Chernobyl & Pripyat (1988) RARE FOOTAGE - Flying Over The Zone

Pripyat in 1988. Amazing footage showing Pripyat after 2 years of disaster.
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[@aktyn4]

Music is Adagio in G Minor for anyone wondering.

[@user-fv7qv9qi6n]

Точно

[@henriquefeitosadacosta]

thank you

[@franbagu]

Albinoni

[@floppadar7146]

🤨📸

[@TacShooter]

Yeah, I recognized it from the memorable episode of Space: 1999 titled "Dragon's Domain", which was a sort of Chernobyl in itself.

[@bobafett9245]

Very impressive. Never seen Pripyat like this before... In a time trees and nature hadn't taken over yet. Hard to recognize some areas, never knew there was a stadium behind the ferris wheel !

[@Balnazzardi]

Ye its so fully overgrown now with trees that it hardly looks the same anymore...thats why I always cringe when I hear/read somwhere that "Pripyat remains exactly like it was over 30 years ago".....Its not,not in any sense. The town that was in like " time capsule" was sadly lost long time ago. Whether its inside the buildings or how The town looks outside, Its not the same anymore and has not been for more than 20 years

[@user-rb2fp9xz8k]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqHTZJqggJ6UsKs

[@ryanmcgarry-winne5015]

All those special May Day rides, brand new…never to be enjoyed..but to be reclaimed by nature. Haunting and sad

[@Backyardmech1]

“Look at this place. Fifty thousand people use to live in this city. Now it's a ghost town… I've never seen anything like it.” -Captain Macmillan

[@Nseib23835]

This is by far the saddest videos I’ve ever seen. Seeing the beautiful city start to decay while knowing all its inhabitants had to be removed from their lives and those who lost their lives. Then the music ties it all together it really brings and happy, sad, and longing feeling to it all in the same song, so tragic.

[@lornova79]

What beautiful city? It was a mass of soulless khrushchyovka...

[@Nseib23835]

@@lornova79 respect history

[@apoptose1558]

@@lornova79 There was no "khrushchyovka" in Pripyat

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

pripyat was etalon for modern ussr city, clean, new, apartments surrounded by trees, children playground, shops, schools just 5 mins away for everyone, it was common soviet person dream to live like that, tbh most lived like this, this city was just more modern compared to 50s 60s cities. i live in one of former 15 ussr nation lithuania, most of our districts looked like this too, just now modern stuff took over and that spirit of 70s 80s is dying ;\ sad how one disaster killed entire nation dream of equal life ;\

[@AntonSpelar12]

Rest in peace the heros who died

[@internetkumquat4542]

2:38 that intersection at the top to the right a bit is one of the most famous parts of Pripyat because (to visitors) it is what first greets you. That building with the corner store jutting out of it are both still standing, unfortunately, the Soviet bust of Lenin (at the far corner to the right, white object with brass-ish looking brown top) has vanished a long time ago, alongside the clarity of the area which is now all overgrown forest (practically every concrete surface in this still-shot no longer exists. 2:56 I can bet nobody knew a stadium sat behind the Ferris wheel back in the 80s. The trees and grass that were left unkempt for 3 decades let that grand-stand the only standing reminder of the former track and playing area. All of that is completely overgrown and long gone. Nice to see the Ferris wheel in blue before it rusted out. 3:58 that long shot down the center median is now a heavily overgrown forest. Pripyat can easily be forgotten size wise because nobody can see every building in clear visibility making it quite sad how forgotten this city has become. The building at the end of the street is the cultural center attached to the famous hotel by a stretch of overhang concrete. That's practically the only reason I recognized this view. 4:06 Every building froze in this still, still stands aside from the Lenin statue that was certainly stolen or destroyed sometime in the 90s. That entire main area no longer exists and is now practically a forest (like the rest of the center and city itself). Just some remarks for those who want to compare the most well known recorded areas back in '88 and didn't recognize them.

[@Balnazzardi]

Ye i cant believe how much it has changed just in 30 years Time....like you said I never knew that Stadium was there and overall Pripyat from these shots looks much bigger than from what Ive seen from any arial shots from past 10-13 years....but thats exactly because vegetations covers now so much of the view, even during winter time it hardly looks like this... In some ways IT would have been even more chilling to visit Pripyat back then (If it would have been safe enough to do that) cause wandering around those still intact empty streets and buildings that were still intact would have been even more surreal/chilling experience for sure.... Anyhow thanks for useful info....I still wish to visit there one Day myself, Even though the whole town IS now so badly overgrown with vegetation that you are never able to witness it like this....

