Хороший день / Dobryi den’ / Hi,
Welcome to the third post (aka part three) dedicated to our little travelling across Ukraine. My previous posts covered Chernobyl plant and bit of hanging around the exclusion zone. If interested in these, feel free to check out previous posts of my profile.
For today, my pleasure is to show you the mind-blowing Duga Radar - Soviet over-the-horizon radar system used as part of the missile defense early-warning radar network (Wiki).
What I recall our tour-guide told us:
- It was very energy hungry (when it used to work of course). That is why it is located near the Chernobyl power plant.
- This kind of mega structure is difficult/expensive to maintain. Sadly, they do not maintain it (as of day of our visit), so it could happen that in X years, it will collapse. Hurry to visit it then😏
I personally consider this radar to be better experience than the power plant. This radar is tangible thing. You can hang around, observe it in detail, while with power plant you are kind of restricted, you cannot do anything there as it is still, you know, (radioactive) power plant and power plant as such comes under critical infrastructure. Let's check out this freaking monster already!
My older and poorer camera cannot even handle proportions of this structure.
The lesser radar-brother over there.
Leaving exterior, going through the corridor which takes us to technical buildings.
Technical (server-like) room.
Now inside of some kind of missiles (training/control?) room where they have depicted various types of missiles, including US ones.
Old paint on walls.
And the last photo of the day😁
In case you find any discrepancy in this post (as I am not local), please let me know I will be happy to fix it.
If you like this post, stay tuned as more cool stuff from our Ukrainian adventures back in 2018 will definitely come. In the meantime, don't forget to check out my Pinmapple profile to see all places I have visited on the map!
O existenci tohoto monstra jsem neměl tušení. Vskutku pozoruhodný kousek sovětského engineeringu.
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Sám jsem zvědav, čím překvapí příště. Díky😉
Sověti? Ti už snad ničím :D
nooo, pokud se nepřevlečou.
I'm surprised the array isn't covered in bird's nests by now.
Good observation, perhaps there is some explanation for that.
Tak to byl pořádný kolos. Takový opuštěný prostor by u nás dlouho nevydržel. Na anténní pole by se rychle vrhli kovožrouti :-)
Díky za zajímavou reportáž.
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Nooo, ono je to součástí uzavřeného hlídaného perimetru, takže se tam nikdo bez průvodce oficiálně nedostane. Ale zajímavá poznámka😄
:-)
Tak tím se to vysvětluje :-)
Vím, jak dopadly podobné prostory u nás a co všechno tam zmizelo...
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😲 thanks!
wow such crazy constuction
Indeed 😉
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Woow!! What a post!! Amazing pictures!!
Happy you like it😉