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  KIDDofSPEED - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Pictures - Kidofspeed - Elena
Elena revisits Chernobyl with this updated version of the site and a new addition, "Land of the Wolves"
Elena's new project, Gulag Tales is now online.
A fascinating look at Kiev's history of defending itself with the aid of a wall built most likely during the early 11th century at the request of King Yaroslav(he built upon the fortification work begun under the reign of Volodymyr Svyatoslavovich in the late 10th century).
www.kiddofspeed.com   (178 words)

  
  Ockham's Razor - 15 April 2007  - Kidofspeed
Elena said she did something she didn't do; she was not telling the truth.
Elena won't go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not this time, though she may take on board a word that will become widely used in the new world radiation order.
Elena bears witness to more than she bargained for: loss of faith in technological systems, loss of faith in political systems.
www.abc.net.au /rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2007/1895697.htm   (1813 words)

  
 A Thousand Words: A Kodak blog about photography
Even though this was the worst nuclear accident in history, The Chernobyl Report, written from 2003-2005, states that 28 people died from the radiation.
We are fortunate that Elena, sharing her photographs of the region, records this event for eternity.
Elena's photograph of a family of wild boars.
1000words.kodak.com /default.asp?item=428015   (1021 words)

  
 Comments on: Chernobyl Tour
In response to ROGER April 12,2006- Elena owned up to borrowing many of the pictures-if you actually visited her sites, both old and new, you would read where she acknowledges that many of the pictures are historical, and some borrowed from other websites.
Elena owned up to borrowing many of the pictures-if you actually visited her sites, both old and new, you would read where she acknowledges that many of the pictures are historical, and some borrowed from other websites.
Elena has done this out of her love for her country and her passion for bikes.
maisonbisson.com /blog/post/10300/feed   (3413 words)

  
 Bikernet World Exclusive…come take a ride with the Chernobyl Kid of Speed
Elena: Interest to motorcycles began at early age, I had bunch of soviet mopeds and bikes since I was in school, later I had 250cc, 400cc, 600cc Japanese motorbikes, gradually I came to the point when possessing 1000 cc motorcycle became safe for me.
Elena: What we call a “Dead Zone” is area of 30 km (19 mile) around reactor, but it is very small part of the total area that was poisoned with radiation and it is not best part.
Elena: It is hard to say how many times, the whole area is in size of a big European state and sometimes I go in one place, sometimes in the other.
www.bikernet.com /news/PageViewer.asp?PageID=675   (1868 words)

  
 Special Interest Tourism 2 - Activity
Elena, or "Gamma Girl", also known as a "Kid of Speed", has become well known for her travelogue: Ghost Town and the Land of the Wolves.
Although safe on the asphalt, if Elena was to walk 100 metres into the woods in front of her, radiation levels would be 300,000 times higher than they are normally.
Elena Filatova's text and images serve as a cautionary tale to decision-makers and voters, faced with the choice of how to provide the power we need for everyday life.
www.bized.co.uk /educators/16-19/tourism/special/activity/special2.htm   (1138 words)

  
 "Tjernobyl, dagbok från spökstaden" av Elena Filatova - dagensbok.com
Elena Filatovas "Tjernobyl, dagbok från spökstaden" är en av dem.
Filatova förmedlar en hel del intressanta fakta om olika typer av radioaktiv strålning och vilka egenskaper de har.
För första gången publiceras nu Elena Filatovas bildreportage i bokform.
www.dagensbok.com /index.asp?id=2352   (784 words)

  
  Elena Filatova at AllExperts
Elena (Lena) Filatova (Russian: Елена Филатова, born 1974) is a Ukrainian motorcyclist who gained Internet fame in 2004 under the nickname KiddOfSpeed after her web site was mentioned at Slashdot [1] and other online news sources.
Regardless of the degree of Elena's actual personal involvement or the reliability of her narrative, the photos themselves still hold interest for many viewers.
While some of them could have been staged to a degree (it is noticeable that there are no photographs of her motorcycle inside the abandoned town of Pripyat), she probably could not have staged the whole ghost town.
en.allexperts.com /e/e/el/elena_filatova.htm   (451 words)

