{"id":119714,"date":"2019-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/belarus-announced-it-is-securing-its-border-with-ukraine-due-to-tourist-access-to-chernobyl\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:55:02","slug":"belarus-announced-it-is-securing-its-border-with-ukraine-due-to-tourist-access-to-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/belarus-announced-it-is-securing-its-border-with-ukraine-due-to-tourist-access-to-chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus announced it is securing its border with Ukraine due to tourist access to Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Republic of Belarus is securing its border with Ukraine near Chernobyl, where a nuclear disaster occurred in 1986, as tourism to the contaminated zone experiences a substantial increase.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The epicenter of the disaster was about 10 km from the border with Belarus, then one of the Soviet socialist republics of the Soviet Union.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In dire need of funds, Ukraine is promoting tourism in the Chernobyl exclusion zone to bolster state coffers, which have been dramatically reduced in recent years by the war against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This year, Ukraine recorded the highest number of tourists in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, near its border with Belarus, with more than 100,000 people having already visited the area this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, about 100 km north of Kyiv, is considered the greatest nuclear disaster in history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine began facilitating mass tourism to the site in 2011, as the radiation emitted following the disaster reached permissible levels.<\/div>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why is Belarus securing its border near Chernobyl?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Belarus is increasing security due to the significant rise in tourism within the Chernobyl exclusion zone on the Ukrainian side, which borders Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many tourists visit Chernobyl annually?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, tourism has surged, with over 100,000 visitors recorded in a single year as Ukraine promotes the site to generate state revenue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it safe to visit the Chernobyl exclusion zone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine opened the site to mass tourism in 2011 after radiation levels in specific areas were deemed permissible for short-term visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Belarus is securing its border with Ukraine near Chernobyl, where a nuclear disaster occurred in 1986, as tourism to the contaminated zone experiences a substantial increase. The epicenter of the disaster was about 10 km from the border with Belarus, then one of the Soviet socialist republics of the Soviet Union. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-119714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119714"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=119714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}