Driving to Pripyat to find some forgotten Chernobyl tech

[@IanDarley]

I was expecting to hear "get out of here stalker" at any moment.

[@ChernobylFamily]

I said come in, don't stand there!

[@MatthewBishop64]

I remember going to the Jupiter Factory in STALKER. Later, I looked on Google maps and found the real place is just like in in the game. Great to see some video of inside as well. Thank you.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Yes, apart from a few simplifications it is really close to real. Actually, passed the bridge between the buildings many times...) the only thing that made us sad is that in the game not so much internal space is accessible.

[@anarchy_79]

The saddest part about it is that Pripyat was such a city of hope and dreams, an unspoken vision of a better life, broken by such a cold, indifferent catastrophe. Love your videos guys!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Very true. Thank you! More to come!

[@monad_tcp]

the dream of nuclear energy almost died, but a bright future of clean cheap and safe energy is still possible if you do things right , I still believe in it

[@ChernobylFamily]

@@monad_tcp the dream of nuclear energy as soviets saw it died for sure ("reactor it is just a big water boiler"), but with new modular reactors it has an amazing future, as there is no cleaner and safer energy than nuclear. After all, 30+ years difference is the thing that makes a difference.

[@minty_Joe]

Watching videos regarding Pripyat and other surrounding communities to me is extremely fascinating. However, at the same time, deeply depressing. These were cities and towns where people lived normal, peaceful lives. They were born here, grew up, worked and started a family here. Yet it took one major event to up-end those lives forever. I feel so sorry for those who were not able to come back. I can't imagine the pain and sadness they carry with them all these years. Yet, like a Phoenix rising out of the ashes, we see strength and resilience to conquer any catastrophic change in their lives. I don't know how they manage, but it is simply amazing. Thank you for sharing these with us. Slava Ukraine! 💙💛🌻💪🙏🫂

[@ChernobylFamily]

This is what we think about every time we are there; though after more than a decade of visits there it gives a feeling that place has a strange, self-evolving afterlife. Glory to Heroes!

[@lordofrims]

So much story behind this place not told by urbex and stalkers who just focus on getting as close as possible to the power plant and other points like the school, gym and ferris wheel, thrill hunting. Thanks for talking about the streets names, what some of the buildings and and apartments functioned as, and how it used to look so one can picture the differences of yesterday's lifestyle.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Many, many, many years ago one guy who worked in the Zone nearly 20 years told me "Alex, without getting to the smallest bits of stories this place are just beautiful radioactive ruins.". Now I am myself a guy with the similar duration of experience and what can I say - they guy was so right.

[@MarkMcCluney]

What wonderfully chosen music. Thank you Alex.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Kevin MacLeod rules and once more saves the internet in epoch of agressive cоpyrights:)

[@nicolek4076]

For the English speakers - "polygon" also has an obscure meaning of "testing ground, frequently military". Don't be unhappy if you didn't know - I only discovered this recently at the age of 65, having never before heard the word used in this way before. Machine translations can throw up some rather obscure effects, sometimes.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Surprisingly, I heard that word used this way from many English speakers; we use it in a similar way, though.

[@nicolek4076]

@@ChernobylFamilyCould it be that these people were involved in some way with weapons testing? Ask the UK man in the street what polygon means and the reply will range from "dunno" to "a flat shape".

[@ChernobylFamily]

@@nicolek4076 in fact, it was highly possible.

[@jwmeng]

​​@@nicolek4076I've heard it alleged that the endgame for Pripyat was uranium enrichment for plutonium decay-based energy generators (space devices) and weapons. In that sense, very possible.

[@ChernobylFamily]

@jwmeng absolutely not true. Amount of plutonium appearing in RBMKs is so small, that it makes no sence. For that purpose soviets had w.g. ADE and ADE-2 reactors located in classified cities. What they did enrich at Chornobyl NPP was silicon for microelectronics industry. One of the channels of one of reactors was repurposed for this. In 90-s, it in fact gave more profit than energy generation.

