These creepy images of abandoned places on our planet give us an idea of ​​what this world would look like if people left it.

A tree grows in an abandoned piano

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UFO houses in Sanzhi, Taiwan

Also known as the Sanzhi Skeet Houses, a futuristic complex of 60 durable fiberglass UFO-shaped houses in Sanzhi County, Xinbei, Taiwan. An unrealized project of groups of companies under the patronage of the state of a complex of ultra-modern houses for the capital's rich.

Overgrown Palace, Poland

In 1910 this palace was built as a home for the Polish nobility. Under the communist regime, the palace became an agricultural technical school, and then a mental hospital. The building has been empty since the 1990s.

Jet Star Amusement Park, New Jersey, USA

These slides remained in Atlantic Ocean after Storm Sandy in 2013. They rusted for six months until they were dismantled.

Abandoned house in the forest

Church in Saint-Etienne, France

Abandoned church with dummies of parishioners, Netherlands

Puppet factory, Spain

tree sprouting through bike

Shipwrecks on a sandbar, Bermuda Triangle

Floating forest, Sydney, Australia

Cinema in Detroit, Michigan, USA

As Detroit deteriorated, many of its historical buildings were abandoned.

Shipyard in Vallejo, California, USA

The Mare Island Naval Shipyard served as a submarine port during both World Wars. In the 1990s, the building was abandoned and flooded.

House between two trees, Florida, USA

Titanic

The Titanic made its first and last voyage in April 1912. 73 years later, the largest ship in the early 20th century was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Circular railway, Paris, France

The Petite Ceinture railway was built in 1852 and ran between the main stations of Paris within the walls of the city. During its operation, it connected five city highways. Since 1934, the railway, as well as some of its stations, has been partially abandoned.

Spreepark, Berlin, Germany

In 1969, an amusement park with rides, cafes and green lawns was built on the banks of the Spree in the southeast of the city. After the unification of the two Berlins, the park lost its relevance and closed due to insufficient funding.

Library, Russia

Island house, Finland

Turquoise Canal, Venice, Italy

Like any other city, Venice has abandoned places. But there they look even more picturesque.

Stairway to nowhere, Pismo Beach, California, USA

Nara Dreamland Park, Japan

Nara Dreamland was built in 1961 as the Japanese answer to Disneyland and even included its own version of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Closed in 2006 due to low visitor numbers.

Abandoned Mining Road, Taiwan

abandoned pier

Bare footprints in an abandoned nuclear reactor

indoor water park

Elling, Lake Obersee, Germany

Abandoned administrative building in Italy

Methodist Church in Indiana, USA

Gary, Indiana, was founded in 1905 during the US steel boom. In the 1950s, over 200,000 people lived and worked in this city. After the fall of the dispute on steel, almost half of the city was empty.

Church in the snow, Canada

Blue spiral staircase in european castle

Soviet naval test station in Makhachkala, Russia

Church bell tower in frozen lake, Reschen, Italy

Lake Reschen is a reservoir in which several villages and a 14th-century church were flooded.

Glenwood Power Plant, New York, USA

This power plant, built in 1906, has long been outdated. After closing in 1968, it has been used as a location for filming thrillers and zombie films.

flooded mall

Train station in Canfranc, Spain

Canfranc is a small town located near the French border. In 1928, the largest and most beautiful at that time railroad station in the world, which was called "the sparkling gem of modernity."

In 1970, the railway bridge on the road to Canfranc was destroyed and the station was closed. The bridge was not restored, and the former "pearl of modernity" began to fall into disrepair.

abandoned theater

Car cemetery, Ardennes, Belgium

Many American soldiers on the Western Front during World War II purchased cars for personal use. When the war ended, it turned out that it was very expensive to send them home, and many cars remained here.

Attraction in Chernobyl, Ukraine

Abandoned hospital. Chernobyl, Ukraine

The city of Pripyat was deserted after the disaster in 1986 at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then it has been empty and will remain empty for thousands of years.

City Hall Subway Station, New York, USA

Station city ​​hall Station was opened in 1904 and closed in 1945. Only 600 people a day used it when it was in operation.

Abandoned house in Virginia, USA

Poveglia Island, Italy

Poveglia is an island in the Venetian lagoon, which during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte became an insulator for victims of the plague, and later an asylum for the mentally ill.

