Pripyat Retail

The Pripyat Retail provide the residents with food and goods. Pripyat was one of the more privileged places in The Soviet Union because of the Power Plant. For example, it was one of the few places you could get Chanel No. 1, and various quality Western goods. Products you could normally only buy in Moscow, Russia.

The city of Pripyat had almost 50 thousand people living in it. To provide the Pripyat residents with food and goods, there were 25 stores and malls. Also, there were 27 cafés and restaurants that collectively could serve up to 5.5 thousand customers simultaneously. The trading pavilions and small shops in the city are close and easily accessible to the citizens.

The central supermarket was one of the largest in Pripyat. It is located right at the main square. The ground floor was mainly for food and had huge freezer cabinets. The now rusty freezers, were emptied in 1987, the food was buried by the female liquidators to stop the spread of infectious diseases. On the first floor of the supermarket was a restaurant with a nice view across Pripyat’s Lenin Square.

The КБО building, was the Consumer Services Building, here housed several consumer services. There was a hairdressing salon, shoe shop, dry cleaning, a chemist, and a textile repair shop.

Behind the Furniture Shop, there was an Electrical Goods Shop which housed many models of appliance which could also be found inside the Pripyat apartment blocks. A large, colorful Soviet-era mural decorates the wall inside the abandoned Post Office. Postcards and letters litter the floor.

Café Pripyat, also called ‘The Dish’ by locals, is located on the waterfront on the outskirts of Pripyat city. It was a popular place to spend time relaxing for the young residents of the city. Also, the café was a place for people who were waiting for boats, specifically the ‘Raketa’, ‘Comet’ and ‘Meteor’, which navigated the Pripyat river. Inside the café are beautiful stained-glass windows looking out towards the city.