The Untold Ancient History of Chernobyl region | Chornobyl Uncharted Ep02

[@migsvensurfing6310]

Documentation like this is what makes YT unique. Thank you.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Hopefully it will get enough views...)

[@emilschw8924]

Now I understand why it is Chornobyl and not Chernobyl. Great video though, gave me a bit more insight as to the history of that region. History deserve to be preserved lest its lessons be forgotten.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you so much!

[@Uf1r]

Класна історія, класні кадри. Дуже дякую!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Дякуємо!

[@annihilatorg]

Here I am following a channel initially because I'm fascinated by old computing technology and now I'm being fascinated by the beautiful history of the people that lived in this area. Thanks for chronicling this history for others to learn.

[@ChernobylFamily]

You see, we are also quite much about Chernobyl tech, because after all, Chernobyl is mostly about technologies; but besides, we saw much, I mean, _really_ much in the Zone. That said, while we are very happy to make videos about computers, we got a feeling, that we need to show story in its real scale, otherwise it will be too fragmentary. There will be tech videos, and a lot of them, but with this series we really want to cover as much as possible as well.

[@-r-495]

too bad the museum in Mariupol has been destroyed 😔

[@ChernobylFamily]

Oh, yes.((

[@Retrodip23]

Great video! I got interested about the Chernobyl disaster at the age of only 8. I got interested about the area next and Pripyat too. Around at the age of only 11 I got super interested about how the disaster happened and how RBMK model reactors and other ones worked. I could understand how an RBMK worked and how to operate it already at the age of 14. So because of the Chernobyl disaster I could understand how nuclear fission works, how to operate an RBMK and BWR model reactors and how radiation works. Even though I have years of experience with the Chernobyl area and disaster I learned very much from this video. Greetings from Finland and stay safe!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! Well, we are also more tech people, but after all, not touching this part of history would be some sort unfair.

[@slingitsideways]

What an amazing and detailed video. I was only a child when the disaster happened. And back then it was just a far off place that I didn't know. And I have to admit, I didn't pay it a second thought until I started playing the Stalker games. Now I've visited twice and I love learning new things about the area, and it's more than just a memory of a disaster or a video game. It has such a rich history

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! The next part will continue this one, as we could get some quite interesting data about specific neighborhoods. I do not know if it will be the next video, or I will make some tech episode first (as to make this is very very hard), but it will come in very near future.

[@slingitsideways]

@ChernobylFamily I look forward it. All your videos are interesting.

[@darkknight8139]

This documentary series is seriously impressive. It is very clear that a vast amount of work went into making this. I think I am more informed about the Chernobyl area and disaster than average, but this video gave me a lot of new knowledge. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! More to come soon, and there is much to share.

[@UpLateGeek]

That was really interesting, I think it's cool that you can trace the history of the area back so far. I also think it's not just important to record history, but also to share it, so thanks for sharing.

[@ChernobylFamily]

We are very glad you like it; in fact the idea of making some documentary about this part of history came to us when we've been photographing blueprints of Duga at its site; at that moment I told to Michaela - "jeez, two kilometers from here people took their water from wells and made folk dances, and they had no idea what a machinery was here."

[@ThomasBurns]

Awesome work, guys! “Chernobyl Uncharted” would be an awesome name for your YT channel, btw. :)

[@ChernobylFamily]

Yes, but we sometimes talk here about related and unrelated hardware as well...)

[@JarheadandTike]

My friends, Another amazing video. Can't wait to see you in person.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Come to Kyiv, we have cookies!

[@mwk1]

*Amazing story!* There is A LOT of common in our Polish part of an old Slavic culture people living near Polesie or even Podlasie as well as MANY similar words. We also have/had Budy, Rudy, Huty, etc. Dziękuję i Pozdrawiam Serdecznie 😎

[@ChernobylFamily]

Very true. Do you remember that fragment of the video where I share the citation by Nestor? Fully, it sounds this way: "...After a long time, the Slavs settled along the Danube, where today is the Hungarian and Bulgarian land. From these Slavs, they spread across the land and were named after the places where they settled. Those who settled by the river named Morava were called Moravians, and others were called Czechs. These same Slavs included the White Croats, Serbs, and Horutans. When the Vlachs attacked the Danube Slavs, settled among them, and oppressed them, those Slavs moved and settled along the Vistula, calling themselves Lachys. From these Lachys, some were called Polans, others Lutyches, others Mazovians, and others Pomeranians. Similarly, other Slavs settled along the Dnieper and called themselves Polans... (and what was included in the video)..."

