Russia's Secret Cities | Animated History of Russia

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Russia sometimes gets carried away with being Russia and hides entire cities from everyone else. Here's the story.
Sources
Chernyshova, Elena. “Life in Norilsk Welcome to One of the Most Isolated Cities on Earth. A Photo Essay by Elena Chernyshova.” Meduza, 2 Apr. 2015, meduza.io/en/galleries/2015/04/02/life-in-norilsk.
Deltour, Isabelle, et al. "Mortality of populations potentially exposed to ionising radiation, 1953-2010, in the closed city of Ozyorsk, Southern Urals: a descriptive study." Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, vol. 14, no. 1, 2015. Gale Academic Onefile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A46910.... Accessed 15 Nov. 2019.
“Europe | Toxic Truth of Secretive Siberian City.” BBC News, BBC, 5 Apr. 2007, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6528853.stm.
Goetschel, Samira. “'The Graveyard of the Earth': inside City 40, Russia's Deadly Nuclear Secret.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 20 July 2016, www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/20/graveyard-earth-inside-city-40-ozersk-russia-deadly-secret-nuclear.
Osborn, Andrew. “How Chelyabinsk Became Synonymous with Pollution.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 27 July 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8663862/How-Chelyabinsk-became-synonymous-with-pollution.html.
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Sawa, Dale Berning. “Yuri Kozyrev's Best Photograph: Norilsk, One of Earth's Most Polluted Places.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 2 May 2019, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/02/yuri-kozyrev-best-photograph-norilsk-arctic-russian-earth-most-polluted.
Shankland, Stephen. “I've Been to Russia's Nuclear Weapons City, and I Don't Want Another Cold War.” CNET, CNET, 18 Aug. 2019, www.cnet.com/news/i-visited-russia-nuclear-city-sarov-dont-want-to-relive-cold-war/.
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Urbina, Tomas. “Inside the Radioactive City Russia Doesn't Want You to Know About.” Vice, 30 May 2016, www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w5g9w/inside-the-radioactive-city-russia-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about.
Zólotov, Andréi. “Choose between Church and Nukes in the Secret Russian Town of Sarov.” Russia Beyond, 10 Feb. 2013, www.rbth.com/travel/2013/02/10/church_vs_nukes_the_dilemma_of_a_decret_russian_town_22653.html.
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@jakobidelgado5592 2 жыл бұрын

"Did you know that there are Russian troops in Ukraine right now" aged like fine wine

@thomasboi2255 Жыл бұрын

they've been there since 2013 so

@imagummybear945 Жыл бұрын

@@thomasboi2255 Yes but it was only now that the media picked it up and a large scale Russian operation was actually underway. They practically, like Connor said, snuck troops into Ukrainian separatist/government territory.

@nikolozgilles Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀

@Eazy-ERyder 11 ай бұрын

IKR

@zacharydurocher4085 8 ай бұрын

@@thomasboi2255 Sadly, the average Westerner didn’t know what Ukraine was until their TV told them they should care about it.

@jmasters7515 4 жыл бұрын

The main thing I learned from this video is that Russians aren’t born, they just spawn in the middle of a field wearing an Adidas tracksuit

@karandullet380 4 жыл бұрын

J Masters holy shit why is this so funny 😂

@historyrhymes1701 4 жыл бұрын

That is so racist All of us eastern europeans are created that way not only the darn Russians !

@zekessrover922 4 жыл бұрын

ROFL 😂

@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 4 жыл бұрын

The track suit is earned after spending a week naked in the frozen marsh with only a bottle of vodka.

@501ststormtrooper9 4 жыл бұрын

No. Soviets are born in bunches of 100 by 1 woman and there were a total of 100M woman doing this a little before WWII. That’s how they had more manpower.

@KonEl-BlackZero 4 жыл бұрын

Also in Norilsk there are 40 days without daylight and according to a documentary there are invisible fogs without oxygen that can suffocate you on the street. You cant get more russian than that.

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

I know! It's crazy!

@SuperGman117 4 жыл бұрын

That shit's straight out of STALKER

@kryzys904 4 жыл бұрын

sounds like Half-Life 2 Beta

@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 4 жыл бұрын

How do you even get an oxygenless fog? That’s easily the most badass weather phenomenon I’ve heard.

@a.morphous66 3 жыл бұрын

Now we know where the inspiration for Pathologic came from.