[@thomasfx3190]

Pripyat looks like it was a nice workers town, it had everything the plant workers would need. It’s sad to see it like it is today.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Yes. It was very special... we have a video with a comparison between before and after, it is worth to check it.

[@MikeOxlong-]

Thanks for the tour!! This really helped bring some more of the humanity back to the city for me for some reason. When you mentioned how dense the vegetation and tree growth is now (around 5:30 in the video), I have to say I have seen what it was like this past summer (2023) thanks to a long-time Ukrainian blogger Супер Сус (Сусариан). He and friends got permission to visit the zone (accompanied by the army and in particular sappers) and they drove down these same streets and they too were surprised how overgrown everything is now (and it really was) in comparison to just 2 years ago!! They took notice that because of the war and the dangers associated with the area that not many stalkers have visited the area this year (in addition to no public tours), and that even the many walking pathways they used to travel on by foot were completely overgrown! It also looked like there was a lot of rain this summer too because when they visited the trenches that were dug in the former red forest area (at the crossroads to head towards Belarus) by your “neighbours to the east” they were completely flooded with water… If you read this far I have a question. Near the beginning of the video you drove past a supermarket that you said had the “basement”. Is that the basement that has the long ramp going into it (or a parking area of some sort that is quite large)? If so, then I know the place…

[@ChernobylFamily]

You are welcome! Yes, it is that place with a ramp descending to a gate underground.

[@MikeOxlong-]

@@ChernobylFamilyThank you for the reply and for clarifying that place! ✌️

[@johnnyzippo7109]

Hands down the best video treatment of Jupiter Objekt , period .

[@Duda286]

This is such an in depth quality documentary...

[@ChernobylFamily]

Check our previous ones. We have an old video about self-settlers; does not give that much views, but a similar thing.

[@rowlandcrew]

The last time I went to ChNPP, which was after it exploded, the guards near the contaminated zone were checking cars for contamination. I went to look at their instruments and could see the meters were off and not reading anything. I asked and they said they do not have any batteries. There was a technical lab, I think in Ivanov, in a school, that is were our robots were sent before they were supposed to go in and characterize and cut up the elephant foot for removal. the roads iaround that little town were raised about 1 meter with soil to reduce the dose to car occupants. Heading back to Kiev, there are a bunch of apple trees on the side of the road. The apples tasted great. I stopped at a friends uncles farm on that road, where he had been allowed to resume living and farming. He was ~90. He produced fine potatoes, pork and samagon and we had an outstanding feast.

[@ChernobylFamily]

...so powerful story.

[@livadaruadrian9104]

I recognize those places , i know them from game STALKER , with some luck maybe i will visit those places someday .... thank you .

[@ChernobylFamily]

Happily we will be your guides!

[@dukenukem8381]

Cool. I just saw that toshiba laptop you mentioned in Fugitive with Harrison Ford

[@ChernobylFamily]

LOL )))

[@160rpm]

This really was very atmospheric. I like these longer unedited shots, gives you a sense of being there.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! More to come!

[@thedungeondelver]

I'm as guilty as the next person of making the "3.6, not great not terrible" and "get out of here, stalker" jokes, yet at the end of the day it's views like this that remind you that this was a city of tens of thousands of people, that was utterly ruined - poisoned, for the next uncountable millennia - by the arrogance and stupidity of Soviet bureaucracy. Thank you for this somber, moving video.

[@ChernobylFamily]

So right, so right...

[@AndreaShlapakDistaso]

Thanks for your video, it will be an important document about the history of Chornobyl for future generations. Glory to the heroes who saved the world that day, and слава Україні!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Glory to heroes! And wait for more - we will from time to time post videos like this.

[@mwk1]

17:15 - o cholera... nie wiedziałem, że tam są jeszcze takie rozległe "hot spoty" 😮

[@HistoryChannel80]

Unbelievable how it still looks like in some of this places. 14 days after my 6. birthday the disaster happened.

[@ChernobylFamily]

With all deterioration there are places that look like they were left a month ago.

[@joir2000]

Beautiful video! Time stands still

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you!

