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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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2018 - 2023Supporting self-settlers and villages around the ZoneValentyna Borysivna never traveled in her life. But she says she has seen the whole world: it came to her in Chornobyl.Read more →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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May 1, 2014Helping the last resident of ZalissiaThousands of people once lived in Zalissia. Now there was one teacher with roses in her garden, who hitchhiked and could fight off a pack of raccoon dogs.Read more →
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April 2014Charity Maidan tours for foreignersIn the spring of 2014 the world watched the Maidan through a TV screen, and russian propaganda was the loudest voice. We offered foreigners a chance to walk the Maidan with those who had stood there.Read more →
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2014 - 2015Helping the Ukrainian army in 2014-2015When the war in the east began, a tourism team started setting aside part of its earnings for the army. Later the tourists themselves took equipment to the front line.Read more →
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March - October 2013Regular trips to the self-settlers in 2013In 2013 trips to the self-settlers became a habit. We already knew who had asked for what last time and who would be waiting for us at the gate.Read more →
