Chernobyl Photos and Motorcycle Trip
On her website, she posted photographs which, she claimed, documented her motorcycle and tour trips in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, starting just under 18 years after the nuclear disaster there. She visited the virtually abandoned city of Prypiat, Ukraine and a circular area surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl disaster known as the Exclusion Zone.
Her website features a large number of photographs of Chernobyl-area buildings, cottages, rusting carnival equipment, and the interiors of disused Prypiat achools, shops, and apartments. The photos are mostly unpeopled snapshots, but a few show Filatova —usually with Shoei-brand motorcycle gear. Some apparently show her bike on-scene. The photos are presented as an account of a trip by a biker who trekked alone in the radiation zone. However, Chernobyl tour guide Yuri Tatarchuk claimed that Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures."
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