Russia's Secret Cities | Animated History of Russia

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  • Опубликовано: 6 дек 2019
  • 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.
    The ghost of Josef Stalin
    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/.
    “Soviet Closed Cities.” Atomic Heritage Foundation, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, 15 Aug. 2017, www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-closed-cities.
    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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Комментарии • 557

  • @jakobidelgado5592
    @jakobidelgado5592 2 года назад +188

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

    • @thomasboi2255
      @thomasboi2255 Год назад +9

      they've been there since 2013 so

    • @therealhistorybuff990
      @therealhistorybuff990 Год назад

      @@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
      @nikolozgilles Год назад +1

      💀💀💀💀💀

    • @Eazy-ERyder
      @Eazy-ERyder Год назад

      IKR

    • @zacharydurocher4085
      @zacharydurocher4085 10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @jmasters7515
    @jmasters7515 4 года назад +1435

    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
      @karandullet380 4 года назад +5

      J Masters holy shit why is this so funny 😂

    • @historyrhymes1701
      @historyrhymes1701 4 года назад +24

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

    • @zekessrover922
      @zekessrover922 4 года назад

      ROFL 😂

    • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116
      @misanthropicservitorofmars2116 4 года назад

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

    • @501ststormtrooper9
      @501ststormtrooper9 4 года назад

      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.

  • @techyn8502
    @techyn8502 4 года назад +607

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

    • @jamescrab4110
      @jamescrab4110 4 года назад +15

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

    • @theArab__
      @theArab__ 4 года назад +4

      Coconut Crab true

    • @mrluk-ci4os
      @mrluk-ci4os 4 года назад +11

      @@jamescrab4110 vodka did

    • @straydog3799
      @straydog3799 4 года назад +25

      @@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
      @straydog3799 3 года назад

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

  • @KonEl-BlackZero
    @KonEl-BlackZero 4 года назад +632

    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
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 года назад +79

      I know! It's crazy!

    • @SuperGman117
      @SuperGman117 4 года назад +94

      That shit's straight out of STALKER

    • @kryzys904
      @kryzys904 4 года назад +17

      sounds like Half-Life 2 Beta

    • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116
      @misanthropicservitorofmars2116 4 года назад +34

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

    • @a.morphous66
      @a.morphous66 4 года назад +6

      Now we know where the inspiration for Pathologic came from.

  • @edgelord8337
    @edgelord8337 4 года назад +294

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

  • @watermelonmaleesha2042
    @watermelonmaleesha2042 4 года назад +197

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

    • @_pruna
      @_pruna 4 года назад +1

      Slava Rusiaaa

    • @lazyidio
      @lazyidio 4 года назад

      -test-

    • @studijasymrov7630
      @studijasymrov7630 3 года назад +1

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

  • @nathanboeke838
    @nathanboeke838 4 года назад +61

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

  • @theirishshane2914
    @theirishshane2914 4 года назад +413

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

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 года назад +49

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

    • @raygiordano1045
      @raygiordano1045 4 года назад +25

      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
      @sarahfeel8646 4 года назад +6

      What's the documentary called?

    • @daneal9443
      @daneal9443 3 года назад +1

      @@sarahfeel8646 man never answered

    • @haroldsen4238
      @haroldsen4238 3 года назад

      @@daneal9443
      Never.

  • @g1ngerrobot794
    @g1ngerrobot794 3 года назад +28

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

  • @colonelstriker2519
    @colonelstriker2519 4 года назад +79

    This guy is Sam O’nella but historical and uses more color

  • @dapeepingreaper6266
    @dapeepingreaper6266 4 года назад +58

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

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    @angelwashere8864 4 года назад +54

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  • @murica3024
    @murica3024 4 года назад +25

    “The KGB wants to know your location.” -KGB

  • @TheServitor01
    @TheServitor01 4 года назад +12

    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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      @ History House Productions , Yes hey do one on the Mongol 🇲🇳 conquests

  • @pawep5492
    @pawep5492 4 года назад +77

    Ruusian secret city is gulag

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    @fyodorbocalbos7997 4 года назад +66

    Funniest history video to date. Love it man. Keep it up
    "Its 1945 and--"
    *nuke*
    🤣🤣🤣

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      @stix4768 4 года назад

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    @gerogegerog5926 Год назад +4

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  • @LydiaMoMydia
    @LydiaMoMydia 2 года назад +4

    0:12 damn that aged bad

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  • @pewpewman._.3415
    @pewpewman._.3415 4 года назад +47

    You know too much... *TO THE GULAG !*

  • @AidanMartin
    @AidanMartin 4 года назад +35

    in soviet russia the secret keeps you a secret!

  • @midge_gender_solek3314
    @midge_gender_solek3314 4 года назад +2

    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.

