Bridge of Death in Chernobyl zone is one of the most legendary places there. It is said that soon after the explosion people from Pripyat came to the bridge to watch the fire. Radioactive particles were blown by the wind and affected people severely. People who walked on Bridge of Death that night thought to be dead short after that. However, the myths around this bridge went far beyond the true story.

Bridge of Death and Radiation
Right after the accident the level of radiation on the bridge went up to 5,000,000 μSv/hour or 5 Sv/hour. Normal atmospheric level goes up to 0.3 μSv/hour. Lethal amount of radiation can be absorbed with the level of 6-7 Sv/hour. As long as the wind continued to blow off the particles, the level of radiation continued to climb. Even after cleaning up process (which was made regularly there) the bridge remained contaminated.
How Far is the Bridge from Chernobyl?
The road over the railway leads from Kopachi village to the city of Pripyat. Chernobyl town is approximately 10 km away from the bridge. The nearest settlement is Prypiat. Basically, it is the entrance to the city. The distance between the bridge and the power plant is a couple of kilometers. Chernobyl Bridge of Death attracted victims: the proximity to the city and the power plant and the fact that the exploded unit is the closest to the bridge are the main arguments to prove that curious people definitely came there.

Chernobyl Bridge of Death and the Reality
The accident took place at 1.23 a.m. when the city was sleeping peacefully. There were no destroyed buildings and broken windows caused by the explosion. Basically, only the power plant personnel, firefighters and their families knew that something happened. The rest of the population was unaware till the morning. Nobody came to the bridge at night neither during the day. So, there is no answer to the question how many people died on the Bridge of Death.
Measuring levels of radiation in the city started in the early morning. It was known that the bridge is highly radioactive, so there were two police patrols on the both sides on the bridge. Only the vehicles were allowed to drive there, but nobody could walk.
The only fact that allows us to call the bridge like this is the evacuation of population from Pripyat. More than 1,000 buses carried evacuees from the city and all of them crossed the bridge. However, crossing Chernobyl Bridge of Death takes less than a minute which is not enough to affect people lethally.

You can see the Bridge of Death with your own eyes with our exclusive Chernobyl tours.
Chernobyl nuclear power plant tours have become a popular tourist destination due to the apocalyptic looks of the area and the atmosphere of silence.
- - Abandoned Zalissya village
- - Huge secret radar “Duga-1” and the Chernobyl–2 town
- - Almost fully buried under the ground village Kopachi and the still standing kindergarten
- - Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant covered by the new safe confinement – the Arch
- - The NPP cooling pond with giant catfish
- - The Red Forest
- - The fire station
- - The town of Pripyat
Pripyat has become extremely popular tourist destination, and many choose to book tours to Pripyat to see the town with their own eyes.
- - Abandoned Zalissya village
- - Huge secret radar “Duga-1” and the Chernobyl–2 town
- - Almost fully buried under the ground village Kopachi and the still standing kindergarten
- - Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant covered by the new safe confinement – the Arch
- - The NPP cooling pond with giant catfish
- - The Red Forest
- - The fire station
- - The town of Pripyat
We have created a special tour for visitors called “HBO Chernobyl” with the locations from the movie.
- - The fire station (the place from where the first firemen went to liquidate the fire)
- - The legendary Bridge of Death
- - The city of Pripyat, where almost all the places from the movie can be visited
- - Nuclear Power Plant
- - Listen to the true stories about the explosion
- - Visit left homes
- - Walk through the town and feel the atmosphere of Chernobyl itself
The one-day trip gives you the opportunity to immerse into the exact same area where the most dreadful disaster took place. The radiation background is still excessively high in some places, but we offer you a safe route through this dire Zone, together with necessary protection equipment.
- - Abandoned Zalissya village
- - Huge secret radar “Duga-1” and the Chernobyl–2 town
- - Almost fully buried under the ground village Kopachi and the still standing kindergarten
- - Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant covered by the new safe confinement – the Arch
- - The NPP cooling pond with giant catfish
- - The Red Forest
- - The fire station
- - The town of Pripyat
The two-day trip to the Chernobyl Zone opens for you the door to this unique place. In this short time, you will get not only the tour around Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Pripyat town, but also the exclusive experience to spend the night in an empty town. This is definitely the deepest dive into the history of the drastic disaster.
- - Abandoned Zalissya village
- - Huge secret radar “Duga-1” and the Chernobyl–2 town
- - Almost fully buried under the ground village Kopachi and the still standing kindergarten
- - Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant covered by the new safe confinement – the Arch
- - The NPP cooling pond with giant catfish
- - The Red Forest
- - The fire station
- - The town of Pripyat (exploring for 2 days)
- - The unfinished NPP
- - Graveyard of the vehicles and Yanov train station
- - Accommodation in a hotel in the town of Chernobyl
The three-day program includes a huge amount of sites to visit. Professional guides will explain the reasons and chronology of events that were happening during the most dreadful nuclear disaster in the world’s history. The real-based stories told by the guide will give you the shivers, so tragic they are. You will relieve the events of that dreadful night of explosion together with the ex-residents of Pripyat town.
- - River port in Chernobyl town with sunken boats
- - An abandoned Synagogue
- - The command centre of Duga-1
- - The fire station, school and cinema in Chernobyl-2
- - “Bridge of Death”
- - Pripyat river port and riverside café
- - Pripyat hospital 126
- - The list of locations for this tour also includes the places from tours with less days
This four-day trip makes it easier for you to get permission to enter the Extinction Zone, because we take care of official confirmations. Besides, we provide you will all the necessary protection. It is vital while traveling these, since the complete decay of the last radioactive element in the contaminated areas (plutonium-239) to the state of natural material will occur in 26486, or 24,500 years after the explosion.
- - Exploring Chernobyl town
- - Remote villages of 30km zone
- - Unfinished unit 5 (from the distance)
- - Tractor farm of Kopachi village
- - “White house” in Pripyat
- - Pripyat nursery
- - Pripyat sport complex
- - The list of locations for this tour also includes the places from tours with less days
Nothing is better than planning a five-day trip to the Chernobyl Zone! We offer you the opportunity to learn the most important facts about the night of the tragedy, alongside fascinating myths and legends about the place. Following the stories of your guides, you will have the chance to wander around the ghost towns of Chernobyl and Pripyat. Don’t miss out on the occasion to hang around the streets and locations from the world-renowned series!
- - Krasne village with wooden church built in 1800
- - Leliv village
- - Cooling pond of the power plant
- - Mosaics along the main avenue in Pripyat
- - Pripyat school
- - Pripyat piano shop
- - Kids` hospital in Pripyat
- - The list of locations for this tour also includes the places from tours with less days
This six-day trip to the Chernobyl Zone will open the Zone to you with top-secret information from our guides. During these six days, you will get the opportunity to explore the ghost towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl by yourself and it is not a secret that the Exclusion Zone has a lot of fascinating places.
- - Church in Chernobyl (the only active one in the zone)
- - Cooling towers for 3rd generation of reactors
- - Vehicles graveyard in Pripyat
- - Pripyat morgue
- - The claw
- - “Jupiter” factory
- - Pripyat police station
- - The list of locations for this tour also includes the places from tours with less days
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