Let’s return to the hotel.
“Electricity! Dangerous!”
One of the rooms fo the hotel.
In the restroom.
Let’s visit its Palace of Culture.
Many years ago, it was a popular place.
And now it looks like this:
Palace of Culture Energetic.
No concert will ever be held here…
Its lobby has preserved some of the wall painting.
The assembly hall.
Parquet.
Broken glass.
Its gym.
Nature is the only thing warming your heart in Pripyat.
Location: Pripyat
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Where are gone all the furniture and other things from a hotel? Do they were utilized or someone has stolen them?
Most likely stolen, a lot of things got carted away shortly after the evacuation, but when radioactive TV-sets showed up in stores in nearby cities military patrols were set up around the town. Of course with time those were withdrawn and the plunder got under way again. There are a lot of pics taken in Pripyat over the years often of the same spots. If you compare the early one’s (say those taken by Elena Filatova) to recent one’s one of the most striking differences is that most of signs of life that were left earlier (i.e. personal photos, toys, books and whatnot) are now gone. One could have hoped that the UE-code could have been observed (take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but foot-prints) but alas so was not the case
The zone was cleared out/decontaminated after the accident happened. However, some buildings were put to use for workers at the Power Plant/surrounding area (The infamous swimming pool was used until the mid-90′s) flats were reused, and the culture palace was used as a HQ.
So at a guess, some of the furniture was removed for decontamination purposes. I have heard a story that the military personnel in the ‘Zone’ at the time were ordered to destroy all toilets, basins, baths and furniture to discourage former residents from coming back and reclaiming anything.
Who knows?
http://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/Sites/Chernobyl/index.php
Most likely someone has stolen them for sale or utilisation. Many contaminated vehicles and helicopters on radioactive junkyards are disassembled, many parts are stolen.
Everything was or is radioactive. Some valuable items, like TV sets from local electronic store, later appeared in other Ukraine cities (and yes, there TV sets were radioactive).
One of the most mind-boggling scenes in a movie or TV-show I have ever seen is from Pripyat.
It is included in a NatGeo DVD called Welcome to earth, population 0 (or something like that)
The scene is shot in the stands of Pripyat-stadium and shows a girl sitting in the stands talking about how one can imagine what it would have been like to sit there on a Sunday as the home-team took to the field.
As she says this the camera turns 180 degrees and the foot-ball fiedl has turned into a forest, you can’t even see the field for trees, and this was shot almost ten years ago….
cool story bro
Excellent photos.