Pripyat, we will never forget you!

[1965ace]

Communism a modern city , everyone lives in the same buildings with identical apartments . Americans would be appalled by this conformity. I can't help but think this was a work prison, where you lived with your family and could never escape. I have been fascinated by the now abandoned city.

[Alex281088]

@1965ace To my mind it is not relevant anymore, what americans think. USA are more dictatorship today than democrazy, like USSR was. The only difference was that USSR had a somehow good working social system, which the "modern" USA were not able to establish yet (and will be never), I am fascinated by "occupy Wallstreet", this is something that USA need urgently.

[1965ace]

@Alex281088 I didn't mean any offense and I can understand why you think that way but I live here and I can tell you "occupy wall street" is nothing but a joke and a media fetish. You would love the freedom here, work anywhere you want live anywhere you want. I built my own house , own my business and set my own hours. The poorest person I know has a car , a cell phone, tv and video games and eats better than I do. If you were to visit I'd love to show you how great it is here.

[Alex281088]

@1965ace and what is about social system? social insurance? you should come to Europe and see what it is like to live here ;)

[1965ace]

@Alex281088 I was int he UK about 10 years ago and it was beautiful. My friend tells me she pays 60% of her income in taxes now and the health care system is a "postal lottery" . You get better healthcare in some postal areas. My brother in-law lives in Germany but we really haven't discussed economic systems. He came to the states about a year ago for special surgery on his knee. There is plenty of government assistance for anyone who wants it though. I am concerned about debt in both systems.

[moruization]

So fkn sad :(

[mikrus8]

Prypyat was more modern than my town now.

[MagnoliaStFilms]

CoD 4 був хворий.

[m2mihulja]

I'm so sorry for that city. It was new, young, modern and full of life. And today is the one of the most creepiest places on the Earth, destroyed, robbed and ruined.

It didn't had even chance to see at least the first half 21 century .

[MSTejbz]

English: Thanks for you has made this video! It has helped me so much. I was 10 when this happend.¨ All my friends has been killed when this happend. Every time i think on this video or Pripyat im starting crying. Ukraine. Спасибі, що ви зробили це відео! Це допомогло мені так багато. Мені було 10, коли це сталося. ¨ Всі мої друзі були вбиті в цій аварії, і що найгірше ... я був знущаються коли це сталося. Кожен раз, коли я думаю, на цьому відео або Прип'яті їм, починаючи плакати.Thanks

[Silkrat]

Great compilation, I have never seen some of these archival photos before. The song also fits the whole theme pretty well. Thumbs up!

[MSTejbz]

Уявіть собі, що людські технології можуть зробити. Все з Україною, які жили в Прип'яті. Ось так!

Потім я відчуваю, не самотній у скорботі родичів або сім'ї, які загинули.

[MSTejbz]

Пам'ятайте Прип'ять і Чорнобиль для 9 з моїх друзів померли від раку через 10 днів після аварії. Тепер більше я живу в Швеції

[manuel8200]

now they are bloodsuckers

[mornsterks]

why Pripyat and Chernobyl!?

[MSTejbz]

I am so sad for my friends die. I survive. So sad ;(

[Trillios]

this was not what i searched for but i still watched in honor of Pripyat

[mogeura]

@MSTejbz sorry to hear that bro feel bad for ya hope u arent bull shittin i do wish i could have lived in ukraine at that time i sure would hell like to be recognized a hero even if it meant dying

[okn0tok]

Such a tragedy. Love your video.

[TheCanadianPublic]

Pripyat looks like the type of city that could have easily ridden the tides of change in the Soviet Union if the reactor hadn't blown up. All the people pictured in the family "before" images and films I've seen up to now appear to have been genuinely happy to live and work there.

[Adem242]

I have been asking around for this for a while now, but does anyone know here anything about Alexander Akimov, or any others that worked in the Lenin Power Station that night of April 26, 1986; their daily life or anything like that. Been doing research for a while and have had great help so far but still looking for more info. If anyone knows, please do tell.

[fgarcia84]

Amazing, but i have a question.

Where Prypiat people's moved for?

Greeting from Brazil!

[rockdabella]

@fgarcia84 around Russia, but alot of people are now living in Kiev, because it's near chernobyl and some people still are working in pripyat, for more then 20 years now.

