Abandoned research laboratory
This time we will go for a walk in the autumn forest and visit a rather interesting place – an abandoned research laboratory.
Industrial
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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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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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Two abandoned Soviet shuttles
Baikonur Cosmodrome has just celebrated its 60s anniversary. Over these years many spacecraft tests have been conducted on its territory.
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Storm simulation pool
This is an absolutely non-typical site with a strange and sad history.
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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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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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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 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?
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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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Ore-dressing plant named after Vasily Chapaev
The Kolyma region is known not only for its rich gold fields, but also for tin metal exploitation.
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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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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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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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Abandoned lunar station in the Crimea
This is a story about one of the coolest, most unusual and least visited abandoned sites of the Crimea.
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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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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 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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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...
