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.
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…
The vehicles are abandoned around 10-20km from the reactor. They are there.
Where is the vehicle graveyard? I can’t find it, 10-20km is outside the high-res area I think…
Coordinates anyone?
Know’s anyone the coordinates of the vehicle graveyard?
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.
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.
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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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
How much is it for 2 people and can we still visit the vehicle graveyard ?
I will be in Ukraine from 9/22-9/30 any of these dates would be good for me.
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.
Another very interesting series of photos from 2011, that also gives information about the place
http://smithjan.com/blog/2011/02/02/chernobyl-25-years-revisited-wanderings-in-pripyat/
I still taste metal in my mouth after all this amount of time. No cancer, but all fellow comrades die of multiple cancers and tumors.
I invite you to see my picture essay of Pripyat taken this year. (somebody posted an older link to my work below) Over 100 images are accompanied with excerpts from former residents. There is also a PDF to download if you wish. It is important the story of Pripyat before Chernobyl be known. Thank you. http://smithjan.com/blog/2011/04/27/pripyat-atoms-wake/
I spent a lot of time browsing the maps around Chernobyl and Pripyat, finding points of interest. I added a map for each on my blog if you want to check it out: http://blog.thecheaproute.com/exploring-chernobyl-with-google-maps/
