What to do in Chernobyl —
14 things to do

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Feed giant catfish

Дарья Слепакова

Chernobyl cooling pond is the habitat of one's of the most giant catfishes. Do not miss the opportunity to feed these creatures!

FREE20Cooling Pond Channel

See the giant secret station Duga-radar

Николай Щепетов

The world's largest abandoned radar station is must-see in Chernobyl.

FREE16Chernobyl-2 or OTH-SW Duga Radar

See animals living in the ghost town

oddviser

Have you ever seen wild animals walking free through the city? Come to Pripyat, where this situation is quite normal.

FREE14Pripyat

Climb to the secret station Duga radar

Alex Like

Secret station Duga-radar every year beckons daredevils wishing to climb to its top.

FREE13Chernobyl-2 or OTH-SW Duga Radar

Climb up the the roof of 16-story building

LIFEisGOOD

From one of the highest Pripyat building's top you can see all the ghost-city.

FREE12USSR 16-story building

Climb onto the abandoned port crane

Алена Юрьевна

There are four of them here. Which one would you choose to get a little thrill.

FREE10Abandoned cargo port

See pictures of "Hiroshima shadows"

Eugene 2K

On the walls of buildings in Pripyat you can see the famous street art.

FREE8Pripyat

See ghost houses in the exclusion zone

Darina

The exclusion zone is the most contaminated area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

FREE8Exclusion Zone

See the Sarcophagus

oddviser

In the end of 2016 the Chernobyl NPP's fourth reactor was covered by the New Safe Confinement called sarcophagus.

FREE8NPP observation deck

Walk around the ghost town

Дарья Слепакова

Magnificent, melancholic, mutilated by nature and overgrown with greenery, a gloomy ghost town Pripyat, that's the place definitely worth a stroll!

FREE7Pripyat

Have lunch at the Chernobyl Canteen 19

oddviser

Fans of the Soviet authentic atmosphere can visit authentic Chernobyl Canteen 19 to have a realy tasty healthy meal.

UAH 707Canteen #19

Take a selfie in an amusement park

Eugene 2K

This amusement park in gost town was fated to turn into ruins and never hear the sounds of joyful children's laught.

FREE7Pripyat

Play the abandoned piano

Ajax

The pianos and grand pianos are kind of a visit card of the city. They can be found in the left houses, but the best ones are in the abandoned Music School.

FREE7Music school

Sneak up into Buryakivka radioactive cemetery

Eugene 2K

If you want to experience something dangerous - sneak up into Buryakivka equipment cemetery.

FREE5Buryakovka machinery graveyard

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