Magnitogorsk: The Soviet City Built from Scratch

In the 1930s, the Soviet government decided it wanted to build a perfect modern industrial city. Magnitogorsk would be a fully realized socialist utopia that could revolutionize the economy of the young USSR.
What could possibly go wrong?
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[@AlecMuller]

Non-Americans: Who on their right mind would name a city "Gary"? Americans: Who in their right mind would _intentionally model_ another city after Gary, Indiana?

[@Kabodanki]

Non-Americans: Who cares, Gary still a new like any other.

[@garyoa1]

Most likely, someone named Gary.

[@shindari]

If your name was Gary, and you were born in Gary, Indiana, you could just lie to foreigners, and tell them that the city is named after YOU! You are the PRINCE of Gary!!

[@GrockleTD]

Seriously, Gary is basically the hell hole that you get when the run off from Detroit and Chicago meet together

[@garyoa1]

@@shindari Yeah, but you're one up on everyone if you're from Mars Pennsylvania.

[@RobGcraft]

Simon: *talks about obscure place* People from (obscure place): “WHOMST HAS SUMMONED ME”

[@user-uy3jg2ij1k]

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[@bobdobbolina8376]

Simon: There's a place called Gary? Me: Well not every place can be named Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch.

[@gg3675]

He was number 1!

[@Skyfox94]

Not only that but there are people out there that can and know how to pronounce it.

[@jimtalbott9535]

There's a place in Nova Scotia named "Dildo".

[@Skyfox94]

@@jimtalbott9535 There's a town in Austria called Fucking. Yeah... that town sign got stolen quite often so they voted to rename it to Fugging just last week. Guess what, now that those signs are a "known rarity" they've been in demand even more. I think there were like 6 attempts to steal signs just this past week.

[@Thurnmourer]

@Charles Yuditsky really? Place is filled with abandoned mining towns, would have thought the sheer amount of easily renovated land would have made shit dirt cheap.

[@user-sv1ls4zj3b]

I was born in Magnitogorsk 1985 and still live here, if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer.

[@abitoftheuniverse2852]

Which do you prefer, African or European swallows?

[@user-sv1ls4zj3b]

ABitOfTheUniverse I do not understand why this question is, but I will answer, I met only European swallows.

[@libertasmorix]

Any wildlife?

[@Jasruler]

Do you have pigeons like we do in American cities?

[@VoltageLP]

Why?

[@charlescasturo9146]

Fun fact: NHL star Evgeni Malkin is from Magnitogorsk and plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins

[@DoctaOsiris]

Who? 😲 🤣

[@garykuhn1921]

Simon has no idea what hockey is.

[@Jibbermidget]

He’s not even remotely top 20. But he is incredibly talented.

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

YINZERS UNITE!!!!!

[@brentgranger7856]

Read about his defection when he disappeared from the Magnitogorsk hockey team to his eventual arrival in Pittsburgh.

[@philipgallagher69420]

"you put a gun to somebodies head and you'll be surprised at how quickly they can work" Danny can confirm. Pumping out blaze scripts. Absolute legend.

[@daveowen378]

Philip Gallagher smash that dislike button.

[@nunyobidniz]

EtA is watching! 😱

[@jennyanydots2389]

This is how Kitty Porn is made dawg.

[@Tom-ef1mz]

Ask me about my pyramid scheme

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@Tom-ef1mz Axe me about my BBC and inability to maintain meaningful relationships.

[@freakingwizard5296]

I actually live there. First of all im shocked that someone actually aknoledge our existans. People are really hating the polution in the city but we can't do anything about it. I think goverment gets payd by the owners of MMK so they are no help. Steal can't imagine that someone would care about us especially someone from another country. Thank you for noticing this shithole.

[@PinataOblongata]

Get that 40% of people who work the MMK to go on strike until they promise to put in place binding agreements to deal with their waste instead of pouring it into the environment. The good side of socialism is the ideas about unity and the working class coming together to look after each other and demand fairness.

[@Gnefitisis]

Just leave? The blocks arent worth it. Is the club scene at least good?

[@freakingwizard5296]

@@PinataOblongata most of workers are 40+ y.o. who have a family to feed. Some of the ppl just complains and do nothing. But the new gen trying to fight it by making petitions. Its helping a bit

[@freakingwizard5296]

@@Gnefitisis well new gen is leaving the city as soon as they turn 18 but the 30+ "boomers" can't risk a job and a home because of the family so they just stick to the job and suffer

[@washubrain]

It's not just this city that is in trouble. The whole country is in shit and will stay there as long as instead of a government the country is managed by organised criminal group headed by KGB former spy

[@majestichotwings6974]

“Who would name a city after a bloke named Gary?” Blokes named Gary: *depression noises

[@basstrammel1322]

Even the name Gary is going extinct. Not the best of times for those named Gary, please join me in a minute of silence for them.

[@bobdole3926]

It's his surname as usual Simmon just reads he doesn't seem worldly.

[@johngrammaticus5296]

Scotland has a town called Keith and wales has a town called barry

[@baruchben-david4196]

People named their kids after the town.

