Huge abandoned objects. Abandoned objects and equipment from the times of the USSR (42 photos)

After the collapse of the USSR, the young states inherited many once powerful military and scientific facilities. The most dangerous and secret objects were urgently mothballed and evacuated, and many others were simply abandoned. They were left to rust: after all, the economy of most newly-made states simply could not pull their maintenance, they turned out to be of no use to anyone. Now some of them are a kind of mecca for stalkers, "tourist" objects, visiting which is associated with considerable risk.

"Resident Evil": a top-secret complex on the island of Renaissance in the Aral Sea

During Soviet times, on an island in the middle Aral Sea a complex of military bioengineering institutes engaged in the development and testing of biological weapons was located. It was a facility of such a degree of secrecy that most of the employees who were involved in the maintenance infrastructure of the landfill simply did not know exactly where they worked. On the island itself, there were buildings and laboratories of the Institute, vivariums, equipment warehouses. Very comfortable conditions were created in the town for researchers and the military to live in conditions of complete autonomy. 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 the inhabitants, 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 removed everything that was thrown there from the island. The fate of the secret developments carried out on the island and their results - cultures of deadly microorganisms - still remains a mystery.

Heavy-duty "Russian woodpecker": radar "Duga", Pripyat

The Duga over-the-horizon radar station is a radar station created in the USSR for the early detection of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles by launching 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 to last for centuries and could successfully function to this day, but in reality, the Duga radar station worked for less than a year. The object stopped its work after the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Underwater shelter of submarines: Balaklava, Crimea

As they say 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 be accommodated at the same time. This military base was built in 1961 and abandoned in 1993, after which it was dismantled piece by piece by local residents. In 2002, it was decided to arrange a museum complex on the ruins of the base, but so far things have not gone beyond words. However, local diggers willingly take everyone there.

“Zone” in Latvian forests: Dvina missile silo, 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 silos with a depth of about 35 meters and underground bunkers. A significant part of the premises is 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 depths of the launch silos.

"Lost World" in the Moscow region: Lopatinsky phosphorite 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 the main types of bucket-wheel excavators were used - moving on rails, moving on caterpillars, and excavators walking with an "added" step. It was a gigantic development with its own railroad. After 1993, the field was shut down, leaving all expensive imported special equipment there.

The mining of phosphorites has led to the emergence of an incredible "unearthly" landscape. The long and deep trenches 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 - "absetzers" resemble alien ships rusting on the sands in the open. All this makes the Lopatinsky Quarries a kind of natural and man-made "reserve", a place of increasingly lively 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. AT best years 16 research laboratories worked at the Kola superdeep well, they were personally supervised by the Minister of Geology of the USSR.

A lot has been done on the well interesting discoveries, for example, the fact that life on Earth arose, it turns out, 1.5 billion years earlier than expected. At the depths where it was believed that there was no, and could not 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 is mothballed and is gradually being destroyed. The cost of restoration is about one hundred million rubles. There are many implausible legends about the “well to hell” associated with the Kola super-deep well, from the bottom of which the cries of sinners are heard, and the hellish flame melts the drills.

"Russian HAARP" - multifunctional radio complex "Sura"

In the late 1970s, as part of geophysical research near the city of Vasilsursk Nizhny Novgorod region built a multifunctional radio complex "Sura" 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, a specialized transformer electrical substation. The once secret station, where a number of important studies are still being carried out today, is a thoroughly rusted and battered, but still not completely abandoned facility. One of important directions research carried out at the complex is the development of methods for protecting the operation of equipment and communications from ion disturbances in the atmosphere of various nature.

Currently, the station operates only 100 hours per year, while at the famous American HAARP facility, experiments are carried out for 2000 hours over the same period. The Nizhny Novgorod Radiophysical Institute does not have enough money for electricity - for one day of operation, the equipment of the test site 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 protection, "hunters" for scrap metal now and then make their way to the territory of the station.

"Oil Rocks" - a seaside 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 bottom of the sea around the Black Stones - a stone ridge barely protruding from the surface of the sea. There are drilling rigs connected by overpasses, on which the settlement of oil field workers is located. The settlement grew, and during its heyday included power plants, nine-story dormitory buildings, hospitals, a cultural center, a park with trees, a bakery, a lemonade production workshop, and even a mosque with a full-time mullah.

