Today’s Guest Post has been prepared by Emilia Ochtera, her endless supply of facts and stories about Chernobyl never cease to amaze me! Various techniques were used to deal with…
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“Interconnected Power System of the South” booklet printed in the USSR by ElektroMachExport in Russian, English and German. I cannot find the exact date of its publication however the Chernobyl…
On the 15th of December 2000 at 13:17, the last remaining operational reactor number 3 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was shut down using the AZ-5 switch located in…
A Booklet “Safety, Effectiveness, Social Progress” in English published by the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine containing information about the newly created State Specialised Enterprise “Chornobyl NPP” and…
The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was a government body responsible for electricity generation in England and Wales for almost forty years, from 1957 to privatisation in the 1990s. “CEGB…
Continuing the Analog Chernobyl series, today we are visiting other parts of Pripyat and having a quick peek into a school and a nursery. Pripyat captured, on a 35mm…
Have you got enough of the hot weather? Worry no more, we have saturators! For those of you who grew up outside of the Soviet Union, saturator was a vending…
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…
Yaniv station (станція Янів in Ukrainian) was the main railway hub for Pripyat, located less than a kilometer away from the southeast end of the city. A number of military…
The water in the Pripyat River dock rarely freezes enough to be safe to walk on, so I had a rare opportunity to climb the floating crane located there. The…
On the 26th of April 1986 reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed as a result of a failed test. A steam explosion and subsequent…
I came across several architectural concept drawings of Pripyat dated 1968. The first one appears to depict the Palace of Culture, later named Energetik, followed by the river station where…
Climbing the last remaining light tower at the Central Stadium in Pripyat . The other three have collapsed over the years and the structure is seriously weakened with floor sections…
Pripyat dock cranes, located around Yanov backwater about 2.5km from the city centre, were used to unload supplies for the power plant and the city of Pripyat. The backwater has…
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.…