Pripyat before Chernobyl accident
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Pripyat is an abandoned city located in the north of the Kyiv region of Ukraine, about 180 km from Kyiv, on the banks of the Pripyat River, 2 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, not far from the border with the Republic of Belarus.
The city was home to employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - one of the largest nuclear power plants of its time in Europe.
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I love the fact this town stood in the heart of the nature.
Even more so today. Nature has taken over
Pripyat was (and still is) in a beautiful part of Ukraine. Just an hour's drive north of Kyiv, on the border with Belarus. The weather there is great between April and October. The city was very well planned, built and serviced- a Ukrainian city of the future, where some of the brightest minds lived and worked.
Not many cities or towns of 50 000 in the USSR had public swimming pools, playgrounds, a fun fair and a stadium, and certainly not a Palace Of Culture such as that in Pripyat. The waiting list was far shorter there for things like apartments and cars, etc.
It's such a shame it came to such a tragic end after only 16 years (Pripyat was founded in 1970).
Everybody had a job in that city except kids. All adults were employed and had a good life.
That shot of the 2 little boys w/the Chernobyl Plant in the distant background was both a little creepy and truly sad.
Dla przyrody nigdy życie się nie zatrzyma
It looked like a nice place to live, even with the high rise flats everywhere.
I would love to go on a Chernobyl tour i think pripyat is included
It was like these residents hit the lottery. That was a time of waiting generations for descent housing, they were envied by nearly all. Yet it all vanished in a flash. Very sad story.
This is undeniable proof that the ferris wheel wasn't new and not switched on yet when the accident happened as you can see it during the winter time
So sad for these people. I wonder how they were effected. I wonder how they are today. These photos are so disturbing. Nuclear power scares the he'll out of me.
But now we're gonna need more nuclear to reduce CO2 emissions. My country, Finland, is building two new reactors to raise the share of nuclear to over 50%. We're so north that solar energy is not enough and we can't make wind power reliable either. Other European countries do more renewables because they can rely more on others' grids. Finland is on the edge of Europe so we can't so much. We have to go nuclear.
Nuclear power is safe, I would be more scared of what could and what did happen when tired, misdirected, and unqualified people have to run a power plant. Most accidents are caused by human error (like the graphite tips on control rods of the RBMK reactors). Without human error, Nuclear power is generally safe
After Pripyat was evacuated, the residents went to live temporarily with other families, mainly in the Kyiv region. In 1988 the town of Slavutych was built specifically to house the former Pripyat residents. Slavutych was obviously further away than Pripyat from Chernobyl NPP, so a rail line was used to transport the workers still running units 1, 2 and 3, and those dealing with the ongoing issues resulting from the disaster. A lot of people don't realise that Chernobyl only ceased producing electricity in December 2000.
@@carstrive2207 That may be true, but removing the possibility of human error (along with the negative stigma surrounding nuclear power) is very difficult, after events such as those at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. There were also lesser known events in the USSR in the 1950's, plus the spread of radiation from testing nuclear bombs in outback Australia, the Marshall Islands and Bikini Athol. The public's general opinion of nuclear power is too stained by the memories of these events to permit widespread use of nuclear power, whether it is 'safe' or not.
Guess you live somewhere that isn't being affected by climate change from non renewables then. Be scared of climate change, not this relatively safe way of making energy.
Pripyat is an abandoned city located in the north of the Kyiv region of Ukraine, about 180 km from Kyiv, on the banks of the Pripyat River, 2 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, not far from the border with the Republic of Belarus.
From what I know, some of these photos date from as recently as early 1986. The shots with the feriss wheel, and some with the big posters on the buildings, maybe? I forget what the posters were celebrating, but remember seeing them in footage of Pripyat just after it was evacuated. Great video, thanks.
Human mistake will effect not only to humans but also environment, animals, water and many.
True example 🙏
50,000 people used to live in this city, but now it's a ghost town. -Cpt.McMillan
Very interesting to see this before the accident...ty!
What's with the creepy sounding music? Pripyat was a normal town, really. Sure, there is a lot of stigma attached to it now, but seriously.....
Yeah, I had to turn the sound off.
Well, not completely normal.
1. It was one of only 50 Soviet cities to have a nuclear power plant
2. It was a secret city, only known to those that lived in the city.
Not completely normal, but not as creepy as the music is implying.
The Music Isn't creepy at all, The Music Fits Perfectly Well With The Video. 🙏.
thumb up if u try to read the cyrillic texts even if your country uses latin letters
Красивый город
So many beautiful young families in a prosperous new town. Baby boom too! Sad, tragic and what not!
thank you for these historical photos, lost future of all those young families in the USSR with dreams we all have
free market capitalism later really destroyed them, just like the people on the west
the picture with the baby got me
Pripyat before the accident looked like it did in Liverpool (UK) in the 1980's
Pripyat 1970 1986
It was beautiful while it lasted
Как будто из другой реальности.
