They call it a town where time stands still. Maybe it is because the clocks here don't measure time - they measure radiation levels.

There is no phone service. Cellular phones don't work either.

The day after the accident, this place on the bridge provided a good view of the gaping crack in the nuclear containment vessel that was ruptured by the explosion. Many curious people came here to have a look and were bathed in a flood of deadly x-rays emanating directly from the glowing nuclearcore.

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The map... 600 years... Cruising around ... Checkpoint... Loses ... The Liquidators ... Passing Chernobyl town ... Village election house ... Atomic plant ... Silence ... Ghost Town- Pripyat ... Bike shop ... Hotel ... New Beginning ... Their flag was still there ... No Labor Day parade ... Back to the USSR ... Devils Wheel ... Climbing up ... Vovik+Tanya=love ...Up on the roof ... Town where time stands still ..."Azure" and "Moonlight sonata" ... Kindergarten ... More of kindergarten ... Prometheus fire.