Tours to Chernobyl Zone
SPUTNIK KYIV is official and licensed tour operator arranging tours to Chernobyl for tourists, both FIT and GROUPS.
Nowadays Chernobyl is must-visit in Ukraine.Thousands of tourists come with the only goal - to visit this place, majority of tours around Ukraine include visiting of Chernobyl, lots of incentive tours from different countries have at least 1 day tour to this absolutely special and unique in all aspects place.
We offer you to join our regular groups or book private tour to Chernobyl zone, one of the most famous and visited places in Ukraine:9 a.m.
- Pick up at your hotel/apartment (for an individual tour) or meeting at Independence Square (for a group tour) with other group members.
- Checkpoint "Dytyatki" (30-km zone)
- Zalissya and Kopachi villages
- Chornobyl sign, main square of Chernobyl town
- Monument to the firefighters
- Pripyat sign
- Trip to Pripyat - "The Dead (Ghost) Town" walking along the city to see Polissya Hotel, school, kinder garden, supermarket, amusement park, swimming pool. You will see the town that was left by its 50 thousand inhabitants within 24 hours. The spirit of Soviet darkness reigns here. You can make pictures of the National Emblem of the Soviet Union and of Soviet Ukraine, slogans ‘Peace, Labor and May", red-yellow public call-boxes and other objects that were symbols of the 80's in the Soviet Union.
- Trip around the Nuclear Power Station. Photo-stop near the Reactor No 4 (with sarcophagus) of the former station with the view on the sarcophagus. You will be only 100 m from the main cryptic object of the Zone!
- Former top secret object CHERNOBYL-2 (also called Duga, Soviet 'over the horizon' radar station of the system of early detection against attacks of ballistic rockets)
- Late lunch at Chernobyl Cafe
- Walking along Chernobyl city
- 16:30 - 18:00 Departure to Kyiv
Prices per person:
- Tour for 1 pax - 370 EUR
- Tour for 1 pax in group of 2 - 220 EUR
- Tour for 1 pax in group of 3 - 190 EUR
- Tour for 1 pax in group of 4 - 160 EUR
- Tour for 1 pax in group of 5 - 140 EUR
- Tour for 1 pax in group of 6 - 130 EUR
To join the group - 75 EUR
If your trip to Chernobyl is dedicated to certain thematic and you want to explore it not as usual tourist - we can arrange special itinerary for you - meetings with local people, connected with Chernobyl accident, liquidators, researchers, visiting of places that are not included in a standard route, we will provide you as well with necessary support for getting permition for video-recording and etc.
This tour usually gives great flexibility in itinerary and you can adjust the tour depending on the group's interest. Overnight at the hotel in Chernobyl and the following days of exploration of all objects will let you know and see much more.
NOTE:
- ONLY ADULTS (People over 18 years old) ARE ALLOWED TO TAKE PART IN THE TRIP.
- ALL OUR CLIENTS GET SPECIAL INSURANCE FOR ENTERING ZONE!
To get more details please contact Olga Shcherbakova
The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture.
The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result of injuries received. Another person is reported to have died at the time from a coronary thrombosis. Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) was originally diagnosed in 237 people onsite and involved with the clean-up and it was later confirmed in 134 cases. Of these, 28 people died as a result of ARS within a few weeks of the accident. Nineteen more workers subsequently died between 1987 and 2004, but their deaths cannot necessarily be attributed to radiation exposure. Nobody offsite suffered from acute radiation effects although a significant, but uncertain, fraction of the thyroid cancers diagnosed since the accident in patients who were children at the time are likely to be due to intake of radioactive iodine fallout. Furthermore, large areas of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and beyond were contaminated in varying degrees.
The Chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power where radiation-related fatalities occurred. The design of the reactor is unique and in that respect the accident is thus of little relevance to the rest of the nuclear industry outside the then Eastern Bloc. However, it led to major changes in safety culture and in industry cooperation, particularly between East and West before the end of the Soviet Union. Former President Gorbachev said that the Chernobyl accident was a more important factor in the fall of the Soviet Union than Perestroika – his program of liberal reform.