Weekly Report #154
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While traveling through the Exclusion Zone in Chernobylite, you can come across the wrecks of various vehicles, from cars, trucks, to trains. Someday we will write more about transport in the area around Chernobyl, because this topic is itself fascinating. But for now, we want to focus your attention on something else. If you go to the north-western edge of the Red Forest or Pripyat Central maps, you will come across a helicopter wrecks. Some might say that we've gone a bit overboard with this "differentiation" of the map, and also, that this beautiful picture is still missing a wreck of, let’s say, a Mechagodzilla. However, believe us, the presence of these helicopters in the Zone is justified.
As is well known, the explosion at the Chernobyl power plant caused a massive fire in the reactor core, which in turn led to the release and dissemination of radioactive substances in the air. In response, the Soviet military called in an armada of Mil Mi-8 helicopters to drop radiation-absorbing materials onto the burning heap. Several hundred pilots were called in to make short flights over the power plant. It was a huge risk, because they often had to fly into the clouds of radioactive smoke coming from the inside of the power plant. At the end of the initial phase of extinguishing the fire, it turned out that the pilots received doses of radiation that were completely beyond the scale of their dosimeters and potentially lethal.
At the same time, the Ukrainian director and documentary filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko appears at the power plant site. He was granted permission by the authorities to enter the charred remains of the Chernobyl power plant in order to film attempts to seal the building's open wound caused by the reactor meltdown. He used this footage to create the documentary Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks. While reviewing the recordings, Shevchenko noticed flashes and spots on them. At first he thought it was a mere technical defect in the film material, but later it turned out that the radiation was degrading the roll of film. Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks was named "the most dangerous reel of film ever", and the camera used for filming had to be locked in a lead-lined casket and stored in one of the locked facilities near Kiev.
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It was the Shevchenko camera that captured the most shocking accident that occurred during the firefighting. During the flight to pour the extinguishing substance on Block 4, the helicopter controlled by Vladimir Vorobyov caught the propellers on the cable of the high-rise crane and fell to the ground. All crew members died on the spot.
This moment was very faithfully recreated in the HBO series Chernobyl.
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In 2017, during the disassembly of the lightweight ceiling of the engine room of unit 4 of the power plant, a fragment of the tail with broken elements of the Mi-8 helicopter's steering propeller was found. A memorial to the fallen pilots has been erected near the Chernobyl helipad. The possibility of recovering and decontaminating a fragment of the caudal fin in order to use it as a museum specimen is being considered.
Vladimir Shevchenko died in March 1987 from radiation he received while filming in Chernobyl.
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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]
While traveling through the Exclusion Zone in Chernobylite, you can come across the wrecks of various vehicles, from cars, trucks, to trains. Someday we will write more about transport in the area around Chernobyl, because this topic is itself fascinating. But for now, we want to focus your attention on something else. If you go to the north-western edge of the Red Forest or Pripyat Central maps, you will come across a helicopter wrecks. Some might say that we've gone a bit overboard with this "differentiation" of the map, and also, that this beautiful picture is still missing a wreck of, let’s say, a Mechagodzilla. However, believe us, the presence of these helicopters in the Zone is justified.
As is well known, the explosion at the Chernobyl power plant caused a massive fire in the reactor core, which in turn led to the release and dissemination of radioactive substances in the air. In response, the Soviet military called in an armada of Mil Mi-8 helicopters to drop radiation-absorbing materials onto the burning heap. Several hundred pilots were called in to make short flights over the power plant. It was a huge risk, because they often had to fly into the clouds of radioactive smoke coming from the inside of the power plant. At the end of the initial phase of extinguishing the fire, it turned out that the pilots received doses of radiation that were completely beyond the scale of their dosimeters and potentially lethal.
At the same time, the Ukrainian director and documentary filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko appears at the power plant site. He was granted permission by the authorities to enter the charred remains of the Chernobyl power plant in order to film attempts to seal the building's open wound caused by the reactor meltdown. He used this footage to create the documentary Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks. While reviewing the recordings, Shevchenko noticed flashes and spots on them. At first he thought it was a mere technical defect in the film material, but later it turned out that the radiation was degrading the roll of film. Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks was named "the most dangerous reel of film ever", and the camera used for filming had to be locked in a lead-lined casket and stored in one of the locked facilities near Kiev.
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It was the Shevchenko camera that captured the most shocking accident that occurred during the firefighting. During the flight to pour the extinguishing substance on Block 4, the helicopter controlled by Vladimir Vorobyov caught the propellers on the cable of the high-rise crane and fell to the ground. All crew members died on the spot.
This moment was very faithfully recreated in the HBO series Chernobyl.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
In 2017, during the disassembly of the lightweight ceiling of the engine room of unit 4 of the power plant, a fragment of the tail with broken elements of the Mi-8 helicopter's steering propeller was found. A memorial to the fallen pilots has been erected near the Chernobyl helipad. The possibility of recovering and decontaminating a fragment of the caudal fin in order to use it as a museum specimen is being considered.
Vladimir Shevchenko died in March 1987 from radiation he received while filming in Chernobyl.
[h3]That's it for today![/h3]
Take care, Stalkers!
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