Russia

Chernobyl Travel Gadgets

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  Pripyat & Chernobyl Travel Gadgets It has been 35 years since the explosion of reactor No. 4 of Chernobyl but although security measures increased (sarcophagus covering reactor 4), there is still radiation in the surroundings. According to the tour guides, the radiation to which we expose ourselves when visiting Chernobyl is much higher than usual. But they also say that it is not greater than what would produce us take a couple of x-rays. Although in certain points of …

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Saint Petersburg the City of Tsars

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Saint Petersburg: the Russian City Built on Marsh

Founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703 on a marsh that was filled. It used hundreds of thousands of workers who built the city and connected with bridges about 50 islands

St. Petersburg is part of the select group of cities that are connected and built on a network of canals. As in Venice, Amsterdam or Bruges, water is the medium of transport and communication.

Cathedrals

  • In just a few meters, separated only by the Moika river and the Griboyedo canal, the old town has three beautiful temples. They are about:
    The Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood, also known as the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.

Saint Petersburg Tsar city

  • Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, neoclassical style resembles the temples of Ancient Greece. Its set of colonnades distinguishes it from the rest of the buildings on Nevsky Avenue.

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Dark Tourism: Chernobyl New Corridor

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Chernobyl, New tourist corridor

Visiting the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is fashionable. There happened the largest and most serious nuclear accident on the planet. Succeeded in 1986, it is now more fashionable
ย never. that’s because of the diffusion of the HBO series, Chernobyl.

Dark Tourism: Chernobyl New Corridor
Dark Tourism: Chernobyl New Corridor

Vladimir Zelenky, President of Ukraine, will create by decree a Green Safe corridor forย  Tourist. On the other hand it also has the purpose of showing in a real way and with scientific, environmental and historical base what happened on April 26, 1986 in the nuclear power plant.

This decree is due to the fact that the increase in tourist demand (over-tourism) increases the supply of operators. Which are not always legal or safe.

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