[@internetkumquat4542]

@@Balnazzardi Humanity's closest exhibit at what could've been the end of the world.

[@Balnazzardi]

@@internetkumquat4542 exactly...I quess If you truly wished to see a city "frozen in time" you really would have had to gone there during the first years after the accident...in My understanding by end of 90s not only was that statue you mentioned robbed/stolen but all those apartnments were also looted from anything of value that had been left behind but also i read somewhere that army got order to clear out all those apartnments from most of stuff that might have Been flammable materials and also many of The Windows were broken in process so the building interiors really were then exposed to elements and thus Its not really intact time capsule in any sense anymore....despite what some like to claim... Ofc Pripyat still very much resembles post apocalyptic scene, but to gave seen IT like this, truly a city still largely intact and stopped in Time would have been something else....

[@internetkumquat4542]

@@Balnazzardi Nothing the size of Pripyat can even manage a decade abandoned. Even when people were finally able to go back in the early-2000's, the city was quite trashed and in a complete state of disarray. Strangely in a manner, there is not a Pripyat anymore. Just hollowed out buildings. The resident's memories and their lives have been long erased and frankly, the human part of the city has vanished in my opinion. I won't see Pripyat in person because it would've been cooler to have actually seen what a human did in that city. A cool place, however I don't find it worth it, people have trampled it's history for nearly 20 years.

[@majorcorn0526]

Is this the aftermath of the people leaving town

[@Nobli82]

I can't explain why, but seeing any footage of Pripyat always hits hard. Maybe at the time of this footage many still hoped that the citizens can come back in some forseeable furure. Now we know it never happened.

[@rebeccafitzgerald3456]

I think about all of those beloved pets that were left behind and never to be returned to. So unbelievably sad.

[@GHOULY782]

And most were hunted down by Soviet soldiers

[@MCBOBO]

The guy opening the window : here let me help you out with those radiations.

[@josephastier7421]

3:59 It seems so strange for a city of 50,000 people to just be empty and left to nature.

[@flyingtenk7829]

its cool to just sit there and mesmerise the footage. especially when you feel sad/empty. idk why but it just helps me calm down and forget what i was on about. anyone else have that?

[@jxykayxd9232]

Absolutely

[@beefnoodlles]

Yes

[@jimcameron9848]

i love the white lab coats and the huy opens the window for a netter view of radiation exposure

[@Mart77]

Because if you can't see anything then it must be safe eh?

[@user-fv7qv9qi6n]

Мне особенно жаль людей, пожилых, стариков.Каково им было покидать свои дома.Припять был замечательный современный город.Жизнь била ключом.Столько деток было.Всегда грущу...

[@Nobli82]

Many of the elderly did not want to leave. Mainly from the villages. Not only Pripyat, but several hundreds of villages also had to be evacuated. Some elderly people sneaked back. I remember an old lady sitting on the bus in the Pripyat evacuation scenes of the HBO show, clearly in pain and fear. My first thought was that this was already not the first evacuation she had to go through in her life. A Hungarian reporter talked to one of the mamushkas choosing to stay in their homes in a documentary made in 1989/90. Asked her whether she was afraid of the radiation. She said: "Son, I am almost 80 years old, why should I worry... death is coming anyway..."

[@handlebartree]

"I was just a 'Leftenant' back then...doing some wetwork. Chernobyl. Christmas for the bad guys."

[@roosbert]

This is so sad :(

[@erangelboy5416]

Right 🥵🥺🥺🥺

[@erangelboy5416]

Best city in soviet union ever 🥺

[@otikk3688]

@@erangelboy5416 yes

[@leoconchola3163]

Looking at it back in 1988 it looks so peaceful now since nature has taken over it, it's just sad that a diaster in Chernobyl just happened RIP to the ones who died

[@mrboy9658]

0:46 кордон 1:21 церковь на болотах ( чистое небо ) 1:39 свалка 2:11 и 3:25 восточная припять (зов припяти) 2:56 и 4:00 центральная припять (тень чернобыля)

[@chiimumango3979]

Pripyat: covered in radiation Stalkers: it's free real estate

[@Peekarica]

Man, I wish they preserved the city in all its glory.

[@maskrpplace]

The footage is from a film called decay 1999. Its rather depressing and its about the chernobyl disaster

[@user-sp5ko8bo8j]

"Распад " с Шакуровым в главной роли.

Pripyat: is covered by radioactive dust Me: I wish i could time travel and take photos.

[@arvinalejandro6495]

I just close my eyes and imagine people and cars moving around the streets Better days, better days..