It looked like a military base
I was hoping to see a comment with "Fifty thousand people used to live in this city. Now it's a ghost town" but i guess i was wrong
lf l had a time machine, l'd go to Pripyat in the 1970s.
Before pictures, with after music?
It was so beautiful... n spacious... flowers in the middle of the roads, systematic
Looks like Thamesmead.
So even before the accident it was a shit hole.
Meu Deus como como um desastre colocou tudo tudo a perder por uma eternidade para os humanos. Uma cidade como PRIPYAT lindaaaaa foi Dizimada por pelo menos 20.000 anos. Porque tiveram tantos desprezos na hora de fazer aquele maldito teste no REATOR RBMK n*04 ? Porquê ANATOLY DYATLOV ignorou tanto todas as normas de segurança.?
Um vídeo como esse traz imagens que chega a provocar as minhas lágrimas. Isso mesmo lágrimas. Eu nunca estive na Ucrânia muito menos ainda em PRIPYAT. Más de tanto assistir vídeo sobre o acidente vejo que era uma cidade lindíssima maravilhosa e que tinha uma cultura e um povo lindo e vivendo em uma cidade incrível moderna e avançada prá época.
Apesar de tudo, Parabéns Ucrânia.!
It's a shame that so many of the photos are distorted.
2:05 Lada wedding Limo......now there's a rarity!
Limo?
@@skibididopyesdop Sorry.....it's an abbreviation for Limousine and was meant in humour.
The place looked creepy even BEFORE the accident.
Czarno białe zdj
Kiedyś tam było kolorowo i był daleki horyzont
Nie wiem skąd te drzewa się tam wzięły na horyzoncie
@@levis2563 Bo tam drzewa rosły dookoła. Dookoła Prypeci były lasy. Ba, bodaj na 3. osiedlu był cały pas lasu zostawiony przed budowniczych - widać go nawet na niektórych zdjęciach (patrz: 8:03). Zostawiony celowo, aby odgrodzić bloki o terenu szkół. Zresztą - widać to też na współczesnych jesiennych zdjęciach - lasy dookoła Prypeci są zielone - bo to zachowany drzewostan iglasty, natomiast drzewa na terenie miasta tracą na jesień liście - bo to głównie "potomstwo" drzew nasadzanych przez ludzi jako aleje i zadrzewienia między budynkami. A to były głównie drzewa liściaste. Dużo o tym można usłyszeć w takim "filmie promocyjnym" o Prypeci z 1982 roku - jest na YT z napisami po angielsku.
Bald and Bankrupt got me here
What is the song in the video?
Klangsegler- dark valley from the STALKER CoP soundtrack
1:07 I trzeci anioł zatrąbił i z nieba spadł ,,piołun'' ( z języka starego ukraińskiego *Czarnobyl* ) i 3 cześć wód stała się gorzka a ludzie pomarli
06:32 Ich sehe unsere Fahne. :D
DDF Fahne?
It is weirdly comforting to me that the Cheronbyl desaster did not struck in a beautiful, liveable place.
Pripyat before Chernobyl accident looks actually identical to Pripyat after the accident.
Нет,это не так. Такое впечатление сложилось из- за фотоаппаратов плохого качества,существующих в то время. На самом деле это было хорошее место для жизни- некоторые участки города стояли посреди девственного соснового леса,в городе было высажено тридцать тысяч кустов роз дорогих пород. Там работали лучшие учителя и врачи во всем СССР,а это что- то да значит.
@@user-fg1ck9uf8o Don't bother. He/she clearly is a sad troll.
Lonely cold and isolated. The units look stifling and this is before the accident. No identity here, just part of a large machine. High rise Lego with no design
This place would have just sucked you in then you would end up stuck in its grasp. You would not survive outside as it was like a massive institution. This was probably the idea. The comfort zone was what these people knew. The certainty of a job and new accommodation. Not much comfort in radiation. POOR THINGS, ABSOLUTELY TRAGIC.
Everything looks beautiful. Clean, no graffity, no garbage. I love soviet architecture.
Eh?
This place looks spartan, barren, austere and almost lifeless even before the Chernobyl disaster!
It makes me even more thankful and appreciative to have been born and living in the good, old USA!!!
America is crumbling. No longer the super power it once was
@@TheBasedCanadian Not yet, but America will crumble if the current trend continues and is not put in check!
ironically, pripyat was one of the best places you could have ended up living in the soviet union
This is a good reminder of how sad and dehumanized life under communism is. Even before the disaster, it already looked like a dystopian shit hole.
Detroit looks worse
What a change after all that time