Military bases and structures, whose service life was designed for only a few years, or vice versa, objects built to support the millennial Reich, are scattered around the globe. Some of them have found a second life, while others are still abandoned and continue to collapse.
Hetel Air Force Base
RAF Base Hetel is a former RAF base that was used by the US Air Force and the British Air Force during World War II. The airfield is located 11 kilometers southeast of Norwich England; it is currently owned by the English sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus Cars.
Hetel Air Base in 1944
In 1966, Lotus Cars moved to a purpose-built facility on the site of the airfield and converted part of the runways and taxiways to test tracks for their cars. The plant and engineering centers occupy an area of 0.22 square kilometers of the former airfield; 4 km of former runways have been allocated for test runs. Most of the coverage of the remaining runways was removed and used for road construction, and some of the land was also returned to agricultural use. The old layout can still be seen in aerial photographs.
Today the company also operates in the field of engineering consulting, providing engineering solutions for the automotive industry. The Lotus Driving Academy, the racing division of Lotus Racing, is also located in Hetel.
Submarine base in Balaklava, Crimea. The entrance tunnel to this old Soviet submarine base
In Crimea, there is the Balaklava marine museum complex, which is an underground base for submarines. During the Cold War era, a super-secret military facility was located in Balaklava Bay.
Stalin issued a secret directive: to find a place where submarines intended for a retaliatory nuclear strike could be based. After several years of searching, the choice fell on the quiet bay of Balaklava and the city was immediately classified. The town of Balaklava is located in a narrow bay with a width of only 200-400 meters. Small coves protect the city not only from storms, but also from prying eyes, from the side of the open sea it is not visible from any angle. In addition, the site is close to Sevastopol, the main naval base of the Russian Black Sea fleet.
Old pier of Soviet submarines
In 1957, a special construction department number 528 was organized, which directly supervised the construction of underground structures. The construction of this underground complex lasted four years, from 1957 to 1961.
After closing in 1993, most of the complex was left unguarded. In 2000, the abandoned facility was transferred to the Ukrainian naval forces.
The museum was organized in 2002 in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, according to which a branch of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was established - the Balaklava maritime complex.
Abandoned Fort Ord Barracks
Fort Ord opened in 1940 and closed in 1994. This Fort became the largest US military base closed at that time. Most of the old buildings and infrastructure remain abandoned, but still many structures have already been demolished for the planned construction.
Fort Ord in the 40s
In April 2012, President Obama signed a declaration, according to which 5,929 hectares were given for the creation of the so-called Fort Ord National Monument. In his declaration, the President said that "protecting the Fort Ord area will preserve its historical and cultural significance, attract tourists and outdoor enthusiasts from everywhere and enrich its unique natural resources to the delight of all Americans."
Johnston Atoll, USA
Johnston Atoll is the so-called unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States. The atoll is administered by the United States Game and Fisheries Administration. Access to the atoll is possible only with special permission, and basically the contingent arriving there is limited to scientists and researchers.
For nearly 70 years, the atoll was controlled by the US military. During this time, it was used as a bird sanctuary, a marine fueling terminal, a landing pad for spacecraft, an airbase, a nuclear and biological test site, a secret missile base and, finally, a storage and destruction facility for the Agent Orange defoliant. The defoliant destruction work has severely polluted the environment, so restoration and monitoring work is ongoing there. In 2004, the US military base was closed and transferred to the civilian structures of the US government.
Zhelyava airbase in Croatia
Zhelyava airbase on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was the largest underground airfield and military airbase in the former Yugoslavia and one of the largest in Europe.
Construction of the Zhelyava or Bihac airbase (codenamed Object 505) began in 1948 and was completed in 1968. Over the past two decades, Yugoslavia spent $ 6 billion on construction, three times the current annual defense spending of Serbia and Croatia combined. It was one of the largest and most expensive military projects in Europe.
Command center
The airbase was used extensively in 1991 during the Yugoslav Wars. During the withdrawal, the Yugoslav People's Army destroyed the runway by filling previously prepared voids (directly intended for this purpose) with explosives and then detonating it. In order to prevent any possible use of the complex in the future by opposition forces, the military of the Serbian Krajina completed the destruction in 1992, detonating another 56 tons of explosives in it. The subsequent explosions were so powerful that tremors were felt in the nearby town of Bihac. Residents of the town said smoke was rising from the tunnels six months after the explosions.
