Thanks for watching. *NOTE: All footage was shot before the war in Ukraine, so obviously some information may now be inaccurate.* At least as far as we know, Pripyat is no longer a warzone (so my comments aren't totally off). This might be the most professional thing I've ever made, so I'd appreciate the support if you find it interesting.

Kyle, the fact that you can effectively advocate for nuclear energy while not ignoring the very real dangers is just so inspiring. Never stop being awesome! K, back to cleaning the evil lair

Kyle has become the cool nuclear/radiation guy, seeing his videos on such topics is so entertaining because you can tell it fascinates him

“Pripyat is not a war zone” That’s quite ominous to hear in light of recent events.

I had the pleasure of checking out Pripyat after the Russian invasion. It was even more eerie because there were no tourist or anyone other than a handful of workers and soldiers on security. It was insane to see the Russian positions dug out in the red forrest. Besides the radiation, the whole area was still mined so we observed from a safe distance. Definitely one of the coolest experiences of my life.

As someone, who've been to Pripyat twice: There's something about that place, that words can't describe: a mix of fear, sadness, peace and hope. An invisible threat, a promice unkept, an empty birds nest, a still image of the long gone past and, once again, a place of the silent forest and home to the wild bests. A place like no other. If you'e been to Ptipyat once, sooner or later, you'll start feeling The Call. P. S. Mad respect to Kyle for such a respectfull approach to a place of great pain and sadness. Huge props!

The quiet tone of your voice and near poetic prose in these is absolutely perfect for the subject matter. It was indeed eerily beautiful. Fantastic filming and production!

Kyle, I love these nuclear power/radiation focused videos. It really brings a lot of truth about the subject. As a former Nuclear Power Plant and Health Physics technician it is nice to hear about stuff without the normal layman hype around radiation, radioactivity, and nuclear power.

That sarcophagus looming in the distance truly is chilling. A constant visible reminder of a devastating invisible killer.

I did not want this to end. Kyle is such a compelling storyteller, especially on a story like this. Thank you for taking us on this journey with you. Truly such a haunted, but beautiful place.

This series has really been satiating my morbid curiosity, I'm always so amazed, shocked and terrified while watching; it's impossible to pause or look away. Kyle deserves way more attention than he's got, it's almost criminal that this content is free.

I cannot express the feelings this video gives me. Wanderlust, nostalgia, loss for what I have never experienced... just wow. Edit: KYLE YOU MADE ME CRY

I’m so glad this video is back up. When this first came out months ago I was blown away by the stunning views of the landscape and blown away by the professionalism of this video. Well done Kyle.

I find it incredible that you were able to complete this trip just shortly before the Russian invasion. We're all the better for it. Here's to hoping for a peaceful Ukraine in the near future.

I've had a bit of an obsession with Chornobyl and the disaster since I was a small child and I want to thank you for treating it with the respect it deserves in this series

This is a great video, I've wondered for a long time how Pripyat really looked these days. I've only really seen the ariel footage of the ferris wheel and the occasional image of inside abandoned homes. I have really enjoyed your videos over the past few months and have learnt so much. I'm no longer deadly terrified by nuclear power and have a better understanding of it. Thanks Kyle 👍I wish you'd been my science teacher (many moons ago!).

As someone who vaguely remembers the first version of this video, this feels somehow better? You've clearly putdone yourself, Kyle.

I love all of Kyle's videos on Chernobyl, but especially this one, as it captured Pripyat just before another world-changing event (unfortunately) overtook it. Incredible storytelling and respect for the site. Glad to see another video that isn't just "OOOH DEADLY RADIATIOOOON~" Thank you for another wonderfully thoughtful video

This was a mesmerizing piece of work that speaks very deeply to me, as a Ukrainian. Not to mention, highly educational in the way I haven't seen Prypiat being covered yet. Looking forward to more content.

Kyle the videos you make handle the topics so respectfully and without sensationalization and that's why it touches our minds so much. Especially as a science student I aspire to be able to portray facts and events so clearly and precisely. Thanks for the video

Watching this and knowing that this place has been forever changed by the war is actually heartbreaking. The video is wonderful and handles everything so tactfully it's amazing

Cod4 all ghillied up and the mission after made me really want to know more about Chernobyl. Glad that this series is finally coming out!

