The Miracle of the Church of the Prophet Elijah in Chernobyl
Over the entire years since the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, the levels of radiation in the area of the only church of the exclusion zone, the St. Elijah Church, was […]
Monument for the firefighters of the Chernobyl disaster.
After a random walk and different articles about Chernobyl and the exclusion zone, I want speak to conclude (at this moment) my “Chernobyl Diaries”, about the efforts and the bravery […]
Chernobyl nuclear power plant: 32 years later
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster began in the early hours of Saturday 26 April 1986 in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. An explosion released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the […]
Postcards from Pripyat, the town nearest to the No.4 reactor of Chernobyl.
Pripyat is the town nearest to the No. 4 reactor, had 49,000 inhabitants, and was founded to house workers from Chernobyl. The name came from the river where sits the […]
Pripyat: schools and kindergartens
In Pripyat there were 15 primary schools in Pripyat for 5,000 children, plus 5 secondary schools and one professional school. Toys and exercise books still remain everywhere across the floor […]
A Visit to Pripyat Hospital
{Seven in the morning. At seven, they told me he was in the hospital. I rushed over, but there was a police cordon round the hospital, they weren’t letting anyone […]
The radioactive amusement park abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.
Festive decorations are still here in the ghost town of Pripyat, ready for the opening, the 1st May 1986 that never came. It was to be opened for the first […]
Duga-3, the top-secret military base lost in Chernobyl’s irradiated forest
Soaring high over the pines and firs in a forest clearing is the Duga structure. It looks as if someone had taken a 20-mile stretch of electricity pylons and squashed them into a line the length of a football field. A swirling mass of wires, pylons and cylindrical cones form a geometric structure of steel roughly 500 meters high....
Samosely: The images of Chernobyl illegal residents
Photogallery of an experience that can not be described with words. Thanks to italian cultural association “I Luoghi dell’abbandono” which constantly helps the local inhabitants of this area.
Photogallery of Kupovatoye, abandoned village in Chernobyl Region
Photogallery of Kupovatoye, abandoned village in Chernobyl region. 23/4/2018
