Chernobyl Before and After the Disaster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2023
- During my multi-year job in the Chernobyl Zone, I attempted to recreate classical historical shots of the city of Pripyat when it was still populated. This compilation is a demonstration of how the place changed over almost four decades. Often, I discovered that the exact spots where photographers took their images were almost inaccessible in modern times because of sprawling vegetation that slowly took over a once shiny and beautiful Ukrainian city.
During the first years after the Chernobyl disaster, 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.
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Yes, please. It's always interesting to get both eras.
With pleasure!
Yes, please. It would be nice to have also some photos of interiers. I still wonder how the regular apartments looked like then and dreaming how it would be if...
Yes Please... amazing video
That will take some time, but yes!
The driving force of nature is incredible. How a forest can literally grow out of asphalt.
The first 10-20 years it was still not that visible. But as I watch it already nearly 15 years sometimes on daily basis, in the last years it started to go exponentially-too many generations of trees are growing simultaneously.
Centralia, Pennsylvania also had a massive disaster around the time of Chernobyl. It's literally now one house and all forest. Pretty amazing that some of the buildings are still seemingly structurally sound.
@DGTelevsionNetwork yes, I'm fascinated by that story (which is, well, sad). Should visit one day.
To quote Jeff Goldblum: “Life finds a way.”
I'll better point out nature adaptability
Can't imagine how it feels to have lived there and then comming back several decades later... "This used to be my house." Must feel so strange...
We used to guide former residents sometimes; well, the word "guide" here means a provision of safety in the changed environment. Frankly, this was always a very hard experience, emotionally.
@@ChernobylFamily I can't imagine what was the feeling for them, can't imagine the fate of the ones who gave their lives to contain the situation back then.
Fallout reference
I've visited Pripyat in 2016, and I could still see that it once was a beautiful town with people that loved to live there. The kindergardens were especially nice, very big with very nice toys, and the amount of pianos everywhere, and the art you could still see in some places (those beautiful glass windows at cafe pripyat, or the painting inside the post office- my favorite btw). It is very sad, that everyone had to leave this beloved place. I definately would love to see more.
Thank you! From time to time we will make episodes focused on the city. For now, check our previous episodes, there is much interesting.
I've often wondered what life was like.
I had a teacher who regukarky visited the USSR, and saud we were not to believe what we saw on western news.
Looking at Pripyat, yes, the architecture is 'Brutalist'. But we see flower beds, playgrounds, swimming pools...nice things that make for a better quality of life.
It is modernist.
Well. Pripyat was a showcase facility, not a fake one, but nevertheless, showcase.
When I used to guide there tours, I often told that Pripyat is close to Ukrainian cities of the 90s rather than Soviet of the 80s. To get a glimpse of a Soviet city it is more descriptive to look at Chernobyl town. That is a representation of a very average Soviet town - quite grey and in many aspects faceless.
Now it's beautiful in a different way.
Once I read: Your life can change in an instant. That instant can last forever.
Seeing any footage of Pripyat always hits hard.
Very true.
Radiation: I shall create a wasteland! Doom to all life!
Plants: Nope, screw you, we're growin' 🌱
In other contries, you prune trees, in radioactive Soviet, trees prune you!
@@dintadoba4808 THIS IS FUNNY AS HELL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I could feel tears coming to my eyes as I saw all those people who could never go home. But somehow the pictures still make me feel hopeful. Thanks for showing us these and for your excellent choice of music.
Some found their way to return - they work there... I know a few such people. Thank you!
We've all watched the Chernobyl videos but to watch the fades between images is truly haunting.
Thank you. So far we made the second part,you can check it out; but soon will be more.
Whenever I see pictures of Pripyat, I am most struck that the most visible difference is that now there are so many more trees and other plants.
In some places in summer it is barely possible to recognize it is a city, not a forest. There is one yard near the famous swimming pool where this went to extreme, I'll show that in future videos.
Great music choice and beautiful photos. So many peoples' lives changed by what happened - makes me sad thinking about it. Thank you.
After years of going to Pripyat, sometimes every day, I still cannot comprehend with my mind how big all this story actually is.
Check our previous videos as well, it is worth it :)
Its so so sad this happened. It looked like a beautiful area.
True, it was. And still is. Check our previous episodes.
Peace and love for those Who past away during this horrible disaster
Thank you for these words.
Amazing work on this compilation... I want more of this from Pripyat and elsewhere in this area if possible. Thank you so much.
