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 Special Purpose Research Institute
Well, the abandoned high-rise building of one of the special purpose research institutes of the Moscow region is in front of us.
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Abandoned Murmansk Marine Biology Institute base
Continuing the story about the small town of Dalniye Zelentsy.
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We found a robot Joker and a Soviet lunar rover working in Chernobyl
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...
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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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Abandoned porcelain factory
This is a recently closed factory that used to manufacture ceramic, porcelain and gypsum items.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Storm simulation pool
This is an absolutely non-typical site with a strange and sad history.
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An airplane graveyard
On our way home from the Crimea in 2002 we had a chance to visit a very interesting site in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine.
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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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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?
