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Large areas of alienated territories, which for about a quarter of a century have been isolated from the omnipresent and destructive human activity, have turned into a unique and in many ways attractive world.
Chernobyl exclusion zone It is gradually turning into one of the most interesting natural complexes of Ukraine and is gradually becoming a noticeable tourist attraction in our country. Public interest in the alienated territories is enhanced by the abundance of high-quality resources about the city on the Internet and the release of a number of successful computer games with a well-visualized storyline, where the fictional world and the world of the real zone are harmoniously combined. The publication published by EKSMO publishing house also contributes to increasing interest in the real Chernobyl exclusion zone. Also, a significant relaxation of the access control regime also contributes to the formation of interest among the average person in the Chernobyl zone.
At the same time, the growth of the Chernobyl theme in the environment around us information space and by its transition to the category of mascult, interest in the exclusion zone increases among people who are tired of the disgusting everyday life and long for temporary solitude. Some, having bivouac experience, find solace in entering the territory of the Chernobyl zone. Another reason for the growth of stalkers in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is the desire of young people to feel like a “real stalker” - to run around the zone not on a computer screen, but live.
It was precisely the wave of reports about penetration into the Chernobyl exclusion zone that began to saturate Lately The Internet has drawn attention to such a phenomenon as stalkers.
It became interesting to analyze both the reports already published on the Internet, and to communicate (if possible) directly with the authors of the published materials. For the most part, my appeals to the authors of reports on penetrations into the exclusion zone were ignored, but several people still agreed to expand their knowledge a little about the life of stalkers.
Modern literature also contributes to the significant popularization of the topic of the Chernobyl zone. One of the publishing houses successfully sells a whole series of science fiction stories called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. In many ways, similar to the realities of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Chief Chernobyl stalker
First stalker
Surprisingly, the phrase included in the epigraph of the text was expressed by a police colonel, a man who had been protecting the Chernobyl exclusion zone for many years - Alexander Naumov. This former Chernobyl worker, often called a “stalker” by journalists, is a frequent subject of journalistic materials about the Chernobyl zone. Naumov has his own, in many ways unique, view of the form of visiting the zone.
Actually, for the sake of this phrase, it was worth mentioning this man, although whoever takes the time to surf the Internet will find a lot of interesting things about this man and his attitude towards tourism and other activities in the exclusion zone.
Although former employee The Ministry of Internal Affairs does not welcome it when it is identified with the concept of “stalker” - the newspaper “Stalker’s Bulletin” with the meaningful slogan “Your guide in the zone” (created by fans of the game of the same name), contains author’s material by A. “Colonel” Naumov about events related to the exclusion zone , accident elimination, etc.
Stalker - what's in this word
The concept of stalker was introduced by the Soviet science fiction writers, the Strugatsky brothers, in the story “Roadside Picnic.” There it was a criminal profession: “That’s what we call desperate guys in Harmont who, at their own peril and risk, penetrate the Zone and steal from there everything they manage to find.” The penetration was of a completely pragmatic nature - to steal an artifact (“swag”) from the zone and sell it for money. True, this activity greatly influenced a person - every trip is a stay in a borderline situation, where every action means a choice between life and death, where there is always a place for complex moral dilemmas, where intuition is more important than reason.
Subsequently, the image of the stalker was popularized and filled with new content thanks to Tarkovsky’s film of the same name. Here the stalker is already less of a pragmatist and more of a man of the Zone. He understands and accepts the zone - “he has a date with the Zone,” says the Professor, when the Stalker retires to be alone. And all the problems that he has from this are redeemed not by money, but by staying in this territory, where another would not live for five minutes, where there are a lot of miracles that go beyond the limits of human experience. Going to the zone is a test of yourself, a search for inner values. Note that this all happened in 1972 and 1979. respectively.
The image of a stalker has gone beyond the boundaries of works of art and this is not surprising. Man has always had areas of the unknown, and this gave rise to a whole system related concepts and images: “border and borderland” as the edge of the inhabited and understandable world, “guard” - the one who protects this world from another, scout/guide/contactee - the one who is familiar with the other world. The latter include Charon, shamans, etc. The problem is that the “unknown” shrank very much in the 20th century - there were no geographical blind spots left, objects of the intangible plane capitulated to science - therefore, guides there were no longer needed. However, having dealt with traditional mythology, industrial civilization began to build its own. And she was the first to present a new end of the world - a total war on a planetary scale with the use of weapons of mass destruction. Textbooks civil defense colorfully described this reality - the affected zones and the zones of contamination (radioactive, chemical, biological). Ruins and places where there is no place for people, but there is danger. Borders and guides to the unknown have appeared again.
The guide of the industrial era in the mass consciousness began to be called a stalker.
Stalkers of the Chernobyl zone
It is worth immediately noting that there are several fundamental differences in the people entering the exclusion zone. There is a fairly clear distinction Chernobyl stalkers into two camps - two categories. The differences between the categories are striking - this can be seen both in the quality of the reports prepared, the slang used, photographs, as well as appearance stalkers.
The first ones, I would call them that way, are curious gamers.
The second is ideological.
Regarding these two categories of stalkers, the following can be said:
The first are young people who received “basic” knowledge about the exclusion zone from computer games, and subsequently from the Internet. It is gambling addiction and the desire to sharpen the sensory perception of game plots that is the reason for entering the exclusion zone. As a rule, the average age of stalkers in this category is about 20 years old, but not older than 22-24 years. Most of these people make only one or two penetrations into the zone and calm down their ambitions.
The overwhelming majority of gambling addicts do not even cross the borders of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The sights of abandoned buildings in the mandatory resettlement zone (the area of Narodychi, Polessky, and Vilcha) are enough for them, and the resulting photographs and videos have no less apocalyptic appearance than photographs from thirty and ten (10-km exclusion zone).
In fact, these territories do not have a security perimeter and visiting them is relatively easy - but not “safe”. Thus, in 2008, four stalker-gamblers were detained by the security of the exclusion zone. The detainees were tried.
At the beginning of 2009, one stalker was also detained.
The second caste is ideological. A rather unique category of stalker fraternity. Representatives of this category penetrate the thirty-kilometer zone and occasionally enter the top ten. The ideological ones carry out lengthy visits to the zone, which usually last several days, and in some cases reach a week.
Photo - zone visitors
It is clear that penetrating into the depths of the zone requires the skills of a solo hike and certain preparation. Living, even for a few days, in a completely autonomous mode is not as easy as it seems. For example, for a two-day hike you only need at least 4-5 liters of water...