  
  Elena Filatova - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Elena (Lena) Filatova (Russian: Елена Филатова, born 1974) is a Ukrainian motorcyclist who gained Internet fame in 2004 under the nickname KiddOfSpeed after her web site was mentioned at Slashdot [1] and other online news sources.
Filatova's libeling of some alienation zone checkpoint officials (she claimed sexual harassment which was later shown to be false), was also criticised.
While some of them could have been staged to a degree (it is noticeable that there are no photographs of her motorcycle inside the abandoned town of Pripyat), she probably could not have staged the whole ghost town.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Elena_Filatova   (462 words)

  
 php-deluxe.net - description Elena Filatova
Nevertheless, the value of Elena s story is not her degree of personal involvement, nor her narrative, but her photos.
While some of them could have been staged to a degree (one of the points of criticism - it is noticeable that there are no photographs of her motorcycle inside the abandoned town of Pripyat), she obviously could not have staged the whole ghost town.
Recently Elena s original homepage was replaced with a new photojournal about the Zmievy Valy near the city of Kiev, her home.
www.php-deluxe.net /encyclopedia,index.page,Elena-Filatova.htm   (337 words)

  
 physics - Elena Filatova
Elena (Lena) Filatova (Russian: Елена Филатова) (born 1974) is a Ukrainian motorcyclist who gained Internet fame, under the nickname KiddOfSpeed, after her web site was mentioned at Slashdot and other online news sources.
While some of them could have been staged to a degree (one of the points of criticism), she obviously could not have staged the whole ghost town.
Recently Elena's original homepage was replaced with a new photojournal about the Serpent's Wall near the city of Kiev, her home.
www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Elena_Filatova   (290 words)

  
 Gymn Forum: 1978 USSR Gymnastics Championships, Women's AA
On the other hand, Elena Naimushina pushed away from the springboard like a small ball and her flight was clean.
Elena Mukhina vaulted the complicated Cuervo, but it was low and received a poor 9.45.
Elena missed a salto and suddenly found herself on the mats.
www.gymn-forum.com /Articles/SS-78_USSR_Champs_W.html   (827 words)

  
 Making Ripples: post-corporate adventures: Chernobyl
Elena Filatova, motorcyclist and photographer, is still visiting Chernobyl and writing about it.
Elena Filatova, also known as Kid of Speed, wants to make sure that Chernobyl is not forgotten.
Elena's motorcycle tour through the region around Chernobyl has revived interest in one of the most serious nuclear disasters in history.
ripples.typepad.com /ripples/chernobyl   (2731 words)

  
 the Astronomicon › The Serpent’s Wall and a tangent…
It is written by Elena Filatova, a Ukrainian who is perhaps more famous for her photo essay of Chernobyl.
Elena travels by motorcycle and documents what she observes.
While reading about Elena’s travels with her trusty motorcycle ‘Comrade Scooturo’ I had a strange thought - I’ve seen this before.
www.theastronomicon.com /?p=639   (403 words)

  
 Paracelsus Rambles: Unearthing the battle for Kiev
Elena Filatova is a Ukrainian woman who gained some notoriety on the web for her remarkable pictures of the condemned zone around Chernobyl.
Filatova's site lets you see through the eyes of someone from the Ukraine.
Filatova, if you are out there, please send me an E-mail.
www.starchamber.com /mt/2005/12/unearthing_the_battle_for_kiev.html   (471 words)

  
 Oinkba.com - Design agency specializing in web solutions and templates for Jamroom and media, audio visual industries.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Oinkba.com - Design agency specializing in web solutions and templates for Jamroom and media, audio visual industries.
Another site completed, this is a CSS site designed by oinkba for photojournalist Elena filatova.
Her brilliant report on the history and current status of Chernobyl and surrounding areas has been ported from her old site and replicated with a new design.
oinkba.com /component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/limit,4/limitstart,8   (172 words)

  
 Comments
Even though I lived as far away from Chernobyl as Elena's granny, many of my friends and I were nonetheless extremely cautious about buying things like fresh produce or imported canned food because the contamination zone of radioactive fallout spread over a vast area of agriculture.
According to Nuclear Engineering International, "nuclear power was a big winner," when Bush signed the $14.5B Energy Policy Act of 2005 as it paved the way for additional plants to be built.
And honestly, if you are currently making a comfortable living, consider donating a few bucks to buy gas for her motorcycle and some batteries for her camera.
darkskies.blogdrive.com /comments?id=63   (600 words)

