Floating through the Chornobyl exclusion zone on the Pripyat river would be the lure of a Mazyr, Belarus-Kyiv boat trip

Floating through the Chornobyl exclusion zone on the Pripyat river would be the lure of a Mazyr, Belarus-Kyiv boat trip now being negotiated by Belarusian Shipping Company OJSC and Ukraine’s River Ports Administration. “Fleet, terms, and mechanisms for selling tickets are now being discussed,” Alexei Gerashchenko, the Infrastructure Ministry’s top official for river transport, tells the Center for Strategic Technologies. About one-third of the 250 km, 10-hour cruise would pass through Chornobyl, now a wilderness considered safe for short term visits.