Everyone say thank you to Vladimir and Natalya

Natalya is such a Fallout character.

“ Nothing is safe in the Exclusion Zone “ - Natalya

What a fantastic guide! "Eat bananas and everything will be ok." - Natalya.

The suspense when he got lost was scary

y'all realize that's the white guy blinking meme guy

Its kinda fun listening to Natalya saying 'gentlemen'. It was like something from a heist movie

Ok, Natalia is fantastic. I love her matter-of-fact humor.

Can we talk about how freaking awesome Natalya was? What an amazing tour guide, she seemed so passionate with her knowledge about the place and so nice!

"Where Do you work" "Chernobyl As a Lunch Lady."

"A town looking to the future, now locked in the past."

i would totally watch if Natalya had a youtube channel where she showed chernobyl as she saw it and made informational videos about the landmarks

The real MVP: Natalya

"Separated from your group, miles from help, surrounded by invisible pockets of radiation" I'm pretty sure most survival horror games start like that...

Natalya - ''' You will not glow in the dark gentleman, nothing will grow on you, so dont worry'' Amazing girl

I think that for most people the fascination with Chernobyl is not just to see a ghost town or to relieve the feelings they had in a video game, but to see what a place would look like after we are gone. Modern people have this morbid fascination about the apocalypse, the end of our civilization and this is why it exists in so much media. We are here now because of how we shaped our civilization during the last 10000 years, but we are also very aware that there have been many advanced human civilizations that have bloomed and withered before ours and have left behind some incredible ruins that we love to speculate about. Chernobyl offers us a glimpse into what would remain after our current advanced civilization would perish and this is why people are son interested in it. Life on Earth is cyclical and so are human civilizations. I wonder what the next society of humans will think when they discover the remains of our concrete and steel structures...

That accent of Natalya, simply love it

Shoutout to the brave individuals that went headfirst into the fatal areas of radioactivity when the disaster happened so many years ago. Brave souls.

Who has been fascinated with Chernobyl before the HBO series aired?

I really like this one. When other you tubers go to chernobyl, they always interrupt their tour guides and repeat everything that they say, whereas in this one, the voiceover is recorded later. Other people don’t give enough respect to their tour guides, and seem more interested in getting good footage, whereas this is more about the experience, rather than the footage

How is this documentary not called "Natalya's Story: The Best Guide That Ever Existed."?

Chernobyl: has nuclear meltdown and becomes an abandoned ghost town but atleast has decent wifi. My school: Hasn't been near a nuclear meltdown or abandoned. But has absolute garbage wifi.

Blinking.... in *CHERNOBYL* never gets old.

Growing a new arm In chernobyl

@LoganPaul this is how you do a vlog when you go to some place new

You could tell when Drew got separated from his group, he freaked out a little bit. I mean damn, I would have freaked out a little too, maybe even more than a little.

"50,000 people used to lived in this city,now it's a ghost town" -Cpt. Macmillan

Before HBO : Normal Comment After HBO : “3.6 roentgen , not great not terrible”

I like that Natalya put the radiation dosages in perspective at the end. Congrats on the eight micro-sieverts. I knew you could do it, Drew.

"A town looking to the future, now locked in the past." Amazing commentary and video. The sounds and songs you put to the video are perfectly nailed. Well done. Well, done.

Fun fact: this is the guy from the blinking guy meme

i felt secondhand fear when he got separated

Amazing video sir and I thank you. Really well done.

"Eat bananas and everything will be okay" is just good advice. Great job on this Drew.

THIS is a documentary. Beautifully made

"I am about to pass out just from all the physic exertion" Me: Or From The Radiation.

"Nothing is safe in the exclusion zone" sounds like a quote you'd hear in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

"Huh, yeah, weird how they go to a Radioactive Trail and the geiger counter's going up by one microsievert every second-" *counter flashes 6.66 microsieverts*

Wow. From 8:30 to 9:45 was the most real footage I've seen. Lost and looking around, I really felt the anxiety. That part was gold.

“There is no tourism in the Exclusion Zone”-tour guide

"...you're pretty fine." - Natalya to Drew

Russian citizens are the best. “It’s safe. Well, it’s not safe. Nothing is safe, but go ahead.” “Why is it beeping?” “It’s because there’s a lot of radiation. Don’t worry, I’ll just turn up your threshold.” “Take your geigers out, gentlemen, because we’re going to pass by the Western Radioactive trail” *_Entire car starts beeping_*

How to get attention at a party: “When I had a meal in Chernobyl..........” 😱

Radio active counter thing: going mental Dyatlov: 3.6 ronken that’s fine

'Normal Ukraine. Clean. Relatively clean'

*"50,000 used to live here. Now it's a ghost town."*

The HBO mini-series has got me interested in learning more about the Chernobyl disaster, thank you for sharing this incredible insight into what remains and how it affected you emotionally.

"You will not glow in the dark" and "Nothing will grow on you" , somehow sounds intriguing and curious but terrifying and rather not know about it.

10:30 - So, you're saying Chernobyl has WiFi . . . hotspots? I'll see myself out.

20:40 Surprised that detector let you through. If there's one thing Drew is, it's completely rad.

I think the tourism is going to explode because of the TV show.

The production value of this masterpiece of a documentary is stunning

The entire “in Chernobyl” part reminded me so much of spongebobs “at night” episode

"When it starts beeping at 3.0, that means you're in trouble" [crosses into Pripyat] *[Everyone's geiger counters start beeping like crazy]*

Did you send the video to Natalya? Because that would be cool

I'm 35 minutes in and it just hit me... Is this the 'blinking guy' meme guy?

