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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
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#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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#17Music school in ChernobylMusic school

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#4Cooling Pond Channel in ChernobylCooling Pond Channel

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#2Chernobyl-2 or OTH-SW Duga Radar in ChernobylChernobyl-2 or OTH-SW Duga Radar

The over-the-horizon radar Duga or object Chernobyl-2 is the largest, most secret and grandiose object of the whole Soviet Union.

#5Exclusion Zone in ChernobylExclusion Zone

The most contaminated with radiation area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was named a 30-kilometer exclusion zone.

#14NPP observation deck in ChernobylNPP observation deck

You can see the sarcophagus, which is covering the fourth reactor, and the other parts of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant right from here.

#25Pripyat Sign in ChernobylPripyat Sign

At the entrance to Pripyat the impressive size sign with the name of the city is located. It looks like the monument, but for USSR it was too normal.

#15Canteen #19 in ChernobylCanteen #19

At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant canteen comes station staf and separate groups of tourists and travelers.

#26The Red Forrest in ChernobylThe Red Forrest

Trees in the forest became frighteningly red and their radioactive glow could be seen in the night, because of the radioactive substances ejection into the atmosphere.

#16Palace of Culture Energetik in ChernobylPalace of Culture Energetik

In the Energrtik cultural palace the concerts, parties and sport events were spent. Recently, a sign was again lit up on this building in Pripyat.

#24Fire Station in ChernobylFire Station

The fire brigade left from here to eliminate the Chernobyl disaster in April, 26 1986. All ten members of that brigade died from radiation.

#20Prometheus cinema in ChernobylPrometheus cinema

Until April 1986, Pripyat Prometheus cinema was the most popular place for meetings and leisure activities by watching films and visiting inner canteen.

#21Jupiter factory in ChernobylJupiter factory

In Soviet Union times Jupiter factory was a strictly secret facility. Officially it produced rollers rof tape mechanisms for common tape recorders.

Photo credit © Kuba Danecki