Pripyat Blog

The basic purpose of the trip - the city of Pripyat where it is planned to spend not less than 4-6 hours. On the road to the Chernobyl zone the unique archival staff, and films about modern Pripyat and the Zone of Alienation will be shown.

The maximal structure of group - 45 people.

Departure Kiev, by comfortable bus (DVD, a climate-system)

Route/Itinerary:

7.00-7.30 Meeting at the bus at the terminal “Southern” central station in Kiev
10.00-10.15 Check of documents at the check point Dytyatky “ДИТЯТКИ”
11.00 Arrival in Chernobyl town. Conversation with representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Measures of Ukraine
11.30-12.30 Visiting of viewing platform ЧАЭС (Chernobyl Plant)
13.00-16.30 Pedestrian walk by groups of 10-12 people in Pripyat, the story about life in the city before the accident on ЧАЭС and evacuations. The groups will be accompanied by former residents of Pripyat and editors of the site PRIPYAT.com
17.30-18.30 Supper in Chernobyl town (At will, cost 13 c.u.)
21.00-21.30 Arrival in Kiev, on. Terminal ” Southern ” central ж.д. Station

Cost of participation in a trip - 75 c.u.

Reception of applications and registration of participants is carried out by means of the on-line system Chernobyl Zone!

Registration of applications in the on-line system Chernobyl Zone

We have specifically developed this system for the convenience of users on reception of applications for the organized trips to the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. By means of the given system, the participant can see on-line all available trips, change contact information, see the list of active participants on the chosen trip and more.

Dear participants! Your feedback about this system, our work and the organization are very important. Please, provide your opinions and proposals about the system Chernobyl Zone. Thank you.

For registration in the Chernobyl Zone system, click here.

After registration it is necessary for you to go to the site http://www.chernobylzone.com.ua/mem_journeyinfo.php?journeyid=17 for verification of your participation in a trip. You will also find references for the reception of requisites according to your chosen method of payment.

Payment for a trip

Participants may pay for a trip with cash at our Kiev office, electronic payment in system WebMoney, bank payment, by means of system Privat24, Western Union, Yandex, Cash and Credit Cards (Visa and MasterCard).

If you do not pay trip costs within 4 days of registration, you will be automatically removed from the list of participants.

Attention! The participant establishes type of payment independently at registration in system Chernobyl Zone, and then the system exposes the account, being based on the chosen type. Please note that the ability to pay in cash is available only in the territory of Ukraine. Otherwise, cash is not accepted for payment.

Hot line Phone: +38 (067) 292-06-67, (063) 223-09-92
Phone is intended for the participants, wishing to receive more information on trips.
Mode of operation: from 10:00 - 18:00.

Attention! Registration of participants for this trip is through November 16.

To take part in the trips organized by project PRIPYAT.com, it is necessary to know the following:

1. You should be at least 18 years of age.
2. Registration of the participant occurs only after 100 % of payment of cost of the trip chosen by you.
3. You should understand, that this is not a walk in the park, it is a trip to a place, completely unadapted for people to stay for extended periods of time. By agreeing to take part in the given trip, you assume all measure of responsibility for possible risks which can arise during or after a trip to Pripyat and you will need to sign a corresponding document attesting to this before boarding the bus.
4. In case of delay or absence at the place of gathering, or refusal of a trip for any reason, the payment for the trip is not refundable. If you do not agree with this item, refusing participation in the trip is better.
5. Participants should give all the personal data, for end of registration and registration of necessary documents (full name, passport series and number, citizenship, date of birth, and home address), and, (it is obligatory!) to take the passport with yourself on the trip. The participants who do no have their passports with them will not be allowed on the bus.

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Hi there we are two young filmmakers in process of doing a documentary about the liquidators who worked in chernobyl in 1986/87 and their struggle for recognition.

The documentary follows the surviving members of a Soviet Red army battalion who were sent to Chernobyl to deal with the explosion in 1986. The authorities erased all the files that proved their presence there, denying them their invalidity pensions or medical support. Many are now terminally ill and fighting a legal battle with the government.

We would be greatful to anyone who can give us any contacts/logistic support in kiev. We will be there form the 17th of april onwards.

While still at film school, Tiziano travelled to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the right angle for a documentary on the Chernobyl disaster. It has always been a fascinating subject for him. He met Nikolay and Anatoliy in Kiev through the Chernobyl Veterans Association and filmed an interview with them. We wrote and shot a teaser on the firefighters of Chernobyl, which we think would make a vital and compelling documentary. The teaser can be seen at the following links:
www.myspace.com/brizdoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDmk43b4OlE
We are determined to finish this project and while we are still looking for funds we set ourselves a deadline after which we will travel back to Ukraine to complete the documentary.

