Pripyat, Ukraine.
Year found: 1970
Population:
- We have just entered, and we have already been informed that where we stand is more or less 10 micro Siverts.
- That's more, than by the Power Plant
- So we're going to make an unboxing of our dosimeter
- Our device for measuring the radiation...
- First ever unboxing of dosimeter, right in the Zone
- By the Ferris Wheel, in the amusement park...
[-Hello, you can lift up your drone, by only within the area of the park...]
- This is how it looks. End of unboxing, thank you.
The Ferris Wheel and the remains of an amusement park surrounding it, are probably the most characteristic elements of the city of Pripyat.
It often appears in photographs and is an obligatory point on the map of every stalker...
But we, as the ones of the few, decided to see it from above...
And we were not dissapointed...
- You were sending us to Pripyat a thousand times...
-...and we finally made it.
- We have reached the mythical city of Chernobyl Power Plant workers.
- We are here, and we will show you as much as we can.
Music school
- Why they ruined it like this? Couldn't they just leave it?
- This location is simply epic...
- By the way, we're testing our masks...
- And how you can breathe with them. Not that bad...
- There is some kind of dust on the floors...
- It's probalby from the plaster on the walls...
- Which creates a thin layer...
- As we step on it, we make it fly in the air...
-... so it's good to have a mask like this.
- We're going further in a moment, and heading to the Hospital.
- We're by the Hospital, we reached the place. I sit on this famous ginecology chair.
- We're entering in a moment...
-...to the basements...
- They say that the Liquidator's outfits can be found there...
- ...and that they're highly radioactive.
- We're gonna check it out.
- Let's go inside.
- I put my mask on, how about you
- Some files...
- The entire hospital is just odd
- It tells us some stories...
-...but this waiting room...
- ...appeals to the imagination...
- Scary
- Probably, there are undeground parts there. I'm not like going down there...
- ...cause I don't have a dosimeter
- I'm going upstairs
[-We got your brother. What is your price for him?]
- Just take him
[-We're waiting before the entrance, where the elevators. A cargo lift]
- Copy
[- We've located the entrance to the basement]
- I don't want to guess what kind of room was it...
- Looked like a bandage laundry. But did they laundry the bandages?
- The staircase
Hospital, Darek's cam.
-A basins storage...
- A plates storage...
- Marek went somewhere. I call him, but no response...
- We shouldn't split...
- That's why I coming out, to the orientation point, and will wait for him there.
Hospital basements
- What?
- Is this the basement?
- Looks like we found the basement with the Liqudators' equipment...
- What's the measures?
- Do they measure?
- It's clear for the moment...
The basement is one of the most contaminated places in the city of Pripyat. Entering only with dosimeter.
- Be careful there...
- Come on.
- You scared?
- It's clear for now
- It's getting hot...
- F*ck this, I'm coming out!
- Marek?
- I just panicked and evacuated from the basement...
- I reached the place, where some clothes, and jacket lied on the floor
- Maybe that was the famous Liqidators' outfits...
- The dosimeter shown us 25 microsiverts, the alarm started to beep
- And I ran
- 25 is not bad for your health. There ar places on earth, where...
- ...the radiation is higher...
-...and people are living there, and they're in good health.
- But in spite of it, when you hear that beep...
-...and see this higher number, it makes an impression.
- I don't know where they are...
[-Are you on the graveyard?]
- We're on the graveyard...
- It's a bit of radioactivity here...
- But it's units per hour, so...
- ...we stay only a moment in such a places.
- These are not even dangerous doses...
- We're looking for a way back, cause it's getting late...
- Contrary to appearances, the forestation is dense in Pripyat...
- For the past 30 years, all this had covered with trees.
- Well, ok. Now we are in the forest.
- But when you are first time here, It's hard to find anything in the field...
- Ok, we've found the way out from the graveyard...
- We're walking down the avenue, and trying to find the Hotel...
- There is a nice terrace on the top...
- ...and a nice view from it.
- We will meet there.
- On the highest floor of the Hotel, there is an observation deck...
- Which from you can see... Anyway, Darek told this already.
- You can see the Plant from there. Let's see how it really is.
- Over...
- Over 9000
- ...over 9000
- I decided to put a mask on...
- Because there is a bit windy in here...
- And creates the dust...
- I don't want to breathe it in. I'll show you how it is, how it WAS...
-...in the hotel rooms.
- There is a little problem. I can't open the door.
- There is no handle. I slammed shut myself here.
- I won't get out...
- Windy...
- Holy cow...
- I've just been given the information about Head Hunter
- Yo, this is just a lift mechanism
- We're on the top of...
-...and the elevator shaft is right above us.
- It's a machinery room
- Yup...
-...and this is a winch.
- I see a kind of thing for the first time...
- ...because in our blocks, the machinery rooms are always locked.
- And only one person has the key for it.
- Here you can actually see all the floors...
- ...but even if you can't, you might be...
- ...you might check how high it is...
-...doing something like this.
- But don't cut it, ok?
- You see, how it respondes?
- Yup, yup
- The wave goes down, then returns...
- Probably you can calculate the height of the building
- Very popular place in Pripyat.
- Frequently photographed
- The city of Pripyat and it's sudden metamorphosis is often shown by the photographs of this place...
- ...of the Cars.
- The place that was full of joy and life in the past...
- Now? You can see for yourself.
- The Cars are easy to miss, by the way.
- I didn't see it for the first time...
- Ob Jerky, from Ukraine...
- Recommended by Tube Raiders.
- Damn.
- I'm so hungry, man
- We are walking since the dawn...
- It's four per person, and none for you
Theater
- The sheet that lies here...
- ...is the background of some theatrical play
- This is another extraordinary place, very atmospheric
- I mean the interior. Exterior is not inviting at all...
- But when you enter in, you see all the constructions
- And the scene itself... Which is a revolving scene...
- Depending of the chapter of the play...
-...the scene revolved, showing different scenography to the audience.
- And the audience is there. The seats... We can go there actually...
- This is cool. It's simply amazing...
- All suspended on the steel cables...
-...some sunlamps, and stuff...
- So technologically it was a very advanced object.
- But you better watch out, because the floor is wooden and you can...
-...and you can fall under the scene.
-...where the actors prepared themselves. Deus ex machina...
-...coming out and closes the action.
- The window opened itself...
- Now you can see how dusty the air is...
- Now you know why we're wearing the masks.
- I saw something more curious...
- It's the curtain...
-...which fell down in the end of the play.
- One day it fell down...
-...and never went up again...
- They say, that the Zone explorers unofficialy challenges each other...
-...who will record higher radiation on one's dosimeter.
- It's sick...
- Well, we're not into this challenge...
- There is a 16-storey block before us, which we planned to visit today...
- But I don't know if we can make it. It's 16 floors, and climbing it in the dust...
- Tomorrow
- Right, tomorrow
- See you tomorrow.
- Ok, that's enough for today. We're going slowly to the bus...
-...but we were informed by Gamma 2, that...
-...there are some claims about the drone...
-...since it's the military area.
- And they are suprisingly not ok with flying around and shooting videos of all these facilities...
- Soo, we are little afraid, that they can confiscate our footage...
-...the SD card from the Phantom
- So we'll simply make a copy of it
- And on the control gate, if they want to seizure it...
-...so they can take it, we have a copy.
- The worst scenario is they will confiscate the laptop as well...
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