I love how resilient plant life is towards radiation so the place still looks relatively normal from an outside view

There's a solemn beauty to these videos and their music that is quite moving. They are an experience as much as they are educational. Thank you, Kyle, for yet another wonderful film, and thank you too, to Meydan, for the score. I will never get tired of this series.

Kyle, seriously man, I wait on bated breath for each episode in this series. Each episode is deeply poignant. Your narration is incredible, the research that you do is on-paar with huge production companies. I'm extremely grateful for your channel, I really do mean that. Your channel is tantamount to ale cart' TV.

I thought I'd seen this before, but then I remembered you saying that you'd re-upload it as circumstances in Ukraine changed. Sad to think how much devastation the rest of the country is now experiencing 💔

I’m so glad you were able to be fascinated with this type of stuff. I indeed am and it’s cool you’ve made like 6 episodes of this!

I love the work put into this, this feels (and this is meant to be the greatest of compliments) not like a KZfaq video but more like a television documentary

"Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town"

Your Half Life series, and basically any video you do on nuclear energy or radiation are my absolute favorite videos on KZfaq. I look forward to every single of one of them. They're very well made, very informative. The information is delivered clearly and respectfully.

I love how this captures the ominous serenity and beauty of the place instead of sensationalizing it. There's a documentary about the wolves living in the Chernobyl area which had a similar feel. It's not the exaggerated panic about being in a deadly radioactive zone that leaves an impact, but the fading snapshot of what could have been.

Pripyat is beautiful. I roamed its street in winter while under thick snow cover. It was breathtaking.

I'm so glad you were able to visit the facility before it was defiled by war. The poor soldiers who were instructed to dig trenches in the yellow forrest have my utmost sympathy. The plant engineers were imprisoned in the plant also. All so a Russian general could use the plant as his HQ.

As if Pripyat hadn't been through enough, now, it's a battlefield, too.

I’ve watched quite a few Chernobyl related videos which tend to show the same scenes. Thank you for showing us different places and things. Fascinating video.

This series is one of my all time favorite docuseries I've watched. The footage, the voice over and information is absolutely amazing. And the respect of everyone and everything is obvious and unrivaled

It makes me wonder, what implications could it have for the world if this disaster was averted. I love watching this series and I look forward to seeing the next chapter.

It's a great setting and i experienced it as a german child at around 7 years old, very surreal. And it also helps that there is high quality media around it: metro, chernobylite, the hbo series, stalker etc. All great stuff

3:39 this is so true! Even in Chernobyl, a dog's appetite never fades lol

7:38 “Pripyat is not a war zone” Well this aged like fine milk

just as fascinating and chilling the second time. my parents arent sold on nuclear power, and ive been wanting to use your vids to help convince them. cant wait for you to finish the series!

I also visited the Schoolhouse! Cool! There was a small hotspot left from the entrance next to a tree. Very radioactive.

Not me just watching this series remembering that time my school took us to the nuclear power plant, Waterford 3, for a field trip. Honestly back then I didn't have a great understanding of what or how it worked and I was TERRIFIED of the place especially since they took us just after learning about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

Two lines from this are absolutely chilling, considering recent events: "Pripyat is not a warzone." and "a lot changes in the exclusion zone even though people are technically gone."

I'm so happy that I was finally able to see this, after it was removed the first time you uploaded it. It's beautiful... and sad; Melancholic and uplifting at the same time. Thanks and can't wait to see the continuation.

The moment Kyle said "if you're a COD fan" I got chills. I RECOGNIZE THAT POOL. That's the pool we cross as Captain Price on our way to the extraction point near the ferris wheel. After we're done sniping Zahkaev. Holy Hell! And yes it was also in Warzone but it was in Modern Warfare first

Breaks my heart. Thanks for going there and filming this for us. I wish I could go see it too.

"Pripyat is not a war zone" Yeah turns out digging trenches in a nuclear exclusion zone is bad.

The drone footage of the landscape at large is... eerily beautiful. The trees make me wish I could visit... but the abandoned buildings and the act of nature wrapping itself back around the artificial structures... there's this intense sense of "something truly terrible happened here" that chills me to the bone.

I found your channel due to the elephant's foot video and the other videos in the Chernobyl videos and felt a sense of warmth from it. Seeing videos like this feels so surreal and weirdly calming at times. Thanks for the content!

