One More Look at Pripyat and Chernobyl – A Dozen Photos

Photos from a March visit to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Click ’em to make ’em bigger.
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Kindergarten inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, near Chernobyl, Ukraine.

The lobby of the Palace of Culture, Pripyat, Ukraine, inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

School inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Pripyat, Ukraine.

School inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Pripyat, Ukraine.

Inside the 30 kilometer Chernobyl exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine – HDR.

The Supermarket on Lenin Street, on the central square, inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Pripyat, Ukraine.

The gymnasium at the Palace of Culture, inside the 30 kilometer Chernobyl exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine – HDR.

That’s Chernobyl reactor 4, the ruined one, on the right. The New Safe
Containment is the structure under construction on the left. It’s an
arch (as you can see through the trees) which will be jacked up in the
air on legs one section at a time, until it’s tall enough to slide on
tracks over to the right to cover reactor 4. This photo from March,
2013.

The amusement park at Pripyat, Ukraine, inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Kitchen inside the 30 kilometer Chernobyl exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine.

Inside the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Pripyat, Ukraine.