[@Gbraun55]

I think about this daily

[@paulpetersson7868]

Hi from Magnitororsk! youtube suggested me this video, no way I found it myself Well most of the video is true, I say it as a person who lives here. (...and also as a person who is apparently going to die here. I am the third generation living in severe polluted cities. I have too many congenital respiratory diseases, people here die from cancer more than from heart-related diseases, everyone has a relative who is ill with cancer or died from it) Well, Magnitogorsk is an interesting place for urban and industrial tourism, also we have beautiful lakes all around the city, but I'd never recommend anyone to live here or have children here.

[@arturchakhvadze6446]

I grew up in Magnitogorsk, everyone in my family got asthma there. I was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 18. Horrible city indeed.

[@ddoumeche]

if you can solve coal plant pollution with Fluidized bed (Кипящий слой), you can probably solve plant pollution one way or another.

[@sestemer8554]

Привет!!!

[@popsey72]

Take care Peter.

[@crazzy88ss]

Hi Peter. Is it possible or easy to permanently leave the city? Why do so many people stay?

[@strwbrrybnny]

"Modeled after Gary, Indiana" oh, oh no...

[@MistahBryan]

Could have been worse, it could have been Gary from Vault 108.

[@AlexanderTzalumen]

@@MistahBryan Gary

[@cmhughes8057]

My thoughts exactly.

[@JohnSmith-gz4fs]

@@MistahBryan Gary

[@bchin4005]

@@MistahBryan Gary

[@gautamgunjan3242]

My hometown of Bokaro in india was also built from scratch with soviet assistance and was solely inspired from this very city. It is currently one of the biggest centres of steel industry in the country.

[@andrewlonghofer]

“How do you think I make so many videos?” **muffled voice from the basement saying “free danny”**

[@thomasskipper1672]

I thought he was cashing in on how he looks like vsauce

[@shookings]

@@thomasskipper1672 Michael wishes he could be Simon

[@Shunteration]

Simon has to be the first person to make the mistake of calling a _smokestack_ a cooling tower, and not the other way around.

[@PhilipHousel]

Here in Satsop WA, we have cooling towers.

[@jennyanydots2389]

My mom calls my smokestack Dr sturdy meat hog on the weekdays.

[@Harold_Flite]

Imagine taking photos of smokestacks that dont project shadows in the aerial photographs.

[@1Shapic1]

And best of all is that on second view one is not from a plant but one from central heating.

[@jennyanydots2389]

@Tediuki Suzuki Meat hog is just a childish word for BBC.

[@Tux.Penguin]

It’s true, there is literally a city named Gary. I have driven through there once... in broad daylight... quickly! It is not a place I would recommend to anybody. Although driving through might be a shorter route, driving a detour to avoid Gary is safer and more pleasant.

[@buckley183]

I live in Indiana, you don't go to Gary

[@wardefiant]

I'm in Pittsburgh. Dad was a Steelworker in the 70's thru early 200s. US Steal had major Steel plants in Gary and Pittsburgh. Most of which were useless tech by the 80's and closed. Continuous Casting method of steel was the new tech and installed at Edgar Thompsan works in Braddock PA in 1990. Thus the ET plant is still operational to this day. Sadly US Steal abandoned Gary and I believe it was featured on 1 of those cable shows about what if humans stopped living - they focused on run down Gary Indiana and its hollowed out malls and buildings.

[@philipgallagher69420]

If you go to Indiana, you have to visit Pawnee. Great parks.

[@corrosionoc69]

Tux rules

[@evilmotorsports5076]

You know what is the best part about visiting Gary, Indiana? Leaving

[@Ennio444]

"The world's first fully planned city" Aside from almost every Roman city, many Greek colonies, Washington DC... really, man?

[@Ennio444]

@Wesley Adams All of those cities were fully planned. Whether Magnitogorsk or Alexandria or Washington DC followed the original plans to the T is another matter entirely.

[@fedosyshyus4181]

То чувство, когда ты из Магнитогорска и нихуя не понимаешь что тут говорят

[@ugandanwarrior5657]

Because u learned German as a foreign lanugage?

[@tina_superDoG]

@@ugandanwarrior5657 no, main part of us (russians) learned English as foreign language, but level, that we get in school, isn't enough to understand videos like this

[@vadimagd5072]

@@tina_superDoG субтитры могут несколько помочь

[@Sanya-xn7te]

Вот я тоже из МГН и сижу нервно включаю субтитры )

[@yaroslavmrk7759]

никто не мешает заниматься самообразованием, в конце концов язык ключ к пониманию мироздания и миллионов других людей. А говорит он всё как есть, только удивляется почему всё так и остается и пора бы уже начинать что то делать со своим городом и задавать вопросы властям. И да, я из той же дыры, всем hi from industrial heart of MOTHER RUSSIA)

[@divinemoments5344]

Soviet prisoner: Oh no, don't send me to Magnitogorsk, that place is hell. NKVD: Haha, you're going to Norilsk.

[@AllonKirtchik]

One word: Vorkuta

[@Ayrshore]

@@AllonKirtchik Ascend from darkness!

[@banana_junior_9000]

Simon wonders which Russian cities beat out Magnitogorsk...you called out one.

