Abandoned objects and equipment from the times of the USSR (42 photos). Especially secret objects of the USSR: abandoned or temporarily forgotten? Into abandoned buildings with intent

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, while many others were simply abandoned. They were left to rust: after all, the economies of most newly created states simply could not support their maintenance; no one needed them. Now some of them represent a kind of mecca for stalkers, “tourist” sites, visiting which involves considerable risk.

“Resident Evil”: a top-secret complex on Vozrozhdenie Island in the Aral Sea

During the Soviet era, on an island in the middle Aral Sea There was a complex of military bioengineering institutes involved in the development and testing of biological weapons. It was an object of such secrecy that most of the employees involved in the landfill maintenance infrastructure simply did not know where exactly they were working. On the island itself there were buildings and laboratories of the institute, vivariums, and equipment warehouses. In the town, very comfortable living conditions were created for researchers and military personnel in conditions of complete autonomy. The island was carefully guarded by the military on land and sea.

In 1992, the entire facility was urgently mothballed and abandoned by all occupants, including the facility's guards. For some time it remained a “ghost town” until it was discovered by looters, who for more than 10 years removed from the island everything that was abandoned there. 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

Beyond the horizon radar station Duga is a radar station created in the USSR for early detection of intercontinental ballistic missile launches by starting flashes (based on the reflection of radiation by the ionosphere). This gigantic structure took 5 years to build and was completed in 1985. A cyclopean antenna with a height of 150 meters and a length of 800 consumed great amount electricity, so it was built near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

For the characteristic sound on air made during operation (knocking), the station was named Russian Woodpecker (Russian Woodpecker). The installation was built to last and could function successfully to this day, but in reality the Duga radar operated for less than a year. The facility stopped operating after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.

Underwater submarine shelter: Balaklava, Crimea

As they say knowledgeable people- this top-secret submarine base was a transshipment point where submarines, including nuclear ones, were repaired, refueled and replenished with ammunition. It was a gigantic complex built to last, capable of withstanding a nuclear strike; under its arches, up to 14 submarines could be accommodated simultaneously. This military base built in 1961 and abandoned in 1993, after which it was dismantled piece by piece by local residents. In 2002, it was decided to build a museum complex, but things haven’t gone beyond words yet. However, local diggers willingly take everyone there.

"Zone" in Latvian forests: Dvina missile silo, Kekava, Latvia

Very close to the capital of Latvia, in the forest there are the remains of the Dvina missile system. Built in 1964, the facility consisted of 4 launch shafts approximately 35 meters deep and underground bunkers. Much of the premises is currently flooded, and visiting the launch site without an experienced stalker guide is not recommended. Also dangerous are the remnants of toxic rocket fuel - heptyl, which, according to some information, remain in the depths of 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, they began to actively develop it using the open pit method. At the Lopatinsky quarry, all main types of multi-bucket excavators were used - moving on rails, moving on tracks, and excavators walking at an “added” step. It was a giant development with its own railroad. After 1993, the field was closed, abandoning all the expensive imported special equipment.

Mining of phosphorites has led to the emergence of 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, table-like sandy fields, black, white and reddish dunes, pine forests with regular rows of planted pine trees. Giant excavators - "absetzers" resemble alien ships rusting on the sands under open air. All this makes the Lopatin quarries a kind of natural-technogenic “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. Is in Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the city of Zapolyarny. The well was drilled in the northeastern part of the Baltic shield solely for scientific research purposes in the place where the lower boundary of the earth's crust comes close to the surface of the Earth. IN 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 at the well most interesting discoveries, for example, the fact that life on Earth appeared 1.5 billion years earlier than expected. At depths where it was believed that there was no and could not be organic matter, 14 species of fossilized microorganisms were discovered - 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 has been mothballed and is gradually being destroyed. The cost of restoration is about one hundred million rubles. The Kola superdeep well is associated with many implausible legends about a “well to hell” from the bottom of which the cries of sinners are heard, and the drills are melted by hellish flames.

"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, a utility unit, and 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 object. One of the important areas of research carried out at the complex is the development of ways to protect the operation of equipment and communications from ion disturbances in the atmosphere of various natures.

Currently, the station operates for only 100 hours a year, while the famous American HAARP facility runs experiments for 2,000 hours over the same period. The Nizhny Novgorod Radiophysical Institute does not have enough money for electricity - in one day of work, the test site equipment deprives the complex of a 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 station’s territory.

