Lost Places

About two years ago to Sasha Sirota, the permanent helmsman of public organization and the site with the same name pripyat.com, were come to mind a remarkable idea: to photograph in Pripyat the thrown apartments, at the desire of their former owners. Pripayters have approved the idea and... In some weeks they have filled up a forum of above-mentioned site with the demands. And as demands every day became more and more, and possibilities to realize them within the limits of planned trips ever less, it has been decided to arrange "the massed appartments photo-landing" to Pripyat, and also, whenever possible, to eliminate blanks in an address book and in an interactive map of the city.

"Troops landed" staff (from pripyat.com): Sasha (planca) Sirota, Anja (Alpha) Gorelysheva, Ivan (Ulis) Tsepaev, Yevgen (KRANZ) Goncharenko. 

Denis (Yangwy) Vishnevsky - the Ecocenter, Jura (tatarchuk) Tatarchuk - Chernobyl Inter Inform.  

Coming 2009 is the year of the ox.
Let it become the year of the European bison rescue!

(Open letter of appeal to the newspaper readers, which has been written for the purpose of information. Materials by International Chornobyl Center)

  In this time of troubles, when Ukraine is weltering in a morass of economic and political problems, when the lawmakers and state officials do not care a curse of both the state’s laws and fate, when the sayings “sink or swim” or “if one may, am I red-headed?” have become life concepts for the many, there are always hostages of the situation in such times of troubles. Survival of the hostages depends on remnants of conscience, responsibility, and humaneness of the rest. The case for our state is as follows: if charitable actions for people are still possible, animals may only rely upon their natural capacities.

In this section my photos of the monuments which are in the Chornobyl zone of alienation and in the Zone of obligatory resettlement (the Kiev and Zhitomir areas) are collected.

The idea of this trip has arisen at me about two years ago after I unsuccessfully tried to pass by the car to a passenger platform "Buriakivka" from outside the village with the same name. By the car you will not approach, on foot - it is far. And to go on foot on cross ties of 16 km from Janiv to Tovstiy Lis is not a big pleasure.

So it was necessary to go one by rail.