Prypiat recent comments:

Do they mean hostel in the sense of youth hostel, or is it just the Soviet term for hotel? I ask because it seems odd for a Soviet city that has no purpose but to service a nuclear power plant and a top-secret radio factory to have like 500 beds for travelers...

Moss and lichen naturally absorb and concentrate radiation. But, it's not mobile, so it won't get into your lungs. Don't walk on any you see in the zone or it'll contaminate your shoes and probably give you beta burns if you handle it.

Teremok is a Russian idiom that roughly means "cozy little house". It comes from an old and very short Russian children's fairy tale about forest animals that find a tiny house in the woods that is too small for all of them, and yet they manage to coexist there communally. For such a gigantic country, I will never understand why Russians value collectivism so much...even before the USSR.

The first looks like a schedule. So the kids are expected to get up at 6:30 every morning, and their schedule is in military 24 hour time. lol@USSR.

It looks like a floating building. Maybe the barge floated down the river from the riverside station?

interesting thing that ''pectopah'' means restaurant and this is a trade center xD

notice how it is the only kindergarden positioned in an incline position regarding the sorrounding buildings white the others are at a right angle

Бывший горком, а затем админ.здание "Комплекса". Ныне в удручающем состоянии, неизвестные вандалы регулярно пробуют демонтировать металлические буквы на козырке здания.

friendship of nations 1977-1986

With all due respect try reading a book instead of game. My relatives were in Pripyat when Chornobyl blew. It was horrific. The city was beautiful and clean. The people friendly and intelligent. A lot of people later died and lives ruined forever. There was virtually no panic and evacuation proceeded calmly. They were only allowed to take very few items - ones that weren't irradiated - they were told by Soviet officials that it was only temporary and they would return in a few days...It is shame that looters destroyed city. Saddest part is photos of schools. The dolls, books, lessons, etc...it is a total shame that events like this are no longer taught in American schools. Americans have very short memories on world events such as this. Europeans, Ukrainians and Russians have very long memories... By making a silly, violent video game out of this tragedy had cheapened the city and its people.

@true.. You Sir, are absolutely sick.. this was one of history's most catastrophic events and you are likening its severity to that of a fictional piece of media? You need to wake up! @idspence.. I understand what your saying, but just to make you aware.. I am a fan of the video game in question and I can assure you that the references it makes to Pripyat are both brief and quite respectful. A short history lesson if you will regarding the city and its events is actually given during the level that features Pripyat, and it's makers have done a fantastic job in hammering home the significance of the events that occured here. There are a number of younger players of said game that, without it's references to Pripyat, would otherwise remain oblivious to the events. I am only 23 years old myself, fortunately my father taught me alot of history and Chernobyl was a subject that I had a great deal of awareness of long before I picked up the Xbox controller. However, events like this are simply no longer discussed in schools and amoung the younger generation.. it is becoming increasingly popular for games like this to educate through entertainment, as this method seems to be the only effective solution for ignorant youngsters!

This might be 12a Sportivnaya Street.

Address is more likely to be 9, but I didn't change original entry of 19.

After the evacuation of the people, the pets were left behind. With nobody to feed them, they started to attack and eat each other, and to roam away from Pripyat in search of food. Hunters were called in to kill all of them to prevent them from roaming and spreading the radiation to other parts of the country.

Make that 50 000. Please check your sources, as for my source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat_%28city%29

I was in there, well it looks terrible. Birches grow on the roof and some ferns occupied the rooms...

some documentary said that most of the collected radioactive core was buried here. is that true?

If the landing stage was on the riverside station, how it is there?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

In the upper floor there are rare things in the blacony,they are showed in the video the evacuation of pripyat. And they are still there.