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We are in the place where Mi-24 helicopters that have been put out of operation are spending their final days. The Mi-24 was a first tactical machine designed by MI and was in production until the 90s. After the collapse of the

USSR, the manufacturers of different parts of the helicopter were separated by the borders of the newly formed ex Soviet states. These helicopters were nicknamed "Crocodile" by the pilots and I wonder if you can see why.

Categories History, Photos, Technology

There had been an independant radar control company on Graham Bell Island of Franz Josef Land until 1993, it used to be the

northernmost subdivision of the Soviet army. They had an air command post there and an airfield as well. Look what remains of them.

Categories Other, Photos

This post is a photo tour of the abandoned chalky tunnels of the Belgorod region,

Russia. If you take some light there you are gonna see how beautiful they can look.

Categories Photos, Technology

This command post is located in the northern part of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and called "Accord". It was created for communications support.

Free access to the command post only became available in December 2013, but today it already looks miserable - plundered and littered.

Categories History, Photos, Technology

So many unfinished objects were abandoned after the collapse of the USSR just because they became unneeded due to army, fleet, attack armament reduction - they turned

into massive monuments of unimplemented projects. One of such objects is located in Pavlovsk, Russia - it's a nuclear shelter for Pacific Fleet submarines.

Categories Culture, History, Photos

This old church standing on the plain of Kargapol, Russia, is open to wind and weather, and the wasteland spreads around for many kilometres. The church is dated 1655, being one of the oldest architectural

monuments of the Arkhangelsk region. Right now we are going to have a closer look at it and visit the neighbouring village, Saunino, where one more equally old church complex is situated.

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The most beautiful castles of Ukraine are probably located in the west of the country. There are many of them: medieval structures and wonderful ruins surrounded by legends and fairytales. But which of them is the best? Some would say it's the castle in Kemenets-Podolskiy or the one in Podgortsy near Lvov, but the castle Chervonograd

must be even better, more beautiful and unusual. It's the lost city in the Ternopol region and the place of enormous energy and awesome natural landscapes. Ukrainian episode of "Indiana Jones" or "The Lord of the Rings"! The castle in the green crater! Must be the most beautiful abandoned object in Ukraine.

Categories History, Photos, Society

One of the most interesting places in abandoned Pripyat is a dental clinic which used to be a part of the big multi-functional

health care complex. It is located in the central street of Enthusiasts but those who visit the city today rarely drop by.

Categories Other, Photos

Back to the little-known places of the Leningrad region in Russia. This time we are going

to visit the tower called Tura, Ludwigshtein island and a Finnish water tower.

Categories Automotive, Photos

You are about to see the equipment left by people on Frantz Josef Land back in the nineties. Some of the machines were destroyed in 2013 as part

of the clean-up campaign in the Arctic, others will be destroyed in summer 2014. Maybe some lucky ones will become museum exhibits.

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