[@Lanciarules]

In urss only few cars

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

@@Lanciarules depends on decade, if we talk 50s early 60s, yes few cars on steets, major zhiguli aka lada cards manufacture started in 70s, by 80s most families had one car, at streets still wasnt full cause today people have 30+ yo cars cheap and one family has 2 3 even more cars, that why so many cars today. tbh i would choose old days, cleaner air, free public transport, no need to wait in rush hours .

[@filipcorba1872]

This nuclear distater reminds us of the nature power and we as the mankind are negligible powerful in comparison to the nature. It is sad to see the icon as Pripyat of CCCP to be buried down and with no citizens. At those times the town was modern with high-level services. It was unique, now, it reminds us of our weakness.

[@amandadapanda4952]

Wow - gosh … what a comparison to how we see the area now . Beautiful place - very sad ...

[@andy86i]

You can see the football field that is now a forest... already started growing shoots. Amazing

[@jeromekrupp3116]

50000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town...

[@skywishr1313]

yes

[@DASCO2136]

Never seen anything like it

[@Richy076]

It was such a beautiful place.

[@osuna3525]

Awesome camera work.

[@MiguelSanchez-jj6ks]

Zone is beautiful.

[@eriecountyblotter4992]

@1:39 that helicopter is MASSIVE!

[@eriecountyblotter4992]

Я ÆDB 2021 if you watch the illegal entry videos lately, I wonder if this is what’s now buried under dirt. It gives of high amounts of radiation and no trees have really taken it over yet. That’s a lot of vehicles, aircraft and so on just covered in dirt.

[@josephastier7421]

Boris: "Get us over that building"

[@Mikehenford]

Exactly 2 years after it’s abandonment

[@DenitaArnold]

Sad. And the music. 😢

[@skymeadow7762]

Very sad, I think the people were thriving there once

[@asdvet1918]

Всё верно! Инженера и работники ядерной промышленности и электростанций в СССР были довольно уважаемыми людьми, им платили хорошие зарплаты и премии. При каждой АЭС строили города- спутники для работников станции. В Припяти , был также построен большой завод электрооборудования "Юпитер", но город строили , как город работников атомной энергетики! Строилось всё Постановлением Правительства СССР , научными институтами! У народа же в целом , есть сомнения, что реактор всё таки взорвался сам, ему помогли взорваться! В стране в 1985 году у власти пришли предатели во главе с Горбачёвым, которые развалили страну изнутри..

[@erangelboy5416]

They said evacuation was for couple of days , but they never came back

[@eugenschlumpf3569]

Шикарный маленький город. Главное новый..

[@pz1176rck]

1:48 I fuckin love this shot.

[@karan_153]

Amazing steady shots, I've been to the stadium, the stand is still there but in bad shape

[@darkostanisavljevic1105]

The pilot who flew this helicopter watched this video after two years. He was looking at the video without saying a word, with tears coming out of his four eyes...

[@chameleonas2740]

Four eyes? Are you dumb?

[@moon-rvr]

Chernobyl is one of the few most radioactive places in the world. He's not dumb. He's talking about mutation. (I know mutation that extreme isn't possible. He would be dead by now.)

[@dfraustojr]

Such a beautiful city lost for ever

[@arvinalejandro6495]

He is prolly wearing glasses, hence four eyes I know, lame

[@stonefob6792]

@@chameleonas2740 r/whoosh

[@heyyo162]

When you look at Google Earth, you can still see the buildings even tough the greenery has taken over so much... In fact I was able to link every building on this video with those google satellite images.. the houses are still there.

[@heyyo162]

​@BC BC I wasnt using streetview, but yeah, there is actually a street-view in Google Earth, recorded by Gamma Travel - a tourist company. Nowadays, the only visitors are armed Russians.

[@derekdu7250]

this was the setting of my favorite children's book, moon of chernobyl

[@cohengamertv6548]

SOMEONE MADE IT INTO A CHILDRENS BOOK WHAT THE

[@SMGJohn]

This is part from Soviet documentary made on this incident, its the best document on the accident ever made and extremely indepth, very critical of the government response to the incident.

[@jeshkam]

Is it on YT?

[@ruimilanesejunior2619]

Onde posso ver o documentário?

[@chingapu7308]

The film is called Rospad 1990

[@wmv8996]

It was such a beautiful place. They had so many things to see and do. How awful what happened.

[@sislaesmeraldagoytia5461]

Que tristeza ver esto despues de dos años de su trajedia

[@Mart77]

This video perfectly pictures how whole mankind has failed as a species.

