Chernobyl: Two Days in the Exclusion Zone
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Drew spends a few days in one of the most irradiated-and misunderstood-places on Earth.
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Everyone say thank you to Vladimir and Natalya
Thanks Natalya abd Vladimir
Natalya is such a Fallout character.
Kyle Segovia lol YES
The suspense when he got lost was scary
@teddymurphy95 6.6 not great nor terrible.
“ Nothing is safe in the Exclusion Zone “
- Natalya
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!
So smart and great guide yeah!
I'm worried for her. How much of her normal is coming to this place that the rest of us will maybe only visit? What is the price she pays? That last bit - where what she hopes for is that travelers find some understanding and care for her people? Yeah, that made me want to visit the Ukraine right there.
agree :D
must be a true stalker inside
Nothing will happen to her because those places they visited contain only alpha and beta radiations.
What a fantastic guide!
"Eat bananas and everything will be ok." - Natalya.
Its kinda fun listening to Natalya saying 'gentlemen'. It was like something from a heist movie
Tyler's Goofs And Gaffs I was thinking of spy from tf2
"Where Do you work"
"Chernobyl As a Lunch Lady."
I still don’t know how the hell that would be safe to consume anything in his place
@@the_rustydoornob1164 Because it's definitely brought in from other areas, and looks fresh so I figure they get shipments a couple times a week. The reasons food can be dangerous come down to either being grown in radioactive soil (or coming from an animal that ate radioactive plants), or radioactive dust. That hotel looks really nice: I figure with it being in the exclusion zone, it likely has a ventilation system like a hospital that can catch the smallest spores of radioactive material. So with the windows shut and the system going, it'd be safe.
And to be fair, the larger circle of the zone isn't that dangerous anymore. His meter read around 1, or under, microSieverts (also written as μSv) every time I saw it on video. Most Americans get 10 μSv of radiation a day. A flight from NY to LA is 40 μSv. A dental x-ray is 800 μSv. A mammogram is 3,000 μSv.
The lowest yearly dose linked to increased cancer risk is 100,000 μSv. So he'd need to get almost 300 μSv of radiation a day for an entire year to be at risk of cancer.
Chernobyl is dangerous, and it's definitely not a place to live due to the invisible pockets of radiation and the fact that you can just breathe in the dust. But it isn't as dangerous that far out as he's acting it up to be.
Ok, Natalia is fantastic. I love her matter-of-fact humor.
Very stereotypically Ukrainian haha. My great grandmother was from Ukraine, and my grandmother had the very same kind of humour.
An interview with Anatoly Dyatlov - ua-cam.com/video/w2bUC6CcE7M/v-deo.html
"Separated from your group, miles from help, surrounded by invisible pockets of radiation" I'm pretty sure most survival horror games start like that...
STALKER. Fallout.
jeff peake STALKER literally takes place in Chernobyl
Fallout is a grey area sure, but there's legitimately no way you can not call STALKER survival horror. Having contact with people doesn't somehow exclude it from survival horror. Did you even play the game? There's plenty of games out there defined as survival horror that have contact with other characters, and STALKER is among them.
The start of Call of Pripyat is exactly that. Lmao.
It fits the description closely enough, you're just trying to be asinine.
Shoutout to the brave individuals that went headfirst into the fatal areas of radioactivity when the disaster happened so many years ago. Brave souls.
I can not even imagine...Was thinking that myself. I wonder if any survived 😞
I read that there would have been another explosion if a man (i don’t remember his name) didn’t sacrifice himself and went in the power plant to turn off the reactor completely
Most of the “liquidators” were paid in vodka and their gas masks were like the ones people wear from sawdust chips
@@andreeam1559 Three plant workers went in, knee deep in radioactive water, in the dark, with a molten core above them. They survived the mission and were successfull in emptying the coolant tanks. Soviet accounts mention that all three of them died within a week but that has been contradicted by the author of 'Chernobyl 01:23:40'
@@andreeam1559 actually there was a tank containing water beneath the core and it had to be cleared... Otherwise another explosion would have happened and that was supposed to be much bigger to effect the entire Chernobyl and many parts of U.S.S.R.... So three hot down down exactly under the exploded core and cleared off those tanks..... That's what I've heard...
y'all realize that's the white guy blinking meme guy
What
omgggg
holy shit, u right
"A town looking to the future, now locked in the past."