[@fixitalex]

Artifact of lost Civilization!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Right

[@m.e.8273]

It's so bizarre to see these buildings in such a state. The fact that once people casually lived their lives here, worked, and went to school, everything had its purpose. It does remain a time capsule, whilst we can't relive the past it still does serve a great purpose to give us somewhat of a sensation of how it used to be. I came so close to visiting Pripyat, having planned out everything to visit a big road trip through Ukraine and Belarus two summers ago. I eventually didn’t go through with it last minute since my car needed some big repairs that exceeded its value and I figured it would probably total itself during the trip. I figured it wouldn’t be bad to delay everything to the next summer… it couldn’t have been more poor of a decision. I should've taken the risk. I hope you’re doing well! Absolutely stunning footage, and great content as always. All the best wishes from the Netherlands :-)

[@ChernobylFamily]

when you come here feel free to let us know. Maybe, we will have a chance to guide you there :)

[@m.e.8273]

@@ChernobylFamily That would be amazing! I'll keep it in mind whenever I'll be in the area again :-)

[@chriswelch9328]

Judging by the way the buildings look and knowing that it’s relatively young for the materials used. What would you say is the likelihood of Pripyat being restored? I’d imagine it would be a miracle of how life manages to move on. I do see a kind of “life” in it. Definitely a peaceful place when I went. Something about it is unlike anything else. Like a nostalgic feeling of some kind. Your videos do bring that sense to the outside. It just needs the “life” put back in.

[@ChernobylFamily]

There is very much life... but a different kind. Restoration will be, after all, a mimicking of pre-disaster times. However, we HAD such plans. I mean, shortly before the full-scale invasion started, there was a work group in the Zone administration in which I participated, we had plans on restoration of some buildings. If not ruzzians, that would be up and running already now. Right now, the perspectives of that idea are dim.

[@chriswelch9328]

@@ChernobylFamily the Zone must incorporate into a modern Ukraine after the war someway, somehow. That’s an interesting thing as well, an accident in and of itself. It was always viewed as a separate demographic from the rest of the country. It’s stuck somewhere between 1986 and post world USSR. I’ve also heard of a recent phenomenon since war began that there’s been one group of people in Pripyat trying to steal things as souvenirs, and another group that exposes these people by writing their names on the walls for taking from the city. It’s like some invisible “civil war” between stalkers.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Mm... actually what you are saying is not very close to how things work. The Zone is well incorporated since its beginning, managed by a respective government agency and nowadays is very well-communicated to the "normal" world outside, which is actually a state policy - to make it way more open. I cannot say it really stuck; it has its way of work and life, it is true, but it is pretty dynamic place. Very much changed since Chornobyl Biosphere Reserve was created. I hardly imagine how such 'groups' can exist now, although clashes between stalkers exist all the existence of that phenomenon; I mean, since war started, going to Pripyat on foot is a 'quite interesting' idea. Frankly, we visit Pripyat quite often, I do not remember any writings in any places where you'd expect them to be. The city is very wild now, overgrown and less touched.

[@chriswelch9328]

@@ChernobylFamily that’s the thing. It’s ran by 2 different governments, for all intents and purposes. The residents themselves are ideologically incompatible with each other. The Zone isn’t designed to handle such integration on its own, people living in the Zone, with USSR based government agency under Soviet policy forced to move into an independent nation away from Soviet values. Making a rather strict and minimalistic government that’s been around for nearly 40 years. Of course it probably wasn’t on top of their list to try to resolve or avoid this, if it could. It’s an odd issue and I’m not entirely sure how it occurred. It’s philosophical problem. It means the people in the Zone, have very little understanding of what it means to be an independent country. And due to very very small minority compared to the rest of the country, they have no representation. Unfortunately, no Ukrainian President can solve this. Let alone address it. It’s something most people wouldn’t notice. And a very difficult thing to see unless someone thinks about it. I noticed it/felt it when I was preparing to visit Ukraine. It was something that was particularly unsettling. Which brings its own form of sadness to the situation. But I have hope that this too can be resolved, but how it can be done? I don’t know. I don’t know if you understood what I said. But maybe other Americans can explain it better. Americans know why this is problematic. I trust the Ukraine government understands this situation and has a plan. It’s seemingly impossible. It’s a very sad situation. But I hope there is a way to set everyone in Ukraine, like the Zone, free and do it in a way that the world undoubtedly knows.