[@Balnazzardi]

More like how USSR was failed state and very much is relevant today showing how Ruskies always manage to screw themselves up because they allow their leaders and government to be lead by ppl who lie, are corrupt or otherwise outright incapable or criminal Just think about how much s**t Ruskies have caused to Ukraine in past 100 years...first Holodomor caused by Stalin, then Chernobyl and now invasion and destruction of the nation because one bitter and sick man cant let go of the past that was USSR

[@pugsleytattoos3631]

as soon as they fly into the direct zone of the plant..you see the glitches on the camera film from the high dosis of radiation...so sad

[@cpthrki5852]

That's just the camera. A lot more radiation is needed to produce the little prickles caused by radiation.

[@darkostanisavljevic1105]

The pilot who flew this helicopter watched this video after two years. He was looking at the video without saying a word, with tears coming out of his four eyes

[@Mrbimmer11]

This movie and the movie Come and see. My favorite sovjet movies ever made.

[@user-yb4re8uo3z]

man this place is beautiful than EVERY country

[@ketzakov3291]

Get out of here, Stalker!

[@decayentivus]

Cheeki Breeki

[@qwoiiuuiiruaaaseeetrre6124]

Tomasz Wcisło blya ya masliny poimal

[@heyokawalker197]

Radioactivity, its in the air for you and me....

[@hubbleenjoyer800]

You are a fellow average kraftwerk enjoyer aswell i see. (Sorry for being late)

[@heyokawalker197]

@@hubbleenjoyer800 Yup, was sad to see that Florian Schneider died over a year ago. But definitely a great band, that set a lot of trends. 😄

[@mudricfan9100]

Forgotten place 😭

[@verofpv6152]

It's snowing in Pripyat even in summer

[@Rafael-06]

Shuncha Binolar inshootlar huddi oʻz egalarini kutayotgandek🥺🥺🥺

[@silviaruhsen4666]

Doesn't ache, doesn't noticed

[@owenmccarthy2521]

How could they fit that big symphony orchestra into those helicopters?

[@Toku91]

I have Cod4 fibes when i watch this..

[@namesomega3694]

2 years after the incident and radiation there is still saturated. How much microseverts was there in the atmosphere? Still in the millions or atleast 1 rem?

[@Balnazzardi]

Hard to say....in My understanding background radiation in the zone was however ofc significantly higher overall during those first few years after the accident than what we are witnessing today....these days only after living for years in Chernobyl zone you might have some effects on your health, but I bet that during those first few years we are talking about such high levels still that spending days or weeks on The zone on some areas might have already increased your risk to get cancer atleast... Anyhow Im not expert to really say anything certain about this matter, but If you think how the background Radiation levels Even around Fukushima powerplant (which didnt cause nearly as bad fallout to surrounding area) got significantly higher than what most would consider safe for living during that first year or two after The accident, then I would imagine that average background radiation levels in Chernobyl zone would have been even much higher than that. Keep on mind that IT was only after 20 years or so after the accident that tourism to the Zone started to really increased as most areas were considerd to be safe for tourists

[@jefesman]

All those white dots in the film are from high energy radiation particles over-exposing the film....

[@Pheonix19765]

It’s crazy to think that this site won’t become fully habitable and safe again until 22,000 AD. That’s 19,978 years from now.

[@jaywilkinson525]

Before everything got super overgrown.

[@Mr._POV_]

Those popping white spots on the camera are actual radiation particles, the the red looking greenery is actual contaminated highly radioactive areas.

[@jeffdalrymple1634]

I am assuming the guy at 1:57 is drinking red wine or something with a antioxidant like resveratrol to neutralize effects?

[@vdecleyre669]

no, is Just a scene from the movie. Is not am actual footage

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

pripyat was etalon for modern ussr city, clean, new, apartments surrounded by trees, children playground, shops, schools just 5 mins away for everyone, it was common soviet person dream to live like that, tbh most lived like this, this city was just more modern compared to 50s 60s cities. i live in one of former 15 ussr nation lithuania, most of our districts looked like this too, just now modern stuff took over and that spirit of 70s 80s is dying ;\ sad how one disaster killed entire nation dream of equal life ;\

[@beatthedrum7]

From which docu, movie or other source is this footage originating from?

[@Alexander1868]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m33ZdZR8bN6teKM

[@Hellseeker1]

Yeah, I'd need a drink too

[@borntoclimb7116]

Wow, just wow

[@freddy9103]

It is very sad that a lot of people died there, and Pripyat, that beautiful city will be abandoned for a very very long time, I supose that it will be completely destroyed when it can be a fred radioactivity zone.