[@MaegnasMw]

Well, none of these places can hold a candle to Magadan!

[@Skyfox94]

@@MaegnasMw How so? I only read like the first two lines on wikipedia and looked at a few google images and it seems to be rather... normal compared to Norilsk or Vorkuta. Would you mind elaborating?

[@wonkywaddlingwaterwingedwriter]

Living in Chicago, it feels utterly hilarious that anybody would try to recreate Gary, Indiana.

[@dudove1]

If no one will do it, the communists will. 👏

[@MashMonster69]

Ikr?

[@superduperfreakyDj]

Well back in the day it was considered a good idea and it was thought that towns like Gary would become more and more popular.

[@wonkywaddlingwaterwingedwriter]

@@superduperfreakyDj Wait, are you telling me that they didn't recreate it fully expecting it to be a shitshow? Well, shit.. TIL Edit: Sorry, I'm a bag of dicks. I was just a bit tongue in cheek more than anything though... cuz, like, obviously they thought it would work out. It'd be ludicrous if they planned to recreate a city knowing it would turn into one of the most polluted cities.

[@Mike_Potapov]

Only a bigger version of US Steel factory in Gary was recreated. Not the city

[@GMlilEASTSIDEcharlie]

Makes fun of Gary, Indiana. Knows of a place in the Uk called “Kent”

[@yevgeniykhakhaev9788]

I mean, there's also Eugene, Oregon...and I'm sure plenty others

[@beekydogg]

There is also a Kent, Washington 😂

[@stephenp20]

Don't forget about Gilroy California, the garlic capital of the world 😂

[@dadgarage7966]

The Jacksons are from Gary.

[@Skyfox94]

@@dadgarage7966 Isn't there also a town called Jackson?

[@autumnVoid1138]

I used to live in Munster, Indiana a relatively short drive to Gary Indiana . I remember one time my family drove though there for some reason, it was absolutely one of the worst places I’ve ever seen in my entire life. The amount of poverty and sheer urban decay was astounding it looked like a city that had been ravaged by some sort of Armageddon. Not to mention how notoriously dangerous the city is with its violent crime. Don’t recommend Gary, tis a silly place

[@SalManila1]

Munster Cheese?

[@gatsbye53]

If you're interested in this, read "Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel by John Scott". It's written by an American who was there during the construction of the city.

[@marcm.]

Interesting. I will check it out

[@moriart13]

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[@jamesm9587]

i came to post this, it was a great read and a relatively unbiased view into how life was there.

[@wallbert2000]

Ah yes I read excerpts of this for one of my college classes. Can second it is worth the read and is a really good glimpse into life in the Soviet union

[@markclark787]

Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation

[@michaeldunne338]

And, Michael Jackson and rest of the Jackson 5 came from Gary, Indiana ...

[@montefoley9070]

The town form "A Christmas Story"

[@cptnofgravytrain]

should've named it Elbert

[@littlehandsgivescovfefe4837]

@@michaeldunne338 As well as Freddie GIbbs, the rapper.

[@caliado]

@@montefoley9070 The film is set in Hohman, Indiana, a fictionalized version of Shepherd's hometown of Hammond, near Chicago. The name is derived from Hohman Avenue, a major street in downtown Hammond. Local references in the film include Warren G. Harding Elementary School and Cleveland Street (where Shepherd spent his childhood). Other local references include mention of a person "swallowing a yo-yo" in nearby Griffith, the Old Man being one of the fiercest "furnace fighters in northern Indiana" and that his obscenities were "hanging in space over Lake Michigan," a mention of the Indianapolis 500, and the line to Santa Claus "stretching all the way to Terre Haute." The Old Man is also revealed to be a fan of the Bears (whom he jokingly calls the "Chicago Chipmunks") and White Sox, consistent with living in northwest Indiana.

[@PinataOblongata]

A series on planned cities and how well they turned out would be cool. Here in Australia, Canberra, where our parliament resides, was also a planned city. It's small and exceptionally clean and none of the buildings are allowed past a certain fairly low height, so it almost feels more like a small built-up out suburban area than a capital.

[@cristitanase6130]

so boring sounds like a prison

[@squeezme88]

@@cristitanase6130 can confirm. That's why the population is so small there. Also, no one want to live that close to our politicians

[@yesiamarussianbot3076]

@@squeezme88 Well our politicians do their best to be like Stalin.

[@aussiejinjo]

@@cristitanase6130 magnitogorsk is better

[@cristitanase6130]

@@aussiejinjo last time didn't they had an entire apartment block exploding or something?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:50 - Chapter 1 - Early origins 2:45 - Chapter 2 - The 5 year plan(s) 5:30 - Chapter 3 - A planned city 6:50 - Chapter 4 - Residents 9:15 - Chapter 5 - Construction 12:20 - Chapter 6 - WWII 13:05 - Chapter 7 - Today

[@AuraCraft]

usefull. do you do this often? coz its usefull but I never see ppl doing it (unlike e.g. album track lists)

[@shanehebert3237]

Simon in his corporate kitchen: "Ok, lets take two parts geographics, one part biographics, a pinch of blaze and....oh, well that was an unexpected hit!"

