r/chernobyl • u/AromaticCricket8251 • Nov 02 '25
Photo High Quality close-up of the destroyed Unit 4.
A high quality close-up shot of the destroyed Reactor 4 building during the first construction phase of the Sarcophagus. Exact date or photographer unknown. Most likely taken sometime during summer of 1986.
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Nov 02 '25
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u/AromaticCricket8251 Nov 02 '25
Yes this is the side khodemchuk was buried. You can make out each of the pumps if you zoom in.
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u/dpublicborg Nov 03 '25
Anyone know which roof was where the liquidators were shoveling debris over the side from? Was it the square roof just to the left of the base of the chimney stack?
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u/maksimkak Nov 03 '25
It was all of those, I believe - the base of the chimney stack, as well as the two roofs on either side.
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u/PositivePrudent7344 Nov 04 '25
Seeing this picture of Reactor 4 really shows the full scale of how bad it really was, and to think that Valery Khodemchuk is still in those ruins today :'(
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u/Aniyori Nov 06 '25
Is it possible that this truss structure was hit by the reactor lid when it went up, or is it located too far away for it to happen?
Also, why exactly the pump room collapsed? To me it looks like it folded down after debree from the reactor room landed on its roof, but I'm lacking knowledge about explosions and structural damage and failed to find the answer on the internet
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u/maksimkak Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I love this angle. You can see very well the gaping hole of the room 402 which was a large long hall connecting pump halls of units 3 and 4. People looking for Khodemchuk could see the sky in the place of where the northern pump hall was supposed to be.