Apartments in Chernobyl

We go on a private area close to the city center. According to the type of road surface - there was once a bustling city street. Now this place is reminiscent of a clearing in the jungle Polesye, on roadsides in the undergrowth where aspens and maples are seen long-empty building.



Residents in homes long gone - the house are empty ever since, when ordinary citizens left the city, giving way to the liquidators of the accident.



Coming closer to one of the buildings. No glass in the windows for a long time - on the rare travelers house looks black empty eye sockets of windows.



Inside - the ruins. Time and rains have done their job.



In one of the rooms dismantled floor - apparently used boards liquidators on some papers. In the corner - a heavy brick oven. I think it will be a long time after it will form the last wall of the house.



Go ahead. Some lodges are less fortunate - Stoch time rafters, and the roof fell into the building. It will take another few years, wind and rain razmoyut shingles and remnants of plaster and the house will only foundation dimly emerges in the thickets of maple and fern.



But the house, very well preserved. Masonry over the windows and layout of the premises indicating the construction of a century ago.



Go inside. In the hallway for some reason, scattered old mattresses, door on the left leads to the main room.



Old Apartment Chernobyl was spacious and comfortable, with spacious rooms and high ceilings. The rooms, which are located on either side of the corridor are white paneled doors.



In this room with two windows and the rear wall of the stove has been living. Judging by the battery under the windows in the house were even independent heating.



And this is a bedroom - it is on the side of the house, where the morning and in the afternoon was a shadow.



Come on, perhaps more. Goodbye, House!



There Chernobyl not only lost the house, who is visiting only the wind and occasional tourists. In the city a lot of residential neighborhoods in which they live liquidators. Usually, it is more modern neighborhoods with apartment domami- "Khrushchev».
A typical courtyard of a residential block in Chernobyl looks like this - absolutely peacefully and uneventfully.



Yard clean and well maintained. From the ordinary courts in small Belarusian and Ukrainian cities it features a small number of machines and unusually large number of people in a green camouflage - casual clothes liquidators.



An employee of the Chernobyl zone named Leon, an engineer working on the construction of a new containment, has kindly agreed to show us the hostel liquidators. Head over to the entrance.



Inside, everything looks like in the normal entrance of an apartment house, but there are some differences. The first catches the eye icon "Exit", typical of the state-owned institutions - it is on the floor Kadom.



Second - in the entrance there are many monuments and plans placed on special stands at the door of the apartments.



There is also an evacuation plan for Koror you can see the floor plan of the house. Liquidator Leon lives in one of the rooms "treshki", the door of which is on the left. Let's go inside.



In the hall we were met by an old military-type dosimeter - now they are almost not used (to pick up something in the modern Chernobyl radioactive almost impossible), but before the dosimeter used regularly.



To the left of the entrance - a small kitchen. All kitchen furniture, tables and chairs - everything was here until 1986, nothing new since then has not purchased. On one of the lockers is an old TV in a wooden case - it is very possible that he brought here from Pripyat.



Under the ceiling - the old lamp.



Dining table liquidators. Bank of ketchup and detergent modern, and everything else - the original, "Chernobyl».



Stove.



Old chairs. Apparently, they brought out some state-owned institutions of Pripyat - furniture and equipment there is often used in the organization of shift workers hostels liquidators at Chernobyl.



Kitchen sink.



All dorm furnishings are listed here in this inventory sheet that hangs outside one of the rooms.



Corridor. In total, this apartment has three living rooms, each with a population of 2-3 people.



The living room looks like. Each of liquidators has a desk and a bed. On the bedside table - an old computer monitor.



On the door hangs a memo on the use of electricity.



Fire extinguisher in the hallway.



We are going to go. Leon shows us the principle of the detector - just in case, check the shoes, which were held throughout the day on the Exclusion Zone - everything is clean.



We went out on the stairwell.



Look, it looks like the floor,



And looking at what looks like Chernobyl entrance courtyard from the window.



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