[@michaelderenne9838]

Crazy how nice it was and how it fell apart

[@cristobal5251]

Acojonante

[@aleksandraselakovic7263]

Adagio ... really music for this 🎥!!!

[@user-vg9lr8jk9f]

Сердце разрывается! Сейчас это был бы современный город,как и все остальные! Припять навсегда останется советским сказочным городом!❤❤❤

[@maxpayne1145]

So Fucking Sad But True

[@ajoo129]

1:38 Is that Truck Cemetery? Don't go there in 3AM anyway

[@stylker5604]

Да это стоянка возле деревни Россоха

[@goaldeninturnet684]

I wonder where they’d put all the displaced people. That’s a lot of empty apartments just in that video

[@Balnazzardi]

They build basicly new town somewhere else in Ukraine in my understanding and many evacuated ppl eventually moved there

[@farhadseyf1268]

To slowmoutish😢😢

[@daviciccone5001]

@@Balnazzardi Logo após o acidente, eles construiram uma cidade chamada Slavutych para abrigar os sobreviventes de Pripyat !

[@bigdope3913]

Can’t wait for S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

ah man of culture. in meantime try chernobilyte pc game, it has amazing representation of pripyat and surrounding areas with amazing graphics, i wonder around map without story, of free mode, that experience is like you visiting today that place

[@corehazard1719]

I hope it won’t be decommunized.

[@jamgamingminecraft4799]

Pripyat was in its 16th year when the explosion happened and now reading midnight in chernobyl the plant was built in the era of stagnation, and i read somewhere in that book there were 2 large shopping centers to be built by 1988, its quite sad really. how people that built the city actually were going to build and then they packed up and left, and also a second chernobyl was to be built as well. the city looks bigger then and now it looks like only a few buildings remain.

[@joaquinbrenes2967]

It looks like a 1960s video.

[@lesnye_tropy]

Прекрасный был город. ((

[@Arathor82]

I wonder if they ever found the wish granter.

[@specialunit0428]

and a hoard of Monolith fighters

[@user-lh7du1bq1l]

Nie sądziłem że to tak duże miasto

[@ArchangelExile]

Interesting... 🤔

[@raz999.9]

So sad ..

[@jimcameron9848]

an awesome deal on timeshares eh

[@skywishr1313]

sad

[@dalekwarrior6515]

name of movie ?

[@nerox4663]

😢

[@sylnth8816]

I bet my liver that Nimble was one of those white coat scientists; disguised obviously.

[@barasihombing1629]

is it just me or maybe chernobyl's street is looking weird because it look like a industrial city and all the building has the same blueprint:rectangle and square shaped

[@decayentivus]

sure street looks very weird

[@barasihombing1629]

ikr

[@pesuvalgendaja8391]

Chernobyl?? It's Pripyat...

[@oldguysdoingstuff6216]

It didn't deserve this fate. But an ugly, square high-rise city.

[@Balnazzardi]

Old Guys Doing Stuff Because old guys know how, maybe its ugly today, but back before the accident it was one of the most modern towns in former Soviet Union.

[@vdecleyre669]

the is a scene from the filme Распад

[@janjelinek5046]

Beautiful music...Bach?

[@sandryushka]

Jan Jelínek Albinoni - Adagio in G minor

[@skunkjobb]

The sign in the end looks like it says KFCC. Wonder if that's Kentucky Fried Chicken Chernobyl.

[@annaritta8801]

😂😂😂it says КПСС which means the communist party of the Soviet Union

[@detriotlionsfan464]

It's "KПСС", which is "CPSU" in english. it means "*C*ommunist *P*arty of the *S*oviet *U*nion"!

[@anncapitolo7442]

Camera glitches due to radiation

[@Moldovabestanimation]

Cât sa schimbat acest oraș după incident

[@GilbertoFreitasMendes]

Very beautiful place. Greetings from Brasil. Stay Safe.

[@leongliyang6946]

i may not be born in the era but i support no nuclear is that clear ? is sad to see innocent soul and life lost ...

[@Steve_1999]

Soviets expected the citizens to be like: Who cares about the nuclear disaster, let's go the the fair!

[@nightfury7583]

😞😢😢😢😣

[@Mrbimmer11]

Yet countries are stil plaing with nuclear weapons

[@kylemay6043]

Is it weird to anybody else that they would add foley sound effects to something like this? It was so quiet on that helicopter you could hear a pin drop, and every other sound effect.

[@IrisAgateProduction6827]

This is a scene from the movie, showed a boy running away from a helicopter, he was hit by radiation. He runs into the entrance and the cat was shown there, also struck by radiation, and they both lay down on the floor.

[@vlad.1234]

1987