The City Where Time Stopped
Traveling a lot around the world to the most remote corners of the planet, I am often asked one question: “Where are you from?” (where are you from?), and many do not even know about a country like Ukraine, but when you say Chernobyl, it immediately becomes clear to everyone. After all, even in distant countries, in the most remote villages, they know about a global catastrophe. Hearing the word Chernobyl, I see the same reaction, people shake their heads from side to side with a long o-o-o-o, showing regret and empathy with all their looks.
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A deserted road, which is now used only by working personnel in the exclusion zone. The road to the city is a ghost.
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The monument to firefighters, one of the first to take part in the elimination of the accident, was made with its own hands liquidators of the accident from the same concrete under which the fourth power unit was buried.
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As a result of the accident, about 5 million hectares of land were withdrawn from agricultural circulation, a 30-kilometer exclusion zone was created around the nuclear power plant, hundreds of small settlements were destroyed and buried (buried with heavy equipment). And the first days the government did not want to disclose and recognize the accident, the residents of the city did not even know what had happened, and instead of evacuating, they simply ran to stare at the fire.
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After the accident at the 4th power unit, the operation of the power plant was suspended due to a dangerous radiation situation. However, already in October 1986, after extensive work on the decontamination of the territory and the construction of a "sarcophagus", the 1st and 2nd power units were put back into operation; in December 1987, the work of the 3rd was resumed.
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The construction of the fifth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was almost completed, stopped after the accident, only the foundation was prepared for the sixth power unit.
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The decision on the final shutdown of power unit No. 1 was made on November 30, 1996, power unit No. 2 - on March 15, 1999. On March 29, 2000, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 598 “On the early termination of the operation of power unit No. 3 and the final closure of the Chernobyl NPP” was adopted.
On December 15, 2000 at 13:17, by order of the President of Ukraine, during the broadcast of the teleconference Chernobyl NPP - National Palace "Ukraine", by turning the emergency protection key (AZ-5), the reactor of power unit No. 3 of the Chernobyl NPP was permanently stopped. The station stopped generating electricity.
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One of the attractions of these places, large catfish, which can be fed with several loaves of bread prepared in advance.
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Near the sarcophagus is a monument to Heroes, professionals - those who protected the world from nuclear disaster.
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Swimming pool "Azure".
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Gym.
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Nature is gradually absorbing the city, trees and shrubs are already growing from the asphalt.
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Secondary school number 3.
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School buffet.
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I have not seen such cash registers for a long time.
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There is a graveyard of gas masks in the buffet.
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A bottle of kefir.
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Our motto: State means mine!
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In the music class.
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A pile of textbooks is lying under your feet.
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In geography class
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The textbook of the Russian language, from year to year, passed from hand to hand and taught us, that year was the last for a thousand books.
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Desks for which no one will sit.
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A deserted school hallway that will never again hear the cheerful children's noise of change.
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A bench where lovers will never sit again.
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A sixteen-story building, the coat of arms of the USSR is installed on the roof.
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We go into the entrance to climb the roof and see the panorama of the “dead city”.
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All apartments are empty, there is no furniture and things, only occasionally there are broken, useless pieces of furniture.
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It is hard to imagine that a person, having worked all his life for the improvement of his home, lost everything in an instant, and he had to leave, leaving everything acquired, along with his dreams of a good future, with the motto: “State means mine!” going nowhere. And it is even more difficult to imagine that this is not one person, and not one family, but entire cities.
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On the horizon you can see a previously classified object called "Chernobyl 2", an over-the-horizon radar station "Duga". This huge antenna was the pride of the Soviet Union, it made it possible to detect the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the United States even when the engines were starting.
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From the burning reactor, a cloud was formed that carried various radioactive materials across the Earth. The greatest fallout was in the territories of the Soviet Union: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
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Beyond the horizon Belarus.
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Looking at the panorama of the city, it is not even believed that it is empty, and no one lives in it.
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A deserted road, which is now used only by working personnel in the exclusion zone. The road to the city is a ghost.
03.
04.
The monument to firefighters, one of the first to take part in the elimination of the accident, was made with its own hands liquidators of the accident from the same concrete under which the fourth power unit was buried.
05.
As a result of the accident, about 5 million hectares of land were withdrawn from agricultural circulation, a 30-kilometer exclusion zone was created around the nuclear power plant, hundreds of small settlements were destroyed and buried (buried with heavy equipment). And the first days the government did not want to disclose and recognize the accident, the residents of the city did not even know what had happened, and instead of evacuating, they simply ran to stare at the fire.
06.
After the accident at the 4th power unit, the operation of the power plant was suspended due to a dangerous radiation situation. However, already in October 1986, after extensive work on the decontamination of the territory and the construction of a "sarcophagus", the 1st and 2nd power units were put back into operation; in December 1987, the work of the 3rd was resumed.
07.
The construction of the fifth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was almost completed, stopped after the accident, only the foundation was prepared for the sixth power unit.
08.
The decision on the final shutdown of power unit No. 1 was made on November 30, 1996, power unit No. 2 - on March 15, 1999. On March 29, 2000, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 598 “On the early termination of the operation of power unit No. 3 and the final closure of the Chernobyl NPP” was adopted.
On December 15, 2000 at 13:17, by order of the President of Ukraine, during the broadcast of the teleconference Chernobyl NPP - National Palace "Ukraine", by turning the emergency protection key (AZ-5), the reactor of power unit No. 3 of the Chernobyl NPP was permanently stopped. The station stopped generating electricity.
09.
One of the attractions of these places, large catfish, which can be fed with several loaves of bread prepared in advance.
10.
Near the sarcophagus is a monument to Heroes, professionals - those who protected the world from nuclear disaster.
11.
Swimming pool "Azure".
12.
13.
14.
Gym.
15.
Nature is gradually absorbing the city, trees and shrubs are already growing from the asphalt.
16.
Secondary school number 3.
17.
18.
School buffet.
19.
20.
I have not seen such cash registers for a long time.
21.
There is a graveyard of gas masks in the buffet.
22.
23.
A bottle of kefir.
24.
Our motto: State means mine!
25.
26.
27.
In the music class.
28.
A pile of textbooks is lying under your feet.
29.
30.
In geography class
31.
32.
33.
34.
The textbook of the Russian language, from year to year, passed from hand to hand and taught us, that year was the last for a thousand books.
35.
Desks for which no one will sit.
36.
A deserted school hallway that will never again hear the cheerful children's noise of change.
37.
A bench where lovers will never sit again.
38.
A sixteen-story building, the coat of arms of the USSR is installed on the roof.
39.
We go into the entrance to climb the roof and see the panorama of the “dead city”.
40.
All apartments are empty, there is no furniture and things, only occasionally there are broken, useless pieces of furniture.
41.
It is hard to imagine that a person, having worked all his life for the improvement of his home, lost everything in an instant, and he had to leave, leaving everything acquired, along with his dreams of a good future, with the motto: “State means mine!” going nowhere. And it is even more difficult to imagine that this is not one person, and not one family, but entire cities.
42.
On the horizon you can see a previously classified object called "Chernobyl 2", an over-the-horizon radar station "Duga". This huge antenna was the pride of the Soviet Union, it made it possible to detect the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the United States even when the engines were starting.
43.
From the burning reactor, a cloud was formed that carried various radioactive materials across the Earth. The greatest fallout was in the territories of the Soviet Union: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
44.
Beyond the horizon Belarus.
45.
Looking at the panorama of the city, it is not even believed that it is empty, and no one lives in it.
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47.
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