Evacuation Announcement of Pripyat | 38 Years Since the Chornobyl Disaster
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2 ай бұрынWhen this video is published, it will have been 38 years and 6 hours since the message you are about to hear was transmitted through street loudspeakers in Pripyat, Ukraine. By 8:00 PM on April 27, 1986, apart from the operative staff, no residents remained in this city. As it later became apparent, what was supposed to be a three-day evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster turned into an eternity.
Yesterday, April 26, 2024, marked the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and Pripyat still stands as a monument to human mistakes. There is still very much to comprehend and learn. The most important, we shall not forget these events.
The background music used consists of fragments from 'Inner Depths of Sadness' composition by Raison d'Être, used with permission from the artist.
The thing is, many years ago, I sat atop that 16-story apartment building you can see in the thumbnail, listening to that very track. Many, many months were spent exploring this place later, yet that remains one of the most personal experiences in the Zone.
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@Underestimated37 2 ай бұрын
Still very haunting, doesn’t matter if you speak the language or not, the urgency can be heard in the simple tone of voice alone.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
There is much unclear about this message, though it is absolutely for sure authentic by itself. Most sources claim it was narrated by Nina Melnik from Pripyat radio station; a few say it is not that straightforward and that was a different person. There are different opinions on when exactly for the first time it was broadcasted. Everyone agrees that it was on midday, but some remember earlier broadcasts during 27th...
@olmostgudinaf8100 2 ай бұрын
@@ChernobylFamily It's hard to believe there are no official records to confirm such details. Even more confirming the urgency.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Damned soviet secrecy. Many things were lost by intentional efforts. We are sure you saw a short movie, it is called "Unforgettable" made by Pripyat-Film studio head Mikhail Nazarenko. Those are the ONLY existing shots of Pripyat on 26-27 April (you can find it on our previous channel, "Chernobyllab") So the thing is, he shot more, much more. KGB took his films and exposed them to light... and like this it is with everything. In many cases, real involved people passed away and there is no way to trace things back, after all - it is 38 years!
@chrisj2848 2 ай бұрын
A haunting tribute. Well done.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@SryImMinimal0815 2 ай бұрын
i'm from Austria. My mother told me that they became the order to close all the windows and seal them if possible with duct tape. And leave shoes and jacket outside. And children's where not allowed to play with the sand outside. scary to think about....
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing!
@argoneum 2 ай бұрын
I was a kid back then, remember adults telling us not to eat fruits or vegetables and limiting our outdoor activities. I only knew that something bad happened. My grandmother was talking with some neighbour asking if carrots were safe, then currants and cherries, how about potatoes and apples later? Since the spring until late summer there was a lot of uncertainty: someone had a radiation meter, telling that beaches aren't safe and we shouldn't go swim in the lakes, someone else said that in a town nearby radiation was very high, then that he checked again and it was only temporary. There was lots of multiple-leafed clovers at our yard, some were saying that it was due to radiation. People were saying not to eat mushrooms, as they absorbed radioactive caesium and strontium. Some didn't care, others didn't eat mushrooms until like 10 years later. I live in north-east part of Poland. Don't really remember the iodine treatment though, those who do said that it was disgusting.
@georgtrosson7137 13 күн бұрын
@@argoneum My grandmother, she was 86 at that time, declared that she would eat all the vegetables from her garden - she had heard, that this would probably cause cancer ten or more years later. And beeing 86, she thought that she would die before that, just because of her high age. So why not to eat it? In fact she died at the age of nearly 94, not because of cancer...
