A crosswalk sign, seemingly in the middle of no where.
The Duga Radar. The Duga was an experimental Soviet over-the-horizon radar system that was used as part of the Soviet missile defence early warning radar network. It was also called the Russian Woodpecker from the sound it produced. Its 150 meters
The Russian Woodpecker in color.
The Duga Radar building was about as long as the radar itself. This is a control panel for the Duga Radar
There were many control panels for the Duga Radar.
This is the main command room
The hallway for the command centre for the Duga Radar.
An elevator. Going down???
Nothing left in this building.
A hardhat left behind.
This is the Officers indoctrination waiting room
Gas mask underwater
All lined up
A room full of gas masks
in front of the kindergarten
There were these pics on the wall of the kindergarten, looked like better times.
Slippers on a child’s cubby, left behind, never to be worn again.
Children’s books and toys on the floor of the school.
The nap room at the Kindergarten
How many dreams were dreamed here?
Forgotten childhood treasures.
Forever sleeping
A cooling tower for one of the reactors
Inside the cooling tower, we had to walk around the edges of the tower as the middle was very contaminated and had high doses of radio activity. My Geiger counter was going off as I walked the inside edges.
Inside the cooling tower there was an amazing piece of graffiti, depicting the reaction of the first photographer, Igor Kosten who was allowed to take the first pictures of the disaster as it unfolded.
this is reactor number 4 now covered with its protection cover.
This pic was taken in the morgue at Chernobyl.
The morgue slab
Pathology samples preserved in jars at the morgue.
A creepy hallway
On the floor of the hospital, a hot water bottle was left behind.
Surgical gloves on the floor of the hospital.
A bucket right where someone left it.
One of the hospital rooms
Looking into a hospital room thru the door window
Forgotten comfort, a robe hanging beside a hospital bed
A stairway in one of the buildings
A hospital bedside table with a pair of slippers
Whats left of one of the small surgery rooms.
Medicine left out in one of the rooms
A hospital room
A hospital table/chair
I wonder what this was used for?
Lots of medicine spilled on the ground.
Nature is reclaiming these buildings
a surgical room in the maternity ward
a doll in a bassinet, in one of the maternity rooms
Bassinets in one of the nursery rooms on the maternity ward
awaiting bassinets, on the maternity wing
Another surgical room at the hospital
We used Google translate on this one and it said that this medicine was used for heart attacks, renal dialysis, difficult childbirth just to name a few. It’s a type of sodium.
A surgical bed
bed pans in a bathroom
This is the front entrance to the hospital
The same kind of lights are used in the hospitals in Ukraine as of this date.
Hospital hallway
The large surgical room
Outside one of the buildings, you can see how close nature has come to over taking it.
Outside the hospital, morgue entrance
Nature
nature reclaiming
Hearty ferns
The remains of a bike
A forgotten shoe
One of the many apartment buildings
The dock for the rocket boats
beautiful stained glass in the cafeteria at the boat dock building
The town administration building
A lone grocery cart outside the Supermarket. This was the first Supermarket in Ukraine, that allowed people to get their own groceries off the shelves.
A pair of high heels outside of the grocery store
Forever 5:13
You can see trees growing on the top floor of this building
A row of telephone booths at the post office, no one had their own telephone, this way they could make sure that what was happening at Pripyat was kept a secret.
This mural showed there is peace in technology. Representing the past and the future
A picture of the purposed future they were aiming towards
Soviet propanganda
This tree has grown thru the cement at the side of the live theatre house
Bumper cars that were never driven
This amusement park was supposed to open on the weekend that the nuclear disaster happened, none of the rides were ever ridden.
The ferris wheel has a high radiation hot spot on one of the lower baskets, just a reminder this isn’t a safe area.
More amazing art work on the music building
Beautiful artwork. This artists didn't get paid for their work because they had just finished their design when the nuclear disaster happened.
The pool diving board, I could almost hear the happy cries of the kids that once played there
The basketball court at the recreation centre
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