In the night from 25 to 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the largest in the world nuclear technological disaster. All Pripyat citizens were evacuated on the next day. People are encouraged to be prepared for a temporary evacuation because in a few days they must be back in their homes. But they did not return either a few days or a few years ...
Pripyat is completely empty and no one lives there now. Nature begins to take its superiority. Trees germinate in the houses and the sidewalk. You can found boar, fox, hare in the city.
View of the micro-district of Pripyat
To the South of the city is the so-called Red forest, which took the largest share of release of radioactive dust during the explosion of the reactor in 1986.
Because of the huge doses of radiation, the trees were painted in brown-red.
The most popular place in Pripyat is an amusement park. It is also one of the highly contaminated areas in Pripyat.
Ferris wheel has never worked, a few days before the launch of wheel the Chernobyl disaster occurred.
Later Ferris wheel has become a symbol of the Pripyat and the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Palace of Culture "Energetic" - One of the central buildings in Pripyat. It was the center of cultural life before the accident.
The tallest buildings in the abandoned city Polissya hotel is well known outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The hotel is featured in the video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Captain Price and MacMillan had planned to make attempted murder from the roof of this building. Also, Polissya hotel is a location in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.
The average background radiation in Pripyat is about 50 micro roentgen per hour. In the centre of Pripyat background radiation is 150 micro roentgen per hour. For example, normal natural background radiation in your city within 10-20 micro roentgen per hour.