Please help us and support the spirit of independent filmmaking.

Do not hesitate to contact us

nierot@yahoo.co.uk
kinedahl82@hotmail.com

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CHERNOBYL RADIATION RECONNAISSANCE ROUTE: An exclusive advanced information trip into the Chernobyl area… and much deeper.

The PRYPYAT.COM team has decided to further extend our cooperation with Sergii Mirnyi, and invited him to be the principal guide-instructor for the advanced information trip to the Chernobyl area (which we announced earlier). The offer was gratefully accepted, and designed was the following

PROGRAM for

Exclusive advanced information trip

into the Chernobyl area… and much deeper

‘CHERNOBYL RADIATION RECONNAISSANCE MISSION ROUTE‘

Saturday September 15, 2007

For the first time ever, the trip ‘Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance mission route’ makes public a successful professional and personal experience of Chernobyl victors – the radiation reconnaissance men. It combines it with the most advanced front-line knowledge of many diverse sciences, relevant to Chernobyl radiation accident and contemporary disasters, and delivers it in an understandable, normal human language and, moreover, even entertaining format – against the background of the most controversial patch of land at the globe, a so-called Chernobyl ‘dead’ zone of nowadays… and a likely Chernobyl national park of the future. The route of the trip follows the actual route of the first radiation reconnaissance missions, and weaves amidst impressive signs of the nuclear unit’s explosion and its effects’ mitigation, the colossal ruins and depopulated land with breathtakingly beautiful landscapes and flourishing wildlife.
The advanced trip is designed both for professionals, students and advanced general public, who are concerned with the issues of radiation, contamination and health in connection with the environment we live in now.

The trip will intellectually equip, practically train and psychologically empower you to successfully survive contemporary contamination accidents, especially radiation ones, or/and mitigate and study them. Moreover, the 1-day tour will teach you to navigate among the contemporary technogenic contamination hazards – both everyday ‘normal’ and extreme catastrophic ones. All this is achieved by employing the unique intellectual gainings of the Chernobyl radiation accident and possibilities of a present-day area with official name ‘the Chernobyl alienation/exclusion zone’ (Chernobylskaja zona otchuzhdenija). The educational trip generalizes and delivers in a nutshell a two-decade successful professional and personal experience of Chernobyl reconnaissance men, supported by a front-line complex multidisciplinary research of Chernobyl and contemporary disasters, and shaped in an entertaining and user-friendly way by vast and invariably successful international lecturing expertise of the principal guide-instructor.
The guide-instructor Sergii Mirnyi was a commander of radiation reconnaissance crew and platoon inside the Chernobyl zone several months after the explosion. He was the officer, responsible for management of the company’s radiation reconnaissance missions, and was cited for bravery and heroism by the Commander of Kiev Military District. He has MSc in physical chemistry and MSc in environmental sciences and policy, complemented by the courses of social sciences and humanities (history and literature). Now he is an expert in Chernobyl and the mitigation of radiation and ecological disasters, the author of scientific monograph on the actual state of the Chernobyl mitigation workers’ (liquidators’) health and several important international generalizing papers on Chernobyland regularities of contemporary disasters. He also wrote several books of Chernobyl prose, already translated into English and Hungarian, and two screenplays, decorated at prestigious international competitions Koronatsija slova [Crowning the word] (Kiev-2005) and Kinostsenariy [Screenplay] Magazine Competition (Moscow-1997).
For more info about the trip guide-instructor seeexcerpts of his earlier books, a recent pripyat.com-publication of his abstract for the conference on environmental education, and an announcement with report about a recent presentation of his screenplay.

During the exclusive advanced information trip YOU WILL:
- gain practical skills of successful survival in the circumstances and of research and mitigation of a contemporary contamination (and particularly radiation) accident, the skills well-checked and proven to be true by more than two decades of life and work of the Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance men
- measure radiation levels at the carefully selected set of representative points outside and inside the Chernobyl zone
- visit the most famous Chernobyl places: the Sarcophagus over the remnants of the exploded reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the ghost town of Prypyat, the capital of the zone – the Chernobyl-town, several abandoned villages (one of them fully bulldozed), and – a special trait of this tour – the exit decontamination depots and the site of the military camp of the 25th brigade of chemical and radiation protection, which included a separate battalion of radiation reconnaissance
- acquire the skill of adequate comprehension and correct interpretation of the maps of contamination (both radiation and chemical)
- learn the general pattern(s) of the contamination spatial distribution and its intricate, sometimes quite unexpected changes with time, caused by mitigation works and natural reasons
- be introduced to the universal holistic model of a contemporary single-point contamination accident/catastrophe as a phenomenon in natural and social environments
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