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Pripyat exclusion zone map. Exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant through the eyes of stalkers

This zone attracts not only tourists who come here for short excursions, but also stalkers who spend a lot of time here and travel through abandoned cities and villages.
How stalkers spend their time in the exclusion zone, will tell the photo report with the story of one of the stalkers.
Under the waning moon, we walked through the thick summer air, filled with the aromas of field herbs. Walks easily in the cool of the night. Periodically, a variety of night creatures proboscis in the bushes strive.
After a short halt and replenishment of water supplies from the nearest swamp, we crossed the Uzh River ford.

After winding in the fields, we came to the ruins of the church and decided to spend the night in an abandoned village, the forces after the night fields were running out.

We found a well-preserved hut in the village and decided that it would shelter us. In the morning we laid out the luggage and began to have breakfast under a peacefully crackling dosimeter.

It was impossible to walk during daylight hours. We used the day to have a good rest and replenish our water supplies. We had plenty of walks through the beautiful nature and the abandoned village. There are ruins of an Orthodox church in the village, local priests look after it and put it in a room with an altar metal-plastic windows(!), Looks wild in these parts.

The night was a long and difficult journey. We broke through the forests along the paths of wild animals, scratched under high-voltage lines, and by dawn we reached the outskirts of Pripyat.

Checkpoint of an abandoned city with traces of a stalker parking lot. The forest between the checkpoint and the Jupiter plant made a very depressing impression on me. The remains of radioactive equipment are scattered among the trees, which glow so much that even marauders did not cut them into metal.

We have breakfast on the roof with a view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and go to bed. During the day it is not safe to walk, you can run into a police patrol.

In the morning and at night we saw another stalker group and later we met friends with whom we periodically crossed paths until the very exit from the zone. We met, drank moonshine with bacon and garlic in luxurious apartments and drove for a walk around the city at night.
Stained-glass window of the cafe "Pripyat" near the pond.

On the far bank of the pond there are huge 30-meter-high abandoned harbor cranes. Against the backdrop of the starry sky, they looked like Star Wars vehicles.

In the rays of dawn, we quietly made our way through some radioactive burial grounds to the oil depot in order to photograph the ISU-152 - a self-propelled artillery installation from the last world war, which rests behind the fence of the residential part of the oil depot. I can't confuse the smell of radioactive dumps with anything now.

126 medical unit in the basement of which is one of the dirtiest places in the zone. In a small room are the things of firefighters who received doses of radiation several times higher than the lethal ones and are still glowing wildly. More than once I thought about the dedication of people who raked up the consequences of a radioactive catastrophe. I watched a lot of old videos, and there people really realized what they were doing, that they were sacrificing themselves for the sake of others - this is very ... It is important when the conditions in which people grew up make them capable of such actions for the sake of others.

Abortion Journal. There was no sex in the Soviet Union, but there were abortions.

Shoes on the shelf in kindergarten. It's hard to imagine a darker place.

Traditional sunset on the roof of a 16-storey building with a hookah and our new friends. From here you have a beautiful view of the city.

View of the fifth microdistrict at night. The ghostly nine-story panel buildings, like the gnawed bones of an animal, reflect the pale moonlight.

One of the most powerful places is two chairs on the roof, which one of the stalkers took out there. We stuck there for many hours, smoked a hookah, looked at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, into the density of the starry sky and at the ghost town along the overgrown streets of which nocturnal animals roam.

Ferris wheel in an amusement park.

Ferris wheel in the center of Pripyat. Against the background of the starry sky, it can only be seen illegally.

We met dawn on the roof of a sixteen-story building with a coat of arms. I was very interested in the coat of arms, I have not seen anything like it anywhere else.

I fell asleep without waiting for dawn.

They say that sometimes these letters on the roof of the building are rearranged by stalkers and the local police organize a wild search of the whole city on this occasion.

Swimming pool of school number 3.

Some places in the city are specially furnished with very high quality for sightseeing photo work, like this room with gas masks.

A fresco at the post office, we went to take a couple of shots, we have a long road ahead through the night forests.

Having entered the dark strip after the red forest, somewhere very close we heard the many-voiced howl of a large pack of wolves. It was scary, because they howled right on the course, having collected a point in a fist and getting ready to break through, we moved forward. I kept firecrackers with me - in the hope that in an emergency, loud pops would scare away predators. Everything worked out and closer to the morning we came to a trolleybus abandoned by someone in the middle of the field. This is a popular stalker base, here we drank tea and had a snack. This place seemed to me somewhat similar to the bus from the movie "Into the Wild", where the main character spent his last days.

