Chernobyl Adventure

The beginning of the group gathering at 7:50 AM, the start of the tour at 8:20 AM.

‘Dityatki’ checkpoint at the border of the Zone of Compulsory and Unconditional Resettlement. Passport and dosimetry control

Rudnya-Veresnya village: one of the first evacuated villages

The town of Chernobyl: check-in into the hotel, transfer through the city center to the memorial park “Sagebrush Star”. The alley of evacuated towns and villages → “The Third Angel” monument→ the monument “Chernobyl-Fukushima”→the monument to Vladimir Lenin → ‘the house of culture’ where the trial for people who were responsible for the accident took place.


Arriving back to the hotel in Chernobyl town for dinner

Breakfast in hotel
The next stop is near the Administrative building of the ChNPP –feeding the huge catfishes that live in the underwater channel of the station.
The Prometheus monument brought here from Pripyat
Circle around the power plant: the view to the nuclear waste storage.
An observational platform near the ‘Arch’: the biggest arch-type construction in whole human history.
The first sector of the ‘Red Forest’ – a piece of forest just next to the station, where trees used to die soon after the accident as the result of contamination.
Pripyat’ checkpoint, documents check
People Friendship monument – the unity of Soviet people monument
Pripyat town hospital (MSCh 126) – a place where first ChNPP explosion victims were sent
Kurchatova street: ‘Prometey’ cinema, musical school, common service combine, Litovchenko’s mosaic panels
Pripyat city center: the building of town’s executive committee. After the accident, the building hosted leadership of ‘Complex’ special enterprise, that worked on deactivation, utilization and burying of radioactive disposals and contaminated technics.
‘Polesye’ hotel (outside) – a place of State committee meeting. On the hotel’s rooftop in the summer restaurant terrace, USSR’s air forces gunners were located
Shopping center and self-service shop – Soviet supermarket and city’s central restaurant
Cultural Palace ‘Energetic’ – center of the town’s cultural life. This building hosted a lot of courses and sports club. It also had its own concert hall, cinema, pool, library, movie studio and radio station
Amusement park – a park that was supposed to be open on May 1st, 1986 (Ferris wheel, dogged cars, swings and ‘Romashka’ attraction)
The school – one of the town’s schools built upon the individual project
City police station – law enforcement place with the custody and road police office
The fire station PPCh-6. This station’s units were the second to arrive at the ChNPP’s fourth unit extinction
Living areas of Pripyat: Soviet city construction site of ‘higher comfort’, city panoramic view.
GNPP “RADEK” – a dosimetric laboratory that monitored the radiation level all over the Exclusion Zone
Clamshell gripper: one of the most radioactive objects in the Zone. The clamshell was used to sort the blockages
Robots’ remains: after the accident in the former city auto workshops, the storage and service station of the robots was established. Those robots worked in the highest radioactive fields
‘Jupiter’ Factory: officially this factory produced radio devices and details for record players, however, its secret section was specialized on the “technical control tools” for KGB and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of USSR
Sunset in Pripyat: panoramic view of the town and the ChNPP
Arriving back to the hotel in Chernobyl town for dinner

Breakfast, trip on the special train to Semykhody ’ checkpoint

Visit ChNPP rooms: common administrative building #1, central block shield that controlled the third unit (reactor control room), an integrated automatic system of control of the “Shelter” object, reactor’s main circulation pumps’ room,

Lunch in the canteen #19: full lunch in the ChNPP canteen. The menu is designed for treating and preventing purposes of the personnel of the NPP.

Circle around the power plant: the view to the nuclear waste storage.

An observational platform near the ‘Arch’: the biggest arch-type construction in whole human history.

The first sector of the ‘Red Forest’ – a piece of forest just next to the station, where trees used to die soon after the accident as the result of contamination.

Arriving back to the hotel in Chernobyl town for dinner

Breakfast in hotel

‘Lelev’ checkpoint at the border of the 10 kilometer Zone. Passport and dosimetric control

‘Chernobyl-2’ checkpoint, document check

Technical and working zones of ‘DUGA’ station

The military unit #74939 (officially: the center of the distant tropospheric communication): an object that was included in the missile attack warning system in order to spot the US intercontinental ballistic missiles starts

Phased antenna lattice (large and small antennas) - the only survivor element of signal spot that belonged to ‘DUGA’ complex

Communication space: covered technological corridor 800 meters length that sustained signal sending to computational center

Computational center: part of DUGA-1 that included control room and Soviet supercomputer

Educational center (imitation) that prepared personnel serving the DUGA complex

Chernobyl-2 military town: the fire station, the kindergarten, the school and the officer club

The third line on the ChNPP: the unfinished 5th and 6th units. Construction of those units was stopped after the accident

KP-640 gantry crane - the most powerful crane in the USSR, that was used to install the reactor’s elements.

Enlargement workshop - a place where reactor corps was compiled

‘Dityatki’ checkpoint at the border of the Zone of Compulsory and Unconditional Resettlement. Passport and dosimetric control.

Arriving back to the hotel in Chernobyl town for dinner

ATTENTION! The route and travel program may be amended by the exclusion zone administration and an accompanying person.

Breakfast in hotel,

Pripyat’ checkpoint, document check

Robots’ remains: after the accident in the former city auto workshops, the storage and service station of the robots was established. Those robots worked in the highest radioactive fields

‘Jupiter’ Factory: officially this factory produced radio devices and details for record players, however, its secret section was specialized on the “technical control tools” for KGB and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of USSR

Living areas of Pripyat: Soviet city construction site of ‘higher comfort’, city panoramic view.

‘Dityatki’ checkpoint at the border of the Zone of Compulsory and Unconditional Resettlement. Dosimetric control.

Arriving to Kyiv.

ATTENTION! The route and travel program may be amended by the exclusion zone administration and an accompanying person.