The length of overpass 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 a shift shift. The period of decline of the Oil Rocks began with the advent of cheaper Siberian oil, which made offshore mining unprofitable. However, the sea town still 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 80s, the construction of a huge particle accelerator was planned in the Soviet Union. The scientific center of Protvino near Moscow - the city of nuclear physicists - in those years was a powerful complex of physical institutes, where scientists from all over the world came. A ring tunnel 21 kilometers long was built, lying at a depth of 60 meters. He is now near Protvino. They even began to bring equipment into the already finished accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals erupted, 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 underground. The lighting system works there, there is a functioning narrow-gauge railway line. All sorts of commercial projects were proposed, such as an underground amusement park or even a mushroom farm. However, scientists have not yet given up this object - perhaps they are hoping for the best.

The railway passes under the bridge into the tunnel, makes a loop and exits from the top of the hill to the bridge at a height of 38 m. The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Kholmsk railway was built under the Japanese by Korean forced laborers after the conquest of South Sakhalin. The construction process was extremely difficult, because most of the road passed through difficult places - high hills, mountain rivers, forests. There are versions that for every sleeper laid there is one dead worker.

The route can be started in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: by bus number 105a or personal transport to the village of Keys.

Spy radio station Teufelsberg in Berlin, Germany

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The "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 the new height turned out to be, built a radar station on its top to wiretap the Soviet neighbors. When Germany was united, the station was closed. For a 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 with the VisitBerlin card. At the top, there are picturesquely painted graffiti ruins, huge skeletons of locators with a tattered tarpaulin spectacularly flapping in the wind, and a great view of Berlin as a bonus.

Visiting 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 an institution that opened in 1836, suicide bombers were kept, 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 drive here organized tours, in which you can walk with your hands behind your back through the prison courtyard, sit on the bunk and even look into the gas chambers, where death sentences were carried out. For the most daring, there are night tours and ghost-hunting workshops.

Hashima Mining Island, Japan

Photo: Xavi Serrano	Photo: Iloé C. PARDO

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, polluted by birds, and within a few years, Hasima turned into one of the largest industrial centers in Japan. Mines, coal processing and industrial plants, houses, shops, schools, cemeteries, swimming pools and more than 5,000 people - 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, allowing them to take with them only the most necessary, 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 is copied from Hasima).

The cost of visiting - from $ 33

Power Plant IM power plant in Charleroi, Belgium

Photo: Markus Horn	Photo: James Charlick

The old coal-fired power plant regularly supplied energy to the entire Belgian region of Montceau-sur-Sambre, but was closed under pressure from environmentalists in 2007: their studies showed that it was Power Plant IM that generated 10% of all CO2 emissions in Belgium. The station is always promised to be demolished, but so far they have not gathered. In the meantime, the bottom line is that it is illegally visited by lovers of industrial ruins, photographers and curious tourists. The cooling tower looks especially impressive - a grandiose well with a funnel overgrown with moss in the center.

More: Charleroi is located 50 km from Brussels, the station is easy to find by the cooling tower sticking out above the town.

Amusement park Six Flags-Jazzland in New Orleans, USA

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Hurricane Katrina put an end to the local fun: Jazzland remained flooded with water for more than a month and, as a result, was almost completely destroyed. New Orleans restored after a 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: 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 largely rusted and crumbling to dust. Only a couple of towers are suitable for safe visiting - from one of them Red Sands Radio, supported by enthusiasts, sometimes tries to broadcast.

More: special cruises are organized to the forts from Whitstable Harbor - on the historic Greta sailboat (48 pounds, 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 involved in the restoration and conservation of the forts - and this is perhaps the only opportunity to visit the towers legally.

The cost of visiting - 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 stations. But in the end, the metro took over its functions, and in the 1930s the road was closed. Paths overgrown with grass and bushes, bridges and tunnels have turned into a spontaneous park - gloomy, painted with graffiti, dangerous at night, but very impressive and completely unformatted for one of the most tourist-trampled cities in the world. The municipality is considering revitalization projects for La Petite Ceinture: for example, launching tourist trains or mobile trains along a branch that goes around the entire center of Paris shopping centers selling souvenirs and fast food, but so far these are only projects.

More: officially, several pieces of the road between the 12th and 16th arrondissement are open for walking.