When your geiger counter hits 6.66 you know you're in trouble

50 thousand people used to live here. Now it is a ghost town.

I find it quite absurd that a disaster like this needs to happen in order for nature to flourish again, and animals to come back to places we claimed. There are Przewalski horses, deer, wolves, bisons etc, and all in much higher concentration than they were before the incident.

You must have panicked a little when you couldn't find them xD

Plant the C4 and defend the area until the helicopter arrives.

"A town looking to the future, now locked in the past" That is such an incredible thought

Oh my i had heard of this but never realized how sad it is. Id still be to afraid to go anywhere near it. Loved your tour guide. I cant imagine the fear the residents felt. My heart goes out to the first responders and lives that were taken. May they rest in peace. Thanks for sharing. This old lady learned something new tonight.

"Playing Final Fantasy 6.....in Chernobyl." I like this dude.

Visiting Chernobyl is now on by Bucket List! Not just because of games but because of how interesting it is and from what I seen on this video.

*muffled* *_a_* *_nu_* *_cheeki_* *_breeki_* *in* *the* *distance*

Omg this is the blinking white guy, Iv watched this video a few times and followed this channel for awhile and never realized he’s the dude from the meme

So, if you’re driving in Chernobyl, an apocalyptic town, do you have to stop at stop signs?

Moral of the video, eat bananas and everything will be fine.

"And 30km zone, that bigger circle, that's kind of a buffer between the contaminated area and normal Ukraine, clean area... Relatively clean." Good to know... Relatively good to know.

“50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town” -Captain MacMillan Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare

Cpt. MacMillan: Too much radiation. We'll have to go around.

Was only gonna skim through it...watched the whole thing from start to end.

3/10 No stalker yelling Cheeki Breeki in the distance

Natalya running to the horses reminded me of Ellie in The Last Of Us running to see the giraffes.

I like Natalya. She seems nice.

Why is Natalya so cool

I fully expected those horses to have two heads.

You'll likely never see this, but just wanted to say this was SUPER well done and your commentary was wonderfully spot on and described the situation better than I could think to!

Natalya was amazing. Great video Drew!

‘It’s better to have potassium then cesium’ lolol I’m dead

Watching video about Chernobyl...… IN CHERNoBYL

The fact that they organize tours to Chernobyl is just bizarre

“Everyone will see something different. What matters is that we go and look.” Damn that was powerful

Hey Squidward, guess what? I’m chopping lettuce... in Chernobyl!

8:28 when you lose your mom at the store

you had me at "Playing Final Fantasy 6.... in Chernobyl" Good game. Appreciate the addition of the overworld song in there. 10/10

There is a town is called Pripyat, which is 3 km away from the Chernobyl Power Plant. The town called Chernobyl is a hugely different thing and is located 28km away from Chernobyl Power Plant. But yeah both of these cities are within the exclusion zone. Just to clear some things out.

I was taking shallow breathes most of the video because it felt like I was there, and was scared of the radiation Also "Eat bananas and everything will be ok" life advice

This video was so beautiful. The commentary, respectful handling of such a subject, and even the cinematography & music choice. This is one of the best videos I've ever seen, so thank you so much.

It's crazy to think I was actually alive when all this went down. Even though it feels like an entirely different historic era. And I'm not that old either!

I’ve been watching videos about Chernobyl after watching the show on HBO. I’ve got to say this is the most well produced out of all of them. And only by a single person. The music added to the atmosphere of the place. So eerie. Makes me want to leave right this moment and go there.

Just so you know, the soup you ate is called borsch, and the juice and patty you ate at the workers cantina is called kompot and kotlet, kompot is the juice, kotlet is the patty.

Connecting to Wifi.. *In Chernobyl*

50,000 people used to live here... Now it’s a ghost town.

The horse bit, put a stupidly big smile on my face

I've read a couple books on what exactly happened to cause the reactor meltdown. It's worthwhile to do so to understand that it was entirely avoidable. Soviet communist bureaucracy conflicted with design safety, corners were cut to meet arbitrary deadlines. On the day of the incident plant operators felt pressured to perform a particular test that they had been unable to complete successfully before. A mistake was made early in the test that should have meant immediate cancellation of the test (they brought power output to much lower levels than they should have). Instead the director of the test pushed forward, tried to bring plant back up to power too fast. The fact that the power up was going much more quickly than intended was noted, emergency abort button was pressed that should have rapidly inserted the control rods in to the reactor and stopped the fission reaction. Due to the design of the graphite tipped control rods, they instead accelerated the reaction briefly (part of the design and expected- explanation for this is lengthy), created far too much heat, which was enough to melt the control rods in place, only partially inserted. Fission reaction ran out of control and could not be stopped. There's a whole lot more to it than that, but that's the gist. Chernobyl was much more avoidable than, for instance, Fukushima.

I miss you at Giant Bomb, but I am so thankful for these videos. There very interesting and you are doing an amazing job making them. I'll be a Patreon member for a long time. Thanks Drew!

This video was incredibly well done! Felt like a documentary! Very interesting but what I think is most important, very respectful with the story and people from Chernobyl 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So many of us have been there virtually. If I was really there I would be listening for the howling in the distance, the ghostly sound and sight of glowing artifacts, and the crickets. The crickets.