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March 2022A BRDM-2 armored vehicle for the defense of KyivThe museum vehicle in which tourists felt like radiation reconnaissance soldiers would not start. As the sirens wailed, a stranger called Karym brought it to life - with gasoline from his own moped.Read more →
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February - March 2022Helping the defense of Kyiv, evacuating families from Chernihiv, a run to SlavutychSleepless, running on adrenaline, we raced through empty Kyiv to a military unit. And suddenly the feeling was familiar: this is what an ordinary day in high season looked like.Read more →
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February - April 2022Trenches in the Red Forest: an information and psychological operationrussian soldiers were digging trenches in one of the most contaminated places in the Zone. We told media around the world about it. The danger was deliberately exaggerated - and the rumors reached the invaders themselves.Read more →
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February - March 2022Passing on data about russian vehicles from occupied villagesThe russian invaders told people that Kyiv had already fallen. Every day those people walked to the only hill where a Ukrainian signal reached and told us where the enemy stood.Read more →
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February 24-25, 2022The camera at the Dytiatky checkpoint that recorded the start of the invasionUkrainian vehicles stood at the checkpoint for a while and left. It seemed the danger had passed. Two hours later the russian columns came. We counted them through a small camera on our kiosk.Read more →
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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 →
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August 27, 2021, Chornobyl HUB, 11 Andriivskyi DescentFree COVID-19 vaccination for tourism workersGuides work with people from different countries every day, so their risk of infection is among the highest. We turned Chornobyl HUB into a vaccination point for the whole tourism industry.Read more →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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September 22, 2020Dosimeters and maps for exercises of the 135th Territorial Defense Battalionrussian troops were holding exercises in Belarus, and the border along the Zone was being reinforced. Reconnaissance soldiers needed our dosimeters. A year and a half later, the columns came from exactly there.Read more →
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2020Chornobyl Food and help for the dogs of PrypiatTarzan the dog met every group at the Chornobyl-2 checkpoint, and tourists treated him to sandwiches. For the animals of the Zone such treats can be deadly. We found a way out.Read more →
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April 2020Helping firefighters and victims of the 2020 fires in the ZoneThe fires reached Prypiat. Firefighters fought them in the same old ZIL trucks seen in every photo from 1986, and without maps of the area. "We're like blind people here," they said.Read more →
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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 →
