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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 ...
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 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.
Historically and geographically, the zone is the heartland of the Polesia region. This predominantly rural woodland and marshland area was once home to 120,000 people living in the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat as well as 187 smaller communities, [16] but is now mostly uninhabited.
Chamla is an abandoned village in the Smolyan municipality; Dolna Melna, near the Serbian border. [53] Dragostin is an abandoned village in Gotse Delchev that was erased from the registers in 2008. [54] Kanitz, a village in northwest Bulgaria with 4 residents as of 2019. [55] Kashle, near the Serbian border. [53]
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. The hotel is featured in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in the levels "All Ghillied Up" and "One Shot, One Kill", where Price and MacMillan shoot Zakhaev from. [4]