Pripyat - ghost town (featuring new author @maxim-ananko)
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 town, waiting for new more like this
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
Good place to install solar panels and take energy. For a long time.
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). :)