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 ex-goose-villager
 
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
 |  | Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
< on 9/29/2006 3:39 PM >
|  | | | Found the following reference to an abandoned Soviet town on Boing-Boing.
Apparently, after the collapse of the Soviet Union around 1990, any number of towns had to be abandoned as the Soviet military withdrew; the towns were created around the bases, and when the bases were abandoned, the towns no longer had any reason to continue to exist.
Original URL; http://englishrussia.com/?p=276
photographer: Oleg Shvets
place: town Promyshlennyi, Vorkuta area
Tags: lost cities russian architecture
Location on Google Maps:
http://tinyurl.com/kc4wb
There are lots more pics there, and some commentary (by the photographer, I believe.)
Edit: Changed Google maps url to tinyrurl as full-length original url doesn't work
as posted.
[last edit 9/29/2006 4:04 PM by ex-goose-villager - edited 2 times]
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AgentNox
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning!
| |  |  | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 1 on 9/29/2006 6:36 PM >
| | | | It's official. I want to get married in an abandoned church and honeymoon in the former USSR.
"If you don't have bits of gear dangling from you, then you're not really adventuring."
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nobody
    
Location: VANCOUVER B.C.
Gender: Male
5:55 is a state of mind
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 2 on 9/29/2006 6:38 PM >
| | | | Yeah it's really beautiful. N.
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natxtron
Location: memphis
urbanesquelation
| |  | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 3 on 9/29/2006 11:48 PM >
| | | | anyone interested in post soviet abandonments had better hurry. things are beginning to fall apart at a rapid rate... shoddy construction in a lot of cases. even the ukraine is expected to put a hold on trips into pripyat because buildings are collapsing. i'm headed there next summer before it's too late.
[edit: added info]
[last edit 9/29/2006 11:51 PM by natxtron - edited 1 times]
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natxtron
Location: memphis
urbanesquelation
| | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 4 on 9/30/2006 12:01 AM >
| | | | according to the location, this remnant seems to be within close proximity to a very active city... as in a half mile at the most. just seems to be a section of the town no longer in use. still cool though.
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dewey379
Location: North NJ & Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
| |  | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 5 on 9/30/2006 12:05 AM >
| | | | Those places look sick, I am definiately putting Russia as one of the places I want to UE.
Post by AgentNox
It's official. I want to get married in an abandoned church and honeymoon in the former USSR. |
Have anyone in mind yet? If not, may I suggest throwing my hat into the ring...
We must always fear the wicked.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most,
and that is the indifference of good men. |
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Tupsumato
Location: Finland
Gender: Male
How close can you go?
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 6 on 9/30/2006 9:52 AM >
| | | | When I saw the these pics for the first time the next thing I did was to check the prices of Lada Nivas and UAZes from a Finnish online car dealer.
I've been thinking of my next summer's Chernobyl exclusion zone tour. Is it really worth of 800 euros that a 4-5 day trip would cost? After all, I've seen thousand of pics already, and the tours always take you to the same locations. A fellow Finnish explorer made an unofficial visit alone, but she's a little nuts...
Posted by AgentNox
I want to get married in an abandoned church... |
Like this:
http://thesilentth...kuvat/25_05_01.jpg
?
All information and details given in good faith but not guaranteed! |
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natxtron
Location: memphis
urbanesquelation
| | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 7 on 9/30/2006 2:43 PM >
| | | | Posted by Tupsumato
I've been thinking of my next summer's Chernobyl exclusion zone tour. Is it really worth of 800 euros that a 4-5 day trip would cost? After all, I've seen thousand of pics already, and the tours always take you to the same locations. A fellow Finnish explorer made an unofficial visit alone, but she's a little nuts...
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tupsumato, when do you plan on being in pripyat? seems like everyone is headed there next summer. don't feel so bad about 800 euros, you should see my cost estimate for round trip from the us.
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AgentNox
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning!
| | | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 8 on 9/30/2006 8:11 PM >
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Or something a little more intimate:
"If you don't have bits of gear dangling from you, then you're not really adventuring."
