Aerial view of Chernobyl disaster staging area

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:17 am

You can see where the response equipment is located to this day.

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The click on the white hand up to the left of the photograph, above the scale selector.

More, interesting infos:

http://www.chernobylee.com/articles/chernobyl/interview-with-a-chernobyl-liquidator-sergei-b---part-i.php

Labeled, aerial map of Pripyat locations:

http://www.chernobylee.com/chernobyl/pripyat/wikimapia-view-of-pripyat.php

Labeled, aerial map of Chernobyl disaster site locations:

http://www.chernobylee.com/chernobyl/chaes/wikimapia-view-of-chernobyl-nu.php

Helicopter flight over center of Pripyat with its communist-style blockhouses:

Shameless looting in Pripyat, caught in the act by the cops in blue and grey camouflage [More of story here (scroll down): http://pripyat.com/en/news/journal/2007/01/18/1476.html]

Pripyat swimming pool, then versus today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2MSs1IRFs&fmt=18

Location of pool, touching the crosshair:

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.4065413&lon=30.049324&z=15&l=0&m=a&v=2

Creepy ride from the Bridge of Death, where all the onlookers gathered for closer view (looking E/SE from the bridge) of the exploding Reactor 4 (~1600 m away) were later killed -- there were no known survivors -- by the catastrophic overdose from the massive radioactive cloud passing over them, to the Pripyat checkpoint:

Map of drive:

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:47 pm

Thanks for all of the links and vids Very Happy

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