[@notarandomencounter39]

Well, he is our boy with the blaze, even in his Geographic's videos now. The line about a gun to his head sounds like something Danny would say about writing scripts for Simon 🤣 Allegedly

[@elissajaguar]

@@notarandomencounter39 You legend!!

[@chrissmith3587]

Shane Hebert best make another channel for it

[@californiumblog]

On a similar vein China's ghost cities might be a darker megaproject story.

[@ripsumrall8018]

That might be a better fit for Geographics.

[@Tux.Penguin]

As if a story about a Soviet city wasn’t dark enough! LOL

[@livethefuture2492]

china's ghost cities arent nearly as dark as the soviet cities. some of these places in the soviet union are like straight out of a horror movie and have had horrific events in their past. (like cannibal island that Simon covered in Geographics, truly shows the extent of Stalin's brutality)

[@vandarkholme4745]

Nah, a lot of them are just bad real estate investments that sprang up in late 2000s. Gee, what do you think we are, North Korea? We may not be a democracy but have been a market economy for 3 decent decades.

[@shindari]

@@Tux.Penguin The Chinese truly do everything better... including failure. Nobody fails as epicly as THEY do!

[@user-ky9uc5ud6h]

Hello, i'm living in Magnitogorsk and i want to say that it is nit so "dirty" cuty as you say. I am working at MMK and i saw many other plants and i can say that the same plants are in America too. And about explosion: it was not an explosion of gas as official medias say. And if you to tell about some industrial cities with some "problems" you can tell about Detroit as example. And i wany to say it is not a bad feedback, i just want to say that the Russia is not the place were bears are walking on streets and drinking vodka. Thanks for your video, it is interesting to hear your opinion about the Magnitogorsk.

[@jmbpaz]

@pavel Uppercut to that not so stiff upper lip anymore 😂😂

[@thomasheyart7033]

I'm from Detroit but I've seen Gary IN. I'll take Detroit.

[@tomcruise1559]

Паша респект)

[@Gnefitisis]

Because Russian vodka is such shit, your drinks drink MeOH soaked through beead! XD

[@darkstorminc]

No bears drinking vodka? What about people riding bears to work while drinking vodka???

[@cyberteeth4107]

Hi friends...very dirt photos....i live in Magnitogorsk...is very biutifull city in summer...if you looks photos!! we have several cool ski resorts, many sanatoriums and the incredible nature of the Urals with forests and mountains! here you have some very scary and dirty photos on your video ... in fact, the city is very safe and beautiful, bravda sometimes spoil everything from the plant's emissions, but every year environmental friendliness and cleaning are improving !!! Come and don't regret it !!! with love from Magnitogorsk...

[@leobonston11]

Магнитогорск не резиновый, хватит всех сюда звать!)

[@varrra]

@@leobonston11 ххапххахп

[@frosty1219]

But my town looks good in every season. No polution there.

[@toogud7918]

@@frosty1219 I mean good for you, he was just pointing out that his city is improving in its beauty and it’s not as bad as everyone says it is, nobody wants a dick measuring contest

[@Train_Tok_Man]

Union Pacific Big Boys: The Biggest steam locomotives ever built.

[@jjskn93]

Excellent suggestion

[@SD457500]

I second this; it is an impressive locomotive and amazing to see in person.

[@donzolez9482]

Freight hoppers and graffiti artist will absolutely nut

[@jennyanydots2389]

That ain't the biggest. I'll show you the biggest steamy locomotive ever built baby. My steamy locomotive is record breaking dawg.

[@davconelectric]

Big boy wasn't the biggest or most powerful steam locomotive ever built. Just googling tells us this

[@GrockleTD]

ah yes, Gary Indiana... so bad it's a card in Cards Against humanity

[@inkdreams5113]

Actually it was called Gray before some nob made a typo...

[@GrockleTD]

@James Walker pretty much

[@Rosspal14]

yah i'll give the brit a break but Gary is not a cute joke

[@mikeadams8293]

GrockleTD I lived there for 20 years from 1957 to 1977 and worked for US Steel for a couple of years! If the earth needs an enema that’s where the tip would be inserted! The city was a corrupt cesspool of political leeches! It didn’t help that the mill was down sized.

[@bartfoster1311]

@@inkdreams5113 lol sounds like Arab, Alabama. It was supposed to be Arad but somebody wrote the d backwards!

[@user-cm9ij5cz3c]

I love how Simon is getting off script and being fun here.

[@AQuietNight]

Gary, Indiana was named after Elbert Henry Gary, one of the founders of United States Steel (USS).

[@1hungrygrizzly]

you should really look into Ozersk if you think that this is a megaproject..... they built a nuclear reactor with spades and shovels with no mechanical equipment brief months after WWII.

[@emoishguy08]

Ruturaj Shiralkar Soviet Russia at its best!

[@fyaaeya7803]

Coincidentally it is also located in Chelyabinsk oblast

[@canadiansoviet]

I saw this....what was the alternate term? City 78 or something?

[@canadiansoviet]

@Ruturaj Shiralkar 😎👍

[@canadiansoviet]

@Ruturaj Shiralkar Ok, I will.

