered there.
Paryshev is a small village East from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, one of the few remaining that are still inhabited. One of the easiest buildings to spot from a…
Krasne Village (Ukrainian: Красно) is located about 7km northeast from Pripyat, on the other side of the Pripyat River. Among the traditional Ukrainian cottages in various state of decay hiding…
Before infrared cameras, drones and other modern ways of spotting fires in the Chernobyl Zone, manned towers like this one in Paryshev village were crucial part of the firefighting infrastructure.…