@techyn8502 4 жыл бұрын

"The average person in Norilsk live 10 years less..." Me: that's bad "than other Russians" Me: Oh, that's really bad

@jamescrab4110 4 жыл бұрын

Because America fucked all the healthcare after the fall of the USSR

@theArab__ 4 жыл бұрын

Coconut Crab true

@mrluk-ci4os 4 жыл бұрын

@@jamescrab4110 vodka did

@straydog3799 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescrab4110 That make no sense. Prior to the collapse, women would avoid pregnancy because they didn't want to end up in a Soviet hospital.

@straydog3799 3 жыл бұрын

@Cegesh I've literally read that from multiple sources.

@watermelonmaleesha2042 4 жыл бұрын

4:26 ''the river turned red'' SOVIET ANTHEM PLAYS

@_pruna 4 жыл бұрын

Slava Rusiaaa

@lazyidio 3 жыл бұрын

-test-

@studijasymrov7630 3 жыл бұрын

Sojuz njerushymyj rjespublik svobodnyx Splotila navjeki jedinaja Rus'...

@edgelord8337 4 жыл бұрын

Stalin: if you don't like you room There's always more space in the gulags.

@abirfahimfahin 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@theirishshane2914 4 жыл бұрын

Good god these city’s sound dystopian. There is a vice documentary about these artic circle cities

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

I think I heard about those, but I never ended up watching the,.

@raygiordano1045 4 жыл бұрын

The USSR was communist. That makes a dystopian nightmare a lead pipe cinch. I consider just about any history from the USSR nightmare fuel. My nightmares borrow freely from reading too much about commies.

@sarahfeel8646 4 жыл бұрын

What's the documentary called?

@daneal9443 3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahfeel8646 man never answered

@haroldsen4238 3 жыл бұрын

@@daneal9443 Never.

@nathanboeke838 4 жыл бұрын

4:26 “the nearby river has turned red” That is the most Soviet thing I have ever heard

@g1ngerrobot794 3 жыл бұрын

"No trees grow natrually" >Its the Russian arctic, trees dont grow there anyway.

@dapeepingreaper6266 4 жыл бұрын

Russia: no one will know *OUR* secrets KZfaq: is that so

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Reaper the peeper 😆

@colonelstriker2519 4 жыл бұрын

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I would say Sam is Crazier

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I'd say he's History House

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@TheServitor01 4 жыл бұрын

This video was like an old work experience. There are entire towns in Russia that have no power, no water, and almost no industry but maintaining, re-purposing, and salvaging failed factories. To see the people get up at dawn and leave at dusk every day in a near silent town is amazingly surreal.

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@murica3024 4 жыл бұрын

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@pawep5492 4 жыл бұрын

Ruusian secret city is gulag

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty close in some ways

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6:00 wrong borders

@Dourios_96 4 жыл бұрын

*comrade

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@LydiaMoMydia 2 жыл бұрын

0:12 damn that aged bad

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You go to gulag

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@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

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@AidanMartin 4 жыл бұрын

in soviet russia the secret keeps you a secret!

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@midge_gender_solek3314 4 жыл бұрын

I met a guy from Norilsk a coule years ago. He said it was fun living there, because they didn't have to go to school a large chunk of the year due to extreme weather conditions.

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The Russians were in Ukraine in 2013

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@foxfoster1 3 жыл бұрын

Him: most polluted city Me: Adds to Travel list

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Haha! I made it on GarageBand. XD

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I think he kind of predicted what just happened in the beginning

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@HistoryHouseProductions 3 жыл бұрын

You're learning about secret cities in school?

@OWMANez 3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryHouseProductions nah 🤣 its the radioaktive Materials and that stuff ") thx again ^^

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@snoogkies 4 жыл бұрын

2 Truths And a Lie, Russia Style. America: “Alright, Russia, your turn.” Russia: “Okie~… My name is Russia...” America: “Yeees...?” Russia: “It’s very cold where I live.....” America: “Of course....?” Russia: “Annnnnd.... The cities on this list exist~...” America: “...So they don’t exist?” Russia, with a gun to the head: “Uhhh.... Да?....” America: “...” Russia: “...” America: “...Sure...” Russia: “Yep......” America: “...” Russia: “...” America: “Mind if I visit you later-“ Russia: “PLEASE DON’T-“ America: “...” Russia: “...not visit.” America: “...Kay.” Russia: “Yup...” America: “...See ya.” Russia: *”O k A y~” America: “......Can’t wait to see those cities~” Russia: “NO, THEY DON’T EXIST-“

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

You just wrote a whole video.