"Oil Rocks" - a sea city of oil producers, Azerbaijan

This settlement on trestles standing directly 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 extraction from the seabed around the Black Rocks - a rock ridge barely protruding from the surface of the sea. Here there are drilling rigs connected by overpasses, on which a settlement of oil field workers is located. The village grew, and in its heyday included power plants, nine-story dormitory buildings, hospitals, a community center, a park with trees, a bakery, a lemonade production plant, and even a mosque with a full-time mullah.

Length of overpass streets and alleys sea ​​city reaches 350 kilometers. There was no permanent population in the city, and up to 2,000 people lived there as part of the rotational shift. The period of decline of Oil Rocks began with the advent of cheaper Siberian oil, which made offshore production unprofitable. However, the seaside town still did not become a ghost town; at the beginning of 2000, major repair work began there and even the laying of new wells began.

Failed collider: abandoned particle accelerator, Protvino, Moscow region

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union planned to build a huge particle accelerator. The Moscow region scientific center Protvino - the city of nuclear physicists - in those years was a powerful complex of physics institutes, where scientists from all over the world came. A circular tunnel 21 kilometers long was built, lying at a depth of 60 meters. It is still located near Protvino. They even began to deliver equipment into the already completed accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals struck, and the domestic “hadron collider” remained uninstalled.

The institutions of the city of Protvino maintain the satisfactory condition of this tunnel - an empty dark ring underground. There is a lighting system there, and 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 are not giving this object away yet - perhaps they are hoping for the best.

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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 attracts attention against our will, and the sight of nature, which calmly captures what people have created, returns us to the 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 construction something strange began to happen. Dozens of workers died: they broke their necks falling from heights (even with safety ropes), and died under collapsed cranes. The surrounding residents were sure that the town was inhabited by evil spirits. There were harrowing stories about a Japanese “death camp” that had once been located here. At the end of the 1980s, construction stalled. The apartments never found buyers, and the authorities do not demolish the city because people believe that this will release evil spirits.

Abandoned military hospital in Beelitz, 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, and since then it has been gradually destroyed.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant, Makhachkala

Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction took 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 sheet. Now this “Array” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Psychiatric Clinic Lier Sikehus, Norway

The Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in the small town of Lier, half an hour from Oslo, has a dark past. Experiments on patients were once carried out here, and for unknown reasons, four hospital buildings 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 operating to this day.

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 discovered 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: 5,300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were completely 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 located in Hong Kong, but did not obey the authorities, being under the control of the mafia. Not only did prostitution and drug trafficking flourish inside, but there was also self-government. In addition, the area 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 legislation local entrepreneurs did not comply. We had our own nursing home, kindergarten and school. In the early 1990s, the population density reached two million people per square kilometer.

After a difficult process of eviction of the people living there, a park of the same name was opened in this place in 1995. Some of the city's historical artifacts, including the yamen building, and the remains South Gate were saved.

Abandoned Hotel Salto in Colombia

In 1924, the luxurious Refugio El Salto hotel was built in the city of San Antonio del Tequendama. After some time, the hotel was closed due to the increasing number of suicides among visitors. There are ominous legends and rumors surrounding 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 church bell tower remained intact, surrounded by ruins temple complex, protruding cones of frozen lava resemble foreign paintings.

Underwater city of Shichen in China

Ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia

The ghost town of Kolmanskop, built in a place where small diamonds were discovered in the sand, which the wind brought from the ocean. Large buildings were built in the city beautiful houses, school, hospital, stadium, and the settlement quickly turned into an exemplary german city. Everyone was counting on long-term prosperity, but alas, the “reserve of diamonds” quickly dried up. In addition, the city was difficult to live in due to problems with water and sandstorms, and people left it. Most of the houses are almost entirely 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 terrifying ghost of the power of nuclear energy. Now they're taking me there organized excursions, and stalkers come there for walks, but interest in this place does not subside, and new “urban legends” are born.

People once invested effort and money in these buildings, people lived and worked there, but now they look like ghosts. But such objects certainly attract with their mystery and give the city a certain charm

The editors of the ZagraNitsa portal have selected a collection of the most original “abandoned buildings” in Moscow.

