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In 2006, musician Example featured Pripyat in his 18-minute documentary of the ghost town and in his promotional video for his track, "What We Made". German composer and pianist Hauschka included a piece titled "Pripyat" on his 2014 album Abandoned City (on which each track is titled after a different abandoned place.)
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 ...
The Palace of Culture Energetik was built during the 1970s for the citizens of the town of Pripyat. The name “Energetik” is a play on words, as it means both “energetic” (lively) and “power plant worker”. Palaces of Culture were large community centers established during the Soviet era with over 137,000 in the Soviet Union by 1988.
Novoshepelychi (Ukrainian: Новошепеличі; Russian: Новошепеличи) was a village near Pripyat, Ukraine, south-west of the Pripyat River basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated, and now lies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
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 Polissya hotel in 2009. The Polissya hotel (Ukrainian: Готель Полісся, romanized: Hotel Polissia; Russian: Гостиница Полесье, romanized: Gostinitsa Polesye) is one of the tallest buildings in the abandoned city of Pripyat, [1] Ukraine (which was affected by the Chernobyl disaster).
First mentioned in the 18th century, it was the scene of some bloody battles between 3 and 15 October 1943, during the "Chernihiv-Pripyat Operation" of the World War II. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Part of the (now defunct) Chernobyl Raion , ten years after the construction of the nuclear plant in 1970, Yaniv became administratively part of the new adjacent ...
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 ...