Gulliver's Travels Park, Kawagushi, Japan

The park opened in 1997. Lasted only 10 years and was abandoned due to financial problems

Lighthouse on Aniva rock, Sakhalin, Russia

The Aniva lighthouse was installed in 1939 by the Japanese (then this part of Sakhalin belonged to them) on a small rock Sivuchya, near the hard-to-reach rocky Aniva Cape. This area is replete with currents, frequent fogs, underwater rocky banks. The height of the tower is 31 meters, the height of light is 40 meters above sea level.

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

A castle located on a rocky island in the Loch Duich fjord in Scotland. One of the most romantic castles in Scotland, it is famous for its heather honey and interesting history. Films were filmed in the castle: "The Ghost Goes West" (1935), "The Master of Ballantrae" (1953), "Highlander" (1986), "Mio, My Mio" (1987), "And the whole world is not enough" (1999) , A friend of the bride (2008).

Abandoned windmill, Ontario, Canada

Shicheng Underwater City, China

Hidden under the water of the Thousand Islands Lake in China is the underwater city of Shicheng City. The architecture of the city remained almost untouched, for which archaeologists called it the "time capsule". Shicheng or, as it is also called "Lion City", was founded more than 1339 years ago. During the construction of the hydroelectric power station in 1959, it was decided to flood the city.

Seaforts of Munsell, UK

In the shallow waters of the North Sea off the coast of Great Britain, abandoned air defense sea forts stand above the water. Their main tasks were to protect the large industrial centers of England from air attacks from the most vulnerable direction - from the sea - from the mouths of the Thames and Mersey rivers and to protect the approaches from the sea to London and Liverpool, respectively.

Christ from the Abyss, San Fruttoso, Italy

Statue of Jesus Christ, located at the bottom of the sea, in the bay of San Fruttuoso, near Genoa. The statue, about 2.5 meters high, was installed on August 22, 1954 at a depth of 17 meters. Besides, in different parts light there are several similar statues (both copies of the original and variations on its theme), also bearing the name "Christ from the Abyss".

Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea

Now it is the largest and tallest building in Pyongyang and the DPRK as a whole. The hotel was supposed to open in June 1989, but construction problems and a lack of materials delayed the opening. The Japanese press estimated the amount spent on the construction at $750 million - 2% of North Korea's GDP. In 1992, due to lack of funding and the general economic crisis in the country, construction was stopped.

The main part of the tower was built, but windows, communications and equipment were not installed. The top of the building is of poor quality and may fall off. The current structure of the building cannot be used. The North Korean government is trying to attract $300 million in foreign investment to develop and build a new hotel design, but for now it has removed the long-term construction from maps and postage stamps.

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Unusual abandoned places around the world

Man has learned to create stunning beauty architectural structures, hundreds of times larger than itself. And there seems to be no limit to human imagination and human capabilities. The only pity is that nothing lasts forever, and even works of architectural art, sooner or later, due to various circumstances, are abandoned by people and given to nature to be torn to pieces. However, such abandoned places have their own charm, and even fascinate with their shabbiness, aloofness, as if they are hiding some secret known only to them.

Today we have collected many similar places from all over the world, not forgetting to mention our favorite abandoned building, for the fate of which we are the whole city ...

Belitz, an abandoned Soviet hospital near Berlin. The city of the same name is located 40 kilometers from the capital of Germany. During the First and Second World Wars, the city-forming hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. After World War II, the hospital ended up in the zone of Soviet occupation and became the largest Soviet hospital outside Soviet Union.

The complex is an architectural monument of the Art Nouveau style and consists of 60 buildings, some of which have been restored.

USA, the last house on the Dutch island. This house was once part of a fairly successful island colony in the Chesapeake Bay in the States. However, due to rapid soil erosion, there was less and less space left on the island. The house in the photo was the last one on the island, it collapsed in 2010.

In the twenties of the last century, a resort town appeared on the shores of the salt lake Lago Epecuen, located 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It was named Villa Epecuen, and soon its own railway station was built here. For several decades, prosperity reigned in the town. In the 1970s, when the city reached its peak of development, its population was about five thousand people. Around the same period, due to a prolonged cyclone, this hilly region received a much higher amount of precipitation than usual. Because of this, the water level in Lake Lago Epecuen has risen significantly. In 1985, the waters of the lake broke through the earthen dam, and Villa Epekuen was doomed to death. A flurry of floods gradually began to cover the town, until in 1993 the depth reached ten meters (33 feet). Soon the rains stopped, and by 2009 the water began to recede.