Plant named after Likhachev

st. Avtozavodskaya, 23

Not everyone knows that ZIL was originally called AMO and was intended as a place for the production of Fiat cars. However, after the revolution, the plant was nationalized and for several years it was engaged only in car repairs, and only then retrained to produce domestically produced trucks. Likhachev developed the plant's turnover to 100,000 cars per year, and in the 1970s ZIL produced 200,000 cars annually. In the 1990s, production fell and the plant is now virtually abandoned. Theoretically, no one is allowed into the unused territory of almost 300 hectares, but in practice, of course, it is not guarded so well that those who wish to do so cannot get there.

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Hadron collider "Accelerator"

Simferopol highway, 97 km

In Protvino, a city of nuclear physicists, the only collider tunnel in Russia is located at a 60-meter depth. Construction of the “Accelerator” began in the 1980s and almost completed construction in 1991, but was abandoned at the final stage. Over the past 25 years, many structures have collapsed. The fate of the collider is being discussed - some want to seek funds to resume construction, others insist on destruction. Scientists claim that disposal of the Accelerator can cause serious environmental consequences.

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Courtyard on Malaya Sukharevskaya Square

Malaya Sukharevskaya Square, 6, p. 4

It is quite unusual that the courtyard in the very center of Moscow has not yet been rebuilt or used. The building, built in 1873, was once a significant decoration of Malaya Sukharevka, but 9 years ago there was a fire there, and the courtyard was greatly damaged. Now this is a favorite place for those who like to take photographs in dark colors.

Water park "Aquadrome"

Aminevskoe highway, near Kuntsevskaya metro station

In the late 1990s, a large-scale water park was planned here. However, due to disagreements between developers and investors, construction stopped. Later, Moscow authorities bought the ownership of the unfinished premises and sold it at auction in 2007. They are planning to build a big one here shopping mall, however, so far things have not gone further than plans. But Muscovites like to spend time indoors, taking pictures and painting graffiti on the walls. They say that some episodes of “The Brigade” were even filmed here. Due to the emergency condition of the premises, accidents were recorded during visits.

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VIEV Laboratory

st. Kuzminskaya, 10

The All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine existed for 85 years in the Kuzminki region. Later, the institution was moved to Ryazansky Prospekt, and the old building was abandoned. It is believed that over the years of operation of the laboratory, dangerous experiments on animals have been carried out here many times. Whether the corpses and the chemicals used were properly disposed of is not known for certain. The laboratory is currently being inspected and is being prepared for demolition.

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School of Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky

st. Zoe and Alexandra Kosmodemyansky, 3, p. 1

The building of the Kosmodemyansky school, opened in 1956, was moved to newer premises in the early 2000s. The old building was going to be reconstructed, but it never came to that. People without a fixed place of residence calmly settled in the school, even starting a fire there twice. If you are not afraid to meet them, you can even have an interesting time at school, finding things forgotten by students.

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Ski lift on Vorobyovy Gory

st. Kosygina, 20

The 90-meter lift was supposed to serve as another exit from the Vorobyovy Gory station (then Leninskiye). The reasons for its closure and abandonment are not exactly known. They talk about landslides, lack of funding, etc. Now it is an increasingly crumbling “abandoned place”, from which this moment they don't plan to do anything.


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"Blue tooth" - business center "Zenith"

Vernadsky Avenue, 82

“Blue tooth”, “iceberg”, “ice of ice”, “crystal” - all these are unofficial associative names of the unfinished Zenit business center with an original design. This is a rather gloomy building with elevator shafts and protruding fittings. The business center is now owned by the state and is waiting for its new owner.

Khovrinskaya hospital

st. Klinskaya, 2 building 1

Construction of the Khovrinskaya hospital lasted 5 years in the first half of the 1980s. There are various rumors about the reasons for its termination - mostly they talk about the suspension of funding. The layout of the building is quite original - the hospital was built in the shape of a star with three rays. Information periodically appeared that sectarians and Satanists were gathering in the building. In the early 1990s, a murdered girl was found on its territory. At the moment, it is quite difficult to get into Khovrinskaya - the hospital’s security has been significantly strengthened.

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Cinema "Yerevan"

Dmitrovskoe highway, 82

There are quite a large number of abandoned cinemas in Moscow, one of them is Yerevan. The last time we watched a movie here was in the early 90s. Then art was slowly “pushed” by the hardware store and utility rooms. The Yerevan building has been empty for 10 years; its reconstruction is being discussed, but has not yet begun to be implemented.


Photo: mybb2.ru

Russia can easily surpass many countries in terms of quantity creepy places. I bring to your attention a list of abandoned hospitals, factories and even castles in Russia in which you can film horror films.

