Large abandoned buildings. Abandoned objects and equipment from the times of the ussr (42 photos)
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, visiting which is associated 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 The aral sea was located a complex of military bioengineering institutes involved 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 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 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 over-the-horizon radar station Duga 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). it giant structure It 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 successfully function 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; up to 14 submarines could be accommodated under its arches at the same time. This military base 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 poisonous rocket fuel - heptyl, according to some information, 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. All the main types of bucket excavators were used at the Lopatinsky quarry - 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 the correct rows of planted pines. Giant excavators - "Abzetzers" resemble alien ships, rusting on the sand under open air... All this makes the Lopatinskiy 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. Is in Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the town 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. V 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 emerged, 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 improbable legends about the "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, as part 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 object. 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 HAARP facility, 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. Due to the lack of proper security, "hunters" for scrap metal continually sneak 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 barely protruding 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 cultural center, 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 2000 people lived there as part of the shift shift. The period of decline of the 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.
What you see on your monitors is not stills from horror films, although each of the locations captured in these photos can be a ready-made set for a chilling thriller or horror tape. And here and there the filmmakers have already worked. The online magazine Unusual Hotels invites you to travel to virtual tour to the abandoned places of the planet, the sight of which makes even the most convinced pragmatists uncomfortable. 1.
Now it is a ghost town in the Kiev region, which was founded in 1970 in connection with the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and was deserted in April 1986 after the explosion of one of its power units. At the time of the disaster, about 43,960 people lived in Pripyat, including 15,500 children. Most of the townspeople were employees of the ill-fated facility.
Mir underground diamond mine.
It is located in the village of Mirny in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Western Siberia. Strictly speaking, this field is actively being developed today, so it cannot be called abandoned. However, mining is now carried out only underground, and open part The mine, 525 meters deep and 1200 meters in diameter, has not been used since 2001. This quarry is the 4th deepest in the world after the other Yakut field "Udachnaya", the Chilean Chuquicamata and the American Bingham Canyon.
Abandoned house on Seneca Lake, New York, USA.
The gloomy cottage, long abandoned by its inhabitants, makes an even more eerie impression from the fact that several old cars have found their last refuge in its immediate vicinity.
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Its construction began back in 1987. According to the original design, the Ryugyong Hotel was supposed to be 330 meters high. Had it been commissioned on time, it could have become the tallest hotel and 7th tallest building in the world. Futile attempts to complete the construction of Ryugyong continued for more than 20 years, until the authorities of the North Korean capital announced their intention to partially commission the facility in 2013. Which, however, has not happened so far.
Willard Asylum in New York.
Is it worth explaining the reasons why such an oppressive atmosphere reigns here. The institution was founded in 1869, the year the methods of curing mental ailments were not distinguished by any kind of humanity. The patients were within the walls of Willard not of their own free will and were subjected to rather cruel procedures. The clinic has been closed for 20 years.
UFO houses in Sanzhi, Taiwan.
Also known as plate houses. This is a complex of 60 buildings in a futuristic design that has not yet been commissioned.
Six Flags Amusement Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The once grandiose entertainment complex ceased to exist in 2005 after the infamous Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed the city.
Gulliver's Travels amusement park in Kawaguchi, Japan.
The magnificent view of Mount Fujiyama did not save this complex from ruin. Having existed for less than 5 years, Gulliver’s Travels closed due to financial problems of the owners.
Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island, New York, USA.
Frank Bannerman was a wealthy Scottish arms dealer who made an enormous fortune selling ammunition during the Spanish-American War. Not finding better place to store goods, he bought an island and built a castle in a traditional European style on it and used it as a warehouse. In 1969, a massive fire caused irreparable damage to the buildings, and the state government, which had bought the land several years earlier, decided not to rebuild them.
Disney's Discovery Island Park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
The area, owned by the Walt Disney Company, has been used as a zoo and reserve since 1974. The island was closed to the public in 1999, and all of its inhabitants moved to the nearby Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park.