The real MVP: Natalya
Natalya - '''
You will not glow in the dark gentleman, nothing will grow on you, so dont worry''
Amazing girl
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
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.
Soviet Engineering for you.
its too true
Your school has WiFi?
Same
Naw man my high school no joke jams our phones
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
How is this documentary not called "Natalya's Story: The Best Guide That Ever Existed."?
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
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.
Maybe Id start crying for mommy but you never know.
For me, that was the coolest part of the video. How many people can say that they got lost in Chernobyl?
@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh how many people could say that they got lost and survived in chernobyl?
Its a scary thought. You don't know which direction to go and which path is safe to follow. You could go looking for your group just to hit a heavy radiation patch.
lmao i get freaked out when i get separated in the mall
Growing a new arm
In chernobyl
@@andrewmcd1211 or drunk 1 cup of vodka per hour for 4 hours.
Who has been fascinated with Chernobyl before the HBO series aired?
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.
L S is that equal to .8 rads
0.0008 rads actually
"Eat bananas and everything will be okay" is just good advice. Great job on this Drew.
Dan K I think we've found our first Cloth Map t-shirt design. "Chernobyl Tours: Eat Bananas and Everything Will Be Okay" 🍌
bananas contain potassium-40 which is slightly radioactive
Eats radioactive banana.....in Chernobyl
Bananas make my mouth feel funny
Blinking.... in *CHERNOBYL* never gets old.
@LoganPaul this is how you do a vlog when you go to some place new
Truee! Logan got no respect for any others country that he visit.
666 likes.
hilarious
You gotta be all about the respect.
When he can't respect his own country I don't expect him to respect others. I just don't support his abusive lifestyle.
"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.
Before HBO : Normal Comment
After HBO : “3.6 roentgen , not great not terrible”
Mildly contaminated
Amazing video sir and I thank you. Really well done.
Whoa, didn't expect to see you here Karak, glad to see you around here :D
Huh what? Hi ACG XD
Hey dad.
ACG at around 9:20 was there some guy standing in that broken glass outline
9:14 to 9:17
Plant the C4 and defend the area until the helicopter arrives.
Gav that mission can’t be done on hard it’s impossible
Beans r Gud
Just camp by the bumper carts, I do it every time on veteran.
I used to get triggered to that fucking mission
My right eye twitched reading that.. Please don't bring up anymore traumatic experiences from my youth..
V-Veteran?!?
You mad man!
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.
Me too such a good and dark tv series
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_*
K Q Ukranian to be exact
Ukraine
если ты видишь, что я бегу в ногу
Yes, they’re Ukrainian, BUT I still agree, this made me laugh.
Omegalol
"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*
tlarn blyat.
tlarn same i saw it too lol
Yeah I noticed that!!
"50,000 people used to lived in this city,now it's a ghost town"
-Cpt. Macmillan
All ghillied up
"Nothing is safe in the exclusion zone" sounds like a quote you'd hear in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
I prefer this S.T.A.L.K.E.R quote "GET OUTTA HERE STALKER!"
@@dylanwilliams4302 I prefer "Cheeki breeki".
And he took a shower there 🤔
"A town looking to the future, now locked in the past" That is such an incredible thought
THIS is a documentary. Beautifully made
*"50,000 used to live here. Now it's a ghost town."*
"Get out of here STALKER"
Mac, its John
you still owe me for Pripyat
Oi SUSIE!!
That mission on vet tho ...
Authoritarian Bread it’s a lie everyone says that five million people lived there 116,000 people we’re evacuated
The entire “in Chernobyl” part reminded me so much of spongebobs “at night” episode
Tachanka Is God Taking out the trash
At night
Cooking burgers.
at night.
AAAAHHHH I BURNT MY HAND
in Chernobyl
MusicalTrash SQUIDWARD, I HAVE RADIATION POISONING
At night
Same uwu
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.
"...you're pretty fine." - Natalya to Drew
I wanted to give this a thumbs up but it's at 69 and I can't ruin perfection.
Ah, to be 12 again.
420 now
'Normal Ukraine. Clean. Relatively clean'
Relatively to a neighbour Belarus. They suffered the most.
The wind traveled so far only a couple of days after the meltdown, the UK was reporting the radiation on their beaches. It covered the entirety of Europe in just days. I believe it was polish workers at a plant there in Poland reported setting off their radiation detectors because the radioactive particles had gotten stuck to their shoes and were being tracked in, which is when people started suspecting something was up.
