Weather in Chernobyl zone
At the moment "Chernobyl-Tour"
HAS CEASED ITS TOURS
to the Chernobyl Zone
(see Declaration below)
FOR THE PRESS ONLY – hotline:
admin(A)chernobyl-tour.com, +38 094 926-74-26
Declaration of “Chernobyl-Tour”
about the cease of its tours to the Chernobyl Zone
and Call to stop visits to the Zone
“Chernobyl-Tour” ceases tours to the Chernobyl Zone and calls those, who want to visit the Zone and who organize the trips, to refrain from the trips.
Why?
The Chernobyl Disaster's Zone is a witness and natural memorial of the events, which have changed the history of the Earth's civilization. “Chernobyl-Tour” fully understands the desire of the people from all over the globe to learn about those events at the spot and in as precise detail as possible. “Chernobyl-Tour” organizes such trips on the highest informational and technical level, investing in them all available resources.
Unfortunately, recently we have been deprived of possibility to run the high-quality tours. The authority, responsible for reception of the Zone visitors - “ChernobyllnterInform” (ChII), or more specifically, its International Relations Department, - using its monopoly position, has made all groups visit the Zone only at the vehicles, which the ChII itself rents and “resells”… at the price, which is several times higher than the actual cost of its rent. In addition, those vehicles are vans, which simply don’t fit standards of high-quality trips. The Zone visitors are expected to cover the increased cost of such degraded tours. “Chernobyl-Tour” considers it unacceptable.
It adds to ingrained problems, such as the lack of ChII guides (which are mandatory for the group), obsoleteness of the information provided, sameness of the traditional route, absence of tourist infrastructure in the Zone (even the most elementary, like toilets), topped with extreme unwillingness of the monopolist to improve anything. As a result, the Chernobyl Zone – a place of mass heroism, of the feat of hundreds thousand people – is actually presented, not only by the means of words and shown objects, but also by the general style and quality of visits to the Zone, as a place of shameful defeat.
 It is an utter fallacy: since 1986, due to the mitigation measures and natural processes, radiation pollution in the disaster epicentre has decreased THOUSANDS times. However, “informational pollution” in the form of utterly wrong ideas and concepts in people’s minds, “administrative pollution” in the form of obsolete rules and bodies have remained the same, or rather even increased. It actually conserves Chernobyl as a tragedy, libels the liquidators’ feat, perverts the essence of the events at the Chernobyl places, and humiliates our nation.
“Chernobyl-Tour” considers the present situation unacceptable, and cannot tolerate it anymore.
Our goal is to make the Chernobyl Zone as accessible as reasonably possible (including the trip price) to the largest number of professionals and students in many different fields, to the Chernobyl mitigation veterans, to inquisitive people from all (including not rich) countries of the world. We try to use as fully as possible the educational, emotional, humanistic potential of this place. We strive to further and more comprehensive mitigation of the Chernobyl aftermath, which nowadays (and this is acknowledged by the authoritative world scientific community) lies in social and psychological (hence, first and foremost informational) spheres.
Great many times we tried to convey our ideas and standards to the managers (including high-ranking), who were responsible for the visits to the Chernobyl Zone, and to build productive cooperation. But narrow-departmental interests have prevailed, and the situation with the Chernobyl Zone tours remains unchanged – or, more accurately, it becomes worse. If such tendency persist, the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster and liquidators’ feat on the April 26, 2010 will be rather demonstration of a shame than glory.
“Chernobyl- Tour” ceases trips to the Chernobyl Zone and calls all, who wants to visit it, to refrain for a while from doing this, and the organizers of such trips – to join our declaration and boycott.
We hope that our joint efforts will attract the attention of the society and Ministry of Emergencies to the acute problems of the Chernobyl Zone, will stimulate solving them – and, first of all and in particular, will make possible the high-quality and sensibly-priced tours to the Chernobyl Zone.
Chernobyl-Tour
26.04.2010.
Chernobyl home
Special Christmas trip
An eye-opening experience.