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Seconded!
What an incredible video. The effort that has gone into this is astounding
Thank you! Check our newer episodes
The most interesting is that this video is about the decline of a place. And instead one starts focusing on how lifeful, beautiful and kind of rich this place was and starts being more interested what it was than what it is now. Very good job.
Thank you! We are planning this year to release a very detailed video about life in Pripyat.
The fade between the frontage past and present(ish) on Builders Ave @9:58 is absolutely haunting when paused then single frame stepped in either direction. Seeing all the simple accoutrements of human life vanish or appear over just a few frames that are so well matched to each other is just fascinating. Beautiful sequence of images, thankyou for all the effort it must have taken to get them.
Thank you! We have a very large archive of historical images, but the work on location really was a challenge - and in many cases it was a big surprise to discover what was the actual point where the photographer stood. This weekend will come the continuation - stay tuned!
@@ChernobylFamily Looking forward to that video. Can one ask what work you were doing in the zone, or would you have to kill us if you told us?
In various times different. Work with delegations/visitors (guiding), movie making, administrative work. But at any time - field research.
Stunningly well done. Tragically beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you too! Check our previous episodes!
I liked the atmosphere of the picture sequences, enhanced by the music. Almost gave me the feeling of remembering these pictures.
Thank you! Check also our earlier episodes. We have two good movies about the power plant inside and self-settlers of the Zone.
Some parts of my city looked like this during the pandemic. Vegetation grew and the buildings grew molds.
Thank you so much for this beautiful video. I can't imagine how many hours you put into making this. It is a masterpiece. I will be following your channel. All my best from the US.. Jim
Thank you, Jim! To make the video itself it took one evening, but well, to make the today shots on location was The Task... :)
These videos instill a heavy and pervasive sense of sadness. Peoples lives upended. Destruction, loss, death. The clock ceases to run in Pripyat after that day in 1986... Although and, maybe, because of these overwhelming feelings when watching these videos of Pripyat, I would like to go and experience this place for myself.
Yes. Very well said.
Though the clock continued running, just in a strange afterlife which turned it into a lab city, and then - after 2000, when the power plant stopped electricity generation, there happened the second, and seemingly final exodus. Right now there is only one facility which is running, and it looks surreal to see bright glowing windows opposed by long abandoned overgrown buildings.
Excellent work recreating historical photos. I've tried it myself... getting the distance and angle right is hard work. :)
Thank you! In the case of Pripyat, the biggest trouble was that original shots were taken from pedestrian areas, which are generally totally overgrown - now everyone walks there by the roads for vehicles, gladly, traffic which we have there is not that intensive. Plus, people used different lens...
Great matches and recreations. Thank you for posting all these pictures.👍
Thank you! There is a continuation, check it out.
That music is so calming
To be a fly on the wall in those commerce buildings.
As others have said, the selection of music was spot on. I find it interesting seeing how much things change when the area is abandoned.
As someone who is interested not only in the Chernobyl incident, nuclear reactors, but also
Pripyat. While it’s sad to think about the devastation caused in the area, and the lives lost as a result. It’s amazing to see how much nature has reclaimed the land.
I would love to see more content like this. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together and sharing it with the world.
Thank you! More to come!
Wow !! there are no words can describe my feeling seeing these pictures...I'm now 63 years old, I was one of the european spectator during the immane disaster in 1983...and now i'm again here to see the disaster of the russian invasion. Take care my friend...
Thank you!
Beautiful work, beautiful photos and even more beautiful place ❤
Thank you very much! Check our previous videos too!
Beautiful compilation. Before and After is very moving.
Thank you very much!
Amazing as always. Love your videos keep it up guys.
Thanks so much!
Those photos are incredible. Thanks.
Glad you like! It was really challenging work on location to get a close match. Check our other videos, we have more!
Some Old photographs I havn't seen yet. Thank you Alex!
Glad that you liked!
A very well done video. Thank you!
Glad that you liked! Check our other episodes!
Thank you for this beautiful video.
Thank you too! Check the previous episodes please!
Amazing!, thank you for all the effort on creating amazing Chernobyl content. I'm a big fan, greetings from Argentina.
Our pleasure, that places and their story is life for us...! Check our Patreon - for $10/mo you can get an access to unique archives explained and commented as well :)
So many lives changed in one instant. I look at these faces and wonder what happened to them all. I hope they have found some happiness.