Stalker lodge. We caught up with our friends not far from Chernobyl-2.

A long and gloomy corridor between the antennas and the military camp.

Closer to sunset, we climbed the Duga-1 air defense radar, an abandoned huge antenna, towering 150 meters above the forests of the zone. Obiwan climbed onto the resonator. There was a wind, it shook and staggered, but he just gathered the eggs into a fist and walked along the pipe at a height of one hundred meters.

The higher we climbed, the stronger the wind became, and with it a special almost ultrasonic "Ring". The wind whistled through millions of steel cables and antenna resonators, singing a brain-burning song.

From the top, we watched the setting sun and watched the columns of smoke. Somewhere in the distance, a forest burned. The stalkers say that the current authorities are deliberately burning forests, pushing through some kind of bill to tear up the zone and shrink it from 30 to 10 kilometers next year.

Another creepy story. There is a room with dead wolves in the abandoned military town. It is not clear how they got there, but the walls of the room are scratched from the inside by paws and two mummies lie on the floor.

And then there was a long road home. The zone for me is an endless starry sky, open space.

Passing under the power line, we saw that a tree had fallen on the wires. It smoldered, pulled wires and could start a fire. Having entered the foresters' house, we drank tea and left them a note with the exact coordinates of the accident.

Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Winding lines, rounded relief peninsulas in a vast red spot... This is how the exclusion zone and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant look on the map today. Going back several decades, one can become an unwitting witness to the tragic events that captured not a single kilometer of fertile land in their destructive whirlwind. It was the tragedy of 1986 at the nuclear power plant that became the culprit of the fact that the map of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is now considered as a territory contaminated with radiation.

Chernobyl on Google map

On the wide and full-flowing river Pripyat, which flows into the cool waters of the Dnieper, the energy treasury of the USSR rises. We are talking about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant began its history in 1970, with the start of construction. The authorities planned to turn this station into a great power that could put the USSR in first place in this industry among other states. Therefore, huge forces and labor reserves were applied to implement the project. For the workers of the station, they even erected a modern European city, by those standards, of a sample. For many, this city has become their home.

The city where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

However, the map of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which soon appeared in the Soviet Union, can only indicate that not everything in the state was perfect. Young Pripyat, a strong nuclear city, like many other settlements, fell into the territorial outlines of the map of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. After all, the design and layout of the station did not live up to expectations. And a modern reactor of a new type has become a verdict for Ukraine and its neighboring states.

Exclusion zone on Yandex map

Map of contamination of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Not a single century of the existence of mankind on Earth has been without errors, which, unfortunately, are not always possible to correct. Every now and then, making the wrong steps, a person imperceptibly replenishes the treasury of his failures. When there is no space left at all, the irreparable happens - something that sobers up again, makes you stop and look back.

The terrible catastrophe in Chernobyl became an unprecedented event in the historical chronicle of nuclear energy. In the first days after the accident, it was not possible to assess the real scale of the incident, and only some time later, within a radius of 30 km, the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was created. What happened and is still happening in the closed area? The world is full of various rumors, some of which are the fruit of an inflamed fantasy, and some are the true truth. And far from always the most obvious and realistic things turn out to be reality. After all, we are talking about Chernobyl - one of the most dangerous and mysterious territories of Ukraine.

History of Chernobyl construction

A plot of land 4 km from the village of Kopachi and 15 km from the city of Chernobyl was chosen in 1967 for the construction of a new nuclear power plant, designed to compensate for the energy shortage in the Central Energy Region. The future station was named Chernobyl.

The first 4 power units were built and put into operation by 1983, in 1981 the construction of power units 5 and 6 began, which lasted until the infamous 1986. Near the station, a town of power engineers arose in a few years - Pripyat.

The first accident covered the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1982 - after a scheduled repair, an explosion occurred at the 1st power unit. The consequences of the breakdown were eliminated within three months, after which additional security measures were introduced to prevent similar cases in the future.

But, apparently, fate decided to finish what it started, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was not supposed to work. That's why on the night of April 25-26, 1986 Another explosion thundered at the 4th power unit. This time, the incident turned into a catastrophe on a global scale. No one can still say for sure what exactly caused the explosion of the reactor, which led to thousands of broken destinies, twisted lives and premature deaths. The catastrophe, Chernobyl, the exclusion zone - the history of this incident is controversial to this day, although the time of the accident itself is set to within seconds.

A few minutes before the explosion of the 4th power unit

On the night of April 25-26, 1986, an experimental test of the 8th turbogenerator was scheduled. The experiment started at 1:23:10 on April 26, and after 30 seconds, a powerful explosion thundered as a result of pressure drop.

