The Red Forest (or Rudy Forest) is a unique territory adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and famous for its unusual nature. This forest became a symbol of the 1986 disaster, when emissions of radioactive dust led to its death. The pine trees that form the basis of this forest acquired a characteristic brown-red hue in just 30 minutes aft
Interesting places: Vyshhorod District
The village of Krasno (Krasne in Ukrainian) is located 6 kilometers directly from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This is a very short distance, but the village and the station are separated by the huge lake “Starik” (a tributary of the Pripyat River). To get to Krasno, we need to drive about 30 kilometers along a terrible and broken road throug
The wooden church of the Archangel Michael the Archangel in the village of Krasno is one of the few surviving churches in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Built in 1800 from oak, it stands on the left bank of the Pripyat River and is a kind of symbol of survival surrounded by radiation pollution. The village of Krasno, once part of the Chernobyl regi
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