The lighthouse was built with great difficulty in 1939 according to the design of the architect Miura Shinobu, it was unique and the most difficult technical structure all over Sakhalin. It operated on a diesel generator and backup batteries until the early nineties, and then it was converted. Thanks to the nuclear energy source, maintenance costs were minimal, but soon there was no money left for this either - the building was empty, and in 2006 the military removed two isotope installations that powered the lighthouse from here. It once shone for 17.5 miles, but is now plundered and abandoned.

Fairytale castle in Zaklyuchye

It can be found in a picturesque forest area, on a high bank small lake, between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Estate of architect A.S. Khrenova was built at the end of the 19th century according to his own design. A distinctive feature of the house is complete asymmetry, as well as a combination of natural and artificial materials during construction. That’s not what appears to the eye medieval castle, not a classic city estate, in which Soviet time there was a sanatorium. Currently, the house is being restored very slowly, so it cannot be considered completely abandoned.

Five-star hotel "Northern Crown"

Hotel " Northern Crown"Began to build in 1988 by a Yugoslav company. They wanted to build a five-star hotel with 247 rooms with total area about 50,000 sq. m. Construction work stopped at the end of 1995, when the object was almost ready. They have been planning to demolish it for several years now, but nothing has happened. So it stands, damp, attracting strangers with its unusually shaped roof, bright interiors and mold on the plasterboard stucco.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant, Makhachkala

Naval weapons testing station, commissioned in 1939. It is located 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction took a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions: the foundation was made on the shore, and then delivered to the construction site. The depth of the walls is 14 meters and the thickness is 1.5 meters. 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 sheet. Now this “Array” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Diamond mine "Mirnaya", Yakutia

At the time of its closure in 2004, the mine was 525 meters deep and 1,200 meters wide, making it the second largest excavated hole in the world after the Bingham Canyon Mine. The hole is so big that air space above the mine is closed to helicopters due to accidents in which they were sucked into the downdraft. The landscape around looks deserted and completely alien.

Khovrinskaya Hospital, Moscow

A huge multi-storey hospital began to be built on the site of the cemetery in 1980, and construction stopped after five years. Now the basements are flooded, and the building is slowly going underground. “HZB”, “Umbrella”, “Unfinished”, “Nemostor”: the place is more than famous, has acquired a huge number of urban legends and attracts a variety of personalities. Resident evil and a gate to a parallel world in the middle of Moscow. Popular among young fans thrills, and already has its own folklore and “locals”.

Kadykchan village, Magadan region

Kadykchan (translated from the Evenki language as “Valley of Death”), the village was built by prisoners. In January 1986, the population was 10,270 people, and by 2006 not even a thousand remained; in 2012, one elderly man lived here. Coal was mined here, from which most of the Magadan region received energy, but after the explosion at the mine, people began to leave, the village was closed and disconnected from heat and electricity. Now it is an abandoned mining "ghost town". Books and furniture have been preserved in the houses, cars have been preserved in the garages, and the streets of five-story buildings are gradually being destroyed.

Abandoned Navy submarine base Bechevinka

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54, Finval Bay was founded in the 1960s as a military town and submarine base. Once a week a ship sailed to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; there was no land communication with other settlements. The brigade was completely disbanded in 1996. All military equipment was removed, electricity and water supplies were cut off. At the same time as the village of Bechevinka, the settlement of rocket scientists Shipunsky, located on a hill on the other side of the bay, ceased to exist. The village is surrounded by mountains and the incredible beauty of Kamchatka.

Building of the Energy sanatorium in the Moscow region

On the territory of the sanatorium there is a new building that regularly receives guests who want to fish in the local ponds, but the old building partially burned down and was abandoned. There was a cinema in the burned part. The rooms are filled with mountains of garbage - TVs and furniture. The main attraction of the building is the palace-style staircase. There are a huge number of similar establishments in Russia; abandoned pioneer camps and sanatoriums are a common occurrence.

Maternity hospital in the Vladimir region

What could be more mysterious and gloomy than abandoned medical institutions? Even existing hospitals are terrifying to many people simply because of their specific nature. In a building late XIX century, the maternity ward of the city hospital was located. It functioned, judging by calendars and documents, until 2009, and there was some kind of security until 2012. Broken windows were regularly repaired, and the building was going to be renovated in 2013. Much of the building remained untouched, and it seems that just recently in these spacious halls people were waiting for good news from doctors.

 

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