Within the territory of the former USSR can be found a large number of abandoned objects reminding us of greatness Soviet Union... Military facilities, equipment, factories, submarines and spaceships turned out to be unnecessary to anyone, and therefore their fate was not the best way... Let's take a look at the legacy of the USSR from the times cold war, which is found in Russia and neighboring countries.
Abandoned collider. Protvino, Moscow region.
Aralsk-7, Vozrozhdenie island. Ghost town rumored to have experienced biological weapons... The completely autonomous city was urgently abandoned in the early 90s.
Over-the-horizon radar station Duga (radar station Duga, Pripyat, Ukraine) - created for early detection of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles... Construction was completed in 1985 near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Radar Duga had cyclopean dimensions! Height - 140 m, length - 500 m. 200 thousand tons of metal were used for the construction. The station was not on alert and did not pass tests.
Kola superdeep borehole(Murmansk region) is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters; the diameter of the upper part is 92 cm, the diameter of the lower part is 21.5 cm. ( Archive photo 1974).
Kola superdeep well. This is how the object looks today. In 2008, the facility was abandoned, the equipment was dismantled, and the destruction of the building began.
Station for the study of the ionosphere (Ukraine, Zmiev). Was built as an analogue of the American the HAARP project in Alaska, in the late 80s.
The Kiev Electric Transportation Plant has a long history. The opening took place on May 1, 1906. In the photo: Workshop of the plant in the 80s.
During 1974 - 1985. about a hundred new KTG freight trolleybuses rolled off the assembly line annually. And this is how the Kiev plant of electric transport looks today.
Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino. There are many Crimean secret (and not so) abandoned facilities, because the peninsula was a line of defense in the south of the USSR and Russian Empire... This nuclear power plant, for example, was supposed to supply the entire Crimea with electricity.
They began to build the station in 1974, and in 1987, after the Chernobyl tragedy, the construction was frozen. By that time, the station had already taken a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world.
Facility No. 221, Crimea is a truly secret facility. The photo shows a dummy building that hides a chain of bunkers underground. Fearing nuclear strike the leadership of the USSR built a bunker for the Spare command post.
Tunnels of object No. 221 (Crimea). In addition to the command post, they had to evacuate underground in the event of nuclear threat 10 thousand people - officers and their families.
The Crimean bunker was abandoned in 1992. According to some reports, he was 90% ready.
Object 825 GTS - underground base submarines in Balaklava. A secret military facility from the Cold War era. The underground complex was under construction for 8 years - from 1953 to 1961. After it was closed in 1993, most of the complex was not guarded.
Object Object 825 GTS is located in Mount Tavros and is a structure of the first category of protection (direct hit atomic bomb 100 kt).
Anti-nuclear doors of Object 825.
It's hard to believe, but there are whole cemeteries of equipment left behind by different reasons back in the days of the USSR. In the photo: The equipment that participated in the liquidation of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant... A familiar picture for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans.
This sad picture in the photo is an abandoned hangar near the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A few years ago, photographer Ralph Mirebs visited the hangar. Assembled space shuttles Item 1.02 "Buran-2" is the USSR's answer to the American Shuttles.
In 1988, the space shuttle Buran (item 1.01) made an automatic flight into space. In 2002, during the collapse of the assembly and test building No. 112, Buran was destroyed.
The collapse of the USSR and the growth of budget cuts forced the space program to be cut as well.
Spaceships and remained frozen in time.
The building cannot be called destroyed, despite the deplorable state.
This is how the hangar looks from the outside.
Rocket ship-ekranoplan project 903 Lun - Soviet assassin aircraft carriers, as they called it in the United States. And that was not far from the truth. The ekranoplan was designed to combat surface ships by applying missile strike.
Due to its high speed of movement and stealth for radars, the Lun can swim to aircraft carriers at a distance of accurate missile launch.
Lun has come a long way from the beginning of development in the 70s to transfer to trial operation in 1990. And already in 1991, the operation was completed.
This is how the ekranoplan looks today. It was mothballed at a dock in Kaspiysk. All the secret electronics were handed over to the warehouses.
Amderma, radar Lena-M. Village on the coast Kara Sea v Soviet time was the center of the largest military infrastructure in the Arctic. Large radar installations were installed here based fighter aircraft.
Amderma, control room of the radar complex.
Amderma. Balls of radio-transparent shelters for mobile radars.
And this is the Moscow region, our days. A whole arsenal of military equipment abandoned in the forest.
