Postcards from Pripyat

Kinja'd!!! "You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
03/18/2015 at 09:42 • Filed to: chernobyl, pripyat

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For the attention of the residents of Pripyat! The City Council informs you that due to the accident at Chernobyl Power Station in the city of Pripyat the radioactive conditions in the vicinity are deteriorating. The Communist Party, its officials and the armed forces are taking necessary steps to combat this. Nevertheless, with the view to keep people as safe and healthy as possible, the children being top priority, we need to temporarily evacuate the citizens in the nearest towns of Kiev Oblast. For these reasons, starting from April 27, 1986 2 pm each apartment block will be able to have a bus at its disposal, supervised by the police and the city officials. It is highly advisable to take your documents, some vital personal belongings and a certain amount of food, just in case, with you. The senior executives of public and industrial facilities of the city has decided on the list of employees needed to stay in Pripyat to maintain these facilities in a good working order. All the houses will be guarded by the police during the evacuation period. Comrades, leaving your residences temporarily please make sure you have turned off the lights, electrical equipment and water and shut the windows. Please keep calm and orderly in the process of this short-term evacuation.

—Evacuation announcement in Pripyat, 27 April 1986 (14:00)

The town of Pripyat was abandoned with the evacuation beginning on the afternoon of April 27, 1986. This was around 36 hours after !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and exploded exposing the Chernobyl Power Plant and the town of Pripyat to extremely high levels of radiation. Here is a short video shot in 2014.

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DISCUSSION (5)


Kinja'd!!! spanfucker retire bitch > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
03/18/2015 at 09:52

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GET OUT OF HERE STALKER


Kinja'd!!! Anima > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
03/18/2015 at 09:59

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Pripyat has been very high on my "places I need to visit' for years now.


Kinja'd!!! NoneOfYourBiz > Anima
03/18/2015 at 13:06

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Ditto.

I was living in western Europe during the meltdown and remember the discussion in my classroom about "prevailing winds" and how it could affect us.

Seeing photos and videos from inside the exclusion zone still gives me chills.


Kinja'd!!! You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > spanfucker retire bitch
03/19/2015 at 11:10

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IAMCONFUSEDWHYAMIASTALKER?

LOUD NOISES!!!!!


Kinja'd!!! spanfucker retire bitch > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
03/19/2015 at 11:24

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