All those people are still mostly alive; however they were spread across all the former union. Some are still in the Zone, already as its staff.
Brilliantly done. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Check our other videos!
What a sad/nostalgic view 😔
Absolutely amazing thank-you very much for the video. just wow
Check also our previous videos. You will find a lot interesting!
Nice video and great pictures.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful videography of a beautiful area - so sad it’s abandoned ❤
Thank you!
very thought provoking. good music choice too. thanks for the content.
Thank you for coming! Check our previous episodes...!
Nice video! I'm glad to see actual people living in Pripyat back in the days. I wondew what the became after they've been evicted... Do you know some people who worked at the Duga radar ? A interview video would be fantastic (with photos of what it looked like back then) or the Wulenwerber antennas array nearby
Yes, we had a chance to meet some engineers. Get ready for a big documentary aboyt Duga that will come from us this year!
your transitions are AMAZING as a Video & Sound Editor... DAMD GOOD JOB. Another thing I just noticed On the OLD image you do a slight PULL BACK of the OLD image so it will match the NEW image for Transition, then a slight ZOOM IN on the NEW image. WOW NICE TOUCH. JUST SUBBED TO YOUR CHANNEL.
Thank you!
Great comparisons, seeing people celebrating on the streets of Prypyat is so alien to me. Eveyone looked so happy there,.
And yet, after literally thousands of times of visiting it, I still cannot imagine it alive in, let's say, 3D.
Úžasné, moc děkuji za toto video. Na spoustě míst jsem byl, na spoustu se chci určitě podívat. Pamatuji, když jsme do města vjeli, jak jsem byl šokován tím, jak si příroda bere zpět celou plochu města, člověk by nepoznal, že je na ulici, kde kdysi jezdily auta, chodili lidi....člověkovi z toho mrazí po zádech. 😳
Ďakujeme, tento víkend bude ďalší diel Pripjať pred a po
I can believe the same area was still there and I hope that will never be the same town.
That so sad to see those photos, Peoples Lives just distroyed in such a way, it looked like a thriving community in some of the films I have seen, I feel so sorry for those Familys that suffard and of cause the familys that lost love ones that worked at plant, yes would love to see more photos ans foodege like this even though it is sad to see, makes you think how lucky you are, thank you great video .
Thank you! For now, check the second episode we released after this one...
Captivating video ! Sad to see what happened to such a fine looking place. Thank you
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
1:42 It reminds me of Spreepark before and after in East-Berlin
Every picture of Pripyat is just wonderful. Triggers anger, sadness, and somehow just amazing. Disastrous yet beautiful at the same time.
I hope someday i will be there.
Thank you for the great content btw!
Well, if you will come, we happily can guide you :)
Simply outstanding. What a brilliant work ❤
Thank you! Check our newer episodes as well :)
@@ChernobylFamily seeing these pictures, reminds me of what the before and after photos of the interior of titanic are like. There are pictures of some of the first class, dining areas and suites back in 1912 and when the ship was just about to be finished a little bit before that. In a few cases expeditions to titanic since the 1980s have managed to find that some of the areas where these pictures were taken where is accessible to small underwater robots, known as ROV’s. In the instances where photographs could be taken in the exact positions where the old early 20th century pictures were taken, there were some startling comparisons to be made. Aside from the obvious fact that a century of decay has happened, and that the wood is long gone having been eaten by parasites and underwater worms there is a surprising amount of metals still around. One notable occurrence from the 2001 expedition to titanic successfully more or less re-created a picture from a first class dining room from 1912 when the light from a submersible shined through a metal and glass window into the dining area where a small ROV was filming. To the surprise of the explorers, the glass from the window was still intact despite the shock of the ship impacting the bottom, during the sinking, and the subsequent decay of a century. The shine of the light through the window was both beautiful and haunting in it’s similarity to the 1912 picture. I can only imagine what it must be to go through Chernobyl and doing similar things to locations especially when there are still a lot of people who remember the event and can still go back there unlike titanic.
Thank you for this, excellent video. It's amazing how given time nature will absorb everything again.
Thank you! There is a continiation of it, and there will be more
This was really interesting but so sad... such hopes and dreams shattered. Thankyou
Thank you! Check newer episodes as well!
Beautiful work, not like those "before after" videos, where they use "shutterstock" pictures even for the present day.
I'm surprised how many of those "before" photos I haven't seen before (and I thought I've seen most of them). Do you have some special source?
Anyway, I have few suggestions on topics I would be personally interested in.