Chernobyl accident

Unit 4 was engulfed in flames, firefighters managed to completely extinguish the fire by 5 o'clock in the morning. And a few hours later it became known how powerful a release of radiation occurred in environment. A couple of weeks later, the authorities decided to cover the destroyed power unit with a concrete sarcophagus, but it was too late. The radioactive cloud spread over a fairly large distance.

The Chernobyl disaster brought a big disaster: the exclusion zone, created shortly after the event, forbade free access to the vast territory belonging to Ukraine and Belarus.

The area of the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Within a radius of 30 kilometers from the epicenter of the accident - abandonment and silence. It was these territories that the Soviet authorities considered dangerous for permanent residence of people. All residents of the exclusion zone were evacuated to other settlements. Several more zones were additionally defined in the restricted area:

a special zone, which was directly occupied by the NPP itself and the construction site of power units 5 and 6;
zone 10 km;
zone 30 km.

The borders of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were surrounded by a fence, installing warning signs about an increased level of radiation. The Ukrainian lands that fell into the forbidden territory are directly Pripyat, the village of Severovka in the Zhytomyr region, the villages of the Kiev region Novoshepelevichi, Polesskoe, Vilcha, Yanov, Kopachi.

The village of Kopachi is located at a distance of 3800 meters from the 4th power unit. It was so badly damaged by radioactive substances that the authorities decided to physically destroy it. The most massive rural buildings were destroyed and buried underground. Previously prosperous Kopachi were simply wiped off the face of the earth. At present, there are not even self-settlers here.

The accident also affected a large area of Belarusian lands. A significant part of the Gomel region fell under the ban, about 90 settlements fell into the radius of the exclusion zone and were abandoned by local residents.

Mutants of Chernobyl

The territories abandoned by people were soon chosen by wild animals. And people, in turn, launched into lengthy discussions about monsters, in which radiation turned the entire animal world of the exclusion zone. There were rumors of mice with five legs, three-eyed hares, glowing boars, and many other fantastic transformations. Some rumors were reinforced by others, multiplied, spread and gained new fans. It got to the point that some "storytellers" spread rumors about the existence of a museum of mutant animals in the closed area. Of course, no one managed to find this amazing museum. Yes, and with fantastic animals turned out to be a complete bummer.

Animals in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are indeed exposed to radiation. The radioactive vapors are deposited on plants that some species feed on. The exclusion zone is inhabited by wolves, foxes, bears, wild boars, hares, otters, lynxes, deer, badgers, the bats. Their organisms successfully cope with pollution and increased radioactive background. Therefore, involuntarily, the restricted area has become something of a reserve for many species of rare animals living on the territory of Ukraine.

And yet, there were mutants in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This term can be applied to plants. Radiation has become a kind of fertilizer for the flora, and in the first years after the accident, the size of the plants was amazing. Both wild and commercial crops grew huge. The forest 2 km from the nuclear power plant was particularly affected. The trees are the only ones that couldn't escape the radioactive explosion, so they completely absorbed all the fumes and turned red. The red forest could turn into an even more terrible tragedy if it caught fire. Fortunately, this did not happen.

The Red Forest is the most dangerous forest on the planet, and at the same time, the most resistant. Radiation, as it were, preserved it, slowing down all natural processes. So, the Red Forest plunges into some kind of parallel reality, where the measure of everything is eternity.

Residents of the Chernobyl exclusion zone

After the accident, only the station workers and rescuers remained on the territory of the exclusion zone, eliminating the consequences of the accident. The entire civilian population was evacuated. But years passed, and a significant number of people returned to their homes in the exclusion zone, despite the prohibitions of the law. These desperate guys began to be called self-settlers. Back in 1986, the number of inhabitants of the Chernobyl exclusion zone numbered 1,200 people. What is most interesting, many of them were already at retirement age and lived longer than those who left the radioactive zone.

Now the number of self-settlers in Ukraine does not exceed 200 people. All of them are dispersed over 11 settlements located in the exclusion zone. In Belarus, the stronghold of the inhabitants of the Chernobyl exclusion zone is the village of Zaelitsa, an academic town in the Mogilev region.

Basically, self-settlers are elderly people who could not come to terms with the loss of their home and all property acquired by overwork. They returned to the infected dwellings to live out their short lives. Since there is no economy and any infrastructure in the exclusion zone, people living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone are engaged in household farming, gathering, and sometimes hunting. In general, they were engaged in their usual kind of activity in their native walls. So no radiation is terrible. This is how life goes in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Chernobyl exclusion zone today

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant finally stopped working only in 2000. Since then, the exclusion zone has become very quiet and gloomy. The abandoned cities of the village cause chills on the skin and a desire to run away from here as far as possible. But there are also brave daredevils for whom the dead zone is the abode of exciting adventures. Despite all the physical and legal prohibitions, stalkers-adventurers constantly explore the abandoned settlements of the zone, and find a lot of interesting things there.

