Azure Swimming Pool

The complex was built in the 1970s and remained in use until 1998 (12 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster); during those 12 years the swimming pool was mainly used by Chernobyl liquidators.^[3] The swimming pool was considered to be one of the cleanest places in Pripyat.^[4] However, the swimming pool and the adjacent indoor basketball court have been abandoned and left to decay since its closure in 1998.

The swimming pool appears in the following:

• Ukrainian writer Markiyan Kamysh's novel A Stroll to the Zone, which is centred around illegal trips to Pripyat^{[5][full citation needed]}
• The video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in the mission "One Shot, One Kill" and also in the multiplayer map "Bloc"
• Music video of the song "Marooned" by English rock band Pink Floyd^[6]
• Music video of the song "Sweet People" by Ukrainian singer Alyosha^[7]
• The short film Postcards from Pripyat, filmed by CBS cameraman Danny Cooke^[8]
• Chinese technology company DJI's story, Lost City of Chernobyl^[9]
• The video game PUBG: Battlegrounds
• Music video of the song "Life Is Golden", by English rock band Suede (along with other locations in Pripyat)
• The video game Warface
• The video game Call of Duty: Warzone
• The video game Metro Exodus's "Sam's Story" DLC
• The HBO miniseries Chernobyl
• At a location called 'The Storage' in the video game Second Life
• The video game Chernobylite

• Avanhard Stadium of Pripyat
• Chernobyl Exclusion Zone