[@6Shroomie9]

"How do you think I make so many KZbin video's" beneath the floorboards, Danny and Sam shiver softly as they continue to work on scripts and accompanying meme's

[@IrfanKhan1]

🤣

[@Burgus97]

"vintage memes"

[@equiusoceano8493]

Hi, former chicago resident here that's been binging your videos here. Gary, IN is now and has been for quite some time one of the roughest cities in the Midwest US for almost 3 decades, similar to the reputation that Detroit, Michigan (it's neighbor) has had for some time. Thanks NAFTA! Love your channel, it's taken place of my regular tv now! I also live close to A51 so come on out sometime!

[@rosco4659]

Flipping love these videos mate! I lost nearly a full day watching yesterday.

[@JimBagby74]

Check out Gary. It's a Mega Ruin. Worth a look. Like Detroit only worse.

[@jeffmeschewski4753]

Smells bad as well.

[@marzipanhuman2356]

I guess most of developed in twentieth century solemnly-metal-production cities are in condition like this

[@johnniemiec3286]

Detroit is at least getting some reinvestment as technology ramps up in the auto industry. Gary is a tough place to be. Has been for a while.

[@livethefuture2492]

Gary looks like my country...

[@adam12671]

Live The Future shit... where tf you live

[@johntheux9238]

I think Norilsk is the most polluted city in the world.

[@JoeSexPack]

Norilsk = Nickel in English. World's biggest nickel deposits led to big pollution in commie days. Still not good, but much better now. Edit...Norilsk does not mean nickel. A Russian City in Murmansk, also polluted, is named Nikel.

[@Wolfhound_81]

Norilsk no fun :P

[@Kabodanki]

Most polluted doesn't mean anything, the top most polluted are still heavily poluted

[@command_unit7792]

They actually closed the soviet era mine and opened a newer cleaner one. Pollution is still bad but its much less of an issue now...

[@igvc1876]

@@JoeSexPack The name Norilsk has nothing to do with Nickel - the city is named after the river/mountains with a similar name - the "sk" ending is very common for city names in Russia. Nickel in Russian is Nickel (just in Cyrillic), and there is in fact a city in Russia actually named Nickel in the Murmansk region.

[@_datapoint]

Great show!

[@djsonicc]

Imagine if instead of Gary, Indiana they named it Jones

[@Silverado138]

Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation

[@mrttripz3236]

LMAO

[@billcook4768]

Would totally screw up that Music Man song.

[@HeadOnAStick]

Here's suggestions for topics: the reversal of the flow of the Chicago river in 1900. The California State Water Project (including Oroville Dam and the California Aqueduct). The regrading of Seattle in the early 20th century.

[@WeltonLuizCostaRochaFilho]

Hey Simon! I believe Brasilia, Brazil could be a great theme for a next video about planned cities. It was a monumental project built in the middle of nowhere!

[@spectreshadow]

SImon you legend I can't get enough of your videos.

[@user-gw3zq9gx8m]

Hah, I have lived in this city all my life, and I can say that you told everything correctly, but I will note that now in 2020 there is a HUGE enlightenment towards the appearance of the city, parks are being built / old ones are being restored, a huge park is being built near Tyl The front (the monument about which he spoke) and in general, it became better. But alas, there is also a bad thing: filters on the pipes of the plant often do not turn on, or turn on but very rarely. But soon a wave of revolution will begin across the country and I hope that all corruption in our country will go away, for you to understand, corruption in our country is about 5 times higher than in the United States, and all people are already tired of seeing how ordinary people are used as a condom. Hah, also anti-LGBT propaganda, when many deputies are gay, and fly to the USA when their "comrades" begin to press them. Okay, I've already started talking about something else, thanks for the video, I live near the monument "First Tent", it was nice to see my native streets. Long live Belarus.

[@user-ld9wh6wt7u]

Коррупцию в нашей стране победить сложно

[@527398]

@@user-ld9wh6wt7u *практически невозможно. За несколько веков никто ничего не сделал, потому что невыгодно.

[@stephenmr2]

I am sincerely sorry you happen to live in this place.

[@kabzaify]

America is the most corrupt country on earth, the everything there owed controlled by the oligarchy. 90 percnt of the media is owned by five private corporations. The enter economy is in the hands of the one percent

[@MikMoen]

@@kabzaify And yet the only real pollution I ever have to worry about is when a wildfire breaks out.

[@NOmadishe]

Correction: the Tatar resettlers don’t speak Turkish. Their language is of a Turkic group which also includes Turkish, as well as many other languages spoken in Central Asia. Turkic and Mongolian languages belong to Altaic family of languages. Some researchers say Japanese and Korean languages belong to the same family due to similar structure, though not sharing vocabulary.

[@mehmetilbasan4383]

lol. i am a turkish from turkey and i can understand tatar folk songs on youtube almost perfectly. difference between tatar and turkish is like scottish accent vs biritish accent of english.

[@NOmadishe]

Рамис Карама I did not say Tatars live in Central Asia, I said other Turkic languages spoken there. Although some Tatar populations can be met in many countries of the former Soviet Union

[@NOmadishe]

neo İlbasan though languages have a lot of similarities Turkic languages are not all Turkish language. Turkish is just one of them.