Today there is even a special direction in tourism - Pripyat and the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Excursions to the dead city arouse great curiosity not only among the inhabitants of Ukraine, but also among guests from abroad. Tours to Chernobyl last up to 5 days - this is how much one person is officially allowed to stay in the contaminated area. But usually hikes are limited to one day. A group led by experienced guides walks along a specially designed route that does not cause harm to health.

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Virtual tour of Pripyat

And for those curious who do not dare to get acquainted with Pripyat with their own eyes, there is a virtual walk through the Chernobyl exclusion zone - exciting and certainly absolutely safe!

Chernobyl exclusion zone: satellite map

For those who are still not afraid to go on a trip, a detailed map of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant will be very useful. It marks the boundaries of the 30-kilometer zone, indicating settlements, station buildings and other local attractions. With such a guide, it is not scary to get lost.

Reading time approximately: 4 - 6 minutes

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred more than 30 years ago. The destruction of the reactor led to a colossal release of radioactive substances into the environment. According to the official version, 31 people died in the first 3 months, and in subsequent years this figure approached a hundred. There is still debate as to what caused the disaster. The consequences of what happened will make themselves felt for many decades, if not hundreds of years. After the accident, a 30-kilometer zone was established, from which almost the entire population was evacuated, and free movement was prohibited. The whole area was frozen in 1986. Today we will look at the 7 most interesting objects in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Today, Pripyat is not such a “dead city” - excursions are regularly organized there, and stalkers walk around. Pripyat is considered a Soviet city-museum under the open sky. This abandoned place has retained the energy of the mid-80s, which attracts tourists from all over the world. We will look at a few of the most interesting places of this city.

Hotel "Polesie" at one time was the hallmark of Pripyat. It is located in the city center, next to the amusement park, which is perfectly visible from its windows, and from the observation deck you can clearly see the main city square and the equally famous Energetik Palace of Culture. It is more and more dangerous to climb onto the roof every year, because it has not been in the best condition for a long time, but visitors to the Zone are tempted to touch the huge letters that make up the name of the hotel.

In the hotel building, the headquarters for the elimination of the consequences of the accident was deployed. From the roof of the hotel the 4th power unit is clearly visible, so it was possible to correct the actions of helicopters that extinguished the fire.

In some rooms there are dilapidated interior items. In general, marauders did a good job in Pripyat at one time. They took out equipment, furniture, cut off batteries and took away everything that had at least some value, without even thinking that all this could cause great harm to health.

Paradoxically, even today the hotel accepts tourists, who, of course, do not come there to rent a room. They admire the views of Pripyat, get acquainted with the features of the Soviet apartments and marvel at the trees that grow through the floor.

This artificial reservoir was created to cool the station's reactors. The cooling pond is located on the site of an abandoned quarry, several small lakes and the old bed of the Pripyat River. The depth of this reservoir reaches 20 m. In the middle it is separated by a dam for better circulation of cold and warm water.

Today, the cooling pond is 6 meters above the level of the Pripyat River, and it is costly to maintain such a pond in such a state. Taking into account the fact that the station is no longer working, the water level is gradually reduced, and over time, the reservoir does planned to drain. This causes concern for many, because at the bottom there are many fragments of the reactor of the fourth power unit, highly active fuel cells and radiation dust. but negative consequences can be avoided if the gradual decrease in the water level is correctly calculated so that the bare areas of the bottom have time to acquire vegetation that will prevent the rise of radioactive dust.

By the way, the Chernobyl cooling pond is one of the largest artificial reservoirs in Europe.

The state of the pond is constantly monitored in order to assess how its ecosystem has suffered from radiation exposure. The diversity of living creatures, although diminished, did not disappear completely. Today it is quite possible to catch a normal-looking fish in the pond, but it is not recommended to eat it.

DK Energetik

Let's return to the center of Pripyat. The palace of culture "Energetik" looks at the main square of the city, which, along with the hotel "Polesie", is a must-see.

It is logical to assume that this building concentrated all cultural activities of the city. Circles gathered here, concerts and performances were held, and discos were held in the evenings. The building had its own gym, library and cinema. DK was a favorite place for the youth of Pripyat.

Today, you can still find the remains of the marble tiles with which the building was lined, stained-glass windows and mosaics. Despite the devastation, the famous spirit of the Soviet era is still preserved in the building.