In addition, being in the exclusion zone as a violator should (and does) cause a certain moral discomfort. Not everyone can voluntarily be in such “uncomfortable” conditions.
What motivates the “ideological” ones and what are their goals for visiting the zone? One of the stalkers gave the most substantive answer to this question:
“...It is difficult to describe in words all the feelings that fill me while visiting the zone, and sometimes I am seriously afraid that there are hints of some kind of diagnosis in this. I hope not significant. It’s simply the most unique place on the entire planet, a huge territory from which all the people instantly left. It’s very interesting to visit all these villages and cities, but on the other hand everything looks ominously empty... But the main thing is that I feel alive there. There I am a person who depends only on himself, perhaps this is the main reason for the popularity of the zone among everyone who goes there illegally, alone or in small groups. I don’t know exactly what goals the others are pursuing, those who are burning down houses, causing chaos in still untouched houses... my rule No. 1 is not to change anything in the zone, no garbage and souvenirs...”
Stalker photo of the city of Pripyat
Photo of the Chernobyl zone and the city of Pripyat - “The zone through the eyes of a stalker.”
(Photo by Bat)
The last difference between these categories of stalkers is their numbers. It is difficult to find reliable figures, but according to indirect signs There are no more than two dozen “ideological” stalkers. The number of “gamblers” is an order of magnitude greater than the “ideological” ones.
It is worth mentioning the third group of people visiting the exclusion zone, people who are immensely far from computer games and the mental suffering of the urban era. People for whom entering the exclusion zone is a common event in their everyday, everyday life. This is the population of villages and hamlets that are located in close proximity to the alienated territories. It is difficult to imagine that in our beggarly times, when the state is actually carrying out genocide of the village and the majority of the rural population is begging, people would not use it as a source of free money. building material, metal and other things that can provide at least some income.
Therefore, we did not consider Aboriginal stalkers in this material. Although it should be noted that their lives require full public attention.
Stalker outfit
Equipment important element stalker. There are differences in the equipment and equipment of stalker groups. “Gamer addicts” mostly wear clothes for hiking in the forest, and sometimes simple sportswear. Funds (mostly) are not used. Although sometimes, for courage, they take gas masks with them in order to take a spectacular photo against the backdrop of some kind of radiation safety sign or dilapidated farm.
Stalker map of the exclusion zone
Almost all “ideological” stalkers know well where they are going. They are well prepared theoretically and have practical skills in radiation safety. All respondents use dosimeters (very often they even take several devices on a hike) and respiratory protection equipment. The use of gas and alcohol burners for cooking is quite common. The diet itself looks well thought out and usually consists of canned food.
An interesting detail. “Ideological” people do not leave garbage behind. Take cans, wrappers, etc. with you.
During group penetrations, walkie-talkies are often used.
Some use physical protection - the “Udar” cylinder.
"Ideological" in mandatory have a first aid kit. Here is a small list of the stalker’s first aid kit: “An elastic bandage (it’s clear why, there is a danger of sprains and dislocations, you can even fall under the floor in many houses), one sterile bandage, peroxide, iodine, painkillers (ketanov is the most effective, but quite aggressive).”
Route of the stalker's penetration into the restricted area
Stalkers are reluctant to talk about places of entry into the zone. One gets the impression that each of the “gamblers” believes that his route is in some way unique. “Ideological” stalkers keep the “holes” secret due to the growing popularity of infiltration into the Chernobyl zone. They are also silent about the “holes” in the security perimeter of the city of Pripyat. It seems that everyone has their own “secret” route.
At the same time, for those who know the exclusion zone, it is quite easy to determine the likely locations of infiltration from photographs that are abundantly posted on the Internet.
We will not post detailed maps of stalkers’ routes through the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Below is a schematic map of penetration zones different categories stalkers, compiled from the analysis of reports and photographs.
Below are several schematic maps compiled by stalkers and gamers. Published with permission from the map's authors.
Stalker map of the exclusion zone
Stalker map
Stalker - as a means of protecting the zone
The correspondence acquaintance with the stalkers, which took place during the analysis of their reports, leads to several contradictory thoughts. The first problem that lies on the surface is the need to tighten security measures, strengthen control and punishment. We can say with a high degree of confidence that this approach is unlikely to solve the problem. Since stalkers with experience have already established contacts with the locals (aboriginals) and know about all the regimes of patrolling the perimeter of the Chernobyl zone. Increased controls are likely to be temporary, but as the financial crisis progresses, there is likely to be no impact at all.
The second approach is the possibility of involving stalkers in the work of protecting and caring for the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Legalization. The approach is not without flaws - but with a thoughtful approach, young people could, on a voluntary basis, join the work of foresters and other important services of the exclusion zone, which, by the nature of their activities, are related to the care and control of the condition of the 2,600 square kilometer zone of environmental disaster.
It is important that such an approach, allowing young people to take part in the scientific and production process of enterprises in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, would also have a powerful educational and educational character.
Agree, today this is extremely important for our degrading society.
The authors do not approve of stalkers entering the exclusion zone, because these actions are not only illegal, but dangerous for the stalkers themselves. To provide complete information when making a decision to enter, we have compiled a rating of the dangers of illegally visiting the zone. When constructing the rating, the authors used more than 10 years of personal experience field work in the Zone and the experience of colleagues, information about incidents and accidents. Types of hazards are arranged according to the increasing likelihood of their occurrence.
1. Wild animals. In the zone there are three species of large predators that could potentially attack humans - lynx, wolf and possibly bear. Regarding the last species, there are no reliable signs of its presence, but this is rather a flaw of the researchers, because it is present in the Belarusian part of the zone. In addition to the threat of attack, predators can serve as a source of rabies infection. Poisonous animals are the common viper and hornets. The viper is quite numerous - this is due to the abundance of its habitats: swamps and moist forests. Hornets build nests in closed spaces - hollows, voids, abandoned rooms. Despite its size, it is a rather dangerous creature - one of the authors witnessed how a hornet “incapacitated” an adult man for 4 hours; in 2008, an electrician died from a hornet bite.
2. Radiation sources. Ranking the zone at 5 km, 10 km and 30 km according to the degree of danger and dose load is quite adequate, but rather gives a general picture. You are not immune from receiving a dose even in the “cleanest” places. The reason for this may be man-made sources - a part from equipment that took part in the liquidation, a “dirty” room in which, in 1986, the liquidators stored “dirty” things.