The value of the destroyed major buildings and equipment is not measurable, and there has been a lot of damage to the environment. Possible restoration (reconstruction) of the object is limited by the lack of financial resources. The international border divides the base in two, and the entire area around it is heavily mined. The barracks in the nearby village of Lichko Petrovo Selo are run by the Croatian army.
Radar complex Duga 3, Ukraine
Duga-3 is a Soviet over-the-horizon radar system used as part of the Soviet missile early warning system. The complex functioned from July 1976 to December 1989. Two Duga-3 radars were deployed, one near Chernobyl and Chernigov and the other in eastern Siberia.
In the late 1980s, a Ukrainian radar located in a 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was deactivated.
Submarine base Saint-Nazaire, France
Before World War II, Saint-Nazaire was one of the deepest harbors on the Atlantic coast of France. During the Battle of France, the German army landed at Saint-Nazaire in June 1940. The harbor immediately began to be used for submarine operations; in September 1940, German submarines U-46 arrived at the base.
In December, a commission of the building management of the Third Reich checked the harbor for the possibility of building a submarine base, invulnerable to aerial bombardment from England.
The base is under construction, April 1942
Construction began in February 1941, and parking lots 6, 7 and 8 were completed in June 1941. Docks 9 to 14 were built from July 1941 to January 1942; and from February to June 1942, berths 1 to 5. Work ultimately culminated in the construction of the tower.
In late 1943 - early 1944, a fortified lock was built to protect submarines during their movement from the Loire River and shelters. The airlock was 155 meters long, 25 meters wide and 14 meters high, and anti-aircraft weapons were installed on the roof.
Air defense towers in Austria and Germany; pictured L-Tower in Vienna
Since 1940, only 8 huge concrete structures, the so-called anti-aircraft towers, have been built in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2) and Vienna (3).
Air defense towers were also built in other German cities, such as Stuttgart and Frankfurt. Smaller dedicated air defense turrets were built at key remote German locations such as Angers in France and Helgoland in Germany.
Tower during construction (1942)
During World War II, these towers were used by the Luftwaffe to protect cities from Allied air raids and coordinate air defense. During the raids, they also became shelters for tens of thousands of people.
Maginot Line, France. View of Fort Schoenenbourg in Alsace
The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications and gun complexes that France built along the border with Switzerland and the borders with Germany and Luxembourg in the 1930s. This line did not run along the English Channel because the French military did not want to jeopardize Belgium's neutrality. The French combat experience gained in the First World War formed the basis for the concept of the Maginot Line, the construction of which was carried out mainly in the 30s in preparation for the Second World War.
Bunker 14 in Uvrazh Hochwald in 1940
The French built these fortifications in order to buy time for their army, carry out general mobilization in the event of an attack and advance the French army into Belgium for a decisive clash with the Germans. The successes in the static, defensive battles of World War I had a significant impact on French military thinking. French military experts hailed the Maginot Line as a genius construction, believing that it would be able to prevent any invasion from the East.
If this entire system prevented a direct attack, then from a strategic point of view, it turned out to be useless, since German troops invaded through Belgium, bypassed the Maginot Line and attacked it from the rear.
At the end of 1944 and the beginning of 1945, the Germans were already defending the Line from the advancing allies, who again attacked it from the rear.
Maunsell Sea Forts in the North Sea
The Maunsell Sea Forts are located in the North Sea, off the coast of Great Britain, at the estuaries of the Mersey and Thames rivers. They served as fortifications for the army and navy and were named after their designer Guy Maunsell. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities, including hosting pirate radio stations. One of the forts is ruled by the unrecognized principality of Sealand. Vessels visit the remaining forts sporadically, and a consortium called Project Redsands plans to preserve the fort located at Red Sands.
Army fort in active service of Her Majesty
In the summer of 2007 and 2008, Red Sands Radio station operated from Fort Red Sands to commemorate the pirate radio stations of the 60s. The fort was later declared unsafe and commercial radio station Red Sands Radio moved to its coastal office.
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On the territory of the former USSR, you can find a large number of abandoned objects that remind us of the greatness of the Soviet Union. Military facilities, equipment, factories, submarines and spaceships turned out to be useless to anyone, and therefore their fate was not the best. Let's take a look at the legacy of the USSR during the Cold War, which is found in Russia and the neighboring countries.
