Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine /// 2019.08.05. @Ati @Berni @Levi @Andi @Gergő @Iván RATING: ✪✪✪ DIFFICULTY: medium SIZE: 1 building
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On the one-day Chernobyl tour, this was our first stop in Pripyat city. This was the largest single hall we have seen in the exclusion zone of Pripyat. The Stroitel’ (means “Builder”) Sports Complex‘s grand gym hall was a really amazing start with the sunny interior. The parquet was dilapidated, but basketball backboards were still in good condition. The entrance was full of barrels, and a radioactive sign was over them. Even our guides didn’t know the source of these barrels. Later I read that the barrels contain washing powder because of a nearby laundry facility, which was still operational 30 years after the disaster, and use this room as storage.
The entrance also had got a Cartoon-like wall painting and two wooden policeman statues. We met there the first Chernobyl pye-dog, who was really cute and followed us in the next two hours.
Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine /// 2019.08.05. @Ati @Berni @Levi @Andi @Gergő @Iván RATING: ✪✪✪ DIFFICULTY: medium SIZE: 1 building
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20:00 1th April 2021 Published by Attila Deák
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On the one-day Chernobyl tour, this was our first stop in Pripyat city. This was the largest single hall we have seen in the exclusion zone of Pripyat. The Stroitel’ (means “Builder”) Sports Complex‘s grand gym hall was a really amazing start with the sunny interior. The parquet was dilapidated, but basketball backboards were still in good condition. The entrance was full of barrels, and a radioactive sign was over them. Even our guides didn’t know the source of these barrels. Later I read that the barrels contain washing powder because of a nearby laundry facility, which was still operational 30 years after the disaster, and use this room as storage.
The entrance also had got a Cartoon-like wall painting and two wooden policeman statues. We met there the first Chernobyl pye-dog, who was really cute and followed us in the next two hours.
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The background story of the Storitel’ (Builder) Sports Centre Gym Hall:
The background story of the Storitel’ (Builder) Sports Centre Gym Hall:
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The Stroitel‘ (means “Builder“) Sports Complex is the largest gym hall in Pripyat.
This is probably the largest of the 10 sports halls in the city. The parquet was dilapidated, but basketball backboards were still in good condition. The entrance was full of barrels, and a radioactive sign was over them. Even our guides didn’t know the source of these barrels. Later I read that the barrels contain washing powder because of a nearby laundry facility, which was still operational 30 years after the disaster, and use this room as storage.
The entrance also had got a Cartoon-like wall painting and two wooden policeman statues. We met there the first Chernobyl pye-dog, who was really cute and followed us in the next two hours.
This gym hall was also the winter training place of the FC Stroitel, the football club of Pripyat.
FC Stroitel Pripyat (Ukrainian: Футбольний клуб «Будівельник» Прип’ять, Budivelnyk Pripyat) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football club (team) from Pripyat, Kyiv Oblast. Founded in the 1970s, it competed only at republican level competitions in Ukraine.
The team, whose name Stroitel means “builder”, was founded in the middle of the 1970s with the construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station along with the atomgrad Prypiat. The new club was mainly composed of players from the village of Chystohalivka, 4 km south of Prypiat. The team competed at competitions of the district (raion) and region (oblast). In 1981, it entered the KFK competition of Ukrainian SSR. Please note, at the Soviet football league system such republican football competitions (KFK championship) in 1971–1989 were conditionally at fourth-tier just below the USSR Championship Vtoraya Liga, yet republican competitions, particularly football KFK, were administered by all 15 union republics individually. Since 1978 every winner of the Ukrainian football competitions among KFK was gaining promotion and obtaining the status of teams of masters.
The highest achievement in competitions among KFK Stroitel obtained in 1985 placing second in its group. The team never qualified for the final stage of the competition. In 1981–1983, for three years in the row, Stroitel was awarded the title of the Kyiv Oblast Championship champions.
Stroitel was preparing for a cup semi-final against FC Borodyanka on the day of the Chernobyl disaster, Saturday 26 April 1986. When the city of Pripyat was abandoned after the disaster, the new city of Slavutych was founded near Chernihiv at the end of the same year to replace it. The football club was moved there, changing its name to FC Stroitel Slavutych in 1987. Its activities ceased after the end of the 1988 season.[based on Wikipedia]
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Articles and other photos about the Storitel Sports Centre:
VIDEOS
Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any videos about this Gym.
Other sports-related Pripyat Videos from Youtube:
Playing Basketball in Pripyat – Joshjames1234
Palace of Culture ‘Energetik’ in Pripyat | 48 hours in Chernobyl ☭10 – Zoubeir’s World
Sport Facilities In Pripyat | CHERNOBYL 2019 – JB Production
Pripyat before 1986 – Bogey Stalker
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