3. Law enforcement agencies. The service of the internal affairs bodies in the zone is not limited to protecting the perimeter and facilities. Therefore, solving the problem of “bypassing the checkpoint” does not solve the problem. In addition to security there is operational units, catching illegal visitors is their job. For such work – raids and clean-ups – “non-local” law enforcement units (special forces and rapid reaction groups) are involved. And if you light up, the hunt will begin. By the way, it will light up very easily. The zone only seems lifeless, in fact, the “eye” is enough, and it is very easy for an experienced person to identify a “non-local” based on the traces of his presence. There is only one result - stage to Ivankovsky district court through the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chernobyl. In addition to the police, the following services can hunt for a stalker: border troops, forest guards, operational groups of the VOKhRA.
4. Illegal rabble. There are enough of them in the Zone - hunters for metal and building materials, mushroom pickers, poachers. One cannot be a misanthrope, but this category of people is such that it is better to re-read Arsenyev again: “In the taiga of the Ussuri region one must always count on the possibility of meeting wild animals. But the most unpleasant thing is meeting a person. The animal flees from a person, but if it rushes, it is only when it is being pursued. In such cases, both the hunter and the beast - everyone knows what to do. The person is another matter. In the taiga, only God knows, and therefore the custom has developed a special skill. A person who sees another person must first of all hide and prepare his rifle.” These can hand you over to the police or deprive you of your property, health, or life. The last option is not very uncommon. As one police officer explained, “they don’t like poachers here not because they exterminate animals, but because any imported gun often finds targets among people” (negligence or murder is not the point).
5. Unpopulated. The territory itself, without taking into account the radiation factor, is fraught with many dangers. The most typical ones are various types of penetrations into the ground: wells, cesspools, basements, etc. Over 20 years, everything has become so overgrown that you can’t see it right away. Another problem is traps, snares and traps - the tools of poachers and self-settlers. The abundance of swamps suggests the presence of bogs. We can list and list, but all these dangers are familiar to a more or less experienced tourist. However, this is where the biggest problem lies. If something happens, then a qualified first honey. help can only be provided in the special medical unit of Chernobyl or at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and this can be very far away...
P.S. Emergency exit. The above arguments did not convince you and you are going to visit the zone. We can only recommend one thing - when working through the map before penetration, drawing a route, mark the “emergency exit” points for yourself. “Emergency exit” points are places where you can get in touch with the personnel of the exclusion zone and get help in a situation where you have no time for secrecy. “Emergency exit” points: 1. Centers of the Zone – Chernobyl, town. Polesskoe and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vilcha; 2. Bases of services and enterprises with round-the-clock presence of personnel - bases of foresters (Paryshev, Opachichi, Lubyanka), checkpoints (Lelev, Paryshev, Pripyat, Benevka), railway station "Yanov". 3. Villages with self-settlers - Teremtsy, Ladyzhichi, Paryshev, Ilintsy, Dibrova, Lubyanka, Opachichi, Kupovatoe. 4. Fire stations for foresters - towers (Korogod and Cherevach).
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Ideological Stalker
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Several days of illegal life in the Exclusion Zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Hundreds of kilometers on your own in this unique place. With photos and videos.
For obvious reasons, I will not indicate the entry points to the Zone and the names of some settlements.
I do not support illegal extreme tourism in the Chernobyl Zone and do not take people there.
The long-awaited spring has arrived. I was looking forward to it all winter, because only in warm weather can you go on a multi-day trip with overnight stays in nature.
I had been planning a solo trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the city of Pripyat since last year. And now the train ticket has been purchased, and it’s time for me to pack my backpack.
I chose a rather exotic travel option: I, as a citizen of Russia, cross the Russian-Ukrainian border by train, then illegally enter the Zone alone, cross it in two days, visiting dead, evacuated villages along the way, enter the city of Pripyat and live there several days exploring the City and surrounding areas. For the thrill of the sensation, I don’t take it with me. mobile phone and a topographic map (it's in my head).
As usual, early in the morning I arrive by train in Kyiv and go to the bus station. I take the Kyiv-****** bus and get to one settlement. I get off in a small village a few kilometers from the border of the Chernobyl Zone. The railway passing through it leads directly to Pripyat. I have to walk along this road for two days. After a few kilometers I approach village B. This is the beginning of the Zone. Forbidden, protected area. Unconditional resettlement zone. Now you have to be very careful, since meeting any person there is already a danger of being caught.
Suddenly, from around a bend obscured by trees, a man in a camouflage suit, carrying a bicycle in his hands, comes out to meet me. There is no use in hiding (he saw me), so I calmly continue to walk forward. Having caught up with him, I say hello. A conversation ensues roughly as follows:
-Where are you going?
— I’m a tourist, I’m coming from Ovruch (“clean” territory), I want to see the village of V*******.
- So this is the Zone!
“I know, that’s why I want to watch from afar.”
- Why from afar? Go to the village and take a walk.
- And the police?
- Yes, she’s only at the checkpoint a couple of kilometers from here. Sometimes the patrol goes, but if the documents are in order, then everything will be fine.
— What if at the railway station they notice me and ask what I’m doing here?
— Say that you are writing a project paper at the institute.
— Do trains travel here often?
- Yes, every night, there’s a logging base here.
I did not ask this man what his job was in the Exclusion Zone. I say goodbye to him and move on. Now you need to go unnoticed through the active V. station, where people work. I turn off the railway and walk along the asphalt not far from the station. I notice two people near her. Hiding behind one of the buildings, I wait for about 15 minutes, look out - no one.
I quickly pass the area that is visible from the station and move on, hiding in the thickets of nature. V. is the first village on my way that was resettled. It is very overgrown, most of the houses burned down, all that remains are ruins with brick chimneys looking lonely into the sky, as if waiting for their former owners. This is a typical landscape of the Zone, which is difficult to get used to. Somewhere in this village there is still a glimmer of life - several local old people are living out their lives there - indigenous residents of V., who did not want to move from this contaminated place to a clean territory - in the village of the same name, specially built for migrants in the Kharkov region. For six years after the accident, they lived on radioactive land, until Polesie was recognized as a dangerous zone, and local residents were offered to move. And in the resettled V., as well as in other few inhabited settlements of the Zone, local residents are becoming fewer and fewer every year...
Gamma background in Vilcha is about 40 microR/h.
I leave the village and take a short break. It’s already past noon and there’s a long distance to go. Now it’s two days to walk through deserted territory to the heart of the Chernobyl Zone - the city of Pripyat. I take my backpack and head along the railway. It is difficult to walk along it: a person’s step is noticeably greater than the distance between the sleepers. If you step on each one, the steps become short, and this is very exhausting. And with a heavy backpack, taking a step over a sleeper is also difficult.
