Pripyat,summer, next trip.

As I said about a week ago, I went to Chernobyl zone again, and here're some new shots. This time I weared a military scintillation counter to check radiation, so please sorry for the shots quality -- It's too hard to make fine photos when you carry such a device in your left hand for 7 hours:)


And please sorry for my English.

As always, you can ask me to make photos of any object in the Pripyat, if you need. Hi-res photos on demand is available too.



Checkpoint.


Shops at the almost abandoned suburban bus station at Chernobyl(however, buses to Kiev go from here frequently)


To the Station...


3.2μSv/h on the ground, 200m far from 4th reactor


Hello again, Pripyat.


Central street(Lenina ave). Was 6 times wider, now only such two parallel pathways exist(hard to call this as a street)


This time we preferred not to go streets, but between houses. That's was much interesting.


One of us was born in Pripyat and said that sometimes people who came after 20 years to city, cannot recognize streets, where they used to live before the disaster and feel like in completely different city. Personally, altrough I have high-detailed map of city, in summer it was useless for me for the same reason - nothing could be seen through the trees. So I used maps only to mark contamination.




A well-known fact -- lots of reporters come to Pripyat to make cool photos as they think. The most 'lovely' way to do 'em is to take a 'generic' child doll into frame... I will not say anything about how ethical to do something like that(sometimes they take new toys to the City), but should note that usually such guys ignore radiation safety - e.g. I checked the hair of this one doll -- β=6 particles * 10³(cm * min), γ=5.40 μSv/h, on the background radioactivity is 4-5 times lower.





Young, but powerful forest. Can you recognize a house in a 50 metres?


Here it is.


24, Lenina ave


One of the 11(eleven!!!) childrengardens...




16, Lenina ave




Deep water shaft... 2.00μSv/h.












One of the former streets. Wide streets.


The hostel... we entering an oldest and dirtiest district of Pripyat - 1st


A wall-mosaic to 50-th anniversary of USSR creation.




A canteen


Note how thick is the tree on the left... it grows on stairs.






Autoclaves






One of the oldest bus-stops


Remains of internal fence of barbed wire, mounted in may, 1986... covered with rust now...


A shop "Glowworm"(yes, that name looks very strange for English speakers, but in Russian 'glowworm' sounds 'Svetlyacheck', and associated with light, not with an insect:)




Pipes on the left were used for filling tanks of decontamination cars with water.


"A Glory to the labour!"


One of alive and functional facilities in Pripyat - a special laundry fo clean contaminated clothes of the Zone's workers.


Around it everything looks pretty, grass and trees are cut.


One of the typical Pripyat sculptures. Looks slightly creepy, imho(lika a sarcofagus covering a human figure). The same-alike ones could be found deeply in grass at the Lenina ave.


The backyard of the washing unit.


An 'Avangard' sport centre


About to collapse.




The 'Birch' store... a mystical coincidence is that inside a shop only birches grow.


Going to the river station..


The high-contaminated stairs at river station.


...the river station...


The kvass kiosk...


Bus stop near the river station... I was shocked -- the trees around are SO huge that it's about impossible to imagine that sometimes there was at least a small pathway, not even a road!


'Prometeus' cinema.






Stained-glass window at the lobby.


High relief on the wall of cinema. Lots of buildings in Pripyat have such ones, all are in the same style.


The building of the city council... A sigh on the entrance refers to GSP COMPLEX which had an office in this building after the disaster.


Going to store...


Inside the 'Rainbow' store


I remember such cash registers from my childhood...


The we went to school #3
















A bank office.


The most contaminated places are covered with moss, it's a perfect adsorber of everything, including Cs and Sr-90.
"Shit!!!" -- is when you go somewhere and a device shows 0.005 and SUDDENLY...






Leaving the city...


Radiation-checking in Chernobyl.


Sleeping kitty)


Automatic checkpoint.






...Good bye, my sweet City. Will meet again in autumn.