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Europe » Ukraine » Kyivska oblast » Pushcha Voditsa December 13th 2014

There is even more to see within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone possibly even more exotic than Reactor No. 4 and Pripyat. Unexpectedly, Igor took us to Chernobyl 2 the last of three huge (humongous, gigantic, massive) Soviet radar receiver antennas – the one that looked for United States’ missile attacks during the Cold War. On Soviet maps it was marked as a children’s summer camp Driving along the narrow road Igor said that there was a Jurassic Park fence ahead. Through the pine forest we could see it a vertical mesh of metal and wires 150 meters tall stretching 500 meters wide it was impossible to fathom its size We drove to a check point and parked walking up a rutted dirt road approaching, it was difficult to put the size of the antenna into perspective ... read more
Chernobyl 2: Cool patterns
Chernobyl 2: Engineering marvel
A very cold day.

Europe » Ukraine » Kyivska oblast » Pushcha Voditsa December 13th 2014

Check out this amazing video of Pripyat, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone http://vimeo.com/112681885... read more

Europe » Ukraine » Kyivska oblast » Pushcha Voditsa December 13th 2014

We had a great tour of Chernobyl with Igor of SoloEast Travel. We met him at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kyiv at 8:30 am Our group consisted of Kevin and me and fellow tourist Pedro, a Brazilian/Italian student. We drove about 2 hours to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone We passed 2 check points the 30 kilometer Exclusion Zone and the 10 kilometer Exclusion Zone We had permission for both Igor had come to the exclusion zone the day before and filed all of our paperwork so we were the first tour group in. On the way, new missile silos were visible as Ukraine reinforces its northern border - rumors of the possibility of Russian forces entering from the north (Russia-friendly Belarus) Igor showed us reactor 4 and the new safe confinement structure currently under construction. It is the ... read more
Entry to Chernobyl
Soviet Propaganda
The New Safe Confinement Structure

Europe » Ukraine » Kyivska oblast » Pushcha Voditsa June 12th 2009

Thinking of ways to spend my birthday, I remembered having read an article about the number 12 tram, whose route takes its passengers out of Kyiv and through a pine forest to a small town called Pushcha Voditsa. Exhausted by the city, desperate to explore somewhere beyond it, and intrigued by journey that the writer of the article described as “one of the most remarkable tram journeys in the world”, Ana and I set off with a picnic of bottled water and bars of chocolate toward the tram stop in the Podil district. We were leaving behind a hot summer day in Kyiv, the type on which its people seem at peace with the world: a tramp snoozes on a park bench in the shade of a chestnut tree; two young boys in cotton baseball caps ... read more
Pushcha Voditsa
Pushcha Voditsa
Pushcha Voditsa




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