  
 Shutterbug: You Can’t Tell A Book By Its Cover… Or A Website By Its URL
Elena Filatova is a Ukrainian photographer who lives in Kiev.
An avid motorcyclist, one of her favorite trips is 80 miles north toward Chernobyl (www.chernobyl.info) and her website contains two photo essays of her experiences in Chernobyl’s “Ghost Town.”; This is a place with no stoplights, no police, no danger of hitting any living thing—in short, a perfect place for motorcyclists.
Filatova’s impassioned documentary images of today’s Chernobyl proves otherwise and won’t leave your consciousness anytime soon.
www.shutterbug.net /web_profiles/0706web/index.html   (651 words)

  
 Neatorama » Blog Archive » Ghost Town: Chernobyl Photoblog by Elena Filatova.
Back in 2004, Elena gained Internet fame (and notoriety) for posting photos of the abandoned town of Pripyat, Ukraine, where the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is located.
At first, Elena’s website made claims that she rode her motorcyle through the abandoned ghost town.
Subsequently, people noted that instead she took a guided tour (by car) through the restricted zone and made factual errors on the site.
www.neatorama.com /2006/03/29/ghost-town-chernobyl-photoblog-by-elena-filatova   (221 words)

  
 Making Ripples: post-corporate adventures: More on Chernobyl from Elena Filatova - Kid of Speed
Towns and villages in the radioactive area are already being demolished and photos like Elena's may soon be the only witness to what existed in 1986.
Her Chernobyl Journal has a running account of her efforts to keep the memory of Chernobyl alive.
Elena captured the imaginations of millions of people with her startling photos of the region around Chernobyl in 2004.
ripples.typepad.com /ripples/2006/04/more_on_chernob.html   (695 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: elena: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"Elena oh tu ch'io chiamo", arranged by A. Meves.
S"stavili: Elena Stoin i Ivan Kachulev by Elena Stoin (Unknown Binding - 1958)
Siunciu naujus adresus: Atsiminimai by Elena Pusiniene (Unknown Binding - 1975)
www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&tag=545-21&pg=96&rh=i:books,k:elena&page=1   (504 words)

  
 Chernobyl Page 001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In places where roads have not been traveled by trucks or army vehicles, they are in the same condition they were 20 years ago.
I have spent many hours reading Elena's web site and if you want the full story you should do the same.
For those of you who are short of time, or struggling with slow dial-up speeds, I have cut and pasted a smaller, faster to load, version.
home.iprimus.com.au /bevinstringer/chernie001.html   (246 words)

  
 DBLP: Elena Filatova
Elena Filatova, John M. Prager: Tell Me What You Do and I'll Tell You What You Are: Learning Occupation-Related Activities for Biographies.
Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou: Marking atomic events in sets of related texts.
Bethard, Wayne Ward, Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer, Elena Filatova, Pablo Ariel Duboué, Hong Yu, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown, Gabriel Illouz: Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/f/Filatova:Elena.html   (120 words)

  
 Elena Filatova
It has been alleged that Filatova visited the Chornobyl exclusion zone only as part of an organized tour (Urban Exploration, 2004).
Nevertheless the actual value of Elena's story is neither her degree of personal involvement nor her narrative, but the photos themselves.
While some of them could have been staged to a degree (still another point of her criticism), she obviously could not have staged the whole ghost town.
www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/e/el/elena_filatova.html   (269 words)

  
 Shutterbug: You Can’t Tell A Book By Its Cover… Or A Website By Its URL
Elena Filatova is a Ukrainian photographer who lives in Kiev.
An avid motorcyclist, one of her favorite trips is 80 miles north toward Chernobyl (www.chernobyl.info) and her website contains two photo essays of her experiences in Chernobyl’s “Ghost Town.”; This is a place with no stoplights, no police, no danger of hitting any living thing—in short, a perfect place for motorcyclists.
Filatova’s impassioned documentary images of today’s Chernobyl proves otherwise and won’t leave your consciousness anytime soon.
shutterbug.com /web_profiles/0706web/index.html   (651 words)

  
 DBLP: Elena Filatova
Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown: Automatic Creation of Domain Templates.
Elena Filatova, John M. Prager: Tell Me What You Do and I'll Tell You What You Are: Learning Occupation-Related Activities for Biographies.
Elena Filatova, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou: Marking atomic events in sets of related texts.
dblp.uni-trier.de /db/indices/a-tree/f/Filatova:Elena.html   (121 words)

  
 Elena - Webled.com
Monteverde Costa Rica rainforest: Santa Elena cloud forest Reserve.
[ The Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve of Monteverde is one of the first ]...
[ Elena started as a European research initiative funded under the IST ]...
www.webled.com /Elena.htm   (331 words)

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