Ukraine has always been famous for its vast and rich in nutrients black earth agricultural land, hence the country is often referred to as the breadbasket of Europe. Agriculture always…
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Education was certainly one of the priorities in the Soviet Union, and Pripyat had some of the best equipped schools and libraries. One of the 16-storey buildings on Lazareva Street,…
Paryshev is a small village East from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It stands out among other settlements is the human presence. Several buildings in Paryshev are still occupied, one…
Continuing the Chernobyl Then and Now series, we begin by revisiting shops on Lenin Avenue leading to the Main Square. Before the Chernobyl Disaster, Lenin Avenue connected to the main…
The Main Square of Pripyat was a centre of social life for many residents, with the nearby shopping centre, two restaurants (one in the Hotel Polissya and one above the…
Across from the Pripyat Main Square, rooftops of two 16-storey buildings on Lazareva Street offer some of the best views of Pripyat. Both towers are topped with steel structures –…
Only few steps away from a kindergarten we find a cosy nursery. Tall windows illuminate walls painted in my favourite “zone blue” and what’s left of the soft, cuddly bears.…
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 Middle School No. 4 in Pripyat is located in the IV Microdistrict in the Northwest part of the city. It was still under construction in April 1986 and never…
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…
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…
I came across several architectural concept sketches of Pripyat dated 1968. The first one appears to depict the Palace of Culture, later named Energetik, followed by the river station where…
Climbing the last remaining Avangard Stadium in Pripyat (Стадіон Авангард in Ukrainian) light tower. The other three have collapsed over the years and the structure is seriously weakened with floor…
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…