"Pripyat is not a warzone" is one of those sentences that hits hard because you notice that this footage may not have been shot that long ago, but in that relativly short time the circumstances for the people around there/in ukraine has changed so much.

Your video about the Elephant's Foot was my introduction to your work, and I've rewatched it dozens of times. Just watched the HBO miniseries again yesterday. Love all of your work, but I especially enjoy these "short film" style pieces.

This was even better the second time. Since I already watched it when it was first released, I was able to really focus in on the professional quality of this documentary. The transitions, narration, videography etc. are very high caliber, and is easily on par with documentaries on mainstream networks. I hope that you continue to make more incredible documentaries in the future. *10/10*

“50 thousand people use to live here, now it’s a ghost town” - captain Macmillan

idk why but this made me cry just a little, I absolutely love what you're trying to do with this and I am excited for more in the future. Thank you.

Honestly the best channel if you want things you are interested in but don't understand that well explained so you can understand them. Love these videos.

I love your videos. Your SL-1 video got me interested in the field. I wrote a paper about the SL-1 and it helped get a job in field. Thank you, I appreate your videos.

-"Aleksandr we need a phrase, not so deep, don't overdo it, it's just a building..." the phrase 13:50

Yet another banger from Kyle and his team. I get giddy every time I see Kyle put up a new video like this. I may not be an educated man, but learning is fun to me and Kyle makes videos about horrific disasters so engaging and compelling. To me he's like that professor in school you listen to not because you need to in order to pass the class, but because you want to, like that person who's so passionate about something that their passion rubs off onto you for that brief period of time you're listening to them. I wonder if Kyle has ever seen that old History Channel docuseries as I call it(not sure what it's actually referred to as) called something like "Life After People". They talked/showed a lot of what Kyle touched on in this video in terms of the planet flourishing in a world devoid of humanity. And Kyle if for some chance you read this I had a question regarding Chernobyl. If it's unsafe for humans to populate the region again for another 24,000 years, then do neighboring countries or towns ever have to worry about say like hurricane type winds coming in and blowing any of the fallout their directions, or is it not so much what's in the air as it is just everything is saturated in radiation at this point? If you've already discussed this in a podcast episode then my bad.

I'm legitimately curious if you've ever heard the song "Ghost Town" by Huns and Dr. Beeker, which is about the Pripyat disaster and the people affected by it. If so, I'd love to know your thoughts on it.

Abandoned and returned to nature for decades before the war, that almost feels like the land itself should have been a warning sign to the soldiers who entered.

In the overhead shot it’s very clear to see the oil and contamination in the water and I’m curious if there’s any wildlife in those lakes and if so what it looks like

The cinematography of this series is seriously incredible

I studied biomedical science for four years in university and I must say that you are a really great science communicator :) Keep up the amazing work, I love these videos and your Half-Life Histories series

I'm so excited this got re-uploaded since I missed it when it first dropped 💙

The ferris wheel rusting away, that there, hits hard. To never make it to the celebration. But thats just 1 piece of a disaster. Well done with this good sir, well done.

I grew up playing STALKER; So yes, this is exactly what a disaster zone looks like. Deceptively nice. Full of invisible hazards that must be measured with careful science.

What a beautiful and important series. Your narration, and the gorgeous music, evoke a haunting sense of wonder at what was lost, what is, and what could have been. It's really content like this, reaching far and wide, that changes minds, and could push the world towards more respect and acceptance of nuclear fuel in the fight against climate change, perpetual and critical as it is. Kyle Hill, keep on keeping on, and I'm so excited to see the next part of this amazing series.

YOU DESERVE A REWARD FOR THIS MASTERPIECE OF FILM AND INFORMATION!! I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!

The pool and city were also in COD4 sniper mission with Soap or Calt Price (don’t remember which). 😎 I just love seeing life frozen in time. Eerie beauty.

"50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town"

i’ve been so excited to see chapter two, thank you for uploading it! :)

Thank you for doing this Kyle, I've always wanted to visit Chernobyl and the surrounding areas but after this war I understand it won't ever be the same. So I appreciate seeing it in a moment of time right before the invasion.

If anyone ever watched, Life after people would have known that Prypiat wasn't highly radioactive. That was only 20 years after it had been abandoned and there was huge trees already in the soccer pitch and throughout the city. I'd love to go and see that even though it's disheartening to think of the stress and long term effects of the radiation exposure they received.