City amusement park in Pripyat

Perhaps the most famous attraction of Pripyat is the city amusement park with its Ferris wheel. It is worth noting that this one of the most polluted places in the city, but once in the park, enthusiastic children's voices were heard every now and then.

Cars, swings, carousels, boats and other attributes of an amusement park will never be used for their intended purpose, but among numerous tourists and stalkers they are popular as a kind of attraction.

Ferris wheel managed to become a symbol of the already deserted Pripyat. Interestingly, it was never put into operation. It was supposed to be opened on May 1, 1986, but 5 days before that, there was an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant ...

Chernobyl

Today, for a certain amount of money, you can visit the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant itself. There you will see how it goes construction of the arch, which should cover the 4th power unit along with the old sarcophagus. In the building of the power plant itself, you can walk along the "golden corridor", get acquainted with the reactor control panel, and also find out how the Chernobyl nuclear power plant worked in general. Ordinary excursions are limited only by the stay of tourists not far from the station.

The arch should cover the message of the 4th power unit

Of course, illegal travelers cannot penetrate the heart of the Zone - everything is reliably guarded. However, the station and the erected "Arch" are perfectly visible from the high-rise buildings of Pripyat. Every self-respecting stalker is sure to capture the view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in a photo.

By the way, about 4000 people work at the station now. They are engaged in the construction of the "Arch" and work on the decommissioning of power units.

red forest

This section of the forest, located not far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, during the accident took on the largest share of radioactive dust, which led to the death of trees and the coloring of their foliage in a brown-red color. It is noteworthy that the enzymes of the trees reacted with radiation, due to which a glow was observed in the forest at night. As part of the decontamination, the Red Forest was demolished and buried. Today, the trees are growing again, of course, already having a normal color.

However, today there are young pines with signs of mutations. This can be expressed in excessive or, conversely, in insufficient branching. Some trees, having reached the age of about 20 years, could not grow above 2 meters. Needles on pines can also look intricate: it can be elongated, shortened, or completely absent.

By the way, the remaining power units were still working for some time. The last one was turned off in 2000.

An unpleasant feeling can develop from burial grounds where demolished trees were buried. Mounds and branches sticking out of the ground evoke more unpleasant associations for many.

Of interest are the remains of unburied trees. Such a view is a clear indication of how nature can suffer from human activity. This site is perhaps one of the saddest places in the Exclusion Zone.

Arc

The object is represented by a huge complex of antennas. This radar station performed the task of detecting launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Our military could see the American missile by actually looking over the horizon. Hence the name "Arc". About 1000 people were needed to ensure the operation of the complex, and therefore a small town was organized for the military and their families. And so it arose object "Chernobyl-2". Before the accident, the plant was used for only a few years, and after that it was abandoned.

Radar antennas are of Soviet engineering. According to some reports, the construction of the Duga cost twice as much as the creation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Western countries were not enthusiastic about this installation. They constantly complained that it interfered with the work of civil aviation. It is interesting that the “Duga” created a characteristic knocking sound on the air, for which it was nicknamed the “Russian woodpecker”.

The height of the antennas reaches 150 m, and the length of the entire building is about 500 m. Due to its impressive size the installation is visible from almost anywhere in the Zone.

Nature is gradually destroying the buildings of the Chernobyl-2 facility. But the Duga itself will remain idle for more than one year, unless, of course, the Ukrainian authorities (or some others) want to use tons of contaminated metal, as happened with the fleet that was involved in the aftermath of the accident ...

Many rufer stalkers, not afraid of the guards that patrol those places, climb as high as possible on one of the antennas and capture the Chernobyl landscapes in the photo.

In the notorious S.T.A.L.K.E.R. there is a so-called "Brain Burner" installation, with which the "Duga" is associated, which further attracts adventurers.

Conclusion

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is undoubtedly a unique place on Earth, a kind of piece of the Soviet Union in the 21st century. It is very sad that the city of Pripyat was thoroughly plundered by marauders - they could at least not touch the decoration, but no - they even pulled out the wiring. However, it is important for the modern generation to treat the Zone not as a tourist site or a place where you can see places from the games, but as a reminder that our scientific achievements can leave scars on Earth that will heal for centuries.

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The map of Pripyat refers to the so-called, closed to ordinary citizens. You can get into this zone with special passes, which are issued either to tourist groups or to workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who still monitor the dilapidated station.

