Here was filmed Chernobyl (HBO) 2019

We tried to find as many locations as possible from the “Chernobyl” series (HBO) and match the real frames with the frames of the series. What came out of this you can see in this video.

[@Extreme96PL]

Its easy to see diferences between real Pripyat and Vilnius but i think Vilnius was best option to mimic Pripyat

[@realaurorien]

Yeah with the city barely changing in 30 years I can't deny that it is, I should know that, I live here.

[@cuteathar3251]

@@realaurorien i would love to visit pripyat and vilnius one day....i can feel the spirit of your city...Greetings from Iraq

[@michaliuz18]

best option is also petrzalka in bratislava

[@cuteathar3251]

@@michaliuz18 i surely will try it in the future...thanx alot dear

[@kaydenbush]

Agreed. The architecture really helps bring you into the time period and location that the series is set in.

[@alimahh1]

And the scenes in the reactor control room was filmed in Ignalina power plant in lithuania. Which has the same control panels.

[@cjmillsnun]

Almost the same control panels. They could've used Reactor 3 at Chernobyl which were identical to those in reactor 4

[@jdjdgaming]

the ignalina power plant simulator control room?

[@altugataman5236]

@@cjmillsnun they cant use reactor 3 bcs the fuel and some of the rods were removed from the reactor 3

[@karoliskazlauskas1213]

@@altugataman5236 well the Ignalino's power plant was also decommissioned a while ago, but we do have a simulator over there so they could've used it without having to do some cgi stuff

[@lexus8018]

For that they could have used unit 3 of Chernobyl, many recreations and documents used it in the past, but I think the reason they chose Ignalina is so they whouldn't have to film parts in Chernobyl and the rest of the scenes outside and around the plant in Ignalina. The real Chernobyl plant is mostly in disrepair, with rusted pipes, discolored walls and whouldn't pass as the fresh 16 year old ish plant that it was in 1986 not to mention the new structure above unit 4.

[@cromwellg60]

Ive been to Chernobyl and although the buildings were different the show definitely captured the feel of the town

[@hearts4mc]

Really? Wow that's so cool I've always wanted to go but I'm just too scared just incase because I know its still quite radioactive.

[@spirozylali561]

​@@hearts4mcit's safe for a visit i would also love so much to visit it one day, but now with the war situation in ukraine i think is forbidden to visit it. Anyways if you want to go can we go together please? 😊

[@ksistofjusel86]

I'm so proud that this films has been filmed in my beloved Vilnius :) Cheers my friends :) Linkėjimai chebra :)

[@MantasKi]

Uz Lietuva

[@brochvilla5953]

Great to hear about this :) Half Lithuanian XOXO.

[@Trollerybob]

UZ LIETUVA VYRAI

[@widzewlordi]

@@Trollerybob Why do you neglect this city. You should at least paint these bulidings. Its so sad when polish people can only watch how lithuanians destroy this city

[@thev3131]

​@@widzewlordi LMFAO... are you a troll? How are "Lithuanians destroying this city"? These districts didn't even EXIST when Poland had ANYTHING to do with the city. It was just fields of grass and sometime in the GDL - a small Lithuanian village and were never part of Vilnius. These boring block buildings were built in the 80's by the soviets to house all the workers doing their 3rd/2nd world tier field/factory jobs. (Just FYI, many of those buildings in Lithuania have been renovated, but clearly, for a series like this, a region where they are renovated and look nothing like the authentic ones is not what you'd want.) Kind of ironic, how you say it like a thing coat of paint would somehow make things ten times better, yet their authenticity + places of historical preservation like the KGB museum ended up being the filming spot for a blockbuster series worldwide and now tourists are flocking to those areas as a place of interest/fascination, thus also increasing it's wealth. If the city would've ended up in the hands of Poland it would have never had capital status and would just be another forgotten city in one of it's most neglected regions - the north-east. But hey, they might've put a green coat of paint on those soviet-era buildings. Amazing. I swear, there are SOME Polish people that would be much better off if they deflated their self-made sense of superiority. Maybe then this gentleman would stop being so passive-aggressive about a city, which he in one and the same sentence tried to show he cares about, yet showed he has no clue about whatsoever.