This railway line is hardly used. This is evidenced by rusty rails and mighty bushes growing between the sleepers and on the embankment. In some places there are even short trees between the sleepers. A fallen forest tree leaned over the rails, blocking the path for a possible train:
Nature is reclaiming its territories once occupied by humans...
After a few kilometers I approach station P. From a distance you can’t immediately notice the platform consisting of concrete blocks - everything there is also overgrown with bushes. Since 1986, no one has left it by train.
There is no need for a watch in the Zone—the journey is adjusted by looking at the position of the sun. The daylight hours in April are not too long as in summer, but you still have to walk a long distance.
It's getting close to evening, so I quicken my pace. Clean water purchased in Kyiv is running out. I replenish my water supply from a small reservoir formed in the forest after the snow melts. The water is so clear that I drink it without even filtering it. It’s only in the spring that there are many such reservoirs along the way. In summer they dry up and along 55 kilometers there are only a few dirty swamps and two rivers with water of questionable quality.
The sun is sinking to the horizon, you need to choose a place to spend the night. On the way is station K. This is the only building next to the station with an overgrown platform. A tree grown in the asphalt rests on the roof of the station building. The place to spend the night is not very good: from wild animals this open building, of course, won’t save you, but you have a roof over your head in case of rain. I leave my already rather tired backpack at the station and go to explore the surroundings while the sun has not yet completely dropped below the horizon. Not far away, the railway line is crossed by a sandy road with fresh tracks from car wheels. This is alarming, but not as much as the numerous traces of animals on the road and near the place of overnight stay.
It gets even darker.
I return to the station, unpack my sleeping bag, and put on warm clothes. Afterwards a light dinner by the light of a lantern (it was very dark). Around me there is a deserted radioactive forest for tens of kilometers. This place is officially called the Polesie Radiation-Ecological Reserve.
Gamma background level is 30-40 µR/h.
After a couple of hours, the birds stop singing, and complete silence sets in, occasionally broken by trees swaying in the wind...
I fall into a light sleep in my sleeping bag.
At dawn I reluctantly crawl out of my sleeping bag and pack my backpack.
The rising sun with its warm rays illuminates the railway and station K, which recently lay in complete darkness at night. The morning freshness invigorates better than strong coffee. I continue my journey further. There are 30 kilometers to Pripyat, which you must walk before sunset. This figure, which easily fits into the minds of a city dweller, at the moment seems too large: there are no cars here - no one will give you a ride, no shops - nowhere to buy water, no electricity and mobile communications. This is a desert. Green, beautiful, with singing birds, with forest puddles, but a desert.
A couple of kilometers later, the Ilya River flows under the railway bridge.
The second bridge over the river is for cars. After the Chernobyl accident, a river crossing was required to eliminate the consequences. The military brought this folding metal bridge, which was never taken away.
I replenish my water supply in the river and move on. Forest ticks cling to your clothes and you have to remove them every 10-15 minutes.
The radiation background gradually increases to 60-80 μR/h.
Until this time, I was walking in the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone. After the open gates with barbed wire that once closed the railway, the 10-kilometer Zone (also called the “ten”) begins.
In general, there are three Chernobyl Zones: 30-kilometer, 10-kilometer and Pripyat with the Chernobyl industrial site. There is an anecdote on this topic: “In a 30-kilometer zone it is customary to address each other with the prefix “von”, in a 10-kilometer zone - “Your Grace”, and near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - “Your Excellency.”
The single-lane railway line branches into three tracks - the next station ahead is Tolsty Les. On the left is a large brick station building with a rusty sign “THAT FOREST South-Western Order of Lenin Railway”.
Making my way through the thickets, I approach the station door. The entrance was blocked by a tree growing on the steps. With difficulty I squeeze through its branches and go inside the station. On the right is the ticket office window, where tickets were sold until 1986, and next to it is a rusty metal boiler for heating the room. The inscriptions made in Soviet times, before the Chernobyl accident.
This station building, compared to others, is very well preserved: almost all the glass in the windows is intact, there are doors, there is a light bulb hanging on the ceiling, but there has been no electricity for many years.
In other rooms there are Soviet posters and mountains on the floor accounting documents this station. In the right wing of the building there used to be a store for passengers waiting for their train. They probably sold all sorts of goodies there at that time. Now all that's left are dusty empty display cases and broken scales:
Near the station there is a small station village. It is located in a very picturesque forest of ancient oaks. There are really very beautiful places there. This is a nature reserve, as indicated by the sign:
Other buildings in this village are in dilapidated condition. There is an incomprehensible underground structure nearby:
Inside are even more incomprehensible containers with the inscription “Infected”
I measure the background radiation nearby, but it turns out to be no higher than in the surrounding area.
It's approaching noon. We must move on. Beyond the station, the background radiation increases noticeably. On the radiometer, readings easily reach 100 at first, then 200 and 300 μR/h. This is not surprising: the western radioactive trail passed here after the accident at the nuclear power plant.
After 7 kilometers the large village of Tolsty Les adjoins the railway line.
This settlement has a long history. The first mention in historical documents dates back to 1447. Before the 1917 revolution, more than 1000 people lived in the village. In the 1970s - about 800. Before the Chernobyl disaster, she worked in the village high school and the unique Holy Resurrection Church, consecrated in 1860. It was built of wood without a single nail. In 1996, there were severe fires in these places. Not only this church burned down, but also the local cemetery.
The gamma background in Tolstoy Les in many places exceeds 1000 microR/h. Residents were resettled in 1986 to the Makarovsky district of the Kyiv region.
Not far from Tolstoy Les is the village of Novaya Krasnitsa. There is also the Krasnitsa station, which is identical in structure to the Kliviny station.
The good news is that there is a bench with a table there. I sit down to rest for a while and hit the road again. There are still 20 kilometers to Pripyat, and it’s already more than noon.
Gamma background – more than 300-400 µR/h.
After a couple of kilometers, the radiation noticeably decreases - I have passed the zone of severe contamination. The railway is improving: rotten and overgrown wooden sleepers are being replaced by concrete ones, covered with fresh gravel. Trees were cut down on the slope so as not to interfere with the passage of the train.
Nearby is a station called Buryakovka. In general, “buryakovka” is the Ukrainian name for vodka produced according to a special recipe. This is the name of the village, which was formed in the middle of the 19th century. After the Chernobyl accident, all residents were resettled in the Makarovsky district of the Kyiv region.