[@Celtopia]

who cares?

[@Celtopia]

just tell your turk cousins to get the Hell out of cyprus ,

[@eFeXuy]

Pick an artificial island airport from Japan, I think Kansai is the oldest. I don't remember which but there was one of them that the island is slowly sinkin and every now and then they need to lift the pillars of the building with jacks and add metal plates below them to keep the building leveled

[@AWITOMINOZ]

Magnitogorsk had 4 architects Mikhail barsch, Ivan Leonidov, Vladimir Semyonov, Alexander Ivanitsky and Ernst May. Ernst May participated only in the development of the master plan (the concept of the General plan of Magnitogorsk), the development of zoning schemes and calculations of technical and economic indicators. 1A quarter was designed and built without his participation, presumably by the architect Mart Stam. And about N. A. Milutin at all not a word, although it was he who was the main ideologue of Sotsgorod, and I. Leonidov embodied his idea in drawings

[@Lexa888888]

Nice video!

[@Cephatyl]

If we are talking mines, this German one definitely deserves an episode: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine

[@deadmeatdec2164]

There is a mine South Africa that is 12k feet deep

[@dramoth64]

Mt Whaleback in Western Australia!

[@therealdave06]

Why? It's not even the biggest mine in Europe, that would be Bełchatów in Poland.

[@davidfishguy]

The boy with the blaze is slowly leaking over into other channels.

[@jamesengland7461]

He must be contained!

[@rebeccadorobis2233]

I was just thinking the same thing 😂

[@reymartampus4411]

Subscribing to this channel because Simon is here. Been a fan of him since VisualPolitik, I'd be loving the presentation here. :)

[@justfresh8921]

Ты не искал этот видос, он сам тебя нашёл

[@Caesar88888]

я вообще-то искал

[@glennedgar7742]

😍

[@pomiklom2499]

Искал....

[@bmitchely]

Simon, I really enjoy your series on Soviet/Russian Cities. I hope you do more of them.

[@wesselbonnet2561]

A suggestion that ties in with Russia and the earlier video on the N-1 rocket, what about the Mir space station? I remember growing up and hearing of it and I clearly remember when it eventually re-entered the atmosphere. I believe there is a fascinating backstory behind the failure of the N-1 resulting in the Soviets “changing the goalpost” tonorbital stations, starting with the Salyut series (and more covert Almaz stations - which had canons!). This all lead up to Mir, and eventually the concept of modular space stations that was adopted for the ISS. I think there was a bit of an oops on Mir as well where a Progress supply craft hit the station and damaged some modules as well? Maybe an interesting topic!

[@plushman3685]

Your Blaze personality coming through. Epic

[@dinaakhmadeeva6556]

Hiiiiiiii from Magnitogorsk. Thank you for making this video

[@jeffmeschewski4753]

I'm from Chicago and Gary, Indiana is just east of the city...the only thing worse than the smell of Gary is when someone from there says they are from Chicago. Best best is to keep driving east another 30 min and make it to the state of Michigan.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

It's not just Gary, IN that creates the foul odors, but also other heavy industry northwest Indiana cities that ring Lake Michigan such as Whiting, East Chicago and Portage.

[@garethfairclough8715]

I think the US Navy Sturgeon class submarines would be interesting. Someone tried to steal one back in the 1970s, as I recall. Jim Kirk style, as in "walk aboard, then sail it right out of port".

[@shadowfight2994]

Я живу в этом городе! | I live in this city!

[@darkicity]

Ну....мои соболезнования

[@user-eu1fo8cg3k]

Ммм, круто

[@user-jh7dj3sq1l]

Я тоже, мало хорошего

[@user-dn4fo4uu8m]

А чего он там говорит я не понимать английский

[@fhafacoh2419]

@@user-dn4fo4uu8m тоже самое! Хоть бы субтитры подкрутили

[@redram5150]

“Emancipating women from the kitchen” had more to do with controlling the already sparse food supply more than anything else. If homes have kitchens, people are free to eat whatever they whenever they wish. Removal of kitchens from the household allowed bureaucrats within the USSR to further ration food

[@puzzled012]

according to this logic population of UK is starving!? www.statista.com/statistics/1085401/cooking-habits-in-the-uk/ as you can see those who cook daily (not all meals though) make 42.6% of populous

[@NickVanRegenmorter]

8:06 Simon just admitted that he holds Danny at gunpoint

[@jamesengland7461]

ALLEGEDLY.

[@TheRCnukeBOOOM]

We can see more and more of the blaze bleed out into the other channels

[@mischafri8839]

The 2 Russian cities that are even dirtier than Magnitogorsk are Norilsk and Cherepovets. In fact, Norilsk is so dirty, that it is regarded as not only the dirtiest city in Russia, but also one of the dirties cities worldwide...has a lot of potential for a new Megaprojects video?

[@DpakoHoBHeT]

Ой, хорош пиздеть! Куча городов и погрязнее есть, заебали уже

[@mischafri8839]

@@DpakoHoBHeT Опа! Еще одна говнохранительница прикатила! ))

[@Rabies4818]

Another great video, thanks. Another subject to add to your ever increasing list. With so many different writing formats around the world, some of which are works of art, how did the world come to have the one numerical format?

