Stories

Piano was one of the most popular music instruments in the Soviet Union. Playing piano was among basic cultural skills of the citizen of the Soviet Union. However, attending music schools wasn’t free of charge, so not every family could afford it. Having piano at home was a manifestation of…

Krasne village is located on the left bank of Pripyat River, close to the border with Belarus. One of the meanings of Ukrainian word “krasne” is nice and beautiful. The village had neat streets and lovely architecture; that is why it was given such a name. There is a wooden…

Hospital 126 is a complex of several buildings in the district no.1 in Pripyat. It was the only hospital in the city so that was supposed to have professionals able to work with all kinds of health issues. It included a polyclinic, hospital, maternity hospital, infectious disease ward, maternity ward,…

Each village in the Soviet Union had a collective farm. The area around Chernobyl power plant is full of fields and farms. In the village of Kopachi there also was a tractor farm. The majority of the equipment was evacuated after the accident and the rest was stolen and looted….

When the accident at Chernobyl power plant happened, everybody thought that it wasn’t more than fire on the roof. The firefighters were called into action. The first ones came from Chernobyl power plant fire station; a bit later, colleagues from Pripyat and Chernobyl town arrived too. During the night and…

Mosaics on the buildings on Lenin Avenue in Pripyat were made by one of the most popular and outstanding Ukrainian monumental artists Ivan Lytovchenko (1921-1996). Since 1974 and till the day of the accident, Lytovchenko used to be the main artist of the city, and these years he devoted to…

Leliv village is located in the Southern part of the 10 km zone and at the same time close to Chernobyl town. Before the accident of 1986, more than 1,200 people used to live there. All of them were evacuated in the beginning of May, 1986 to one of the…