Lost Places

This is already the third our campaign on the railway station Yaniv which is in semikilometer from southwest suburb of Pripyat. Each of these campaigns not so much gave answers to questions, as raise new :) The second our visit on station in the spring of 2007 (Zona. Spring. Part 1), aroused real squall of letters with questions from fans of railway technics. I had no answers to these questions, and I have understood that it is necessary to go again on Yaniv and once again, more carefully, investigate its vicinities.

A "sparkle" of this place is thick leaden glass in windows - about 8 sentimeters! Heavy, falling on an asphalt with the metallic sound. His fragments look like the enormous pieces of amber.

The rests of ZRC S-75 "Volkhov" (SA-2 Guideline) in a triangle of Leliv - Kopachi - "Chornobyl-2"

First time, about a rocket unit of air defence near Chornobyl, I have heard about two years ago from my good acquaintance, liquidator Evgenie Samoilov. He remembered about rocketeer with whom he lay in hospital and he told that he together with colleagues has left the unit which was somewhere in "Chornobyl", only a year later after failure on ChNPP.

 "Emerald"

What I can write about “Emerald” when, truly, I know nothing about it?. But, as soon as we with Sergey pass through gatehouse and find ourselves on the central alley, surrounding with tumbledown panel-board houses, I already knew what I will write about…