[krugerfuchs]

will anyone ever be able to live there again or is it gone forever it looked so nice they deserved better

[rockdabella]

@krugerfuchs

No, there wont be any living there, for 100-200 years, because it's still dangerous to live there, well that is scientists opinion, but there are people who are living in "dead zone" (not in pripyat, this territory is closed) they were living there before and after 4 sector disaster, most of them are old ladies and man, eating mushrooms, fish from Chernobyl river, which contains high radiation, but they doing fine.. about 70-80yrs old, enjoying they're last days..

[luogodeipunti]

@krugerfuchs people will be able to live again there after 600 years. radiations will remain for 48.000 years.

[mogeura]

@luogodeipunti not to be a smart ass or anything but there are some people who still live in pripyat but more in the outskirts of it away from radiation at least most of it anyway

[richsocaplaya]

it's really unfortunate how things turned out in this region. I would like to give support to people from Ukraine and Belarus.

[TheFraggle78]

Very interesting, thanks for showing! I was in Chernobyl and Pripyat today and its very interesting to see these pictures, when the place was still alive. /Fraggle, Sweden

[swampwatch]

This is such a sad story ... It appears as though Pripyat was a beautiful city ... and a wonderful place to live ... Even though the history of the city was short ... it had to be devastating for the people to have to leave ... and start a new life elsewhere.

[zuschlag123]

christ unpopulated since 1986 ...

[The4realgames]

I never lived here but when i turn 18 im going to visit there.

[PAV150372]

This is my home, this is my childhood!

[jorologo]

It looked like a happy community with all the children playing freely and happily.

Unfortunately the present and future generation of children cannot play freely and happily.

So Sad )<:

[Nikolyai1000]

Теперь там на вечно СССР...

[SLOdreamteam]

a beautiful city, rest in peace Pripyat :(

[mantelis23]

very nice..... :(

[mantelis23]

very nice... :(

[MrSvbb]

rest in peace Припять enough talking about human tragedy as a computer game

[MrSvbb]

rest in peace Припять

[Radchenko86]

"Припять, наш город юный"...

Какие красивые люди, какой красивый город. Последний советский город.

"Pripyat, our young city"

Such beautiful people, such a beautiful city. The last soviet city.

[soereneverts11]

are in this town was good people but the reactor 4 was the probleme something was not right with him and all the people day but dont forget 1 we will never forget you good peoples geetings from germany

[gazdadjok]

such a great town... it has a port also, this is the worst ecological dissaster in man kind. regards from Serbia.

[bubu84pl]

I've been there twice and it's just unbelieveable that it used to be the city filled with life and people.

[Isochest]

Were there any disabled kids here before this catastrophe? Well there would have been statistically with a population of 50,000. Was there an Internat attatched to the town and what became of the inhabitants?

[MrCholeriker]

Was muss noch passieren das die Menschheit aufwacht....

Echt schönes Video!

[kosolano]

чернобыль и СССР одна судьба, нехотят люди рая!

[MicheleSirchi1983]

Wandeful video!! Congratulation!!!! Not another Cernobyl!! Stop with the nuclear power plant!!!! In lovely memory of man and woman that loose their lives!!!

[Sangor]

Fantastic video Alex.

[pigletized]

Vey sad but very beautiful. 

[luckyluke89th]

I get goosepimples when i I look this video:-)

[GnaeusServilius]

I have a question if you'd be so kind as to answer? Was there a lot of entertainment for citizens to engage in? What would people do after work or when not at home?

[ckmacboy]

@GnaeusServilius they had restaurants, parks, a palace of culture I think they called it where you could play sports and stuff, a movie theater, a stadium, a pool, and there was even a yacht club. There was also the amusement park, that was scheduled to open 3 days after the disaster happened

[antipadoru]

@GnaeusServilius

[SRBINnbg29untilidie]

Бог даст времени, чтобы залечить, любви и природы ... SLAVA CCCP

[SiegMajorFilms]

epic

[ComptonForLyfe]

Where did people go to work? it looks like all apartments

[Alex281088]

@ComptonForLyfe most of people worked at power plant, but there were also many working in the city of pripyat, in schools, shops, hospitals, like in every city

[TheMIRFI]

@ComptonForLyfe This is the Socialist model. The work is done outside the living space.

[bennettito]

@ComptonForLyfe a communist country the goverment build all that apartments

[CArdsadET]

@ComptonForLyfe

in soviet russia human was work not worker. human was a meet, not hunter. [i have lived in time of sojuz and still am in country where brain washing was serious]

[KenjiSK]

never forget

[lime991]

Was pripyat here for 16 fucking years (if this time doesnt count) ?

