Another Russian city that would be worth covering in regards to pollution is Norilsk. The soil there is so polluted, it's economically viable to extract metals from it.
@@Telarii Murmansk is depressing because of it's climate and architecture, but not even the top 20 in terms of pollution. would even argue, not even all of it is awful and bad... it industrial and rusty but there are good views from some of the higher Micro-districts and one or two fairly decent looking streets in downtown. something which cannot be said about a lot of these cities
@@teeboogie3237 it has it's charms... I'll admit... though, I was more thinking of the "old" neighborhoods with their awkward wooden structures dating back to the 1930s (though, you must take into account I have not been for ages, so I would not know if they've been demolished in the last decade or so...)
Norilsk is wild. There's a massive plume downwind that stretches for a hundred miles of area where vegetation won't grow that you can easily see on google earth when zoomed out on the entire planet.
I mean let's be fair, providing information that casts Russia into a bad light while inside Russia is about as healthy as taking a swim in the White Lake...
Good one, Simon. Fair play, man. This could not have been easy to research and you did a great job for us presenting us this difficult story. Thank you.
Grew up in Soviet union, sure enough not near anything that toxic but the amount of used oil, surplus fuel, used chemicals and paint in production lines was all dumped in ditches around work place itself. There was no toxic waste collection of any kind it was all just dumped wherever or dragged into local landfill where it all was washed down in ground and drinking water eventually. Life expectancy has grown from 60 to 78 in that last 30 years, majority of men never saw retirement they just died off before that age.
The Western desire to cram Russia into of one or two popular Western books in which the world is presented in black and white manner speaks more about the West than it speaks about Russia.
Never been this early in nearly 8 years😂 thanks Simon and team! Maybe do a video on South Africa's nuclear power plant Koeberg? It's said to be cracking and we just kinda live here😅
Bro how many channels do you have lmao? I’ve seen you on at least 5 different channels for the past 10 years you’re definitely devoted to yt and I enjoy ur content man
"Arzamas train disaster" is worth mentioning. A freight train featuring three goods wagons carrying 118 tons of explosives from Dzerzhinsk to the Kazakh SSR exploded at a railway crossing near the Arzamas-1 train station when hexogen included in the load detonated for unknown reasons, also detonating the other explosives stored in the wagons
Correction: Since Russia started the war with Ukraine, they do not, in fact, have McDonald's. They have knock-off that is now called 'Tasty, period.' With limited menu, crappier quality and chronically disrupted supply chains.
There are no disruptions of any kind. I have a close friend living in Siberia and nothing is missing. Food is abundant and their natural resources are more than enough
@@fairywarthat's what your friend is being told by the state. Meanwhile national stockpiles run dry as the dictator sits on his throne of ill gotten gold telling the masses its all fine so they dont riot en mass. I mean, history man, dictatorships man. Is there any other outcome ultimately. Maybe I'm a pessimist now but Simon has informed us about dictatorships throughout history alot. 🤷♂️
This is literally what the anti-nuclear campaign predicted the areas around Chornobyl* and Fukushima Daiichi** would be like. *Now a wildlife reserve **Now clean enough to allow evacuees to return to their towns
@@blastermike_sd70ace80 Gutting our own EPA so more places in the US end up like this hell hole in RU. Tbf, my precursory reading into Zeldin would lead me to believe he's not a complete scumbag of a nominee like Scott Pruitt was.
You are engaging in a logical fallacy. With cars, urban smog was cleaned up by the late 1980s with fuel injection, catalysts, and EGR. Regulations since the late 2000s have made cars unreliable and expensive to own and maintain, within much benefit.
@@gregorymalchuk272 and why do we have fuel injection, catalysts and EGR? do you think we would have these things without regulation? of course we wouldn't. many places in the US would look like this city. companies never cared and will never care about you and your wellbeing.
Funny. You comment as if you know anything about Russia besides Propaganda. In the USA, there are more superfund sites closer to cities and large towns than any other place. Look it up yourself. Let's not forget over doses from drugs alone kill 110,000 a year in the USA. Let's not mention the 65 million abortions from all the sluuts that sl...ee...p around
12:37 The Russian government has dispatched 500 soldiers and 15 tanks to fight this pollution they speak of. They have not been too successful but are doing their best.