Abandoned collider. Protvino, Moscow region.
Aralsk-7, Vozrozhdenie island. A ghost town where biological weapons were rumored to be tested. The completely autonomous city was urgently abandoned in the early 90s.
The Duga over-the-horizon radar station (Duga radar station, Pripyat, Ukraine) was created for the early detection of ICBM launches. Construction was completed in 1985 near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Radar Duga had cyclopean dimensions! Height - 140 m, length - 500 m. 200 thousand tons of metal were used for the construction. The station was not on alert and did not pass tests.
The Kola superdeep well (Murmansk region) is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters; the diameter of the upper part is 92 cm, the diameter of the lower part is 21.5 cm. (Archival photo from 1974).
Kola superdeep well. This is how the object looks today. In 2008, the facility was abandoned, the equipment was dismantled, and the destruction of the building began.
Station for the study of the ionosphere (Ukraine, Zmiev). It was built as an analogue to the American HAARP project in Alaska in the late 80s.
The Kiev Electric Transportation Plant has a long history. The opening took place on May 1, 1906. In the photo: Workshop of the plant in the 80s.
During 1974 - 1985. about a hundred new KTG freight trolleybuses rolled off the assembly line annually. And this is how the Kiev plant of electric transport looks today.
Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino. There are many Crimean secret (and not so) abandoned facilities, because the peninsula was a line of defense in the south of the USSR and the Russian Empire. This nuclear power plant, for example, was supposed to supply the entire Crimea with electricity.
They began to build the station in 1974, and in 1987, after the Chernobyl tragedy, the construction was frozen. By that time, the station had already taken a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world.
Facility No. 221, Crimea is a truly secret facility. The photo shows a dummy building that hides a chain of bunkers underground. Fearing a nuclear strike, the leadership of the USSR built a bunker for the Reserve Command Post.
Tunnels of object No. 221 (Crimea). In addition to the command post, 10 thousand people, officers and their families, were to be evacuated underground in the event of a nuclear threat.
The Crimean bunker was abandoned in 1992. According to some reports, he was 90% ready.
Object 825 GTS is an underground submarine base in Balaklava. A secret military facility from the Cold War era. The underground complex was under construction for 8 years - from 1953 to 1961. After it was closed in 1993, most of the complex was not guarded.
Object Object 825 GTS is located in Mount Tavros and is a structure of the first category of protection (direct hit of a 100 kt atomic bomb).
Anti-nuclear doors of Object 825.
It’s hard to believe, but there are whole cemeteries of equipment left for various reasons back in the days of the USSR. In the photo: Equipment that participated in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A familiar picture for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans.
This sad picture in the photo is an abandoned hangar near the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A few years ago, photographer Ralph Mirebs visited the hangar. Assembled space shuttles Item 1.02 "Buran-2" is the USSR's answer to the American Shuttles.
In 1988, the space shuttle Buran (item 1.01) made an automatic flight into space. In 2002, during the collapse of the assembly and test building No. 112, Buran was destroyed.
The collapse of the USSR and the growth of budget cuts forced the space program to be cut as well.
Spaceships have remained frozen in time.
The building cannot be called destroyed, despite the deplorable state.
This is how the hangar looks from the outside.
Rocket ship-ekranoplan project 903 Lun - Soviet killer of aircraft carriers, as it was called in the United States. And that was not far from the truth. The ekranoplan was designed to combat surface ships by launching a missile strike.
Due to its high speed of movement and stealth for radars, the Lun can swim to aircraft carriers at a distance of accurate missile launch.
Lun has come a long way from the beginning of development in the 70s to transfer to trial operation in 1990. And already in 1991, the operation was completed.
This is how the ekranoplan looks today. It was mothballed at a dock in Kaspiysk. All the secret electronics were handed over to the warehouses.
Amderma, radar Lena-M. The village on the shores of the Kara Sea in Soviet times was the center of the largest military infrastructure in the Arctic. Large radar installations were installed here, and fighter aircraft were based.
Amderma, control room of the radar complex.
Amderma. Balls of radio-transparent shelters for mobile radars.
And this is the Moscow region, our days. A whole arsenal of military equipment abandoned in the forest.
Such a picture, they say, is not so rare in our country. Entire military bases are completely abandoned.
