Marvel Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Not me! I found this site a few years ago, and it has moved on occasion, but it is interesting to follow, especially after looking at Bob's links on the Titan II. http://www.kiddofspeed.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I saw a documentary of the aftermath of life there several years ago. It was very interesting and sad. Life goes on but at a major cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 That was fascinating. The young lady is a brave photographer and story teller. Thanks Bruce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Very interesting. Hanging around there for any length of time is certainly "glow in the dark" dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flannj Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Facinating yet frightning at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Marvel, Thanks for the link. Most interesting. The biker almost "takes you there". Definitely eerie. I've seen some Chernobyl ghost town type pics before, but she tells more of the story of what it would have been like to be near the disaster as it unfolded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speakmeister Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Unfortunately Elena Filatova has been proven to be a fraud. I have enjoyed the site for many years anyway. It seems Chernobyl has been mostly forgotton. The scope of that disaster is mind boggling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 ah really- that's disappointing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 from Wikipaedia: On her website, she posted photographs of her motorcycle and tour trips in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 18-21 years after the nuclear disaster there. She visited the virtually abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine and a circular area surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl disaster known as the Exclusion Zone.[4] Filatova took a large number of photographs of Chernobyl-areabuildings, cottages, rusting never-to-be-used Pripyat carnivalequipment, the interiors of disused schools and homes, fire, petrol,police and government stations, and of people who had since returned tothe area. The photos are arranged in the form of a story presented asan account of a trip by a biker who travelled alone in the radiationzone. However, Chernobyl tour guide Yuri Tatarchuk claimed thatFilatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed forpictures."[2] [edit] Criticism and response Around May 16, 2004,Filatova posted to her website that she was "being accused that it wasmore poetry in this story then reality. I partly accept thisaccusation, it still was more reality then poetry"; by May 24 she had removed the note.[5]On the first page of her KiddofSpeed website there is a dialog embeddedby the owner of her host server pointing out that regardless of whetheror not "poetic license" was taken, the site serves to "remember a forgotten region". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st. patrick Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 "fraud" might be a bit harsh, although not necessarily inaccurate. Poetic or literary license would seem to be too "soft", but somewhere in the middle lies a suitable description. None-the-less, an interseting site/story . . . . . . but i don't think i will be visiting the ruins anytime soon. jmho,ymmv, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me Loves Khorns Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 This was an interesting read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customsteve01 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 That was interesting Marvel. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedball Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 fascinating..........I'll finish this later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Well, here's her pic, from an interview in a biker magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturn5 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 The "lone biker" might have been faked, but the Chernobyl disaster area wasn't. I was interested in pics of the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Poetic licence is a fair description. The pictures themselves tell a strong story, and the idea of a girl riding alone through the "hot zone" is sort of post-apocalyptic-romantic, without taking it to Road Warrior level, so it works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Knight Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 the same woman still travel to Chernobyl, Elena Filatova many years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GeXGiPcHtE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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