[@reapz77]

Yes new shirt!!!. Thanks for the video, I loved it..

[@zloy_fygas95]

Многое что есть в вашем ролике уже устарело, я сам с этого города и часть либо снесли либо отреставрировали

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

puzzle gin 111 Indeed

[@user-gw3zq9gx8m]

ООО земляк

[@zloy_fygas95]

@@user-gw3zq9gx8m ну а что не так что ли? Снимают про наш родной город всякую чушь, что бы реально судить надо прожить какое то время а на основании устаревшей информации это бред что то снимать и писать

[@user-gw3zq9gx8m]

@@zloy_fygas95 Ну....не скажу что прям всё плохо в ролике, но видно что говорится о магнитке до 2018 года, а 2018+ они упустили полностью, но с другой стороны основная часть ролика правдива, я только не заметил высказывание про отключения фильтров на трубах и то что этот сраный ммк горит чуть ли не каждую неделю, не в одном так в одном цеху

[@leobonston11]

Когда смотрел данное видео тоже хотелось заступиться за родной город, в котором прожил 30 лет. Но по факту автор всё более-менее верно сказал. Даже обидно, что придраться не к чему)

[@thebob87]

It actually sounds a lot like Gary, Indiana

[@marinecor23]

Something about "Gary, Indiana" screams american af

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

marinecor23 have you seriously never heard of Gary?

[@marinecor23]

@@KanyeTheGayFish69 "have you never heard of this one out of literal thousands of cities in the country?!"

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

marinecor23 Gary is a major city in greater chicago

[@marinecor23]

@@KanyeTheGayFish69 i live surrounded by corn fields in Kansas. What do i know about chicago?

[@rvoight92]

At least we finally know how Simon makes so many videos!

[@The_OG_BlackMajik]

Next Megaprojects: The engineering of the Fairchild Republic Thunderbolt II...the A-10 Warthog.

[@Skyfox94]

When you put a plane on a canon.

[@conradovillegasalvarado6392]

Ah yes, Comrade Lysenko's lab.

[@seraphim500]

Is this a TNO reference?

[@gregorymalchuk272]

@@seraphim500 Look up "Lysenko Affair".

[@diatomsaus]

I'd love to see one on this underground hotel built in Shanghai, they repurposed an old mine. "InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland".

[@josequinton6940]

love history and your humor

[@Souchirouu]

I'm not sure this falls under "mega projects" but I think video's on large scale logistics could be very interesting. Some ideas: 1) How does McDonalds ensure that all its 40.000 locations receive the products they need? 2) How does Walmart keep its 11.000+ locations supplied? 3) How do companies like Toyota or Volkswagen not only get all the parts they need but also how do they move those cars to dealers across the world. 4) How does Amazon manage its supply chain? 5) How do supermarkets source their products and how do they ensure that the shelves are nearly always full? Then of course how do transport companies fit into this? How can it be that you can order something from literally the other side of the planet and pay no shipping even for a product that is 50 cents? Anyways, I've always found the complexity of global logistics to be interesting and could very well be considered a mega project. Also, maybe I should play less Factorio at work xD

[@gg3675]

Why is the story of Soviet industrialization always framed as uniquely devastating when it was just as devastating basically everywhere in the world? One third of people in Britain died from TB in the first half of the 1800s, the result of industrialization. The industrialization of textiles in Britain and the US led to a massive increase in the population of slaves globally. Do those who died in mass famines not count as casualties of British industrialization if they were from Ireland, India, and Bangladesh? It's a real victory of propaganda that the Soviets doing the exact same things the British did to modernize is seen as an indictment against socialism, yet somehow says nothing about our own political and economic systems.

[@uhohhotdog]

anti communist propaganda. It's only bad when communists do it. When capitalism does it, blame the government.

[@user-le8wr4yz6q]

Uhohhotdog Gaming not the government, not the system which motivates and rewards horrific actions performed by an individual against others. Blame only the individual - only he bad and everyone else good.

[@janchovanec8624]

"Why is the story of Soviet industrialization always framed as uniquely devastating when it was just as devastating basically everywhere in the world?" It's not framed as uniquely devastating, it simply is uniquely devastating. It was not just as devastating in any other country other than Communist China, Communist Korea, Communist Vietnam, Communist Cambodia, Communist everything. Communism have killed hundreds of millions of people. Capitalism have lifted billions of people out of poverty and allowed us to create the most prosperous, technologically advanced, safest and healthiest time and civilisation in all of human history.

[@ronr6450]

It's a little different when its the government that tells you what you are going to do, when you're going to do it, and gives you no say in the matter. At least in a capitalist society youre free to leave. Besides, I think we can all agree that centrally planned economies have been an abysmal failure. And don't tell me China is a success. At least not before talking to the billions of rural Chinese.

[@uhohhotdog]

Ron R by that standard talk to the the poor in the US

[@benwoodruff1321]

Gary, Indiana is where Michael Jackson was from. The Jackson 5 even had a song about going back to Gary.

