Exclusion zone satellite map. Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the map
How many years have passed since the tragedy. The very course of the accident, its causes and consequences are already completely determined and known to everyone. As far as I know, there is not even any kind of double interpretation, except in small things. Yes, you know everything. Let me tell you better some seemingly ordinary moments, but perhaps you have not thought about them.
Myth one: the remoteness of Chernobyl from big cities.
In fact, in the case of the Chernobyl disaster, only an accident did not lead to the evacuation of Kyiv, for example. Chernobyl is located 14 km from the nuclear power plant, and Kyiv is only 151 km from Chernobyl (according to other sources, 131 km) by road. And in a straight line, which is preferable for a radiation cloud and 100 km will not be - 93.912 km. And Wikipedia generally gives the following data - the distance to Kyiv is physical - 83 km, by road - 115 km.
By the way, here is the complete map for the sake of completeness.
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IN the first days of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the battle with radiation was also fought on the outskirts of Kiev. The threat of infection came not only from the Chernobyl wind, but also from the wheels of vehicles moving from Pripyat to the capital. The problem of purification of radioactive water formed after the decontamination of cars was solved by scientists from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.
IN In April-May 1986, eight points of radioactive control of vehicles were organized around the capital. Cars heading for Kyiv were simply poured with hoses. And all the water went into the soil. As a fire order, tanks were built to collect used radioactive water. Literally in a matter of days they were filled to the brim. The radioactive shield of the capital could turn into its nuclear sword.
AND only then the leadership of Kyiv and the headquarters of civil defense agreed to consider the proposal of polytechnic chemists to purify polluted water. Moreover, there have already been developments in this regard. Long before the accident, a laboratory for the development of reagents for wastewater treatment was created at KPI, led by Professor Alexander Petrovich Shutko.
P The technology proposed by Shutko's group for decontaminating water from radionuclides did not require the construction of complex treatment facilities. Decontamination was carried out directly in the storage tanks. Within two hours after water treatment with special coagulants, radioactive substances settled at the bottom, and the purified water met the maximum permissible standards. After that, only radioactive fallout was buried in the 30-kilometer zone. Can you imagine if the problem of water purification had not been solved? Then a lot of eternal burial grounds with radioactive water would be built around Kyiv!
TO Unfortunately Professor A.P. Shutko. left us in his incomplete 57 years, not having lived only 20 days before the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. And the chemical scientists who worked side by side with him in the Chernobyl zone for their selfless work managed to get the “title of liquidators”, free travel in transport and a bunch of diseases associated with radioactive exposure. Among them is Anatoly Krysenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial Ecology of the National Polytechnic University. It was to him that Professor Shutko was the first to suggest testing reagents for the purification of radioactive water. Together with him in Shutko's group worked Associate Professor of KPI Vitaly Basov and Associate Professor of the Institute of Civil Air Fleet Lev Malakhov.
Why is the accident Chernobyl, and the dead city is PRIPYAT?
There are several evacuated settlements on the territory of the exclusion zone:
Pripyat
Chernobyl
Novoshepelichi
Polisske
Vilcha
Severovka
Yanov
Kopachi
Chernobyl-2
Visual distance between Pripyat and Chernobyl
Why is only Pripyat so famous? This is simply the largest city in the exclusion zone and the closest to it - according to the last census conducted before the evacuation (in November 1985), the population was 47 thousand 500 people, more than 25 nationalities. For example, only 12 thousand people lived in Chernobyl itself before the accident.
By the way, after the accident, Chernobyl was not abandoned and completely evacuated like Pripyat. 
People live in the city. These are the Ministry of Emergency Situations, policemen, cooks, janitors, plumbers. There are about 1500 of them. The streets are mostly men. In camouflage. This is the local fashion. Some apartment buildings are inhabited, but they do not live there permanently: the curtains have faded, the paint on the windows has peeled off, the vents are closed.
People here temporarily stop, work on a rotational basis, live in hostels. A couple of thousand more people work at the nuclear power plant, they mostly live in Slavutych and commute to work by train.
