One of the most contaminated objects in the Chernobyl Zone is the famous Claw. It was used to clear the debris around the ruined Reactor no. 4 in 1986 and…
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Today I have something special the German-speaking readers – a copy of Wochenpost (Weekly Mail) newspaper from April 1996. Tt contains a rather long article titled “Chernobyl – Campaign of…
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…
“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.…
Photos don’t give justice to the overwhelming size of the unfinished cooling towers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the most iconic pieces of Chernobyl artwork can be…
Contrary to popular belief, the Chernobyl Town is still inhabited and busy. It’s a beautiful snapshot of a long gone era, a battlefield between humans and nature, with crumbling buildings…
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…
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…
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…
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…