Pripyat, Black and White

Pripyat, Chernobyl

Here is a darkly beautiful set of photographs taken in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the sight of the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history.

As these relics have barely been touched in the 23 years since the accident, they provide a rare glimpse of original USSR architecture and artifacts.






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    47 Responses to “Pripyat, Black and White”

    1. chris says:

      are those people’s shadows burned into the wall, or graffitti?

      • Chris, did your parents have any children that lived? It was a meltdown, not a nuclear detonation. Whatever, you’re probably some croat retard anyway.

        And can one of you dirty slavs translate some of the cyrillic gibberish in those pictures? They look like they were taken by a lobster-limbed chernobyl child victim.

        • Musa says:

          It says - Go Blow Yourself Dickhead!

        • dars-dm says:

          1st picture (with newspaper): “January 11th 1986. Sport. Where the mastery is being created?”
          Photo with inscription (after a photo with classroom) “Hello, former 2nd comprehensive school students! I had been taught in 4th form by the accident. Regards, Luchinskiy N. M. Call me, I will be glad to hear you”
          An opened book: “…on the Ukrainian Soviet Socialistic Republic”
          A door: “It’s our house and we thould take care of it” and lower: “Private entrance”

        • Anatoliy says:

          Hey Heywood, I am one of these dirty slavs, and certainly can translate some emotional and humanly handwritings which could be seen on the pictures, but afraid this translation - even in plain English words - might happen to be incomprehensible for so brightly educated baboon like you

    2. Taupey says:

      The doll face is classic Pripyat/Chernobyl!

    3. Jews build best nuclear reactors.

    4. PhaeTo says:

      ugh. just trolls and first-ers? boo.

      chris - pretty sure it’s graffiti.

      the ruins look awesome, i want to explore them! its like a more Slavic and radio active-y version of Hashima Island in Japan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island

    5. ash says:

      Heywood Jablomie, you **cking teen jerk, show respect for others’ grief! For you that gibberish is translated just like “go **ck yourself”!

    6. damaja says:

      hey, where are any mention of photographer? does he gave you permission to use his photos?

    7. achtung says:

      What’s so special with these pics??
      Even without atomic radiation, would look the same!!
      Russians lazy and do not care to maintain and keep clean their towns. So many of them just garbage dumps with weathered olde Soviet apartment blocks.

    8. vladi junior says:

      I am not dirty Slav, I am son of dirty ex KGB agent turned Prime Minister… but I can translate pic# http://media.englishrussia.com/pripyat_bw/1_010.jpg for you:

      It says “Children, study your books, exercise your body, eat good food, then die a slow painful death from nuclear reactor meltdown while the State covers up the facts.”

      I wish my daddy was there when it happened, instead of practicing his judo moves on 5 year olds. Maybe then I would have had a normal life. :( Vladi Jr. :(

    9. totenkopf says:

      GET OUT OF HERE STALKER

    10. polish jew says:

      how come the calendar in the last picture is from 1984?

      when the meltdown was on April 26th 1986 :?

    11. CONNIE says:

      The pictures had an extreme sense of saddness and beauty to them.

    12. Nancy Drew says:

      achtung and Heywood Jablomie are Mr. Rabinovich, and Mr. Rabinovich is Boris and Boris is the moderator!

    13. This is some kinda sick Jew game!

    14. Zhenyaa says:

      Leave it to some french asshole to go an paint idiotic shit all over town

    15. Thera says:

      Ahh Pripyat, home sweet home.

    16. h.1.t.c.h.1.k.1.n.g.
      r.u.s.s.1.a.

      art1cle 19 Aug 05
      prodrobnosti ua

      art1cle 25 Aug 05
      S.P.R.U.

    17. Mixas says:

      Is there any letters in that mailbox?

    18. PS3 Gamer says:

      Cool I recognise one building from the CoD4 game.

    19. Rebecca says:

      Love these :) Very sad

    20. First!!!!!

      Some of these I have seen before, how sad that Russia is so poor and backward.

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