We have all heard about terrible crimes against humanity in the last century, but Holodomor isn’t yet that recognized as for example the crimes during the Second World War – Still up to 7 million Ukrainians died during this year of true terror against an entire people. (more…)
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is more than just the power plant and the city of Pripyat. There are tons of forgotten villages, objects and places to explore. Here are some examples in images. (more…)
Let’s visit a classic landmark in the Chernobyl area. The Palace of Culture, or simply “Energetic”, was the place to gather when Pripyat was a thriving town – Before the Chernobyl accident. (more…)
I had a stop in a pretty large but unknown town – Zhytomyr in Ukraine. What is this for a place and what to see and do? (more…)
The Duga over-the-horizon-radar is widely known and many Chernobyl tourists visit this place at their day tours in the zone. What is less known, is the huge computer center connected to the radar where thousand people worked with processing all the information Duga received. (more…)
Ukraine’s capital has many sights, but few can beat the Rodina Mat, Mother Motherland statue on a sunny day. The Motherland Monument can be seen from many parts of Kiev, and if you dare, you can go all the way to the top, 102 meters above the ground. (more…)
Many people are mistaken or mix the town of Chernobyl and the Chernobyl powerplant even that they are two separate places. What’s the difference and what to find in the town of Chernobyl today? (more…)
Pripyat middle school number 3 was one of five elementary schools in the city of Pripyat. This school has maybe the world’s most photographed collection of gas masks. See what I found inside the school from the Cold war high season. (more…)
The Pripyat Police station is located on the street Vulytsya Lesi Ukrayinky and was only 1,5 years old when the catastrophe occurred. It was a modern facility which still was in service many years after the disaster. Enjoy a tour of the Pripyat Police station and the truck graveyard och the backside. (more…)
Remember the scenes from Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square in 2014? How does the square looks today, a few years after the fierce riots which changed Ukraine for a long time? (more…)