[@fancysummerr]

Never thought of where the series were filmed, but subconsciously always knew it wasn't in Russia cause it would take a ton of cgi to make it clean, to look like a real ussr. But looking at this I was overwhelmingly surprised, none of the buildings are looking like shit, streets are clean, no tires as fences, no graffitis, no arbitrarily build balconies to make their appartments slightly bigger. To me as a russian this looks surreal, and its sad. I'm happy for your people though!

[@andw2638]

I have been to Klaipeda and Vilnius and can attest to glazing being added to balconies in both cities. One fact regarding Fabioniskes which is where this series was filmed, is that the balconies seem to have been glazed as part of the original construction. Which perhaps influenced the choice of filming location because the post-production team would only need to remove satellite dishes.

[@lexus8018]

Even though Vilnius is a lot different than Prypiat, there aren't too many prestine soviet concrete appartment cities out there, most are in Russia, which most likely was off limits due to the premise of the series and most eastern block countries have since then either repainted or further developed soviet appartment disricts making them unfit for Prypiat. Vilnius is one of the last few cities where the appartment districts aren't in disrepair falling appart, didn't go through large scale modernisation with new houses and still keep the original white/grey color scheme of 80s apartment blocks.

[@andw2638]

My impression from streetview is that the Baltic states are a lot tidier than Russia. I have been to Fabijoniskes - a friend lived there for a while - and I recognised his building in some of the footage. The concrete has aged from the original white, which Pripyat would have had at the time. I had wondered what was done about satellite dishes, but in the footage of No.92 it can be seen that the dishes were either edited out or physically removed and then replaced. I suspect the digital approach was taken. When I visited there was some graffiti, more so on substations and boiler houses.

[@vaidautkaite3086]

They filmed the series just on time, because now the area is changed a little bit - renovated streets and walkways :)

[@elenatria]

I intend to visit Kaunas and Vilnius in a few days just to spot HBO Chernobyl filming locations, could you tell me how the streets and walkways were changed? I'm afraid that once I get there I won't be able to recognize the spots where the series was shot. 😅😅

[@pb4travel]

amazing! nothing changed lol

[@AlphaRevX]

The color grading is on point 👌, nice work.

[@andygenlive674]

Thank you 🙌

[@autentyk5735]

I'm from Łódź, Poland, and it's amazing how uniform everything in the Eastern bloc was. Up to the last pathway tile. The font of the numbered block of flats. Each curb. Everything.

[@andw2638]

I have been there before the series was filmed. I have not seen the entire film but when I was there the numbers had the street name (Fabijoniskes gatve) in Lithuanian and in Russian translation, with the Russian having been painted out but with that coat of paint peeling off in many instances.

[@krubzbubz]

when i first saw this film, i really liked that it was filmed in Vilnius, my hometown, better yet I even saw my house! Anyways, it's a great film.

[@Auge2011]

I didn''t even knew this was filmed in my country, interestng how they used cgi forest to hide buildings around

[@meisnice2448]

Problem was that they looked too modern. If they were those old cottages or something, it could look like one of villages near Pripyat, but since you had modern houses, it wouldn't fit.

[@capo328]

I've never heard of Vilnius but it looks beautiful and like a peaceful place to live, to be honest.

[@ldkkarys]

That look good in video but in are real life this is so so so Beutiful

[@saskasasukas4275]

Vilnius is in my coumtry its the capital city of it its in lithuania

[@realaurorien]

Lmao if you wanna get minimum wage sure, but if you live in the west don't even think about coming to the east, you will regret it with every cell of your body

[@hilmust6278]

The only thing is that Vilnius is in Lithuania, and Lithuania has one of the most suicides per capita

[@milominderbinder6209]

@@hilmust6278 Vilnius needs a more cheerful name.

[@dct1]

Amazing. Just what I was looking for. Good work 👍

[@user-qv9gs7cq5c]

Хорошо

[@dominykasvaitkus9385]

This is amazing

[@abduljaliltv4950]

Thank you, finally i know how is the real place.

[@JamesClark1991]

This is amazing 😍

[@user-hm4du7op9f]

电影能拍摄还原切尔诺贝利街景， 得益于赫鲁晓夫楼 ，哪都一样 甚至去中国北方很多城市 都能找到相似的街景。 The movie can be used to restore the Chernobyl street scene. Thanks to the Khrushchev Tower, everything is the same. Even in many cities in northern China, you can find similar street scenes.

[@ehsaaschaudhary9298]

After watching Chernobyl all this looks scary

[@Arsenic71]

Very nicely done, great job!

