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 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 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 Murmansk Marine Biology Institute base
Continuing the story about the small town of Dalniye Zelentsy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Storm simulation pool
This is an absolutely non-typical site with a strange and sad history.
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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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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 aircraft boneyard
The first airplane was located exactly at the spot indicated by the satellite map positioning data.
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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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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 industrial plant
The galleries are stretched on long distances, crossing and overlapping with each other.
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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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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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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.