@KarinaMilne 2 ай бұрын
38 years ❤
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Thank you that you remember
@MarkMcCluney 2 ай бұрын
Profoundly sobering. Tears came to my eyes when the announcement said "especially children". For young parents it must have felt like the end of the world. Thank God the Earth is more resilient than the mistakes humanity makes. Thanks for sharing Alex and God bless Ukraine.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
According to memories of our good friend, who made those drone shots, first rumors about evacuation started to spread around 6PM on 26th. People, at least at - as later appeared, the most contaminated- district 1 gathered in front of their houses, kids were playing in sand and playgrounds - that day the evacuation never happened. Said friend spent nearly a year in hospitals after and still has issues. He was 10 years old. I very much advice to read Pripyat Syndrome book by his mother, Lyubov Syrota. We know her personally very well..m
@rarbiart 2 ай бұрын
2:42 those russian "3 day plans", i see a patern.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Heh... what a sad irony, never thought in this direction. Though, for a couple of month everyone - even in high offices - were hoping that there will be a return.
@CatspawAdventures 2 ай бұрын
Even on the other side of the world, news of this event left its mark on some of us. Even if I was too young at the time to fully comprehend it. I can scarcely imagine what it must have been like, having to leave behind all that you'd ever known, not realizing you'd never be allowed to return. And all of this under an invisible threat you don't understand. I always wanted to see the Zone and the city of Pripyat for myself, even made plans to do so about 10 years ago. A shame it'll probably never happen now, circumstances being what they are. But perhaps the place is better left respecfully to those with a more personal connection to it. Thanks for this.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Let us tell you something. You will do that. And we are at your service as guides. Contacts you have:)
@CatspawAdventures 2 ай бұрын
@@ChernobylFamily That is a kind and generous offer, friend, and I will bear it in mind for a time when Ukraine is free and secure again. 💛💙 In the meantime at least I can experience some of that through your videos.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Please - PLEASE - do not take it as an ad. But way more you can find on our Patreon, on $10 tier and above specifically. The reason it is there is exclusively the fact that if you do not hide things behind a paywall, results of a complex research get stolen nearly immediately. But there we have... things.
@serhiifeshchuk4948 Ай бұрын
The haunting voice of this woman had been stuck in my head forever, it is just sad that even the woman did not know that she will leave her home forever.
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
This woman is Nina Melnik, from Pripyat communication center. There were a few talks with her... well... she has very mixed feelings about all this.
@peddersoldchap 2 ай бұрын
"unfavourable radiation situation"... lel 😂
@rileyfaelan 2 ай бұрын
Another euphemism I've ran into in old Soviet publications was "minor radiological accident". The base word was _авария,_ which is something you normally call an outage of a lift or a municipal heating station, or a collision of two cars. But Bolsheviks called Chornobyl's top being blown off a "радиологическая авария" with straight faces.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
We have a scary document. It is a table where someone was methodically placing radiation readings starting from 04:00 AM on 26th up to approximately 14:00 on 28th, per few control points. If up to midday 26th levels at some places were still... unfavourable, at the time this message was distributed, they became disastrous.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
@@rileyfaelan yes and no. No, because this word translates as accident, because technically it was so; moreover, this term is used by INES (International Nuclear Event Scale) which was adopted later. Yes, because soviets used any means for manipulations and lies, including this ambiguous term, which ended up in many many lives broken.
@aliciaaranda9482 2 ай бұрын
So many lives, so many dreams shattered. So much tragedy and pain. My respects to all those affected by this tragedy. 😔 Greetings from Paraguay 🇵🇾
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
I will say something which will go against the accepted narrative, but actually conformed during kitchen talks even by those who lived in Pripyat: sometimes, indirectly, it created something. You perhaps, want an example. Our family would never appear if we won't meet in the Zone. What an irony.
@mentalmentaldisorder3289 2 ай бұрын
I'm about to cry after this
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Take a warm hug.
@superciliousdude 2 ай бұрын
Feels weird to "like" this video - but hopefully it leads more people to see it.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Thank you
@BartManNL 2 ай бұрын
Big respect for this video, it feels wrong however to 'like' or 'dislike' it. Let's hope no one will ever have to hear a message like this anymore.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Consider, if you place a like, a soulless algorithmic machine will give a chance for others to see it. Besides, thank you!