The water is running out again. It is not suitable for drinking in the station well. This means I will again replenish water supplies from open sources.
Near the village of Buryakovka there is a radioactive repository for contaminated equipment and the only civilized radioactive waste storage facility in the Zone, “Vector,” built jointly with German company"NUKEM". Not only “Chernobyl” waste accumulated there: in 2003, under conditions of heightened secrecy, 16 cubic meters of radioactive origin from the former Makarov military site were brought to Buryakovka for burial.
The chimney of the 4th block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is 12 kilometers away. Radiation background on the railway line is about 100 µR/h.
Three kilometers from Buryakovka station is Shepelichi station.
This is the last station before Pripyat. I'm reaching the finish line. After a few kilometers I will enter the City - the main level of the Chernobyl Zone.
Elk!
A moving silhouette appears in the distance ahead of me. Really people?! I immediately look around, in case I retreat to hide in the depths of the forest. But there is a wetland nearby, although this should not stop you. I use binoculars to watch the silhouette on my way. It turns out to be a moose that has walked onto the railway line. Through binoculars we manage to photograph this animal:
There are a lot of moose in the Zone; I have met them on previous trips. Moose do not attack people, they are afraid of them and run away. I keep moving forward.
It is getting noticeably dark, and there are still several kilometers to go to Pripyat. There are two rusty carriages on the ground near the forest:
The pillars of the Yanov station are already visible through binoculars.
Car!
To the right of the road, about 200 meters away, I hear the sound of a passing car! I quickly rush from the embankment into the thickets and observe: the minibus drove towards Pripyat and disappeared behind the trees. These are local workers who go to Buryakovka. In order not to risk it, I carefully walk further along the path next to the railway.
Pripyat is nearby, but to get out into the City, you still need to find a place where you can crawl through the barbed wire that surrounds Pripyat. But it got very dark, so I decided to spend the night somewhere on the outskirts so that early in the morning, in the light of the sun, I could calmly enter the closed City.
The nearest buildings of the Pripyat enterprise are fenced with a fence with barbed wire. I walk along the fence and after a while I find a place where I can pass through it: there is barbed wire hanging down to the ground, and I calmly step over it, heading deeper into the enterprise. Nearby there are abandoned garages and institutions with a background gamma level of 700-900 microR/h, and this is an unhealthy environment. I'm going to continue looking for another place. 200-300 µR/h in gamma is already better, especially since there is time to search suitable place there was no room left for the night. I enter a long one-story building, choose a room, and by the light of a lantern I unpack my backpack. Now you can have dinner and relax after a many-kilometer trek.
At night there is a strong wind. In complete darkness, old doors and window frames creak, making it difficult to sleep. The wind blowing into the room rustles numerous accounting forms scattered on the floor. But fatigue takes its toll, and I gradually fall asleep.
Waking up early in the morning, I pack my backpack and carefully head to the center of Pripyat. The weather is getting worse: the sun is hidden behind the clouds, a cool wind is blowing, but this does not spoil the mood - I have reached the City!
Approaching the famous 16-story building with the coat of arms of the USSR on the roof (Lazarev Street, building 1), I hear the sound of a car. I run to this house and hide. A car passes somewhere nearby and drives away (I didn’t look out and didn’t see what kind of car it was). I enter this building and climb onto the roof, from where the entire city and the reactor are clearly visible.
Looking at the empty closed City, a special feeling arises that cannot be expressed in words. Pripyat does not seem like a “leperous” place at all. On the contrary, there is a feeling of comfort and calm. There is no city bustle here now, no people rushing to work, no rockets leaving the pier, no people relaxing in the parks. Peace and quiet. The city went out at a young age, at the age of 16, when on April 27, 1986, 48 thousand of its residents were evacuated. That day, people were told that the city would be evacuated temporarily for three days. None of them knew that it would be forever.
If you look at the City from above for the first time, you won’t immediately say that it is dead: the residential areas appear to be well preserved. But if you look closely, you notice that the strength of plant life in Pripyat is so great that thickets of trees have approached houses and entrances. Trees even grow on balconies, from open hatches, on the roofs of buildings, from asphalt covered with moss and bushes. The football field of the city stadium has turned into a grove.
But it is only from above that the buildings seem to be well preserved. In fact, Pripyat is being destroyed. Part of the school building No. 1 was the first to collapse. The underground infrastructure is flooded, many buildings are in disrepair. It is already dangerous to enter some of them. That is why I am against illegal trips, when inexperienced and ignorant people come there and endanger their health and lives. What’s even more upsetting is that visitors to the City leave trash behind: in the entrance of this house alone, I saw empty bottles, cigarette packs, etc., recently left behind. I don’t leave anything in the Exclusion Zone: I take all my garbage with me and throw it in the trash when I return to Kyiv.
The wind picks up and it becomes very cool. I descend from the roof into an empty apartment on the 16th floor. I’m already deciding to go into the city, when through the window I see a bus driving up Lenin Avenue from the Pripyat checkpoint. He stopped on Kurchatov Street near the Rainbow store (where there is a yellow telephone booth).
Several people got out and headed into this building. About 15 minutes later they came out, carrying with them something like a stand, and carried it onto the bus. Then we turned around and drove back to the checkpoint. During this time, another bus passed, also through Lenin Avenue, but headed in the other direction - towards Lesya Ukrainka Street.
A few minutes later a truck drove along the same route.
A police patrol that passed soon finally led me to the idea that Pripyat was like a passageway.
But the City becomes empty for a while. I carefully leave the entrance and walk through the courtyards to the park.
The opening of the amusement park was planned for May 1, 1986. But in order to prevent panic and distract residents from the situation at the 4th power unit, the Ferris wheel was launched on April 26. It was in use for one day. Just 1 day. The attraction, which froze 23 years ago, will never see its visitors again.
There was a radioactive stain in this park. My radiometer shows values that are noticeably higher than the gamma background: 300-400-600 µR/h. There are places there with higher levels.
It's starting to rain. I'm heading to the city center. I've known people here for a long time Shopping mall, Palace of Culture "Energetik", hotel "Polesie", music school, cinema "Prometheus".
The rain gets heavier and I hide from it in music school. The building is in poor condition: the mosaic of colored pebbles in front of the main entrance is crumbling to the delight of irresponsible tourists; inside the school, the rotten floor is overgrown with moss, broken furniture is everywhere; The ceiling leaks and floods the piano with the keys torn off. I wonder who needed to tear them off? In another room there is a wooden box with a sign of radioactivity.