Lighthouse at Cape Aniva in the Sakhalin region.
The 31-meter-high structure was built in 1939, but has not been functioning for many years and is being plundered by looters.
Railway station in Canfranca, Spain.
An international station was opened in the municipality of Canfranc near the border with France in 1928. The station managed to survive the Second world war but collapse railway bridge in 1970 led to its closure.
Miranda Castle in Sele, Belgium.
Built in 1886, the building has been uninhabited since 1991 due to legal differences between the heirs of the former owner and the local municipality.
It ceased to function due to the full depletion of the field.
Eilean Donan Castle on an island in the Loch Duich fjord, Scotland.
It was erected in the 13th century along with a stone bridge, through which communication with the mainland was carried out. In 1719, during the next battle between the Scots and the British, the building was destroyed. At the beginning of the 20th century, representatives of the MacRae clan bought the castle and began work on its restoration. Today this place is a tourist attraction and receives tourists from all over the world.
Hashima Island, Japan.
It is a small Pacific island located near the city of Nagasaki. The area has been rich and densely populated since 1810, when coal was discovered here. After the reserves ran out, the mines were closed in 1974. The population left the island in a few weeks.
Windmill building in Ontario, Canada.
One can only guess why no one showed interest in the restoration of the historic building, which had fallen into disrepair, since the equipment used in the production of flour was hopelessly outdated and the mill was closed.
City Hall underground station in New York City, USA.
The grand opening of the new New York subway station took place in 1904. After 40 years, it became obvious that the structure did not meet the technical operating standards. In 1945, City Hall was closed.
Orpheus Theater Hall in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
Was popular place entertainment of the urban public from 1912 to 1958. After the closure, it was used as a warehouse for tobacco products. Charitable organizations are currently raising funds to help restore the theater to its former glory.
Holy Land Park in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
Probably, the biblical stories on which the theme of the park was based ceased to be popular with visitors, and in 1984 the institution was closed.
Power plant building in the city of Monceau, Belgium.
More precisely, its cooling tower for water, which overgrown with moss for many years of inactivity.
Liner SS America, wrecked off the coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary archipelago.
For more than 50 years of operation, the vessel has changed several names and many owners. In early 1993, it was decided to arrange a 5-star hotel on board. But this never happened, as the liner got into a storm and ran aground.
Shi Chen underwater city in China.
Territory ancient city turned out to be flooded by an artificial lake after the completion of the construction of a local hydroelectric power station. The mysterious city, buried under a water column of 26-40 meters, is well preserved and still attracts the attention of numerous researchers.
Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
The territory, empty for several decades, finally attracted the attention of investors. In the near future, a new residential area with a developed infrastructure should appear here.
Munsell Sea Forts - Sealand, UK.
These are fortifications erected during the Second World War to protect the United Kingdom from German invasion. They got the name of their developer Guy Munsell. The troops left these structures in the 50s, after which they were used for other purposes. So, one of the forts turned into an unrecognized state called the principality of Sealand.
Site of the Great Wall of china, China.
This is a monumental border fortification, which was built to protect the borders of the Chinese Empire from the raids of nomads from the north. The construction of the wall began before our era, and in its history it has repeatedly been destroyed and forgotten. Despite the fact that restoration work has been carried out for more than 30 years, remote from tourist routes sections of the wall are still in a deplorable state.
Michigan Central station in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
It existed from the moment of its opening in 1913 until January 1988, when it was decided to terminate the operation of the station.
Dadipark amusement park in Dadizel, Belgium.
It was opened in 1949. After an accident that resulted in a serious injury to a child, the park was closed for renovation in 2002, but never reopened.
Military hospital in Belitz, Germany.
The complex of buildings located 40 km from Berlin was built between 1898 and 1930. After World War II, this territory was occupied by Soviet troops, and the hospital came under their jurisdiction. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent political events led to the closure of the institution.
Wherever he is, music has not been heard here for a long time.
