Easy to Ruin, Hard to Restore
This is a typical Ural landscape. Looking at this picture it is hard to imagine, how this beautiful nature can be changed by the human activity. But such is the reality…
The industrial city Karabash has been founded in 1822. It took only about 170 years to make a local ecocatastrophe in this place.
submitted by Ivan the Bear
| Tags: ecocatastrophe, Russian Nature, ural |
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Number one in being the most childish?
Anyways, it doesn’t look good when human thrashes the nature, but if we want to keep nature as it is, we might have to give up some of the “useful” things in life. Like computers, cars..
I had to post 1 to aggravate people who like to be 1st. It seems I have also aggravated you!
Yes, now we feed you to the man-eating cows, because you are cow orker.
Poor cows.
Not #1, internet troll? How could that be!
Thanks for the aggravation jackass
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Sorry……………….
The first picture does look nice.
The sad thing is, there are people who know much things cost, but not the value of a place like this. It was destroyed to make a few dollars, no money can buy it back.
A tiny fraction of this place was destroyed, probably to made a whole megaton of dollars. May as well tell it like it is. You must not be one of those people who know how much things cost.
I like to pee in one end of the pool and then drink out of the other end.
Go ahead, drink the whole thing.
Lol, why so much b/s…ural was and still is a beautiful place to go and visit…i never knew that couple of pictures from excavating side can be attributed to the whole region…but then again based on other content on this site i am not suprised…-1 to the author
What are the excavating? Coal?
They excavated nature. Hey, if nature really wanted to stay, it should have fought back.
To Chinese polluters………….
It looks better than before.
Yes you are right.if this industrial complex never exist ,CPSU of Russia not able to be developed their space programme.
It still looks pretty there, in comparison to some of the Chernobyl pictures that have been posted in the past, I think Ural is OK !
Well… all that industry that makes your miserable life more or less tolerable HAS to be located somewhere. Why not here?
In outer sapce………….
Sapce? Suuuuuure…
it was pretty, beautiful now it is horrible :’(
Trust me, in lousy 50 years it’ll be back the way it was.
Cheer up a little. Everything is not miserable and lousy.
With all of communists and their party.
You morons- the place in that top picture still exists as in the photo. *Elsewhere* in the region, people have jobs so that they and their children can eat.
Tada! Best of both worlds, industry and nature coexisting.
Yes! Art is what rich people will pay money for, so strip mines are art!
Very sadly…
I was there. It is an idustrial zone of Karabash. couple kilometres away you can finde good nature….and one of the most beautiful and pure lakes i ever saw - “Uveldi”
Any pictures of Uveldi?
you ‘ll find it all here : http://karabash.ru/
The black spot. And nearby is the most radioactive place on earth; Lake Karachay (caused by the nuclear complex Mayak nearby). There are more poluted places in the Urals, for instance the industrial area between Pervouralsk and Revda and the unhealty city of Severouralsk. But in general it is worth visiting. E.g. this picture from the Circumpolar Urals: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Saranpaul_-_view_over_river.jpg
It can’t be the same place anyway, 1st picture is in colour, unless they had colour cameras in Russia in 1822