Monument Buzludzha, 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 hard money in honor of those glorious events: a stele crowned with a star, two clinking torches and a concrete bunker that most of all looks like a lost UFO. Here they accepted pioneers, celebrated the achievements of Bulgarian socialism and organized mass festivities with barbecues and fireworks. When socialism ended in Bulgaria, the monument was plundered a little more than completely - even the decorative interior lining of granite and marble was taken out. Only the concrete skeleton strewn with slag remained - but it also makes an unforgettable impression.

More: 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

Photo: Thomas Hawk

A shard of the Great Railway Era and best illustration by the end of Atlas Shrugged, Detroit's main railroad junction was once the tallest train station in the world. Every day, up to two hundred trains left from here to all parts of the country. But the railroads lost out to the airplanes, the automobile boom ended, and with it the city of Detroit, along with its skyscraper train station. The last train left from here in 1988, since then only vandals and film studios have been occupying the building - for example, some scenes from the movie "Transformers" and Eminem's video Beautiful were filmed here.

More: You can legally get inside the building only during extremely rare campaigns to draw attention to the architectural monument, when access is open to a limited number of visitors - mainly reporters and photographers.

Hospital Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany

Photo: Andreas Hermanspann	Photo: Christina (flickr)

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 from 1898, initially it was supposed to treat tuberculosis here, but in the end a whole medical town came out - with hospitals, sanatoriums and an institute where doctors were trained and research was conducted. 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 backdrop of clean and ruddy restored buildings, the devastation is even more impressive.

More: the hospital is located 40 km from Berlin, you can get there by train from Berlin Hbf station (every hour).

On the territory of the former USSR, one can find a large number of abandoned objects that remind us of greatness Soviet Union. Military facilities, equipment, factories, submarines and spaceships turned out to be unnecessary to anyone, and therefore their fate was not the best. Let's take a look at the legacy of the USSR cold war, which is found in Russia and neighboring countries.

Abandoned Collider. Protvino, Moscow region.

Aralsk-7, Renaissance island. A ghost town where biological weapons were rumored to be tested. Fully autonomous city was promptly abandoned in the early 90s.

Over-the-horizon radar station Duga (radar station Duga, Pripyat, Ukraine) was created for the early detection of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. 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 construction. The station was not on combat duty and did not pass the tests.

The Kola superdeep well (Murmansk region) is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters; diameter of the upper part - 92 cm, diameter of the lower part - 21.5 cm. (Archival photo of 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 of the American HAARP project in Alaska in the late 80s.

Kyiv plant electric transport has long history. The opening took place on May 1, 1906. In the photo: Factory shop in the 80s.

During 1974 - 1985. about a hundred new KTG cargo trolleybuses rolled off the assembly line every year. And this is how the Kyiv Electric Transport Plant looks today.

Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino. There are many Crimean secret (and not so) abandoned objects, because the peninsula was a line of defense in the south of the USSR and Russian Empire. This nuclear power plant, for example, was supposed to supply electricity to the entire Crimea.

They began to build the station in 1974, and in 1987, after the Chernobyl tragedy, the construction site was frozen. The station had already managed by that time to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world.

Object No. 221, Crimea - this is for real secret object. 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, 10,000 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 - underground submarine base in Balaklava. Secret military facility during the Cold War. The underground complex was built for 8 years - from 1953 to 1961. After closing 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 by a 100 kt atomic bomb).

Object 825 anti-nuclear doors.

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 involved in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A familiar sight for fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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 Izdeliye 1.02 "Buran-2" - the answer of the USSR to the American Shuttles.

In 1988, the space shuttle Buran (product 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 reduction of the space program.

Spaceships have remained frozen in time.

The building cannot be called destroyed, despite the deplorable state.

This is what the hangar looks like from the outside.

The Project 903 Lun ekranoplan missile ship is a Soviet aircraft carrier killer, as it was called in the United States. And that was not far from the truth. The ekranoplan was designed to deal with surface ships by launching a missile attack.

The harrier, due to its high speed of movement and invisibility to radars, can swim up to aircraft carriers at a distance of an accurate missile launch.

Lun has come a long way from the start of development in the 70s to the 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 the dock in Kaspiysk. All secret electronics have been put into storage.

Amderma, Lena-M radar. Village on the coast Kara Sea in Soviet times it was the center of the largest military infrastructure in the Arctic. Large radar installations were installed here and fighter aircraft were based.