Skrunda - once a secret military unit of the USSR - the whole city of Latvia is abandoned. There are many similar ghosts throughout the former union.
The abandoned Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant in the city of Kaspiysk. A naval weapons test station, which was commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast.
If desired, abandoned aircraft can be found in the vastness of the former USSR. This one, for example, is near the airport in Riga.
Why are there planes! Whole airfields are abandoned. For example, in the town of Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Territory.
Airport, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Territory.
Abandoned planes, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.
Rocket complex R-12 Dvina (Postavy). The complex was built in 1964 and was in service until 1994. One of the objects of the Cold War.
According to some reports, this picture was taken the day before the death of K-159 during transportation for disposal.
Project 613 submarines are a series of Soviet medium-sized diesel-electric submarines built in 1951-1957.
After the collapse of the USSR, the young states inherited many of the once powerful military and scientific facilities. The most dangerous and secret facilities were urgently mothballed and evacuated, and many others were simply abandoned. They were left to rust: after all, the economies of most newly-made states simply could not afford their maintenance, they turned out to be of no use to anyone. Now some of them are a kind of mecca for stalkers, "tourist" sites, the visit of which is fraught with considerable risk.
"Resident Evil": a top-secret complex on the Renaissance island in the Aral Sea
During the Soviet era, on an island in the middle of the Aral Sea, a complex of military bioengineering institutes was located, engaged in the development and testing of biological weapons. It was an object of such a degree of secrecy that most of the employees who were involved in the landfill's maintenance infrastructure simply did not know exactly where they were working. On the island itself there were buildings and laboratories of the institute, vivariums, equipment warehouses. In the town, very comfortable conditions for living in conditions of complete autonomy were created for the researchers and the military. The island was carefully guarded by the military on land and at sea.
In 1992, the entire facility was urgently mothballed and abandoned by all residents, including the security of the facility. For some time it remained a "ghost town" until it was scouted by marauders, who for more than 10 years took out from the island everything that was thrown there. The fate of the secret developments on the island and their results - cultures of deadly microorganisms - is still a mystery.
Heavy-duty "Russian woodpecker": radar "Duga", Pripyat
The Duga over-the-horizon radar is a radar station created in the USSR for the early detection of ICBM launches by starting flashes (based on the reflection of radiation by the ionosphere). This gigantic structure took 5 years to build and was completed in 1985. The Cyclopean antenna, 150 meters high and 800 meters long, consumed a huge amount of electricity, so it was built near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
For the characteristic sound on the air, emitted during operation (knock), the station was named Russian Woodpecker (Russian Woodpecker). The installation was built for centuries and could have successfully operated to this day, but in reality the Duga radar has worked for less than a year. The facility stopped working after the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Submarine underwater shelter: Balaklava, Crimea
According to knowledgeable people, this top-secret submarine base was a transit point where submarines, including nuclear ones, were repaired, refueled and replenished with ammunition. It was a gigantic complex built to last for centuries, capable of withstanding a nuclear strike; under its arches, up to 14 submarines could simultaneously be accommodated. This military base was built in 1961 and abandoned in 1993, after which it was disassembled by local residents. In 2002, it was decided to build a museum complex on the ruins of the base, but so far nothing has gone beyond words. However, local diggers willingly take everyone there.
"Zone" in Latvian forests: rocket silo "Dvina", Kekava, Latvia
Not far from the capital of Latvia in the forest are the remains of the Dvina missile system. Built in 1964, the facility consisted of 4 launch shafts about 35 meters deep and underground bunkers. Much of the premises are currently flooded, and visiting the launcher without an experienced stalker guide is not recommended. Also dangerous are the remains of the poisonous rocket fuel - heptyl, according to some reports, remaining in the bowels of the launch silos.
"The Lost World" in the Moscow Region: Lopatinsky Phosphate Mine
The Lopatinskoye phosphorite deposit, 90 km from Moscow, was the largest in Europe. In the 30s of the last century, it began to be actively developed in an open way. At the Lopatinsky quarry, all major types of multi-bucket excavators were used - moving on rails, moving on caterpillars, and excavators walking with a "side-by-side" step. It was a giant development with its own railroad. After 1993, the field was shut down, leaving all the expensive imported special equipment there.
