Lost Places - Chornobyl Zone

Zhytomyr Region, Narodychy District.
The Kiev Region, Ivankiv District.

Bober, Shevchenkove, Kotovske, Rudnia-Ososhnia, Mali Minki.

In difference from other our trips, we did not plan at all this trip and did not develop a route. We have simply sat down in the car and have gone on the north.

In Kyiv already apricot-trees shed its blossoms and have blossomed cherry-trees, but here only the grass has gradually turned green... North country - Polesye. But no matter, spring will come to the Zone also. Maybe a month later, than to Kyiv, but will certainly comes...

We planned this trip for a long time. At last all organizational questions are solved, date is defined and... So 22, April in 7 AM, we take Evgenie Samoilov at Kyiv railway station and we go to the Zone.

In this reporting there are no sensational finds and any high level of radiation. But there is a fallen asleep nature which has prepared to the winter, the silent remains of town and the still river Pripyat.