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…
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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…
I took my old soviet Kiev 4 rangefinder camera with a couple of rolls of Kodak film on my last trip to the Chernobyl Zone. I really enjoyed photographing Pripyat…
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…
Located in the woods outside of Pripyat, the bakery is a rarely visited by tourists as it’s not included in the routes. The remote building hasn’t been looted as badly…
The ATH 2 (ATX 2 in Russian), also known as The Mobile Mechanized Autocade №35, was a vehicles repair facility and a garage on the outskirts of Pripyat. It had…
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.
Sanitary and Epidemic Station, located on vulytsia Entuziastiv (Enthusiasts Street) on the Western edge of Pripyat, right next to the Pripyat Hospital no. 126. It was equipped to handle any…
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…
I’ve got something unusual for my German-speaking followers today – a 1991 Amway catalogue mentioning Chernobyl. From what I understand thanks to google translate – Amway donated vitamin supplements to…
For years I have been fascinated by the story of an extraordinary pine tree appearing on some historical photographs from the Chernobyl Zone. Shaped like a trident, or a cross,…
Ukraine has always been famous for its vast and rich in nutrients black earth agricultural land, hence the country is often referred to as the breadbasket of Europe. Agriculture always…
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…
Continuing the Chernobyl Then and Now series, we begin by revisiting shops on Lenin Avenue leading to the Main Square. Before the Chernobyl Disaster, Lenin Avenue connected to the main…
The Main Square of Pripyat was a centre of social life for many residents, with the nearby shopping centre, two restaurants (one in the Hotel Polissya and one above the…