“The stadium remained in ruins after the Chernobyl disaster.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
The stadium remained in ruins after the Chernobyl disaster.
Currently the territory of the stadium is overgrown with forest / photo WikipediaOn April 26, 2025, the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. The Athletic Journalist Richard Satcliffe remembered his visit to Pripyat, where there was once an ambitious football club, which in 1986 planned to open a new stadium.
“The place of the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history, perhaps not everyone imagines as a place to relax, but, being a long -fascinated old eastern block, and especially an episode, which, according to many, accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union, I could not spend several days in Kiev, not making a two -time.
According to the journalist, such a trip took place in the summer of 2019. He then received a Geiger counter for radiation measurement to explore Pripyat.
Richard recalled that the Pripyat people left after the explosion on April 26, 1986, when one of the reactors was destroyed, which resulted in the release of radiation throughout Europe.
The correspondent said that the guide led them to the place of the central stadium, where there was once a track and field track, and his field is now covered with trees.
Rotten wooden seats at the Avangard Stadium / Photo by Richard Sutcliffe / The Athletic”Further study of the place found a small terrace 30 meters from the podium, as well as a block of turnstiles to the belt. Like the tribune, both objects lost the fight against the mother-natural. The Republican Trade Union Sports Society, “the journalist said.
Richard says that when you stand in the last row of stands, it becomes clear how the field was done. Now it has turned into a rectangle of tall trees.
“Between the field and the concrete tribune, a wide carpet, which served as a treadmill. under constant growing leaves, ” – said the correspondent.
Walls around the former tunnel for players at the Avangard Stadium / Photo by Richard Sutcliffe / The AthleticAt first, the journalist imagined the locals watched football at this stadium, but as it turned out, he was to open only in May 1986.
“Looking at this landscape, it was easy to imagine how the locals watched football. It was misleading, as it turned out, since the matches were never made here because the solemn opening of the stadium, an exhibition match against Kyiv” Dynamo “, was scheduled for May 1, 1986,”
The latest news about ChernobylEarlier, the expert named the main danger of visits to the exclusion zone. According to him, the “Stalker breeding” is now on a pause, and the last Stalker was detained about a month ago.
“He went around the posts, the minefields. How he did it – found out the security service. In general, it is very rare to date.” Stalker “on a” pause “, because real stalkers, not in the game, understand the danger. After all, there are not only mines – they can be taken for a hostile. he said.
The expert also replied when the Chernobyl exclusion zone will be suitable for life. He noted that this can only happen in more than 20,000 years.
You may also be interested in news:
- In Ukraine, an unusual coin was put into circulation (photo)
- Is there any animals among the animals in the Chernobyl zone of mutants: expert response
- Specialist named the remedy with radionuclides after the Chernobyl accident is better than vodka