[@adam_knocks]

With the state of Gary now... doubt they’d want to go back

[@JayVal90]

It’s also basically just an extension of Chicago

[@shindari]

Which makes Michael Jackson officially the GREATEST THING to ever come out of that town. It's been all downhill ever since then...

[@Freddie_Dunning-Kruger_Jr.]

@@shindari Freddie Gibbs is from Gary, IN too, one the most underrated rappers of all time. 🎙🎤🎚🎛🎧🎹📻

[@Mizzle420420]

I live in the Chicago area, Gary is a shit hole, mainly filled with refineries/factories and used to house factory workers

[@skydude77]

A video of the raise and fall of GRY INDIANA would be a decent episode. Interesting origin and huge factor in American steel even in WWII. The amount of major industrial companies and products in the one county alone is notable

[@visotskiys]

Hey there from Magnitogorsk :) Thanks for vid

[@kylelangton2360]

Magnetic anomaly? That sounds like a geographics episode to me

[@nojam75]

I can't believe he just casually name-dropped it like we all know about the ANOMALY.

[@ieasy12]

Huh, it's currently ranked 10th most polluted in russia. Norilsk is listed as most polluted, having almost 5,8 times more pollution than 2nd place.

[@viktorbx126]

Nice to see Rudnyy been mentioned in one of your videos. It's the city where I was born. Every Friday an explosion would shake the glass of the windows in my school. That was the day they would make it deeper into the mine. Good job on that one. I very liked it. Greetings from Germany.

[@EugeneSkolin]

Hi, great video. The best story about my hometown. Thank.

[@griffinlaw9367]

You forgot the part where the mad scientist Trofim Lysenko took over it after World War II. The New Order: Last Days of Europe anyone?

[@ivanthegreat2.070]

Yep. Funny man be doing his experiments.

[@sketchywolf9387]

Great video! Doing make a project on the Union Pacific big boy steam locomotive! The world's largest steam engine

[@nycameleon]

Hmm... 17 minute uploaded 4 minutes before comment made... must be watching at 4x speed

[@sketchywolf9387]

@@nycameleon i just know it'll be good

[@LexieLPoyser]

As someone who drives through Gary regularly, it's a much more menacing than the name suggests. It's now a hallmark city for urban decay, violence and drug issues. The city has lost 100k people since the 1970's, and when the state of Indiana authorized the building of Merrillville, it was the nail in the coffin for Gary.

[@PatrickJWenzel]

I opened all of your channels at once and the insta-play sound was more Simon than my brain could process. You should all try this, then hit like.

[@marcm.]

Having lived in Russia for a few years, this is of particular interest for me. Thank you. Spasibo bolshoe)

[@patrickmorrissey2271]

Gary Indiana.... Uhhh, not exactly a "Beacon of Light", for how to build a city.... Yikes.

[@ChaplainDMK]

Only the steelworks were modeled after Gary's steelworks.

[@Cursed110011]

Mega-Project suggestions: Mt. Rushmore (or any of the other newer mountain carvings like Crazy Horse), US Interstate System, Panama Canal, The Big Dig, Hubble Space Telescope.

[@dominator167able]

As someone from Pittsburgh whenever I show people from other places pics of my city they always say it feels very soviet style

[@eduardodelapena7075]

LOL no way, i searched pictures and it looks like a nice town.

[@Volvith]

8:10 If you listen carefully you can hear a hammer being cocked back as a warning to not continue the cry for help.

[@mybraineatseverything7404]

Obviously, Simon, you've never seen "The Music Man." "Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary Indi-ANA"

[@danielsykes7558]

^^^^^^^

[@JL-sm6cg]

Is that where they got the state tourism commercial where they sing, "Wander Indiana, wander Indiana, wander Indi-ANA".

[@jtrenoweth]

All of your videos I smash the like button on

[@redqueenrealtor]

you're many channels are keeping me company as I remodel my house and I thank you :)

[@RickyMaveety]

Clearly you have never heard the song “Gary Indiana” ... fun song.

[@auagminer]

Simon...you really had me laughing a few times during this video...you have a great, albeit a bit twisted, sense of humor. Keep it up.

[@chuhunovvva183]

I am from Magnitogorsk, and I wanna say, that now we don't have such a big pollution problem, as it was in 20 century, or at the start of 2000-s. And about explosion, it happened not because of unsafety houses, it happened because of terrorism, our government has the most comfortable for them information. And in video there are too many very dark places of our city, but now where are much more bright places, because of our new major.

[@chuhunovvva183]

There are many big culture differences between our culture, and US culture, but most of things are part of us, and we don't have questions about it. But USSR is gone, modern russian reality is much better now, that it can seems.

[@liverii6540]

Very professional

[@DANGMQ]

Simon laughs at the name Gary, Indiana. That means one thing: Even on this channel, Business Blaze Simon has infected Mega Projects Simon.

[@MyMarsham]

I can see the tourist brochures; “Come to Magnitogorsk. You might not get killed!”

[@michaelsnowden5735]

Very interesting video. Could you do a Megaprojects on the Old River Control Structure? It shares a similar theme to this video. It regulates the flow of water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi River from changing course.

[@Cyberspine]

"Short bursts of productivity with really specific and often just wildly unattainable goals" sounds exactly like me picking up a hobby.