CHERNOBYL-TOUR specializes in organizing high-quality trips to and events (trainings, seminars, conferences) in the Chernobyl Zone - truly an amazing area, situated just one hundred kilometers north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and fenced from the rest of the world. The events in the Chernobyl Zone still have an influence on the course of our civilization. After the explosion of reactor number 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant on 26 April 1986, the area was severely contaminated with radiation, totally depopulated, and was the arena of mitigation works of a fantastic scale. In more than two decades after the mishap, the fauna and flora, freed here from human activities, bloomed and revert back to a natural state.
An accurate, interesting and safe presentation of the accident at Chernobyl is difficult indeed. In particular, it needs special equipment, solid knowledge of local radiation situation, and a vast expertise in the issues of radiation, atomic energy, medicine, history and other relevant fields.
We offer substantial experience in telling the Chernobyl story in a competent and ‘user-friendly’ way.
An accurate, interesting and safe presentation of the accident at Chernobyl is difficult indeed. In particular, it needs special equipment, solid knowledge of local radiation situation, and a vast expertise in the issues of radiation, atomic energy, medicine, history and other relevant fields.
We offer substantial experience in telling the Chernobyl story in a competent and ‘user-friendly’ way.
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.
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.
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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The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, its history, present and future.