TOP-25 abandoned cities in Russia

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The number of abandoned towns, villages and hamlets on the territory of the former USSR cannot be accurately calculated. The political, economic and geological transformations of our state over the past 100 years have created a whole host of objects that are now left outside the current reality.

Abandoned cities in Russiaformed a new layer of apocalyptic culture, which arose at the turn of the millennium on the waves of the increasingly popular themes of the End of the World, the Mayan calendar, Vanga's predictions and high-budget Hollywood blockbusters. Now abandoned cities are actively used to create scenery for man's eternal fear of the Apocalypse. Musicians, photographers, "filmmakers", writers, stalkers and other people come here in an effort to find inspiration and drink "dead water" from the stream of something invisible and infinitely mysterious.

Alternative and extreme types of tourism are also gaining momentum. Standard attractions, exhausting with an abundance of information about themselves, attract fewer and fewer travelers. The modern tourist is slowly turning into a researcher chasing a kind of metaphysical "non-standard". Endless opportunities to share your "finds" via the Internet only contribute to the desire to stand out, uniqueize and isolate yourself from the other "crowd".

Today we would also like to turn to the topic of abandoned cities. The topics for Russia and the countries of the former USSR are truly inexhaustible, moreover, extremely exciting and intriguing. Let's take a moment aside from our fear of these silent "ghosts" and take a leisurely stroll through their quiet, deserted streets.

1. Khalmer-Yu (Komi Republic)

Miners' village. Liquidated during restructuring due to the closure of coal mines.

Now the area is used as a military training ground, callsign "Pemboy". On August 17, 2005, during a strategic aviation exercise, a Tu-160 bomber with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on board launched three missiles at the former cultural center of an abandoned village.

2. Old Gubakha (Perm Territory)

An abandoned mining village near a depleted coal mine. High degree of destruction of buildings.

3. Industrial (Komi Republic)

Miner's settlement. In 1998, an explosion at a local mine killed 27 miners. The bodies of 19 of them were never found. The mine was closed, the village was empty.

4. Jubilee (Perm Territory)

5. Iultin (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)

6. Kolendo (Sakhalin region)

7. Nizhneyansk (Yakutia)

8. Finval (Kamchatka Territory)

9. Alykel (Taimyr Autonomous District)

10. Neftegorsk (Sakhalin Region)

11. Curonian-2 (Ryazan region)

12. Mologa (Yaroslavl region)

13. Charonda (Vologda region)

14. Amderma (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District)

15. Korzunovo (Murmansk region)

The city of pilots and gunners. Yuri Gagarin served here in the 1950s.

16. Kadykchan (Magadan region)

A ghost town whose inhabitants mined coal for the Arkagalinskaya TPP.

17. Pripyat (Ukraine)

18. Chernobyl-2 (Ukraine)

An abandoned city, and earlier the military lived here, serving the Soviet over-the-horizon radar station "Duga" for an early detection system for ICBM launches.

19. Ostroglyady (Belarus)

The ghost village was settled after the Chernobyl disaster.

20. Aghdam (Azerbaijan)

The homeland of the famous port wine was destroyed during the Armenian-Azerbaijani war.

21. Tkvarcheli (Abkhazia)

The large industrial center of Abkhazia fell victim to the perestroika conflicts. It is recovering little by little.

22. Asu-Bulak (Kazakhstan)

23. Zhanatas (Kazakhstan)

24. Chagan (Semipalatinsk-4) (Kazakhstan)

The city was abandoned after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Kazakhstan.

25. Irbene (Latvia)

In the now abandoned city, there was the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, founded in 1971.