I lived beside the Oka river at Kaluga, about 160KM South West of Moscow. I saw people fishing on the river & taking their catch home to eat. People swim in the river during the summer months too. I used to walk along the riverbank regularly and had no idea that the Oka flowed through the "most poluted city in the world"! I'm now wondering if Kaluga is upstream or downstream from the pollution epicentre?
Aw, it's my grandma's town! That brings memories. ^^ Yes, tap water smells awful in most parts of the city, nobody drinks that. People buy drinking water. I used to swim in Oka as a kid though, and look at me, I'm still alive! :D
Dzershinsk (sic) “we are the most polluted city on earth Norilsk “bs we can mine rare earth minerals from the atmosphere” Asbestos “ you will all suffer in hell”
And yet, “real” communism has always turned into exactly this. What Marx tried to push for, Lenin evolved. To enforce it, freedoms had to be taken away. There is no form of communism that will ever be freely accepted. It’ll always be enforced by a dictator.
I've lived in Dzerzhinsk up until 1994, age 14, before the war visited it on average once in 3 years, still have family and friends there. For once it is not some closed town, anybody can visit it no prob. Life expectancy of 42 does seem overblown. It is a regular depressed provincial city, most ppl are trying to leave for larger towns like Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan and Moscow.
I often criticize the US of not having good public transport, so they have to drive thousands of kilometers in cars, having a lot of fossil-fuel-power-plants, have polluted a lot ... But what the soviets/ruzzians did to their land, is by far a lot worse!
Not only to their land. Everywhere where Russian soldiers stepped his foot and called you a brother. I am from Czechia and we had to spend enormous money to fix polluted soil, water etc. where Russians had their military bases. All buildings were looted. Not a single cable was left in a wall. Everything destroyed, polluted and stolen. We had to fix it after they left in 1990s. In 1950s Russians also stolen our uranium which they used to build nuclear weapons and now are threatening the whole world. Everyone critical to government was sent to uranium mines. They died of cancer. Including our WW2 heroes who served in the British army and fought against Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia. Our brothers… No thanks. Same would happen to Ukraine if they lose the war. You never want to be the brother with a Russian.
Yeah. Being Bidens perv leftists promotes war around the world, supporting genocide against Palestinians by funding Israel and another Jude name Judensky in UKRAINE. I don't remember that under Trump
@dieselboy610 Apparently the timestamp dropped. Nonetheless, dangerous presumption calling one decades older than you, a child, as clearly your prose demonstrates. Cheers.
I visited Dzerzhinsk in 1992 and also Cherepovets in 2007. The latter has a big steel works rather than a chemical works. I was unaware of its fame (infamy) so perhaps I have been lucky. So far...
One of the biggest problems to me is not the pollution in this city. It's the same problem all over the world. Once you contaminate this much ground and ground water what do you do with it if you dig it up? You have to put it back down somewhere and to me that's just moving the problem not cleaning it up. How exactly do you get rid of this level of contamination?
If one of the writers wants to hmu we can collaborate on a disgusting supetfund site that is still pouring chemicals in my local river, I worked there for a couple months and I know how management gets away with it.
They dredge the Tees, strangely all the shellfish, crabs, and lobsters died off from the Tyne to the Humber, Environment Agency said it was an " Unknown and Undetectable new virus"
I wonder if Tyler Folse (a nuclear engineer with a little over 10 years of experience in the nuclear power industry from engineering to operations to maintenance to emergency response to large capital projects. Who may not claim to know everything Nuclear, but can certainly share some knowledge) will react to this video?
@Places Is there something wrong with your microphone? The voice quality is terrible here. I listened anyway and I love your work, but just letting you know.. it's not great here.
The VPRO is one of the Dutch broadcasting companies for public television. They produce these documentaries for public TV and now also posted these episodes on UA-cam. The documentary you mention about Dzerzjinsk is the second episode from the series "Van Moskou tot Moermansk" broadcasted in 2010.
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Another Russian city that would be worth covering in regards to pollution is Norilsk. The soil there is so polluted, it's economically viable to extract metals from it.
And Murmańsk. Gotta be in the top 3 most depressing places I've seen in my life.