It is noteworthy that all other settlements and urban settlements of the Exclusion Zone were recognized as virtually non-existent and deprived of any legal status. After in 1986, the entire population of the city was evacuated. For 30 years, Pripyat has remained empty, but despite the status of a place abandoned by people, Ukraine has not deprived it of the status of a settlement. Chernobyl and Pripyat in the country's documentation are still existing cities.

To get to Pripyat and see the ghost town with your own eyes, you need to overcome a difficult route with checks and a checkpoint. We will tell you how to get into the mystical atom city, where Pripyat is located and what the map of the abandoned city looks like.

Pripyat on the world map is a small Soviet town, designed for 75 thousand inhabitants (however, only 49 thousand people lived in it). It is located on the territory of Ukraine, bordering Belarus. Around the city there are impenetrable forests with unique flora and fauna, and there is a protected area nearby.

Where is Pripyat located? Pripyat on the map of Ukraine is located in the north of the country, "above" Kyiv, very close to the border with Belarus. The city is part of the Ivankovsky district of the Kiev region. The entire Exclusion Zone occupies the north of Ivankovsky and the north of Polessky districts (there are 25 district units in the Kiev region). In fact, Pripyat is subordinate to the Kiev Regional Council.

It is interesting that the Chernobyl region used to exist on the territory of Ukraine. It is easy to guess that Chernobyl was its administrative center, and largest city- Pripyat.

In 1988, the Chernobyl region was abolished, and its territory was given to the Ivankovsky region ( administrative center- Urban settlement Ivankov).

After the annexation, Ivankivskyi district became the largest in Ukraine. Its area is 3616 sq. km. About 35 thousand people live in the region.

The main attraction of the area (except for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, of course) is the Chernobyl Special Reserve. In fact, this is a nature reserve, created in 2007 in a forest zone near. Its main goal is to preserve and increase the population of rare animals and plants. Brown bears, European minks and Eurasian lynxes live in the reserve. Despite the proximity to places contaminated with radiation, the animals are alive and well - by the way, as in the city of Pripyat itself.

Interestingly, in Ukraine there is another settlement called Pripyat. The village of Pripyat in the Shatsk district of the Volyn region is located 150 km from Lutsk, in the north-west of the country. The village of Pripyat on the map of Ukraine occupies only 0.001 sq. km. About 600 people live there. This settlement was founded before the ghost town of the same name, in 1946.

How to get to Pripyat?

Map of Pripyat allows you to get to your destination different ways. Let's consider each of the possible routes.

Routes Kyiv - Pripyat

How to get to Pripyat from Kyiv or Moscow? What checkpoints need to be passed? How many kilometers from Kyiv to Pripyat will you have to drive? Is it possible to get to Pripyat "savage" and how dangerous is it?

Since Pripyat is part of the Kiev region, it will be easiest to first get to the capital of Ukraine, and from there move towards the Exclusion Zone. The distance from Kyiv to Pripyat is 152 kilometers. It's about 2-2.5 hours drive passenger car. You need to go from south to north, from Kyiv and higher on the map. As for the distance from the beginning to the end of the journey, it is approximately the same on different routes Kyiv Pripyat. There are no significant differences in the condition of the roads.

The route "Kyiv Pripyat" by car can pass along two roads. The first option will look something like this: Kyiv - Vyshgorod - Demidov - Katyuzhanka - Ivankov - Dityatki - Chernobyl - Pripyat. In this case, the path will run directly through the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Near the village of Dityatki there is a checkpoint to the 30 km Exclusion Zone. It is called "Checkpoint - Children". Be prepared to show documents.

How to get to Pripyat by another way?

The second route "Pripyat Kyiv" is more bypass, it runs along the T-1019 highway. From Kyiv, you need to head for the village of Dmitrovka, then Mikulichi - Shibenoe - Sosnovka. After Sosnovka, the route will go to Ivankov, then the route will be exactly the same as if you had chosen the map of Pripyat in the first option.

In the second route, the Kyiv Pripyat distance will be a couple of kilometers longer, but locals say that the second road is less busy and more convenient.

It is almost impossible to get lost along the way: the map of Pripyat is quite simple. There is only one normally paved road in the district, in addition, local old-timers are always ready to tell you where the city of Pripyat is located. Despite the fact that after 1986 the majority of the inhabitants of the territories adjacent to the Exclusion Zone left their homes, there has been a recent trend of returning. Of course, few dare to live in the Zone, but the surrounding areas are no longer empty.

Routes Moscow - Pripyat

The Moscow Pripyat route will, of course, be much longer. The direct distance from Moscow to Pripyat is from 950 to 1050 km, depending on which route you prefer to travel.

Options highways three. First: Moscow - Obninsk - Kaluga - Bryansk - Konotop - Brovary - Kyiv - Pripyat. The journey will take 13 hours, excluding Russian-Ukrainian customs.

