Chernobyl and Pripyat Satellite Photos

Chernobyl NPP

Today, on the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, Google has added high-resolution satellite photos of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the abandoned town of Pripyat.

Above is the plant; the damaged reactor is on the left. In Pripyat, the ghostly ferris wheel was easy to find, but where’s the vehicle graveyard? Update: here it is. Hat tip to “di” and “pero69″ for their comments.

13 Comments

  1. Comment by Luistxo - Tagzania on April 27, 2006 1:59 am

    A user at Tagzania also bookmarked those sites over the satellite map:
    http://www.tagzania.com/user/arc/chernobyl

    I went around to see if the tank & copter graveyard was there, but didn’t find it…

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  3. Comment by Georgi on April 28, 2006 9:40 pm

    The vehicles are abandoned around 10-20km from the reactor. They are there.

  4. Comment by Cameron on July 31, 2006 10:31 pm

    Where is the vehicle graveyard? I can’t find it, 10-20km is outside the high-res area I think…
    Coordinates anyone?

  5. Comment by Roland on September 16, 2006 11:16 am

    Know’s anyone the coordinates of the vehicle graveyard?

  6. Comment by Rune on January 7, 2007 2:07 pm

    I have visited the place two times, and have tried to it. It´s outside the high-res area. The location is called ROSSOKHA. The coordinates for Rossokha is: N 510956,36 E 295836,09. But there is nothing to see.

  7. Comment by Rune on January 7, 2007 2:17 pm

    I have visited the place two times, and have tried to locate it. It´s outside the high-res area. The location is called ROSSOKHA. The coordinates for Rossokha is: N 510956,36 E 295836,09. But there is nothing to see on the satelite photos.

  8. Comment by di on January 23, 2007 7:25 pm

    This is the vehicle graveyard, former Rossoha village 25 km from Chernobyl
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=51.408603N,+30.055547E&om=0&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=51.149417,29.967957&spn=0.026113,0.10849&t=k
    city of Chernobyl:
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=51.408603N,+30.055547E&om=0&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=51.273139,30.21575&spn=0.027761,0.10849&t=k
    abandoned soviet radar station:
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=51.408603N,+30.055547E&om=0&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=51.305587,30.066898&spn=0.006935,0.027122&t=h&iwloc=addr
    here are some other photos:
    http://pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/

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  9. Comment by pero69 on January 27, 2008 10:52 pm

    vehicle graveyard - http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=ROSSOKHA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.915634,94.746094&ie=UTF8&ll=51.153923,29.983508&spn=0.001787,0.005783&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr&om=0

  10. Comment by Dillon d'Auteuil on February 7, 2008 9:55 pm

    I guess from your comments most of you have been to the area, I am a high school student in the US and i am making a detailed report on the disaster and the history of the power plant and the citys that were effected by the accident. If anyone can help me out with information that might be hard to find or some photos not taken by professionals of the areas that are important, please send anything to my email dill_d@verizon.net thanks

  11. Comment by Joe on August 2, 2008 10:17 am

    How much is it for 2 people and can we still visit the vehicle graveyard ?

  12. Comment by Joe on August 2, 2008 10:18 am

    I will be in Ukraine from 9/22-9/30 any of these dates would be good for me.

  13. Comment by Russell Leeke on October 4, 2008 6:21 pm

    I just came back from 2 days in the zone myself and I am able to tell you that it is no longer possible to visit the site of the contaminated vehicles or the nerby OTH radar installation.

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