[Alex281088]

@lime991 ähhm I think it is not necessary to comment with words like "fucking" but you are right, city has only become 16 years old

[robertleperversducsa]

Nice video alex congratulations! Beautful tribute for this town and the people who lived there <3

[MsKevin400]

pripyat has very old houses (well no shit lol) and u can always recognise these houses cuz they are just white big houses with some windows ewell i cant say what are near windows in english good vid again...

[Alex281088]

@MsKevin400 this is the typical soviet design of houses, Pripyat is a very good example what a soviet city should look like in that time

[Dankku94]

Красивый Молодой город Былл =)

[tinytoes409]

Beautiful job Alex! These pictures are sooo wonderful to have. It's so good to see Pripyat in better times, it was a beautiful city! Thank you for making such a great video!

[TheCxMan1]

Good job!

[tekmrs]

0:28 they had KFC....I'm just kidding, but nice video, sadly that place ended with an explosion. I'm wondering, does anyone live there now?

[CoZmiC27]

@tekmrs no 

[tekmrs]

@CoZmiC27 Hmm, as I've heard fishes were livin`there in 2006, so I suupose that in, maybe 5 years that place will be open again. I also heard that the nuclear site has enough radiation in it to destroy Europe...

[Armenia2221]

vspomim pogivshix v pripyate

[FoxxyLove19]

many of this people on the photos are death now or they very sick

[dirtbiker715]

How in the world did you get those pictures, the color ones and the old ones before the power planet blew up?

[Alex281088]

@dirtbiker715

friends from kiev, who were living in pripyat once, gave them to me ;)

[dirtbiker715]

@Alex281088 Pretty cool I guess.

[MsKevin400]

@Alex281088 very good im studing the reasons and results on chernobyl incident altrought im 11 and i know more than some other 20 knows lol good pic 5 stars

[marqsvlog]

Alex thanks for these video about Pripyat. Pripyat and the history about Chernobyl are my interests. So is very nice to see Pripyat at the years 1970-86. Many movies is about how Pripyat looks present time. Ithink seriously about trip to Pripyat. Best regards from Poland!

[SuperRussianvodka]

Очень жаль этих людей на фотографиях!!!Очень тяжело,наверное,было расстаться с родным городом!!!Искренне сочувствую.

[hanysk]

so sad....R.I.P.

[Dankku94]

Pripyat was a young city

[SwissMade888]

what was hes comment?

[MrBalkonsky]

17norbit и не поймеш

[Router989]

You don't understand us! because you haven't brain!

[Fawful5]

Wow; you're sure a fucking asshole. They had a different society and a flawed economic system, yes, but it's admirable that they tried to keep a stiff upper lip and make the best of things regardless of those handicaps.

[Meusoleum]

I really hope you arent serious?

[nvm0]

It is sad that one mistake of a power plant caused a horrible disaster like this,it is sad that one mistake turned a beautiful city and the enviroment into a silent graveyard. It is very sad

[Blackxz12]

Ahh, It's amazing how the USSR is referred to as Second World, and in the 1970'sthey managed to build a city out of a small town.

Things always seem to change.

Apparently I have family living near Chernobyl, and they are really suffering.

RIP Pripyat and other victims of this Earth changing disaster.

[PHARRAOH]

its hard for me to believe its been so many years! I was at work, Northrop in CA. at the time I heard the news. I was 18 and didnt know the full impact due to lies told on Russian tv. 16 months ago, I went there and spent 2 days in the city. There are some older people who have returned to their old lives and even grow crops!

[ShadowkingA321]

Woah. How did they cope with the radiation?

[PHARRAOH]

they are older people and do not realy care, the grow crops eat the food, even use it to make vodka. they get checked from time to time and also a truck drops off some food, drink and supplies once a month. over all, they looked ok

[Thicksvk]

Why does the look on it makes cold on my back ...imagine your city with no people and ruined by time :( so sad

[17norbit]

а я так и не понял что это за видео ну подумаешь фотки какие-то))))))

[sachvonsvetlana]

Это жизни людей,людей,чья судьба оборвалась в один день....Тебе,видать,не понять-ты же ТАМ не был...Живи и помни.

[MrBalkonsky]

Я там родился..мой родной город

[FSpilotSWE]

beauthiful city..

