The contrasting route. Stalkers in Polissya

The contrasting route. Stalkers in Polissya

Where to go: Kuznetsovsk - v. Antonovka

You should take with you:

  • - passport;
  • - extreme mood;
  • - safety rules (at nuclear power plants and railway transport);
  • - "Picnic on the roadside" of the Strugatsky brothers;
  • - ten hryvnias.

Giant steam-emitting structures, metal doors resembling a giant safe, "clean" and "dirty" areas, a sealed room that can withstand a plane crash, and a six-magnitude earthquake, air temperature up to + 50… Rivne nuclear power plant built more than 30 years ago. She was unique. And in the local laboratory conducted top-secret experiments, which could not be repeated in any country in the world. Although the nuclear power plant is a regime facility, it is accessible to tourists. If desired, you can visit both virtual and real tours. And then, to feel the contrast after the urban landscapes, it is worth taking the longest narrow-gauge railway in Europe, which is more than 100 years old. Its path passes by dense forests, sand dunes, river crossings and lakes.

So if you want to know what the hitherto well-studied neutrino element has to do with the Rivne nuclear power plant, and why the laboratory was run by a famous Italian physicist, you want to see an interactive 3D model of the power unit and then escape from civilization (not forever) on an old, almost childish trip, then this route is just for you.