Partially preserved Gothic stained glass windows almost block out the light, but the chairs are still waiting for the parishioners.
Wonderland amusement park in Beijing, China.
Its construction was suspended in 1998 due to financial problems, and never resumed.
Railway depot in Czestochowa, Poland.
Both the depot building and the trains themselves were not needed by the city.
This is just one of many objects of the military industry that fell into decay in the 90s.
Hotel Del Salto in Colombia.
In 1923, a mansion was built by the architect Carlos Arturo Tapia, which was later turned into a hotel. Due to the deterioration of the picturesque Tequendama waterfall, located nearby, the flow of tourists began to dry up. In the 90s, the structure began to decline. Currently, the hotel has received the status of an object cultural heritage, reconstructed and turned into a museum.
Christ from the Abyss of the Bay of San Fruttuoso off the coast of Italy.
The bronze statue did not sink at all. It was installed by scuba diver Duilio Markante, wishing to perpetuate the memory of his deceased colleague. The height of the statue is 2.5 meters, the depth of placement is 17 meters.
Railroad in Lebanon, Missouri, USA.
Apparently, it turned out to be unclaimed after the closure of the iron ore mines.
Eastern State Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The neo-Gothic building, erected in 1829 by the architect John Haviland, a hundred years later was honored to host the famous gangster Al Capone, who was convicted of illegal carrying of weapons and sentenced to 10 months in prison. The prison was closed in 1971, and now there are guided tours for everyone.
Tunnel of Love in Klevan, Ukraine.
A 4 km section of the railway line has become a natural monument that attracts the attention of tourists. Thickets of trees and bushes are tightly intertwined, forming a picturesque tunnel with an ideal arched shape.
The railway passes under the bridge into the tunnel, makes a loop and goes from the top of the hill to the bridge at an altitude of 38 m.The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk-Kholmsk railway was built under the Japanese by the forces of forced Korean workers after the conquest South Sakhalin... The construction process was extremely difficult, because most of the road passed through difficult places - high hills, mountain rivers, forest. There are versions that for each sleeper laid there is one dead worker.
The route can be started in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: by bus # 105a or by personal transport to the village of Klyuchi.
Spy radio station Teufelsberg in Berlin, Germany
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"Devil's Mountain" Teufelsberg appeared in Berlin after the Second World War: the fragments of almost 400 thousand destroyed buildings were brought to one place, covered with earth, and then the resulting hill was planted with trees. The Americans, in whose sector there was a new height, lined up on its top radar station for wiretapping Soviet neighbors. When Germany was united, the station was closed. Long time it was only possible to get inside illegally, but now the owners of the territory have opened official access, they drive organized excursions and even give a discount on the VisitBerlin card. Above, there are picturesquely painted graffiti ruins, huge skeletons of locators with a torn tarpaulin effectively flapping in the wind, and a great view of Berlin as a bonus.
Visit cost - 7-15 euros.
Missouri State Penitentiary, USA
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One of the oldest correctional institutions in America had a bad reputation even for a prison: in the institution, which opened in 1836, they held death row, riots and mass fights with a bloody outcome constantly broke out here. In 2004, it was closed, for several years the gloomy building was quietly dilapidated, but then the prison was converted into a museum. Now they lead here organized tours, within which you can walk around the prison yard with your hands behind your back, sit on bunks and even look into the gas chambers where death sentences were carried out. For the bravest, there are night tours and ghost hunting workshops.
Hashima Mining Island, Japan
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The island 15 km from Nagasaki was nicknamed Gunkanjima ("cruiser") - from the side it resembles a warship. About a hundred years ago, coal was found on this tiny piece of land, soiled by birds, and within a few years Hashima became one of the largest industrial centers in Japan. Mines, coal processing and industrial plants, residential buildings, shops, schools, cemeteries, swimming pools and more than 5,000 inhabitants - and this is on an island 200 m long and 500 m wide.When the coal reserves were exhausted, the mines were closed, people were taken out, with only the essentials, and Hasima turned into a ghost town: what it looks like today can be seen, for example, in the movie 007: Skyfall Coordinates (the lair of the villain Raul Silva was copied from Hasima).
