oldskool
21-10-2011, 04:58 PM
Chernobyl and Pripyat The Zone Revisit 2011
heres a youtube link to give you an idea of what happened in 1986 and the effects of nuclear fallout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAJ_u3Q0Hw&feature=player_embedded#!
Visited with members of various forums including talk urbex urbex forums uk urbex and 28 days later , i could go on and on about the trip but meh.............
the first shot is from Slavutych
1.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0136.jpg
Slavutych, a specially-built remote city in the Kiev Oblast, 45 km (28 mi) east of the accident site.What you could say is the second Pripyat built to house the workers who were evacuated from the zone
The Exclusion Zone was established soon after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, in order to evacuate the local population and to prevent people from entering the heavily contaminated territory. The area adjoining the site of the disaster was originally divided into 4 concentric zones. The most contaminated zone had a radius of 30 km (19 mi) from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The border of the zone was later adjusted to better parallel the locations of highest contamination.
2.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/88And2more_tonemapped.jpg
The territory of the zone is polluted unevenly. Spots of hyperintensive pollution were created first by wind and rain spreading radioactive dust at the time of the accident, and subsequently by numerous burial sites for various material and equipment used in decontamination. Zone authorities pay attention to protecting such spots from tourists, scrap hunters and wildfires, but admit that some dangerous burial sites remain unmapped and known only by recollections of the liquidators.
3.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/Untitled_Panorama22And2more_tonemappedporps.jpg
The zone is controlled by the Administration of the Alienation Zone within Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies and Affairs of Population Protection from Consequences of Chernobyl Catastrophe. The territory of the zone is policed by special units of the MVS and (along the border line) the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. It is partly excluded from the regular civil rule.
4.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC9977_6_5_4_3_2_1_tonemapped.jpg
reactor 5 was never finished .....it was left when reactor 4 exploded complete with cranes just 5 months before completion
Approximately 3,000 workers are employed within the Zone of Alienation. Employees technically do not live inside the zone, but work shifts. 75% of the workers work 4-3 shifts (four days on, three off) and 25% work 15 days on, 15 off, as of 2009. The duration of shifts is strictly counted regarding the person's pension and healthcare issues. Everyone employed within the zone is monitored for internal bioaccumulation of radioactive elements.
Yanov Train Station
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0074.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0067_HDR.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0060_HDR.jpg
8.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0053.jpg
9.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0045.jpg
Buryakovka Vehicle Graveyard
10.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0384.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0187.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0173_HDR.jpg
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located inside the Zone of Alienation but is administered separately. Plant personnel, 3,800 workers as of 2009, reside primarily in Slavutych, a specially-built remote city in the Kiev Oblast, 45 km (28 mi) east of the accident site.
The police station
13.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0381.jpg
inside the cells
14.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0382.jpg
images from the Kindergartens and school
15.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0422.jpg
16.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0407_08_09_10_11_12_13_tonemapped.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0351.jpg18.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0350_49_48_47_46_45_44_tonemapped.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0287_6_5_4_3_2_1_tonemapped.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0450_49_48_47_46_45_44_tonemapped.jpg
Access to the zone for brief visits is possible, through guided day-tours available to the public from Kiev or by applying directly to ChernobylInterInform, a department of zone administration. Some evacuated residents of Pripyat, Chernobyl and smaller villages have established a remembrance tradition, which includes annual visiting of the former homes or schools, and Internet sites describing the past and present life of their childhood homes.
the music school
21.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0478_7_6_5_4_3_2_tonemapped.jpg
22.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0484_83_82_81_80_79_tonemapped.jpg
cafe Pripyat
23.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0602.jpg
the cinema
24.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0630.jpg
Historically and geographically, the zone is a heartland of the Polesia region—the birthplace of East Slavs. This predominantly rural woodland area was once home to 120,000 people, living in 90 communities (including the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat), but is now mostly uninhabited. All settlements remain designated on geographic maps but marked as nezhyl. (нежил.) - "uninhabited".
heres a youtube link to give you an idea of what happened in 1986 and the effects of nuclear fallout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAJ_u3Q0Hw&feature=player_embedded#!