@@Telarii Murmansk is depressing because of it's climate and architecture, but not even the top 20 in terms of pollution.
would even argue, not even all of it is awful and bad... it industrial and rusty but there are good views from some of the higher Micro-districts and one or two fairly decent looking streets in downtown.
something which cannot be said about a lot of these cities
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 if you're way too into Brutalism architectur
@@teeboogie3237 it has it's charms... I'll admit...
though, I was more thinking of the "old" neighborhoods with their awkward wooden structures dating back to the 1930s (though, you must take into account I have not been for ages, so I would not know if they've been demolished in the last decade or so...)
Norilsk is wild. There's a massive plume downwind that stretches for a hundred miles of area where vegetation won't grow that you can easily see on google earth when zoomed out on the entire planet.
I mean let's be fair, providing information that casts Russia into a bad light while inside Russia is about as healthy as taking a swim in the White Lake...
The factories didn't close down, they dissolved.
They became one with the environment.
You see, this city is clean and green after all! /s
Good one, Simon. Fair play, man. This could not have been easy to research and you did a great job for us presenting us this difficult story. Thank you.
The balls on Russian administrators.
"We're sorry, your town does not exist and was demolished in 1965. Please kindly F the hell off."
I can’t understand how that system is “working” for so long , the kremlin doesn’t give a damn about his citizens besides you are a billionaire
im honestly convinced russia as an entire nation is irredeemable. like the whole place cannot be saved.
Remember that time Russia made a lake so radioactive you couldn't stand by the shore for 5 minutes without dying? 😢
Pretty sure karachay is still there.
@@trikstari7687 nope it dried up and they put concrete down so the dust wont blow away
@@trikstari7687 its been filled in with dirt over concrete blocks. Now that being said I wouldn't want to stand on that dirt.
How many channels does this guy has….
@@Eric.T.Cartman plenty
This place is terrifying.
Grew up in Soviet union, sure enough not near anything that toxic but the amount of used oil, surplus fuel, used chemicals and paint in production lines was all dumped in ditches around work place itself. There was no toxic waste collection of any kind it was all just dumped wherever or dragged into local landfill where it all was washed down in ground and drinking water eventually. Life expectancy has grown from 60 to 78 in that last 30 years, majority of men never saw retirement they just died off before that age.
When the government runs the polluter, who do you turn to? Communism, ladies and gents.
What do you expect it’s Mordor
The very air is a poison....
Orks don't care
Lol
The Western desire to cram Russia into of one or two popular Western books in which the world is presented in black and white manner speaks more about the West than it speaks about Russia.
bro is mad cause he got brainwashed lol
Strange how Tucker Carlson didn't choose this city to visit
🤣
Or Greta. Or Biden. Or anyone else, really.
Would you?
@@manicmechanic448Did they visit Russia?
@faithalsip2598 not that I'm aware.
Never been this early in nearly 8 years😂 thanks Simon and team! Maybe do a video on South Africa's nuclear power plant Koeberg? It's said to be cracking and we just kinda live here😅
I have seen Koeberg and it does look a little cracked
The whole of South Africa is cracking to be fair
How is there still a population there at all?
do you know the movie "the hills have eyes" 😂😂😂
It's Russia, they mistreat their people as disposable.
They're russians! The most ignorant and shameless people on Earth!
Simon has the same uniform on as his writers in the basement. Bulk order 😂
lmao I was thinking more of these books where you have to find the guy in the stripped shirt myself, just missing the red hat
Or Where in bloody hell is Simon? Id watch that series.
Hahaha 😂 the man knows a good deal 😂
Russian navy Shirt?
why regulations are needed..
Maga libertarian utopia. You can always sue someone.
Bro how many channels do you have lmao? I’ve seen you on at least 5 different channels for the past 10 years you’re definitely devoted to yt and I enjoy ur content man
5:20 "said woman unfortunately fell out of a window only a few days later."
"Arzamas train disaster" is worth mentioning.
A freight train featuring three goods wagons carrying 118 tons of explosives from Dzerzhinsk to the Kazakh SSR exploded at a railway crossing near the Arzamas-1 train station when hexogen included in the load detonated for unknown reasons, also detonating the other explosives stored in the wagons
I’ve been in dzerhinsk couple of times, it has a nice large park with oaks and small lakes, but yeah not the best town to live in
Correction:
Since Russia started the war with Ukraine, they do not, in fact, have McDonald's. They have knock-off that is now called 'Tasty, period.' With limited menu, crappier quality and chronically disrupted supply chains.