[@ChernobylFamily]

With all my respect, I really do not get what problem you are talking about. The function of the Zone is a provision of a buffer between contaminated areas and normal world, and environmental protection if its ecosystems. People inside are operative staff. Yes, there are ~100 self-settlers, whose number is steady decreasing. The agency in charge has nothing to do neither of its origin nor in its politics to soviet authorities with their restrictive cryptic approach, and just within 15 years there happened drastical change in approach to Zone transitioned from a black hole to a visuon of it as environment protection-first area. Think about it as any U.S. national park and U.S. National Park Service. I just want to say, for us the Zone with its kitchen is a daily thing; it works very okay for a territory with its issues.

[@andrewprettyquick2070]

It needs to be preserved and restored where appropriate. It is a curious destination and far more popular than what is known. I'd live there happily. With my 6 legged dog and 4 headed cat. Notajoke*

[@ChernobylFamily]

As soon the wаr will be over, we will be back in the work on this. The most we are concerned not that much about the building, but about Spetsatom documentation. All those 9 floors are stuffed with papers, and substantial part of them have a lot of historical value. Too bad that due to the broken windows they are a bit contaminated, vet, damaged, etc., but we have a tested methodology of scanning papers right on-site in big quantity. All we need is full green light for this...

[@m1geo]

Just found your channel by KZbin recommendation. Hits the spot between retro and urbex! 😍 Instant subscription!

[@ChernobylFamily]

You are warmly welcome - and much more is to come! Take a look to our Patreon page, there are some wonders :)

[@Sorbus79]

Thank you for the videos! Perhaps a silly question: how come some of the buildings have absolutely no windows left? Did they all decay over the years, or were they removed to prevent the buildings being used? I understand some buildings were more recently used, but the ones without windows seem to be 100% like that. I'm more used to seeing derelict buildings with a mixture of broken and unbroken parts.

[@ChernobylFamily]

It is not a silly question. Some were broken during decontamination (which often meant using a very very strong flow of water-based mixture distrubuted from a decontamination truck; that thing is more powerful than a fire engine), or were just stolen/ or cleaned and recycled/or reused elsewhere because public buildings had aluminum frames.

[@elisa_5445]

Sadly it looks like almost everything was scraped away

[@ChernobylFamily]

Unfortunately that was very much like this already within the first years...

[@richardh100]

Thank you great video this is a place i want to visit was ready to book a tour before the War started but can stil see parts of it with your videos thanks again😊

[@ChernobylFamily]

Come when the war will be over, we can guide you.

[@richardh100]

@@ChernobylFamily thank you i will😃

[@Kuba-th6bm]

8:24, I made a repair attempt on such a terminal recently. It's a MERA 7953N, unfortunately it is not mine :( I think it's the same device, but made for internal market, the CM units were for export. I managed to replicate EPROMs from another one and got it to boot, though I could not get it to talk with a computer, it also lacked a matching keyboard.

[@williamrekow7513]

Every time I see it, I am sad for Pripyat. Soon those will be the only buildings that haven't received Evroremont. I don't glorify the regime that built all of it, but rather the experience of the common man. Sometimes I look at apartment ads from Transnistria to see those style of apartments still remaining with their mahogany tone furniture. It brings me some amount of joy. All the other stuff that lies partially scrapped there is kind of a loss too. Any number of Zil trucks, those two gigantic BelAz tank trucks... One of the few things I can't fix, because they're probably too radioactive. I think anyone with any sense would rather be in 1985 right now, whether here or there. I find myself missing the normal from then quite a bit recently. You'll probably scold me, but I watch Kreosan sometimes too. Some of the stuff they do is stupid. Some is interesting. If it weren't for the fact I can't afford things like travel, I'd offer my services as a mule once the war is over. It would be awesome to see some of these places in person, even if my only purpose there was to carry gear. Also, I'm looking forward to what you have to say about the PDP11 copy. I'm on a PDP11 group, and have some amount of peripherals.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Well, we spent our childhood in the similar buildings... can't say we really miss it. Thank you for your wish to help. When this will be over, we happily will assist you.

