I always say on my last visit to this iconic place that I'll never return but went back for a friend who had never been. I always get something slightly different every time I visit.
Shot at 15mm with the F2.8 fisheye (full frame version).
A short tour with Mike, Andrew and John. Taking in some revisits and some new spots.
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My third visit here and the water was low enough to get underneath the tower this time.
A short tour with Mike, Andrew and John. Taking in some revisits and some new spots.
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My third visit here and the water was low enough to get underneath the tower this time.
A short tour with Mike, Andrew and John. Taking in some revisits and some new spots.
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The unfinished cooling tower of Reactor 5 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The platforms at the top were made out of metal frames with wood planks. Much of this was either hanging down or on the ground. The size and accoustics of this place were amazing.
Previous set of Pripyat here www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643944616235/
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
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I call it that as I have ended up here 3 times and never again! Taken on a chilly February morning. Best thing about this visit was the opportunity to get underneath as the water was gone.
A short tour with Mike, Andrew and John. Taking in some revisits and some new spots.
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