There are no disruptions of any kind. I have a close friend living in Siberia and nothing is missing. Food is abundant and their natural resources are more than enough
@@fairywarthat's what your friend is being told by the state. Meanwhile national stockpiles run dry as the dictator sits on his throne of ill gotten gold telling the masses its all fine so they dont riot en mass. I mean, history man, dictatorships man. Is there any other outcome ultimately. Maybe I'm a pessimist now but Simon has informed us about dictatorships throughout history alot. 🤷♂️
Crappier quality than _McDonald's?_
@@fairywar I am sure that as long as the supply of vodka resource is undisrupted, people in Russia are happy
Orc burgers in cardboard with grass relish? Ide heard they were called Mcputins
This is literally what the anti-nuclear campaign predicted the areas around Chornobyl* and Fukushima Daiichi** would be like.
*Now a wildlife reserve
**Now clean enough to allow evacuees to return to their towns
How is this city not closed for human habitation??
No.
Because Russia
@@comentedonakeyboard why’d I laugh though ☠
It's Russia! Life doesn't mean jack there!
I mean according to the government it hasn't existed since 1965 so if they closed it they'd have to admit it still existed.
Every day we edge closer to being the Imperium of Mankind.
Except we don't even get a god-emperor out of it...
@@noahgray543 we got more of a fat worm with a toupé.
So gutting the EPA is a bad idea then?
The EPA in russia ?
@@blastermike_sd70ace80 Gutting our own EPA so more places in the US end up like this hell hole in RU. Tbf, my precursory reading into Zeldin would lead me to believe he's not a complete scumbag of a nominee like Scott Pruitt was.
But think about how much money you could make without the EPA. Who needs clean water when you have money?? American dream baby!
You are engaging in a logical fallacy. With cars, urban smog was cleaned up by the late 1980s with fuel injection, catalysts, and EGR. Regulations since the late 2000s have made cars unreliable and expensive to own and maintain, within much benefit.
@@gregorymalchuk272 and why do we have fuel injection, catalysts and EGR?
do you think we would have these things without regulation?
of course we wouldn't. many places in the US would look like this city.
companies never cared and will never care about you and your wellbeing.
In Slovakia We used to say... 'where russian boot steppes, not even grass grow'... Too bad a lot of people forgot it nowadays
How many channels does this team have ?
Makes Port Talbot look like an oasis!
And THAT is saying something
I was gonna crack a joke about it being a wonderful vacation spot and then to my horror I found out that it’s actually home to a resort
7:49 Unit 4 at Chernobyl was the reactor that exploded, NOT Unit 3. Unit 3 operated safely until 2000.
who in their right mind would want to live to be 100 years old in russia anyway.
Funny.
You comment as if you know anything about Russia besides Propaganda.
In the USA, there are more superfund sites closer to cities and large towns than any other place.
Look it up yourself.
Let's not forget over doses from drugs alone kill 110,000 a year in the USA.
Let's not mention the 65 million abortions from all the sluuts that sl...ee...p around
old people who love life
Who wants to live 100 years in USA anyway?
What about living in flit Michigan lol
@@You-Know-Youre-Right so about 3 people in ruzzia?
How many UA-cam channels does this guy have???
And that's why we need regulations -- to keep people safe from stuff like that!
12:37 The Russian government has dispatched 500 soldiers and 15 tanks to fight this pollution they speak of. They have not been too successful but are doing their best.
I lived beside the Oka river at Kaluga, about 160KM South West of Moscow.
I saw people fishing on the river & taking their catch home to eat.
People swim in the river during the summer months too.
I used to walk along the riverbank regularly and had no idea that the Oka flowed through the "most poluted city in the world"!
I'm now wondering if Kaluga is upstream or downstream from the pollution epicentre?
maybe that's why Putin wants Ukraine
Simone is amazing. He has like 50 channels
Thank you great video
Jacksonville Arkansas is somewhat familiar. I know they did cleanup there. Can you tell the story Simon
familiar? jacksonville never, ever looked like this, mate.