The rain stops, and I head through the thickets of Pripyat along Kurchatov Street to the river pier.
Shall we wait for the bus?
To get to the Pripyat River, you need to find a place in the fence with barbed wire. The pier is located behind the Pripyat cafe.
There was a radioactive stain on the pier. But radionuclide contamination there is very uneven. I spent a long time monitoring the radiation situation at the pier to find the “dirtiest” place, exploring the area centimeter by centimeter.
The background level varies tenfold at a distance of just half a meter. For example, on the penultimate flight of stairs when descending to the pier on the steps there is about 4000 microR/h, and on the ground behind the stairs 50 centimeters no more than 800 microR/h. A few meters from the stairs - on the asphalt of the pier - from 100 to 400 μR/h.
Catch your dinner, fish, big and small, two-tailed and two-headed =))
A few hundred meters from the asphalt jetty is a partially submerged floating jetty.
On the way to it there is another local radioactive spot.
Behind the floating pier there is a rescue station.
A few hundred meters from the exit from Pripyat is the village of Novye Shepelichi. This village is much older than Pripyat, and used to be the regional center of the Kyiv region.
Even before the trip, planning to visit Novye Shepelichi, I found out on the Internet that ASKRO operates in the village ( automatic system control of the radiation situation) - such a booth with equipment that automatically takes measurements of background radiation and transmits data to Chernobyl. The same system exists in Pripyat near the stadium. The peculiarity of ASKRO is that this system works without the participation of people.
There is also evidence that after the Chernobyl accident in Novi Shepelichi they organized a farm where they studied the effect of radiation on bulls and cows. For some reason this farm was closed.
The glory from the road is the PMK enterprise, on its territory there is a grocery store and several 4-story buildings. To the right of the road is a bus stop, empty for 23 years. In the center of the village there is a store “Products for Children”.
Rural one-story wooden houses are overgrown and dilapidated. I walk to the end of the village and go down to the river. On the shore there are rotten boats, “eaten” by vegetation in the shade of trees approaching the river.
After resting a bit by the river, I return to the village. The silence of the abandoned area is broken by the sound of a car driving out of the alley behind me. I turn around and realize that there is no use hiding - they have already seen me on the straight road (by the way, no one sells an invisibility hat?). I calmly continue to walk forward, moving to the left side of the road, having already come to terms with the fact that my journey is ending. A red Zhiguli car drives past me. The only person in the car – the driver – looked at me and drove on without stopping. Marvelous! I’m in a 10-kilometer Zone, alone, with a backpack, without accompanying people, and not only are they not stopping me, they’re also not interested in what I’m doing here! The car disappeared around the bend. The only local residents in the 10-kilometer Zone live there—grandfather Savva and his wife Elena. Here is their house:
Pripyat is surrounded by barbed wire.
To be continued.
Novochernobyl.
It was the fourth year of the confrontation between the stalkers of Novochernobyl and the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. The Chernobyl zone is freed from state protection and came under the complete control of stalkers. Among them, a referendum was held, as a result of which Novochernobyl was proclaimed, which included two independent republics: the Central People's Republic and the West People's Republic (Central Stalker and Western Stalker People's Republics). The borders of the CZNR have been expanded beyond Ivankov and Narodich.
As a result of the confrontation, the Ivankovsky, Dityatsky and Lelevsky cauldrons were formed, in which the police forces of Ukraine in the amount of 4.5 thousand people were digested.
In accordance with Art. 1-64 KSNoAN (Novochernobyl Stalkers Code on Administrative Violations), any obstruction of the presence and movement of stalkers in Novochernobyl and the penetration of any police, security and paramilitary state forces of Ukraine into its territory is prohibited. For the import of any non-radioactive items into Novochernobyl from the territory of Ukraine, criminal article 562 of the UKSN (Criminal Code of Novochernobyl stalkers) was introduced.
The NBK arch is being dismantled by Novarka workers captured by stalkers. Ukraine cuts off the power supply to Novochernobyl. In response to this, the stalkers launch the 1st and 2nd power units and resume construction of the second stage of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. At the Semikhody station, a redoubt was installed on the railway to blockade trains from Ukrainian-controlled territory. The border with Belarus is taken under the control of Novochernobyl, the circulation of the hryvnia is prohibited, only Belarusian rubles are in circulation. Stalker's has been declared the official language. The second state is Belarusian. Negotiations are underway with Alexander Lukashenko on the annexation of Novochernobyl into Belarus. Ukraine, in a panic, is turning to the Hague and European courts with claims against Belarus and asking for political support from Russia and the United States.
The curfew in the exclusion zone has been lifted, but stalkers are on duty at all checkpoints to enforce access control. Regular patrols of the area are carried out by self-defense forces of stalkers and identification of persons who illegally entered the territory of Novochernobyl.
In the CPR and ZPR, groups of police saboteurs from Ukraine are periodically caught and liquidated.
From Novochernobyl reports. April 13, 8:20 am.
A single stalker takes a position in a Pripyat apartment and carefully observes the area through the window, trying not to give away his location. At 10:35 he discovers a group of three patrol police officers quietly making their way in the courtyards along the overgrown Lesya Ukrainka Street, turning around every 5 meters. The stalker runs out of the apartment onto the street in front of the patrolmen, blocking their path.
- Good day, lads! What are you doing here?
- Yes, we are... just walking.
- Have you heard about Article 1-64?
- Yes, but we were... walking, we just wanted to look at Pripyat... We are not policemen or patrolmen...
- Why in police uniform?
- Yes, we bought it at the market in Kyiv.
- Give us the documents. And put everything out of your backpacks and pockets on the ground.
The police obediently give the stalker documents, unpack their backpacks on the ground and turn out their pockets. Stalker checks documents.
- Oh, so among you is a citizen of Lvov! Well, guys, you got it! You will have to call the stalker security service, this is always done when catching a foreigner on the territory of Novochernobyl. Lvov is no longer Ukraine.
- What will we get for this now?
- It is the stalker court in Ivankov that will decide what to do with you. Nothing will probably happen to the Lviv residents; they will have an educational conversation and be expelled from Novochernobyl, and the rest will be sent to mandatory work to improve the conditions of stalkers. railway You will clear the thickets from Vilcha to Krasnitsa, or drain the swamps in the Red Forest, maybe they will send you to dismantle the NBK arch with the French. Do you think this will be fair? We didn’t come to you, but you came to us!
The police reluctantly mumbled, which was fair.
