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Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl
Topic Started: Nov 28 2014, 05:38 PM (391 Views)
CJ
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Incredible drone footage has been released that shows the abandoned remains of Ukrainian city Pripyat, a city that was completely evacuated in the aftermath of the Chernobyl Disaster.

Pripyat once boasted 49,000 residents 25 shops and 10 gymnasiums but was completely abandoned after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion in 1986, and the drone footage captured by British photographer Danny Cooke gives a harrowing insight into how it was left.

The footage shows a ghost city that has been frozen in time, still displaying much of the Soviet iconography that embodies the Soviet Union during the Cold War period.

It also shows how the city has become a place of neglect with many of the streets and buildings overrun by trees.

Among the eerie images captured on Cooke’s video include, a fairground littered with rusty dodg’em and a disused ferris wheel, a room filled with gas masks and rows upon rows of abandoned grey blocks of flats.



I'd seen some of these images before, on both Life After People and Top Gear, but there were also some that were new to me. It's amazing just how quickly nature takes over again when we're not around.

(As an aside, I love how my TinyURL came out looking like a random mish-mash of Cyrillic characters. Trust me, this was not intentional!)
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25 doesn't seem like many shops to sustain a population of 49,000.
Chilling video though.
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CJ
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I hadn't thought of that, actually. I can only assume there would be far fewer under a socialist system than under a capitalist system.
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The soviets kept good supply lines so the city would be able to sustain itself. Chernobyl is a very desolate place and will be for a very long time.
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CJ
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Nature does seem very resilient, though, bearing in mind what went on. Just recently, brown bears were spotted there for the first time in nearly 100 years.
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because the habitat is recovering, while the area is highly radioactive the native species will mutate in a fashion and evolve to coup with the changes. plus the buildings make excellent habitats. Although with how many claim the buildings are haunted i would not be surprised if the wildlife stays away for a few more years.
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I'm sure they'll be fine :) . Even if they are haunted, I doubt they can affect plants and animals, lol.

(Although, if Eric's weather controller is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone....who knows what they'll do with it :P ?)
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Many animals will stay away from such areas, because they know something is not right, but i can bet many of the natural wildlife is in most of the surrounding area, just not chernobyl proper.
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Considering haunting is a myth, and in the human mind, I'm sure an animals objectivity will be able to see past that. :P

That said, so where did everyone work, if not in the 25 shops?
Everyone else at the Power Plant?
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Mostly - its main purpose was to house the plant's employees.

Apparently, it was also a regional transport hub, so presumably there would have been some opportunities for employment there too.
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consider it as a transport hub there would be loads of jobs as a driver, so employment would have been easy to come by.
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