The old Checkpoint Pripyat with remains of thick lead oxide glass windows installed to protect the guards and dosimetrists in the nearby testing station from radiation.
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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…
A highly contaminated cemetery located near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, with 30uSv/h readings in open air. Located in close proximity to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station the ground received…
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…
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…
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…