[@RandomDeforge]

this is incredibly well researched and presented. thank you.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! The next episode will be, I think, even better...)

[@woobm]

As a child, I was playing in the sandbox outside as the radioactive clouds passed above our heads (we were informed only later). Few years later, the father of my schoolmate turned out to be one of the liquidators of Chernobyl. He showed us a few impressive pictures taken there, all black and white. Some from above, some from the ground. It has awaken my interest in Chernobyl and since then I have watched lots of documentaries, read a few books. I must say your series of documentaries is outstanding! Well researched, lots of it is even stuff, no one else documented previously. Now this part is surprising, I wouldn´t have thought you go from soviet main frames to history and ethnography of Polesje. Excelent move, amazing content, but don´t abandon the mainframes please! :)

[@VladIepure]

Thank you for making this. Just realized that we call Pentecost in Romanian ‘Rusalii’ which for sure is connected to Rusalka. It's nice to discover our Slavic ties although Romania has been heavily influenced by Latin languages.

[@ChernobylFamily]

We call it Triytsa, basically "Trinity". But, frankly, I was never much in this, so while preparibg this discovered a lot new as well

[@viznut]

I see many similarities to the beliefs and histories of Finnic and other Uralic peoples. Animistic beliefs, harsh environments, swamp spirits. Karelians even made rushnyks of their own (they call them "käspaikka"), and their culture also suffered a lot from a massive and permanent evacuation (back in WW2).

[@ChernobylFamily]

This is very interesting

[@EEX97623]

Yes, I see many similarities in ancient culture, folklore, beliefs, ways of life between old Ukraine and old Estonia. Am a student of Finno Ugric and Uralic culture and history, so this is very interesting to see and hear.

[@nigefoxx]

Thank you for providing such detailed history. As you mentioned, not so much Chernobyl, but Ukraine in general was a gap in teaching where I went to school. (I was 7 when it appeared on the map). Despite that, that was just the end of any learning. As far as we knew, there was nothing there, then a power station was built and then it exploded. I appreciate you filling in the gaps.

[@ChernobylFamily]

You know, here is a crazy thing: both me and Michaela (and cat as well) are focused on disaster research to very small, specialized things, e.g. how exactly some things were done, etc. But digging in de la Flise albums, and then imaging that places we visited looked this way 200 years ago was... quite an emotive experience. I mean, it is really not our subject, and to properly analyse it, a lot of time needed - Omelyashko's center, for example, works on research already almost 3 decades... but overall feeling was very special.

[@nigefoxx]

@@ChernobylFamily Similarly here, a lot of history is lost because the weather is capable of removing towns from the map; old structures, made from most types of wood do not last in the hot, humid climate here either. That history was mostly passed down by word of mouth, and lost when the community is scattered by disaster.

[@daveys]

Fantastic documentary Alex!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! I guess gradually we will cover many many subjects. I guess next will make some tech video, as this was very exhausting :)

[@Tom-ws4cj]

Thankyou Alex for a wonderful episode. I got the alert yesterday but decided to put aside some "quiet time" so I could enjoy this episode uninterrupted. It was well worth the wait. I found it interesting that my wife (Malay background, from Singapore) previously mentioned a creature in Malay and Indonesian folklore that sounds very much like the Mavkas that you have mentioned, including the hole in the back of the creature where the organs are visible. Interesting. It's unfortunate that there is no effort to preserve what is left.......nature will reclaim the area given enough time and we will lose it's history. Once again thankyou so very much for investing your time to produce this series and preserving / documenting the rich history of the zone. Waiting anxiously for the next episode 🙂

[@ChernobylFamily]

I cannot say there is no effort; more it is opposite - state center of heritage protection works since 2001, they collected and documented nearly 60,000 artifacts, recorded 20,000 stories and so on, but the problem is a little media coverage of this job apart from scientific community, as ethnography is a relatively narrow subject.