For comparison: a photograph of one of the streets of Villa Epecuen in the 1970s and now, after twenty-five years spent under the lake water.

Belgium. It is part of the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant in Monceau. A funnel-shaped structure in the center supplied hot water, which then cooled down by hundreds of small concrete troughs.

Belgium. Cooling chamber.

Namibia, the ghost town of Kolmanskop. This is a small abandoned settlement that flourished in the early 1900s. Then the German settlers started mining diamonds here. The influx of funds ended after the First World War, when the diamond field began to deplete. By the 50s, people completely left the city, and now only tourists and photographers come here.

Russia. Abandoned library. The books were not handed out to schools, they were not sold for nothing to orphanages and boarding schools, provincial houses of culture or vocational schools. They were left as they were - on racks, in a building with a leaky roof, turned off heating, broken windows and an open door.

Australia. Floating forest in Sydney. This is the hull of the large steamship SS Ayrfield, which was decided to be dismantled in Homebush Bay after World War II. But when the shipyard closed, this ship, like several others, remained where they were left. Now it is a beautiful and mysterious floating forest, which serves as an example of the fact that nature can survive anytime and anywhere, even after human activity.

United Kingdom. Sea forts of Munsell. These forts were built near the mouths of the Thames and Mersey rivers to protect the country from a potential German air threat during World War II. When they were taken out of service in 1950, several people lived here, including operators of pirate radio stations, as well as the principality of Sealand, a self-proclaimed independent state.

Gulliver Travels Park, Kawaguchi, Japan. The Japanese theme park Gulliver's Kingdom was opened in the vicinity of Mount Fuji in 1997 with public funds, but lasted only four years.

The reason for its collapse was not only financial problems with investors and unpopularity with visitors, but also an initially “bad” place - a factory that produced sarin for the infamous Aum Senrikyo sect is located nearby, and the most famous place pilgrimage of all the unfortunate - The forest of suicides.

House of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The former building of the memorial house, built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party, today looks creepy both outside and inside (like a failed regime). This UFO-like structure fell into disrepair after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now it is just a phantom of the former building, although there is talk of starting restoration work.

Abandoned resort in Croatia in the town of Kupari. The resort, built in the second half of the 20th century, was considered the most luxurious hotel complex throughout Yugoslavia. More than a billion dollars from the country's military budget was invested in the construction.

In 1991, when Croatia was waging a war for independence, the town of Kupari was captured by Serbian troops - after all the hotels were fired from rocket frigates and boats, the largest amphibious assault. The meaning of this operation remained a mystery, shrouded in darkness, but almost everything that was valuable here turned out to be looted. After the war, the resort was never restored: the hotels are in ruins, and only local residents come in the summer to the local beach, which is still considered one of the best in the area.

USA. A deserted island in southeast Florida. These small domed structures were built in 1981 at Cape Romano. They were the summer residence of oil tycoon Bob Lee, but then fell into disrepair. It is still unclear what fate awaits them.

Italy, Sorrento. Abandoned mill. This building in the Valley of the Mills was abandoned in 1866. Once upon a time, wheat was ground here, and there was a sawmill nearby. The mill was isolated from the sea after the construction of Piazzo Tasso, due to which the level of humidity in the region increased, and the mill had to be abandoned.

USA, Detroit. Central station Michigan. The station was built in 1913 to create a new transport hub. However, several construction errors led to the fact that it had to be closed in 1988.

The fate of Michigan Station has not yet been decided, but it appeared in several films.

Sunken yacht in Antarctica. This eerie ghost ship was the Brazilian yacht Mar Sem Fim, which sank near Ardley Cove. On the yacht, the Brazilian film crew decided to shoot documentary, however, due to strong winds and a storm, water flooded the ship, and it sank.

USA. The old abandoned New Bedford Theater in Massachusetts. It was opened in 1912 and closed in 1959. Since then, he managed to visit a supermarket and even a tobacco store. Now a non-profit organization is trying to raise funds to update this building.

Abkhazia, abandoned railway station. This railway station in Sukhumi was abandoned during the Abkhaz war in 1992 and 1993. As a result, this region has become deserted, but the station still retains traces of its former grandeur, such as exquisite stucco.

Russia. Abandoned wooden houses.