Thank you for this series. Having lived through this disaster, I find learning more about it helps put the chaos that ensued into better context (As I was about 10 at the time)

Glad to have this ep back

24,000 years. And I thought that waiting until the 36th century for the safe handling of Maria Skłodowska's notebooks was a long time.

Thank you for dispelling myths and advancing a more positive and accurate view on nuclear power. We need this. We need cheap and abundant energy and we need to export it to poorer regions of the world

I've been lucky enough to have seen the first edition of this amazing second episode. Now I'm seeing it one more time, amazed again. Thank you so much for all your efforts to bring this beautiful story back to us!

Hey Kyle, new subscriber here, really appreciating your work. I have spent the past 11 years researching the Chernobyl disaster, and these videos are among the best I've seen on the subject. Keep up the great work, and I look forward to whatever happens next! All the best from Australia.

Kyle I just want to say that your videos are a beacon of light in my life, whenever you upload a video, my day is made 10000x better, so thank you Kyle for being one of the best people on KZfaq.

Some of the people from the surrounding areas and collectives where interviewed for the book Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievitch. It was a great if hard read. Well worth a look for anyone interested in the area and its people.

This was both so thought provoking and depressing. It really makes me wish we had seen this possible future unfold. Thanks for shedding light on this Kyle. Keep up the great work!

I love how intimate your shots are in this video and weirdly enough the ending is making me think about my dad whose currently losing the childhood home. Like I don’t want to shift this to me but I can empathize on some level with the Soviet’s who had to just abandon their homes and who’s kids now see the ruins because I lived that in my early childhood. Literally just this big house on a hill with crumbling plaster and a total mess on the inside but on the outside it is so wonderfully overgrown that the last time I went back the patio wasn’t visible because it was buried in flowers. Your video captures that exact feeling, maybe not the wistful memories, but the eerie feeling of walking through an abandoned building and seeing all the little things that people left behind that have stories attached to them.

This is so professional done and I can see the effort you have put into this I hope that this video receives as much as it deserves

I've always had a fascination with Pripyat, loved this video, thanks Kyle!

its so sad to see this , you did a fabulous job of showing us around on all the places we don't see, my heart is filled with much sadness, for all who passed away, and those who had to leave there homes to never return,

Your video tour was so respectfully done, and showed me the beauty of the place. Well done!

This is the exact kind of content I'm here for. Can't wait for the next installment. Keep doing your thing brother.

This was so well done. Really high production value. Great voice over, and fantastic music, set a great mood.

Great video! Can definitely tell you're passionate about this topic. I've always been fascinated by Chernobyl and pripyat, I've done several research papers on them throughout school. Cant wait for more of this!

The accompanying soundtrack is perfect. Thank you for sharing this reality with us.

One can't help but wonder. What if the reactor didn't blow up? What if there was no accident? What if nuclear powers good name was never tarnished by the catastrophy? Would the world we are living in today be diffrent? Watching this video and your channel in general made me realise one thing. That the price we pay for disrespecting nuclear power reaches far deeper than any radiation ever could. We pay it in fear, that stops us from embracing a solution to our energy crisis. As always great video :)

This series has been incredible so far. I can't wait to see the next installment.

Years ago, back when I very first read your article on The Elephant's Foot, I was captivated by a clear fascination and passion not just for nuclear science, but for story telling, that came through in the words I was reading. Now, watching this, it's clear that passion continues to burn just as brightly as ever. Your ability to frame these stories in ways everyone can understand, and to give them context, is simply... Awesome. Thank you!

I find your documentary style videos so interesting and watchable, you always talk about some interesting nuances that mainstream media doesn't cover much, for example I'd never heard of the stalkers before you mentioned them

Going into the military for this kind of thing, you really deepen my ever lasting thirst for knowledge about this topic. I thank you for these videos, they help shape my future as a Nuclear engineer.

Thanks for the content Kyle. I can see you put your heart into this video and it's something that means a lot to you.

11:25 That building is in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat and it's crazy how they managed to create it perfectly even with the ruble and furniture inside the store which probably never moved for such a long amount of time that it feels weird.

Freakin' awesome!!! It's great seeing you somewhere that interests you so much, and thank you for sharing all the knowledge with us! You're amazing and I can't wait to see more!!! 😃