[@KombiGnome]

You are absolutely correct. I knew nothing about this area apart from what I knew about the disaster. The history of that area clearly is far more rich than I had any idea. All the more tragic as well.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! In the next episode we'll take a more detailed look at each neigborhood.

[@sverrehu]

Дуже дякую! Many thanks!

[@jimmymiller77]

What a great movie. So eye opening. Thanks for the fantastic post. All my best from the US. Jim

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! The next episode will be a continuation of this story, it will be even more detailed.

[@jetraid]

Awesome history and material. Thanks you very mutch for sharing. Greetings from Argentina

[@ChernobylFamily]

Welcome and glad you liked!

[@Hvitserk67]

A nice video and an important contribution to giving a more comprehensive picture of Chernobyl and the surrounding area. Like most people in the west, I unfortunately only know the area as part of the disaster that occurred in 1986, but of course this is only a tiny part of the area's history. Regarding the folklore figure "Mavka", it reminds of the Norwegian "Huldra", who is also a young woman. Huldra is beautiful and seduces men with her winsome nature, but not everything is as you think. She has a cow tail and her back is resembling a hollowed-out tree. She is part of nature, but with human features. Huldra was first described in 1225 by the Icelander Snorri Sturlason in one of his sagas about Norwegian kings (Heimskringla). There are clear parallels between the figures Mavka and Huldra, but there are also differences. However, I think they are related as part of a common European folklore.

[@ChernobylFamily]

I will tell you a rather unexpected thing. We had a Tandberg Huldra radio, it was brought by my grandfather in the 70-s from abroad as he worked as a Soviet contractor in Finland; there was a small image of Huldra on a front panel, but at that times we did not have sources to understand the story behind. Only in the time of internets I could learn this and it got me the same association. Too bad, this nearly 50-years old device was stolen by r-s when our neigborhood was occupied.

[@Hvitserk67]

@@ChernobylFamily An interesting story that I can relate to. Tandberg's Huldra series were great receivers and not least quite expensive for their time. My parents had a Huldra 10 and as a child I could spend hours searching for exotic radio stations. I loved the bluish background light on the frequency band where the silhouette of a Huldra was also prominent. I probably also heard the "Russian woodpecker" without knowing what I actually heard at the time in the early 80s. The receiver was also my introduction to Huldra and Norwegian history and mythology in general. Later, of course, I learned more at school, but the folklore figure Huldra I will always associate it with Tandberg Huldra 10. The receiver unfortunately ended up at the recycling station in the mid-80s. Anyway, you have a great KZbin channel and I follow along with interest.

[@admirerofclassicalelectron2858]

This is a very interesting episode. Thank you for this important work, which has given me a completely new perspective.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Too bad, YТ аlgо does not think so..((

[@Jhihmoac]

Of course! This area had a history before the nuclear incident, which was and still is a major game changer!

[@chriswareham]

Fascinating video, I especially enjoyed the details about the linguistic differences of the Chornobyl region.

[@ChernobylFamily]

That linguistic atlas mentioned in the video is an insane thing. They chose very complex word combinations, which are reflected with one-two words on locations. Speaking about our personal experience, native people of Chernobyl Polissya often speak such language, that we sometimes need a translator. There is a very old video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/onaqoYyBe8hgi7c, might be interesting for you.

[@MinSredMash]

Wow, suddenly documentary-quality content from this channel!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Well, we had some before as well...)

[@scotthjackson5651]

Wow, what an amazing evolution of your channel and your project. This is beautiful!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! There will be more episodes with this step-by-step decoding of the phenomenon of Chernobyl, as well as many contextual tech episodes. Stay tuned!

[@YuriiKhmelovskyi]

Very insightful. Waiting for more stories about this region

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! The next episode will be about actual neighbourhoods between 1081-1986 (though Pripyat will be covered with separate episodes) I expect it to go out next weekend, as to produce that takes a lot of time. Or maybe it will be after some tech episode. Everything depends on energy supply.

[@IrenESorius]

Very interresting and informative,, 👍‍‍🌟👍‍‍ Thank you ever so much for your work and time,, 💖🙏💖 Cheers from Sweden,, 🥂😋🍰

[@ChernobylFamily]

Glad you liked! Sad, that YT algo seemingly does not.

