No comment. Driving along the streets of Pripyat.

[@goodiesguy]

It's so nice to see footage of Pripyat, although empty, looking real and like a nice town. We're so used to damaged 16mm film that due to radiation looks about 70 years old it made it look really run down. But this crystal clear VideoTape really does make it look like the nice, habitable place it once was.

[@rytr1995]

Just judging from the way the vegetation looks, I can't imagine it's more than a couple months after the disaster.

[@NM_kplus_fps]

​@@rytr1995it's filmed a year after or sum like that

[@Missch_1]

Looks like a liminal space 100%

[@jefesman]

Most likely very soon afterwards.... all the vegetation is still very well shaped.

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I'm always impressed by this channel. This footage is extremely difficult to find covered in western media, thank you for sharing history with us!

[@delota5141]

на этих кадрах город выглядит красивее, чем современные города

[@wez492]

I've been on a Chernobyl kick , Watching anything I can about it, I don't know why . My imagination easily goes offtrack & I can't help but try to imagine what Pripyat would look like today, Id imagine she'd be a blossomed flower if that incident never happened . Even though it may not affect me directly I still feel a little heartbroken when I see the empty buildings ,Streets etc etc . Much love from America

[@randyrhodes7526]

Wow, very good old footage of Pripyat, I enjoyed this a lot I was there in 2007.

[@jdh6752]

So was I

[@Roblox_Gaming12350]

When going to pripyat now, you canjust think that people were right here where you are standing, and that this was an actual town

[@namesomega3694]

Doesn't look as old and creepy back then but then again there was more radiation

[@elijahvincent985]

Such a shame this lovely city fell victim into one of the most tragic events of the 20th century. This could've been a nice bridge between the United States and Soviet Union during the days of the Iron Curtain, but at the same time, had it not been for this tragedy, the Cold War would've continued to this very day, 70 years this year after it began. Sometimes, the most dangerous moments can provide the biggest blessings, as it meant peace at last between two rival nations. Granted, the peace isn't exactly civil, but it's no bloodshed against each other either.

[@skeetrix5577]

you believe the soviet union wouldn't have collapsed unless Chernobyl exploded? take a deeper dive into soviet economics and history, the state was on its way out the door regardless. did Chernobyl speed up the process? eh, maybe a little but honestly it was done from the beginning back in 1917 because communism doesn't work.

[@AmateurHistorian999]

Not sure what your 70 year anniversary is. The Cold War started, depending on your definition, between 1945 (end of WW2) to 1955 (Warsaw Pact), so 2023-1955=68 years ago to 2023-1945=78 years ago. What are you referring to?

[@Not_A_French_Frie]

It's something about seeing this Soviet architecture (that I've always been interested in) in a good shape, which makes me amazed of how beautiful this city was 😊

[@transitkidjasonproductions]

That city looks beautiful

[@barasihombing1629]

from a huge field into huge forest lol

[@jaydaykoth]

It’s strange seeing everything clean and nice instead of the overgrown trees in the way of everything

[@Airbus_a320_lovers]

that city is awesome. it would be nice to keep it better for tourism

[@antennaweather]

They can't It's radioactive

[@fosfej]

​@@antennaweatherit isnt that much radiated anymore the reason why its inheritable is because of the danger and possibility that residents would go too close to radioactive things nearby. The red forest for example.

[@mahjonglover3614]

Тихо на улице, чисто в квартире - спасибо реактору №4

[@user-tq1pz6hc1j]

Да

[@behi.ah1991]

perfect and memorable footage, thank you from 2024🙏😎

[@MobileRecordingsRo]

Damn, I can recognise some places from COD 4 MW, like the town square, the sniping hotel position and the apartment buildings.

[@Lackooo84]

I want to be there...

[@45km_ua]

Today this city looks like a forest...

[@mundesley2348]

So do I....it’s on my bucket list to pay respects to all those people who gave their lives to stop further contamination

[@speedingpodli4520]

me 2

[@noka1979]

The army had the pickings of a whole city

[@betulaobscura]

Very interesting!

[@Irydius]

Cool!

[@harrymurray2515]

What if someone built a new town Britain based on Pripyat?

[@TheMisphit]

Go to Salford

[@Aslaugarsson]

@@TheMisphit Looks like a British version of Pripyat

[@DeoVindice_61-65]

How soon after the evacuation was this footage shot? Very eerie watching it.

[@Fordman99.]

jpmformula1 2 months

[@talkdatrue]

And it already had broken windows and run-down buildings? 🤔 must be the radiation (lol)

[@bobsempires]

@@talkdatrue Apparently lot of windows got smashed to stop accumulation of radiation. In other instances the houses where broken into. There is separate video of that somewhere.

[@talkdatrue]

@@bobsempires - after your suggestion I’ve found a video and the dude said that most likely the police and military robbed the houses because they were the only ppl who had the keys of the homes. But couldn’t find one about the conditions of the city

[@DB-47]

@@bobsempires Actually windows got broken mostly by liquidators, thieves, vandals and army. Army was supposed to evict people from flats and also to remove furniture and items from flats. Sometimes the fastest way to get larger items out was by smashing window and throwing them on street.

