Lost Places - Чернобыльская Зона

Технические характеристики. Впечатления от эксплуатации.

Именно с разработки дозиметра-радиометра РКС-01 «Стора-ТУ», начало свою историю НПЧП «Спаринг-Вист». Это позднее появятся «Терры», «МКС-У», «Кадмий», «Поиск« и другие приборы, а тогда, в 90-х годах прошлого века, новообразованное предприятие, состоящее из трех инженеров, вышло на рынок с одним единственным прибором. И это была «Стора-ТУ». Конечно, это был  совершенно другой прибор, не имеющий с новой «Сторой» ничего общего, кроме названия. Но, в любом случае, этот прибор стал визитной карточкой и талисманом «Спаринг-Вист». На дворе уже 2012 год, а РКС-01 «Стора-ТУ» (конечно в новой версии), выпускается и продается во всем мире.

Departed yesterday, December 22, from warm and sunny as in autumn, Nihonmatsu and slept a couple hours in the van, we woke up in the snowy cold mountains district of Iwase (岩瀬郡), in Hatoriko Highland Regina Forest Resort.

Tokyo, December 22, 2011, 8:00 am. We, along with the crew of German TV channel ZDF, loading our stuff and equipment into a van and drive out to the shooting in Fukushima prefecture (福岛県). Since March 2011, it is the most famous Japanese prefecture, just like our Chornobyl, which became notorious throughout the world since April 1986.

Our winters have deteriorated over recent years... The temperature was about zero, snow was just a few and all around sad tarnish. But the winter of 2009 – 2010 has appeared as real frosty, white sparkling fairy tale. Though my photos of different years in Chornobyl Zone have entered into this selection, their big part of them is made in the winter of 2010 in Pripyat and Chornobyl Zone. Even in last winters with little snow it was difficult enough to move in the Zone... It became simply impossible this winter. The most necessary roads in the Chornobyl Zone have dozed with bulldozers, but further... Further snowdrifts, sometimes waist-deep. In the middle of January, we have decided to go for a walk in a small group to the river Pripyat on the Chornobyl Podol (lap). By clear road we have reached stadium, then about an hour we floundered in deep snowdrifts, have crept with difficulty two hundred metres till the end of park... And have shamefully retreat back to the hotel. Yes, the winter of 2010 has appeared as the real WINTER.