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The Pripyat amusement park is an abandoned amusement park located in Pripyat, Ukraine. It was to have its grand opening on 1 May 1986, in time for the May Day celebrations, [1] [2] but these plans were cancelled on 26 April, when the Chernobyl disaster occurred a few kilometers away. Several sources report that the park was opened for a short ...
Pripyat, [a] also known as Prypiat, [b] is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad ('atom city', a type of closed city in the Soviet Union that served the purpose of housing nuclear workers near a plant) to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...
The video game PUBG: Battlegrounds; Music video of the song "Life Is Golden", by English rock band Suede (along with other locations in Pripyat) The video game Warface; The video game Call of Duty: Warzone; The video game Metro Exodus 's "Sam's Story" DLC; The HBO miniseries Chernobyl; At a location called 'The Storage' in the video game Second ...
Although dangerous amounts of radiation are still being emitted to this day, curious explorers and photographers flock to the site to see the ghost town. Town still healing 30 years after the ...
The Jupiter Factory appears prominently in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat as the location of one of the Mi-24 crash sites the protagonist, SBU Major Alexander Degtyarev, is sent in to locate and investigate in the aftermath of a failed military operation. The Jupiter Factory appears in the music video of the song "Marooned" by Pink Floyd. [11]
The hotel is featured in fourth-to-last level of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, where it is the location of a crucial mission to obtain the game's best ending. The hotel is visible in the background of the Pripyat level of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, though it is outside the playable area.
It is the nearest station to Chernobyl town, 18 km (11 mi) south, and nowadays is a railroad graveyard, with a high number of abandoned trains, making it one of the tourist sights in Pripyat. The station, refurbished in the 2010s, is used by workers of the society "Chornobylservis" ( Ukrainian : Чорнобильсервіс ) [ 11 ] for ...
"Presentation of the site Pripyat.com", 2007 — video. "WE'LL UNDERSTAND LATER", 2009 — the film about still alive Pripyat. Channel 5: Pripyat the City-Museum — video reporting of Alexander Sirota about initiative of the granting to city of Pripyat of the International status of the City-museum; Old-New Year in Pripyat, 13–14.01.2010 ...