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19 events

The UNESCO initiative, protection of the Zone's landmarks, the memory of the liquidators

October 30, 2009Marking the site of the 25th liquidator brigade camp23 years later, Sergii Mirnyi returned to the forest where his brigade's camp stood in 1986. And he recognized every path.Read more
since 2012; field seminar - May 20, 2016Saving the liquidators' machinery from destruction and a field seminar in the ZoneThe vehicles that stopped the accident stood in the Zone's vehicle dumps for decades. Then they started being cut up for scrap. We drew up a list of what had to be saved and handed it to the head of the Zone.Read more
September 16, 2012The first trash bins in Prypiat since the Chornobyl accidentPrypiat had become an open-air museum, but there was nowhere to throw away trash. Former residents put up the first bins in their home town in 26 years.Read more
2013 - 2021Saving the Duga radar from being cut for scrapThe giant Duga antenna was about to be quietly cut up for scrap. We brought tourists to it. Hundreds of people with cameras every day turned out to be the best guards.Read more
since 2015Free trips to the Zone for liquidators and veteransOne liquidator stood by the bus and refused to go: "I've been there. What would I do there?" After the tour he came up separately to say thank you.Read more
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
2017 - 2019The initiative to put the Chornobyl Zone on the UNESCO World Heritage ListChornobyl on the same list as Hiroshima and the hall where the US Declaration of Independence was signed? We were told it was impossible. We got to work.Read more
June 19, 2019, Chornobyl HUB, KyivMeeting the people of the accident after the HBO series ChernobylFor years Oleksii Ananenko was reported to have died after going down under the reactor. That evening he sat in the audience watching an actor play him.Read more
December 25, 2019The first New Year tree in Prypiat since 1986Instead of ornaments - old clocks and photos from family albums. Instead of garlands - the records people danced to here before the accident. Prypiat celebrated the New Year for the first time in 33 years.Read more
2020 - 2021The initiative to create a museum of liquidators' machinery in PrypiatWe wanted to bring the surviving liquidators' vehicles to a place where they would be guarded. Half a year after the exhibition opened, someone painted the self-propelled gun pink.Read more
January 16, 2020, Ministry of Culture, KyivThe first interagency decision to nominate the Chornobyl Zone for UNESCOSearch the UNESCO website for "radiation" and you find only one site - Bikini Atoll. In the photo, a concrete bunker, "a cellar of sorts." Sergii Mirnyi opened his talk with this example, and afterwards everyone voted yes.Read more
March 5, 2020 - 2021The work of the state group on nominating the Chornobyl Zone for UNESCO"Today we resolved the most important, most difficult political questions. Now it is up to the specialists." The idea we once took around the Zone in two busloads of experts became state policy.Read more
September 24, 2020A promotional press tour on developing tourist sites in the Chornobyl ZoneMore than ten media outlets, TV cameras and the gates of a former vehicle depot in Prypiat. Here we told the story of a museum the Zone never got.Read more
since November 11, 2020Helping Oleksandr Hlukhov, keeper of the Murashko Estate in KyivHe saved an entire block of landmarks in central Kyiv from demolition. Then, in the middle of a pandemic and the cold season, his gas and water were cut off. Since then Yaroslav has been bringing him gas.Read more
November 14, 2020, Potashnia village, Kyiv regionPlanting Ukraine's first journalists' square"A journalist must be able to do more than write. Today journalists were digging." Five linden trees that will outlive us all.Read more
April 2021Props for the roof of the Polissia Hotel in PrypiatIn 1986 helicopters over the reactor were directed from the roof of the Polissia. Now a piece of that roof rests on a single brick.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
May 24, 2026, KyivRussian Strike on the Chornobyl Museum and ShopOn May 24, 2026, the year marking the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, russian missiles struck the National Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv's Podil district. The museum had opened a new exhibition exactly one month earlier.Read more

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