Not great. Not terrible.
“There is no tourism in the Exclusion Zone”-tour guide
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.
I watched a show on Netflex called scary tour destinations or something which was made by a journalist who's main goal was to see/experience tour spots around the world that normal people wouldn't usually go on. He did an episode about a radioactive spot in Japan I think. And I remember at one point in the bus ride they went through a really bad radioactive spot and someone remarked how she was happy to have already had kids, because being in this much radiation at any degree could effect the body. Which freaked out a girl on the bus, which the camera zoomed in on, she seemed to be in early 20s and was in the back seat. Now she seemed scared for her health. Which scared me for them.
@@zighaah9359 He was probably in Fukushima.
@@zighaah9359 Dark Tourist - Episode 2
Get outta ´ere, stalker!
Also, cheeki breeki.
Unless you're a journalist or scientist, good luck!
*muffled* *_a_* *_nu_* *_cheeki_* *_breeki_* *in* *the* *distance*
I was actually expecting to hear that😂
Don’t forget the bandit radio
i felt secondhand fear when he got separated
3/10 No stalker yelling Cheeki Breeki in the distance
YES! I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO MENTIONED CHEEKI BREEKI!
*cough cough* GET OUTTA HERE STALKER!
Ahh blyat I was looking for this
Marked One?! What the hell??
Hey bro!
"When it starts beeping at 3.0, that means you're in trouble"
[crosses into Pripyat]
*[Everyone's geiger counters start beeping like crazy]*
And they didn't even go "Oh no. That's bad."
“Not great, not terrible either..”
The production value of this masterpiece of a documentary is stunning
10:30 - So, you're saying Chernobyl has WiFi . . . hotspots?
I'll see myself out.
Barkeep's bar for sure
Im on my way to cheeki breeki.
*i n c h e r n o b y l*
Moral of the video, eat bananas and everything will be fine.
and all God's people said "amen"
Thank you very much mr. The president of Banana Republic not appreciate your advice
Ad 4 Bananas....
How to get attention at a party: “When I had a meal in Chernobyl..........”
😱
I fully expected those horses to have two heads.
Lololololol!!!!
Your profile pic is just a cherry on the top of your comment :D
Says the guy with the fallout profile picture
The males do.
Brahmin 😂
Was only gonna skim through it...watched the whole thing from start to end.
same
Same
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.
When your geiger counter hits 6.66 you know you're in trouble
6.66 is about half of the norm. 66.6 is about four times the normal level.
666 is a bit much - if you stay there for a week.
If you’re referring to that episode of top gear I actually just came from that
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.
"I am about to pass out just from all the physic exertion"
Me: Or From The Radiation.
50 thousand people used to live here. Now it is a ghost town.
Dominik Gadecki Mission Failed! We're compromised!
‘It’s better to have potassium then cesium’ lolol I’m dead
Radio active counter thing: going mental
Dyatlov: 3.6 ronken that’s fine
Not great, not terrible
Not great, not terrible. Mildly contaminated.
Worker:"is red like cooked lobster and throws up"
Dyatlov:He's delusional. Ive seen worse he'll be fine.
Why is Natalya so cool
Travalon the Russian accent 😂 it makes everything better
"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.
I'm 35 minutes in and it just hit me...
Is this the 'blinking guy' meme guy?
you think? i was thinking that too but i thought i was crazy
ITS HIM
It is
It is
Hey Squidward, guess what? I’m chopping lettuce... in Chernobyl!
I got radiation poisoning
...I n C h e r n o b y l
@@TacticalBaguette you made my day lmao
Buckowens Aka some random guy burger king foot lettuce
*I'm Taking out the Trash.*
*In Chernobyl.*
Im eating a sandwich
…. In Chernobyl
8:28 when you lose your mom at the store
Emelia hey that shit was scary
I think the tourism is going to explode because of the TV show.
Theres an article saying it has already lol
20:40 Surprised that detector let you through. If there's one thing Drew is, it's completely rad.
Natalya seems like a good friend
She cute af
L00Gi true. And not even in like a sexual way. Just like a “I wanna hang out and talk about Chernobyl” way. Lol.
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.
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!
In Prypiat...Didn't make the COD 4 meme.
"50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town"
Company Linge "meme"
it's 2018, every quote now is called a meme, god bless
Meme? Every quotes a meme now I guess.
