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Abandoned Soviet buildings
Abandoned Soviet buildings
Abandoned Soviet buildings
An abandoned Gulag camp in Siberia. We hope they will never be needed again.
Abandoned Soviet buildings
The infamous mining town of Promyshlenny. More than 10 thousand people once lived and worked here. In the earlys, when the era of socialism ended and the time of savage capitalism came, the mine suddenly became unprofitable.
Abandoned Soviet buildings
Legendary Balaclava is once a secret but now abandoned submarine base on the Crimean coast near Sevastopol. Even relatives who worked on this secret facility were forbidden to visit their families without a special permission.
Abandoned Soviet buildings
Abandoned Soviet construction areas are a separate and very broad topic for research. To be short, no any other country in the world has such a huge amount of money and man-hours wasted.
Abandoned Soviet buildings
A complex of abandoned fortifications designed to protect against possible attacks of Japan is located not far from Vladivostok. Source: www.englishrussia.com
Abandoned Soviet buildings
An abandoned missile complex in Latvia also turned out to be useless after the breakup of the USSR.
Abandoned Soviet buildings
One can still find abandoned giant radar antennas costing millions of dollars and other unique pieces of bygone technological power.
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