Chernobyl Scrap Metal
Hundreds of pieces of Russian army hardware is left on the small field right near to Chernobyl. All this machinery has participated in Chernobyl accident liquidation and is radioactive from top to toe. Now it dies out under the open skies of deserted Chernobyl. You can get a Google Sat view of it too here.
some photos by: Jani Karvonen
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First! w00t!
Holy (s)crap…! Imaging selling those post Red machines to the Yankees’s museums…lot of cash…besides it’s sad that so much of great Russian technology is slowly decaying…:(
sad…
how are the photos safely taken in the radioactive area? surely there must be risk to the photographer?
No, it’s quite safe in Chernobyl area nowadays. There are lots of trees and wild animals. Excursions go there from Kiev. You just shouldn’t walk in tall grass (there might be some small unnoticed radioactive details) or come close to metal constructs (several meters is fine)
hey lio; thanks for the answer! j
Oh yes it’s dangerous to be there.
This machinery dump is actually the only dangerous spot outside the sarcophagus today.
Otherwise, the Chernobyl zone is pretty safe now (but still off limits to tourists)
lol this photos not from Chernobyl. And btw, Chernobyl not Russian city it’s Ukrainen.
The photos are from Chernobyl (actually a small town near Chernobyl called Rassokha, it’s about 20km away from Chernobyl) and Ukrain used to be part of the URSS so i think the pictures fit this site.
Anyways, a lot of metal rusting away, it’s a pitty you can’t recycle it and get read of the radiation.
How come oven sits next to military things? It is also “hot”? excuse my pun
Chernobyl was fake.All was photoshoped.
first. Igor is a baldy freeradical
At least they had helicopters. Not all the countries have… What then, buckets?
GET OUT OF HERE STALKER
Are those things highly radioactive? Just wondering … otherwise like the pictures…
Cool pictures, what model are those helicopters i bet they looked awesome when they were flying.
Mil Mi-6 “Hook” Models, heavy machinery…
Russian aircrafts, beatiful engineering.
Thanks for letting me know, i just looked on youtube and they look amazing when there flying and taking off, they must have serious power to get them off the ground.
Excelent gallery.
Very cool place.
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bilosh! how did you get out of your cage to go pick wild goose berries?!
Chernobyl area COMPLETELY safe!! we go there to pick wilde goose berrys. We make sweet wine and sell to tourists. I have never heard tourists complain, this is how I know safety!
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if you stick to road and use dosimter constantly(take spare battery with you) and with pathifinder-guide[familar with that area].
and stick to main roads and etc - nobody know, where you can encounter marauders or occasionally found runways hideout.
Been there in Call of duty 4… looks the same
…Yet pity that objects are misplaced in CoD4 - I mean, in sniper sequence the sports hall and amusement park for example. Nice authentic graphics in this respect anyway, should try S.T.A.L.K.E.R., too.
Been there on S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl… looks the same
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does anuone know the name of the tracked truck on the 6th pic down?
It’s probably just dismantled the same way they do things in the U.S., it’s to keep people from getting their hands on an intact weapon, vehicle or helicopter. I’m sure you’ve seen things like rocket launchers and bazookas can be bought by anyone, but they always have something cut off or welded shut to keep you from being able to actually fire it. Think of what could happen if somebody who fully intended to die got their hands on a radioactive helicopter and crashed it into a building somewhere on purpose. They clearly don’t want it to be easy for somebody to move radioactive vehicles out of there
What always gets me puzzled is, this stuff was left ‘as it was’ after the disaster, yet someone has clearly been removing parts of the machinery. What would anyone want with helicopter rotors? What happened to all the stuff in the fire engines? Who removed wheels and cabs and stacked them up? Odd, isn’t it?
Ya your right, I’ve also wondered why has everything been dismantled if it’s heavily radioactive? Why would anybody with half a brain still go out there and risk the rest of his/her life to cancer and other problems, just to save a few lousy bucks on auto parts etc?
I guess some people are just incredibly stupid.
