Markiyan Kamysh ( uk, Маркіян Камиш, born 19 October 1988) is a

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novelist.

Biography

Markiyan Kamysh is the only person who represents the Chernobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has been illegally exploring the

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, Belarusian: Хона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, ''Zona adčužennia Čarnobyĺskaj AES'', russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС ...

. He is the son of a

Chernobyl liquidator Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiti ...

, nuclear physicist and design engineer of the

Institute for Nuclear Research Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAS, russian: Институт ядерных исследований) is a Russian scientific research center "for further development of the experimental base and fundament ...

who died in 2003. In 2005–2009, Markiyan studied at the Faculty of History of the

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

, but dropped out shortly before receiving his bachelor's degree to devote himself to literature and illegal research in the Chernobyl zone. In 2010–2021, an illegal stalker of

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...

''Stalking the Atomic City: Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl''

'' Stalking the Atomic City: Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl'' is a novel about illegal pilgrimage into the Chernobyl zone. The book has been available online since spring 2014. TOP10 books of 2019 according to ''

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'' as one of the ''"Constellations of the ten books that best reflect the spirit of the times".'' In June 2022, Kamysh volunteered for the Ukrainian military to fight against the Russian invasion.

External links

Ukrainian ChornobylPripyat UndergroundThe Wall Street Journal review

Interview about Pripyat and illegal tripsDuckweedThe River

References

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