Chernobyl - Pictures from the exclusion zone (85 Pics)

Dogs of the zone. Tagged and friendly. And often fed.

"Let communism live - bright future of the humankind"

C'est la vie

Nature eats everything

DIY camo for clothes

Welcome to Chernobyl

Angel depicting end of the world through apocalypse

Alley of village name's that were lost in the catastrophe, made to look like crosses.

Tourists feed the radioactive dogs, their ears are tagged and they are friendly but radioactive.

Military outpost

DUGA radar, meant to detect USA missiles

The iron construction howled in the wind like a ghost

A carcass of a dead beast

Radioactive graffiti

Pripyat is not as abandoned as people think, hundreds of tourists visit every day

It is huge

Maintenance building running the whole length of the radar

An unfinished reactor, frozen in time, looking exactly like it did in '86

Iron forest

The plant and the new sarcophagus

Prometheus statue, god gave humanity flame....and we burned ourselves.

Cooling tower

Even today, people go to work here

Old factory

Life goes on

The infamous hospital

Abandoned and radioactive

Just few meters below in the basement are the highly radioactive firemen's clothes who extinguished the main reactor. Creepy.

Hospital corridors

Most of the stuff has been taken away and sold, even though it's irradiated

Set like a stage

Take a seat...

Babies were here even on the day of the catastrophe

The hospital, devoured by nature

Pripyat river cafe

Dogs are the daily visitors

Riverside

Radiation has turned puppies into metal-eating monsters

Scene from a romantic drama

These dogs never knew Pripyat before the disaster

Radiation definitely has some effect on nature

Prometheus movie theatre

Mosaic

Inside the movie theatre

Old piano

Nuclear research institute

Hotel "Polissya"

Palace of Culture "Energetik"

Gym

The ferris wheel, much smaller in real life than it seems on the pictures

Bumber cars

Children's gas mask

The pool

You are in the zone

Bridge of death - everyone who viewed the accident from here, died.

Kindergarten

Kopachy village

Dedicated to the fireman. This was a horrible disaster and people are still suffering. Some mistakes can never be forgotten nor should they.