Amderma, control point of the radar complex.

Amderma. Spheres of radio-transparent shelters for mobile radars.

And this is the suburbs, our days. A whole arsenal 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 secret military unit USSR - the whole city of Latvia is abandoned. There are many such ghosts throughout the former union.

The abandoned Eighth shop of the Dagdiesel plant in the city of Kaspiysk. Naval weapon test station, which was put into operation in 1939. Located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast.

If desired, abandoned aircraft can also be found in the expanses of the former USSR. This one, for example, is not far from the airport in Riga.

Yes, there are planes! Entire airfields are abandoned. Here, for example, in the city of Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.

Airport, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.

Abandoned planes, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.

Missile system 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 the K-159 during transportation for disposal.

Project 613 submarines - a series of Soviet medium diesel-electric submarines built in 1951-1957.

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website with bated breath presents a selection of the most mysterious places on the planet, which cause quiet horror and interest at the same time.

The combination of mystery and danger arouses interest and unwillingly attracts attention, and the view of nature, which calmly captures what people have created, returns us to an understanding of our own insignificance in the face of time.

San Ji ghost town, Taiwan

A luxurious resort on the sea coast was built specifically for the local rich. But already during the construction, a strange thing began. Dozens of workers died: broke their necks, falling from a height (even with safety ropes), died under collapsed cranes. The surrounding residents were sure that the town was inhabited by evil spirits. There were heartbreaking stories about a Japanese "death camp" that was once located there. In the late 1980s, construction stalled. The apartments never found buyers, and the authorities do not demolish the city, because people believe that in this way they will release evil spirits outside.

Abandoned military hospital in Belitz, Germany

The city of the same name is located 40 kilometers from the capital of Germany. During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. In 1995, people left the city, since then it has been gradually destroyed.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdiesel plant, Makhachkala

Naval weapon test station, commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction was carried out for a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the workshop changed, and in April 1966 this grandiose structure was written off from the factory balance. Now this “Massiv” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Lier Sikehus Psychiatric Hospital, Norway

The Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in the small town of Lier, half an hour from Oslo, has a dark past. Once, experiments were carried out on patients here, and for unknown reasons, four buildings of the hospital were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still working today.

Gunkanjima Island, Japan

In fact, the island is called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means "cruiser island". The island was settled in 1810 when coal was found there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were finally exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, China

The city was in Hong Kong, but did not obey the authorities, being run by the mafia. Inside, not only prostitution and drug trafficking flourished, but there was also self-government. In addition, the region had its own industry: semi-handicraft production of noodles and all sorts of small things. The products of enterprises were inexpensive: there were no taxes, and labor law local businesses did not comply. They had their own nursing home, kindergarten and school. In the early 1990s, the population density reached two million people per square kilometer.

After a complex process of eviction of the people living there, in 1995 a park of the same name was opened on this site. Some of the city's historical artifacts, including the Yamen building, and the remains South Gate have been saved.

Abandoned Salto Hotel in Colombia

In 1924, in the city of San Antonio del Tekendama, a chic Refugio Hotel El Salto. After some time, the hotel was closed due to the increasing cases of suicides of visitors. Sinister legends and rumors circulate around this place.

Church of San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico

The church, located in the village of the same name, was buried under the lava of the Paricutin volcano in 1944, the village was completely destroyed. Miraculously, the altar and the church bell tower remained untouched, surrounded by the ruins of the temple complex, protruding cones of solidified lava resemble foreign paintings.

The underwater city of Shichen in China

Ghost town Kolmanskop, Namibia

The ghost town of Kolmanskop, built in a place where small diamonds were found in the sand, which the wind brought from the ocean. Large beautiful houses, a school, a hospital, a stadium were built in the city, and the settlement quickly turned into a model german city. Everyone counted on long-term prosperity, but alas, the “diamond supply” quickly dried up. In addition, it was hard to live in the city due to problems with water and sandstorms, and people left it. Most of the houses are almost completely covered with sand and make a depressing impression.

Pripyat, Ukraine

An abandoned city located three kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After the accident in 1986, he fell into the exclusion zone and became a frightening ghost of the power of nuclear energy. Now organized excursions are led there, and stalkers come there for walks, but interest in this place does not subside, and new "urban legends" are born.