Weekly Report #155
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Like we mentioned in the last report describing the history of the Mi-8 helicopter accident, there are still wrecks of various vehicles in the Zone. Helicopters account for only a percentage of those wrecks. We even managed to digitally capture some of them for Chernobylite, as you can see in the pictures below:
But believe us, what you see in the game is just the tip of the iceberg. Come with us! We will show you around the largest vehicle cemeteries in the Exclusion Zone.
Liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster, evacuation of the population, decontamination of the vicinity of the power plant and the 30-kilometer zone, construction of the Sarcophagus - these are just some of the tasks that required the involvement of over half a million people. A huge number of vehicles was also needed to conduct those operations. Today, many of them rest near Chernobyl and Pripyat, covered with rust, irradiated, unfit for use.
There are quite a few places where you can find large concentrations of abandoned vehicles in the Zone. One of the more famous is the vehicle graveyard “Buriakivka” in Chernobyl, some 4 kilometers from the power plant. This place was the main drop point for irradiated equipment immediately after the explosion.
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"Buriakivka" was put into operation in 1987. It owes its name to the village of Buriakivka, whose inhabitants were resettled to neighboring areas after the disaster at the nuclear power plant. The burial place of the vehicles was designated and developed by scientists from the Leningrad Institute. They used drawings of designs of above-ground radioactive waste repositories as blueprints for Buriakivka. The choice of location wasn’t random either. The village is located at a sufficient distance from water bodies and settlements and it meets all the strict requirements for the storage of radioactive waste. In addition, “Buriakivka” was located on one of the hills, more than 20 meters above the groundwater. In the event of a crack in the shell of the repository excavation, radioactive substances would penetrate into it very slowly - for many hundreds of years.
The vehicle cemetery measures 1,200 x 700 meters, is surrounded by a fence and has 30 ditches in which many radioactive materials and equipment that took part in the liquidation are buried. The walls and bottom of the excavations are covered with a meter-long layer of compacted clay, acting as the main barrier. After having been placed in the trench, the radioactive materials were compacted with a bulldozer. The trench was then filled with another meter-long layer of clay, sprinkled with earth and planted with perennial grasses, thus fulfilling a protective function. The size of each such pit is 150 x 50 meters.
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Another storage place for the machines was located on the site of the former German airport, near the village of Rassokha. In this place, endless rows of various military equipment were stored, including military special equipment, tractors, fire engines, Mi-8 and Mi-6 buses and helicopters. According to some sources, there were over 1,600 vehicles of various types. Rassokha was originally intended to be a PVLRO (Point of Temporary Localization of Radioactive Waste). However, cleaning the machines would take a lot of time and resources, so the easiest solution was to leave them and simply wait for the radioactive decay to lower the radiation levels on their surfaces. After sufficient time has passed, the equipment was to be deactivated, restored and restored to its intended use.
Unfortunately, this is never going to happen. Since 2000, many of these vehicles have been cut up for scrap and brought to metallurgical plants in Ukraine. Some have been plundered. In 2006, the complete liquidation process of “Rassokha” began and lasted until the end of 2012. Equipment that could not be salvaged for various reasons was transferred to “Buriakivka”. On the site of the former "Rassokha" you can still find remains of vehicles cut into pieces.
We move around the country and get close to the city of Pripyat, where we come across the abandoned Yaniv railway station, also known simply as the Yanov station. The station was built in 1925 and lies in the village of Yanov (demolished after the Chernobyl disaster), south of the city of Pripyat, and is part of the Chernihiv - Ovruch railway line.
In 1986-1987, the railway line from Chernihiv to Yanov was reconstructed to serve Chernobyl personnel. The line from Yanov to Sławutycz was also electrified. In 2000, one of the tracks passing through Yanov was restored and modernized, and then used during the construction work of Shelter-2, a new sarcophagus for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
At the moment, the line is not used, it has even been partially dismantled. The entrance to the station building is now closed, but the area itself is not completely abandoned however. Currently, the station is owned by the state-owned enterprise "Chernobylservice". Also, some of the old wagons are used as houses for metalworkers. Currently, there is one main railway track, three shunting tracks and several maintenance tracks for the storage of old and rusty rolling stock.
The last point of our trip is the city of Pripyat itself. After the explosion at the power plant, the inhabitants had to leave their homes within a few days. Within a week, Pripyat, once a prosperous planned city, was deserted. Almost. Dozens of tanks, helicopters, armored personnel carriers and heavy trucks brought in by the military to help with the liquidation of the effects of the explosion at the power plant were left on the site. There are still plenty of them.
However, the most famous place where you can find wrecks of vehicles is the garage of the previously mentioned state-owned enterprise “Chernobylservice”. This is the truest museum of abandoned heavy engineering vehicles in Pripyat. Trucks, tanks and machines are slowly rusting and falling apart in the parking lot of an old garage. Previously it was a car repair shop where locals brought their Ladas and Volga cars for repair. After the explosion at the power plant, the site was taken over by the “Chernobylservice” and was used to store the vehicles that were used to clean up the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
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We are not exaggerating when we call this place a museum. There you can find ZIL and MAZ-537 trucks and even the IMR-2 tank. The IMR was an armored engineering vehicle based on the chassis of the Soviet T-55 tank. It's a sight to behold.
Today, all these places look impressive - as if taken straight out of a post-apocalyptic picture. And we had the opportunity to see them with our own eyes.
[h3]That's it for today![/h3]
Take care, Stalkers!
