Ghost-cities are the places abandoned due to various reasons – economic decline, wars, natural or anthropogenic catastrophies. This city stands in the range of the ghost ones. This is Stepnogorsk and this post is devoted to it.
It is not far from Zaporizhzhya but here are nearly no people or cars. The center is represented by a couple of shops and kiosks. The atmosphere is rather gloomy and it’s hard to imagine how people can live here. Looks like a Ukrainian “Zombieland”…
So post-apocalyptic…
You won’t need much time to see how the city lives …
A mine 7 km away from the city. It was built in 1989 but didn’t work long and when it closed people’s plans were shattered and they began to leave the city … Many cities shared the same destiny.
This used to be a canteen.
Our next destination is the Popov castle – an outstanding historical and architectural monument of the second half of the XIX century. One of the largest mansions and parks in the south of the Russian Empire. The only one preserved mansion complex on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya Region. It sounds great but in fact …
But in fact it’s an abandoned place that nobody needs …
And it’s the shore of the Kakhovsky reservoir.
All in litter and junk …
via vadnak.com
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so it’s an abandoned mine town.
so it’s an abandoned mine town.
Utopia/Dystopia.
Sad, really. To see such hope left to whither on the vine.
Looks like the STALKER devs drew some inspiration from this town for their game… Going on a stroll through the game ends up with some eerily similar images and places… A building or two even had the same paintjobs as that old canteen. Nice!
Because this was a typical soviet architecture and design of that time. You can see similar structures and stuff all over ex-USSR.
Real STALKER without radiation! Have to pay a visit there someday…
Yes, very, very STALKER-ish.
I would love to pay a visit to this place and many others… But I think I would have to spend several month and much much money in Russia and Ukraine…
Sad to see the past glory ! Popov-Castle is very beautiful !
it’s not in Kazakhstan but in Ukraine … Stepnogorsk in Kazahkstan looks a little bit heaven in comparison.
it’s in Kazakhstan by the way.
Stop looking at Google Maps and assuming that’s correct. It’s at the east end of the Kakhovsky Reservoir in souther Ukraine, just south of the city of Zaporozhye.
Looks wonderful place!
its not empty ,its full of stalkers they are just hiding so you cant see them
Its sad to see a town wither and die like that. Near where I live are a lot of gold mining towns that are no more. Some of the buildings still remain but are not in as good as shape as some of these buildings. Thanks for the uploads…
I think I will vacation there next year with Egger and SovMarx1924
They should have a ‘homestead act’ for Russia where if you live on the land and improve it, it becomes yours.
The life sometimes can be very weird.
Many people would be happy to get an own little flat, so they ask the banks for some loan. And here? Everytimg is -if I may say so- free of charge, but nobody needs. 
Thats my town. Stepnogorsk. You didnt show the living area part, and I am so looking for more information on the history of that town
Land must be cheap, I would like to buy that home
so are there any imagery of the areas where people do live? A hotel or anything?
I too, would like to see the living part of this town and to know about it’s people and culture. Stepnogorsk is similar to many towns over the world and I have to agree it is very sad to see such desolation. I feel very sorry for the people there. I want to give them the following idea; there is hope and I will be part of that hope.