@5cyndi 2 ай бұрын
Absolutely chilling to take in those words and to realize that these people were evacuating not temporarily. Unimaginable.
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
It is still an open question if realistically during 26-27 April anyone (we mean, those in high offices with proper skills) understood that for civilians it is for forever.
@bwc1976 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for everything you do. I will be sure to join your Patreon when my situation permits.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
You are more than welcome. We have there a lot of unique data translated for the first time ever - hope you will learn more! And do not hesitate to ask any questions!
@jurisjancevskis9076 2 ай бұрын
chornobyl disaster was something on another level, the og rbmk reactor design was pretty bad (and the reactor no.4 was rushed in building iirc)
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
It is a disaster of the rotten system before all, that made rotten designs of reactors and a rotten culture of safety. Just to clear out: this does not lower heroism and professionalism of NPP engineers, who, what is descriptive, were proclaimed guilty ones by that system.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
...in a post-disaster modification - indeed it became a very good machine. Before... too many issues.
@kemi242 Ай бұрын
The announcement sounds creepy AF. I can only imagine how the residents must have felt.
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
We know many who witnessed the actual broadcast. Well, they say they perceived it generally quite ok - as some things had to be done. At that moment no one understood the severity of the situation. Anyways, I talk about the selection of around 20 people, who knows how it was for others...
@leopiipponen7693 2 ай бұрын
That day should never have happened, but it happened anyway...
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
One of our colleagues once said "did you eve think that all what you love, all what happened and many things that will happen are caused by the fact that a concrete cylinder did not withstand a steam pressure?"
@Damien.D 2 ай бұрын
Frightening... Especially knowing that the "temporary" became "eternity". Imagine all of these people having their lives, their homes, their belongings been written off in an instant. The feeling they had when the bus took them away from everything they had. Just like fleeing from a war zone, but with no hope to come back to rebuild what once was.
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
My friends told me, that the feeling came when 3 days turned into a week, a week into a month, and when Slavutych started to be constructed, came an understanding that there won't be return - otherwise why to build a replacement city? Irrational hope still went on, though...
@1337Shockwav3 2 ай бұрын
Not too keen on the audio edit, but some really amazing pictures. This happened shortly before my first birthday, living in a different country a few thousand miles away the only immediate effect on my life was "oh well, kid can't play in sandboxes for a while" from what I was told. Surely a tragedy that often gets neglected.
@RobSchofield Ай бұрын
I commemorate this every year as "Radiation Day", to be observed with a single shot of vodka to remember the Robots who worked to save us all.
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
...and nearly 600000 people.
@carlbentley80 2 ай бұрын
Chilling.
@rexthewarhorse7110 2 ай бұрын
I rember it clearly when the alarms started going of here in Sweden from the radioactive cloud making its way over. Wasn't allowed to play outside for a long time. Most of it landed in the northern parts so remember that it wasn't allowed to pick berries in the forrest
@yeoldecurmudgeon1969 Ай бұрын
Hello there and friendly greetings! Sorry for the incoming text wall but I don't know how else to contact you. I was 16 when the Chornobyl disaster happened and no matter I was in a country relatively far away, I was deeply shocked about what happened. So shocked, in fact, that it became one of my obsessions. I needed to know as much as possible about it, for a number of reasons I don't want to write about here. In time I've learnt quite a lot, lately also thank to your documentaries. I've decided to do something to remember that event; to celebrate the lives of those heroes who sacrified their lives to save a whole continent. The only two ways I could do that were to try to compose some music (Music is my first love of my life) and I am working on it; the second way is to play a very customized version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly, a port of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call Of Pripyat. OF COURSE I don't mean to disrespect anyone or anything with that. It's one of my ways to remember and, possibly, to spread some awarness. I am a little drop in a vast ocean, I know that, yet I think I have to do my part, one way or another. I started a series of live stream called "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. NUCLEAR WINTER - REMEMBERING CHORNOBYL". Unfortunately, due to IRL priorities, I cannot schedule the streams properly. In the meanwhile, I thank you from the deep of my heart for all the research you have done so far. I wish you all the best, I wish you will continue your incredible work and I wish the truth will prevale against a wall of lies, misconceptions and cover ups. (BTW, I wrote a very similar message to "That Chernobyl Guy", the only other channel I follow about Chornobyl and its history).