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We invite you to subscribe to our YouTube channel, where we will regularly publish videos dedicated not only to Chernobylite, but everything related to it.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h3]Hello Stalkers![/h3]
Like we mentioned in the last report describing the history of the Mi-8 helicopter accident, there are still wrecks of various vehicles in the Zone. Helicopters account for only a percentage of those wrecks. We even managed to digitally capture some of them for Chernobylite, as you can see in the pictures below:
But believe us, what you see in the game is just the tip of the iceberg. Come with us! We will show you around the largest vehicle cemeteries in the Exclusion Zone.
Liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster, evacuation of the population, decontamination of the vicinity of the power plant and the 30-kilometer zone, construction of the Sarcophagus - these are just some of the tasks that required the involvement of over half a million people. A huge number of vehicles was also needed to conduct those operations. Today, many of them rest near Chernobyl and Pripyat, covered with rust, irradiated, unfit for use.
There are quite a few places where you can find large concentrations of abandoned vehicles in the Zone. One of the more famous is the vehicle graveyard “Buriakivka” in Chernobyl, some 4 kilometers from the power plant. This place was the main drop point for irradiated equipment immediately after the explosion.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
"Buriakivka" was put into operation in 1987. It owes its name to the village of Buriakivka, whose inhabitants were resettled to neighboring areas after the disaster at the nuclear power plant. The burial place of the vehicles was designated and developed by scientists from the Leningrad Institute. They used drawings of designs of above-ground radioactive waste repositories as blueprints for Buriakivka. The choice of location wasn’t random either. The village is located at a sufficient distance from water bodies and settlements and it meets all the strict requirements for the storage of radioactive waste. In addition, “Buriakivka” was located on one of the hills, more than 20 meters above the groundwater. In the event of a crack in the shell of the repository excavation, radioactive substances would penetrate into it very slowly - for many hundreds of years.
The vehicle cemetery measures 1,200 x 700 meters, is surrounded by a fence and has 30 ditches in which many radioactive materials and equipment that took part in the liquidation are buried. The walls and bottom of the excavations are covered with a meter-long layer of compacted clay, acting as the main barrier. After having been placed in the trench, the radioactive materials were compacted with a bulldozer. The trench was then filled with another meter-long layer of clay, sprinkled with earth and planted with perennial grasses, thus fulfilling a protective function. The size of each such pit is 150 x 50 meters.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Another storage place for the machines was located on the site of the former German airport, near the village of Rassokha. In this place, endless rows of various military equipment were stored, including military special equipment, tractors, fire engines, Mi-8 and Mi-6 buses and helicopters. According to some sources, there were over 1,600 vehicles of various types. Rassokha was originally intended to be a PVLRO (Point of Temporary Localization of Radioactive Waste). However, cleaning the machines would take a lot of time and resources, so the easiest solution was to leave them and simply wait for the radioactive decay to lower the radiation levels on their surfaces. After sufficient time has passed, the equipment was to be deactivated, restored and restored to its intended use.
Unfortunately, this is never going to happen. Since 2000, many of these vehicles have been cut up for scrap and brought to metallurgical plants in Ukraine. Some have been plundered. In 2006, the complete liquidation process of “Rassokha” began and lasted until the end of 2012. Equipment that could not be salvaged for various reasons was transferred to “Buriakivka”. On the site of the former "Rassokha" you can still find remains of vehicles cut into pieces.
We move around the country and get close to the city of Pripyat, where we come across the abandoned Yaniv railway station, also known simply as the Yanov station. The station was built in 1925 and lies in the village of Yanov (demolished after the Chernobyl disaster), south of the city of Pripyat, and is part of the Chernihiv - Ovruch railway line.
In 1986-1987, the railway line from Chernihiv to Yanov was reconstructed to serve Chernobyl personnel. The line from Yanov to Sławutycz was also electrified. In 2000, one of the tracks passing through Yanov was restored and modernized, and then used during the construction work of Shelter-2, a new sarcophagus for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
At the moment, the line is not used, it has even been partially dismantled. The entrance to the station building is now closed, but the area itself is not completely abandoned however. Currently, the station is owned by the state-owned enterprise "Chernobylservice". Also, some of the old wagons are used as houses for metalworkers. Currently, there is one main railway track, three shunting tracks and several maintenance tracks for the storage of old and rusty rolling stock.
The last point of our trip is the city of Pripyat itself. After the explosion at the power plant, the inhabitants had to leave their homes within a few days. Within a week, Pripyat, once a prosperous planned city, was deserted. Almost. Dozens of tanks, helicopters, armored personnel carriers and heavy trucks brought in by the military to help with the liquidation of the effects of the explosion at the power plant were left on the site. There are still plenty of them.
However, the most famous place where you can find wrecks of vehicles is the garage of the previously mentioned state-owned enterprise “Chernobylservice”. This is the truest museum of abandoned heavy engineering vehicles in Pripyat. Trucks, tanks and machines are slowly rusting and falling apart in the parking lot of an old garage. Previously it was a car repair shop where locals brought their Ladas and Volga cars for repair. After the explosion at the power plant, the site was taken over by the “Chernobylservice” and was used to store the vehicles that were used to clean up the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
fot. UrbEx.nl
We are not exaggerating when we call this place a museum. There you can find ZIL and MAZ-537 trucks and even the IMR-2 tank. The IMR was an armored engineering vehicle based on the chassis of the Soviet T-55 tank. It's a sight to behold.
Today, all these places look impressive - as if taken straight out of a post-apocalyptic picture. And we had the opportunity to see them with our own eyes.
[h3]That's it for today![/h3]
Take care, Stalkers!
[h3]Do you like Chernobylite? Give us a review.[/h3]
[h3]Follow our official channels to stay up to date:[/h3]
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