[wasilje]

Living near a nuclear power station isn't. BUT living near a SOWJET nuclear power station is suicide.

[totterms86]

makes me wonder,

what if this would'nt have happened... just another city amongst others... and of all the people just before the accident, doing all normal things, so unaware of what is to happen...

[cheburasca]

Me ha emocionado este video. Como me hubiera gustado vivir en esa ciudad. From Spain

[XxevictionzxX]

prypiat we will never forget u

[MsKevin400]

ok thanks for information!

[Panfilovec]

Pripyat, we will never forget you!!!

[Alex281088]

oh my god, the next scientist.... listen i have been twice to pripyat and the radiation is not dangerous if you stay there one day, even not when you stay for a month....

and there are nooooo anomalies, stalker is just a computer game, nothing else, and nothing to take for serious....

[thisissick22]

it isnt a stupid game, its real life. sick of seeing stupid kids refering to stalker and cod4.

[uckersas]

those 2 companies try to make a virtual version of pripyat and chernobyl

[MaximusMDecimus]

@thisissick22 I absolutely agree with you that its real life and its serious, but don't you think its good that there are books and games made of this disastrous area? Its becouse of Stalker that I definitely want to go to Pripyat one time. What I try to say is that I think its good that there's paid attention...

[turbochrissie]

Thanks for posting this, I just come back from a visit to Chernobyl and Pripyat - it is now so owergrown and looks so different after 23 years of abandonment

[styldeluxe]

ahhhhh shut jup men ''PRIPYAT, we eill never forget you'' THIS IS SHOW

[Alex281088]

иди на хуй!!!!!!!!!

[TheJayVolo]

@styldeluxe oh.. be you from Ukraine... i`ll kick your ass....

[NEEDCARS]

if this town was still here I think that it would have a population over a million.

[garfld2006]

i watched Destination Truth tonite tour this town in nuclear suits. Its really sad what happened to all those people & my heart goes out to them.

[MsKevin400]

what is chernobyl? its the power plant which exploded cuz reactor 4 was broken and just exploded after that radiaton is everywhere in Pripyat this is SO SAD!

[defebo]

es la meor colecciónde fotos de antes de la catástrofe he visto...

congratulaciones y todo mi apoyo para los antiguos habitates ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡JAMAS OLVIDAREMOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[44jadets]

what is chernobyl

[TigerWalrus26980]

44jadets - Chernobyl is a town in the Ukraine. A nuclear reactor exploded there in 1986, and quite a bit of Europe felt the affects thanks to fallout being blown across it. Belarus in the north got most of the fallout, I think, and people still feel its effects even now.

I'm only saying what I know, and that's not a lot, so you're probably best looking on Google or somewhere like that.

[pornius17]

Sad ,very sad..

[italodancer81]

It looked as very nice town...sad this happened, it really shows what can happen. Many people for example in Sweden, Finland.... says it would never happen here in these countries, but it can!

Many people did not exept boat sinking fast like estonia did after that they believe sadly enough when its too late =(

[njdanny1]

look beautifull city to live ,and so sad what a man can do with out caring some other peoples lifes

[TheChichi159]

that is so sad they didn't deserv it...=(

[17joint]

i lived in the, and i am russian this is so hard for me to watch this now.

[SilverLugia2494ever]

chernobyl had 3 incidents the 2 being the main one

[andreabgn1]

Poor all those people!!!!

[SCANDIN3]

great video man

pritpyat looked like a really nice place to live

they didn't deserve what happend to them

[jejeroy]

no some was saying its was going to be desert but the nuclear have not limit of teritory its all the world its destroy at the same time i have ear that there some part of prypriat who are ok now

[marbleflat]

A very moving compilation. I hope all of the people evacuated from Pripyat managed to rebuild their lives successfully. They experienced something most of us can only have nightmares about.

Thanks for posting.

[panos22192]

well they will rebuild it in 10000

years when the radiation leaves

[kk440635NORWAY]

The have built a new town, called Slavutych, its 50 km east for Pripyat....It was building after the acsident for the victims from Pripyat, its a copy town, it looks almost the same, but it is a little radioactive, but not that much as Pripyat, and not that much that people not can live there....Slavutych is almost like Pripyat was ment to be, it is one of the richest small-towns in Ukraine, but its still not so rich, but most of the population have what they need, and manye also have more

[aquinasua]

Slavutich is not a "copy-town" of Pripyat . Radiation level in Slavutich not higher than a natural level, and surely it a bit lower than in Kiev for example.

