Izumrudniy’ (‘Emerald’) Holiday Camp, near Chornobyl. Discarded artefacts are arranged into unlikely dioramas by visitors. Kindergarten No.7 ‘Zolotoy Klyuchik’ (‘Golden Key’), Pripyat.
This Socialist-realist mural depicts virtuous citizens (a farmer, a firefighter, a police officer, and a Young Pioneer) under a radiant Soviet crest. Mural on a residential building, Heroes of Stalingrad Street, Pripyat. The mural illustrates the evolution of communication, from stone tablets and scrolls, to mail trains and finally a Soviet cosmonaut. In neighbouring Control Room 4, on 26 April 1986 at 1.23.40am, this switch was flicked and a malfunction occurred, causing the meltdown.
This manually operated control would immediately terminate the fission reaction by inserting all the control rods at once. The top left of these cube-shaped shielded buttons marked A3-5 – or ‘AZ-5’ – was the ‘scram’ kill switch. Now, along with Reactors 1 and 2, it is undergoing a decommissioning process. This room and the associated Reactor 3 remained in use until 1995 when they were put out of service following an agreement with the EU. Control Room 3, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Since autumn 2019, the power plant authorities have included it on official tours. Now stripped of many of its fittings and cleaned of dust, it has been declared safe for visitors. Control Room 4, the room where the 1986 disaster originated. In Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide, Richter shares glimpses of the incredible access he had to a site that continues to send chills down the spine of people around the world. After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, part of the Soviet Union - now in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia - was cordoned off because of the resulting radiation and other dangers.ĭecades later, author Darmon Richter traveled to the strange Cold War-era site to take photographs of the eerie ghost towns and structures of a bygone age that continue s to live on in the public imagination as one of the most serious follies of the 20th century. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become the stuff of myth and legend. (all images courtesy the author and FUEL) A tame fox poses in front of the sign pointing the way to Pripyat from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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