Visited with members of various forums including talk urbex urbex forums uk urbex and 28 days later , i could go on and on about the trip but meh.............
the first shot is from Slavutych
1.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0136.jpg
Slavutych, a specially-built remote city in the Kiev Oblast, 45 km (28 mi) east of the accident site.What you could say is the second Pripyat built to house the workers who were evacuated from the zone
The Exclusion Zone was established soon after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, in order to evacuate the local population and to prevent people from entering the heavily contaminated territory. The area adjoining the site of the disaster was originally divided into 4 concentric zones. The most contaminated zone had a radius of 30 km (19 mi) from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The border of the zone was later adjusted to better parallel the locations of highest contamination.
2.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/88And2more_tonemapped.jpg
The territory of the zone is polluted unevenly. Spots of hyperintensive pollution were created first by wind and rain spreading radioactive dust at the time of the accident, and subsequently by numerous burial sites for various material and equipment used in decontamination. Zone authorities pay attention to protecting such spots from tourists, scrap hunters and wildfires, but admit that some dangerous burial sites remain unmapped and known only by recollections of the liquidators.
3.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/Untitled_Panorama22And2more_tonemappedporps.jpg
The zone is controlled by the Administration of the Alienation Zone within Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies and Affairs of Population Protection from Consequences of Chernobyl Catastrophe. The territory of the zone is policed by special units of the MVS and (along the border line) the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. It is partly excluded from the regular civil rule.
4.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC9977_6_5_4_3_2_1_tonemapped.jpg
reactor 5 was never finished .....it was left when reactor 4 exploded complete with cranes just 5 months before completion
Approximately 3,000 workers are employed within the Zone of Alienation. Employees technically do not live inside the zone, but work shifts. 75% of the workers work 4-3 shifts (four days on, three off) and 25% work 15 days on, 15 off, as of 2009. The duration of shifts is strictly counted regarding the person's pension and healthcare issues. Everyone employed within the zone is monitored for internal bioaccumulation of radioactive elements.
Yanov Train Station
5.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0074.jpg
6.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0067_HDR.jpg
7.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0060_HDR.jpg
8.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0053.jpg
9.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0045.jpg
Buryakovka Vehicle Graveyard
10.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0384.jpg
11.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0187.jpg
12.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0173_HDR.jpg
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located inside the Zone of Alienation but is administered separately. Plant personnel, 3,800 workers as of 2009, reside primarily in Slavutych, a specially-built remote city in the Kiev Oblast, 45 km (28 mi) east of the accident site.
The police station
13.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0381.jpg
inside the cells
14.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0382.jpg
images from the Kindergartens and school
15.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0422.jpg
16.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0407_08_09_10_11_12_13_tonemapped.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0351.jpg18.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0350_49_48_47_46_45_44_tonemapped.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0287_6_5_4_3_2_1_tonemapped.jpg
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http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0450_49_48_47_46_45_44_tonemapped.jpg
Access to the zone for brief visits is possible, through guided day-tours available to the public from Kiev or by applying directly to ChernobylInterInform, a department of zone administration. Some evacuated residents of Pripyat, Chernobyl and smaller villages have established a remembrance tradition, which includes annual visiting of the former homes or schools, and Internet sites describing the past and present life of their childhood homes.
the music school
21.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0478_7_6_5_4_3_2_tonemapped.jpg
22.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0484_83_82_81_80_79_tonemapped.jpg
cafe Pripyat
23.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0602.jpg
the cinema
24.
http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn350/traktor999/urbex%20links%20for%20forums%202011/_DSC0630.jpg
Historically and geographically, the zone is a heartland of the Polesia region—the birthplace of East Slavs. This predominantly rural woodland area was once home to 120,000 people, living in 90 communities (including the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat), but is now mostly uninhabited. All settlements remain designated on geographic maps but marked as nezhyl. (нежил.) - "uninhabited".