Lost Places

After visit on the former over-the-horizon radar station "Chernobyl-2", we go in (again former) Pripyat cargo port. I was in this place and photographed majestic pelican-like port cranes many times. And also Evgenie Samoilov, participant of elimination of the consequences of the accident - 86 and simply a good person, has written four years ago remarkable memoirs of the work in Pripyat port after failure. On the way to port we have decided to stop off near a tiny cemetery of homestead Pidlisnyj. This homestead for a long time was a source of mess and Zone riddles. Old residents do not remember such homestead, on maps is not present at all, but on its place quite safely exists PZRO (point of radioactive waste disposal) "Podlesnoe" - the boring concreted platform with boxes for RAW (radioactive waste) with activity from 5 to 250 R/h.

We did not have any specific plans and aims for this trip. We have decided that we will look according to circumstances. I have noticed that the most interesting and productive trips turn out then when you do not build any grandiose plans, and operate on intuition.

7.30 AM We leave Kyiv. This week was hot. Weather forecasters assert that these days even the temperature record keeping 64 years has been broken! Early morning, but the sun is rather hot and the conditioner in the car works at full capacity. Folk in shorts and sandals lazy creeps on a beach, and we in the closed clothes (relentless NRB - Norms of radiating safety) go to the Chornobyl Zone.

This selection of my spring photos of the Chornobyl Zone became in some measure unexpectedness for me. No, I certainly understood that having begun a cycle "Seasons in the Zone" and already having shown its autumn, winter, I need to make as well "Spring in the Zone"... But for any known reason for me, I have been assured that for all these years have not made any really "spring" photo of the Zone. Such as anybody, without having seen in a shot a blossoming cherry or a lilac, at once could feel - yes, it is SPRING! Nevertheless I have decided to try and have look over the archives. Unexpectedly it has appeared much, too much of spring photos. It was necessary to choose from already selected the most "spring". Here that has turned out from all this: "Spring in the Zone".  

In this section my photos of the various technics which is being in the Chornobyl's Zone are collected. 


In the majority is the thrown technics used at liquidation of consequences of failure on ChNPP. As there is a quantity of technics left in the Zone during evacuation.