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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> |
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| name = Elena Filatova |
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| image = Elenafilatova.png |
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| pseudonym = Kid of Speed<br />Gamma Girl |
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| birth_date = 1974 |
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| birth_place = [[Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] |
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| occupation = Writer, Photographer |
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| genre = Nonfiction, History |
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'''Elena Vladimirovna Filatova''' ({{lang-ru|Елена Филатова}}, [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: Олена Володимирівна Філатова; born 1974 in [[Ukraine]], [[Soviet Union]]) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[motorcyclist]] and [[photographer]] who uses the online nickname "KiddOfSpeed". Her website, containing a photo-essay of her purported solo motorcycle rides through [[Chernobyl]]'s [[zone of alienation]], gained her [[internet]] fame.<ref name="ad001">{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,18825302-912,00.html|title=Nuclear ghosts shadow victims|last=Staff|date=2006-04-15|publisher=The Advertiser (Adelaide)|accessdate=2008-09-05}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> It was later suggested that the story accompanying the photos was fictional and that they were taken during a public group tour.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |
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|title= Prypiat Journal; New Sight in Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists |
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|last=Chivers |
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|first = C.J. |
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|publisher=The New York Times |
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|date=2005-06-15 |
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|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902EEDD163BF936A25755C0A9639C8B63&sec=travel |
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}}</ref> Her website gained popularity due to its mention on [[Slashdot]] and other online news sources.<ref name="lat001">{{cite news|title=The World; Account of Chernobyl Trip Takes Web Surfers for a Ride|last=Mycio|first=Mary|date=2004-07-06|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2008-09-05|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/06/world/fg-chernobyl6}}</ref> |
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== Chernobyl photos and motorcycle trip== |
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On her website, she posted photographs which, she claimed, documented her motorcycle and tour trips in the area around the [[Chernobyl nuclear power plant]], starting just under 18 years after [[Chernobyl disaster|the nuclear disaster there]].<!-- look at 2004 March archive copies --> She visited the virtually abandoned city of [[Prypiat, Ukraine]] and a circular area surrounding the 1986 [[Chernobyl disaster]] known as the [[Exclusion Zone]].<ref name="smh001">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/russia/a-day-in-the-halflife-of-chernobyl/2005/08/24/1124562907092.html|title=A day in the half-life of Chernobyl|last=Staff|date=2005-08-27|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=2008-09-05}}</ref> |
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Her website features a large number of photographs of Chernobyl-area buildings, cottages, rusting never-to-be-used Prypiat carnival equipment, the interiors of disused schools and homes, fire, gas, police and government stations, and of people who had since returned to the area. The photos are arranged in the form of a story presented as an account of a trip by a biker who travelled alone in the [[radiation]] zone. However, Chernobyl tour guide Yuri Tatarchuk claimed that Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures."<ref name="nyt"/> |
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== Criticism and response == |
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There have been accusations that Filatova did not have special access, and that she and her husband took a standard tour available to all visitors. Additional, there have been suggestions that some of the pictures were staged.{{fact|date=January 2012}} |
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== Other projects == |
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Among her more recent projects is a photo-journal about the [[Serpent's Wall]] near the city of [[Kiev]], her home. The journal contains photos of Filatova's exploration of an ancient wall and more modern [[World War II]] [[fortification]]s built amongst its remains. She also includes history of the region during both the 1917 [[October Revolution]] and the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union]]. |
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Other links in her website lead to her photo journal of the day of Ukraine's [[Orange Revolution]]. In April 2007, she posted more photos of the surrounding Chernobyl area that had been taken in March of that year. |
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One of the latest projects on the site is photos of abandoned [[Soviet]] prison camps established under [[Joseph Stalin]] as part of the Soviet [[Gulag]] system. |
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==See also== |
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*[[Chernobyl stalking]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==Bibliography== |
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*{{cite book |
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|title=Tjernobyl. Dagbok från spökstaden |
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|isbn=9171260501 |
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|first=Elena |
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|last=Filatova |
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|authorlink=Elena Filatova |
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==External links== |
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{{commons category|Elena Filatova}} |
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*[http://www.elenafilatova.com/ Filatova's homepage] |
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*[http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ older KiddOfSpeed homepage] |
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*[http://www.theserpentswall.com/ Filatova's documentation of the Serpent's Wall] |
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* {{fr icon}} [http://www.legag.com/tchernobyl/ La zone de Tchernobyl aujourd'hui, la ville fantôme de Prypiat, la terre des loups...] Photos de Elena Filatova |
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> |
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| NAME = Filatova, Elena |
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| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Gamma Girl, Kid Of Speed |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 1974 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Filatova, Elena}} |
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[[Category:Internet personalities]] |
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[[Category:1974 births]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:Ukrainian historians]] |
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[[Category:Russian historians]] |
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[[Category:Ukrainian photographers]] |
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[[Category:Russian photographers]] |
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[[Category:Russian women writers]] |
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[[Category:Ukrainian women writers]] |
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[[Category:People associated with the Chernobyl disaster]] |
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