[@samwalker7567]

It's sad, in a way, to see somewhere like the Jupiter factory, which was clearly a place of great pride in engineering, simply left to decay and be lost to the elements like that. On the other hand, the fact that it is somewhere like Pripyat means that it possibly better represents a certain moment in time since it has not been modernised beyond the mid 90s at all, and is complete with equipment of the era.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Jupiter per se is a scenery for a dramatic history of Spetsatom, and later a state emergency-technical center it transformed to. I mean, that enterprise was very ambitious in its plans - to become all-Union (then all-Ukraine) force that would be able to fight any extreme kinds of disasters; we have been studying documents remained on site, and they reveal how dramatic was a fight for implementation of this idea happening in this walls. It never really got an understanding by government of that period. Eventually, Jupiter was gradually dying. Did you watch our documentary about Chornobyl robots? M. Bukov told that in 1998 he was one of a FEW people remaining in empty Jupiter... we will have a series about all that, have a lot of data, but need to work on it. That idea of the Center eventually had a continuation; not in the zone, but outside of it. We have that kind of center in Ukraine, but it is managed by completely different people.

[@srenhaandbk7904]

I always have mixed feelings about these sorts of videos, on one hand everything is so beautiful and peaceful, on the other, it almost brings a tear to my eye to see all of this, big bustling city and industry, left in a rush, and left to rot.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Well, ine part of the story goes together with another one, right?

[@srenhaandbk7904]

very true, very true @@ChernobylFamily

[@jwmeng]

Should have grabbed everything that was left of that DVK-3! I'd love to have one of those. Every video I've seen shows them off as really snappy, quick machines compared to virtually everything else from that era.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Grabbing anything from the Zone is an illegal activity, so we use that junk as technical reference to look at, identify and find elsewhere outside the Zone... anyways, there are just cases, no even cards.

[@jwmeng]

Interesting@@ChernobylFamily - I didn't know that. I assume that anything of real value is long gone anyway.

[@ChernobylFamily]

That comes from the purpose of the zone - to contain and secure any potential sources. Not everything is contaminated, but it is presumed to be so. You can get items from there, but for this there is complex procedure that involves legal work and contamination check.

[@RobSchofield]

Fascinating.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! Check please our newer videos!

[@yercules]

7:25 You shouldn't have come here stalker! Now you'll be wormfood...

[@ChernobylFamily]

I said come in, don't stand there! I said come in, don't stand there! I said come in, don't stand there!

[@korolchukpp]

Скучаю по Припяти. Кстати! Алекс был моим первым проводником)) Потом второй раз поехал, третий и затянуло...

[@ChernobylFamily]

Привіт! 🍻!!

[@The-Future-Is-The-Past-]

it is awful to see Pripyat like this. i wonder if it would be possible to restore some of the buildings. i would have jumped at the chance to live in a city like that, it looks perfect.

[@ChernobylFamily]

There was a very clear and good concept of repairing a few buildings, so people would be able to go in and so. We actively participated in the work group on this... russian invasion stopped all those plans. What will be after is an open question, as deterioration processes go regardless of anything.

[@GrnArrow092]

It would take a lot of work to restore the buildings to become habitable again. I have heard stories about metal scrappers coming in and stealing what they could to make money off of the scrap metal. That included much of the electrical wiring needed to power these buildings.

[@leopiipponen7693]

Thanks this video :)

[@ChernobylFamily]

you are warmly welcome!

[@Ingenieur_werker]

Litle bit scarry to hear the click of the geiger counter while you are in the Jupiter Factory

[@ChernobylFamily]

In reality intensity of that clicking in particular is not really different if you'd switch it on at your home - it is just slightly, very slightly elevated level which is very ok (kinda 0.4 uSv/h). Jupiter is pretty "clean" indoors as many structures across the city. However (I'm not sure if you watched to the end) when we pass the Torch Monument un the Red Forest, that is way worse (around 22-50 uSv/h)...