Marylyn, US, Ohio
Thank you for all of your hard work, you were an amazing tour guide and your guidance is on an important topic all human beings living in this global society should know about.
Elise, Fulbright scholar, US
HOME.
This short simple word denotes something important for each human being.
You idea and your perception of your home and, perhaps many other things which matter in your life, will be different after this one day special trip devoted to Chernobyl homes.
The homes were abandoned because of the explosion of the nuclear reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. More than three hundred thousand people lost their homes in the adjacent area.
Now these empty homes welcome only those few human beings who come to this abandoned space.
Empty cottages in the empty village of Zalissja.
Missing cottages in the bulldozed and buried village of Kopachi.
The decaying 5-story apartment buildings and cottages along the asphalt streets of the small provincial town of Chernobyl, now sparsely populated by a handful of shift-workers.
The thousands of homes in (then-brand-new) 16-, 9- and 5-story apartment buildings, once assembled in the neat and beautiful town of Pripyat, surrounded by the pine forest. Forty-five thousand Pripyat residents were evacuated during three hours, one and a half days after the explosion. They were told – “temporarily, just for 3 days.” As it turned out, it is for eternity! In this town the clock still shows the year of 1986, in the country of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
You will be guests at all of these homes.
Training on radiation
in the Chernobyl Zone
Radiation reconnaissance route
The exclusive training will intellectually equip, practically train and psychologically empower you to successfully survive in contemporary contamination accidents, especially radiation ones, and/or study them, prevent and mitigate their consequences.
The training is based on a successful professional and personal experience of Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance men, combined with the most novel knowledge of many diverse sciences, relevant to the Chernobyl radiation accident and contemporary disasters. The content is delivered in an understandable language and, moreover, in an entertaining format – against the background of the most controversial patch of land on the globe, the so-called Chernobyl 'dead' zone. The route of the training follows the actual route of the Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance mission during the first months after the nuclear reactor's explosion, and weaves amidst impressive signs of the explosion and its subsequent mitigation, ruins and depopulated land with breathtakingly beautiful landscapes and flourishing wildlife.
The 1-day exclusive training will teach you to navigate among the contemporary contamination hazards – both extreme catastrophic and everyday 'normal' ones. It is designed both for professionals, students and the general public, who are concerned with the issues of radiation, contamination and health in connection with the environment we live in now.
Places of Chernobyl glory
The trip is particularly interesting when, in the overgrown with greenery Chernobyl zone, there is no foliage. In this trip, with the aid of the guide-instructor, a Chernobyl veteran, these usually hidden and “mute” places will tell a story of combat with the aftermath of the world-biggest nuclear reactor explosion – the dramatic and heroic story. It will be a trip into the Chernobyl glory.
In finding our bearings on the field of the Chernobyl battle, we will be much aided by Oleg Veklenko's unique photos about the life and work of men, drafted from reserve to the 25th brigade of radiation, chemical and bacteriological protection in the first days after the explosion, and video about the contemporary Chernobyl.
This trip will differ not only by its route (it includes several rarely or never visited spots), but also by WHAT WE WILL SEE on the route, WHAT WE WILL PAY ATTENTION TO, WHAT WE WILL LEARN about these places, the Chernobyl disaster, and contemporary catastrophes in general.
The guide-instructor of the trip – Sergii Mirnyi, a former officer of Chernobyl radiation surveillance several months after the explosion; now a writer, scriptwriter, scholar of Chernobyl and contemporary disasters and expert in their mitigation.
 The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, its history, present and future.
The trip will include a visit to the observation building, near the Sarcophagus covering the destroyed Reactor #4at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
We will have a short hike in the abandoned town of Pripyat, which was home for the ChNPP workers and their families, and had forty-five thousand inhabitants before the explosion. En route we will see critically important spots and material objects of the mitigation of the Chornobyl disaster, and two former villages: one uninhabited and one demolished (we will make a stop in the first).
We will also see the Chornobyl town. In addition, we will visit an active village and an amateur museum of local lore of Ukrainian Polissya.
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