- Bus transport: there were some bus stops, was there some kind of a city bus/marshrutka route, or it was for intercity buses passing through? What were the routes and how do the stops look now?
- Traffic lights: I only know about lights at L. Ukrainky X Sportyvna and by the Lazurnyi. Were there other locations? If not, why those very places? Especially the one by the pool is at no big crossroad. Maybe to help people from 4th mkr. go to the 3rd one? Maybe when the school #4 wasn't finished yet?
- Floods in 70s. According to some aerial photos, the Prypiat river quite marginally raised one time. Any more info about it?
- Sewer system: What was "fekalka" for and what's inside? Are any of the manholes accessible and are they safe to climb into? Would the system work even now? Etc.
Well, we are in the Zone for a long time and know many people, that's it... even more is on our Patreon page.
For your questions:
1) there was a ring route and a shuttle to the power plant. Both were relatively little used, a ring one - to see/show the city in particular. The shuttle had a stop at the central square near sewage pump building. Most people however, went to their work on foot by a trail through the forest.
2) Those two places only. Near Jupiter due to the size of a crossroad (standards), near School #3 - for a greater safety of kids because that one accommodated 1600 students and pre-school kids, so it was bigger than others.
3) There was a flood. There is a photographic evidence that water reached upper levels of the stairs in the river port. Not in the last reason memories of this was the reason why in 1986 a long dam between the river port and the city has been created following Naberezhna - Ogneva st.
4) Fekalka (there were many of them) are black water pumping facilities that used to distribute that to water cleanup station near oil base of the ChNPP.
After 1986 pipes mostty were cut and blocked to prevent contamination getting to the river. Some are accessible, but they are VERY contaminated.
Some parts that cross the central square were/are functioning to service operational facilities of the city.
@@ChernobylFamily Awesome! Thank you for your answers!
Beatiful! Good speed, text easy to read, can't wait to show this to my wife. Yes more please! Btw: my wife and I always say that Pripyat looked very much like any contemporary town in Finland, if it had been a democracy life would probably have been pretty good there?
Glad that you liked!
Well, we can have a live example - city of Slavutych, that replaced Pripyat to accommodate the ChNPP staff - it is different, but keeps the style it was given in 1986-88. A really good place to live if we forget about its very remote location.
complimenti per la sequenza delle immagini con in sottofondo questa musica
Thanks!
Haunting. Thanks for posting.
Thank you! There is a continuation, andbwe are planning to have more.
@@ChernobylFamily - I was watching it during my lunch. I’ve seen loads of footage from Pripyat before but this felt really eerie. It really made me feel for the folks who lived here.
Thank you! Stay tuned. We will show more, much more in a meaningful way.
03:55 Now the note is restored again :)
Yes, but it is a delicate story;)
more videos like this pls!
Happily will make - you know, it should be not only Chernobyl tech stuff, because if we will not talk about the Zone, many will miss some inportant contextual details.
There is something incredibly nostalgic about Pripyat. I feel like Pripyat was an incredibly stereotypical and "ideal" Soviet city that we all imagined in our heads, regardless if you were born before or after the USSR collapsed, or whether you are Russian or Ukrainian. All of us grew up watching Nu Pogodi and other classics and somehow this city reminds me of these cartoons. Pripyat was clean, groomed and professionally designed. This was the only "real" Soviet city, all others cities in the USSR were not 100% Soviet in design and had mixed architectural styles, so this perhaps is the reason it feels nostalgic.
Even though the USSR was incredibly bureaucratic and was run by a terribly incompetent government, I will say that this city was supposed to a major success. It was what the USSR was supposed to eventually evolve into. And while I think the architecture was boring and generic, it was somehow beautiful for its nostalgia and order. And while the reality of the USSR was harsh, somehow all of us grew up with the same dreams, the same childhood memories, the same nostalgia, the same stereotypical imaginations of soviet cities, regardless of our generation. It also evokes the memories of when Ukrainians and Russians were living together, sadly no longer a reality.
May I ask what is the music that you used in the video? It's lovely 😢
Kevin MacLeod - Abmient
@@ChernobylFamily Thank you so much 😍
Wow, impressive job matching the pictures so perfectly.
Looks like trees don't care about concrete or radiation...
And the pictures with peoples are very, very touching. Many are smiling, some looks even proud of standing in this nice city built by and for the prosperity of the "atom worker". Can't stop thinking about what they have become after that fateful day. The city is still here. It will remain here for decades to come. But them, where are they?
