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My first trip to Ukraine was all the way back in 2011. I say ‘all the way’ back because, unless you have been ignoring ...
11/11/2021

My first trip to Ukraine was all the way back in 2011. I say ‘all the way’ back because, unless you have been ignoring all major world news in recent years, you surely have heard about the revolution that took place in Ukraine and is still unraveling today.

Cafe "Pripyat" at the river port of the city. Here you can see traces of not just looting, but also real vandalism - in...
26/10/2021

Cafe "Pripyat" at the river port of the city. Here you can see traces of not just looting, but also real vandalism - inverted bar counters, broken remains of stoves in the kitchen. Someone was just smashing things in the cafe.
To prevent theft, part of household appliances in Pripyat was taken to the huge premises of the central store called Rainbow. The store was under alarm until around the end of the nineties. Now all the things in the store are no longer needed by anyone and the looters are not interested - time has done its job.

Household goods store. Perhaps, from all the shops of Pripyat it is in the worst condition - literally nothing remained...
26/10/2021

Household goods store. Perhaps, from all the shops of Pripyat it is in the worst condition - literally nothing remained inside. There is a green frame from a road bike lying around, a couple of racks left, the remains of shop windows - and that’s all. In this state, the store is already very, very long time. I think it was robbed one of the first, because they knew that there could be valuable things.

Ticket offices of the cinema "Prometheus". Apparently, they were also plundered back in the eighties. Behind the bars ...
26/10/2021

Ticket offices of the cinema "Prometheus". Apparently, they were also plundered back in the eighties. Behind the bars are two long-opened metal safes. In general, cash desks and banks robbed in the first place – looters searched for savings books, checks, bonds and money.

Pripyat, the building of the savings bank. It was one of the first to be looted from top to bottom in search of money a...
26/10/2021

Pripyat, the building of the savings bank. It was one of the first to be looted from top to bottom in search of money and bonds - it can be assumed that this happened in the second half of the eighties. It is worth paying attention to the lack of glazing of some buildings - these are already traces of the activities of the “second wave” marauders who stole huge aluminum window frames in almost all the central buildings of the city, including the savings bank, Energetik, a restaurant and many others.

The "second wave" came mainly to the city in search of metal- their prey was cast iron, steel, copper and aluminum from ...
26/10/2021

The "second wave" came mainly to the city in search of metal- their prey was cast iron, steel, copper and aluminum from various buildings and structures. One of the major thefts of those years was covered in detail on the Internet - a whole truck came to Pripyat to take out sawn pig-iron batteries from apartments.
So, today we will walk through the buildings and structures of the Chernobyl Zone and talk about the traces of the activities of looters.

The second wave began around the middle of the nineties and was actively developing in the two thousandths - after Pripy...
26/10/2021

The second wave began around the middle of the nineties and was actively developing in the two thousandths - after Pripyat was finally abandoned and many research projects that were based on the city’s infrastructure were closed. Those few household items that were in Pripyat at that time were already obsolete and did not represent any value.

The plunder of the Zone can be divided into two waves - the first wave was in the late eighties, when looters dragged ho...
26/10/2021

The plunder of the Zone can be divided into two waves - the first wave was in the late eighties, when looters dragged household appliances, furniture, carpets, and everything else from Pripyat more or less valuable. I must say that at that time the marauders did not act too actively, since measures were taken in Pripyat to protect buildings and prevent things from being taken away, many of which posed a direct radiation hazard. All valuable things more or less were taken to the Rainbow store (for further use for the needs of the Zone), and some of the things were taken to burial grounds. The city's entrances were under the alarm system, the wires of which were connected to the central checkpoint of the city, and the streets were occasionally patrolled by armed guards driving BRDM vehicles.

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