The abandoned soviet HARP
Almost before the collapse of the Soviet Union near Kharkov was built an ionospheric research station , which was directly analogous to the American HAARP...
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A derelict industrial lab
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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Abandoned Tractor Plant
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...
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A uranium mine on the Kolyma River
At the 222 kilometer post (mile 138) of the Tenkinskiy Route near the Kolyma River there is a brightly colored sign warning about radiation.
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Abandoned Aircraft Prototype Workshop
One summer night, we managed to get to one of the largest aviation plants in Moscow.
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Abandoned lab at a forestry research institute
This small lab (as it later turned out, it used to research soil and forest problems) is part of one of the forestry management institutions.
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Old English Steam Machine in the Siberian Taiga
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.
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Secret base in the Siberia with Abandoned Trains
Near Yekaterinburg, on one of the bases of the Russian Railways, in the open air, rare trains are stored.
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A space capsule graveyard
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...
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Abandoned Kola Superdeep Borehole
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...
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A ghost town
This is a military town near Moscow that was abandoned in 2005. Taking into account its proximity to the capital, it is quite well preserved...
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Orbita – an abandoned satellite communication terminal
Nearly half a century ago Soviet engineers created Orbita (the name means “orbit” in Russian), the first TV system that allowed to broadcast the Central...
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Abandoned industrial plant
The galleries are stretched on long distances, crossing and overlapping with each other.
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Abandoned Hadron Collider
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...
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Mysterious dissected skulls found at Chukotka mining sites
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...
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An abandoned chemistry lab
When a large industry starts to decline and fall apart, it often drags down its scientific institutions and manufacturing facilities, too.
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Storm simulation pool
This is an absolutely non-typical site with a strange and sad history.
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Corrosion testing station above the Arctic Circle
Here, in the village of Dalniye Zelentsy, the Severnaya corrosion testing station, the only one above the Arctic Circle, still survives.
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Cemetery of Soviet computers
The building did not stand out. Unremarkable industrial building, which was built in hundreds of Soviet cities.
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A partially constructed essential oil production plant
Did you know that Europe’s largest lavender field, with an area of 120 hectares, is located in Crimea?
