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Elena Filatova
Born	1974 Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Pen name	Kid of Speed Gamma Girl
Occupation	Writer, Photographer
Genre	Nonfiction, History

Elena Vladimirovna Filatova (Template:Lang-ru, Ukrainian: Олена Володимирівна Філатова; born 1974 in Ukraine, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian motorcyclist and photographer who uses the online nickname "KiddOfSpeed". Her website, containing a photo-essay presented as solo motorcycle rides through Chernobyl's zone of alienation, gained her internet fame. Her website gained popularity due to its mention on Slashdot and other online news sources. A guide who brings disaster tourists to the region later said that Filatova's account is fictional —and that she simply wore biker clothing and posed for pictures while in a group tour. Filatova has also made photo-documentary websites of Kiev-area history about the Orange Revolution and about the city's historic "Serpent's Wall" defensive earthworks and their role in the fighting there during World War II.

Chernobyl photos and motorcycle trip

Filatova's website contains a series of photographs documenting the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, starting just under 18 years after.

It is an Hoax. Source : http://open.salon.com/blog/mary_mycio/2011/01/21/the_chernobyl_biker_chick_that_wasnt

Read More about Chernobyl

http://open.salon.com/blog/mary_mycio/2011/04/25/chernobyl_a_photoessay

See also

• Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

References

1. Staff (2006-04-15). "Nuclear ghosts shadow victims". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Retrieved 2008-09-05.
2. Mycio, Mary (2004-07-06). "The World; Account of Chernobyl Trip Takes Web Surfers for a Ride". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
3. Chivers, C.J. (2005-06-15). "Prypiat Journal; New Sight in Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists". The New York Times.

Bibliography

• Filatova, Elena. Tjernobyl. Dagbok från spökstaden. ISBN 91-7126-050-1.

External links

• Filatova's newer website
• Filatova's older "KiddOfSpeed" Chernobyl website
• Filatova's "Serpent's Wall" WWII Kiev documentary site
• Filatova's "Stolen Election" Orange Revolution documentary site

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• Internet personalities
• 1974 births
• Living people
• Ukrainian historians
• Ukrainian photographers
• Ukrainian women writers
• People associated with the Chernobyl disaster
• Women photographers