CallMeKate
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- Mid-Atlantic US
I have this fascination with the abandoned city of Pripyat. It's in northern Ukraine and it was a new, modern, and thriving city in 1986... and then came Chernobyl. Beautiful Pripyat has been abandoned ever since and wouldn't be safe for thousands of years which of course means never.
Apartments, grocery stores, schools, etc. remain exactly as they were when everyone was ordered to an immediate evacuation. Urbex people and adventurers still go there and stay in the abandoned buildings for short periods... and more recently Russian soldiers did some destruction, but the future holds nothing but gradual decay until nothing remains. Even more haunting than the empty apartment buildings to me is the amusement park... the ferris wheel just sitting there forever unused.
I can't remember what got me interested in the first place, but I'm thinking it was probably a picture from an Urbex'er years ago of a child's bedroom abandoned in 1986 with the toys still spilling from a toy box. I've always loved researching new topics, but this one has intrigued for years now.
Apartments, grocery stores, schools, etc. remain exactly as they were when everyone was ordered to an immediate evacuation. Urbex people and adventurers still go there and stay in the abandoned buildings for short periods... and more recently Russian soldiers did some destruction, but the future holds nothing but gradual decay until nothing remains. Even more haunting than the empty apartment buildings to me is the amusement park... the ferris wheel just sitting there forever unused.
I can't remember what got me interested in the first place, but I'm thinking it was probably a picture from an Urbex'er years ago of a child's bedroom abandoned in 1986 with the toys still spilling from a toy box. I've always loved researching new topics, but this one has intrigued for years now.