[kk440635NORWAY]

Ok, but it was built for the victims of the chernobyl acsident. And scientist says that you have to be VERY careful to live there......They have test-level stations for food in this town, so the population can test the level on the food they buy, and the food that they pic....I have heard about people who have got ill and died because they was not careful enogh in Slavutych.....I belive you can live a good live in Slavutych, but they need to have some security rules to have a good live there.

[aquinasua]

Me and my family has moved into Slavutich in 1988 , and I'm still live there, so just believe me - it's absolutely safe and beautiful town. There's no radiation threat for people who lives there.

[kk440635NORWAY]

Well, I belive you.....:)......Do you think that there are some radiation, like just a very little bit, that little that its not dangores, or no?? I live in Norway, and there are some radiation here, but it is SO EXTREME little that it not dangeres at all.....I belive you, but I have watch a documentar on TV where they say it is atleast some, but mabye it is so little that it dosnt make any sens. Anyway I belive you

[ElRulas]

Por cierto, impresionante video Alex.

Mis felicitaciones.

[ElRulas]

Una ciudad que está grabada con letras negras en la historia por lo que alli sucedió. Que gran perdida.

D.E.P pripyat!!

[NhonhoPlx]

Really beautifull... no words...

R.I.P. Pripyat, and congratulations for your movie, Alex281088

[kk440635NORWAY]

The history of this town is so sad...It was looking so beautiful and rich there before..... At least I am very glad that they build the town of Slavutych for the chernobyl victims. The town of Slavutych looks very like Pripyat, and its also as Pripyat was ment to be (it not so very poor to be a ukrainian town).....but unforanatly Slavutych is a little bit radioactive too:-(

[LXtuguinha]

i have no words for this...so many photos of pripyat....oh my....:( so wonderful and modern in 80's. i really like :) wonderful work tks for you and your friend! Lyubov

[mati22046]

song ?

[Alex281088]

moby - why does my heart feel so bad

[mati22046]

Thank's you .

[teemuautio]

U know that really was BEAUTIFUL city

[zakoe07]

R.I.P Припять

[RAYNOR7965]

Honestly, I have no words, I felt like if my heart was pressed by something.

Greetings from Mex.

[Vladitheruler]

Pripyat Ukraine beautiful place like my country russia,too bad the power plant blew the living hell out of the city,and I just hate it when i hear people throw hate to the ukranians and russians

[Bethybabes69]

Thanks for posting this video, it's wonderful to see Pripyat before the tragedy of 86.

What a beautiful place!

It looks like it was a wonderful community, with lots of love and friendship!

A coincidence is that Pripyat was built in my birth year 1970, and the accident at Chernobyl Plant happened on my 16th Birthday in 1986!

I still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of Chernobyl a few days later.

My Love to my good friend Lyubov, and everyone else too xx

[s911217panayotov]

Very,very beautyfil town at that time.Now its one of the biggest abandoned towns in the world and one of the highest poluted places

[teemuautio]

So cool and sad :( 5/5!!

[FlorianKiel]

Kann mich da nicht wirklich dran erinnern war da erst 2 jahre alt aber alles was ich so darüber erfahren habe ist echt erschreckend!!!!

[lesifotos]

Thanks for this vid...

[thunderbedford]

man i cant believe it is a beatuful city good

clip

[Bzdoniek]

2:00, 4:54 - such a beautiful pictures, I almost cried ;( these architecture reminds me of my childhood town ...

[jeroenno19920404]

nice movie

it touched my heart

the whole story about the disaster is just the most terrible thing i ve ever heard

greetings

Jeroen E.

Belgium

[razorman9]

great video 5/5

[RahatTheKiller]

P.S. Lyubov, I'm glad you're alright. Just know that I am sorry for all the loved ones you lost to Chernobyl!

[RahatTheKiller]

This is very touching. Good work Alex! I wonder how all those kids are, especially the ones at 2:37. Damn I feel so sorry for the Chernobyl victims! I feel like shedding tears right now!:'(

[Mamboogie]

Thank You for this video. Veeeeery interesting. I think I will visit Pripyat in may next year

[pripyatchanka]

Dear Alex!

Many thanks!!! It is so wonderful and touching gift!

With warmest regards and huge gratitude,

Your Friend Lyubov Sirota

[7mgte5upr4]

Super gemachtes Video! Weiter so