Continuing the “Chernobyl Then and Now” series we visit Café “Pripyat”, located on the Waterfront Street (vulytsia Naberezhna), near Pripyat Hospital no. 126. It is famous for the stunning, stained…
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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…
Yaniv Railway Station near Pripyat is one of the most fascinating places in the Chernobyl Zone, littered with contaminated military vehicles and derailed train carts. The main station building is…
Middle School No. 1 in Pripyat is located in the Northeast part of the city at Druzhby Narodiv (Friendship of Nations) Street, close to the Pripyat Hospital and Pripyat Cafe.…
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…
Few interesting theories surround Jupiter Factory in Pripyat, but are they really true? Located on the south-west outskirts of Pripyat and opened in 1980, Jupiter factory employed nearly 3500 people…
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…
Chernobyl-2 was a town near the Duga-1 radar system built to accommodate technical staff and their families, consisting of several 4 storey apartment blocks and some major public buildings such…
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.…
War Memorial Park is located on the eastern outskirts of Chernobyl City. After the Chernobyl Disaster several new monuments were built on its grounds to commemorate the victims and liquidators.…
Yesterday we have taken a tour around the abandoned outskirts of the Chernobyl City, I have also mentioned the better part of it, where the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Administration headquaters,…
It’s hard to find anyone even remotely interested in Chernobyl Zone who hasn’t heard of the Russian Woodpecker – an over the horizon radar, part of the early warning system…
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…
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…