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Azure Swimming Poolin Chernobyl, Ukraine

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Before the catastrophe, Azure Swimming Pool was a very beautiful place. Here the townspeople and visitors of the city came to swim and relax.
Azure Swimming Pool, Chernobyl
Azure Swimming Pool was built in 1970 and worked until 1992. Even after the Chernobyl disaster local workers and liquidators used the services of the pool, because this place was the most "clean" in terms of radioactive background.

Diving tower in Azure Swimming Pool, Pripyat
Photo: Diving tower, © Jeffrey

Nowadays Azure Swimming Pool is completely abandoned. There are no high windowpanes,inside the pool you can see graffiti, but the diving tower still looks glorious.

Shallow end of Azure Swimming Pool, Pripyat
Photo: Shallow end, © Simone Mertens

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Location: Pripyat

Tours & excursions 2

#4Cruise on the ship to Chernobyl and PripyatCruise on the ship to Chernobyl and Pripyat

Get a sea of thrills from a boat trip to the lost world of a dead city.

UAH 335000/tour
#2One-day private tour (Chernobyl + Pripyat) from KievOne-day private tour (Chernobyl + Pripyat) from Kiev

One day in the Exclusion Zone and you will learn everything about this desolate tragical place.

UAH 1794+/person

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