Stalking the Atomic City

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl (Ukrainian: Оформляндія,[1] lit.

The essence of the book from the reviewer of The Quietus magazine: "It’s tempting to call his trespasses acts of pilgrimage, and there is something votive about them, but they are a compulsion too, an addiction.

You might call these journeys entradas, after the word the Spanish used diving into the American interior after the fall of the Aztec and Inca empires.

Kamysh describes his fascination and obsession with The Zone, self-described "fetish" and "addiction" persists in spite of the various dangers that he encounters while stalking.

[11] "Mesmerizing" from The Telegraph,[12] "an amazing book" from Le Nouvel Obs[13] and The Wall Street Journal called it "A punk rock pilgrimage to Chernobyl".