I just said that
"Standing in the middle of a town that used to hold 50,000 people is eerie." Close enough.
"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.
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.
藤原Fujiwara me too!
I learned from eating it like true slav since childhood, thanks babushka.
@@Teck_Deck my mom makes kotlets often
unfortunately not kompot...too much work she says
lots of equipment needed or something idk
what was that cake looking thing at breakfast? blins?
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.
Stout Lager true. it was stupid of them to skip all the warnings and make it happened, i saw what happened on alot of ducumentaries. btw sont whonder about my name
Stout Lager Believe it or not the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was still in operation up until 2000
Proof communism is terrible
Western propoganda.
Bro what books were you reading?
Did you send the video to Natalya? Because that would be cool
Watching video about Chernobyl...… IN CHERNoBYL
You were in Chernobyl? Did you get close to the exclusion zone? Did you see anything of note?
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
Don't be scared of the radiation tbh humans are exposed to plenty of radiation daily and the amount there are Chernobyl really isn't that bad anymore.
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!
"Nothing is safe in the exclusion zone."
I don't know why but that just gave me so many chills.
Love Natalyia. What a great start to the series!
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
WHAT OMG
Connecting to Wifi.. *In Chernobyl*
Playing stalker...
Oh yeah, playing STALKER in chernobyl. That would be some inception shit awesomeness.
iN cHeRnObYL!!
The Timelords watching the top gear Chernobyl special in Chernobyl
А ну, чики-брики и в дамки My Friends!
"Blyat" -Workers of Chernobyl Reactor 4, April 26, 1986
“Everyone will see something different. What matters is that we go and look.” Damn that was powerful
Right off the bat, Natalya and Vladamir. Awesome
Disfavored some dope ass russian names 👌🏻
*Vladimir
Something eerie about seeing 6.66 on the Geiger counter in Chernobyl. I wonder what kind of paranormal stuff may happen there, if any.
Anyway, really great video. I loved this tour. Reminds me of when Exploring with Josh and his crew took a personal tour of this place. Also a great couple of videos. Too bad you could only be there for the two days. imagine staying there for a week or even a month, in the city that was.
Its no coincidence. Im sure theres all kinds of things there. Who knows
Oh shit Poltiergiests!
@Joshua Post because 777 is a sign of perfection, a sign of God.
666 is an omen of the Devil, the mark of the Beast used in the final days.
If it is true that paranormal things exist more in places with less humans, then it must be extremely scary at night. I have not seen lightposts so it is probably pitch black out there and god knows what human mind can imagine at that situation.
There is a website you can go to for a 5 day tour of Chernobyl
"Playing Final Fantasy 6.....in Chernobyl." I like this dude.
the world should take this place as a history lesson, not to screw up with radioactive stuff again, and respect it as well as deal with it properly
Respect the Zone, and the Zone will respect you back
well, probably also that if we were to dabble in radioactive stuff again (still are), then treat it properly so the facility can take a bomb and not have a radiation spill (which modern nuclear reactors are built to withstand. maybe not a bomb, but they're built to sustain extreme conditions like earthquakes and the such, and are also designed to negate meltdowns to the point where it's impossible for it to happen unless someone sabotages it, and i think even then they put in security measures to contain as much radiation as possible to prevent them from leaking, but that's just what i heard).
The real question is: Did you meet the ranger with the big iron on his hip?
Ambiso Tawsik - Only the Real will understand
Or the body of Texas red
The game was rigged from the start
Big iron on his hipppp
@@truepossumeggs Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter..
Natalya was amazing. Great video Drew!
Oh man, I can't imagine what it must feel like getting separated from your group while exploring the exclusion zone.
Not too bad, actually. Groups pass through on an hourly basis.
Wandel *DEATH*
Who knew that an abandoned radioactive place can be so beautiful?..
PhotonXWarrior abandoned places are quite beautiful
Maximillian Lylat I for one welcome the collapse of civilization!
“50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town” -Captain MacMillan Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare
You will not glow in the dark. Checks box. Nothing will grow on you. Checks box. Everything will be OK. checks box
this is a documentary that's a million times better than other documentaries that are also really good
You must have panicked a little when you couldn't find them xD
Absolutely amazing direction and camera work, your tour guide is a complete professional so well spoken and knowledged. Thank you for making this video Drew.