"Prohibited area" of the Chernobyl NPP.
For accident management they used different kinds of vehicles, including home made ordinary cars and innovative foreign equipment.
Let us show you the first photos taken after the catastrophe. The author is Igor Kostin, a popular photographer.
Across the network:
Equipment cemetery right in the water. In the background - the burial of medical RAF 22031.
Car of liquidators. It had rare parts and was further used eccessively (why does it have to be wasted?), nobody cared much it was highly radioactive being dangerous for people around...
Remotely controlled vehicle Komatsu (Japan) near power unit 4. Preparation for cleaning-up.
"Roof cats". Young soldiers (20 years old or so) are about to climb the roof to take a Chernobyl "sun bath" and get a nuclear suntan... Such "suits" weighed almost 20 (!) kg! All its elements made from lead - lead aprons, lead sheets, lead jacket, tarpaulin boots with lead inner soles and even a lead capacity for their testicles...
They had to hadle a shovel in a hurry removing trash from the roof.. 3828 young boys were there, on the roof. 3828 broken human lives. 3828 nameless heroes. It's an official number, who knows the real one? Who remembers them now, the guys who protected other people?
Almost finished "Shelter" object. And private transport means of liquidators on the site. You know what happened with this Soviet car after all...
Ship breaking yard. These ships carried materials and parts of the shelter to the industrial site. Liquidators themselves lived in floating hotels. Most of those ships were finally wasted! Many fo them sank mysteriously.
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