Part 2. Pripyat Before and After the Chernobyl Disaster.

Per you request, a new visual comparison for you! Today we will take a look to one of the oldest and least visited streets of Pripyat - Friendship of Nations st. This compilation is a demonstration of how the place changed over almost four decades - featuring unique, never published before images of construction works made at this street in the 1970s. As this place is the most overgrown with trees and bushes, the exact spots where photographers took their images are mostly inaccessible in modern times.
During the first years after the accideny, the city continued to be used by various Zone-related organizations, with a gradual decline around 2000. Since then, minimal maintenance has been applied to this place, so now it looks more like a forest than a city. However, exactly at this street was located the special laundry, that operated as a decontamination workshop up to 2018. You could see it even in the STALKER game series.
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[@RC-nq7mg]

As bleak as soviet architecture is, pryp'yat' and chornobyl looked and looks like a gorgeous area.

[@Hydrogenblonde]

Both this and the previous video are very important documentations of Pripyat in the past and now. These are important works and should be cherished by all.

[@stanislavnepochatov8381]

I was in Pripyat in 2017. Magnificent place. I was hoping to see something grim dark and apocalyptic. Like in game. And at morning when our group was on Duga it was very grim. But after noon sun came out. And I was suprised how whole city were consumed by nature. Yes people left their home and it was a tragedy. But at least something can grow and habit on this poisoned soil.

[@Dadsterful]

I was there in September 2019 and vowed to return again. Hopefully one day I will. Please God, give peace back to the world

[@zappadow6538]

I wish I had this as a resource back when I was making my "extremely accurate" pre-meltdown map of pripyat for my history class back in school. It would have been incredible to just have the names of streets and buildings given to me rather than scouring the internet looking for the smallest scraps of info lmao😅

[@2lol4php]

I miss this place so much..

[@BSD2000]

Interesting how they built everything out of bricks, cement stucco and broken tiles to mimic 'modern' buildings.

[@KeritechElectronics]

The overgrowth is immense. Looking at the comparison really reminds me of The Upside Down in Stranger Things... only nothing is supernatural here. It's just a few decades without maintenance, nature reclaiming what was built by civilization.

[@jenniferpesquera648]

People who were live in pripyat and they thought they were going to come back to their homes and apartments with their family and friends and family members. I felt bad for those who try to come back to their homes and apartments. That makes everyone very upset about that they didn't get to go back where it was use to be a beautiful town of pripyat fill with people and families with the kids and friends and family members. Now no one was there ever since the explosion of 1986 that killed 31 workers.

[@andrewprettyquick2070]

Has to be maintained* for future generations. *"prevent it falling down".

[@mirekcech6666]

Hello

[@hansmuller1625]

This is both beautiful and incredibly sad. It was a beautiful place back in the day. I have wanted to visit ever since i learned it was possible, a very long time ago now.

[@EndLessValentine]

such a great job, the city looks beyond beutiful in both after and before <3

[@Fantomasmag]

It is very sad how the city of Pripyat looks nowadays. Thank you very much for both of your videos and I look forward to the next one.

[@Speeddemon3]

Simply amazing! Thank you for the time you spent publishing these incredible pictures. It's people like you that keep this city alive!

[@mikecoackley6852]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing 👍

[@yogenderlochub]

I feel the history slide in front of my eyes while watching this video, thanks for making this content

[@TerroxNL79]

This video is a real Masterpiece! Must have taken a lot of time editing all the right shots! Thanks !

[@KateRVN]

Дякую за це відео було дуже сумно бачити всі будіві. Матінка природа дуже розумна у відновленні речей. мені сумно за втрату Прип’яті і за війну. Будь ласка будьте в безпеці мені подобається дивитися на ваші роботи. Велике спасибі.

[@jounneejr8073]

Another great video, thanks!