These and similar exquisitely decorated towers are located in the Russian hinterland. Some of them are surrounded by forests.

Perhaps it was due to their remoteness that these towers remained untouched.

Eastern China. Underwater city in Shichen. This incredible underwater city, lost in time, is already 1341! Shichen, or Lion City, is located in Zhejiang Province. It was flooded in 1959 during the construction of a hydroelectric power station. The water protects the city from wind and rain erosion, so that it remains in relatively good condition.

USA. Abandoned subway station in New York. This lovely station is right under the city hall. That is why much attention was paid to its design, but because of the neighboring stations, this one never received due attention from the public, and its curved route was considered not safe enough. The station was closed in 1945, and it still remains so, apart from a few exclusive tours for curious visitors.

Columbia, Hotel Salto. Opened in 1928 next to the Tequendama Falls to serve tourists who came to admire the 157-meter waterfall. The hotel was closed in the early 90s after interest in the waterfall faded. But in 2012 this place was turned into a museum.

Ukraine. Abandoned subway tunnel. This photo was taken in the subway near Kyiv. Many of the tunnels are partially flooded, and stalactites hang from the ceilings.

Ukraine, Balaklava. Abandoned submarine base. And although it is not completely abandoned, it is still impressive. Before closing in 1993, it was one of the most secret bases in the USSR, and today it is just a museum.

Japan, Hashima Island (jap. “ border island”). This island has many names including "Warship" (because of its shape) and "Ghost Island". Previously, it was inhabited and served as a base for workers in underwater coal mines.

As Japan gradually switched from coal to gasoline, the mines (and the buildings that sprang up around them) closed down, leaving behind a ghost island.

Taiwan, Sanzhi. Houses are like UFOs. These flying saucer-like buildings (60 pieces) were originally supposed to be resort houses - in particular, for American military officers serving in Asia. However, due to low levels of investment, the site had to close in 1980 shortly after it was built. Unfortunately, these amazing buildings were demolished in 2010.

The size of our country is so huge that it is difficult to really imagine such a scale. At the same time, almost everywhere on its territory live people who, for one reason or another, leave their homes and go to other places. Such forgotten corners are scattered all over Russia, and sometimes they are found even in the middle of the city. Let's look at the ten most terrible places once abandoned by people.

Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva, Sakhalin Island

At the time of the construction of the lighthouse in 1939, the construction was considered unique and the most difficult on the entire island. Forces for its construction and technical equipment little was spent.

The lighthouse was equipped with isotope installations, it began to be powered by atomic energy, due to which the cost of its maintenance was reduced to a minimum. However, over time, funding stopped altogether, and the building fell into disrepair.

Fairytale castle, Conclusion

This charming building is the estate of the architect A.S. Khrenov, which he erected according to his own design in the 19th century. It is located in the Tver region in picturesque place on the shore of the lake.

This delightful house, reminiscent of medieval castle, is distinguished by complete asymmetry, as well as a combination of natural and artificial materials. It is in a rather bad condition, but now they are slowly trying to restore it, so, of course, it cannot be called completely abandoned.

Hotel "Northern Crown", St. Petersburg

This five-star hotel began to build in 1988. Grandiose plans assumed that 247 rooms would appear here, total area which was supposed to be 50 thousand square meters, more than 10 bars, a large swimming pool, a gym and much more. And when the object was almost completed, at the end of 1995, work was suddenly stopped, and the building still remains abandoned.

8th shop of the plant "Dagdiesel", the city of Kaspiysk

Right in the Caspian Sea, 2.7 kilometers from the coast, you can see a rather strange, but grandiose object, which was once a test station for naval weapons. It belonged to the Dagdiesel plant, but when the requirements for its work changed, it was simply written off from the balance of the plant.

Mir diamond quarry, Yakutia

This mine was already 1,200 meters wide and 525 meters deep when diamond mining ceased in 2004. On the this moment it is the second largest dug hole in the world - so big that it had to be closed air space above it so that helicopters do not get into an accident due to downward air currents.

Khovrinskaya hospital in Moscow

In Moscow in 1980, the government decided to start building a huge multi-storey hospital on the site of the cemetery, but after 5 years everything stopped. Now unfinished is popular place for thrill-seekers, it is called the abode of evil and the gateway to a parallel world.

The abandoned village of Kadykchan in the Magadan region

From the Evenki language, the name of this village is translated as "valley of death." It was built by prisoners and in early 1986 the population reached 10,270. However, by 2012, only one resident remained - an elderly man.