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
Thank you for such kind words! Well... we are fans of Stalker as well, so we do not see offence here. The most important is what you feel and how you see all this great story. Truly, Chernobyl is about what is in your heart.
@TeslaTales59 2 ай бұрын
Sir, As they say in the USA, "you knocked it out of the park!" Well done presentation!
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@neil4306 2 ай бұрын
Very very sad this happened
@amartinjoe 2 ай бұрын
Nemaniye! Nemaniye! I'll never forget those words in the movie "Chernobyl" from HBO. I say it in my workplace here in Toronto where there are Russian ladies - just to see their reaction.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Let me correct you a bit: it is "Vnimanie". Ah, HBO... I worked with their unit in the Zone back in the day. Awesome people. But what a complex task did they take! This story, if properly told, would be 150 episodes for a brief overview...
@TheFanOrTheMask 2 ай бұрын
so so sad, haunting.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Yes
@chriswareham 2 ай бұрын
This reminds me of the recordings that were meant to be played on radio and television if a Soviet nuclear strike was made on the United Kingdom during the Cold War. The same bland, dispassionate messages that were supposed to prevent panic but could only really mean that disaster had happened.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
I saw those, they looked creepy. Soviets probably had the same, but... we just knew about existence of them from propaganda posters ("there will be a message"). How Soviet cersion would look, we still have no idea.
@alisharifian535 2 ай бұрын
I sometimes imagine the mental collapse of the people who genuinely (and candidly) loved a (so called) system of love and brotherhood but they recognise the realities and wake up when too late.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
From what those people - and we know dozens - told us, they were young, for them all this commie sh-t was mostly a usual background; the real collapse was when said three days turned to a week, a week into a month, a month into a year. And Pripyat just disappeared from any media, being replaced by a generic "Chernobyl", which actually had to do very little with the actual town of Chernobyl. Think about this - aftershocks of that language manipulation we all still experience whenever we touch the subject. No one calls it 'Pripyat accident', though that would be so correct. What was happening in those souls... that was scary.
@kristiankumanov5732 2 ай бұрын
2:42 It was never supposed to be a three-day evacuation...It was announced like that, to keep people calm as possible.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Indeed. Though in the message itself it was never said; that three days came from comments given by the staff escorting the buses.
@fifi3649 Ай бұрын
It's haunting. How did you retrieve this recording?
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
The reel with this recording was retrieved during conservation works at city communication centre approximately in May-June 1986 and, as many other documents was placed in archive. Then, somewhen in 2000s that reel got digitized... it is very well known in Chernobyl research community here in Ukraine, but (shame on me) I am unable to provide you with more details - many things happened too long ago.
@detroitdieselseries5071 2 ай бұрын
Before 1986, were any outsiders allowed to visit Pripyat from the western world like USA, Canada UK France and other countries?
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
If we speak about 'west west', we personally do not have archive evidence that there were such visitors (which does not mean they never came - it had to happen AT LEAST within cooperation conferences). Thought the city was not 'closed' and could be visited through Intourist state travel agency which serviced foreign visitors. Same, at one of 9-story buildings opposite to the main building of Pripyat hospital was the passport department. We found there a large board on the wall with rules of registration of foreign citizens from socialistic AND capitalistic countries, thus, this service was available. Visitors from Socialistic Bloc, however, were plenty, as Pripyat lived pretty active international life - e.g. there were held international sport competitions (volleyball) and multiple conferences on energy. There are digitized videos and images about this.