[@andygenlive674]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@0_emuxxx_0]

I LIVE IN LITHUANIA!!!! AND I LOVE THIS MINI FILM!!!

[@pile_ofsalt]

Well made atmospheric comparement.

[@ArtursPavulans]

To be fair that looks same as Riga, Latvia (plavnieki or purvciems mikrorajons) the sad reality is that most post soviet countries have areas like these.

[@elenatria]

Hi there! At 1:30 you're showing the building where Legasov and Shcherbina were standing on the rooftop overlooking the evacuation. I intend to visit Vilnius in a few days and I was hoping you could tell me how I can find this building. 🙂

[@sandeeplgupta]

Wonder how that haunting radiation sound was recorded...

[@barbaravyse660]

Looks like the older apartment buildings in the crystal city section of Arlington Virginia.

[@AkajiCZ]

wow this so good

[@AndyGen_com]

Thank you 😊

[@specific78]

I don’t think the actors would have agreed to the roles if it was filmed in Pripyat 😂

[@Lighthouse.pictures]

Thats cool video, I though about filming this locations as I live not so far from here. Were you traveling just for this film ? :)

[@andygenlive674]

At this moment I'm living here, in Vilnius. ;)

[@meisnice2448]

@@andygenlive674 man you Re so lucky that you can visit Fabijoniškes.

[@googlesucks1376]

The chick with the tattoos at building 92... they didn't show that...

[@EmreY25]

so cool man

[@andygenlive674]

Thank you

[@scriptedblanket7513]

dude what are you doing in Pripyat? and how did you get back in time?

[@andygenlive674]

I don't know :) who are you and why I hear your voice? ))))

[@vsmozy]

Классно! Привет из onliner ))

[@vasilkou]

круто! спасибо за работу!

[@Just_Hans2]

I probably fought that the older people living in that city when it was ffilmed had some childhood memories: like the clothes the strollers everything. But not being evacuated lol

[@Trollerybob]

It was filmed on fabijoniskes (vilnius)

[@vykintasj]

;D +F respect as is vilniaus koks pasididziavimas rane ?

[@michaelderenne9838]

Cool

[@bismilhameed2150]

Who is afraid of the warning voice mimaniye mimaniye

[@majauskasmr]

Amazing work. I live nearby. Very very close to original :)

[@andygenlive674]

Thank you!

[@Wok_Agenda]

Such a blyatifull place

[@aldassatkauskas8463]

i lived in that country

[@user-kl9rm7eb7g]

0:44 эти детские площадки не менялись давнл

[@auang]

who of you knows where the scenes were filmed by the liquidators on the roof? (the most important 90 seconds of your life)

[@Marozaaaa]

Ignalina power plant. Thats the best place to mimic Chenrobyl.

[@stovyklasvajone]

I think, they've built a set for this scene (and for firefighters near the blown reactor). However, some scenes from the inside of the power plant were filmed in Ignalina (exterior, some interior). For example, the reactor chamber, seen in the last episode, have been filmed in Ignalina. But the control room was recreated, because the film crew wasn't been allowed to film in the real control room due to safety and security concerns.

[@vizantdragan4523]

Vell dan!

[@emiliayura79]

Обалдеть! А народ как же там во время съёмок жил? Чтоб доехать на работу надо пойти в массовку, одеть советскую одежду и сесть в советский автобус?:))

[@andygenlive674]

всё реально перекрывали и убирали машины со всех парковок

[@sanskarkumar6484]

❣✌

[@meisnice2448]

Fabijoniškes

[@Warrior48]

!!

[@PavelPotashnikov]

Интересно

[@hicksteadearth6206]

Aš šitoi vietoi buvau ^^

[@Tiunev]

Монтаж супер)

[@bry9990]

That is not Pripyat , there is a pure modern car there, and Pripyat only has pure classic cars.

[@AndyGen_com]

What do you mean?

[@Vdzenb]

Фабиёнишки ВАН ЛАВ!!!))) в 73 моя тётя жила раньше, переехали потом на Гирулю.

[@user-jq9mp8rk2i]

а рил похоже

[@gudelis2171]

Kas iš fabu

[@lukaslevulis1699]

gaila kad pas mus Lietuvoj pilna tokiu slyksciu sovietisku pastatu. Kauno Eiguliuose pilna situ pastatu.

[@SuperLightningStarOfficial]

pripyat, ukraine