AI generatedChornobyl
Ukraine · Kyiv Oblast · 115 m
Short description of Chornobyl
Chornobyl is the exclusion zone around the reactor that exploded in April 1986, a thirty kilometre circle of abandoned villages, returning forest and one emptied city. Pripyat was evacuated in a single afternoon and left standing, its school books, fairground and swimming pool still where they were. Before the full-scale invasion the zone took well over a hundred thousand visitors a year on licensed day tours from Kyiv. Russian troops occupied and mined the area in 2022 and tours have been suspended since, with no reopening date, so this is a destination to plan for rather than book.
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Best time to visit: May – September
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- Pripyat, the abandoned city
- Reactor 4 and the New Safe Confinement arch
- Pripyat fairground and its ferris wheel
- Duga radar array, the Russian Woodpecker
- Azure swimming pool and School Number 3
- Chornobyl town and the memorial to the liquidators
- Kopachi and the abandoned villages of the zone
- Przewalski's horses and the wildlife of the zone
- Red Forest and the dosimeter readings