Interesting Chernobyl

This book contains 100 fascinating and, at the same time, concise articles about the most important and interesting symbols of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the city of Pripyat, to individual monuments of the bygone Soviet era, like soda machines, pay phones, and other items that give an idea of the life of a typical successful 1980s Soviet town.The reader will find out how the catastrophe happened; “walk” around abandoned military facilities, including the giant “Duga” radar; see the cemetery for equipment used by the accident liquidators; look into the apartments of Pripyat, abandoned the day after the terrible explosion; meet the giant catfish and the almost-tame fox Semyon, entranced by tourists; be horrified by how, after thirty years, the former city of the Soviet atomic scientists has decayed and been taken over by forest.