Part 2. Pripyat Before and After the Chernobyl Disaster.

Per you request, a new visual comparison for you! Today we will take a look to one of the oldest and least visited streets of Pripyat — Friendship of Nations st. This compilation is a demonstration of how the place changed over almost four decades — featuring unique, never published before images of construction works made at this street in the 1970s. As this place is the most overgrown with trees and bushes, the exact spots where photographers took their images are mostly inaccessible in modern times. During the first years after the accideny, the city continued to be used by various Zone-related organizations, with a gradual decline around 2000. Since then, minimal maintenance has been applied to this place, so now it looks more like a forest than a city. However, exactly at this street was located the special laundry, that operated as a decontamination workshop up to 2018. You could see it even in the STALKER game series. Feel free to ask questions about the Zone, daily life there, history, etc...! You can find a lot of unique Chornobyl insights and archive materials on our Patreon: Or buy us a coffee: