The Soviet Umbrella Corporation

Almost 45 years on the godforsaken island in the Aral Sea there was a Soviet Center for Testing biological weapons.

Interiors of the abandoned Lun ekranoplan

You can look at it from the outside in this post.

Let’s climb inside this ship/plane.

Abandoned Lun ekranoplan

Lun, the first in the family of military missile-carrying ekranoplans weighing 400 metric tons, was put into service in 1987.

Abandoned military base

It was a wonderful free weekend, and my friend and I rushed to explore this site.

Derelict military medical warehouses

Near the Russian city of Kostroma, a few derelict military storage bases are located.

Chernobyl-2

One of the most exceptional and secret sites in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is the object named Chernobyl-2.

Abandoned space communications station

A few dozen miles on foot through the snow. A barely walkable path winding through the woods. Our destination, the place we have come such a long way to see, is right around the corner.

A derelict shelter

Last fall we visited a half-abandoned, or, rather, currently inactive shelter located under a manufacturing facility.

Abandoned military warehouses

Here’s a short walk in the woods of the Moscow region.