Full Day Tour

On 26 April 1986, reactor # 4 at the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) Nuclear Power Plant, 100 km north from Kyiv, exploded during a routine daily operation. Nearly nine tons of radioactive matter - 90 times more than the Hiroshima bomb - were hurled into the sky. Winds, blowing mostly north and west, carried fallout into Belarus, as well as Russia, Poland and the Baltic region over the following days.

The radioactive fallout affected 23% of the territory of Belarus.  4,8% of Ukraine’s territory and 0,5% of Russia’s were exposed too. About 135,000 people were evacuated from a 30-km area around the plant, with the peripheral areas remaining at a high risk of radioactive exposure. The reactor was enclosed in a concrete-and-steel construction, the so-called ‘sarcophagus’. Over the following years about 600,000 people known as "the liquidators" worked in the radioactivity clean-up operations inside the 30-km zone.

The Itinerary:

• Duration of the Chernobyl and Pripyat tour: 1 day - leaving Kyiv at 9:00 in the morning and returning to Kyiv at 6:00 in the evening. (Optional: visiting the Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv the day before the tour).
• Kyiv - Chernobyl. Passing Dytyatky, at the border of the 30-km Chernobyl zone. 
• Arrival at the town of Chernobyl. Meeting with the authorities.
• Transfer to the village of Leliyov. Passing the 10-km zone border.
• Transfer to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and sightseeing of Reactor 4.
• Visit to Prypiat. Sightseeing of "The Dead (Ghost) Town". Stop nearby the "Red Forest".
• Return to Chernobyl. Lunch. (Food is delivered from outside of the Chernobyl zone).
• Visit to the Chernobyl Research Center: physical and radiochemical laboratories, other.
• Visiting the Opachychi village, meeting with "re-settlers", people who have moved back to their villages after evacuation (optional).
• Passage to the village of Rossokha, ‘cemetery’ of the abandoned machinery and equipment, used for firefighting and eliminating radioactive contamination after the explosion (currently not available).
• Passage through the Dytyatky Checkpoint. Measuring of radiation level.
• Return to Kyiv at around 6 p.m.