The idea of CHORNOBYL HUB.

Yaroslav Yemelianenko first went to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in 2007. From then on, and later with the CHORNOBYL TOUR team, he gathered everything about Chornobyl bit by bit: the memories of liquidators and former residents of Prypiat, archive photos and video, facts from physics, radiobiology and history, and the experience of colleagues from Hiroshima and Fukushima to Three Mile Island.

It turned out that Ukraine had no common place where all of this was collected - and no tool to share it.

In the spring of 2016 the team came back from the ITB Berlin travel fair, where one of the main themes was that professional communities need hubs - online and offline places where people find each other. That is how the idea of CHORNOBYL HUB appeared.

From the start it was meant to be both: an educational platform that gathers and shares knowledge about Chornobyl, and in time a real place for lectures, meetings and exhibitions where the professional community comes together. For schoolchildren and students, journalists, artists, scientists, guides and everyone who wants to know the truth about 1986.

The name was born at the same time. CHERNOBYL HUB - because that is how the world still knows the word. CHORNOBYL HUB and ЧОРНОБИЛЬ ХАБ - the correct, Ukrainian way.