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 25^th 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.

We will see:

• the field camp of the 25^th brigade of radiation, chemical and bacteriological protection
• the zone checkpoint "Dytjatki"
• PUSO (vehicle decontamination site) Rudnja-Veresnja
• the abandoned village of Zalissja
• Chornobyl-town bypass road, constructed in the first month of the explosion
• the currently inhabited village of Paryshiv
• PUSO (vehicle decontamination site) Lelev
• the eliminated village of Kopachi
• concrete-reloading unit (used to build the Sarcophagus)
• the decontaminated Red Forest (located on the track of the worst – first – release of radiation directly from the explosion)

The abandoned town of Pripyat, including a bus tour through the town:

• the fire brigade station, which was the second to arrive at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the night of the explosion, April 26, 1986
• armored patrol vehicle of radiation surveillance, which took part in the mitigation
• the barbed wire fence built by the liquidators to protect the town from looting

The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, including:

• the Sarcophagus
• the fire brigade, which was the first to start extinguishing the fire on the roof of the turbine hall and reactor 3 and inside the building of reactor 4
• the memorial next to the administrative building, in the former parking lot for vehicles that brought thousands of men daily for mitigation work at the NPP
•  PUSO (vehicle decontamination site) Kopachi

The town of Chornobyl, including:

• helicopters' airfield
• the front-line parking lot for armored radiation surveillance patrol vehicles
• the (world best) monument to Chernobyl and its heroes, made by fChernobyl-town firemen)
• the Chernobyl town fire brigade, which was the third to arrive to extinguish the fire at the Chernobyl NPP in the night of the explosion on April 26, 1986
• the buildings of the Operative Group of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (the main military HQ of the zone) and of the "Governmental commission on the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP" – now the building of the Chernobyl Zone authority,
• an open-air exhibition of vehicles, which took part in the mitigation.