[@IrenESorius]

@@ChernobylFamily 💖💖

[@paulsto6516]

Awesome history! Thanks for posting.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Glad you liked! When we will come to history of Pripyat, it will be epic :)

[@marcinkowalczyk647]

great video as always, very interesting insights

[@ChernobylFamily]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@glurfikus5544]

very good and interesting video. continue the good work.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you!

[@dasbo6312]

great video:)

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you!

[@jasonhaman4670]

Another very professional, very informative, and very interesting video. Thank you for all your work!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you very much! Ep3 is in production!

[@ddogg14]

This series is fantastic!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you very much!

[@leopiipponen7693]

History is interesting as are folk traditions and beliefs. The time that was before the accident is unknown to many and can be lost, because everyone remembers the accident and the time after it.

[@ChernobylFamily]

This is true. In reality, most of people who knew all this as a live experience already are gone, so it becomes even more valuable.

[@-r-495]

Very appreciated. It is such a horrendous loss, but not quite. Its story has been told and that is what matters. Thank you very much!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! Stay tuned for the continuation!

[@bhsailor]

Very interesting! I'm excited about the next videos. Thank you!

[@ChernobylFamily]

@@bhsailor thank you! I guess it will take a week or so to make the next one :)

[@bhsailor]

@@ChernobylFamily No hurries! I know how much work it is to make a video.

[@FranktheTank-bk8me]

Very interesting, and on reflection, quite sad too. Thanks for the history lesson 👍

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you. It is very important too look in a greater scale at these events; and still many discoveries await us all. Ep03 is in production!

[@tamahagane1700]

Thanks for this insight. It is interesting how the ornamented towel is used in Serbia today in similar social occasions and rituals as it was the case in ancient Ukrainian lands. Ornamented folk shirts are also very similar.

[@ChernobylFamily]

That citation of Nestor is actually longer; he says about your region as well there. Yes, similar roots.

[@jamesleonard2870]

Great vid! Tbh I had never taken into consideration that an entire region with lots of villages made up the zone. FYI I just read earlier today that the earliest cities in the world, older than the Mesopotamia, were on the pontif step =]

[@metallurgico]

cool documentary series!

[@ChernobylFamily]

After all, Chernobyl without stories behind are just radioactive ruins, so... more to come!

[@shibotto]

Thank you very much for sharing the history of this beautiful land, especially in a time period when a certain international criminal is trying to convince people around the world that they started and own everything.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! Yes, this is exactly rhe point.

[@Mifebeol]

great video very informative!

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you!

[@paulseymaker216]

This is so interesting, and I learnt so much. Thank you for your hard work.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you for these motivating words!

[@heresjohnnny8416]

Wonderful video. I've long been interested in the disaster, but I've only learned of the time period surrounding the disaster. The cultural significance of this area is incredible. I can only hope to visit one day. Exceptional quality from your videos.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! Yes, it is a story which was very much shadowed by a narrative convenient to Soviets, aftershock of that still very much influences everything what is told about these places. Time to change it.

[@mockingbirdanalog]

Thank you

[@ChernobylFamily]

:)

[@magomat6756]

This is a very nice video. Shame what happened to the zone is a crime

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you for watching! More to come!

[@chriswelch9328]

If you ask me, looks like a place that will see a great revival. The Chernobyl significance is not one that we can currently comprehend or fathom. I don’t want to provide too much details. But before the war started, it’s possible Chernobyl was visited by a certain someone. An angel in human form before the war began to give hope to people for what is to come who are familiar with the area. Hidden from the rest of the world. I get that feeling.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Perhaps, the best what can happen to this land, is to be it as it is. In fact, it already got a great revival by returning into the stage as it was before we came there, and seemingly it can bring more in this way, rather to be one more sparsely populated land.

[@chriswelch9328]

@@ChernobylFamilyWhat about the prophecy of the book of revelation? At the time I went I knew it but didn’t put much attention into it. When you mentioned Pripyat having a similar characteristics to the Nile in Egypt. It made me realize maybe there are other signs that points something that puts them together in some way that ties to the Old Testament. It wasn’t until the war started that made me take these things more seriously and look into it. Especially when it was one of the first places invaded. Perhaps this is how the people who said in Soviet times felt when they said Chernobyl was biblical revelation. If these people still are alive who had such beliefs (original Chernobyl zone area), it may be interesting what they have to say about it.

