
Cemetery of Soviet computers
The building did not stand out. Unremarkable industrial building, which was built in hundreds of Soviet cities.
The building did not stand out. Unremarkable industrial building, which was built in hundreds of Soviet cities.
Near Yekaterinburg, on one of the bases of the Russian Railways, in the open air, rare trains are stored.
The deepest borehole in the world is located in the west of the Murmansk region, ten kilometers from the city of Zapolyarny and very close...
Krasnoyarsk bicycle traveler Vladimir Chernikov and his colleague in the Russian Geographical Society Dmitry Semenov discovered an old English steam machine in the Siberian taiga.
The whole complex of buildings and territory of the Vladimir Tractor Plant are now owned by LLC VTZ Regulated Development Zone, which is undergoing bankruptcy...
One summer night, we managed to get to one of the largest aviation plants in Moscow.
This time we will go for a walk in the autumn forest and visit a rather interesting place – an abandoned research laboratory.
During our next illegal trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, my friend and I decided to go and look at the legendary moon rover, which...
A hundred kilometers from Moscow, near the Science City Protvino, in the forests of the Moscow region, was buried a treasure of tens of billions...
I have always been intrigued and attracted by anything that’s related to space. So, once upon a rainy night I opened the door of an...
Laboratory building of biophysics and radiobiology. Closed and mothballed since 2000. Located in the town of Michurinsk, Tambov region.
Almost before the collapse of the Soviet Union near Kharkov was built an ionospheric research station , which was directly analogous to the American HAARP...
Uranium mines of the Chukotka peninsula, that were the source for material used in the making of the first Soviet nuclear bombs, are something of...
A little more than a month ago I returned from a trip to the heart of the main space harbor of this country: the Baikonur...
When a large industry starts to decline and fall apart, it often drags down its scientific institutions and manufacturing facilities, too.
This post is about the abandoned dynamic test system at the site 112 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
At the 222 kilometer post (mile 138) of the Tenkinskiy Route near the Kolyma River there is a brightly colored sign warning about radiation.
On top of St. Michael Hill near the city of Anadyr, a number of huge non-operational antennas are towering.
Well, the abandoned high-rise building of one of the special purpose research institutes of the Moscow region is in front of us.
Once upon a night we got into a recently abandoned lab building, “recently“ meaning in the past few years, including the last year.
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