Photos Chernobyl

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Field tent camp. You can compare yourself with the chaos and filth that were shown in the movies.

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[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Back to the show again. I don’t know how deeply the stereotype is that all Russians drink vodka, while always in the middle of the day, without a snack and for no reason. These people, I can assume, have never drunk vodka themselves and do not know about the cultural use of alcohol.

In the USSR, they drank alcohol on occasion. Necessarily in the company (drinking alone - they will not understand that way). Necessarily with a snack, necessarily with speeches (usually they wish different pleasant benefits to each other). Moreover, the main goal is to reach the moment when it is good, and not to drink until unconscious. Many do not drink at all - I, for example, do not drink alcohol at all. Drinking vodka in the middle of the day, without a snack, especially in the heat (and in Ukraine it is very hot in summer) is nonsense! At least you will feel bad.

The liquidators were supplied with a lot of bottled drinks. It was Caucasian mineral water (Borjomi), lemonade (Duchess, Golden Key, Tarhun, Baikal) or juice (apple, pomegranate). In the photo: the liquidator drinks pomegranate juice.

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Some kind of festive event. On the tables are bottles with Soviet Pepsi-Cola and lemonade.
The closest bottle with a label on the neck looks like a light beer "Zhigulevskoe".

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Contaminated equipment in the sump. The radioactive equipment that took part in the liquidation remained here. At first, the parking lots were very heavily guarded, but after the collapse of the USSR and the beginning of the "dashing 90s", the new Ukraine was not up to these hundreds of cars. Enterprising people began to enter the Zone en masse, sawing off radioactive metal and taking it to be smelted. How much radioactive iron is still walking around the CIS is difficult to say.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Guess what has become of it all.

 

[uktabber]

AMAZING mate!!! Just amazing......Great pictures and thanks for posting!

Most of the military vehicles are gone and the helos are gone or striped bare, the Ukraine military strip and take this stuff??? So much missing...

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Photos by Anatoly Kochetov. Army unit 55064, chemical regiment of the Carpathian military district.
The company for radiation reconnaissance and dosimetric control. 1986-1987

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

So that no one has any questions. This is a greenhouse. Scientists from Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad studied the effect of radiation on vegetables and fruits. After collecting the samples, they were disposed of.
LIQUIDATORS ARE FIRING EXCLUSIVELY "CLEAN" FOOD, WHICH WAS BRINGED FROM THE "BIG EARTH".

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[uktabber]

Wow, once again GREAT pics from behind the lines in Chernobyl, that we would usually not get to see......Thank you for sharing them mate!!

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Interesting reconstruction of some images from Chernobyl.

1. Officer of the Air Force of the Soviet Army, field uniform.
2. Private of the chemical troops of the Soviet Army, everyday uniform.
3. Lieutenant of the Interior Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, field uniform.

 

[ao_sepia]

how long time for this area to be safe?

 

[NebrHogger]

how long time for this area to be safe?

The half life of Cesium-137 is about 30 years, but the "ecological half life" is reported to be as long as 300 years.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

how long time for this area to be safe?

Most of the territory of the Chernobyl zone today is "clean". The Soviet army and time have done their job. However, modern Ukraine cannot (and will not) engage in any kind of ennobling of this land. The Ukrainian government could not even stop the removal of radioactive scrap metal from the zone! I am silent about the museum from Pripyat. It's much easier to turn an empty city into a long-range artillery range.

 

[NebrHogger]

Consider that Bikini Atoll is no longer radioactive and people can live there... if they import food. The "ecological half life" hasn't timed down yet... after all these years.