Excursion to Pripyat (49 photos)

On May 9, the city was open to all tourists; no special passes were required. Many people managed to get into the dead zone. See the continuation of the photo report about your stay in Pripyat.

For 22 years the city has become very overgrown. The main street leading to the Energetik Palace of Culture has turned into a green alley, and in some places you can barely see houses behind the foliage.

Central square:

Berth (background - 220 microR/hour):

A park:

View from the sixteen-story building:

I was in several apartments in a 16-story building - everything was torn up and dismantled - there were disassembled gas stoves in the kitchens, half-broken furniture in the rooms, sofas here and there. In all the open buildings, everything is broken and scattered - like after an earthquake, if not worse. Transformer boxes in the courtyards have been dismantled, things are lying around here and there (in some places near high-rise buildings there are sofas, furniture and other junk under the windows - they were probably thrown straight out of the windows, and near the same 16th floor there is a cast-iron bathtub - they couldn’t drag it away) They were very popular cast iron batteries were cut in almost all buildings. In general, the devastation is not so noticeable from the outside, but everything inside is completely destroyed

School:

Near the entrance to the city:

On the bridge over the railway tracks:

Leaving the Zone...

...and on the way home