CHERNOBYL RADIATION RECONNAISSANCE ROUTE: An exclusive advanced information trip into the Chernobyl area... and much deeper - Tourism in zone. Materials about: Pripyat, Chernobyl accident

The PRYPYAT.COM team has decided to further extend our cooperation with Sergii Mirnyi, and invited him to be the principal guide-instructor for the advanced information trip to the Chernobyl area (which we announced earlier). The offer was gratefully accepted, and designed was the following

For the first time ever, the trip 'Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance mission route' makes public a successful professional and personal experience of Chernobyl victors √ the radiation reconnaissance men. It combines it with the most advanced front-line knowledge of many diverse sciences, relevant to Chernobyl radiation accident and contemporary disasters, and delivers it in an understandable, normal human language and, moreover, even entertaining format √ against the background of the most controversial patch of land at the globe, a so-called Chernobyl 'dead' zone of nowadays... and a likely Chernobyl national park of the future. The route of the trip follows the actual route of the first radiation reconnaissance missions, and weaves amidst impressive signs of the nuclear unit's explosion and its effects' mitigation, the colossal ruins and depopulated land with breathtakingly beautiful landscapes and flourishing wildlife.

The advanced trip is designed both for professionals, students and advanced general public, who are concerned with the issues of radiation, contamination and health in connection with the environment we live in now.

The trip will intellectually equip, practically train and psychologically empower you to successfully survive contemporary contamination accidents, especially radiation ones, or/and mitigate and study them. Moreover, the 1-day tour will teach you to navigate among the contemporary technogenic contamination hazards √ both everyday 'normal' and extreme catastrophic ones. All this is achieved by employing the unique intellectual gainings of the Chernobyl radiation accident and possibilities of a present-day area with official name 'the Chernobyl alienation/exclusion zone' (Chernobylskaja zona otchuzhdenija). The educational trip generalizes and delivers in a nutshell a two-decade successful professional and personal experience of Chernobyl reconnaissance men, supported by a front-line complex multidisciplinary research of Chernobyl and contemporary disasters, and shaped in an entertaining and user-friendly way by vast and invariably successful international lecturing expertise of the principal guide-instructor.

The guide-instructor Sergii Mirnyi was a commander of radiation reconnaissance crew and platoon inside the Chernobyl zone several months after the explosion. He was the officer, responsible for management of the company's radiation reconnaissance missions, and was cited for bravery and heroism by the Commander of Kiev Military District. He has MSc in physical chemistry and MSc in environmental sciences and policy, complemented by the courses of social sciences and humanities (history and literature). Now he is an expert in Chernobyl and the mitigation of radiation and ecological disasters, the author of scientific monograph on the actual state of the Chernobyl mitigation workers' (liquidators') health and several important international generalizing papers on Chernobyl and regularities of contemporary disasters. He also wrote several books of Chernobyl prose, already translated into English and Hungarian, and two screenplays, decorated at prestigious international competitions Koronatsija slova [Crowning the word] (Kiev-2005) and Kinostsenariy [Screenplay] Magazine Competition (Moscow-1997).

- gain practical skills of successful survival in the circumstances and of research and mitigation of a contemporary contamination (and particularly radiation) accident, the skills well-checked and proven to be true by more than two decades of life and work of the Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance men

- measure radiation levels at the carefully selected set of representative points outside and inside the Chernobyl zone

- visit the most famous Chernobyl places: the Sarcophagus over the remnants of the exploded reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the ghost town of Prypyat, the capital of the zone √ the Chernobyl-town, several abandoned villages (one of them fully bulldozed), and √ a special trait of this tour √ the exit decontamination depots and the site of the military camp of the 25^th brigade of chemical and radiation protection, which included a separate battalion of radiation reconnaissance

- acquire the skill of adequate comprehension and correct interpretation of the maps of contamination (both radiation and chemical)

- learn the general pattern(s) of the contamination spatial distribution and its intricate, sometimes quite unexpected changes with time, caused by mitigation works and natural reasons

- be introduced to the universal holistic model of a contemporary single-point contamination accident/catastrophe as a phenomenon in natural and social environments

- learn a comprehensive set of the accident's/catastrophe's harmful factors and their relative importance in different ecological and social circumstances

- get insight into a comprehensive set of the possible direct and indirect, psychologically and socially induced, negative health impacts of the disasters

- enjoy an amazingly fresh air, fascinating vistas and flourishing wildlife of the Chernobyl area √ a likely future Chernobyl national park, according to the guide's suggestion, which was made public at the international Chernobyl health conference in Kiev in 2001.

The language of the tour is English. Additional explanations may be delivered in Ukrainian and Russian. Upon special request, done in advance, simultaneous English-Ukrainian/Russian translation will be provided.

On the route from Kiev to the Chernobyl area you will see a thematic documentaries, including rare documentary footage about 'the previous life' of now-ghost-town Pripyat and its evacuation along with the clips about the contemporary Pripyat and depopulated Chernobyl area, shot by the participants of the project PRIPYAT.COM.

- a complete set of protective gear (protective overalls (Tyvek Pro), respirator, and gloves).

NOTE Possible forms of payment for participation in the trip (to cover the organizational and transportation expenses):

1. BANK TRANSFER. To get the bank account number for transfer, you should indicate 'BANK TRNSFER' as the mode of payment in your application. You should make the transfer within 3 days after your name appears in the list of the registered participants.
2. WESTERN UNION. To get the transfer recepient's data, you should indicate 'WESTERN UNION' as the mode of payment in your application. You should make the transfer within 3 days after your name appears in the list of the registered participants.

3. CASH (only for those in Kyiv). You should indicate 'CASH' as the mode of payment in your application, and pay within 3 days after your name appears in the list of the registered participants.

You can apply for preliminary registration:

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Master Class\Reconnaissance Mission Route, September 15, 2007

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