Pripyat Abandoned City

I grow up in in Pripyat, I met my first love in Pripyat.

When I appeared in the town there was just one house. The town was growing as I was becoming elder. Pripyat town was very famous in USSR . It was inhabited by Chernobyl Nuclear Plant builders.

I was growing with my town:

In 1986 the Town became notorious throughout the world. On April 26^th of 1986 01:23 a.m. the Chernobyl disaster happened. That night my town died.

I returned to my town 20 years later.

I do not know words that could express what I felt.

Here are some photos, courtesy of the site http://pripyat.com/ and my comments for photos.

I promise to write more memories about my native town.

This is the main square of the Town where the social life of 40.000 inhabitants passed.

These are communist party leaders portraits. On important state holidays all soviet people came out to parade through the town with portraits. Does it seem odd to you? Do not forget, I was born in USSR .

This is the front entrance of my school. I studied there10 years. I met there my first friends and my first love. Now all friends live in different parts of this world… it is impossible to find some of them.

These teddies are dancing in this abandoned flat more than 20 years. 20 years ago a child made this sculpture. That child should go to school on Monday. But on Sunday night he was evacuated. Now he lives somewhere in one of the former USSR towns and probably spends in hospitals much time. The radiation does not go by without traces, 20 years later it still reminds about the April 1986.

This 16 storey house was the highest in the town, ironically we named it “Skyscraper” (at that time we saw skyscrapers only in Geography schoolbook on New York photos). There was the illuminated slogan on that house “Atom be the worker not a soldier”. Unfortunately the slogan didn’t came true.

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I’ll try to collect my memories and thoughts and to write stories about Pripyat before and after accident. I’ll tell about the town of Soviet Union times and about contemporary Pripyat.

And to make my stories not too sad, I’ll tell about Ukraine , Kiev , about my travels, about Ukrainian Orthodox monasteries.

I’m awfully sorry for my English which is not my native language.

And I thank the site Pripyat creators for represented photos

Source: http://limerex.com