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Tupsumato
Location: Finland
Gender: Male
How close can you go?
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 9 on 10/1/2006 1:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by natxtron
tupsumato, when do you plan on being in pripyat? seems like everyone is headed there next summer. don't feel so bad about 800 euros, you should see my cost estimate for round trip from the us.
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No plans of any kind since I don't know about my or my fellow explorers' working and holiday schedules yet. If we're going, it'll probably be around July.
Anyway, 800 euros is quite a lot for me since I'm a full-time university student with incomes around 350-400 euros in a month.
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sphinx
Location: Bellevue, WA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 10 on 10/3/2006 8:40 PM >
| | | | It doesn't look abandoned on google.
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E_S_Norway
Location: Norway
Gender: Male
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 11 on 10/3/2006 8:42 PM >
| | | | I recently got my hands on an old Skoda (Czech car) and intend to take this to eastern Europe next summer. Russia seems very interesting, but I don't read russian very well, and I just understand and speak a few of the most important words in russian. Some larger places will german (which I speak fluently) work too, but I'd like to learn some more russian.
At least I'd like to take the Skoda to Russia and Ukraine. It's just the kind of car, together with cars like Lada, that you can drive and park almost everywhere without being afraid of theft.. ;)
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 12 on 10/3/2006 9:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by E_S_Norway
It's just the kind of car, together with cars like Lada, that you can drive and park almost everywhere without being afraid of theft.. ;)
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Yeah, the thieves can't get too far when they're pushing it 
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Tupsumato
Location: Finland
Gender: Male
How close can you go?
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 13 on 10/4/2006 4:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by E_S_Norway
I recently got my hands on an old Skoda... |
One of those rear-engined ones? My family used to have one as a second car. It was truly one of those cars you won't miss after selling them.
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Pikachu
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 14 on 10/6/2006 5:57 PM >
|  | | | Posted by AgentNox
It's official. I want to get married in an abandoned church and honeymoon in the former USSR.
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This past April I was married in an abandoned church, but it was a little Southern Ontario job. Regardless, there is something really wonderful about the feeling that is created in a building with such a rich history. The church that I was married in was built in the 1800's, and we were only the second couple in its history to be married there. The first atheist couple. ^-~
/offtopic
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brandnewteeth
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Gender: Male
Carry the torch that's never lit.
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 15 on 10/6/2006 6:40 PM >
| | | | Holy shit..
mutantMandias: You're everywhere. You're the wind. You're the air. You're the bnt. brandnewteeth is like the Cyrus of Marietta gangs. CAN YOU DIG IT?
dsankt: BNT rocks shiny penny loafers. I heard he explores in them cos it puts a spring in his step for the laddies.
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Apple Sauce
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Location: newyork
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 16 on 10/6/2006 6:49 PM >
| | | | there are a ton of forgotten cities around chernoble and for good reason. i was on a web site that had russian explorers and they filmed all the towns they went to and they had a fallout metter, it was crazy certian places they just left cause there was to much fall out still. but the buildings they went too were huge and people just left them.
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Jaybird
Location: Western Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 17 on 10/9/2006 2:00 PM >
| | | | I can only imagine the amount of abandonment in the old Soviet run areas. Along with the things that are seen on the surface, I'm sure you can could also find an abundance of underground facilities also.
(*Modify* - I need to learn to read before posting)
[last edit 10/9/2006 2:04 PM by Jaybird - edited 1 times]
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DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 18 on 10/9/2006 2:38 PM >
| | | | This makes me drool.
Now that I have produced offspring I can safely visit the radioactive hotspots in the former Communist East.
[last edit 10/9/2006 4:42 PM by DevilC - edited 1 times]
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Apple Sauce
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Location: newyork
| | Re: Soviet city abandoned after fall of Soviet Union
<Reply # 19 on 10/9/2006 4:30 PM >
| | | | i would love to go to some of these places i just dont know if when i have kids id want them to have 11 toes lol
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