Chernobyl 2 – the Town for the Privileged
Chernobyl-2 was built for the militaries and engineers who protected and operated the radar Duga-1. Usually, the array itself is the main destination of visitors, although the military town is located just by the antenna and shouldn’t be underestimated: it adds a lot to the understanding of how this huge complex functioned.
“All the professions are needed, all professions are important”, claims Soviet poet Marshak in his poem. However, everyone in the Soviet Union knew that some professions and jobs are privileged, and militaries were among them. Visit to Chernobyl-2 gives the picture of how it was.
Militaries were in charge of state security – the thing Soviets liked to take very seriously, moreover, during the Cold War. Vast majority of the projects were secret, so these towns weren’t accessed easily.
Chernobyl-2 is hidden 8 kilometers away from the main road to the power plant and Prypiat.
Driving through the forest by the road made of concrete platforms takes around 20 minutes, and finally you arrive to the checkpoint with original Soviet red stars on the gates.
What to Expect?
Depending on the available time, you can choose the route. Basic one includes the area of Chernobyl-2 were militaries and their families used to live. You can see apartment blocks, fire station and several playgrounds. One of them is really interesting: its fence is decorated with characters from popular Soviet cartoons. Also, there is an installation made with receiving element from the antenna.
Multiple day tours allow seeing the whole town of Chernobyl-2. Usually they start from the military shop. After, you will move to the cinema, sport complex, school and kindergarten. Soldiers were sent to such places for a couple of years, sometimes more, and their families were coming with them. So, the town had to include facilities for all its inhabitants and age groups.
Close to the kindergarten, there is a hotel. The town was secret and usually relatives were not allowed to visit those who lived there, but the inspections or high officials had to stay somewhere. However, the militaries who lived there remember that the hotel was always full of engineers: they were coming from Moscow to fix the radar as long as it always had some functioning issues.
Although the visitors are not allowed to enter buildings, they are still able to see the place and, together with guide’s stories, to feel the atmosphere of the place.
You can see Chernobyl-2 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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