Visit Chernobyl, the site of the largest nuclear energy disaster in history
Staff Writer |
Armed with dosimeters, traipse through abandoned towns, schools and an amusement park and check out the Chernobyl Zone, the site of 1986 explosion that sent a radioactive cloud over Europe.
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You can book a trip to the Chernobyl Zone for yourself and your fiends on the most convenient date and with the route which will include the objects and places you are most interested in.
In the trip you will be accompanied by a professional guide, a worker of the Zone and an interpreter (if necessary).
The deadline for booking the trip is 7 days before the trip date.
In the Chernobyl zone you can learn about the warning systems (Duga "Duga-1" - "Chernobyl-2"), then there you’ll have a chance to see what, in fact, these systems were warning about – nuclear missiles.
Feature of the Strategic Missile Forces museum is that it is not a typical boring museum with rooms filled with the dusty exhibits.
It’s made on the basis of the disbanded the 309th Regiment the 46th Division the 43rd Missile Army Strategic Missile Forces of the USSR. The call sign of the Regiment was "Taimenâ€.
This is a real military base, which has become a museum. There you can see with your own eyes the most powerful missile R-36M2 "Governor", nicknamed "Satan" which scared to death the USA and the whole world.
Retired soldiers will tell about the history of their missile army and of the mighty Soviet nuclear arms.
You will pass through the territory of a fighting position, visit nearby silo launcher, where the missiles of the 46th missile Division stood on duty, including famous missiles R-12, that the USSR has placed in Cuba, and they played a certain role in the Caribbean crisis.
You’ll feel like a missile warrior descended into the forty-meter silo of the command post. You’ll have an opportunity to sit at the control panel and by pressing a combination of keys you may perform the "start" of nuclear missiles.
After launching the missile you’ll hear the heartbreaking sirens because some of the electronic equipment at the fighting position still works.
There will also be an opportunity to see the life of the Strategic Missile Forces soldiers who went on duty, they were in complete isolation in the depths of nuclear silos for several days .
You may also take Air tour by plane or helicopter to see legendary places from the bird's-eye view.
You will be able to fly up to the giant antennas DUGA-1 and town CHORNOBYL-2 flying over a ghost town Pripyat, see ChNPP from the new angles, which were not available to the guests of the Exclusion Zone, who use vehicles.
Video and photography is permitted during the flight. Air Tours have no age limit and allows people under 18 years see the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone!
And a souvenir kiosk at the main entrance to the exclusion zone sells T-shirts and fridge magnets with the black-and-yellow radiation warning symbol as well as Soviet-era gas masks.
The radiation level in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is on average slightly higher than the natural background radiation, however the dose of radiation received in 2 days spend in Pripyat won’t exceed 6 microsieverts – which equals to 6 hours of intercontinental flight.
During two days in the Chernobyl zone, the human body receives a radiation dose which is less than 500 whole body X-ray screenings in a hospital.
The 89-1070$ price for 2 to 7-day trips includes:
- all formal permissions
- comfortable auto transportation Kiev-Zone-Kiev (air conditioning, viewing a selection of documentary films on the route)
- professional English-speaking guide (or guide plus interpreter) of "CHORNOBYL TOUR"
- accommodation in Chornobyl hotel (for multy-day trips)
- maximally permitted time of stay in the Zone (leaving Kiev at 8.00 a.m., arriving back at 7.30 - 8.30 p.m.)
- extended program of the visit, teaching skills of radiation survival
- compulsory insurance
- route map and personal certificate about visit to the Chornobyl zone. ■