April 23-24, 2015
Advising Kryvyi Rih on industrial tourism

By 2015 we already knew how to turn a difficult and dangerous territory into a place people travel to from all over the world. Kryvyi Rih - a city of quarries, mines and steel mills - was only beginning to think about industrial tourism.
We were invited to the Industrial Tourism forum to share our experience: what to do first, what to avoid and which steps to take next.
But you cannot talk about industrial tourism without seeing it. They took us where tourists were later supposed to go: to the edge of a quarry, where a person looks like a grain of sand, and underground, into the Lenin mine - one of the deepest in the Kryvbas. We studied maps of future routes with local specialists, and underground, out of habit, we measured the radiation levels.
Photos

Guests in helmets in a mine tunnel in Kryvyi Rih 
A trip participant gives a TV interview against the background of Kryvyi Rih quarries 
Guests in helmets next to mining machinery underground in the mine 
Guests study mine maps with local specialists in Kryvyi Rih 
Two participants in miners' gear underground in the Lenin mine 
A man in a hat looks through binoculars at a huge quarry 
A speaker shows a map of the Chornobyl Zone at a meeting in Kryvyi Rih 
A depth marker of 1,350 meters on the wall of the mine 
A dosimeter shows the background radiation underground in the mine