@terminator5613 Ай бұрын
Временная авыкуация... Уже 38 лет прошло, интересно когда можно будет заселять этот город. Загадка...
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
~250000 років враховуючи повний ланцюжок розпаду трансуранових елементів. Працювати та перебувати там можна вже зараз. Жити у звичайному розумінні (із дітьми) - неможливо.
@terminator5613 Ай бұрын
Я не чего не понял что вы написали 😅
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
@terminator5613 it is never late to learn. I, for example, speak 5 languages :D i believe in you :)
@KarinaMilne 2 ай бұрын
Why/how was it recorded? Was it normal to record announcements or did someone know this would one day be a piece of history?
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
It was recorded on a tape at the communication centre of Pripyat where they had a control of the broadcast system, because it was repeated a few times. The record later was taken by respective authorities along with many others during the conservation of the communication equipment.
@KarinaMilne 2 ай бұрын
@@ChernobylFamily thank you! You guys have so much knowledge ❤️
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
In the Zone since 2009, the Zone in heart since 1994. We are happy to share what we know! Anytime feel free to ask questions!
@IrenESorius 2 ай бұрын
Haunting,, 🇸🇪💞🇺🇦
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Thank you
@IrenESorius 2 ай бұрын
@@ChernobylFamily 💖💖
@BananaBalintYT 2 ай бұрын
Look like chernobyl will never will be lived
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
This is Pripyat; it is true, to live here a normal life won't be possible anymore. At the town of Chernobyl, however, operative staff lives on shifts.
@user-gg1se7fx2b 2 ай бұрын
Это подлинная запись, или реконструкция? И, если подлинная, зачем на неё навалили столько эффектов?
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Ви знаєте, тут не так просто пояснити. Запис оригінальний і він сам по собі вкрай пошкоджений. Але оця мелодія на фоні, я її слухав безпосередньо в Прип'яті, блукаючи її добре знайомими дворами. Уявляв, що відбувалося в кожному місці. Власне, це кожного разу так... було сильно.
@monad_tcp 2 ай бұрын
"temporary" They where already good at PR
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
And how many times that word was said in the message...
@arjenschuurman4731 24 күн бұрын
Can't you rebuild the city or cut down the trees?
@ChernobylFamily 24 күн бұрын
Yes, but only theoretically. To live there in common meaning is not possible, only as in a shift town for staff with sealed windows, pressurized buildings, severe counter-contamination measures as it was up to 2000 where a lot of people worked there. As a museum exhibit... there was a plan to restore or at least reinforce some structures; we actively participated in it in 2021, but due to invasion all that became impossible. Speaking about trees, it appeared that in many cases they act as natural shields against wind, rain and snow, so their presense actually prolongs lifetime of structures. (Edits - sorry - bad internet connection.)
@Uf1r 2 ай бұрын
Чув разів мільйон. Все одно моторошно.
@ChernobylFamily 2 ай бұрын
Саме так. Особливо, коли це в навушниках, і ти йдеш містом. Боже... як же накриває глибина всього цього.
@Uf1r 2 ай бұрын
@@ChernobylFamily дуже розумію, друже!
@user-zy8dv1he6v 2 ай бұрын
Я пам'ятаю як небо світилося, і суперечливі повідомлення про те що сталося. "Голос Америки" казав по радіо що стався вибух на ЧАЕС, по радянських новинах що ні, нічого страшного, невеличка аварія на охолоджені. А потім колони військової техніки що йшли в сторону Києва, а звідти колони автобусів з цивільними. Мене крепко флешбекнуло коли схожі колони я побачив вже у 22 році під час повномасштабного вторгнення.
@ChernobylFamily Ай бұрын
Ви прип'ятчанин?
@user-zy8dv1he6v Ай бұрын
@@ChernobylFamily ні, на той момент перебував приблизно за 130 км від місця трагедії.
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