[@derekchristenson5711]

What an interesting, if melancholy, video! I'm amazed at how quickly nature reclaims civilization in places like Pripyat and its surroundings. Here (in the desert of Arizona), old mining towns abandoned for much longer decay in a very different way (but, contrary to films, were usually largely dismantled for building materials long ago), with few tall plants to obscure buildings. Footage that mentions Russia's brutal invasion always reminds me of the great trials your country is undergoing right now! I pray daily for Ukraine's freedom, even though world politics (always affected by domestic politics), are making things more difficult. 😞 I hope that, one day not so far from now, all of Ukraine will be free again, one way or another!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you for all your support! And stay tuned for more!

[@harbselectronicslab3551]

Again....Awesome

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you so much 😀

[@dogadevity4798]

How about to make a review for Tesla pmd-85? Cuz i watched the video about Jupiter factory, and there were bunch of motherboards from this computer.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Point a timecode of the video if you do not mind.

[@ktotheswiss1617]

A monument to an optimistic future that died suddenly.

[@ChernobylFamily]

It is quite a good definition.

[@jwmeng]

That's exactly what I thought. I watched this and was interrupted by ads for the Pizza Hut Chicken Supreme no less than three times. What a future we missed out on.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Pizza Hut..? Holy...

[@juanManuel-zo3xh]

9:52. Is that a black ghost crossing from side to side ????

[@ChernobylFamily]

everything is possible, but I guess this time it is a ghost caused by YT compressing the video)))

[@barneshomestead1240]

Have seen several documentaries featuring bodies of water there with unbelievable giant mutated I suppose catfish?

[@ChernobylFamily]

Those are defunct intake and exhaust channels that provided secondary cooling of the power plant systems. The fish is a catfish, but I want to underscore - they are NOT mutated at all. They were big because no one touched them, but they were actively fed (throwing bread into water to feed fish is a local entertainment for power plant workers). So they just came to their normal natural size and weight and therefore look so impressive. A catfish in natural environment can reach 5 m in length and 100 Kg of weight, given they live up to 100 years and 50 on average. However, in the case of Chornobyl catfish it is not expected they will live more than 5-6 decades because they are naturally live at the bottom of the water body, where most of contamination resides in silt and bottom sediments, so they have a chronical exposure with elements they get with food. A few years ago, the channels were disconnected with dams from the Cooling Pond of the ChNPP, because it was slowly decommissioned. Catfish used to go to deep spaces in winter, those are gone, so most of them are also gone. The biggest I have seen in 2023 was around 1.5 m long, which is pretty much nothing for this fish. But they have there a lot of other fish as well. (sorry, just catfish is interesting from the point of radiobiology, so I've read multiple studies on them).

[@williamrekow7513]

​@@ChernobylFamilylook up some videos on noodling. Guys fish for them in the south USA by getting them to swallow their hands. You can see some pretty big catfish here. They're often served fried, though generally not the big ones like that.

[@barneshomestead1240]

@@ChernobylFamily Thanks for sharing everything...hope something like this doesn't happen again

[@uraczmnieurna]

Przecież ten kanał to jest złoto w czystej postaci!❤

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thanks :)

[@michaeljones6256]

Imagine, before the disaster, what it would have been like to live in such a modern city. Every structure would have been of newer design. Unfortunate that people have destroyed most of the buildings for a few dollars of scrap metal and broke all the windows for no reason.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Yes. Though the scale of looting is somewhat smaller than people normally imagine. In late 1986, every apartment was open and things were just thrown out of windows to be buried; in many cases they did not care about the damage to windows. Looting started almost immediately - in the epoch of total deficiency of everything the wish to get a potentially dangerous, but so wanted item was often unbeatable. Of course, in the 90-s to this was added the scrapping you talk about. But we find it very symbolically - both creation and destruction of that city are elements of the same chain, the same system that made it all.