I think Pripyat and the Zone are bound to stay a one of a kind place on earth, a place more or less frozen in time. Once there is peace, people can come back to a war zone, they can rebuilt their homes turned to piles of rubble by the bombs (there are many public places in Poland where there are "before" pictures of WWII-flattened cities to appreciate the restoration efforts). But there is no peace to be made with radioactive dust, there is only time. A long, long time.
The resettling process spread them all across the ex-Soviet union. Many are in Ukraine, many live in Kyiv or in Slavutych, some even work in the Zone... Pripyat is a paradoxical environment, as in one hand there is eternal 1986; in other hand it was never totally abandoned, and even now there are people working. However, when you are there, you deal with that eternal 1986, do you want it or not.
How, it is absolutely mind blowing how nature took over. Prypiat is now a forest
Check the next episode as well!
@@ChernobylFamily it is already in my "watch later" list! Thank you!
It's sad for me to see the before and after photos, how it was before when Pripyat was occupied by residents that lived their lives as we all do, and then to see how things progressed over time and how the earth is reclaiming what once was a bustling and energetic place. It's a reminder of how life as we know it can change in a single moment. Very sad.
Very right words.
wow, great video, thank you
Glad you liked! Check our other episodes, we have a lot interesting here.
Thank you for sharing this series. Do you know what the sign/painting says on the side of the building at 2:06?
Need to check, will andwel a bit later... surely something meaningless.
So, it took some effort, but I figured it out: "Inhabitants of Pripyat! Do everything to achieve production norms, to get your labour task done!"
@@ChernobylFamily Thank you! I really appreciate the effort.
very impactful video!
Thank you!
Yes , it is important history........thank you for your effort
Thank you! Going to have tech episodes soon as well...)
love your channel ❤ be safe always from ph 🇵🇭
Thank you! Will do!
Pripiyat 1970-1986
Never Forget Pripiyat 3:43
The picture at 7:00 is so different then what is it for the present photo, the building… and the sidewalks… I can only see that sign still there after all those years
Yes. Though the post-accident picture is from a bit different angle than the pre-disaster one, which was taken approximately 50 m forward that alley. There were around 6 those propaganda installations in the middle. The park where it is located is so overgrown that now it is really hard to trace any sidewalks. But, good for animals - there is a group of elks living there...)
This is amazing to see.
And the place itself is very impressive.
great comparison
I am working on a big Computers Of Chornobyl episode, so I decided to try this as well. Glad that you like it!
This is just devastating when I think about the people who lived there coming back to see this decay. I visit my Childhood home from the 1980's and it barely looks different. I would probably break down & have tears if I saw my old home in Pripyat.
I know personally a few persons who decided not to visit Pripyat ever after the evacuation (despite they can), because they want to remember the city alive.
Both before and after are so beautiful, it’s just saddening to see that some parts that were once so lively have been lifeless for so long, but also beautiful to see nature regrow ♡
It has a.... different life now. We have been there on 26 April... good old lovely city, sent it greetings on behalf of all of you, guys....
This is beautiful yet sad. I'd like to see some of the trees cut down, but I don't know if that would mean the elements would get to the buildings faster, and they are already decaying. Pripyat is the most magical place!
Thank you... soon more!
One of my dreams is to spend a day in Pripyat when its quiet and taking photos in HDR, fascinating place, always has been. Thank you.
When the ongoing war will be over, contact us, maybe we will be able to make your dream come true.
Thank you so much for these stunning pictures. I was there in 2019 and planned to go back the following year. Then the world went batshit crazy and has shown no signs of returning any time soon. Maybe one day we will return but in the meantime we have these fantastic memories.
Glad to bring them to you! More to come this week!
The most saddest thing is when the buildings are new😢
Yes.
Extraordinario!
Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
Thank you!))
It’s amazing to see the decay that comes with the removal of people.
Pripyat was a young city, in the physical aspect. Springing up in the 1970s with the construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant nearby.
Blocks and blocks of clean apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, a fire station, a police station, and grocery stores. Layered in between those, beautifully constructed public art. Colorful mosaics flanked by manicured trees and shrubs, some of which sat in large concrete parks.
Today the buildings sit mostly empty, the manicured trees now gigantic and wild. The concrete parks, the city streets now virtually forests with paths winding through. The apartments just poking out above these young forests. The mosaic’s small colorful tile work falling to the ground to be lost in the brush.
