Another Trip to Kadikchan
Second trip to Kadikchan town - lost city of Russia. On the first photo is how it looked like when it was not abandoned yet.
via nnm.ru
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suffer in your jocks yet again
the chick in the pin up (at picture 34?) looks like Brittany spears.
I miss the USSR
the world needs another bad guy.
yeah, now theres only usa and china
OMG another Russian town bites the dust, always crumbling , rusing and deserted
Miss India……you dirty little bitch, I am sure you are a pakistani or chinese whore, using this forum to rake anti-india sentiments. No Indian would take any pleasure from the collapse of the soviet union. I see u bitch about russia in every forum. They are a great nation, who tried to create an alternative political- economic model. The model did not survive but it’s ideals did- modern day trade unions, corporate social resposibility and secular non-theocratic ideology of the state are all greatly influenced by USSR. Many, nations including India ows its sovereignity due to their protection. Long live Indo-Russian Friendship.
That is Debbie Gibson. 1980’s usa pop star girl
Thought it was Astrakhan, but our Lenin looks better. So it must be other Russian city. Needs some paint !!
pic 19, looks like Audi dealership, but somehow I doubt that
Why abandoned? What happend?
I’d like to know it too. why is this city abandoned?
This industrial city is located in Magadan region (oblast) which is in the far eastern location in Russian Federation. Magadan is one of the least populous districts, only 182,000 inhabitants in area of 461,400 km².
After the collapse of USSR (actually few years before that) many heavy industrial government backed companies collapsed because of a lack of institutional support and investment. Magadan regions economy is centred on mining especially gold, silver and other non-ferrous metals. When people found themself un-employed there was no reason anymore to stay in some towns.
One of these towns is Kadychan.
photo #48, the book on the right with the blue lettering for the title - can you translate the title? it looks like a science fiction novel.
no. it’s just pop science “cosmonautics (astronautics) today and tomorrow”
More picks from the far east please!
Probably the best translation is “ghost town”.
Pretty place. <3 Thanks for sharing.
MORE IMAGES LIKE THIS TOWN PLEASE! THANK YOU!
Excellent shots. Thank nnm for feeding on the eyes.
It seems like I’ve seen some of these pics before in an older post — I guess maybe it was the same town?
Does anyone know approximately how many “ghost towns” there are now in the Russian Federation? It seems like there are many posts with pics from them, but I don’t have a sense of the true size of the phenomenon.
Kadykchan was a industrial tin mining town. When the economy collapsed in the early 90s the government was not able to support the place. Winter time temps dip down to -70 or so. There was a “accident” that destroyed the towns central boiler, knocking out hot water and heat for everyone. Most people left inside of two weeks, with some but not much government help. The world bank loaned money that amounted to about 2000 grand to each person to buy a flat elsewhere in Russia. Of course even in that time period it was about impossible to buy a flat for that due to inflation.
Reminds me a lot of Припять, but then it could also be City 17 from Half-Life 2 computer game. Very strange, but in some way beautiful pictures!
Wow.. that is a bit spooky. Good pics - and thanks for the explanations LiraNuna & Mr Obama…
Can anyone say what the graffiti on the door and the pic above says?
I was thinking Half-Life too but Johnny beat me to it.
Are there any Russian films like Mad Max?
The stuff on the doors says “Dont enter, or Ill kill you”
and “If you enter you will be accountable for everything”
A postcard from a “worker’s paradise” indeed…
These are very sad pictures.
I wonder if there was maybe one or two people left who could not leave, and who suffered terribly all alone.
I love this site. I love these pics, so haunting. There was a photo of a beautiful, old house deep in the forest. Now I can’t find it. could u put a search function on here or where on the site are the pics of the abandoned old houses?
According to Wikipedia (dutch and russian version), the town is still not completely deserted. In 2007 there were 287, in 2008 256 people still living there. I wonder how, considering what I see on these photos…
There is also a website of Kadykchan at http://kadykchan.ru
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Great site, great photos, great udiscovered Russia!
Thank you for this site - the images are beautiful and haunting and will stay with me for a long while…
Looks like the town from the sniper extraction mission in COD4. Must be soul-crushingly depressing to actually live there!
what happened
перемены зависят от нас - это правда, но город призрак все-таки это очень страшно…
eerie. looks like a skeleton left in the hills…
the city in cod4’s sniper mission was pripyat in the ukraine thats an amazing place in my opinion, i would love to go there someday.
Great pics, I wish to give a visit but it’s so far away from where I live, thanks.
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“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has
no brain.”
-Vladimir Putin
This place could very well be used for some kind of art colony. To invite various artists from around the world to make something on the topic of “site specific” art.
I feel very sad that such a beautiful city has been abandoned as a Ghost city. It can be preserved as a city of joy for the future generation and to promote tourism. So that coming generation will learn to preserve the nature to save the World from such more distaster.Russian glory has faded after disintegration. But Russia will regain its previous strength very soon. Lets hope for the best. Long leave Indo-Russian friendship.
Santanu
is this the town they filmed part of full metal jacket in?
Surprisingly, those ‘Full Metal Jacket’ scenes were filmed in an abandoned industrial slum in London. But these pictures reminded me of that part of the film as well.
does anyone have recent update on this place and how to get there
I notice in Picture #19 that there are Olympic Rings on top of the building. Was the city involved in some part of a winter olympics?
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does anyone know if traveling and photographing this place for an extended period might be dangerous ?
I am a photojournalist from Australia, and was considering going to Kadykchan to take pictures around the town.
My equipment is expensive and i thought as many people are poor, would I become a target ?
To those who’ve been there: would you consider it dangerous in any way ?
appreciated
derek