Chernobyl-from-Kyiv

Winter road to the Duga (former soviet secret RADAR in Chernobyl exclusion zone) before the fires ...

The New Safe Confinement is the world's largest and most expensive movable structure. The largest, because of its geometric dimensions, is understandable. The most expensive, because it costs more than 2 billion Euros - the same is clear. And that's why the structure is "movable", because it was built at a distance of 300 meters from where it is now. Guess why it was not immediately built on this place right away?

The central square of the city of #Pripyat, after the evacuation of residents in the spring of 1986, became an airfield for helicopters. The helicopters here were loadding with boric acid, sand, lead and other materials, which were then dumped into the burning reactor number four.

A school in a distant Ukrainian village abandoned by residents 34 years ago. 800 meters from the border with Belarus.

The unfinished cooling tower for cooling reactor number five, which was also not completed due to an explosion at power unit number four.

An abandoned village in northern Ukraine, evacuated after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.

During a visit to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, tourists can see the Przhevalsky horses - a species that is on the verge of extinction.

The largest and most expensive movable structure in the world, built at a distance of 300 meters from the exploded reactor. In 2016, the arch was pulled over to power unit number four.

Review of prices for alcohol and tobacco in Ukraine