@susanlee594 2 жыл бұрын

0:14 well that didn't age well

@blakjak8443 3 жыл бұрын

Is it weird that I just had this in my recommended videos after I watched Tenet, a movie in which the macguffin and final battle is located in one of these hidden cities?

@HistoryHouseProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Really? I haven't seen the movie.

@blakjak8443 3 жыл бұрын

History House Productions Yeah, I think it’s a fictional closed-city because I can’t find anything about it, but it was called Stalsk-12. It was the hometown of the main antagonist and some nuclear accident has caused it to become abandoned.

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I just discovered your channel and right now marathoning your videos,you're a really underrated channel and the only one to make me laugh while watching,I hope they will discover you some day and wishing you good luck not getting assassinated.

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thank you so much! I hope I don’t get assassinated as well!

@varangianguard7102 4 жыл бұрын

2:39 Chernobyl: "Am I a joke to you?"

@670HP-Package-NOW 4 жыл бұрын

Not great, not terrible

@command_unit7792 3 жыл бұрын

Its ukranian...

@adampecavar9496 4 жыл бұрын

Great video 😄

@BajanEnglishman51 4 жыл бұрын

Radioactive lakes aren’t a plot twist in the Soviet Union

@atomicwoodpecker0123 4 жыл бұрын

*the KGB did not like that*

@nickyefimenko2843 4 жыл бұрын

0:12 YEEEES

@ashdsf_ 4 жыл бұрын

The intercontinental missile joke was good

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Here before this channel explodes

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10000 subscribers. Congratulations

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Thank you! It's pretty crazy!

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Loving greetings from Finland :)

@manbun5194 2 жыл бұрын

The way he said Chelyabinsk had me seizing up

@noobmaster-no3yq 4 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work Connor. You are one out of 3 Americans who knows history!!!

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad to hear it!

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You are my favorite channel

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you like it! :)

@Wanking_wanker 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact norilsk is one of the most dystopian looking places on earth

@thatfamiiiarnight3665 2 жыл бұрын

0:19 well this aged poorly..

@tesserious1231 4 жыл бұрын

"It's the third worst nuclear Oopsie" hahah :) I like it

@dubuyajay9964 4 жыл бұрын

Will you ever cover Three-Mile Island?

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Your lisp is *adorable*, and makes your Russian pronunciations even more impressive. Subscribed!

@HistoryHouseProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thank you!

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Why study for your finals when the KGB is gonna get you anyway?

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You should have more subscribers... All of your video quality are beyond amazing.... Hope your channel will be monetize soon.

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Thank you so much!

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For some reason I can’t access YTLC music and it makes me really sad because we have a yearly tradition of blasting Puff a Swisher in the guys changing room on closing night after the performance. Please do something papa Cladwell.

@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 4 жыл бұрын

If you suddenly dissappeared we all know that you decided to relocate to Norilsk

@jm-mm4zj 4 жыл бұрын

Cool video

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Thanks!

@roombussr5676 4 жыл бұрын

Do we respawn once we die because we spawn in Russia, not get b o r n

@lukasoric8858 4 жыл бұрын

Putin want's to know your location!

@parkersturtevant5621 4 жыл бұрын

Neat video

@parkersturtevant5621 4 жыл бұрын

That heart was also pretty neat

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*Well cool*

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I miss your content so much.

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Another great video man.

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@130lukas 2 жыл бұрын

the intro is so beautiful these days

@MaytayMaya 2 жыл бұрын

0:13 this aged well

@martinstoyanov5180 4 жыл бұрын

Kremlin wants to know your location (69.69.420)

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Glad that someone caught that.

@metrixel1488 4 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on the Anglo-Dutch wars

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe some day!

@darry-garry 4 жыл бұрын

Are they visible with google earth?

@geofisika8838 4 жыл бұрын

I was a frequent visitor in Ozyorsk! My grandparents used to live there, but as they retired, they moved away. Sadly, I can't visit the town anymore.

@HistoryHouseProductions 4 жыл бұрын

That’s really interesting! What was it like?