Coal was mined in Kadykchan, which was used to provide energy for most of Magadan region. But when there was an explosion at the mine, people began to leave. So this village became an abandoned mining "ghost town". Here in the houses you can see books and furniture, and in the garages - standing cars but not to meet people.

Former naval submarine base Bechevinka, Kamchatka

This military town was founded in the 1960s as a base for submariners. Every week, just once, a ship went here, which was the only way to communicate with other settlements. In 1996, the brigade was completely disbanded, and the village was left standing deserted among the stunning beauties of Kamchatka.

Building of the sanatorium "Energy", Moscow region

This building of the sanatorium once received visitors, but after the fire that occurred here, it was abandoned. The burnt-out building housed a cinema, and the furniture still remained in the rooms.

Abandoned maternity hospital, Vladimir region

Abandoned medical institutions, perhaps, stand out for their particular gloom and mystery, and this maternity hospital is no exception. In 2013, the building was intended to be renovated, but the work never started.

Since security remained in the building for a long time, many of the things left here were preserved intact, which makes it seem as if the building is still alive. In these spacious halls, one imagines people waiting for good news from the doctor.

Man has always been attracted by something unusual, inexplicable by reason or science, and sometimes even creepy. Agree, places long abandoned and forgotten by people inspire a certain feeling of horror and even fear, each such place has its own interesting story, which for some reason ended in the absence of people and ruins. We have a huge country great story, and of course our country is full of abandoned places, be it ghost towns or small towns, stopped factories, which over time also acquired the status of abandoned, huge construction projects frozen and forgotten by people, the purpose of which can only be guessed at, etc. So, if you are interested in the abandoned places of Russia, then it is for you that we have made a selection with the maximum full description, history, and geographic location. And for complete immersion, we added a large number of Information: photos and videos of abandoned places in Russia.

Few people know the history of the appearance and flooding of a small provincial town in Yaroslavl region called Mologa. The city got its name from the river of the same name. He had…

in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Iultinsky district exists small village with an interesting story called Iultin. The history of the village begins in 1937, when the geologist Milyaev V.N. discovered the world's largest polymetallic deposit of tin, tungsten and molybdenum in the area of ​​Mount Iultin. And by March 1938, a convoy was sent to this area with the necessary ... ..

The famous abandoned well is located in the Murmansk region in the Pechenga ore region, which is known for copper-nickel deposits. Nearest locality- the city of Zapolyarny, which is located 10 km from SG-3.

To this day, the Kola well is the deepest in the world. Its depth is a record 12,262 m, the diameter at the surface is 92 cm, and at the maximum depth it is 21.5 cm. research activity.

Of course choosing this hard to reach place with a harsh climate is not accidental. Previously, a special geological expedition was organized, which indicated exactly this point for the construction of the entire drilling structure ... ..

Currently, many modern people have heard about the North Crown Hotel: some know this place as abandoned, while others know it as a comfortable building for a temporary stay. Let's take a look at each of these places one by one.

Abandoned North Crown Hotel.

During the Soviet era, a fairly large number of huge architectural projects were erected. One of these was the North Crown Hotel. This unfinished structure is considered to be quite large-scale, in which a considerable amount was invested Money. Currently, this is an abandoned building, which is not just historical monument, various mystical ones are also associated with him ... ..

The railway "Chum - Salekhard - Igarka", the construction project of which took place in 1947-1953. Modern name this route is a transpolar highway. The project of a railway track from the shores of the Barents Sea to Sea of ​​Okhotsk and Chukotka. In general, the very idea of ​​​​the highway falls on 1928, then it was called the Great Northern railway track, but connected to the entire network of the country ... ..

AT Leningrad region there are a huge number of attractions, but one of the pearls of this area is the Sablinsky Reserve. 40 kilometers from St. Petersburg on 220 hectares there are many monuments of nature and history:
1. former estate of Count A. K. Tolstoy,
2. the parking place of the troops of Alexander Nevsky before the battle with the Livonian Order,
3. Sablinsky and Tosnensky lowland waterfalls,

In 1976, the entire area was declared a natural monument. After that, measures were taken to clean the caves from debris…..