[@satusalmivirta9840]

What an interesting story!

[@ChernobylFamily]

This week a continuation will come!

[@stroganoff2917]

So interesting so many centuries and cosmopolitan.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Episode 3 is coming!

[@hoedenbesteller]

This is amazing, how else would you discover about these history lessons, you would have to understand Russian if you want to figure it out. Glad you did this for us!

[@ChernobylFamily]

...russian? No, in russian-speaking sources there is no this history.

[@Hydrogenblonde]

This video is a important documentation of the history of Chernobyl and the surrounding areas. Many unknown facts are revealed and it sheds a new light on the disaster and the people of the areas in proximity to it and on previous historical events.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you! Next episode will be even better...)

[@elvinhaak]

Thanks! I'd have to look into this more. For as far as I have found out sofar, some of my ancesters came from this ancient land, mixing in cultures later. Now for many, many generations already in the Southern Netherlands.

[@ChernobylFamily]

Wow!

[@professionalvr]

This video was very interesting to me. It show that Chernobyl and the region around it have more than the nuclear disaster to their history. As a person, who has a PhD in Archaeology, I want to know if any excavations were carried out in the Chernobyl region before 1986 and were to find information about it. In the photo of the encyclopedia about the history of the towns in Ukrainian SSR I saw that around Chernobyl there were Scythian burial tumuli and that a hoard of Roman coins was found near those tumuli. And I would also like to ask the following question : Was the city of Pripyat built on clear ground or in the place of some village ?

[@ChernobylFamily]

The first meaningful excavation was made approximately in the same period when Leonila Zaglada made her work; after, some more were made, I guess we'll touch this subject in the next episode, but first I need to check literature. However, really massive excavations took place only after Chernobyl disaster. Pripyat was built at the site of Semikhody village; check 8:59 - there is a good picture where a square near Prometheus movie theatre is next to village houses.

[@DirtyHairy1]

Wow, Thank you!

[@ChernobylFamily]

You're welcome! Actually, not really the part of the Zone's history we are specialized on, but it would be pity not to touch this subject.

[@DirtyHairy1]

@@ChernobylFamily I think most folks who are interested in old technology are also interested in general history. Eg. those woven walls are also technology in itself. Didn't know about this technique!

[@ChernobylFamily]

I'm not sure if someone actually uses it now for building walls even in remote villages (well, in Ukraine a level of urbanization is high, so we do not really have 'remote' villages anymore). But quite often it is used for decorative garden fences (we have such ourselves). It is very, very durable and very easy to make. Vertical poles are always 10-15 cm longer, so they are normally used to hang there traditional ceramic pots. Eternal classic...)

[@swedenfrommycam]

sad sad history, let people take care of the land and build good relationship! Land of all People=Earth....

[@ChernobylFamily]

Very true.

[@basroos_snafu]

Amazing, thank you! I love the calligraphy on the codex, and I have one question: there are a few instances of a character similar to the Roman "N" (I don't mean the "И" or "Н"), do you know what this character sounds like or what it represents? Or is it just a "Н" that wasn't written carefully enough? Thanks, please continue making this interesting content! Дуже дякую i... Слава Україні!

[@ChernobylFamily]

It is actually "N" as it can be written this way. We sometimes write cyrillic "H" (N) as a latin even today. A little side note about those codexes; the thing is, we do not know with which script it was written by Nestor exactly, because Primary Chronicle did not survive in original, but only in handwritten copies (Lawrentian Codex, Hypathian Codex, partly Radziwill Codex, etc.), so they being created later, and utilized language and scripts of that particular times. For example Hypathian Codex, from XV century basically written in the language which very much looks like Ukrainian, while Laurentian is in church-slavic language. Second uses that N-like H more often.

[@basroos_snafu]

@@ChernobylFamily Thanks for you reply! I didn't know the N was used in Ukrainian, yet now I do... And it is obvious that the Cyrillic alphabet was inspired and/or developed from the Greek alphabet, there are even some characters that look similar to Hebrew, so I could imagine that the oldest writings looked more like those languages. And despite being such an old (rewritten) text, most of the characters seem not to have changed, it is easier to read than medieval writings in my native language. Thanks again!