  • @ErinWronko
    @ErinWronko 2 года назад +4

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    @hewas_chewasky 2 года назад +4

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    @foxfoster1 3 года назад +3

    Him: most polluted city
    Me: Adds to Travel list

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      The Russians were in Ukraine in 2013

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  • @suggestiveguy
    @suggestiveguy 4 года назад +5

    I love ur videos
    But goddamn that intro song sounds like a ringtone you found on ur phone

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 года назад

      Haha! I made it on GarageBand. XD

    • @wouter7165
      @wouter7165 4 года назад

      Hey, don't judge the intro tune, it's cool... Hmm, setting it as a ringtone isn't actually a bad idea

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  • @susanlee594
    @susanlee594 2 года назад +3

    0:14 well that didn't age well

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    @dominikkirigaya9408 4 года назад

    Omg i watched only 2 of ur episodes for now but i fucking love them :V keep making ur job

  • @donate3235
    @donate3235 2 года назад +2

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

  • @adampecavar9496
    @adampecavar9496 4 года назад

    Great video 😄

  • @BajanEnglishman51
    @BajanEnglishman51 4 года назад +5

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

  • @giorgos6099
    @giorgos6099 4 года назад +4

    "Oversimplified would like to known your locasion"(new subscriber)

  • @blakjak8443
    @blakjak8443 3 года назад +3

    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
      @HistoryHouseProductions  3 года назад

      Really? I haven't seen the movie.

    • @blakjak8443
      @blakjak8443 3 года назад

      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.

  • @franciscomm7675
    @franciscomm7675 4 года назад

    10000 subscribers. Congratulations

  • @snoogkies
    @snoogkies 4 года назад +19

    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-“

  • @OWMANez
    @OWMANez 3 года назад

    thx so much for helping me... i needed that for the school : )

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  3 года назад +1

      You're learning about secret cities in school?

    • @OWMANez
      @OWMANez 3 года назад

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

  • @Galland780
    @Galland780 4 года назад

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

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    @theimperiumofman3714 4 года назад

    Here before this channel explodes

  • @ayyy_jayyy117
    @ayyy_jayyy117 4 года назад +8

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

  • @noobmaster-no3yq
    @noobmaster-no3yq 4 года назад

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

  • @tavish4699
    @tavish4699 Год назад +6

    this didnt age well....

  • @BluetheRaccoon
    @BluetheRaccoon 3 года назад

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

  • @ashdsf_
    @ashdsf_ 4 года назад +1

    The intercontinental missile joke was good

  • @jm-mm4zj
    @jm-mm4zj 4 года назад

    Cool video

  • @Stoplayers
    @Stoplayers 4 года назад

    Loving greetings from Finland :)

  • @varangianguard7102
    @varangianguard7102 4 года назад +5

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

  • @lukasoric8858
    @lukasoric8858 4 года назад +14

    Putin want's to know your location!

  • @atomicwoodpecker0123
    @atomicwoodpecker0123 4 года назад +14

    *the KGB did not like that*

  • @tesserious1231
    @tesserious1231 4 года назад +1

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

  • @roombussr5676
    @roombussr5676 4 года назад +7

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

  • @Wanking_wanker
    @Wanking_wanker 3 года назад +1

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

  • @potatoman5295
    @potatoman5295 4 года назад +1

    You are my favorite channel

  • @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146
    @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 4 года назад +1

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

  • @ConfederateSniper
    @ConfederateSniper 4 года назад +3

    YAY MORE OF UR VIDS

  • @parkersturtevant5621
    @parkersturtevant5621 4 года назад

    Neat video

  • @nickyefimenko2843
    @nickyefimenko2843 4 года назад +3

    0:12 YEEEES

  • @manbun5194
    @manbun5194 2 года назад +1

    The way he said Chelyabinsk had me seizing up

  • @Konmonachi
    @Konmonachi 4 года назад

    *Well cool*

  • @callumander4141
    @callumander4141 4 года назад +1

    yay! its here

  • @8bitorgy
    @8bitorgy 4 года назад +1

    your knowledge on russian and polish history deserves a fucking medal of some sort

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 года назад +1

      Haha! I’m not that great. I just read a lot.

    • @8bitorgy
      @8bitorgy 4 года назад +1

      @@HistoryHouseProductions well in my book you get the adidas gold 🏅 medal

  • @dubuyajay9964
    @dubuyajay9964 4 года назад

    Will you ever cover Three-Mile Island?

  • @coreystockdale6287
    @coreystockdale6287 4 года назад +5

    Russians are invisible in the crimea... operation unifier. Am i a joke to you

  • @RaisedbyaWildPackofCigarettes
    @RaisedbyaWildPackofCigarettes 2 года назад

    I miss your content so much.

  • @ProWalter2
    @ProWalter2 4 года назад

    I like this channel

  • @MaytayMaya
    @MaytayMaya 2 года назад +1

    0:13 this aged well

  • @130lukas
    @130lukas 2 года назад

    the intro is so beautiful these days

  • @metrixel1488
    @metrixel1488 4 года назад

    You should do a video on the Anglo-Dutch wars

  • @geofisika8838
    @geofisika8838 4 года назад

    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.

  • @YAH2121
    @YAH2121 4 года назад

    Norilsk sounds like some forbidden, cursed land that you only heard about in legends.

    • @hsalf2188
      @hsalf2188 3 года назад

      Yeah... I living here

  • @killerkraut9179
    @killerkraut9179 3 года назад

    cool