Chernobyl tour
Chernobyl tour
The program of one day sightseeing tour to the Chernobyl Zone and Pripyat town:
Duration of the tour: 12 hours.
Transport: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Mercedes-Benz Vito
- ‘Dityatki’ — checkpoint at the border of the Zone of Compulsory and Unconditional Resettlement. Passport and dosimetric control
- The stele of Chernobyl town – the history of the town in one stele
- The town of Chernobyl: transfer through the city center to the memorial park “Sagebrush Star”. The alley of evacuated towns and villages → “The Third Angel” monument→ the monument “Chernobyl-Fukushima”→the monument to Vladimir Lenin → ‘the house of culture’ where the trial for people who were responsible for the accident took place.
- The lowland and a huge ferriage through Pripyat river, Chernobyl backwater and the vessel’s graveyard
- The monument ‘For those who saved the world’
- Robots and vehicles that participated in the ChNPP catastrophe liquidation (radio-controlled dump truck ‘Komatsu’, moon-rover robot STR-1, robot MOBOT-Ch, robot-scout MF-2, robot Beloyarets, manipulator Foresteri, deactivating machine APC-14, BTR - 70, BRDM-RHB)
- Fire station #3 in Chernobyl town (PPCh #17): the third brigade that arrived on the night of the accident to extinct the NPP’s power unit came from here
- ‘Lelev’ checkpoint at the border of the 10 kilometer Zone. Passport and dosimetric control
- ‘Chernobyl-2’ checkpoint, document check.
- Technical and working zones of ‘DUGA’ station
- The military unit #74939 (officially: the center of the distant tropospheric communication): an object that was included in the missile attack warning system in order to spot the US intercontinental ballistic missiles starts
- Phased antenna lattice (large and small antennas) - the only survivor element of signal spot that belonged to ‘DUGA’ complex
- Communication space: covered technological corridor 800 meters length that sustained signal sending to computational center
- Computational center: part of DUGA-1 that included control room and Soviet supercomputer
- Educational center (imitation) that prepared personnel serving the DUGA complex
- The stop near the branch channel of the plant: panoramic view of the plant. First, second and third energy blocks, the ‘Arch’, view of the unfinished fifth block
- Lunch in the canteen #19: full lunch in the ChNPP canteen. The menu is designed for treating and preventing purposes of the personnel of the NPP.
- The stop near the Administrative building of the ChNPP –feeding the huge catfishes that live in the underwater channel of the station
- The Prometheus monument, brought here from Pripyat
- Circle around the power plant: the view to the nuclear waste storage
- Observational platform near the ‘Arch’: the biggest arch-type construction in whole human history
- ‘Pripyat’ checkpoint, document check
- People Friendship monument – the unity of Soviet people monument
- Special purpose washing house – a place of deactivation of personnel and liquidators clothing
- Pripyat town hospital (MSCh 126) – a place where first ChNPP explosion victims were sent
- Kurchatova street: ‘Prometey’ cinema, musical school, common service combine, Litovchenko’s mosaic panels
- Pripyat city center: the building of town’s executive committee. After the accident, the building hosted leadership of ‘Complex’ special enterprise, that worked on deactivation, utilization and burying of radioactive disposals and contaminated technics.
- ‘Polesye’ hotel (outside) – a place of State committee meeting. On the hotel’s rooftop in the summer restaurant terrace, USSR’s air forces gunners were located
- Shopping center and self-service shop – Soviet supermarket and city’s central restaurant
- Cultural Palace ‘Energetic’ – center of the town’s cultural life. This building hosted a lot of courses and sports club. It also had its own concert hall, cinema, pool, library, movie studio and radio station
- Amusement park – a park that was supposed to be open on May 1st, 1986 (Ferris wheel, dogged cars, swings and ‘Romashka’ attraction)
- The school – one of the town’s schools built upon the individual project
City police station – law enforcement place with the custody and road police office
- The fire station PPCh-6. This station’s units were the second to arrive at the ChNPP’s fourth unit extinction
- Living areas of Pripyat: Soviet city construction site of ‘higher comfort’, city panoramic view
- ‘Pripyat’ checkpoint, document check
- ‘Lelev’ checkpoint at the border of the 10 kilometer Zone. Passport and dosimetric control
- ‘Dityatki’ checkpoint at the border of the Zone of Compulsory and Unconditional Resettlement. Passport and dosimetric control