Forgotten Chernobyl Posts

12th May 2018

More photos of Pripyat Then and Now series taken in 2017 and 2018. Let’s begin with the Pripyat 1970 sign and the nearby monument welcoming visitors coming to the city:…

12th May 2018
11th May 2018
11th May 2018

Some more photos of Pripyat before and after the accident, this time from the Main Square showing Palace of Culture Energetik, the Restaurant, Hotel Polissya, the White House (with high…

9th May 2018

Canteen and Shops (Фабрика-кухня) building located on Lesi Ukrainki street in Pripyat. Close proximity to the water treatment station suggests that it provided meals for its employees.   Visited in…

8th May 2018

Cranes in Pripyat Cargo Dock visited again in the Spring 2018.    

7th May 2018

Stratheden Hospital, initially known as Fife and Kinross District Asylum when it was opened on July 1st 1866 was constructed to provide provided mental health care for up to 200…

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…

22nd April 2018

Some of the abandoned vehicles at the Jupiter factory on the outskirts of Pripyat.    

27th March 2018

Poliske town, located on the the outskirts on the Chernobyl Zone, was an administrative centre of Poliske district. It was evacuated following the Chernobyl accident and today the wind howls…

20th March 2018

   

18th March 2018

Kenmure Castle, located near  the town of New Galloway in Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland.      

6th March 2018

One week after Easter the feast of the dead known as “hrobki” is celebrated in Ukraine. The custom requires that on that day a whole living family meets on nearby…

5th March 2018

   

7th February 2018