Visit cost - from 33 $
Power Plant IM in Charleroi, Belgium
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The old coal-fired power plant regularly supplied energy to the entire Belgian region of Monceau-sur-Sambre, but under pressure from environmentalists it was closed in 2007: their studies showed that it was Power Plant IM that gives 10% of all CO2 emissions in Belgium. They promise to demolish the station all the time, but they still haven't gathered. In the meantime, the point is, it is visited illegally by lovers of industrial ruins, photographers and curious tourists. The cooling tower looks especially impressive - a grandiose well with a moss-covered funnel in the center.
More details: Charleroi is located 50 km from Brussels; the station is easy to find by the tower of the cooling tower sticking out above the town.
Six Flags-Jazzland amusement park in New Orleans, USA
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Hurricane Katrina put an end to the fun here: Jazzland remained submerged for more than a month, and as a result was almost completely destroyed. New Orleans rebuilt after the natural disaster, but the park is still in ruins and desolation, although the owners regularly report that they are about to start putting it in order. In the meantime, Hollywood directors are actively filming him in films about zombies and the post-apocalyptic world.
More details: the park is located 25 minutes from the city center.
Maunsell Tower Forts, England
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Anti-aircraft defense towers at the mouth of the Thames near Essex were built to protect London and Liverpool from the sea. After the war, some of them housed meteorological centers, others - pirate radio stations, and one of the platforms even managed to visit the self-proclaimed principality of Sealand. Today the forts are abandoned, the iron bridges connecting them for the most part rusted and crumbled to dust. Only a couple of towers are suitable for a safe visit - one of them at times tries to broadcast, supported by enthusiasts Red Sands Radio.
More details: special cruises from Whitstable Harbor are organized to the forts - on the historic sailing ship Greta (£ 48, www.greta1892.co.uk) or tugboat (x-pilot.co.uk). The operationredsandforts.com company takes from 45 pounds, and also offers to work in a volunteer team engaged in the restoration and conservation of forts - and this is perhaps the only opportunity to visit the towers legally.
Entrance fee - 45 - 50 pounds
La Petite Ceinture railway in Paris, France
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The ring railway was built in 1852 - it was supposed to connect the Paris train stations. But in the end, the metro took over its functions, and in the 30s the road was closed. The paths, bridges and tunnels overgrown with grass and bushes have turned into a spontaneous park - gloomy, painted with graffiti, dangerous at night, but very impressive and completely unformatted for one of the most trampled by tourists cities in the world. The municipality is considering projects for the revival of La Petite Ceinture: for example, to launch tourist trains or mobile shopping centers selling souvenirs and fast food, but so far these are only projects.
More details: officially, several sections of the road between the 12th and 16th Arrondismantes are open for walks.
Buzludzha monument, Bulgaria
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For the Bulgarian communists, this Balkan peak was sacred: it was here that the local Communist Party was established at a secret congress. In 1981, a monstrous monument was built here for fierce money in honor of those glorious events: a stele crowned with a star, two clinking torches and a concrete bunker that looks like a lost UFO. Here they were accepted as pioneers, celebrated the achievements of Bulgarian socialism and organized mass festivities with barbecues and fireworks. When socialism in Bulgaria ended, the monument was plundered a little more than completely - even the decorative interior facing of granite and marble was removed. Only the concrete skeleton covered with slag remains - but it also makes an unforgettable impression.
More details: The most convenient way to get to Buzludzha is from Gabrovo, combining a visit with a visit to the Shipka Pass.