It’s probably just dismantled the same way they do things in the U.S., it’s to keep people from getting their hands on an intact weapon, vehicle or helicopter. I’m sure you’ve seen things like rocket launchers and bazookas can be bought by anyone, but they always have something cut off or welded shut to keep you from being able to actually fire it. Think of what could happen if somebody who fully intended to die got their hands on a radioactive helicopter and crashed it into a building somewhere on purpose. They clearly don’t want it to be easy for somebody to move radioactive vehicles out of there
I was reading a 1995 National Geographic article on the chernobyl scrap yards ( I cut out the pictures and hung them on my wall lol) And there was a LOT of black market interest in the area so they have suspected that parts were taken off of those helo’s and sold on the black market. The entire field was meant to be covered with dirt but I guess they never got around to it.
I would think that the vehicles themselves have long since ceased being radioactive due to the rain water washing them for around 25 years. However, it is the ground they sit on that would concern me. Steel won’t absorb radioactivity, but the soil sure will. As for the parts, many areas of the former Soviet Union are quite poor. These parts fit vehicles that are still in wide use today such as the Lada cars, and the Tecnick large trucks, which would be about the equivalent of a US military Deuce and a half. Just like surplus US military large trucks get pressed into service on farms and for road work (I see lots of them as water trucks), so do old Soviet trucks. While the mechanical parts are probably mostly ruined due to water getting in them, the bodies probably are not and neither are some chassis parts. if you are a poor farmer and know of where oodles of spares are sitting abandoned, you might risk the radiation to get what you need for free.
the tools for the third world war
Is fake.
Why would equipment that is too dangerous to use be scavenged for parts?
The whole thing has the look of a “boneyard”.
Mostly decommissioned equipment that sits and rusts away with parts scavenged to keep non-decommissioned vehicles running.
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I wonder why everywhere on open spaces near chernobyl trees are growing like mad (even through the pavement) and this place hasn’t got a single three growing on it!
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Excelent gallery
Very cool place
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Two thumbs for this gallery, the Mi-6 “Hook” Models, seems like a scruff
Where are the engines of the trucks?
The engines from all cars were cut off and digged=>>> for that u couldn’t steal it on auto parts an sit in car and drive away
there was two Mi 26 on chernobyl site one was deactivated and sent to russia
And this one “HALO” stayed here for 20 years and now there aren’t any car or heli *almost* in that place=>>>
All was stolen for scrap=>>> like heating radiators from Pripyat houses…There is scrap(machines that where used there: from military technics, buses for transportation of people, robots, trains, IMRs etc…) everywhere there in rivers, in forrests, fields…
And now all that scrap was recycled(it is still highly radioactive) and exported to europe to build cars etc…
One of u even don’t know that smthng from metal near u can be from this scrap!!!
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Tecnick large trucks, which would be about the equivalent of a US military Deuce and a half. Just like surplus US military large trucks get pressed into service on farms and for road work (I see lots of them as water trucks), so do old Soviet trucks
Tecnick large trucks, which would be about the equivalent of a US military Deuce and a half. Just like surplus US military large trucks get pressed into service on farms and for road work (I see lots of them as water trucks), so do old Soviet trucks
I find places like this amazingly cool. I know its perhaps morbid, but its also like a time capsule.
The disturbing thing about these photos, is the number of vehicles with parts missing, hoods in the upright position, some trucks with cabs completely removed… In other words, these radioactive vehicles were partially dismantled for parts.
I wonder where some of those parts have gotten to, and whom they have/are slowly poisoning.
anodizing metal should remove radioactivity from it or maybe just hit metal with high voltage jolt while emerged.As far as trees go surely their radioactivity deformed,just not noticeably, but maybe not try growing a fruit tree in that soil.
All removed and missing parts were sent to China for recycling into toys that were sent to America.
soon all world will see these secne on persian gulf ,after leaking iranian atomic device situated in south of iran persian gulf countries will be no longer place for live!!!ahmadinejad is monster who decide to make world a hell for all of us,so you whom live in free world feel responsbility,
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I was a design consultant on the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game and went to Kiev to meet the team. Their reproduction of the Chernobyl region and all this year was meticulous. Excellent job.
You’ve really got to watch it about trying to recycle anything radioactive. Somebody dumped a medical X-Ray machine in Mexico a few years ago. It got melted down for scrap and the metal got re-used. Problem was it was full of a highly radioactive element (cobalt-60) that nobody had removed. A lot of people got cancer.