Retrospective Chornobyl photos



   About this page existence. It's all thanks for the Anatoly Besedin (Chornobyl townsman) diligence, who not just took the pictures of streets, houses and town's districts, but also kept this shots taken long time ago.
   A. Besedin's photos allow us take a look at the Chernobyl town past, know it's history and try to understand present time situation.

   The main objects of Chornobyl town - streets and buildings:

  Chornobyl Podil  

  Chornobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base. 1946 year  

  Spring flood photos on the Pripyat river, close to Chornobyl town  

  Sovietskaya str.  

  Lenina str. Chernobyl  

  Karla Marksa str.  

  Military registration and enlistment office building  

  Lenin's monument  

Chornobyl Podil

   Chornobyl podil photos. Podil - Chornobyl town part placed in flood-plain area. It's pretty close to Pripyat river.


Documentary photos of Chornobyl town   Chornobyl Podil   Chornobyl Podil photo, near a Pripyat river

     1946 year                          1970 year                        1975 year

Chernobyl historical pictures

1992 year

Chornobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base. 1946 year

   Call your attention to one of the oldest Chornobyl town photos. Photo was taken in 1946. Photo - Chornobyl area called as «The Island». There was a ship's repairing base for the Dnieper river streamship lines, till a disaster happened in 1986. Chornobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base was built actually for that purpose. Demonstrably, photo of 1946 attests about the base development during next years.
Map - Chornobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base. Chernobyl -  maintenance-and-supply naval base photo, 1946. Photo by A. Besedin
Naval base on tha Map of Chernobyl town 1946 year
Map - Chornobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base Chernobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base Chernobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base
Chernobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base Chernobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base Chernobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base
Naval base1973 year
Chornobyl CMSNB. Photo by - D.Vyshnevskiy, 2008. Current condition of CMSNB. Photo by - D.Vyshnevskiy, 2008. Current condition of CMSNB. Photo by - D.Vyshnevskiy, 2008.
Current condition of CMSNB. Photo by - D.Vyshnevskiy, 2008. Chernobyl - Photo of Chornobyl maintenance-and-supply naval base, 2008. Photo by S. Paskevych
Naval base 2008 year

Unique photo. Flood's panorama in Chornobyl ( year 1970).

Spring flood photos on the Pripyat river, close to Chornobyl town


    Pripyat river is one of the most beautiful Polissya's rivers. A river was the source of life for Chornobyl town inhabitants, and it was used as the thoroughfare, connecting Chornobyl with a capital and other aggregations. Periodically a river overflows and underfloods the water meadow. You can see a flood in Chornobyl 1970, 1973 - 1975 years.

Панорама паводка на реке Припять возле города Чернобыль в 1970 году. Автор фотографии Анатолий Беседин
Уникальное фото. Панорама паводка в Чернобыля в 1970 году.

   Some landscapes of flooded areas in Chernobyl town during the flood in 1970. At one photo a view of the rescue station presented during the time of "high water" on the Pripyat river.


Flood panorama on the Pripyat river located pretty close to Chornobyl, 1970. Photo by A. Besedin Pripyat river spring flood in Chornobyl, 1970 - Photo by A. Besedin
1970 year
River Pripyat high water in Chornobyl, 1973. Photo by A. Besedin Chornobyl. Photographer - A. Besedin город Чернобыль. Автор фотографии А.Беседин
1973 year 1973 year 1975 year

Sovietskaya str.

   Sovetskaya Street going cross the administrative centre of Chornobyl town from the south-west to east. Nowadays, exclusion zone administration buiding, post-office, telegraph, house of culture and central dining building «Prypiat» are placed on this street. In the past, before disaster occur, Sovietskaya street was an administrative center of Chornobyl town. Typical Soviet graphic agitation elements presence. Yeah, that's attributes of any Soviet time towns. For example, slogan: "Forage harvesting - a nationwide business" (Anyway, a lot of food for brain)
Map - Chornobyl, Chernobyl
Sovietskaya str. on the map of Chernobyl town
Chornobyl, Chernobyl town - Sovietskaya str, 1979 year. Photographer - A. Besedin Sovietskaya str. appearance in 1983. Photographer - A. Besedin Sovietskaya str. photo in Chornobyl town  - 2007 year. Photographer - A. Besedin
1979 year 1983 year 2007 year


   Views on the Sovietskaya str.
Sovietskaya street. Parkway, 1983. Photographer - A. Besedin Sovietskaya str. look in 1993. Photographer - A. Besedin Sovietskaya str. photo in Chornobyl, 2008 year. Photographer - A. Besedin
1983 year 1993 year 2008 year


   View on the "Pripyat" restaurant
Unique pictures of Chornobyl town, Pripyat restaurant, 1981. Photographer - A. Besedin Pripyat restaurant photo. Chornobyl (Chernobyl), 1992. Photographer - A. Besedin Pripyat restaurant, 2007 year. Chornobyl. Photographer - A. Besedin
1981 year 1992 year - The building is in ruins 2007 year - The modern look of the building

Lenina str.

A map with Lenina str. marked on. Chernobyl town - Chernobyl Lenina str picture, 1997. Photo by - A. Besedin Lenina str picture photo, 2000 year. Photo by - A. Besedin
Lenina str. on the Chornobyl town map. 1970 year 2000 year

Karla Marksa str.

A map with Karla Marska str. marked on. Chernobyl town - Chernobyl Karla Marksa str picture. 1979 year. Photo by - A. Besedin Karla Marksa srt. image in Chornobyl town.2008 year. Photo by - A.Besedin
Karla Marksa str. on the Chornobyl town map. 1979 year 2008 year

Military registration and enlistment office building

   It was a synagogue building in the past.
Карта - Синагоги в городе Чернобыль
Synagogue's \ recruitment office location in Chornobyl town.
Map - A synagogue in Chernobyl town Map - A synagogue in Chernobyl town Map - A synagogue in Chernobyl town
1975 year spring 2007 year winter 2007 year

Lenin's monument

   A monument is placed near the exclusion zone state administration building.
A map with Lenina str. marked on. Chernobyl - Chernobyl Lenin's bronze statue in Chernobyl (Chernobyl). 1982 year. Photo by - A. Besedin Lenin's monument photo. Chornobyl 1994.Photo by - A. Besedin
Karla Marksa str. on the Chornobyl town map. 1979 year 1994 year

   Natural condition of Exclusion Zone

   Pripyat river in Chernobyl Zone

   History of Chernobyl area

   Chernobyl town

   History of the Pripyat city

   Evacuation from Pripyat and exclusion zone

   Pripyat city today

   Photos of the Pripyat city

   Chernobyl-2. The top secret military object

   Chernobyl-2. Picture story about secret military radar



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