Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 1-day tour

We meet 07:30 - passport check 07:30 – 09:30 - drive to the main check entrance to the Chernobyl Zone (make a 15 minutes stop on the gas station(toilet, coffee, sandwich) 09:30 – 10:00 - police \ passport control 10:00 - 11.30 - drive around and make some stops on the territory of Chernobyl power plant (we will see Reactors number 1,2,3 and 4, new Sarcophagus, new radioactive fuel storage facility, reactor 5 and cooling tower) 11.30 - 13.15 - Pripyat city (walk around the abandoned city. Amusement park (famous Ferris Wheel), hospital, river port, central square, swimming pool, cinema theater etc. 13.30 - 14.00 - Lunch in the canteen near the power plant. 14.00 - 15.00 - Military base with the famous RADAR STATION under the name DUGA (ballistic missiles detection system). The biggest Cold War monument left on the territory of Ukraine after Soviet Union time. 15.00-16.00 - Chernobyl town (make a stop on the central square to see the 3rd Angel Memorial. The biggest memorial on the territory of Chernobyl Zone dedicated to disaster.) 16.00- 16.20 Pass the radiation control and coming back to Kiev. 18.00 - 19.00 Arrive to Kiev.

We stop on the main city square in Pripyat, before taking a roughly 2-hour walk through the empty streets of this ‘ghost city.’ Along the way we’ll see the partially collapsed School No. 1, the highly radioactive hospital, the river port and the famous Pripyat Café; the Prometheus Cinema, the football stadium and the unused Ferris wheel, the swimming pool, and Hotel Polissya: which served as a base for the Soviet nuclear physicists sent in to examine the Zone after the accident.

Today Chernobyl Town is the administrative center of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – featuring admin buildings, a police station, fire station, several hotels and restaurants, plus grocery stores. We’ll stop to visit the Third Angel monument, a memorial complex incorporating a map of the Exclusion Zone along with nameplates of all the abandoned villages from the region.

The military base known as Chernobyl-2 was a top-secret facility built around the massive Duga-1 Radar Antenna: a transmitter measuring 150 meters high, and 1 km in length. Designed to detect incoming ballistic missiles, the object was nicknamed the ‘Russian Woodpecker’ due to the tapping noise it transmitted across radio frequencies. Today it remains as one of the most impressive Cold War artifacts anywhere in Ukraine.