Oh, you've mentioned the White Sea. It's touching. It's something a lot of locale heard about, but I didn't think it's wildly known outside.
This city sounds like a hive world
Russia is a hive world
Yep, all directed from the kremlin by MorningLightMountainPutin...
Does the make Putin the emperor?
@lewiscliffe434 Putin probably thinks he has that much power lol. To Kyiv in three days, right?
Did you link the documentary?
The whole city sounds like a Superfund site
Simon, at 1:30 minutes in, are you alright? Just checking mate, you sounded like the tape went wavy 🙂
Awww, good old Mordor. What a paradise to live in and to die for.😅
"Every sandpiper praises its own swamp", as the saying goes.
Must be a sister city to Flint Michigan
Well 30% of Russias pipes are lead pipes
How many more channels of yours do I have to subscribe to?
VPRO World Stories is run by a dutch public broadcasting network
Nice, it's my hometown
No shot
Aw, it's my grandma's town! That brings memories. ^^ Yes, tap water smells awful in most parts of the city, nobody drinks that. People buy drinking water. I used to swim in Oka as a kid though, and look at me, I'm still alive! :D
Dzershinsk (sic) “we are the most polluted city on earth
Norilsk “bs we can mine rare earth minerals from the atmosphere”
Asbestos “ you will all suffer in hell”
VPRO is a dutch broadcasting company pretty cool they went there
How am I just now finding this channel. Anywhere Simon goes, I'll go
But that wasn't REAL Communism!
I can hear thefatelectritian screaming right now
And yet, “real” communism has always turned into exactly this. What Marx tried to push for, Lenin evolved. To enforce it, freedoms had to be taken away. There is no form of communism that will ever be freely accepted. It’ll always be enforced by a dictator.
Tism touch 👉
LOL It's still Industrialization. Capitalism & Communism are two sides of the same coin.
It’s a Soviet socialist paradise. Who would want to leave paradise?
Simon, WHY is this not on Into the Shadows instead of Places?
I've lived in Dzerzhinsk up until 1994, age 14, before the war visited it on average once in 3 years, still have family and friends there. For once it is not some closed town, anybody can visit it no prob. Life expectancy of 42 does seem overblown. It is a regular depressed provincial city, most ppl are trying to leave for larger towns like Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan and Moscow.
I often criticize the US of not having good public transport, so they have to drive thousands of kilometers in cars, having a lot of fossil-fuel-power-plants, have polluted a lot ...
But what the soviets/ruzzians did to their land, is by far a lot worse!
Not only to their land. Everywhere where Russian soldiers stepped his foot and called you a brother. I am from Czechia and we had to spend enormous money to fix polluted soil, water etc. where Russians had their military bases. All buildings were looted. Not a single cable was left in a wall. Everything destroyed, polluted and stolen. We had to fix it after they left in 1990s. In 1950s Russians also stolen our uranium which they used to build nuclear weapons and now are threatening the whole world. Everyone critical to government was sent to uranium mines. They died of cancer. Including our WW2 heroes who served in the British army and fought against Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia.
Our brothers… No thanks. Same would happen to Ukraine if they lose the war. You never want to be the brother with a Russian.
Where is the link?
Imagined trying to get directions to visit family and it tells you that it hasnt existed since the 60s.
When you’re deep in random shot at 2am and find ANOTHER Simon whistler channel lol
Really thought norilsk would be the city but he we go learning again
Thanks for sharing.
As of last night, now it's Washington, DC.
Yeah.
Being Bidens perv leftists promotes war around the world, supporting genocide against Palestinians by funding Israel and another Jude name Judensky in UKRAINE.
I don't remember that under Trump
Huh? That makes no sense. Get off the internet boy
@dieselboy610 Apparently the timestamp dropped. Nonetheless, dangerous presumption calling one decades older than you, a child, as clearly your prose demonstrates. Cheers.
Anyone know where the link to the VPRO documentary is?
ua-cam.com/video/lOz3JNLy41I/v-deo.htmlsi=cXDIw2-WVhcMxKts
That one bureaucrat wanted to make a comment but sadly fell out of a window the next day
It sounds like a Monty Python sketch
Nothing surprising to anybody from Eastern Europe.
