在《切尔诺贝利:追踪者指南》中，研究人员达蒙•里希特（Darmon Richter）进入了当代的“禁区”，他冒险进入的范围比以前公布的任何记录都要深。尽管数以千计的外国游客聚集在少数几个精心挑选的地点附近，而在旅游热点之外却是一片荒野而神秘的土地，其大小相当于一个小国家。自灾难发生以来，在切尔诺贝利的森林中，历史悠久的村庄定居点和苏维埃时代的乌托邦主义被遗弃了，被那些为赢得冷战而设计的巨大的，怪异建筑所遮挡。
Since the first atomic bomb was dropped, humankind has been haunted by the idea of nuclear apocalypse. That nightmare almost became reality in 1986, when an accident at the USSR’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant triggered the world’s worst radiological crisis. The events of that night are well documented – but history didn’t stop there. Chernobyl, as a place, remains very much alive today.
In Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide, researcher Darmon Richter journeys into the contemporary Exclusion Zone, venturing deeper than any previously published account. While thousands of foreign visitors congregate around a handful of curated sites, beyond the tourist hotspots lies a wild and mysterious land the size of a small country. In the forests of Chernobyl, historic village settlements and Soviet-
era utopianism have lain abandoned since the time of the disaster – overshadowed by vast, unearthly mega-structures designed to win the Cold War.
Richter combines photographs of discoveries made during his numerous visits to the Zone with the voices of those who witnessed history – engineers, scientists, police and evacuees. He explores evacuated regions in both Ukraine and Belarus, finding forgotten ghost towns and Soviet monuments lost deep in irradiated forests. He gains exclusive access inside the most secure areas of the power plant itself, and joins the ‘stalkers’ of Chernobyl as he sets out on a high-s
takes illegal hike to the heart of the Exclusion Zone.
