Soviet vehicles used during the Chernobyl disaster

dudeman209 · 4 months

Those helicopters are enormous!

EDIT: Fun fact, the rotor disc area is 1/5 of an acre. My old house had about that much land, not much I know, but we're talking about a helicopter.

CitizenTed · 4 months

If you are interested in some of the stories of the men who operated those helicopters and military vehicles, read Svetlana Alexievich's book "Voices from Chernobyl". These first-hand accounts are gripping and sometimes horribly sad. But some stories are of heroism on an epic scale as well.

I'll never forget the helicopter pilot who was dumping cement onto the glowing reactor core and actually felt pins and needles of radiation shooting up into him from his pilot's chair (he was gone within a year). Absolutely riveting stuff.

DukeOfGeek · 4 months

Wow, the recreation of this in S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl was spot on.

Red_Dawn_2012 · 4 months

Here's a medal I have... It was given to all people who helped clean up after the disaster.

http://i.imgur.com/SaXr5.jpg

numeroprimo · 4 months

"More than 1,300 Soviet military helicopters, buses, bulldozers, and other equipment were usedand contaminatedwhile responding to the April 26, 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl." Source

Anand999 · 4 months

I found this video taken near what looks to be the same vehicle graveyard:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8757764129723143885

Here it is on Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.154192,+29.981956&hl=en&ll=51.153667,29.983125&spn=0.004818,0.013937&sll=51.400082,30.074737&sspn=0.009585,0.027874&t=w&z=17

EDIT: The vantage point of the shot seems to be near the NE corner of the graveyard (which, incidentally, appears to be the entrance) looking SW.

Near the top of the right most row, there is a vehicle parked diagonally which I believe is the blue tanker truck in the foreground of this picture.

st3ph3n · 4 months

According to OP's link the photo was taken in the year 2000. Who is mowing this place?!

01000001010011100100 · 4 months

I don't know why, but I am absolutely fascinated by Chernobyl and Fukushima. I've been reading up and watching documentaries and just can't get enough... I so want to go on one of those tours through Prypiat/Chernobyl. That would be a dream come true. The immense invisible power these accidents have and the way esp. Chernobyl was handled in the months after it happened are just jaw dropping. I thought everything would be over in a few days. Not months and months of fighting to keep subsequent explosions and fallout under control. Sending unknowing soldiers unprotected in highly contaminated areas...

andlife · 4 months

Karlsplatz station in Vienna has a count of the number of days left until Chernobyl is inhabitable again. Only 140000 and something days left!

chthonical · 4 months

I link this every time Chernobyl comes up. It's worth a watch.

BBC NOVA Suicide Mission To Chernobyl 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8a3GHABedA

kevlarbomb · 4 months

Interesting timing with Chernobyl Diaries coming out this weekend. SECRET MOVIE MARKETING PERSON HAS INFILTRATED REDDIT??!?!?

thejuraj · 4 months

Garbage!

jokes_on_you · 4 months

They offer tours of Chernobyl now (source). I wonder if you could jack a few tanks. A little radiation is worth a tank, right?

Hugs_n_Nugs · 4 months

why so many military vehicles? I don't really see how the tanks (or whatever the line of armed vehicles are) would help during the disaster?

UKRAINE_IS_STRONG · 4 months

GET OUT OF HERE STALKER

Austinlegend · 4 months

That's rad.

CircumcisedSpine · 4 months

Get 'em for you cheap. Only one owner. Just don't check the Carfax.

Vaynax · 4 months

Think of all the skill, coordination of systems, materials, and energy and effort that went into making all those machines... now all a waste..

NicoleBolas · 4 months

Wow, crazy to think that none of it can be used ever again...

addiv · 4 months

That's hot.

theangrybitter · 4 months

Did anyone else notice there appears to be a figure in the fourth row going back towards the tree line?

RottenDeadite · 4 months

Every time I see that shot I think of this one passage in Roadside Picnic:

When you look at it, it looks like any other piece of land. The sun shines on it like on any other part of the earth. And it's as though nothing had particularly changed in it. Like everything was the way it was thirty years ago. My father, rest his soul, could look at it and not notice anything out of place at all. Except maybe he'd ask why the plant's smokestack was still. Was there a strike or something? yellow ore piled up in cone-shaped mounds, blast furnaces gleaming in the sun, rails, rails, and more rails, a locomotive with flatcars on the rails. In other words, an industry town. Only there were no people. Neither living nor dead. You could see the garage, too: a long gray intestine, its doors wide open. The trucks were parked on the paved lot next to it. He was right about the trucks--his brains were functioning God forbid you should stick your head between two trucks. You have to sidle around them.

TriLogic · 4 months

My old history teacher served during that time. He spent double the regular time helping cleaning out the mess. Got medals etc., which he showed us on one occasion. He used to tell about how creepy it was to see the apartments with breakfast on table or that the cars could only be used in the area etc. interesting things.

jdrc07 · 4 months

Those helicopters are HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE

pepperman7 · 4 months

I sell to you, good price! You buy? Yes Yes?!

Eszharen · 4 months

Soap, Take the shot

willymo · 4 months

I'm sure the Soviets had a lot of vehicles, but even so, this must've been a large blow to their supply. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's a shit load of armor going to waste.

louisrod2005 · 4 months

Spawn kill spree.

858FRESH · 4 months

I visited Chernobyl and Pripyat through a tourist agency last summer when I went backpacking through Asia and Europe. It was incredible to see all the abandoned buildings and the millions of dollars worth of equipment that were rendered useless because of their exposure to the radiation. Mad props goes out to those liquidators who put that sarcophagus on the broken reactor, without them alot of Europe could be looking just like Pripyat and Chernobyl.

BHannify · 4 months

God I love STALKER.

moose_sex · 4 months

Russians are notorious for having fields of random vehicles.

During communism, the government mandated that productivity remain at a consistent level regardless of demand...so if items such as cars weren't in demand...they'd finish a car to completion and park it in a lot somewhere to decompose. They'd have miles and miles of cars, trucks, whatever.

China didn't take notes, and they're doing the same thing: Most of those huge skyscrapers you hear about them building have super-high vacancy rates.

tl;dr -- communism makes you build a bunch of shit you don't need

Gr3atdane · 4 months

I still don't think people realise what a disaster Chernobyl was. If it had happened in the US, i still think there would be political fallout from it to this day, it just doesnt get as much media attention because of where it happened. (and to some extent the USSR covering it up). The whole event it still chilling.

xoites · 4 months

American vehicles used during Hurricane Katrina.

mdguy429 · 4 months

About once a week, there's a post that sends me down a rabbit hole, reading everything I can about something, and looking up YouTube videos (especially news broadcasts). This is that post this week

itcanwait · 4 months

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/

OsamaBinHitler · 4 months

This reminds me of that one mission from the first Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

4chans_for_pussies · 4 months

Bitch, please. I played COD 4, I know all about the Chernobyl disaster. Yeah'hah.

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