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10 events

Chornobyl University, academic tours, training for guides

April 23-24, 2015Advising Kryvyi Rih on industrial tourismWe already knew how to turn a dangerous territory into a place people travel to from all over the world. In Kryvyi Rih they showed us a quarry and took us down one of the deepest mines in the Kryvbas.Read more
July 11, 2016First aid course for guidesIn the Zone the hospital is far away. If someone feels unwell in Prypiat, for the first minutes only the guide will be there. So our guides learned to save lives.Read more
since summer 2018Academic tours for European universitiesAmerican historians flew to Kyiv to study the Cold War. Dutch ecologists came to study the recovery of nature. Nuclear engineers came to see the plant. All of them were struck by one thing: the scale.Read more
summer 2019 - 2021Training guides for the Chornobyl ZoneIn five years the number of visitors to the Zone grew fifteen times. There was a desperate shortage of guides. We started training them.Read more
presentation - March 10, 2020; research - since 2009Founding Chornobyl UniversityFor years we led people through the Zone and every time knew a little more about it. One day there was so much knowledge that it needed a home of its own.Read more
April 22, 2021Tours of the Chornobyl Zone for residents of the surrounding regionPeople living next to Chornobyl fear it the most. The best cure for that fear is to pick up a dosimeter and go into the Zone yourself.Read more
October 28-29, 2021Presentations at an international expert meeting in GironaFor Europeans, Chornobyl was about dark tourism. After our talks they saw how tourism revives an entire region. "To them we're crazy people," Yaroslav wrote.Read more
opened July 9, 2022, 11 Andriivskyi DescentResistance 2022, an exhibition of destroyed russian military equipmentA Tula samovar from 1895, found in a dugout in Hostomel, had been lit with pages of books about socialism. It is one of the exhibits where schoolchildren linger longest.Read more
April 24, 2026, Kyiv, NaUKMAThe Chornobyl - 40 conference at the Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyFor the 40th anniversary of the accident we decided to talk less about 1986 and more about what to take from it today. The result was a genuine expert debate.Read more
April 28, 2026, Bern (online participation)An event of the Embassy of Ukraine in Switzerland for the 40th anniversarySwiss politicians, scientists and experts gathered in Bern to talk about Chornobyl and the war. Yaroslav joined the conversation from Kyiv.Read more

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