With the second option of the route Moscow Pripyat, the distance will be maximum - through the city of Orel. It looks something like this: Moscow - Podolsk - Serpukhov - Tula - Oryol - Konotop - Brovary - Kyiv - Pripyat. It will take about 12 hours to drive.

The third automobile route lies through Belarus. On the way, you will have to cross two borders, but it is worth noting that all Belarusian-Ukrainian borders are considered less busy than Russian ones, and customs clearance is likely to be much faster. You will have to go like this: Moscow - Smolensk - Mogilev - Gomel - Slavutich - Pripyat.

In addition, the distance from Moscow to Pripyat can be covered by many options for trains. You need to go from the capital of Russia to Kyiv or Mogilev, and then get by car, because there are no trains or buses to Pripyat. True, it is impossible to fly to Kyiv by plane, Russian airlines do not operate on Ukrainian territory after the events of 2013-2014.

Pripyat. Checkpoints

It is important to know that the entire map of Pripyat is divided into three territories: a 30-kilometer zone, a 10-kilometer zone and a danger zone.

The danger zone is the land in the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the nuclear power plant itself.
This 10-kilometer zone extends around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as is clear from the name of the zone, for 10 km.
30 km zone - 30 km, respectively.

The entire territory of the Exclusion Zone is surrounded by various checkpoints. From whichever side you drive in or enter, you will have to show a pass to the Zone or write it out on the spot. Who issues a pass to the Zone? Pass Office of the Administration of the Exclusion Zone.

To get a pass, you must fill out an application, where you explain why you are visiting a closed area. As a rule, passes are not issued to specific individuals, applications are filled by certain enterprises, for example, tour agencies, research centers or law enforcement agencies. After filling out the application within 10 days, the Zone Administration will issue a pass.

In the 30-kilometer zone there are such checkpoints (from east to west) as Zeleny Mys, Dityatki, Starye Sokoly, Dibrova, Polesskoye, Ovruch, Vilcha. The latter is already right on the border with Belarus.

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In the 10-kilometer zone, the checkpoints are: Paryshev, Lelev (near the city of Chernobyl), Pripyat and Benevka.

How to get to Pripyat without a pre-arranged pass? It's possible. But only twice a year. On April 26 and May 9, the map of the city of Pripyat becomes available to everyone. These are the so-called "commemoration days", when relatives of those who are buried in the territory of the Zone can come to the graves to their relatives.

In the case of commemoration days, you must inform the checkpoint that you are going to the cemetery and the guards are required to issue temporary passes for you. You need to know that, according to the law, checkpoint workers can inspect the car and ask to open the trunks and glove compartments.

To Pripyat without a pass

How to get to Pripyat "savage", that is, without passes and accompanying people? (people who explore abandoned places) organized their secret paths long ago. Based on information from bloggers and stalkers, we will briefly describe how to get to Pripyat in a roundabout way. But you need to understand that this is an illegal and even jurisdictional case.

The most popular illegal route is from the abandoned village of Rudnya-Veresnya, which stands on the right side of the Uzh River. This settlement is the first thing that opens the map of Pripyat from the western side of the Kiev region.

The beginning of the path, Rudnya - Veresnya, is located quite far from the city of Pripyat, where the final destination of the walking tour is located. They are separated by 25 kilometers. You will have to walk less to the city of Chernobyl, about 13 km.

After the abandoned village, where quite whole houses remained, you will have to cross the river Uzh.

Then keep to the Chernobyl direction, after Chernobyl a little more than 10 km you need to walk to Pripyat. The path, of course, is extreme, but on the road from Chernobyl to the city of ghosts, there are many abandoned places that will be interesting to look at. Tour groups show them infrequently, the route is inconvenient, but the places deserve attention. We will talk about them below.

The illegal way from the border with the Zone to Pripyat on foot from the stalkers takes about two days.

Objects of Pripyat: what to see?

What is the map of Pripyat today? This is 8 sq. km of an abandoned Soviet city, 5 residential districts, hospitals, schools, cinemas and parks. Everything has been abandoned for a long time. Most of the buildings either collapsed on their own, or looters and the homeless helped them fall apart.

After the evacuation of residents in 1986, people in trucks often visited the city. Food, equipment and furniture were taken out of empty apartments and shops. Today, it is unlikely that it will be possible to take anything out of the Exclusion Zone: cars are inspected at the checkpoint in search of radioactive objects. With dosimeters, this is done as easy as shelling pears. And if you load an old chair from an abandoned apartment in Pripyat into the trunk, it will quickly become known.

