I believe, it was easy to guess what place we are going to visit first.
No motorcycle shop can survive through evacuation day.
Label tells- motorcycle Chezet, 26hp, 343cc, price 1050 rubles... Chezet! that was a dream bike for all young people in a Soviet Union. Crowd of boys have been hunging around in those stores dreaming of what they could do with 26 hp bike if Grandpas had only 15 ponnies and how can you afford it, if average monthly wage was only 180 rubbles? then alarm, evacuation, panic... no shop assistants no police.. this shop has been emptied out in a matter of hour. Banks survived, even jewelry stores survived through evacuation day, but this shop didn't have a chance. P.S. Police start shooting marauders as only first radiactive tv sets appeared on a second hand market, in Kiev.
You are at reception desc of largest hotel in a ghost town.
proposal of year 2003, a rooms with trees growing from a beton floor..
banquet room. It was room for weddings, celebrating birthdays, etc.. This one still more alive then all other places in ghosttown.
it is safe to be in the open air in Ghosttown, it is inside the houses that the danger lies. Especially one got to be careful in houses which windows facing Atomic Plant and open. I went for a short excursion with my friend doctor, he said taking such walk with no special radiation detecting device is the same as to walk through minefiled without mine-detector. Doc has self made device, this one is never out of scale.
all doors open, just make sure it is safe, push the door and you will see how people lived.
new beginning
Most people had to leave everything, from photos of their grandparents to cars. Their clothes, cash and documents has been changed by state authorities. This is incredible, people lived, had homes, country houses, garages, motorcyles, cars, money, friends and relatives, people had their life, each in own niche and then in a matter of hours this world fall in pieces and everything goes to dogs and after few hours trip with some army vehicle one stands under some shower, washing away radiation and then step in a new life, naked with no home, no friends, no money, no past and with very doubtful future.
I found this funny photo in dad's archive. This is red bikers taking part in a parade in this town, in year 1985. They ride old soviet bikes. My big ninja will probably produce as many horsepowers as those bunch of bikes all added together.
The most exciting thing about rides in Ghosttown is to hit a red line on my bike's tacho and break this silence with roar of a wounded dinosaur and then to close throttle and listen how all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin.
their flags are still there. Stuff has been prepared for May 1st Labor Day parade
on post office they also have been waiting for a Labor Day.
May 1st had never came in this town. In April 26th all population has been evacuated and since then this central street has never seen parades and will not see them ever..
this is ghost of cafe
this is how town looked back in 80th
this is how it look now. This park is the most poluted area in town, it is in front of reactor. In day of disaster northern wind brought first clouds here and they say, people have been running their life, looking for kids in a smoke... I don't know if it's true
it is last day of Pompei sort of place. Every step towards little cars add 100 microroengen on my dosimeter.
In Russian a big dipper is a devils wheel. Well.. this one look pretty much like it.
on a carousel we having 103 microroengen on the clock. this place gives the most comrehensive idea of what really happened here.
This is the highest building in town. In a day of disaster people gothered on the roof of this builing and have been looking at a beautiful shining above Atomic Plant. This was the shinning of radiation.
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