Michigan Central Station in Detroit, USA
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A shard of the Great Railroad Era and the best illustration for the finale of Atlas Shrugged, Detroit's main railway junction was once the tallest train station in the world. Every day from here to all parts of the country left up to two hundred trains. But railways lost to planes, the car boom ended, and with it the city of Detroit - along with its skyscraper station. The last train departed from here in 1988, since then only vandals and film studios are engaged in the building - for example, some scenes of the movie "Transformers" and Eminem's video Beautiful were filmed here.
More details: to get inside the building legally is possible only during extremely rare actions to draw attention to an architectural monument, when access is open to a limited number of visitors - mainly reporters and photographers.
Hospital Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany
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The hospital complex consists of more than 60 buildings and is one of the ten most beautiful modern ruins. The hospital was built for more than 30 years - starting in 1898, initially it was supposed to be treated for tuberculosis, but in the end a whole medical town came out - with hospitals, sanatoriums and an institute where doctors were trained and conducted research. In 1916, Hitler was treated here, and in 1990 - Honecker. Restoration work is underway in some buildings, but most of them are abandoned and looted - and against the background of clean and ruddy restored buildings, the devastation is even more impressive.
More details: the hospital is located 40 km from Berlin, you can get there by train from the Berlin Hbf train station (every hour).
On the territory of the former Soviet Union, you can find a large number of large-scale projects that turned out to be unnecessary. The grandiose objects, on which a lot of money was once spent, fell into disrepair over time, and now they are of value only for curious travelers and diggers. This post will introduce you to the most creepy and mysterious places.
Ball under Dubna
In the forest near Dubna, in Russia, a huge hollow sphere with a diameter of about 18 meters can be found. It will be difficult to find it yourself, but the locals will always willingly tell you how to get to the local "attraction". From a bird's eye view, the ball can be mistaken for a UFO, but in reality it is a dielectric cap for a parabolic antenna for space communications. The hood was transported by helicopters, but the cable burst during transportation. Removing the dome was too problematic. By the way, it is made of fiberglass honeycomb structure. Any noise is amplified in it and a powerful echo is emitted.
Khovrinskaya hospital
An eleven-story abandoned, unfinished hospital in Moscow. Traditionally, it falls into all kinds of unofficial ratings of the most scary places planets. The construction of a multidisciplinary hospital began in the 1980s. It was designed for 1,300 beds. The construction was stopped after 5 years, when all the buildings had already been erected. Ironically, the Khovrinskaya hospital does not save all the following decades, but cripples and takes lives. Homeless people, drug addicts and thrill-seekers have already "registered" here for a long time. Accidents on the territory of the sick are a sad fact.
Crimean nuclear power plant
An unfinished nuclear power plant located near the town of Shchelkino. The first design calculations were made back in 1964. Construction began in 1975. It was assumed that this nuclear power plant will provide electricity to the entire Crimean peninsula. It was also supposed to be a starting point for the further development of industry in these places. The first reactor was planned to be launched in 1989, the construction proceeded without any deviations. However, the shaken economy of the USSR, together with the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, put an end to the Crimean project. At that time, more than 500 million Soviet rubles were spent on the station, and the warehouses had materials and equipment for another 250 million Soviet rubles. All of this was plundered in the following years. It should be added that the Crimean NPP was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive power plant of this type.
Balaclava
In 2003, for the first time in 46 years of its existence, the Balaklava submarine base appeared on public display. Today it is an exclusively tourist site, and once the base was one of the most secret sites of the Soviet Union. The huge underground complex housed submarines. The base could withstand a nuclear attack with powerful charges and was built in the event of an atomic war. The base consists of a water channel, a dry dock, numerous warehouses of various profiles and buildings for military personnel. The facility was closed in 1994, after the last submarine was removed from it. For many years, the pride of the Soviet Union was simply plundered.
Object 221
Not far from Sevastopol, in addition to the already mentioned base for the repair of submarines, you can find another once secret facility of the Soviet Union. We are talking about a bunker - object 221. It had many names, but behind all of them hid a reserve command post of the Black Sea fleet. You can find an object under the village of Morozovka. It was real underground city... Construction began in 1977. The object lies at a depth of 200 meters, where there are 4 floors of buildings. The total area of the underground part of the complex is 17 thousand sq. M. To date, the facility has been completely plundered and destroyed.
