Припять: город, застывший во времени с 1986 года

In 1986, Pripyat was a young, modern Soviet city built for the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. On the 26th of April, reactor number four exploded, and the next afternoon the entire city was evacuated. Its people never came back. This documentary follows Pripyat from its founding in 1970, through the night of the disaster and the evacuation, to the creation of the exclusion zone, the work of the liquidators, the myths that grew around the city, the return of wildlife, the war of 2022, and the abandoned city as it stands today. Chapters: 0:00 The city that stopped 1:03 A city built for the atom 2:52 The night of 26 April 5:04 The evacuation 6:46 Containing the disaster 9:17 The human cost 10:32 Myths and memory 11:00 A city frozen in time 12:36 Visitors, war and the arch Image credits (Wikimedia Commons): • "Pripyat Panorama" by Bkv7601 (CC BY 3.0) • "Pripyat (38307778522)" by Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain (CC BY 2.0) • "Pripyat River in Chernobyl 2019 G2" by George Chernilevsky (Public domain) • "Pripyat- Hotel Polissya (38488529242)" by Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain (CC BY 2.0) • "Reactor bloc of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant" by Артемий Титов (CC BY 3.0) • "Physics student inside the Control Room of Unit 4 at Chernobyl NPP" by Bibric02 (CC0) • "View of Chernobyl taken from Pripyat" by Jason Minshull (Public domain) • "Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum (8600678579)" by Jorge Láscar from Australia (CC BY 2.0) • "Pripyat Cultural Center (24648153498)" by Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain (CC BY 2.0) • "Chernobyl nuclear disaster aftermath abandoned town of Pripyat 01" by Hnapel (CC0) • "Misha Olympic Mosaic Bus Stop Chernobyl" by Quintin Soloviev (CC BY 4.0) • "Forsmark Kraftwerk" by Dennis140 (Public domain) • "Mi-8T-Aeroflot-1989-Alaska" by Camera Operator: MASTER SERGEANT ED BOYCE (Public domain) • "Checkpoint ditkatky chernobyl zone" by Nick Rush-Cooper ( Cooper 42 ) (CC BY 4.0) • "Memorial to Chernobyl liquidators from Ivanovo Oblast 01" by Nikolay Omonov (CC0) • "Chernobyl, fourth reactor bloc" by Артемий Титов (CC BY 3.0) • "Chernobyl disaster memorial in Kropyvnytskyi" by Dmytro Petishkin (CC BY 4.0) • "Pripyat- Hospital Nº 126 (38033166024)" by Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain (CC BY 2.0) • "Pripyat - Ferris wheel" by Justin Stahlman from Montréal, Canada (CC BY 2.0) • "Pripyat ghost town" by Wendelin Jacober (CC0) • "Azure Swimming Pool in Pripyat, Ukraine" by Quintin Soloviev (CC BY 4.0) • "Przewalski's horse in Chernobyl" by Quintin Soloviev (CC BY 4.0) • "Chernobyl nuclear disaster aftermath abandoned town of Pripyat 02" by Hnapel (CC0) • "New Safe Confinement Structure" by Eamonn Butler (CC BY 2.0) • "Pripyat (38338630751)" by Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain (CC BY 2.0) Music: YouTube Audio Library Narration voice generated with Kokoro TTS (bm_george).