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Step Inside The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Zone For 1 Day
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Bizarre Encounters, History, Sightseeing

  • Duration

    1 Day

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

Explore Pripyat, the ghost city and the centre of the largest ecological disaster of humankind. Visit Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an abandoned city covering kilometres of destroyed settlements, Soviet secret facilities and modern facilities for employees. Travel to the Wormwood Star Monument and "Monument To Those Who Saved The World" to understand the dark history of the ChNPP disaster.

Highlights
  • Explore the vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
  • Go by the abandoned Cherevach village and Zalissya village to view destroyed homes
  • Visit the Wormwood Star Monument and "Monument To Those Who Saved The World"
  • Pass by the remains of Red Forest to visually observe the effect of radiation even today
  • Drive through the legendary Bridge of Death
  •  Tour Pripyat, the evacuated city after the nuclear explosion
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    • Check-in at the office in Kyiv, Shuliavska Street, 5 (Metro Station Polytechnic Institute) by 8:00 am and depart towards Chernobyl.
    • En-route to Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
    • Pass through the Dytiatky police and dosimetry control checkpoint on the border of the 30-km Exclusion Zone by 10:30 am. Exclusion zone and the zone of absolute mandatory resettlement, passport check, instruction of radiation safety rules.
    • Pass by Cherevach village and behold hundreds of deserted houses on the way to Chernobyl town with your English-Speaking Chernobyl tour guide.
    • Travel through the Zalissya village, once home to more than 3500 people.
    • Discover the town of Chernobyl. The town with more than 4000 residents, most of whom are the person of the Exclusion Zone and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
    • Capture a photograph in front of Chernobyl "Welcome sign", St. Ilya Church and the bell tower, Chernobyl Downtown, main square, Wormwood Star monument, and the Statue of Lenin. Grab this rare chance to see a statue of an infamous communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Ukraine. The new decommunization law does not apply to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Destroyed synagogue, Chernobyl river port 3, and "Monument To Those Who Saved The World". 
    • Pass the Leliv checkpoint- an entrance to the 10 km zone.
    • See the soviet secret military base Chernobyl -2 and Duga over-the-horizon radar station, the most secret object of the Soviet Union, which was marked as a "summer camp" on all topographic maps of that time. The distinctive sound in the air while working (knocking) was called "Russian Woodpecker". The height of the station is about 150 meters, length 800 meters. After 1986, it was frozen, and exploitation was discontinued due to possible damage to electronic equipment.
    • Tour the village of Kopachy (a buried village) and its only building - a kinder garden.
    • Enter the territory of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Cooling towers of the ChNPP, and unfinished building of the 5th reactor of ChNPP. Drive around Chernobyl NPP and stop near the observation deck of the new safe confinement ("Novarka").
    • Stop for a lunch Break at 1:00 pm. You can order lunch while booking the tour or at the meeting point in the morning for $10.
    • Pass by the remains of the Red Forest. A relatively small section of a forest belt, about 10 square kilometres, assumed the largest share of the release of radioactive dust during the explosion. A powerful radiation leak "painted" the forest in a bright red colour. Trees have helped people a lot at the cost of their lives, delaying dozens of tons of radioactive dust like a filter. The pine crown is very dense and well retains dust. This is one of the unique places in the Chernobyl zone, where you can visually observe the effect of radiation on living organisms even today.
    • Take some pictures near the Pripyat welcome sign.
    • Drive through the "Bridge of Death", shown in one of the episodes of HBO's Chernobyl TV series 4.
    • Pass the checkpoint to enter the Pripyat town, an abandoned city with a lot of radioactive fallout at present and dust firmly stuck into the ground, trees, houses. 
    • Go through the dosimetry control at the checkpoint exit from the 10 km zone.
    • Proceed to pass the final dosimetry control at the checkpoint on the way out of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
    • Arrive back to Kyiv, Shuliavska Street, 5 (Metro Station Polytechnic Institute) by 8:00 pm.
What's Included
  • English-speaking local tour guide

What's Excluded
  • Hotel

Know before you go
  • You are fortunate to visit this tour, as many only dreams about it. Book more likely the number of places is limited.
  • Everyone knows about Pripyat — a ghost city and the centre of the largest ecological disaster of humankind. However, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is not only a deadly reactor and an abandoned city, but it is also a territory covering kilometres of destroyed settlements, Soviet secret facilities and modern facilities for employees. You can see all of them with your own eyes by joining a group one-day tour.

  • The city is overgrown with artemisia (lat.), which grew in the vicinity before the accident. Empty buildings gradually come into disrepair under the influence of the environment. The oldest buildings of the city are destroyed most rapidly: for example, the building of the first secondary school, which collapsed in 2005 and had two collapses in 2013. Note that it is officially forbidden to enter any buildings in Pripyat, Commemorative cross, People’s Friendship statue, Medical unit number 126, “Pripyat” Café, Pripyat Abandoned Fluvial Port, Partially Submerged Boat, Cinema "Prometey", Hotel Polissia, Palace of Culture Energetik, one of the first supermarkets in the USSR, Pripyat Amusement. Park is the non-functioning park located in the center of Pripyat, behind the square with the department store buildings, the Energetik Palace of Culture and Polissya Hotel. The most famous object in the park is the Ferris wheel, which became one of the symbols of both Pripyat and the entire Chernobyl exclusion zone as a whole later. The wheel never worked; its launch was planned for May 1, 1986. The park is one of the heavily infected sites in Pripyat. The iconic Ferris wheel, Avangard Central Stadium, Kindergarten "Cheburashka", Swimming pool “Azure”, and Pripyat fire station 5.

Meeting Point

Shuliavska Street, Kyiv, Ukraine

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
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1 To 4 USD 180 Per Person

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