Most of them work in the zone on a rotational basis, 15 days here, 15 - "in the wild". Locals say that the average salary in Chernobyl is only 1,700 UAH, but this is very average, some have more. True, there is nothing special to spend money on here: you do not need to pay for utilities, housing, food (everyone is fed three times a day for free, and not bad). There is one store, but there is little choice. There are no beer stalls or any entertainment at the restricted facility. By the way, Chernobyl is also a return to the past. In the center of the city stands Lenin in full growth, a monument to the Komsomol, all the names of the streets are from that era. In the city, the background is about 30-50 micro-roentgens - the maximum allowable for a person.
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Myth two: non-attendance.
Many probably think that only some kind of radiation seekers, stalkers, etc. go to the accident zone, and normal people will not approach this zone closer than 30 km. How else to fit!
The first checkpoint on the road to the station is zone III: a 30-kilometer perimeter around the nuclear power plant. At the entrance to the checkpoint, such a line of cars lined up that I could not even imagine: despite the fact that the cars were passed through the control in 3 rows, we stood for about an hour, waiting for our turn. 
The reason for this is the active visits by former residents of Chernobyl and Pripyat from April 26 to the May holidays. All of them go either to their former places of residence, or to cemeteries, or “to graves,” as they say here.
Myth three: closeness.
Were you sure that all the entrances to the nuclear power plant are carefully guarded, and no one, except for the serving staff, is allowed in there, and you can only get inside the zone by letting the guards in the paw? Nothing like this. Of course, you can’t just pass through the checkpoint, but the millionaires only write out a pass for each car, indicating the number of passengers, and go yourself, get irradiated. 
They say that earlier they also asked for passports. By the way, children under 18 are not allowed into the zone.
The road to Chernobyl is surrounded on both sides by a wall of trees, but if you look closely, you can see the abandoned half-ruins of private houses among the rough vegetation. Nobody will come back to them.
Myth four: uninhabited.
Chernobyl, located between the 30- and 10-kilometer perimeters around the nuclear power plant, is quite habitable. The staff of the station and the districts, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and those who returned to their original places live in it. The city has shops, bars, and some other benefits of civilization, but no children.
To enter the 10 km perimeter, it is enough to show the pass issued at the first checkpoint. Another 15 minutes by car, and we drive up to the nuclear power plant. 
It's time to get a dosimeter, which madam carefully provided me with, having begged this device from her grandfather, who was obsessed with such lotions. Before leaving vit_au_lit I measured the readings in the courtyard of my house: 14 microR/h - typical indicators for an uncontaminated environment.
We put the dosimeter on the grass, and while we are taking a couple of shots against the background of a flower bed, the device quietly calculates for itself. What did he intend there? 
Heh, 63 microR/hour - 4.5 times more than the average city norm ... after that we get advice from our guides: to walk only on a concrete road, because. the slabs are more or less cleaned, but do not climb into the grass.
Myth five: the impregnability of nuclear power plants.
For some reason, it always seemed to me that the nuclear power plant itself was surrounded by some kilometer-long perimeter of barbed wire, so that, God forbid, some adventurer would not come closer to the station than a few hundred meters and would not receive a dose of radiation.
The road leads us straight to the central entrance, where regular buses drive up from time to time, transporting the workers of the station - people continue to work at the nuclear power plant to this day. According to our guides - several thousand people, although this figure seemed to me too high, because all the reactors had long been stopped. Behind the shop one can see the pipe of the destroyed 4th reactor.
The square in front of the central administrative building was rebuilt into one large memorial to those who died during the liquidation of the accident.
The names of those who died in the first hours after the explosion are carved on the marble slabs.
Pripyat: the same dead city. Its construction began simultaneously with the construction of the nuclear power plant, and it was intended for plant workers and their families. It is located some 2 kilometers from the station, so he got the most.
There is a stele at the entrance to the city. In this part of the road, the background radiation is the most dangerous: 
257 μR/hour, which is almost 18 times higher than the average city rate. In other words, the dose of radiation that we receive in 18 hours in the city, here we will receive in an hour.
A few more minutes, and we reach the Pripyat checkpoint. The road goes near the railway line: in old days the most ordinary passenger trains ran along it, for example, Moscow-Khmelnitsky. Passengers who traveled this route on April 26, 1986 were then issued a Chernobyl certificate.