[@andresrvlife1386]

I love watching your video's.. But more importantly, how are you and your family doing with the war? Are you and your loved ones safe???

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you. Carrying on, trying to stay sane, helping people, helping the Zone. Check Patreon (i mean, there are plenty of public posts) - you will find there more about your question.

[@johnnyzippo7109]

Question & Request : there is a video documentary of Radar Dnipro in Mukachevo , by Ukrainian Pravda , there are no subtitles to English , also , the hardware and software of this installation is incredible , the object in the documentary is in phenomenal condition . Can Chornobyl Family do a treatment on this documentary in English? I understand that copyrights and or national security are possibly a roadblock , however , if it is possible , I am certain this would be and incredible topic for your channel. Notes: if this topic were to cause trouble for you and the family , then simply nothing being created will answer my request and I will not bring it up again .

[@ChernobylFamily]

I suppose more correctly would be to ask UkrPravda for adding English subtitles to their own documentary... because we cannot do thinks on media which is not our.

[@johnnyzippo7109]

I think what I really meant was this . Does any of this equipment relate to the Duga in the zone , and or any of the computers shown relate to what the Chornobyl Family studies ? Either way thank you for responding , y’all made my day .

[@ChernobylFamily]

@johnnyzippo7109 well, at Duga there was different equipment, including different computets. We will come to them in our videos at some point, but a big job has to be done beforehand.

[@johnnyzippo7109]

Thank you for the response , I can’t wait to see the Duga content , this object has fascinated me for decades and I have no doubt the family’s work on this will be outstanding.

[@user-yz1kn3jt3l]

Підкажіть як з вами зв'язатись. Маю трохи штук, які можу віддати, якщо вам потрібно буде.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Вітаю. Напишіть на пошту [e-mail]

[@windowscascao]

The store operated up to 2004? But how? What about electric power or water supply?

[@ChernobylFamily]

Since 1987 there was an entire program of use of Pripyat for the Zone's purposes, which was clever decision given that infrastructure was still new. That said, there operated a lot of labs and offices, also a few dormitories and even the famous swimming pool which you could use to have some rest after work. The energy and water were provided by a local substation and a system of water drills connected to the station of fluoridation of water, and some power lines as well as water taps were (and are) maintained. Those two facilities are also operating even now and for now they are the only operational in the city. All the rest was shut down. The store operated not as a store, but as a storage for clean household items that were collected during the decontamination and this way could be reused for offices and dorms within the Zone.

[@windowscascao]

@@ChernobylFamily omg i've never heard about that. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us😊

[@abandoninplace2751]

💙

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you!

[@Uf1r]

Був там 20 років тому, виглядало менш ушатаним...

[@ChernobylFamily]

Та навіть 10 років тому... мало того, що все розбите, зараз воно ще безбожно тече.

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Can you revive it? 🤔🤔

[@ChernobylFamily]

Check our previous videos: some of this equipment we found elsewhere and we have it up and running.

[@TsupkaRoman]

а чи є канал більш зрозумілою мовою ?

[@ChernobylFamily]

наразі ні. Частина відео вже має субтитри.

[@TsupkaRoman]

@@ChernobylFamily а було б добре, якби був

[@ChernobylFamily]

Буде коли потягнемо по всім параметрам. Канал і особливл монтаж - то дуже велика робота за кадром.

[@TsupkaRoman]

@@ChernobylFamily та я в курсі ж

[@SA-so7jah]

Чому коли я читаю субтитри, вони у мої голові звучать з акцентом та твердою Р.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Не знаю що й сказати.

[@OG_doomguy]

NOOO you guys looted it and now i won't find anything :(

[@ChernobylFamily]

Uhm. We never - ever - touch anything. Just record the specs, and then find our tech elsewhere. Think logically - what you can do with the junk in that condition you see in the video, m?

[@robertkalinic335]

@@ChernobylFamily Relax, he is joking about looting in stalker.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Sorry mate, we have a serious professional deformation.

[@160rpm]

Two sausages and a wodga? lol