Phosphorite mining has created an incredible “unearthly” landscape. The long and deep troughs of the quarries are mostly flooded. They are interspersed with high sandy ridges, turning into flat, like a table, sandy fields, black, white and reddish dunes, pine forests with regular rows of planted pines. Giant excavators - "Abzetzers" resemble alien ships, rusting on the sands in the open air. All this makes the Lopatinsky quarries a kind of natural and technogenic "reserve", a place of more and more active pilgrimage for tourists.
"Well to Hell": Kola superdeep well, Murmansk region
The Kola superdeep well is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters. It is located in the Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the city of Zapolyarny. The well was drilled in the northeastern part of the Baltic Shield exclusively for research purposes in the place where the lower boundary of the earth's crust comes close to the Earth's surface. In the best years, 16 research laboratories worked at the Kola superdeep well, they were personally supervised by the Minister of Geology of the USSR.
Many interesting discoveries were made at the well, for example, the fact that life on Earth appeared, it turns out, 1.5 billion years earlier than expected. At depths where it was believed that there is not and cannot be organic matter, 14 species of fossilized microorganisms were found - the age of the deep layers exceeded 2.8 billion years. In 2008, the facility was abandoned, the equipment was dismantled, and the destruction of the building began.
As of 2010, the well was mothballed and is gradually being destroyed. The restoration cost is about one hundred million rubles. The Kola superdeep well is associated with many implausible legends about a "well to hell" from the bottom of which the cries of sinners are heard, and the Boers are melted by the hellish flame.
"Russian HAARP" - multifunctional radio complex "Sura"
In the late 1970s, within the framework of geophysical research near the city of Vasilsursk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, a multifunctional radio complex "Sura" was built to influence the Earth's ionosphere with powerful HF radio emission. The Sura complex, in addition to antennas, radars and radio transmitters, includes a laboratory complex, an economic unit, and a specialized transformer electrical substation. The once classified station, at which a number of important studies are still being carried out today, is a thoroughly rusted and shabby, but still not completely abandoned facility. One of the important areas of research carried out at the complex is the development of methods for protecting the operation of equipment and communication equipment from ionic disturbances in the atmosphere of a different nature.
Currently, the station operates only 100 hours a year, while at the famous American facility HAARP experiments are being carried out for 2,000 hours over the same period. The Nizhny Novgorod Radiophysical Institute does not have enough money for electricity - for one day of operation, the landfill equipment deprives the complex of the monthly budget. The complex is threatened not only by lack of money, but also by theft of property. In the absence of proper security, "hunters" for scrap metal keep sneaking into the territory of the station.
"Oil Rocks" - the sea city of oil producers, Azerbaijan
This settlement on overpasses, standing right in the Caspian Sea, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest oil platforms. It was built in 1949 in connection with the beginning of oil production from the seabed around the Black Rocks - a stone ridge that barely protrudes from the sea surface. There are drilling rigs connected by racks, on which the village of workers of oil fields is located. The village grew, and during its heyday it included power plants, nine-story dormitory buildings, hospitals, a culture house, a park with trees, a bakery, a lemonade workshop and even a mosque with a full-time mullah.
The length of the flyover streets and lanes of the sea city reaches 350 kilometers. There was no permanent population in the city, and up to 2,000 people lived there as part of the shift shift. The period of decline of Oil Rocks began with the emergence of cheaper Siberian oil, which made offshore production unprofitable. However, the seaside town did not become a ghost town; in the early 2000s, major repairs began there and even began laying new wells.
Failed collider: abandoned particle accelerator, Protvino, Moscow region
In the late 1980s, the construction of a huge particle accelerator was planned in the Soviet Union. The Protvino scientific center near Moscow - the city of nuclear physicists - in those years was a powerful complex of physics institutes, where scientists from all over the world came. A 21-kilometer-long ring tunnel was built at a depth of 60 meters. He is now located near Protvino. They even began to bring equipment into the already finished accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals burst out, and the domestic “hadron collider” remained unassembled.
The institutes of the city of Protvino maintain the satisfactory condition of this tunnel - an empty dark ring under the ground. There is a lighting system, there is an operating narrow-gauge line. All sorts of commercial projects have been proposed, such as an underground amusement park or even a mushroom farm. However, scientists have not yet given this object away - perhaps they are hoping for the best.