...sadly, a month before the invasion we walked in the city with engineers and an artist from Ivan Litovchenko's art workshop (I. L. created those mosaics). There was a plan to chemically enforce them to prevent further destruction. With the war, we can only guess when again we will be able to come to such projects.
@@ChernobylFamily oh wow!!! He’s still alive? I hope there is some preservation. Hopefully soon as well. I would love to visit someday, hopefully during a peaceful time. So much history in the exclusion zone.
Litovchenko died in 1986. But such works as large mosaics you rarely do alone - he had a team, many of those people are alive. I got from them a rarest album about him and his works... will try to scan (it has "interesting" binding) and will put on Patreon. As for mosaics, although Litovchenko's biggest heritage as a single ensemble is Pripyat, he has a lot of works one can see e.g. in Kyiv, such as 6 giant mosaics on Beresteisky ave or mosaics under the dome of the central terminal of Kyiv railway station (those are from the 50-s).
@@ChernobylFamily wow, that’s amazing. Did he and his team do work in the other Soviet republics?
In Uzbekistan seems to me. Need to check the album.
I'm in the US and was a teenager when this happened. Even today, this land is unusable for human habitat is just amazing and scary nuclear power generation can be.
I love watching videos, articles and documentaries about Chernobyl. A place so well built that it had everything to be a wonderful place to live. Imagine today in 2023 what Chernobyl would be like if this terrible accident had not occurred?! It would be a city so rich not only in financial matters but also in technology. I get emotional when I see these videos comparing photos from then and now (after the disaster), I get emotional because I see the families, the children... how many destinies were not altered and taken away.... I really want to visit Chernobyl, But I'm sure it would move me a lot.
It is easy to imagine (but well, we talk about Pripyat here, as Chernobyl is a tiny boring rown that would remain the same). Pripyat would be like today's Slavutych. Clean, beautiful, fairly rich.
@@ChernobylFamily Yes, Pripyat would be wonderful, my goodness, imagine everyday life. But let's say that today with the plant, Chernobyl would be a very technological field, this accident would be very difficult to happen. I love this place, but I really feel for the people who experienced the tragedy
Amazing but also very sad.
True. But so much to learn from it.
I feel like this could be the whole world in the very near future … except there will be no one left to watch😔
...making it a greater monument to human mistakes, once more.
A beautiful sentimental journey
Thank you!
I love the way IA can make this amazing places
I am not sure I understand what you want to say.
haunting and beautiful. all of our memories find the same fate
Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much… I want to contribute one thing, subtitles appear very briefly and become difficult to read. Can you extend the timing a little more next time?
Sure. Thank you for the feedback!
Hauntingly fascinating
It has a beauty that never fades away. After hundreds of visits there, still feels like the first time.
I find it mad how natural not only survives but thrives there. It’s almost like the planet has said mankind is forbidden
Yes. While this effect in this particular place is region-specific. Pripyat appeared basically out of nowhere in super humid swampy region of Chornobyl Polissya. That humidity is something, for specific plants it gives an incredible boost.
Is that where the big catfish are
@@nappa41 Yes and no - as we speak about the region, which is veeery big :) That catfish lived in channels of the power plant, approx. 3 km out of city. Unfortunately, most of them are gone after decommissioning of the cooling pond, but middle-sized are still there. We fed them last week :)
Another great video-keep them coming, guys! Also . . . let’s build a robot together!
Thank you! Robot is in progress - gathering budgets and parts, but we will be super happy for a collab!
"Let be atom a worker, not a soldier", yeah...
Well, post-disaster operation of the Chernobyl NPP with all modernization applied proved that is possible. But my god, at which cost.
Some of these pictures gives off liminal space vibes
Oh yess...
So sad. This city will never come back again
True.
Seems like when people leave we get a lot more trees so at least that's positive. I think its fascinating to see how quickly nature takes over again.
It is interesting that this happened within 20 years (approximately). During the very first decade there were bushes and so-called pioneer trees, that invaded the area the first; but a real sprawl startted when a few generations of trees started to produce new seeds simultaneously.
Gutes Video. Interessant aber sehr bedrückend. Die armen Menschen.
Nichtsahnend in die Katastrophe. Und heute?
el fantastico, rly good to compare, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Beautiful
Thank you! Check the previous episodes too!
Blown away at just how much nature has reclaimed
Yes. And the progress of this is notable even if we take the recent 10 years.