Abandoned Aircraft Prototype Workshop
One summer night, we managed to get to one of the largest aviation plants in Moscow.
Industrial
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Abandoned Metallurgy Giant
When I find myself in places like this one, to me they look like decomposing bones of the Soviet Union.
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Unfinished nuclear heating plant
Gorky heat supply nuclear plant is one of the two HSNPs in this country whose construction got under way in the early 1980s but was...
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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 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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Abandoned Genetic Laboratory
Laboratory building of biophysics and radiobiology. Closed and mothballed since 2000. Located in the town of Michurinsk, Tambov region.
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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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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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Abandoned space shuttles
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...
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An abandoned tropospheric communications station
On top of St. Michael Hill near the city of Anadyr, a number of huge non-operational antennas are towering.
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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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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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Abandoned Murmansk Marine Biology Institute base
Continuing the story about the small town of Dalniye Zelentsy.
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Abandoned industrial plant
The galleries are stretched on long distances, crossing and overlapping with each other.
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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 Energia-M booster rocket
This post is about the abandoned dynamic test system at the site 112 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Abandoned porcelain factory
This is a recently closed factory that used to manufacture ceramic, porcelain and gypsum items.
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A dead Dragon, or the remains of Sever TRRL
There is a landmark in the city of Magadan, a place of pilgrimage for the bored youth. These are some mind-blowingly huge red and white...
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A top secret missile testing center
Let me take you on a tour of a most fascinating place. This is one of the grounds of a missile testing center that is...
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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.
