Pripyat, Russia

[M715ForLife]

From Russia, with love.

I saw these on a website, and though I'd post up.

 

[gunboy1656]

I believe a couple of these got posted a while ago. Still cool to see. Sucks they cant be touched for a VERY loooong time.

 

[fuzzytoaster]

I use to picture hunt for these types of things and sadly.. "no-touchy!" Heck..no "looky" half the time anyway. But this is just the stuff we know of, I couldnt imagine what has been burried, overgrown, or simply lost.

 

[srodocker]

insane...goverments wasting money again

 

[gunboy1656]

For those i would not call it "wasting money". That is a boneyard of equipment used at chernobyl.

 

[fuzzytoaster]

You could take it but it has the best anti-theft device known to man: Radiation. You wont know you triggered the alarm until about 20 years later and it will be too late then hahaha!

 

[DanMartin]

Somewhat related, here is a site that is a few years old from a very brave woman named Elana in the Ukraine (this is actually a mirror I believe, as the original site was taken down years ago).

KIDDofSPEED - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Pictures - Kidofspeed - Elena

(it's an old site and a bit hard to follow...but click though the links...lots of great photos of Pripyat and the surrounding countryside). Fascinating.

At the bottom of the main page is a disclaimer. Apparently there were some accusations of this gal being a fake for some reason, but these photos look real enough to me, and I believe she wanted to the world to see what happened there.

 

[srodocker]

thats crazy

 

[Capt.Marion]

I believe a couple of these got posted a while ago. Still cool to see. Sucks they cant be touched for a VERY loooong time.

Well that's one way to prevent them from going to the scrapper!

 

[SCSG-G4]

I've been on Elaina F's site several times. That is not the only story she has to tell. If you read, you will find that her father is one of the scientists that works at Chernyobl monitoring the site.

 

[73m819]

Wow

 

[DanMartin]

I've been on Elaina F's site several times. That is not the only story she has to tell. If you read, you will find that her father is one of the scientists that works at Chernyobl monitoring the site.

She also has some pages (that I cannot seem to find anymore) of them going out to old battlefields and finding German and Russian artifacts from the war....including pics of a tank (I think a Sherman!) stuck in a bog. I'll keep searching....

 

[m-35tom]

dan this is perhaps the link you are looking for??

Kiev - Ukraine - History of Ukraine - Serpent's Wall

 

[B3.3T]

Pripyat is in Ukraine, not Russia.

 

[Jinx]

I've seen those pictures before and read Elaina's story. It is fascinating, though I wouldn't want to see those vehicles in person. I plan on having children.

 

[m-35tom]

go here and look for the field due south of the pointer, zoom in. it is rather large amount of vehicles. many if not most have been looted for engines and trans.

Rassokha ukraine - Google Maps

 

[WillWagner]

dan this is perhaps the link you are looking for??

Kiev - Ukraine - History of Ukraine - Serpent's Wall

That's it! I have it bookmarked. The first time I was there I got lost for hours. She rides her bike INTO the contaminated areas! There are some cool pics there. Her father is one of the people that monitor Chernobyl. Guess he told her that as long as you stay on asphalt/cement and don't go on organic things, you'll be OK.


This site is cool too, lots of abandoned places.

Abandoned Places and Urban Exploration

 

[Barney-the-Duece]

I wouldnt count on any of these comming up on GL soon considering GL pulled numerous dueces for a little radium in the dials !

 

[m-35tom]

the majority of the area once closed is now sort of open, with tours to some of it. large areas are now considered safe to live in. (maybe with a dosometer??) cesium 137 has a half life of 30.7 years. i think and that accounted for a lot of the radiation. so maybe some day someone can buy one of those choppers!

 

[salafrae]

I've seen those pictures before and read Elaina's story. It is fascinating, though I wouldn't want to see those vehicles in person. I plan on having children.

aww.. you could still have them.. they would just have extra limbs.....