Among the most majestic monuments culture of our country special attention deserves the Koenigsberg castle in Kaliningrad. And this is not surprising, since the ruins of this structure excite the consciousness of modern man. This feeling does not disappear even with the understanding that there is not much left of the castle, and the Amber Room has not been discovered. Most likely, this is due to the fact that this design is one of the oldest in our region or with the fact that people are still waiting for the Amber Room to be excavated. In any case, such a historical construction surprises many people, which is why they tend to come here…..

Khovrinsky abandoned hospital is a real Mecca for lovers of abandoned places. Khovrinka is located in the area, as you might guess, Khovrino, and the SAO of Moscow. It is considered one of the most eerie places in the capital; there are many legends about it. What the walls of Khovrinka did not see: parties of the Goths, and gatherings of Satanists, and suicides, and murders, and breaking drug addicts, and just curious stalkers. It all started with a grandiose plan of the Soviet government to build a hospital complex for 1300 beds…..

The Gerhardt mill is a structure that has historical meaning. The Stalingrad Battle Monument is one of the few buildings that survived the difficult war years. Now the mill resembles rather a fragment from the past or a portal to Stalingrad in 1943.

History of occurrence

At the beginning of the 20th century, the small town of Tsaritsyn grew to the status of an industrial hub of the Volga region. Residents began to actively explore new ... ..

The village of Verkhnyaya Gubakha is an eerie sight, consisting of the remains of dilapidated houses and old rubbish. But once this ghost town was the capital of the coal industry in the Western Urals. But the most surprising thing is that the deserted village adjoins the settlement (the city of Gubakha) and creates an incredible contrast between the place forgotten by God and the developing town…..

It is difficult to disagree with the fact that the number of abandoned cities and towns on the territory of the former Soviet Union is quite large. And this happened as a result of the economic downturn, certain geographical features a particular region, political preferences. In any case, many objects were left behind and the affairs of such places have not improved to this day.

In addition, such abandoned neighborhoods have become very popular, thanks to the rapidly developing extreme sports tourism. Since ordinary sights, monuments and simply beautiful nature, for many travelers it is something ordinary and familiar. Therefore, less and less attractive ... ..

Surely, many people have heard of such a ghostly village as Khalmer Yu. This is a real ghost town located in the Urals. This place is located in the middle of the tundra, not far from Ural mountains. It is here that the people abandoned administrative buildings, multi-story houses, industrial facilities.

The village of Khalmer Yu is located in the Komi Republic, approximately seventy kilometers from the city of Vorkuta. If translated from German language title this place means "dead river". The most interesting thing is that earlier the village was considered sacred, it was here that they brought to bury those who ... ..

Dagdiesel 8 shop of the plant is located in Kaspiysk. This is not a simple abandoned place, because it is located right in the open sea, 2.7 km from the coast. Initially, the building was built for testing naval weapons, for which at first it was used, at the moment it is in an abandoned state and is gradually being destroyed by sea waves.

Dagdiesel 8 workshop. Construction history

The Dagdiesel plant was built in 1935. For more than an honor of 70 years of history, he has come a long way and won fame around the world. The company specializes in the production of diesel engines for marine…..

After the collapse of the USSR, the entire Soviet space remained dotted with mysterious objects. The Crimean NPP is a vivid example of this. The unfinished nuclear power plant is still full of mysteries and mysteries.

The Crimean NPP is located near the town of Shchelkino. Design began in 1965. It was planned to use the salty waters of the Aktash reservoir as a cooling pond.

In 1975, the construction of the facility began. Great hopes were pinned on the nuclear power plant. The station was supposed to supply energy to the entire Crimean peninsula and become the basis for the industrial development of the region. The power of two…..

In the sixties of the last century, a new settlement appeared on the map of Russia - the urban-type settlement Vostok. It began to be built for oil workers and their families in 1964, 98 km from Okha Sakhalin region. The East promised to become a well-maintained city and fully justified expectations. They erected 17 five-story block houses for almost a hundred families, several two-story houses, a school, Kindergarten and club. In 1970, the East was renamed ... ..

Not far from Moscow, just ninety kilometers from the capital, there is one of the most popular places among tourists - the Lopatinsky mine. This is an amazing part of the Yegorievsk phosphorite deposit.

The Dvina missile system is another gloomy echo cold war located in Latvia. Soviet launch silos have long been empty. From now on, instead of the military and workers, stalkers and other adventurers occasionally travel on the territory of the facility.

