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Chernobyl Destination Guide

Delve into Chernobyl in Ukraine

Chernobyl in the region of Kiev with its 15 residents is located in Ukraine - some 58 mi or ( 93 km ) North of Kiev , the country's capital .

Interactive map of Chernobyl

Local time in Chernobyl is now 04:17 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Kiev " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your mobility, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: Smolensk, Bălţi, Rechytsa, Minsk, and Mazyr. While being here, you might want to check out Smolensk . We discovered some clip posted online . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you curious about the possible sightseeing spots and facts in Chernobyl ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Chernobyl Trip 27.04.2011 - 29.04.2011

9:53 min by utek
Views: 203213 Rating: 4.85

Photos taken during trip to Chernobyl and Pripyat. Edit: As people are asking how I booked this trip. I used www.tourkiev.com ..

Chernobyl Tour 2012

56:24 min by UrbanXploration
Views: 121403 Rating: 4.66

Chernobyl Tour 2012 full movie The highlights are 0:00 Intro 6:04 Driving 20:57 the rubbish-strewn area 27:00 the quad tour 30:38 AK shooting, but it's to long... 36:03 Chernobyl and Pripyat Music: M ..


Tour Chernobyl

7:30 min by Handyy
Views: 59475 Rating: 4.92

A trip to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine and the evacuated and deserted nearby town Pripyat. Videos and photos from June 2011. Music: Rob Dougan - Clubbed to death. ..

UFO over Chernobil

0:31 min by Vladimir Druzenko
Views: 38407 Rating: 2.66

UFO seen hovering over the former Chernobyl nuclear plant ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Chernobyl (city)

Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone situated in northern Kiev Oblast, Ukraine near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932. The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located 14.5 kilometres north-northwest. The power plant was within Chernobyl Raion (District), but the city was not the residence of the power plant workers.

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Located at 51.27 30.22 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: 1193 establishments, Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty), Chernobyl (city), Chernobyl disaster, Cities in Kiev Oblast, Environmental disaster ghost towns, Ghost towns in Ukraine, Jewish Polish history, Jewish Russian and Soviet history, Jewish Ukrainian history, Shtetls

Uzh River (Northern Ukraine)

The Uzh is a river, a right tributary of the Pripyat, which empties into the Kiev Reservoir, in central Ukraine. It takes its source in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine, and then flows briefly near the delta of the Berezina River. The Uzh then flows near the city of Chernobyl of Kiev Oblast, into the Pripyat River. Its length is 256 km and its drainage basin is 8,080 km . The length of the river's valleys are 1–7 km (&#160) long, and the length of its channels are about 5–40 km (&#160).

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Located at 51.26 30.26 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Rivers of Ukraine

Kopachi

Kopachi was a village near Chernobyl, Ukraine, just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated and is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; and thus has been abandoned since 1986. After Kopachi village was evacuated by the authorities, as an experiment, had all the houses torn down and buried. This village was the only village suffering this fate as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.

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Located at 51.35 30.13 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
Tags: Chernobyl disaster, Ghost towns in Ukraine, Populated places disestablished in 1986

Duga-3 (western) transmitter

Duga-3 ("duga" means "arc") or "Steel Yard" was a Soviet experimental over-the-horizon radar (OTH) system. It was developed for the Soviet ABM early-warning network. The system operated from 1976 to 1989. Two stations of Duga-3 were installed: a western system around Chernobyl and an eastern system in Siberia. The transmitter for the western Duga-3 was located a few kilometers southwest of Chernobyl (south of Minsk, northwest of Kiev).

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Located at 51.31 30.07 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
Tags: Cold War military equipment of the Soviet Union, Ground radars, Russian and Soviet military radars

Russian Woodpecker

The Russian Woodpecker was a notorious Soviet radio signal that could be sporadically heard on the shortwave radio bands worldwide between July 1976 and December 1989. It sounded like a sharp, repetitive tapping noise, at 10 Hz, giving rise to the "Woodpecker" name. The random frequency hops disrupted legitimate broadcast, amateur radio, commercial aviation communications, utility transmissions, and resulted in thousands of complaints by many countries worldwide.

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Located at 51.30 30.06 (Lat./Long.); Less than 11 km away
Tags: 1976 establishments in the Soviet Union, 1989 disestablishments, Amateur radio history, Cold War history of the Soviet Union, International broadcasting, Russian and Soviet military radars, Science and technology in the Soviet Union