When you go some kilometers away from a big city you can often see absolutely different atmosphere and living conditions there. This little town is called Fokino and is located not not far from Vladivostok, a big city in the Russian Far East. You are about to see how people live there.
For the last few years Fokino has been left by several thousands of citizens. According to them they could not live in terrible poverty and hopelessness. Now many flats in Fokino are abandoned and empty sockets of their windows can be easily noticed from outside.
Such buildings sooner resemble sieves.
The building is in Stroitelnaya Street.
The houses are flooded with smelly water. Those who are still here have to feel this terrible smell.
This road leads to Fokino.
Once you are here you want immediately leave.
However it turned out that in Vladivostok itself some flats get abandoned by people too. Though it’s even hard to believe – housing in the region is expensive.
Some abandoned flats are immured, others are just empty. How does it happen? For example, one man sank while fishing and didn’t return home, all his relatives live in Australia and do not care or not even suspect about this flat in Russia.
According to the information there lived 700 thousand people in Vladivostok in 1993. Now the population in the city is a bit more than 400 thousand (guest workers and students from villages are excluded).
These photos were taken in one of the abandoned Vladivostok flats.
It already looks like a tendency. Though it’s quite strange at the same time, they usually do not live too well to abandon their flats.
Location:Vladivostok and Fokino
via pora-valit and vladivostok
Actually, this seems much better than the static caravans so many Americans live in.
OSIP – You must live in a pretty dumpy area if “static caravans” look like this in your neighborhood.
Public Housing on the other side of the world looks just as bleak…
Wikipedia has census information that differs a lot from this blog. Vladivostok peaked in 1989 at 633,838, and today is at 592,069. 40,000 people is a lot less than 300,000 people.
lies and old photo
2005 photo
Lies! The pictures are from 2005 and there is no doubt in my mind that the place looks nothing like this now.
Who is Anna Rap?
Why do they write her name on the wall?
Human behavior sometimes very hard to understand: what just show not just in Russia; but many countries inclusive USA now in same places could be the same. It’s even worse in one city in the States not very far from Mexico border: not even electricity and water be there putted by the Government. I read this case which around one thousand of people live there. How about what have been call Favelas not just in Brazil; also in many countries, inclusive in Europe and Portugal is one of them. Many times happened to be the Government fault; but not always just that, people slowly get used to live from start in a way o cares about, long are alive very good, in the other times just happened to be the circumstances of life to reach at that point because no work or no money whatsoever. Humans could live like any kind of animals when start to get used to that way. Not just mammals do that also any other creatures too adapted to the way start to live. At is a mechanism in the brain of everyone which could make good life or bad too, the habits ‘was made for good and bad, depend how to approached the way the habit progress, just like smoking excess of alcohol or anything not appropriate to give a health living. A.Oscar
`LOL “static caravans”. We call them trailer parks.
Some of them are nice, some are dumps. This is, um pretty dumpy….
They show only the bad side of Fokino here, the town’s not that ugly at all. They’ve probably only shot the suburbs.
In the West these were called “worker’s housing”. Plain buildings with no ornamentation designed for the New Communist Man.
There you go again, showing destroit or chicago and claiming it’s russia….
Obviously no one is paying rent or council rates, otherwise they could demand repairs. If this is the case, is there no sense of community obligation where everyone pitches in and fixes all the problems themselves? If not, then they can only blame themselves.
@solomon: It’s “Alina Rap”, but I dunno what it means.
@Propaganda author: stop lying. We see here only 1m² of a city with abonded houses. Go to Detroit, London, Paris, Berlin and you’ll find similar places.
Your lies about Russia suck. That’s cheap and shoddy agitation.
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The chick in the pink top is cute.
Unfortunately the buildings on the fotos are now in the same conditions as 7 years before. I in Vladivostok and i visit Fokino on business. But the abandoned buildings are only part of it small town. The citizens abandon the town. And those who stay they move to another morecomfortable parts of it. It’s declining district. In other district they build hotel and shopping centre. An what about Vladivostok, the city is much bigger as wikipedia think. And fotos of only one abandoned appartment don’t prove anything.