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Exclusion Zonein Chernobyl, Ukraine

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The most contaminated with radiation area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was named a 30-kilometer exclusion zone.
Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl
After the Chernobyl disaster, residents within a radius of 30 kilometers from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were evacuated. The nuclear power plant, the city of Pripyat and several nearby settlements entered the exclusion zone. This area was most polluted by radiation, although a large area of ​​contaminated territories remained outside the exclusion zone. Only the workers serving the station were allowed to enter here, but only under the strict supervision of dosimetrist and with all the relevant documents.

Exclusion Zone. 10 km zonePhoto: Exclusion Zone. 10 km zone, © Alexander Postalovsky

Over time, the exclusion zone became a nature reserve for rare animals such as the bear, lynx, Przewalsky's horse, otter and muskrat. You can see wolves, foxes, hares and wild boars freely walking along the abandoned streets of Pripyat.

Wild animals in the exclusion zonePhoto: Wild animals in the exclusion zone

Now people come to the exclusion zone to settle in abandoned houses to work, either in the zone itself or nearby. Now more than 500 inhabitants live here. Every year thousands of tourists come here searching for exceptional adventures, historians searching for truth and even drug addicts - according to police reports, the exclusion zone is a popular place for cultivation of cannabis.

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The exclusion zone is the most contaminated area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

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#4Cruise on the ship to Chernobyl and PripyatCruise on the ship to Chernobyl and Pripyat

Get a sea of thrills from a boat trip to the lost world of a dead city.

UAH 335000/tour
#2One-day private tour (Chernobyl + Pripyat) from KievOne-day private tour (Chernobyl + Pripyat) from Kiev

One day in the Exclusion Zone and you will learn everything about this desolate tragical place.

UAH 1794+/person
#3Urgent one-day tour (Chernobyl + Pripyat) from KievUrgent one-day tour (Chernobyl + Pripyat) from Kiev

The most horrifying post apocalyptic picture of Chernobyl and Pripyat in one day

UAH 3999+/person

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At the entrance to Pripyat the impressive size sign with the name of the city is located. It looks like the monument, but for USSR it was too normal.

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Shortly before the Chernobyl disaster, here, in Pripyat, located in a couple kilometers from the power plant, the construction of the KGB building began.

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Trees in the forest became frighteningly red and their radioactive glow could be seen in the night, because of the radioactive substances ejection into the atmosphere.

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The monument in honour of the first Union of Soviet Socialist Republics leader is still located in the deserted dismal Chernobyl city.

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By the influence of time and weather, the surfaces of objects at the cemetery became rusty, look gloomy and sad.

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The abandoned Polissya Hotel in the center of a Pripyat ghost town, where in April 1986 the liquidators of the accident were based.

#3Abandoned cargo port in ChernobylAbandoned cargo port

In an old godforsaken quiet pier, on the sandy bank of the river, only a few rusty old port cranes remind that there was once a new cargo port.

#11Amusement park in ChernobylAmusement park

An amazingly tempting and simultaneously frightening place, which has become popular thank to many games and movies - is truly worthy of its reputation.

#14NPP observation deck in ChernobylNPP observation deck

You can see the sarcophagus, which is covering the fourth reactor, and the other parts of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant right from here.

#19Hospital MSCh-126 in ChernobylHospital MSCh-126

An eerie place, where all your body shivers - the hospital, which was the first to receive affected from the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Photo credit © Jaroslav Popelka