SATELLITE VIEWS OF THE GHOST TOWN IN CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE | NO ONE HAS LIVED HERE IN THE PAST 40 YEARS
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Once home to 50,000 people, Pripyat was a thriving Soviet city built for workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. But on April 26, 1986, everything changed when Reactor 4 exploded, releasing dangerous amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Within 36 hours, the entire city was evacuated, and Pripyat was left frozen in time—a ghost town ever since.
🔹 What You’ll See in This Video:
We’ll take a virtual tour through Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, using Google Earth and Street View to uncover abandoned buildings, eerie landmarks, and the remains of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
🛑 Key Locations We Explore:
▶️ Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
• The site of the 1986 explosion, now covered by the New Safe Confinement, a massive steel structure designed to contain the radiation.
• We will compare historical imagery to see how the damaged reactor changed over time.
▶️ Pripyat Ghost Town
• Once a modern Soviet city, today, it’s an abandoned wasteland, with trees and vegetation taking over its streets.
▶️ Pripyat Amusement Park & Ferris Wheel
• The Ferris wheel that never turned—the park was set to open on May 1, 1986, just days after the disaster.
• Now, it stands rusting and forgotten, one of the most haunting symbols of Chernobyl.
▶️ Pripyat Hospital No. 126
• The first responders from the Chernobyl explosion were treated here, unaware they had absorbed fatal doses of radiation.
• Their radioactive clothing still lies in the hospital basement, too dangerous to touch even today.
▶️ Pripyat Middle School No. 3
• A classroom left frozen in time, with open textbooks and gas masks scattered across the floor.
• A haunting reminder of how quickly life in Pripyat ended.
▶️ Energetik Palace of Culture
• Once the cultural center of Pripyat, hosting concerts and community events.
• Now, it’s a crumbling ruin, with faded Soviet murals and collapsed ceilings.
▶️ The Duga Radar – Soviet Cold War Relic
• A massive Soviet over-the-horizon radar, part of a secret project to detect U.S. missiles.
• Nicknamed “The Russian Woodpecker” because of the strange radio signals it produced.
• Abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster, it still looms over the forest, rusting in silence.
Join me as we explore this frozen city, uncovering the hidden remains of the Chernobyl disaster.
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Attribution:
Clips from vecteezy.com
Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michal Bělka, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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