Today, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, is a ghost town, abandoned and overgrown in the wake of the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. But once it was a thriving town, filled with people who walked the streets, visited the beaches, and even rode that famous ferris wheel.
Concrete block of flats
The Prometheus Cinema
The Bus station
The famous ferris wheel
In front of Public School No. 2
The cultural center
The swimming pool ‘Azure’
An elephant-shaped slide on a playground
The Polissya Hotel
A water vending machine between some blocks
With Mickey Mouse
The post office
In the schools of Pripyat
Visual propaganda in the city
Meat, Fish, Vegetables – a store on the main avenue
A newsstand
The pier and the lake
Disco Edison-2
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The photos are from Pripyat.com and Pripyat-City.ru.
