In the night from 25 to 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the largest in the world nuclear technological disaster. All Pripyat citizens were evacuated on the next day. People are encouraged to be prepared for a temporary evacuation because in a few days they must be back in their homes. But they did not return either a few days or a few years ...
Pripyat is completely empty and no one lives there now. Nature begins to take its superiority. Trees germinate in the houses and the sidewalk. You can found boar, fox, hare in the city.
View of the micro-district of Pripyat
To the South of the city is the so-called Red forest, which took the largest share of release of radioactive dust during the explosion of the reactor in 1986.
Because of the huge doses of radiation, the trees were painted in brown-red.
The most popular place in Pripyat is an amusement park. It is also one of the highly contaminated areas in Pripyat.
Ferris wheel has never worked, a few days before the launch of wheel the Chernobyl disaster occurred.
Later Ferris wheel has become a symbol of the Pripyat and the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Palace of Culture "Energetic" - One of the central buildings in Pripyat. It was the center of cultural life before the accident.
The tallest buildings in the abandoned city Polissya hotel is well known outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The hotel is featured in the video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Captain Price and MacMillan had planned to make attempted murder from the roof of this building. Also, Polissya hotel is a location in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.
The average background radiation in Pripyat is about 50 micro roentgen per hour. In the centre of Pripyat background radiation is 150 micro roentgen per hour. For example, normal natural background radiation in your city within 10-20 micro roentgen per hour.
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I live not far from Pripyat.. And why it is not any translation on russian?
потому, что русскоязычных китов мало, чтобы по достоинству оценить этот несравненный пост :)
мало о Чернобыле что ли знаем? :)
китов может и мало, но читать вас будут не киты в конечном итоге, а русско-язычные пользователи. Многие, и я в том числе просто пишем на двух языках.
Отправил пост на двух языках. Видимо Гаввет решил опубликовать только на одном языке.
Странно, он говорил что ему нравиться идея постить на двух.
what an eerie place, takes me back to when i played stalker call of pripyat : ).
yeah, Stalker did Pripyat and Chernobyl famous around the world
Interesting!! Quite scary really!!
Yeah, a trip to Pripyat will not leave anyone indifferent!
My father was one of many soviet civilians who was called up by government to neutralize consequences of an accident at Chernobyl station. He brought many photos and much more memories about months in Pripyat and Chernobyl.
He was send there a year after the accident.
After that he told me about strawberry as big as man fist. About fishing with empty hook and pikes around 1-1,5 meters (4-5 ft).
And he had brought me the best souvenir for a 10 years old boy - military dosimeter DKP-50-A.
It was like small pen. You had to look inside it like into kaleidoscope. And you would see readings.
You can publish this stories. I think they will be interesting for Steemit.
https://steemit.com/tag/@vlad/re-r4fken-re-vlad-re-r4fken-pictures-of-a-dead-town-a-guided-tour-through-doel-belgium-s-most-controversial-village-20160726t155802433z
The pictures are fascinating. I can not believe that once Pripyat was full of life.
Сity population was over 47 000 people before the catastrophe
Good place to install solar panels and take energy. For a long time.
I live in St. Petersburg, in 1986 I was 8 years old, during that summer my perents didnt let me go outside to play when it was raining, bacause (its a fact) the clouds brought radiation from Chernobyl
Could you include photographer credit if these were not taken by @nexus
The nuclear disaster from Chernobyl brought nature back here. It's not like in the movie "I Am Legend" but close (because Ukraine is not US and real life is not Hollywood). :)
Ukraine wants to build in Chernobyl the largest solar electric plant in the world. And there is now less radiation.
Always been interested in chernobyl. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is still one of my all time favorite games.
Impressive views ! Feels like time traveling.
Thank you! Photographers are risking their lives to show us Pripyat.
Эта трагедия осталась навсегда в нашей истории. Хочется увидеть еще посты именно про Чернобыль. Спасибо за пост!
Nexus as not to be confused with the Nexus Cryptocurrency project ;-)
Познавательный пост! очень люблю Чернобыль из-за Сталкера.
Спасибо! Буду и дальше радовать интересными постами.
My highest respect to those sacrificed themselves to save the world from the nightmare of a real fallout.
I remember when going to radiation safety school, the instructors showed us a video of one of the first fire fighters peering down into hole in the reactor, then turning towards the camera and then grabbing at his stomach. You could already see the Beta burns on his face and the reason he was grabbing his stomach is the Beta burns had already killed the cells in stomach lining. He was already a dead man walking. I guess it took 12 hours or so for his heart to mercifully stop beating. How you could have a fire department near a Nuclear reactor and not tell them in advance that first on scene of a melt down are automatically dead.
Nice post, see the next ur article, very interesting for me @gavvet
Thank you!
Excellent post! I thought I'd add a bit more info for anyone interested.
Spent fuel from the Soviet-designed RBMK (Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalniy) reactors, like all those at Chernobyl, pose an ongoing problem that literally costs millions to deal with safely long term. And sadly, it is a very long term problem!
Here is a short video that talks about the spent fuel problem and how it is being dealt with at the Chernobyl site:
Also, the hastily constructed and now dangerously crumbling sarcophagus that encases unit 4 of Chernobyl's crippled nuclear power plant, also needs to be replaced for safety reasons.
Here is a short video that talks about the "new safe containment contract" which is currently underway:
Years later and that one site still requires so much ongoing investment in an attempt to simply make it safe again! I also find it interesting that the 2 videos I linked here, appear to be posted by the European Bank.
I wonder which organisation will pick up the tab for the same effort to deal with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site in 25 years from now?
I read the story before, thanks to the photographer for the braveness bringing these pictures to the world.
In all seriousness though, this is quite unfortunate. It would be really interesting to see before and after pictures
I don't know what is so special about that post. Foreign or not.
I bet that most of us have seen these photos and dozens of other on the internet, already.
I also would bet that most of us knows the story too.
There are even YT videos by urban explorers.
BTW, could you, please provide link to original post, because I can't find it in @maxim-ananko blog.
Such a sad event. I can't imagine what it would be like to visit the place in person. Is it even safe to visit? I wonder. I hear it may be haunted too.
@gavvet can you look my posts please?
https://steemit.com/photography/@boddhisattva/my-trip-to-grigoriev-gorge-kyrgyzstan
https://steemit.com/photography/@boddhisattva/my-trip-to-grigoriev-gorge-kyrgyzstan-the-second-part
https://steemit.com/photography/@boddhisattva/my-trip-to-grigoriev-gorge-kyrgyzstan-the-third-part