They only let us into the city on foot, we never managed to get permission to travel, although the escorts had certificates.
Speaking of the myth of non-attendance. Here is a photo taken from the roof of one of the skyscrapers on the outskirts of the city, near the checkpoint: cars and buses parked along the road leading to Pripyat are visible among the trees. 
And this is what the road looked like before the accident, in the days of the “living” city. 
The previous photo was taken from the roof of the rightmost of the 3 nineteenths in the foreground.
Myth six: the Chernobyl nuclear power plant does not work after the accident.
On May 22, 1986, the Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 583 set the deadline for commissioning power units No. 1 and 2 of the Chernobyl NPP - October 1986. In the premises of the power units of the first stage, decontamination was carried out; on July 15, 1986, its first stage was completed.
In August, at the second stage of the Chernobyl NPP, the communications common to the 3rd and 4th units were cut, and a concrete dividing wall was erected in the engine room.
After the work on the modernization of the plant systems, provided for by the measures approved by the USSR Ministry of Energy on June 27, 1986 and aimed at improving the safety of nuclear power plants with RBMK reactors, on September 18, permission was received to start the physical start-up of the reactor of the first power unit. On October 1, 1986, the first power unit was launched and at 16:47 it was connected to the grid. On November 5, power unit No. 2 was launched.
On November 24, 1987, the physical start-up of the reactor of the third power unit began, the power start-up took place on December 4. On December 31, 1987, by the decision of the Government Commission No. 473, the act of acceptance into operation of the 3rd power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was approved after repair and restoration work.
The third stage of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, unfinished 5 and 6 power units, 2008. The construction of the 5th and 6th blocks was stopped at a high degree of readiness of the facilities.
However, as you remember, there were many complaints from foreign countries about the operating Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
By the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated December 22, 1997, it was recognized as expedient to carry out early decommissioning power unit No. 1, stopped on November 30, 1996.
By the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated March 15, 1999, it was recognized as expedient to carry out early decommissioning power unit No. 2, stopped after the accident in 1991.
From December 5, 2000, the reactor power was gradually reduced in preparation for shutdown. On December 14, the reactor operated at 5% power for the shutdown ceremony and December 15, 2000 at 13:17 by order of the President of Ukraine during the broadcast of the teleconference Chernobyl NPP - National Palace "Ukraine" by turning the key emergency protection At the fifth level (AZ-5), the reactor of power unit No. 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was permanently shut down, and the station stopped generating electricity.
Let's honor the memory of the heroes-liquidators who saved other people without sparing their lives.
Since we are talking about tragedies, let's remember The original article is on the website InfoGlaz.rf Link to the article from which this copy is made - Reading time approximately: 4 - 6 minutesThe 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 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.
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 went 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 lard and garlic in luxurious apartments and drove for a walk around the night city.
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. 
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Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the 1986 accident
Chernobyl on the map occupies a small area of the territory, but its area is about 250 square kilometers. In addition, this city is considered the oldest in the entire exclusion zone, because it was founded in 1193.
From the very beginning, the Chernobyl region recorded its history, meeting both the Principality of Lithuania and Russian empire, as well as the Kingdom of Poland. Despite the fact that Chernobyl, one way or another, was under someone's influence, it lived its own life, uniting many nationalities and religions. Therefore, here it is impossible not to say about the interculturality of the city.
Illegal trail to the exclusion zone
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 made significant adjustments to the usual life of the city. In addition to the fact that people were evacuated, Chernobyl on the map of Ukraine, as well as the entire USSR, received a special mark. Now this is a place designated as an infected area with heavy radioactive contamination.
According to research data, the exclusion zone in 1986 was the most dangerous and dirty. Speaking of 2018, radiation has dropped significantly, but this area is not becoming safe enough to live there. The half-lives of cesium and strontium have already ended by 2018. But plutonium has firmly settled in the Chernobyl soil, which will not leave the earth for more than six thousand years.
Map of radiation pollution
Map Chernobyl zone The exclusion extends for thirty kilometers. Scientists who have spent years studying this area believe that the ten-kilometer zone remains the most radioactive, while the rest is slowly being rehabilitated.
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.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW:
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 items. 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!
