Pripyat / Chernobyl

I have spent 3 years exploring the most radioactive area on Earth - Pripyat, Chernobyl and the militarized exclusion zone. So far I have explored and documented over half of the citys buildings, and driven every single street.
I have immersed myself in zone life; eating, drinking, and sleeping with the guards, as well as meeting the resettlers in the red forest.
Here's my story:

UrbanX 30th Birthday Any guesses where UrbanX chose to celebrate his 30th birthday?	Chernobyl Life A summary report really, just about spending an extended amount of time in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Drinking with guards, etc.
Pripyat / Chernobyl 2010 2010: My first life changing trip to the most radioactive place on Earth...	Pripyat High School Former high school of Pripyat.
Pripyat Kindergarten The most emotional explore ever.	Rooftopping Pripyat The best way to cure a Chernobyl hangover? An early morning 16 Storey climb.
Chernobyl Reactor 5 UrbanX gets inside this unfinished nuclear reactor	Pripyat Laboratory (former Kindergarten) Kindergarten converted to radioactive samples laboratory after the disaster
Pripyat Palace of Culture The discovery of a never before seen shooting range, then to the rooftop!	Chernobyl Military Vehicles A church service in Chernobyl, with an added snoop around radioactive, decaying military vehicles
Pripyat Fire Station Used before, during, and after the disaster	Yaniv Train Station - Pripyat Abandonned Railway station, 1Km south of Pripyat
Lakeside Cafe - Pripyat One of Pripyats many leisure facilities, set by the beautiful radioactive lake.	Pripyat Scrapyard Where radioactive Soviet vehicles go to die
Radiation levels in The Zone Against the wishes of the Ukrainian government - UrbanX reveals the truth about radiation levels in the 30Km exclusion zone…	Prometheus Cinema Pripyat's Cinema
Pripyat City Park A solo walk from Lenin Square to the stadium through the city park (not the fairground)	Pripyat Music School The next building along on the walk to Lenin Square
Pripyat Stadium Completely alone in Pripyat Stadium	High School #5 High School just behind the Stadium
Jupiter Plant Pripyats mysterious and secret factory	The Second Pripyat Sign... We all know the iconic Pripyat sign, but who knows about the second one...
Hospital #126 Pripyats Hospital:	Bus station Just outside the city boundary, and not previously reported, so thought I'd take a drive out there.
Dancing Hall A popular place for Pripyat teens to dance, or just hang out.	Kindergarten #3 I explore another of Pripyats Kindergartens
Reactor 4 Robots Meeting the robots that worked on the roof of Reactor 4 during the clean up.	Supermarket Strumok Dairy shop on Pripyats Lenin Avenue.
Chernobyl Diaries - Mistakes Sigh, so what have they got wrong? This is just from the 2 min trailer...	Meeting The Chernobyl Resettlers Deep inside the highly radioactive Red Forest UrbanX meets the people who have resettled within the exclusion zone.
Crimea Nuclear Power Plant 1,955Km away from Chernobyl. Not sure if it'd even still be there UrbanX starts trekking across Ukraine.

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