Today we are going to visit a seriously radiation-dangerous place – “Buryakovka”.
When you go along this road you have a gloomy feeling as if you are coming to the gates of a concentration camp…
Trefoil at the gates …
Probably this how people of our ordinary world imagine a prison camp.
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Not exactly Chekov or Akhmatova, but nice try.
Looks like pure poetry, good pictures, nice writing.
Greetings from Mexico!
Interesting. I’m surprised somebody even let ‘em in to take those photo’s. And I wonder how the military machines got irradiated.
They are Chernobyl acciddent warriors..
“and only the wind will remain…” humanity’s fate is the same as “our products”- the scapheap of history; it’s called evolution. Science drives the universe, we are passengers.
@George Johnson;
The military vehicles were used for the clean-up operations of Chernobyl.
The sign in one of the very first images uses the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet. Ergo the dump site is in the Ukraine. What large catastrophe took place in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1986? Chernobyl.
what a touching story..
Mayak? Ozyorsk? Karachay? in Chelyabinsk… what´s about them?
The “Buryakovka” is a nuclear waste tomb in Chernobyl zone, in operation since 1986. It’s located ~10 km far from ChNPP and the City of Pripyat and 15 km from Chernobyl… those machines were in use to clean MOST hazardous places around the demolished 4th reactor.
Upd.: and most contaminated are already buried under these hills.
That place is hell playground… anyway, every time I see that machines I think about people who operated them and about their heroism…
Very emotive report… thanks a lot.
Heroism? Did they have a choice? They were simply sacrificed in the true USSR way, sent there by order without proper equipment.
Man, I know what I say.
Some of that people well familiar to me, and they told lots of things we do not know. Some had, some not, ‘coz they were taken from the regular army.
Anyway, the heroism never depends on military order. It depends only on the human soul. I was in ChNPP and Pripyat and saw myself the amount of hell-job done to allow anybody to, at least, stay on that location, and trust me, to do that they need something more than orders from their generals…
Dont forget them…//yfrog.com/7ep1010985bg0j.
omg that is the coolest thing i have ever heard. you are awesome for having been through that…i salute ur bravery
my uncle were in Pripat…he was VOLUNTEER…
By the way he died in his 40 because of canser
The ADR transport warning signs on the vehicles read class 7-0 UN 2913 which is “Radioactive material, surface contaminated object or Radioactive material, SCO”.
Damn those vehicles are awesome!
how many such nuclear waste sites are in russia?
kate w.
you speak truth.only military orders were not enough.those pilots knew they were going to die on mission and they did it.true heros
This place is creepy all right. BUT if we ever get to see pics from Mayak… Man, Mayak is THE most contaminated place on the globe, period. We’ll probably not see any pics of Mayak any time soon, but I sure wish I could see some. Check out what happened in Mayak in 1950s and 1960s. Hell on earth.
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Google “Robert Knoth”.
Some very surreal pictures. Its sad that so many machines are now completely useless since being irradiated. Thanks for the upload…
If you’re worried about radioactivity, wait for genetically modified organisms – those don’t just fallout, they reproduce, and it’s only a matter of time before things go out of hand or accidentally wrong or someone takes advantage of them for the worst.
It’s not only Chernobyl waste there. It’s also waste of secret nuclear training maneuvers of the soviet army and weapon tests like uran- hardened antitank ammo.
As you see there are still fresh loads of contaminated waste coming in, this can’t be all from Chernobyl.
Anyway, this pcitures inspired me playing STALKER again
Thank you for the photos. It is very very depressing for me as this was the village of my maternal side. I’ve been told I lost 80 members of my family to the holocaust. I just recently met the last that I know to leave Burakówka/Burykovka (so many spellings). I would really like to find out if any are still in the vicinity. Any ideas would be appreciated.