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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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 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 Murmansk Marine Biology Institute base
Continuing the story about the small town of Dalniye Zelentsy.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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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.
