The Water Stadium
It was a Soviet legend, one and only Russian water stadium, in Moscow. The place where Russian athletes could do surfing on public. Surfing was so exotic for Russia..
Now it lays abandoned.
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Thats not something I would be proud of.
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Don’t worry… you’re still the second biggest loser.
1’st
its a shame that such place goes to waste.
i can see some russian businessman taking it over and revamping it and making lots of $$$
Do you have traffic stats? I’m sure its enough.
Miami has something similar that has also been abandoned. It was used for Power Boat races and concerts (with a floating stage).
http://criticalmiami.com/2007/01/02/MiamiMarineStadium
I saw Chris link. Looks like the water sports don’t have much attention in any country.
Sometime i wonder,which kind of construction material Soviets used?just after few years later their landmarks become ruines.look above pics,so many places they used bare wood but nothing else.instead of fixing marble or other stone tiles they throw mixture of cement.i don`t have true secret behind the poor and skinny type of construction.communists has no middle men,no commission agents,has no kickback deals,so why they has not used their best for the people of CCCP?they eyed on mars but on the ground they have nothing but crushed working class.
Good observation. It looks like they tried to coat hollow wood framing, beautiful red bricks and even cement (with minimal steel reinforcement) with some type of mortar.
Good observation. In general Russian construction quality is below average, I’m sorry to say. Not because they cannot do better, but because of the mentality and corruption.
In general people mainly have a very short term vision, so they don’t care about what happens 10 years from now.
Next - they are very conservative. New and advanced construction methods using innovative materials are being used only for the last few years. A basic thing like plasterboard and the plaster [Knauf] to cover it were not used until a few years ago. Everything was covered in cement. Latex paints were unknown - everybody used white chalk paint [dunno the english term] which was not even water resistant. Etc.
Third - corruption. Which undermines everything.
Maintaining your property is also not in the Russian way of thinking - even new apartment buildings are starting to look like shit [the public areas like the entrance, that is]. First thing Russians do: put a big steel door in front of the existing door to their appartment [they don't trust ANYBODY !] and everything outside that door doesn’t interest them.
This mentality is a pain in the ass and very destructive.
“This mentality is a pain in the ass and very destructive” - agree. another problem is that they carry this mentality with them wherever they go. that is why whole of the Eastern Europe looked like shit after their rule. the Baltic countries suffered most, and are still suffering.
bricks.
bricks of poor /and very poor quality.
sometimes you can see a building which was built in times of Tzar, with some tasteless extensions built later in Soviet times. The Tzar’s part actually always looks a lot better then the Soviet part, regardless of sometimes being 100 years older.
Soviet bricks could not stand elements and started to fall apart even during the first season.
any building would look like this, if you never undertake repairs!
stalin-time building quality was exceptional, even when compared with the western-european of the same period, but the regular repairs were never done properly, were always too late, and have totally stopped in 1980s.
hence, the decay started some 30 years ago, not just yesterday!
Completely agree about the lack of maintenance.
And I would rather disagree about the Stalin time building quality. I would say it was quite good for “representative” , showcase pieces of architecture in Moscow and some other places, and it was recognizably better than in Brezhnev’s time, but I would hardly call it “exceptional, even when compared with the western-european” standard. Non-showcase buildings exhibit the same problems with poor brick masonry, cheap, low quality gypsum decorations, cheap bronze paint gold imitation etc.
I”m always enthralled by decaying splendor and have often wondered,in cases such as this,not why the place failed,but what made the owners of it think it would ever work?
That sad its great building why we ignore
Sad
I like it. It looks like a fun place for teenagers to hang out too. It still looks usable to me, some people just need to go clean up the garbage and pull some weeds and they’ll have a nice waterfront park for a picnic.
Maybe the water is too contaminated. Cynical Bastard always seems to know.
English Russia really does post the best abandon pics ever, I love this shit!
It is amazing to see how thriving something once was, and then its future.
Half of the country is abandoned. Everybody is trying to get to the BIG cities.
LIKE, having ‘Moscow’ as your place of residence is considered prestigious. God knows why.
why the fuck does like most of the graffiti look like western graffiti??? shouldn’t it be mostly in cyrillic? i think it would be way cooler if it was in cyrillic, not this reductionist latin alphabet crap
Hahahah
Because they think English graffiti is cool. Go look at some of the stylish clothing with English words or phrases that hardly make sense.
I remember a girl wearing a shirt that said “Playboy” and underneath it.. “Global Famous!”
Or a belt buckle that said “Porn” or graffiti on the roof of an apartment saying “Fack You.”
In 1980-ies I was in Moscow and saw that guy in subway in a glossy black synthetic jacket with “Chicken Soup” on it.
In 1980-ies, also, the jackets and various sportswear, most of it produced in illegal underground factories, had “Montana” on it. And why I mention this is because, as more or less nobody did speak or understand English, some people seriously thought that “Montana” in English means “pizdec” - where “Pizdec” is non-translatable Russian word meaning something like “this is the end”, “we/you/they are fucked”, “the end”, “alles caput” etc.
I love that graceful diving tower shown in the old pictures. I wish more places had things that looked beautiful and simple like that.
well well. the fall of empire. first you rise and then you fall.
This is a place which I visit much times when I was young. It is also place where I meet my ex-husband. Our marrige, like this stadium, did not last very long.
Would you like to share about your failed marriage?i always keen to know about the separation of two loving partners,once they loved very much.
Jesus, what a waste. The poster who said you have to wonder how the Soviets ever thought this new system they had would ever work is quite right, in my opinion. As much as you might like the whole *idea* of ’socialist’ wage-levelling and all the rest, the sheer level of corruption and laziness that the system generated certainly worked against its effectiveness.
wow, that reminds me of ancient rome
You don’t have to be a smart man to tell why it is abandoned. It’s Moscow, not Miami. It’s damn cold there. You wouldn’t want to swim if it’s -40°
sad, sad, sad.
sad
It’s one of few amusement park at that day
we should consider some renovation
Old places are way cool!
Any google maps links available?
Go DINAMO mothafuckers!
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It was a nice design, too bad they let it get it this shape
It all started that fateful day when the first nigger got his hands on the first can of spray paint some where in the USA. It was to signify the end of the age of grace.
Spreading out the ugly contents of his mind for all to see.
And the whole world took a turn for the worse.
Would “Pizdec” be the proper term for this?