In the mid-1950s, Soviet scientists were instructed to create a nuclear missile with a range of 2,000 km. The design took several years, after which the first prototypes appeared under the designation P-12. Modified missiles with the index "U" were intended for mine-based. One of those missiles...

In Crimea, on the slope of Mount Target, there is an unfinished Object No. 221 - the Reserve Command Post of the Black Sea Fleet. Only those who are familiar with these places can find this place. Hidden southeast of Sevastopol is a building with countless tunnels going underground. In case of war, command actions were to be carried out here. Soviet troops. But the USSR collapsed, and the building remained abandoned.

The road leading to the object is dug up and littered with stones. Outsiders who wanted to enter the secret territory could be eliminated by the guards. For example, a foreign agent would have to travel on foot and become an easy target.

In case of meeting with random tourists was ... ..

During the Soviet Union, a sufficient number of buildings and cities were erected, which are unique in their architecture, position and history of creation as a whole. The city of Mirny is one of them. It is here that the famous Mir quarry is located, where diamonds were previously mined. It can be called a miracle even in modern world thanks to its huge size. The scientific name of the quarry is "kimberlite pipe". The city appeared around it and got its name in honor of the quarry.

The kimberlite pipe itself appeared a long time ago. Once upon a time, flows of lava and volcanic gases escaped from the bowels of the planet Earth at great speed. The huge force of the explosion also threw out kimberlite - a rock where ... ..

Not far from the city of Sevastopol, just ten kilometers away, in the small resort town of Balaklava, there is an underground submarine base, referred to as object 825 GTS. In 2003, for the first time in forty-six years of existence, the building was presented to the public.

The underground submarine base in Balaklava is a fairly large structure, which is located in the very bowels of the earth. It is able to reliably and effectively protect all the contents here from an atomic explosion. In this room there are the following components: workshops for the repair of equipment, a channel with a dry dock, a warehouse for lubricants and combustible materials, as well as a mine-torpedo part of the GTS.

There is an underwater base ... ..

One of the most curious sights of the Tver region is the mystical Shar near Dubna. It is located in the Kimrsky district, near the village of Ignatovo. This object is overgrown with rumors and legends, since there is no verified and confirmed version of its origin ... ..

so creepy and mysterious places our world is full. Old cemeteries, chapels, abandoned cities and hospitals.

Do you think this only exists abroad? Russia is huge, and we have more such places than in any other country. Shall we take a walk?

1. Damn graveyard

The Devil's Cemetery is a round bare glade 250 m in diameter. It is located in the middle of the taiga, 100 km from the confluence of the Kova River into the Angara. It is noteworthy that there is no vegetation at all in the clearing, and the trees surrounding it are charred, as if a fire was raging here. According to one version, it was here, and not in the area of ​​Podkamennaya Tunguska, that the Tunguska meteorite fell.
In the 20s and 30s of the last century, cattle often wandered into the clearing. And he died. For local residents they had to pull it out with hooks, because they themselves were afraid to enter the clearing. The meat of the fallen cattle was abnormally red. It is believed that people also died here - before the Great Patriotic War, several hundred people died near the meadow or on it. Walking there is not recommended. To put it mildly.

2. Myasnoy Bor

Myasnoy Bor, also known as Death Valley, is located in the Novgorod region. Finding this place is not so easy: now it is overgrown with forest, swamped, and only the remains of railway wartime.

At first glance, there is nothing terrible in Myasnoy Bor. But there is a story: during the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of soldiers, both Russians and Germans, died here. The remains are still not buried. They say that here you can find terrible wartime artifacts: bayonets, helmets, bones and skulls.

3. Building of the sanatorium "Energy"

The ruins of an abandoned sanatorium are located 15 km from the Moscow Ring Road. Previously, the sanatorium was considered almost a work of art: a park was laid out in the courtyard, sculptures were installed. The building itself was once a beautiful two-story building. And from the outside, it still looks like an ordinary building, except that a little renovation would not hurt.

Inside, the picture is different. Rubbish is everywhere, windows are smashed. In the rooms - broken furniture, torn old books and photographs. Now the building is almost destroyed, and half of it burned down, and in this part even the walls are almost gone.

4.The village of Kadykchan in the Magadan region

Kadykchan (translated from the Evenk language as "Valley of Death") was built in 1943. Coal was found in this place at a depth of 400 m highest quality. Until 1996, several thousand people lived in the village. In Stalin's times, there was even one of the Gulag camps here. And in 1996, there was an explosion at the mine, and people began to leave.