Atomic lighthouse at Cape Aniva
On Sakhalin you can find Cape Aniva, where the unique atomic lighthouse... The lighthouse has the height of a nine-story building. Previously, up to 12 people could be on duty in it. Today, this once unique complex has been completely plundered by looters and does not function.
Rocket complex "Dvina"
The collapse of the Soviet Union "presented" the former republics with a huge arsenal of various weapons, including launching silos. So, under the capital of Latvia, in the forests, you can find the once unique, secret start-up complex "Dvina". It was built in 1964. It is a huge complex of bunkers and silos, most of which have been flooded today. Visiting the complex is highly discouraged due to the remains of extremely toxic rocket fuel.
Shop No. 8 of the Dagdizel plant
In Kaspiysk, in Dagestan, you can find a unique factory building built right on the water. The workshop belonged to the Dagdizel plant. It was built to test naval weapons, in particular a variety of torpedoes and missiles. The plant was unique for the USSR. It was built on a pit with a volume of 530 thousand cubic meters, which was dug out with the help of special shells. An "array" was installed in it, onto which an all-metal 14-meter structure was later lowered. The total area of the constructed workshop exceeds 5 thousand square meters. The station was equipped for permanent residence and work. However, by the mid-60s of the XX century, the project was curtailed as unnecessary due to too rapidly changing trends in the design of weapons. Since then, the building has been abandoned and is gradually being destroyed by the Caspian Sea.
Lopatinsky phosphate mine
Not far from the city of Vokresensk, in the Moscow region, you can easily find a huge mine for the extraction of phosphates. This deposit is unique in Europe and the largest. The first developments here began in the 30s of the XX century. All types of multi-bucket excavators worked in numerous quarries: crawler, rail and walking. Rail excavators had special equipment for moving rails. Since the 90s, the mine has been virtually abandoned, the quarries are flooded with water, and expensive special equipment simply rotting out in the open.
Station for the study of the ionosphere
In Zmeev, a city district in the Kharkov region of Ukraine, you can find a unique station for the study of the ionosphere. It was built almost before the collapse of the USSR. It was a direct analogue of the American project "Harp", which was deployed in Alaska and is successfully operating to this day. The Soviet complex consisted of several antenna fields and one giant parabolic antenna with a diameter of 25 meters. Unfortunately, after the collapse of the union, the station turned out to be of no use to anyone. Today, incredibly expensive scientific equipment simply rots or is stolen by stalkers and non-ferrous metal hunters.
"Northern Crown"
Initially, the hotel "Severnaya Korona" was called "Petrogradskaya". Construction began in 1988. The hotel is famous not for its beauty, but for the huge number of accidents during construction. The fact that Metropolitan John died of a heart attack within its walls, immediately after the building was illuminated, did not add to the popularity of the complex.
Particle accelerator
The USSR could have had its own hadron collider. The construction of a unique complex began in the Moscow region, in Protvino, in the late 1980s. As it is not difficult to guess, the collapse of the USSR actually put an end to the scientific project. A 21-kilometer tunnel was already completely ready for the collider. Equipment has even begun to be delivered to the facility. Work continued after, but very sluggishly. Funding was literally enough only to illuminate the dilapidated tunnels.
"Oil stones"
You can find a real sea city in Azerbaijan. We are talking about the so-called "oil rocks". It appeared after Soviet geologists in the 40s of the XX century found huge deposits of oil in the Caspian Sea. Thanks to the development of mining, whole city on embankments and metal overpasses. Power plants, hospitals, nine-story houses and much more were built right on the water! In total, there were about 200 platforms with residents on the water. The total mileage of the streets was 350 km. However, the cheap Siberian oil that appeared later put an end to local production, and the city fell into decay.