[@SoMiSongbird]

Wow Pripyat was beautiful

[@SUS-pb9rm]

It definatly was, it looked so futuristic, so peacefull but now its creepy

[@Andrewthemansky]

Wow Pripyat is a lot more bigger than I thought

[@user-vg9lr8jk9f]

Из города сделали не музей,а помойку! Так обидно,все разворовали и разрушили😥😥😥

[@211jump]

What a beautiful city too bad it got shut down

[@bistrayatrjapka3151]

211UKRjump It was a beautiful place made for the new generation, sadly this happend

[@rzulises2422]

00:28 there is one person :o

[@MrBastll]

looks like a dosimetrist

[@sanjayaallan7932]

This town was abandoned and it was called Racoon(Pripyat) city

[@Thrissurkaran93]

Wat to do? So nice place it was... every thing lost in one night...😢

[@barasihombing1629]

good job for uploading chernobyl video :) in 1986

[@inoracam]

i literally feel like a jumpscare is gonnan come

[@msu716]

The caugh off-screen make some tense ☢️🧐

[@billteralt3878]

Pripyat looked nice

[@slavoslav9175]

Pripyat looks alot like Energodar

[@panmarcin5700]

In the 29th of the film you see a man dressed in green. What he is doing there ???

[@TimeToRelax222]

I think he is checking radiation level in this area.

[@trcdamianos8814]

zajebisty angielski :/

[@sark76]

Yes dosimetrist

[@noblink4619]

Imagine all the looting going on in those apartments…

[@liarspeaksthetruth]

This would be better the fake modern timecode dropped in for effect.

[@user-ht8jf6mt3b]

Штаб монолита увидел

[@ivant56]

When was it shot please ?

[@Fordman99.]

ivant56 June 1986

[@timofeyk8529]

Pripyat looked very buetiful before nature over grown it

[@jcb19]

I agree... Once a beautiful place where thousands once lived at to abandoned and overrun by nature

[@dariusniks]

Really i found human

[@barasihombing1629]

I hope none report this video because I really want to see a video that drives along in chernobyl but in 1986

[@_lordcharles]

JamesPlayzYT This is June 1986.

[@barasihombing1629]

KV BrickFilms ok???

[@_lordcharles]

JamesPlayzYT Please sub me

[@stacy3]

@@_lordcharles no

[@stacy3]

@@_lordcharles get rekt

[@michaelfreeland2791]

I think the average age of adults was 27. Alot of weddings and children. They had a really good life there. Awful stuff.

[@ahmedxlambda1904]

Is really beautiful place before nuclear power plant disaster and the place is empty

[@santhoshsprings]

When you drive in this town and taked a video?!

[@avgplayer591]

learn how to English comrade

[@surajbokade66]

*Hey, there is still an radiation... Right? Then, how & why did you travel there...? Didn't you affect by the radiation....?????* 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

[@hamletksquid2702]

This vid was shot fairly soon after the accident. probably the same summer judging by how the lawns look. The place hasn't looked like that in a long time.

[@annich.2995]

If CNPP never explode maybe pripyat have a improvements now.

[@ngle]

Hard cough...

[@lloydisaacs415]

This was 1988

[@eoghan5836]

It wasn't because in 1988 it was was getting quite overgrown and at the start there is still things in the shop window

[@wafi_yeonglihan3702]

Chernobyl

[@SubaruPowerr]

Już wtedy było tam nie za ładnie.

[@igorljubas5931]

The city was built as it used to be for Russian propaganda, all who lived there were not trained for their work, so it all ended and I do not understand the people who visit the city what is seen to be a large radioactive landfill of people who still work in Power plants serve as experimental rabbits as well as people who have returned to some villages in the zone. Otherwise, in my opinion, there is a very ugly and tumultuous city around everywhere concrete no colors on the building and of course every poster of Russian propaganda.

[@Rustycaddy17]

Are you fucking braindead? There was no "Russian" propaganda in Soviet times. The Bolsheviks destroyed so many aspects of Russian culture and traditions after the 1917 revolution, and they also destroyed a considerable amount of beautiful Russian architecture, some of which were historically significant. They mass produced and polluted every city with these cheap, ugly, soulless concrete apartment buildings. This architectural style is called "brutalism" and it actually originates from Western Europe. It was only later to be adopted by the Soviet Union in 1960's to fix the severe housing crisis caused by the Second World War. Most of the leaders (General Secretaries) of the Soviet Union weren't even ethnically Russian. Soviet ideology officially condemned any manifestation of nationalism, more specifically Russian nationalism. Dozens of Russian cities had their historical names completely changed, some of which were later renamed after Soviet leaders (Leningrad, Stalingrad, Gorky, etc.)

[@-BuddyGuy]

@@Rustycaddy17 Oh here we go. Please educate us all about how multiculturalism is a bad thing.

[@EL-jx7jj]

Rustycaddy and they wanted to destroy latvians too, but we were stronger...

[@maximf.5537]

@@Rustycaddy17 Nonsense, it is a gorgeous masterplan-city! Excellent modular design and nice brutalism. Would go and live 12/10 if not irradiated

[@lex1945]

wait another 15 years and see how Europe is going to look like under sharia law. Don't get your head cut off by the sharia police by then, you leftist dumb ass.No mre x-mas for you my friend. your daughters and wife under the veil, public executions by sword and you being pushed to become a muslim as well.No free speech, no free movement, only working your ass off and paying taxes for the EU politbureau, big companies and banks.Have a nice fucking life in your multicultural wonderland.

[@meisnice2448]

Cool!