Interesting, but not the first time I've seen these here.

WTF ,its the map in call of duty 4,the hard one to get in veteran

home for X-mens

silent hill? lol

What happened to all the stuff? Did they empty the stores and remove all their possessions?

Actually, most of the pictures shows Pripyat, the town next to Chernobyl.

Anyway, you've got to love this pics!

Great place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.

Reminds me of the Shadow of Chernobyl vid game.

nice pics from a sad event.

All that infrastructure gone to ruin....kinda sad.

Seems some idiots came back to pick up some things at the risk of their lives ?

Beautiful in its own way. I love these glimpses into the vast number of abandoned Russian/Soviet ghost towns and bases.

mortex,

Very Sad

The whole area was picked clean by looters over the last ten years or so, pretty much as soon as they thought it was safe to go in.

They took anything they could sell for money, especially metals for scrap. It has become a bit of a extreme-touristing area now, with a few hardy souls offering to take you round to see what's left.

Google for abandoned places and you will see dozens of towns like these all across Russia. Most were abandoned for economic reasons, some through industrial problems, and are now toxic like Pripyat, not through radioactivity but other chemicals.

Interesting, and spooky, in equal measure.

Not enough pictures from kindergartens - there were 3 in Pripyat. I've visited one of them (there wasn't enough time for the rest) creeped the fuck out of me. Also the morgue in Pripyat is a nice place to visit

and those HDRs are annoying.

I didn't mind the HDR, I was just wondering if these are using a grey filter or something like pale blue. There doesn't seem to be any true color.
But yeh, seen these before as well. The masks are the most grotesque or macabre of all the pix.

It truly does look like Silent Hill. The pictures are creeping me out, but professionally speeking they are really good.

repeat post... but still good shots excluding the hdr ones.

all pictures are in hdr to increase drama. If you see low price slr camera on ebay, check radiation level.

fantastic,but terrible!!cost 6 bilion dollar

Ghost city

Very interesting pictures. Sad, but worth a look.

Damn this looks so unreal!

wow..

Sad.

Hopefully this tragedy never happens again. I think they have learned some valuable lessons about nuclear power

Hi!

I'm interested to apply some of this pic's in my new cd artwork for my band Outrage!
Is it possible to get the pictures, to use them?

Please let me know, my mailadress is: manuel.berger@lieb.at the band website ist: www.outrage.at or www.myspace.com/outrage666

Thank you for helping me!

Best regards, Manuel

If you want to see more pictures from Pripyat and Chernobyl, I invite you to see my work here:
http://smithjan.com/blog/2011/
04/27/pripyat-atoms-wake/