“Oh, just don’t take us to Vilcha,” one policeman begged. “Last year, stalkers detained me there, took away my thermal imager and police uniform, and then I got a lot of flack from my superiors and almost got fired.” Okay, there's a thermal imager, but why do you need a police uniform, I can't imagine...
“We don’t need the uniform,” answered the stalker, “but they took it away so that it would be discouraging to come to us.” And in general, we’ve already gotten enough of it, we catch it every time, and you keep getting in and out here, and even with hired foreigners,” the stalker became incensed, “What have you forgotten here anyway?” We are not coming to you!
The patrolmen silently lowered their heads, realizing that the rest of the day would be lost only in drawing up protocols and taking testimony from them. And Ivankov’s stalker’s trial loomed looming ahead - harsh, but fair!
- They won’t beat us? - the police asked with fear.
- If you behave decently, they won’t. And be glad that I stopped you. If the stalkers from Grezlya were in my place, they would have long ago led you to Pripyat along Lenin Avenue, like the captured Frenchmen of Novarka last year. After them, the entire avenue was washed with water from the backwater.
- Why the French?
- It wasn’t a bad idea to build this barn at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Now they are working for free and dismantling it.
The stalker hid the police passports in his pocket and called operational stalkers from Chernobyl by phone.
- Collect your things in your backpacks and go into the apartment, you will help me insert double-glazed windows, I won’t have to work alone.
“Yes, yes, of course we will help,” the police responded happily, “How long will it take for them to come from Chernobyl for us?”
- In about seven hours they will come for you, but they will not come. We don't drive around Novochernobyl, we just walk.
- Will they also take us to Chernobyl on foot?
- Naturally. And look, no nonsense there! I still have your documents, no one will let you out of Novochernobyl without them. If you try to escape, we will still catch you and punish you! And hand over your phones, all contacts from them will be checked against our stalker database.
Six hours later, with the help of the police, double-glazed windows were installed in the stalker's apartment. The four of us sat down to have lunch at a cozy table in the center of the room. There was no longer a tense atmosphere between the police and the stalker; they began to talk about everyday topics.
- Where did you stalkers get the double-glazed windows?
- We buy from Belarus.
- Hmm... And on television they say that Belarus is not helping you!
“They also say on television that there are no foreigners serving in your police ranks,” the stalker said, nodding at the Lviv resident.
- He does not officially serve us, he is a hired policeman, so to speak, he went to defend Ukraine at his own request.
“Well, we don’t have official stalkers from Belarus, only hired ones,” the stalker laughed.
- What a shame and trouble! - the police were indignant.
- Zrada, not zrada, but officially there are no Belarusians in Novochernobyl, period! Do you still not see the crucified stalkers in the square in front of Ivankov’s court? Why are you silent? Are you ashamed?
The conversation did not go well, and for the next 15 minutes everyone dined in silence. There was a knock at the apartment and the stalker went to open the door. From afar, an alien ringing voice sounded a greeting: “Glory to Novochernobyl!” The answer was not long in coming: “Glory to the stalkers!”
“Stalkers have no luck,” one of the Ukrainian policemen mimicked quietly and sarcastically.
“They came for us from Chernobyl,” said the Lviv resident.
Two new stalkers entered the room and headed towards the police.
“Okay, okay, soooo, that means we have dear guests,” one of the stalkers said joyfully, “Shake out your backpacks and empty your pockets!”
- But we’ve already been searched!
- Well, it’s okay, we’ll search you again.
The police reluctantly began to dismantle their backpacks again, pulling their contents onto the floor. The second of the stalkers who came, thoughtfully moving a couple of their things with his foot, suddenly barked in an angry voice:
- The first two lines of the anthem of Novochernobyl! Fast!
The police shuddered and mumbled:
- In Ukraine, both glory and glory have died, We are still brothers, stalkers of the Chernobyl rooo...
- And now they got up and started jumping with the words “Whoever doesn’t jump will freeze!”
- This is already too much! Stop mocking them! - said the very first stalker who detained the police, - We are not some kind of monsters, we will not act using their methods, especially since such torture is prohibited by the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners. Just take them and take them to Chernobyl, let them deal with them further as they want. “And I still need to bring electricity into the house from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, I’m already tired of cooking food over a fire,” with these words the stalker handed over the police passports to his colleagues.
The route to Chernobyl first passed through the Red Forest. Everyone walked in silence, cursing this swampy area to themselves. “It’s okay, soon the Ivankovsky cauldron will surrender to us, we’ll immediately force them to drain these swamps,” the stalkers thought. “It’s okay, soon Putin will come, we’ll restore order, we’ll immediately force these stalkers to sit in this swamp again,” the police dreamed. Dusk had fallen on Novochernobyl, ahead was a long way to Chernobyl. In Pripyat, electric lights came on in many apartments.
Long after midnight, tired travelers reached the former Chernobyl police department, where the stalker department was located, and handed the police over to the hands of security officers, where they were greeted, albeit peacefully, but without enthusiasm:
- Contents of backpacks and pockets on the floor!
- But we’re already... Oh, okay.
The interrogation continued until the morning.
- How did you enter the territory of Novochernobyl?
- Through the demarcation line at Katyuzhanka, then we went around Ivankov and Oranoye through the forest, after Dityatsky Cauldron, and straight to Pripyat.
- How did they force the Already?
- At first we wanted to cross the bridge at night, but behind the bridge we saw stalkers in ambush and we had to swim across two kilometers from Cherevach.
- Do you have any prohibited items on you? I suggest you submit it right now.
The Lviv resident with trembling hands pulled out from his bosom a small book “The Constitution of Ukraine”. The rest of the policemen covered their faces with their hands, quietly cursing the Lviv resident:
- Well, why the hell did you take this with you? Couldn't you leave it in your country? Now they will force you to eat it!
The stalker who was interrogating the police became gloomy and silent. After some silence, he said through clenched teeth:
- For what purpose did they enter the territory of Novochernobyl?
- Our superiors sent us to you for reconnaissance, we didn’t want to go, but each of us has a family, children, we need to feed them something...
- Don’t we have families and children? - the interrogator interrupted him angrily, - We held a referendum, created independent republics here and are defending our territory from people like you! It’s you who are coming to us, not us to you!
- This referendum was illegal, not a single country except Belarus and a couple of banana republics will recognize your Novochernobyl! - The Ukrainian policeman retorted, surprised at his own courage, - And Russia is for us! Putin has come - put things in order!
The entire stalker self-defense department laughed in unison.