I visited Dzerzhinsk in 1992 and also Cherepovets in 2007. The latter has a big steel works rather than a chemical works. I was unaware of its fame (infamy) so perhaps I have been lucky. So far...
Is it a coincidence that Simon is wearing a telnyashka
Thank you for this comment! I came to the comments section to point this out.
About as much coincidence as Simon dropping 3 Russian themed Videos at once.
"So a Big Mac. Large fry. Would you like to add a drink and make it a meal?"
Absolutely not!!!
One of the biggest problems to me is not the pollution in this city. It's the same problem all over the world. Once you contaminate this much ground and ground water what do you do with it if you dig it up? You have to put it back down somewhere and to me that's just moving the problem not cleaning it up. How exactly do you get rid of this level of contamination?
If one of the writers wants to hmu we can collaborate on a disgusting supetfund site that is still pouring chemicals in my local river, I worked there for a couple months and I know how management gets away with it.
Even 64 yrs is a terrible number
Chemicals outside of proceeational drugs, unacceptable.
Simon: DD-ZER-ZHINSK!
Wow! Another channel?
Why would you choose to live there?
I think I'd pass on that Sushi.
Some of the fish there are delicious. I had a delicious leg of salmon there 😂
We have a place like this in the US called Fresno
Is it me or is that VPRO world stories docu nowhere to be found? Cant find it on their youtbube chan either.
I think it’s in the NPO Start app, look for Dzerzhinsk - vervuilde stad.
ua-cam.com/video/lOz3JNLy41I/v-deo.htmlsi=cXDIw2-WVhcMxKts
Me being Thai and seeing a random bowl of Yum Mama at 0:13 in a video about Russia got me confused.
So basically Middlesbrough: Russian edition
😂 not far wrong, though the tees has marginally improved
I went on a night out there last month it doesn't seem that bad? Manchester is the worst city in England imo
They dredge the Tees, strangely all the shellfish, crabs, and lobsters died off from the Tyne to the Humber, Environment Agency said it was an " Unknown and Undetectable new virus"
I like to come to one of simons channels, find a cool topic or story and then go look up an actual good video on the topic.
Actually, there are or at least were several places named Dzerzhinsk, Leninsk etc.
What about Norilsk?
I wonder if Tyler Folse (a nuclear engineer with a little over 10 years of experience in the nuclear power industry from engineering to operations to maintenance to emergency response to large capital projects. Who may not claim to know everything Nuclear, but can certainly share some knowledge) will react to this video?
@Places Is there something wrong with your microphone? The voice quality is terrible here. I listened anyway and I love your work, but just letting you know.. it's not great here.
If Gotham actually exist
Was it named after Felix?
What a guess!
How appropriate!
What a guess!
How appropriate!
new simon channel new subscription, this brit has taken over the interwebs with his tea and crumpets
Look at that. We already have an Warhammer40k Adventure Park😅
Just when i thought i subbed to all the SW channels, another one pops up in my algo from out of nowhere 😂
I would have bet on Norilsk
Nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there.
Regardless how many times I block this guy, he always reappear in some form or another 😂
no link included
Why do you deliberately make your text LESS readable?
The VPRO is one of the Dutch broadcasting companies for public television. They produce these documentaries for public TV and now also posted these episodes on UA-cam. The documentary you mention about Dzerzjinsk is the second episode from the series "Van Moskou tot Moermansk" broadcasted in 2010.
The full episodes (for those who understand Dutch) can be found here ua-cam.com/video/kfJQong0CYI/v-deo.html
Hey, what do you want? This is Russia. They are not too bright over there.
Bit like the US. They just voted in a president with criminal charges/convictions against him.
Looks like Middlesborough........
METRO VIDEO GAMES IS BECOMING A REALITY
Most of inhabited Russia is just a step above a third world country. After the collapse of the Soviet union, the smaller cities was on their own.
Looks like former GDR.
correction. Chernobyl, it's 4th reactor
Certainly doesn't sound like the Russia I know.
How many channels does this dude have? 😂
10-12🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️😂
Yes.
10 channels - Astrographics, brain blaze, casual criminalist, decoding the unknown, into the shadows, megaprojects, places, science unbound, today I found out, warfronts.
IKR! 😀