By 2006, 791 people remained in the village. A couple of years later - only 400. They refused to leave, but back in 2003 the authorities decided to close the unprofitable village and closed the only boiler house in the city. It became impossible to live in the city, and the Kadychkans dispersed. The authorities did not consider it necessary to evacuate the residents.

Now Kadychkan is a mining ghost town. Books and furniture remained in the houses, broken benches and monuments on the streets.

5. Bay "Finval", an abandoned submarine base of the Navy

The bay is located in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54. The official name of the bay is "Bechevinskaya", but because of secrecy it was renamed "Finval". Previously, submarines were stationed here: since 1971, the composition of the division has changed several times, until in 1996 it was decided to close the base. All property was removed, electricity and water supply was turned off. Simultaneously with the base, the Shipunsky missile settlement was also closed.

The only ones left were at home. Submarines were transferred to another bay.

7. Abandoned naval training base on Russky Island

Military unit 25108 was disbanded in 2001. Russky Island had the status of a closed territory for a long time. In Soviet times, there were many military camps here - in fact, the island was the largest training base of the Soviet Navy.

In 1993, four soldiers died of starvation in parts of the Pacific Fleet, and another 250 sailors were hospitalized with a diagnosis of dystrophy. The main military prosecutor's office opened a criminal case, the investigation was conducted until 1998. They punished only the senior midshipman Vytrishchak, in whose house they found food stolen from the warehouse. The rest of the people involved got off with fines. Now the unit has been disbanded and abandoned, and inside the buildings are the remains of furniture and soldier's equipment. Some pranksters sometimes "decorate" the hulls additionally - they hang raincoats so that from the side it seems that a person is hanging in a noose.

8. Sablinsky caves

The cave system originated from the extraction of quartz sand from the 18th to the 20th century. In 1922, the mines closed and the caves were abandoned.

The Sablinsky caves were a classified object until the end of the 1970s. Then runaway prisoners hid in the catacombs, and every year ten people disappeared in these places. The bandits were to blame, and quicksand, and collapsed corridors. But attempts to take the bandits who had settled in the caves were useless: the Sablinsky caves stretched for several kilometers, and it was impossible to look for someone in the natural labyrinths.

In the 1980s, the caves were home to 200 people who lived in communities. Now there are no active underground groups, and the terrible Sablinsky caves have turned into a tourist attraction. A tour of the safe part of the caves costs only 600 rubles. Tourists are not allowed into the unsafe area.

9. Death Valley in Kamchatka

Death Valley in Kamchatka was discovered in 1975. The corpses of animals and birds are often found here. Animals die due to the high concentration of poisonous gases - hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide. The corpses of animals in this place are preserved for an unusually long time and do not decompose even in the open air - the poisonous atmosphere suppresses the oxidative processes caused by bacteria.

People shouldn't stay here too long. Scientists and tourists after Death Valley suffer from headaches, fever, dizziness and general weakness. But if you leave in time dangerous place you'll be back to normal pretty quickly.

Walking through this natural "hell" is not for the faint of heart. There is a very high chance of stumbling upon the corpses of careless animals. People usually have time to leave.

10.Khovrinskaya hospital in Moscow

Khovrinsky hospital began to be built in 1980 on the site of a cemetery. Five years later, construction stopped, and the huge unfinished building was abandoned. Now the basements are flooded, and the building is slowly sinking underground.

The place has acquired numerous urban legends. Thrill-seekers come here - still, a sort of gate to other world right in the middle of Moscow!

11.Shelter for submarines in Pavlovsk

The shelter began to be built in the 1960s. The construction was carried out for 20 years, but in the 1980s it stalled, and the base was never completed. All concrete work was completed, only the interior decoration remained to be done. But in 1991, the US and the USSR signed the Treaty on the Limitation of Strategic Arms, and the Pavlovsk submarine base in Primorsky Krai was included in the list of objects that the USSR undertook to close.

The hideout is creepy. Its central part is two parallel tunnels connected by passages. Both tunnels, so huge that a submarine can easily enter them, are flooded with water. There are eight entrances to the shelter in total. It is difficult to estimate its true size: many passages are flooded, and it is not known where they lead. Yes, one more thing: there are sources of radiation on the territory of the military unit and the radiation background is increased, so it’s better not to walk here without a special suit.