[@pigoff123]

I remember when chernobyl happened. We were living in Germany. My mom read the german newspaper every day to see how much radiation showed up.😢

[@ChernobylFamily]

Thank you for sharing. Stay tined for next episodes!

[@domestique3954]

This region has always fascinated me and i have one of these grayish,long leg wild dogs that roam Chernobyl until today and he seems to have more wolf dna than the usual dog breeds Unfortunately Clean Future funds are about to catch all the dogs and sterilize them,so there won’t be future generations of these rare hybrids

[@ChernobylFamily]

The truth is slightly different. Those dogs is a very recent thing, I vividly remember city of Chornobyl full of cats,, and dogs started to appear there roughly 10 years ago when their number was sufficient to breed exponentially. I understand, what I say next may sound not that good, but there is employee's perspective: they are a VERY big problem. First, because they turn to large aggressive swarms. I myself got attacked quite badly one early morning when I just needed walk to a remote dormitory in Chornobyl, and that was a situation when you are just blocked by roughly 20 "horse-sized" creatures. Good one guy came with a car to help. Second, they contact other animals (not only wolves) which is dangerous in the scope of zoonosis infections which is very hard to control assuming secluded nature of the Zone. Perhaps, the biggest issue is at the power plant, where they roam inside security perimeters, and often this causes certain, let's call this way, organisational and technical issues. So, this neutering is a very, very huge relief for everyone here. Edit: according to local scientists (I am not biologist), there are very rarely appear actual hybrids. Mostly there is just a natural selection where survive the strongest and biggest.

[@robertkalinic335]

Guy will talk about literally anything else than big ole talking monolith that grants wishes...

[@ChernobylFamily]

Get out of here, stalker! Get out of here, stalker! :))))))))

[@PolskaRzeczypospolitaRelowa]

Ironically word "zahlada" in polish (zagłada) means disaster. I don't really know if these words are false friends, tho that really add spice into the story

[@ChernobylFamily]

Oh my... it is really dark.

[@DStageGarage]

In a primary school (in Poland) I gained a nickname "rusałka" that in a few years evolved to "rusała" (like a very big rusałka hehe) that sticked for many years to come ;-)

[@ChernobylFamily]

Wow

[@maigonis.elleris]

In Latvian there is a word “mauka”, its a slang word and means wh*re, quite commonly used, sadly. Looks like it might be coming from Ukraine.

[@ChernobylFamily]

This is really interresting!

[@SobieRobie]

Czarnobiałe miasto. Polski język jest bardzo zbliżony do tego używanego w Polisji ;)

[@ChernobylFamily]

Yessss

[@andrewcocos]

Ви хоч ходите на якісь курси англійської?

[@ChernobylFamily]

Ні, оскільки я спілкуюся в побуті 95% часу останні років 6. Але, ви знаєте, я можу запропонувати вам добре оплачувану роботу по озвучці, якщо ви зробите це краще.

[@andrewcocos]

@@ChernobylFamily дякую, я вже маю добре оплачувану роботу, запропонуйте комусь іншому.

[@datadavis]

Cradle of slavic culture+radiation=Cheekybreeky

[@ChernobylFamily]

- Well... hello.

[@gfpaulosky]

27:34 Disturbing

[@ChernobylFamily]

Yes. But... it is true. A big work was done to make this history hidden, it is a time to bring it back. With villages it is in particularly hard comparing to Pripyat and Chornobyl cities where existed centralized archives, phone records, etc. At countryside, it is often very hard to find even just an address of a building or a name of a street, not speaking about who lived there or what was their story.

[@gfpaulosky]

@@ChernobylFamily Thank you very much for your response What I meant was that it was shocking to realize that everything we build or what we grandiloquently call "culture" is, ultimately, only a memory. Becoming aware of this was shocking for me. Unfortunately, my command of the English language is not good and I have to use Google Translate. I appreciate your work. Greetingd from Buenos Aires - Argentina

[@JeSuisUnePatate]

I love this vid ! Amazing work !! I definitively want to travel in your beautiful country so rich in stories and places to visit, once those aggressors will understand that Ukraine belongs to Ukrainians. 🩵💛

[@ChernobylFamily]

You are warmly welcome here!