However, now there is nothing to take out of the territory. There is almost nothing left. The city of Pripyat on the map turned into an empty wild jungle.

Few people know that the map of Pripyat is not only an abandoned city and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the immediate vicinity of the ghost town there were many interesting objects, the ruins of which still exist near Pripyat.

If you go by the usual car route, then you can only look at these objects from afar and catch a glimpse, but if you stop and explore the area, you can find a lot of interesting things.

Object "Arc"

Pripyat on the map of the Kiev region is located in close proximity to the city of Chernobyl, between them about 10 kilometers. In any case, Chernobyl will have to be passed along the road to the ghost town. But not only the well-known city, but also the secret, small town of Chernobyl-2, built for the employees of the Duga radar station.

Over-the-horizon radar station "Duga" (ZGRLS) is an object whose main purpose is to detect intercontinental ballistic missiles that will fly to the territory in the region of three kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Outwardly, this is a pile of very high antennas that caught the radar of incoming objects. The station was super secret, and the map of Pripyat is silent about such a large-scale construction close to the city. ZGRLS performed an important strategic function, the map of Ukraine does not know about it either, Pripyat disguised "Duga" as a children's summer camp.

It is interesting that in the USSR there were only three such missile-detecting complexes: in addition to Duga, it was also near Nikolaev (it was called Duga-N) and in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The Duga has survived, albeit in a ruined form, only near the city of Pripyat, the map, however, still does not indicate this object. It is interesting that because of the constant characteristic knock, "Duga" was called the "Russian woodpecker".

Object Chernobyl-2

This is a super small town near the "Duga" for the families of the station workers. However, no matter how small it was, there was a kindergarten, a hospital, and small residential buildings. Chernobyl-2, like the Duga, was classified. The abandoned city still exists today.

Anti-aircraft missile system S-75 "Volkhov". It seems that all the secret objects of the Ukrainian SSR were “stuffed” into a map of the city of Pripyat and its environs. S-75 objects are a popular weapon in the Union, which is still used today.

It is impossible to say for certain whether the weapons map of Ukraine included the Pripyat fortifications. On the territory there were barracks, canteens, all military palaces and observation platforms. They have remained to this day. Rockets, of course, no longer exist.

Rockets "Volkhov" no one has ever seen. This is a secret object, which was located in the forest zone, a couple of kilometers from Pripyat. Its task is to provide air defense of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Duga.

The most famous “monument” of the missile system is the now abandoned bunker. According to assumptions, ammunition was stored there. It is located next to all the buildings of the S-75 complex in a forest near Pripyat.

Map of Pripyat in detail

The city of Pripyat on the map of the country is a very popular place for excursion groups, stalkers and scientific researchers. But the map of Pripyat today is a rather vague thing, because. some objects that existed earlier have long been wiped off the face of the Earth, and no one records new, recently discovered finds that were previously classified.

Therefore, it is theoretically unrealistic to indicate the exact location of the "Duga" or "Volkhov", no one considered the mileage to these places. The same thing happens with abandoned villages. Some especially small ones completely fell apart, some, on the contrary, became populated by self-settlers and gained a “second wind”.

In addition to self-settlements, the territory of Pripyat is occupied by marauders, who are still exporting scrap metal, and drug addicts who are trying to grow drugs near the city. There are also homeless people who, out of hopelessness, occupy old apartments and houses of residents - among them there are many escaped criminals who are caught by law enforcement agencies from time to time.

Due to the proximity of forest areas, Pripyat has become a favorite place for many wild animals that roam the ruins of the city. Of course, often because of the large share of radiation that fell on their heads, but it’s already good that they didn’t die out at all.

Other objects on the map of Pripyat

On the territory of the Exclusion Zone, in addition to Pripyat and Chernobyl, there are several rather large abandoned objects. For example:

Novoshepelichi village. Until 1986, the inhabitants of the village were mainly engaged in cattle breeding. The population before the evacuation was a little less than two thousand people. The village is notable for the fact that the most famous self-settlers lived there for a long time - the heroes of many documentaries - Savva Gavrilovich and his wife. The couple has become something of a symbol of the Exclusion Zone.

Polesskoe village. A very old village, where only 11,000 people lived at the time of the accident. Today, about 50 self-settlers live there and, interestingly, the only fire station in the district operates.

The village of Kopachi. This settlement was located a couple of kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Therefore, he suffered from radiation especially hard. Kopachi are interesting in that all the objects of the village were completely buried, that is, they were dug into the ground. Only the building remains kindergarten, and that is pretty shabby with time.

There really is something to see in Pripyat - come!