Azure Swimming Pool Explained
Azure Swimming Pool |
Architectural Code: | 2043R-00-AS (cyrill.: 2043P-00-AC) |
City: | Pripyat, Ukraine |
Opened: | 1970s |
Closed: | 1998 |
Width: | 22 m |
Lanes: | 5 |
Coordinates: | 51.4068°N 30.0492°W |
The Azure Swimming Pool (Ukrainian: Басейн Лазурний) is one of the indoor swimming pools in the abandoned city of Pripyat,[1] [2] Ukraine, which was affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
History
The complex was built in the 1970s and remained in use until 1998 (12 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster); during those 12 years the swimming pool was mainly used by Chernobyl liquidators.[3] The swimming pool was considered to be one of the cleanest places in Pripyat.[4] However, the swimming pool and the adjacent indoor basketball court have been abandoned and left to decay since its closure in 1998.
In popular culture
The swimming pool appears in the following:
- Ukrainian writer Markiyan Kamysh's novel A Stroll to the Zone, which is centred around illegal trips to Pripyat[5]
- The video game in the mission "One Shot, One Kill" and also in the multiplayer map "Bloc"
- Music video of the song "Marooned" by English rock band Pink Floyd[6]
- Music video of the song "Sweet People" by Ukrainian singer Alyosha[7]
- The short film Postcards from Pripyat, filmed by CBS cameraman Danny Cooke[8]
- Chinese technology company DJI's story, Lost City of Chernobyl[9]
- The video game
- Music video of the song "Life Is Golden", by English rock band Suede (along with other locations in Pripyat)
- The video game Warface
- The video game
- The video game Metro Exodus "Sam's Story" DLC
- The HBO miniseries Chernobyl
- At a location called 'The Storage' in the video game Second Life
See also
External links
- Photographs of the Azure Swimming Pool in 2016
51.4072°N 30.0582°W
Notes and References
- Web site: Swimming Pool Azure. The Chernobyl Gallery. 21 February 2014 . 17 April 2016.
- Web site: site. 16 May 2016. The Chernobyl Gallery.
- Web site: Припятское: плавательный бассейн в мертвом городе. livejournal.com. 7 August 2014 . 17 April 2016.
- Web site: Припять: бассейн "Лазурный" . https://web.archive.org/web/20170823043143/http://beshenij-yozhik.livejournal.com/470950.html . dead . 23 August 2017 . livejournal.com . 17 April 2016 .
- Web site: Чорнобильська зона відчуження: Загроза смерті чи відродження? (На матеріалі подорожнього нарису Маркіяна Камиша 'Оформляндія або прогулянка в зону'). 16 April 2019 . Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Threat of death or revival? (Based on Markiyan Kamysh's travel sketch 'Decoration, or A Stroll to the Zone'). 26 April 2019.
- http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/archive/pink-floyd-release-new-marooned-video-.and-tdb20-count.html Pink Floyd release new Marooned video...and TDB20 countdown!
- Video Alyosha - Sweet People (Ukraine). 18 May 2010. 17 April 2016. YouTube.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC54jTnX5I Drone in Pripyat (Chernobyl) Postcards from Pripyat
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15PaBahavcE DJI Stories - The Lost City of Chernobyl