Abandoned city: Industrial mining village. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, this village was suddenly cut off from electricity, and the government did not provide the necessary support. Photo: Oleg Shvets
When the water supply, gas and electricity stopped working, the residents of the village simply left their place and went in search of housing and work, leaving behind houses, property and the wreckage of a past life. Photo: Oleg Shvets
The things left by the settlers have survived to this day, becoming sad monuments to the past. Photo: Oleg Shvets
Abandoned Submarine Base: Object 825 - The small town of Balaklava on the Black Sea coast was once a secret submarine base. Photo: Russos
Even relatives of residents of Balaklava were not allowed to visit this closed military facility without a special permit to enter. Photo: Russos
In 1995, the complex was abandoned, but already in 2003 a museum was opened on the territory of the base. Photo: Russos
There is an abandoned and unguarded fuel storage near the base. Photo: Russos
Abandoned concentration camps are a stone reminder of mass repression, a sad monument to backbreaking labor and a mass grave for hundreds of thousands of those sentenced to death. Photo: angelfire.com
In most countries, desolation and devastation reign in abandoned buildings, which at their best were used for their intended purpose. In the Soviet Union, there are many buildings that have always been empty: the remains of unfinished projects, unfinished and abandoned due to lack of funds or as unnecessary. In a sense, they can be used to study a unique history - the history of a corrupt and shortsighted government, the history of an unfulfilled, in other words, the history of what could have been. This unfinished abandoned factory was supposedly supposed to produce concrete panels. Moscow region. Photo: EUTHANASIA
In 1997, in preparation for the World Youth Games in Moscow, a project for the construction of an aquadrome was approved. Building area 1.7 hectares, building area 43,500 sq. m., 12-storey with a glass sloping roof. The building includes 3 underground and 9 ground floors, 5 swimming pools, water slides, an athletics arena, a sports palace, a hotel for nonresident athletes, offices, a cafe, a center for physiotherapy exercises and medicine. In February 2002, the construction of the aquadrome was frozen. Moscow city. Photo: EUTHANASIA
Abandoned missile silos. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics inherited a dubious inheritance: the silos of long-range missile systems scattered here and there. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr
The photo shows one of such complexes located in Latvia. It included 4 mines, a central flight control panel, and an underground bunker. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr
Decommissioned mines have long become places of pilgrimage for numerous tourists. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr
Abandoned ocean military bases. Once the military bases of Vladivostok were considered part of the country's security system: strengthening the country's Pacific coast was designed to protect the USSR from possible aggression from Japan. Photo: Shamora.info
It's hard to imagine that incredibly complex, expensive machinery and equipment can be abandoned as easily as a dilapidated building. However, the builders of communism also distinguished themselves in this area: until now, rusting equipment can be easily found in abandoned fields, and the huge satellite dishes scattered throughout the country are apparently destined to disintegrate into elements. Image Credit Flickr Avi_Abrams
Abandoned Fort: Fort Alexander is popularly known as the "Plague Fort". Built in the 19th century, and already in 1869 it was excluded from the fortifications. Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio
At the moment, the fort is abandoned, and numerous visitors can only see it from boats. Even now, they are advised to wear respirators and rubber boots to avoid contamination. There is now a project to build an entertainment complex in the fort with a theater stage, a museum, a cafe, a bar, a restaurant, a shopping area.Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio
Abandoned "sea city": Oil Rocks is an urban-type settlement in Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea. It is located on a metal overpass, built in 1949 in connection with the start of oil production from the seabed. A "virtual city" with shops, pharmacies, schools and other buildings has been built around the oil rigs. All this splendor was connected to each other by bridges and overpasses. Oil production continues to this day, but the city has fallen into disrepair and is currently not inhabited. Abandoned buildings are slowly returning to the depths of the sea. Photo: Azerbaijan International Magazine, REGION plus, Travel-Images.com, Google Maps
Abandoned Mine: Some abandoned mines from the former USSR, located in the vicinity of the city of Kyshtym, are not radioactive. This potassium mica mining complex has been abandoned since 1961. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev
Then the explosion of the storage tank for radioactive substances caused contamination with radiation with a radius of 40 km and provoked the evacuation of more than 300 thousand miners. The incident was carefully concealed from the public. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev
