The School of Chornobyl Guides.

In 2014 eight thousand people visited the Chornobyl Zone; in 2019, 124 thousand. There were desperately few guides, and a guide in the Zone is more than a tour leader: they are responsible for the group’s safety and need to know history, physics and radiobiology and be able to talk about a tragedy with respect.

In the summer of 2019 the Hub became the classroom of the School of Chornobyl Guides. Lectures were given by liquidators, scientists and experienced guides. Future guides listened to people who had been at the plant in 1986 and learned to pass their stories on.

Later the training took an academic form at Chornobyl University, and the Hub remained a place where guides gathered for classes for a long time.