- In the morning you will be taken to the Ivankovsky stalker court, where a decision will be made about your future fate. Afterwards, you will return with your companions to do mandatory work for the benefit of Novochernobyl.
- Will they take you away? On foot again? - the police were dejected.
- Of course on foot! We're just walking. You walked to Pripyat, so get used to walking, it’s good for your health. Moreover, you will go along the road, and not through forests and fields. In 11 hours you will reach at a fast pace with short rest breaks. It’s just time to go out, otherwise you won’t have time...
It was the fourth year of the confrontation between the stalkers of Novochernobyl and the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.
Notes
Art. 1-64 KSNoAN dated 10/09/2023 No. X-3708
Violation of the requirements of the security regime for stalkers in a specially defined zone of radiation contamination, which is expressed in penetration into this zone law enforcement Ukraine without official permission from the stalker community or unauthorized patrolling in it, or preventing the presence and movement of stalkers in it, -
entails punishment in the form of compulsory work for the benefit of Novochernobyl from 360 to 840 hours with confiscation of the instruments of the offense.
Art. 562 UKSN dated 10/09/2023 No. X-3709
The importation of any non-radioactive items, food and animals into the territory of Novochernobyl entails criminal liability in the form of imprisonment with compulsory work for the benefit of Novochernobyl for a period of two to five years.
The same actions, if they caused harm to the citizens of Novochernobyl or other grave consequences, are punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years.
About the plot:
People's Solyanka is a modification where you need to keep a lot of details and information in your head for various quests. This article contains tips on quests that are included in the quest line "The Last Day and Backwater". (Guide compiler: Admin(Spaa-team))
Walkthrough guide: 1. We move to the backwater, read the radio exchange
2. After Norman deals with the Monolith fighters, we search the corpses and find a map from one of them
3. We go to the helicopter, which lies in the swamp - we find a military man, we take the document from him
4. We receive a message from the Perfumer, go to the place marked on the map. There we talk to Robinson, he directs us to Beard
5. We talk with Beard, find out about the local residents. After the conversation, we receive a message about the captured bandits, we go to the meeting.
6. After negotiations, we go to the attic for weapons, talk to Beard - we get the task. Afterwards we talk with Fainting, and then with Keith. We give them the guns, accompany Keith to the nearest hill, and talk to him again.
7. We return, talk to Fainting, go with him to the local gang in Skadovsk
8. In Skadovsk we talk to Grandfather, get the task, talk to the Bartender, talk to the guard at the entrance, move with him to the barge
9. On the barge we kill all the mutants, find the parts we need, talk, and set off further on our journey alone.
Where to look for radio components
10. We come to Vaseline, talk to him, climb to the top of the barge, to the antenna, after the radio exchange we go down, talk to Vaseline again, take the next task
11. We go to the Bandits at the substation, kill everyone, open the elevator doors, but don’t jump down, otherwise we won’t get out later
12. We take the radio components to Keith, talk to Beard, get a tip on a bloodsucker hunter, go to the village, clear it out, the hunter comes, talk to him.
13. We learn about Sakharova and receive a new task to find a hunter’s friend. We follow the bat.
14. At the Port cranes we find the body of a friend of the Bloodsucker Hunter, take his documents and take them to the hunter.
15. We receive a tip on Sakharova, go to the substation, jump into the elevator, go to the closed door, after radio communication it will open
16. We go deeper into the room, meet peaceful bloodsuckers and Sakharov, we talk, we get a notebook for Professor Sakharov.
17. We go to Yantar, give the notebook to Sakharov, return to Zaton to Bar on Skadovsk
18. We receive a task from the Bartender - Track the rat. We climb higher and track the rat.
19. After the Rat arrives at the destination, go talk to him. We receive information about the cave, and money that needs to be taken to the Bartender
20. We take the money to the Bartender, get information about the Hunters and a couple of rat carcasses, go to the pine oak tree, talk, get a tip on the leader of one of the bandit groups, return to Grandfather.
21. Grandfather gives us a backpack and a tip on Broadway
22. We find Broadway, talk to him, get 2 photos from him, follow the bearing to the factory
23. At the factory we get hit on the head, wake up, talk to the bloodsucker hunter, get a task
24. We kill the troublemaker, return to the hunter, and get a tip on the hiding place.
25. On the plateau we find a cache with a device, and near the helicopter in a box we find a notepad, we take the loot to the bloodsucker hunter. On the plateau, it would also not be superfluous to go into the cave and pick up a note from the scientist.
Cache spawn locations
Option 1
The cache lies on the plateau where one of the helicopters is located. There is also a box near the helicopter that needs to be searched.
Option 2
The cave is under the burnt out farm, the hole closest to the Emerald, and keep to the left all the time, you will find it behind a pebble.
Option 2
Cave under the Gas Station. We approach from the direction of the anomalous field, see a cave, go in, jump over the fault, and here we are at the Cache.
26. We give the Bloodsucker Hunter his device. Let's go look for the military on the backwater
Where to look for a military man
In the dungeons under the burnt out farm
27. We go into the cave, but we see a blockage there, we go to Keith, we get information about how the blockage can be dismantled
28. We will need to activate a capsule with jellied meat near the rubble (It can be bought from the Bartender in Skadovsk)
29. We talk with the military man, get information about the drone, leave the cave, shoot down the glider.
Where is the downed glider?
30. We take the orange module and take it to the military man. Afterwards we go to Sakharova, we talk, we get a tip on Gulden.
31. We find Guilder and plan the release of Iskra.
32. We are waiting for the release of Iskra, we accompany the group to the cave where the military man is sitting. We talk to him, we talk to Gulden, we lead Iskra to the pioneer camp.
33. Upon arrival, we speak with Iskra, receive the code from the remote control in the MG, and head to it.
34. In the MG we find a combination lock, open it, find Zlobny’s laptop in the room, return to Zaton to Sakharova.
35. We give the laptop to Sakharova, try to activate the remote control - nothing works. We return to Elsa, take the laptop, go to Iskra
36. We give the laptop to Iskra, walk for 10 minutes, learn about new code, we go to the control panel at the substation, activate it, receive an SMS from Zlobny, go to the meeting.
PS. When I first met Bland, I left him alive
37. After the conversation, we kill the Evil One, receive a message from Bland, go to a meeting with him
38. From Bland we receive information about Lightning and the code for the door.
39. Along the way we receive an SMS from Fang, we find him at a gas station, we talk, and we go together to the Last Day base.
40. We take out the entire base with our partners, go down to the lower level of the laboratory, kill Lightning, destroy the portal activator.
That's it =)