The abandoned city of miners: On the Spitsbergen archipelago, there was once a whole Russian settlement - the city of Barentsburg, and three mines - the Barentsburg mine and the mothballed mines Grumant and Pyramida. Under the agreement of 1920, the archipelago was transferred under the jurisdiction of Norway, but other states, including Russia, which was traditionally present on the islands, were allowed to use the islands for any non-military activity. The USSR began mining coal. Photo: Erling Svensen
In the early 90s. for the Pyramida mine, a decision was made to shut down on the basis of the mine's unprofitableness. The population was given only a few hours to get ready. As a result, their abandoned houses resemble a picture from Chernobyl - abandoned personal belongings, books, children's toys. Photo: vizion, Anne-Sophie Redisch
Abandoned estates: Abandoned country houses and estates of historical and architectural value are in no hurry to restore. The reason is simple - the lack of adequate funding at the state level. The history of the Belogorka estate begins in 1796, when Paul I granted these lands to General L. Malyutin, who soon sold part of them to the marshal of the nobility of the Tsarskoye Selo district, F. Bely. At that time, the estate was called "Gorka", and after the death of the owner it began to be called "Belyagorka", and at the beginning of the 20th century it received its modern name. After the revolution, the estate was nationalized. The history of the estate is closely intertwined with the history of the country. The poet Joseph Brodsky spent the summer before leaving abroad in Belogorka. Places in the zokrug of Belogorka - the villages of Novsiverskaya and Starosiverskaya - are associated with the name of the landscape painter Ivan Shishkin. Photo: The Nostalgic Glass Abandoned Territories: Abkhazia is a territory that considers itself independent from Georgia. In the late 1980s, Abkhazia wanted to secede from Georgia and become part of Russia. This gave rise to the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992-1993. Photo: Natalia Lvova / ID Rodionova
In 1994. After a devastating war, as a result of which the Georgian side was defeated, Abkhazia gained independence and the status of an Unrecognized State. Now, due to the lack of funding in the country, it is impossible to restore the transport network and buildings destroyed during the war. Photo: Natalia Lvova / ID Rodionova
A week later, I decided to visit this place a second time, since I could not see most of it in one day, and besides, it was intriguing that it was located in numerous buildings on the territory. As well as the first time, people could not be found, even in the part that was supposed to be inhabited. The second time we got to the territory from another place, there were plenty of holes and began our inspection from the most remote corners of the military unit.
1. One had only to move a little away from the fence and the remains of equipment began to appear in small groups by the road.
2. Her condition is deplorable, apparently she has been lying for a very long time.
3. In some places, almost under every bush there is "ZIL" or "URAL".
4. Near the equipment deposits, there are small buildings, most likely their purpose is warehouses. Their condition is the same as that of technology - deplorable.
5. Scattered boxes of military appliances. One gets the impression that there was no utilization here, but looting.
9. These are already just suitable for scrap metal.
10. Through the entire military unit, railway tracks have been laid, next to which buildings appear here and there.
11. Note that this building has its own perimeter. Apparently something valuable was kept.
12. Fragment of the perimeter.
13. The whole building is entangled in such a net, I dare to assume that its breaking or stirring caused the alarm to go off and, as a consequence, a bullet from the guard.
14. But now everything is no longer working and you can seep through the door.
15. Inside dozens of boxes. They also noticed there that the ceiling was also under an alarm, tens of thin strings were stretched from above.
16. Out of curiosity, they opened the nearest drawers, and there are such things. Apparently these are repair kits for weapons and more.
17. There were a huge number of boxes with ammunition belts, boxes for machine guns and many other things including bipods.
18. As I understand it, what is above in the photos is the details of this weapon.
19. There were a lot of such boxes for cartridges, but they were all in boxes and boarded up.
22. Another building we are going to enter now.
23. There are again a lot of boxes.
24. Shops, pistol holsters.
25. Near one box lay a completely new radio relay station R-407, range 52 - 60 MHz. It reads in red letters "Attention! The enemy is eavesdropping.
26. There are about a hundred buildings on the territory, most of them are closed and empty. And nearby, an invariable part of this place, was scattered equipment.
28. You can't really say anything here, just in the autumn landscape, this technique fit well.
31. But this part of the territory looked quite lively.
32. The security of these warehouses was not weak before, probably even impudent mice cannot slip through, but now there is silence around, neither people nor animals.
33. It turned out to be very offensive with these warehouses, when they leaked inside, they saw a huge amount of location equipment and bags nearby, stuffed with parts from them. There were so many of them that they decided to postpone the inspection until later, but in the end I never returned there, but later