Such a picture, they say, is not so rare in our country. Entire military bases are completely abandoned.
Skrunda - once secret military unit USSR - the whole city of Latvia is abandoned. There are many similar ghosts all over the former union.
The abandoned Eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant in the city of Kaspiysk. Test station naval weapons, which was commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast.
If desired, abandoned aircraft can be found in the vastness of the former USSR. This one, for example, is near the airport in Riga.
Why are there planes! Whole airfields are abandoned. For example, in the town of Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Territory.
Airport, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Territory.
Abandoned planes, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.
Rocket complex R-12 Dvina (Postavy). The complex was built in 1964 and was in service until 1994. One of the objects of the Cold War.
According to some reports, this picture was taken the day before the death of K-159 during transportation for disposal.
Project 613 submarines are a series of Soviet medium-sized diesel-electric submarines built in 1951-1957.
It is impossible to say for sure whether the car wash was commissioned, but it was intended for large cars and, most likely, belonged to a nearby military unit. Washing box big size was designed for two lines, the washing was to be carried out automatically. The facility is now completely abandoned. There is a basement and access to the roof, but there is already a risk of being noticed by the military. The state leaves much to be desired ...
The air unit was disbanded in the summer of 2011. The airfield infrastructure along the line of the RF Ministry of Defense has been mothballed. The territory is large, there are many buildings and hangars, most of them are in disrepair. no guards were seen, local residents indifferently. A flock of stray dogs has been spotted, but they are friendly.
Military unit, located on the outskirts of a city near Moscow. Purpose - storage of medicines and various medical equipment. Most the territory is occupied by concrete hangars and warehouses. There are also a couple of barracks and outbuildings. All buildings on the territory are open, in almost every one there are leftovers of medicines, medical journals, and various civil property assets. There are no soldiers and no guards. Near one of the warehouses, local summer residents ...
Abandoned radio engineering center (RTC) of the C-25 system. Located on the second air defense ring. Call sign "Kindness". The condition is typical for all objects of the S-25 era: the equipment was dismantled many years ago, the metal was cut off. There are no guards and no military. Local summer residents take construction waste to the territory near the RTC.
Separate territory active military unit. Consists of several hangars, a parking lot and an abandoned checkpoint with rusty gates. It can be seen that the facility is frequently visited by the military. The military unit itself is located nearby. It is highly discouraged to come close, if you are noticed, they will be well noticed. You can approach the object through garages or through a concrete road and a path leading from it. Tver region, not Moscow.
Hangar for servicing aircraft on the territory of an abandoned airfield. In the central part of the building there are two KAMAZ trucks, both in good condition. On 3 of the 4 sides of the building there are two-storey technical rooms. They contain many books, mountains of documentation, as well as various devices, spare parts and mechanisms. There are a lot of old posters, charts, etc. on the walls of the building itself. There is Assembly Hall, tribune for performances, premises for work. Everything...
Several abandoned warehouses on the territory of a military unit. Many buildings are in very poor condition, but there are a few that have survived. They contain equipment, mountains of tools and other interesting things. These buildings are not even boarded up, you can get in through the window, having previously moved the frame. When visiting, it was not possible to inspect the entire territory, perhaps there is also a lot of interesting things. The guards are at the checkpoint and are represented by ...
Abandoned military warehouses near Bira are increasingly appearing in FSB reports. It is from them that ammunition comes to the "black market" of the Far East: mines, shells, grenades and cartridges. And in quantities that are simply frightening.
Recently, a large shipment of ammunition was found in the Jewish Autonomous Region. The cache, which contained more than thirty F-1 grenades, was found by officers of the FSB Directorate for the Jewish Autonomous Region. An examination carried out immediately after the discovery showed that the ammunition is combat and, even now, is ready for use. It is possible that weapons were being prepared for transfer far beyond the autonomous region.
The underground warehouse was found as a result of operational-search measures carried out in woodland near the village of Bira, Obluchensky region of autonomy, in the town of Devil's finger. It once housed military weapons depots, which burned down eleven years ago. The number of cartridges, artillery shells, grenade launchers, grenades and other ammunition stored here at that time, of course, was not disclosed. However, the fact that the military asked for ten years to clean up the territory occupied by warehouses, a significant part of which was completely destroyed by fire and explosions, speaks volumes. Sappers began to work at the site of the former warehouses, and the residents of the region were announced that this place was under military protection. Only a year later, the number of crimes related to the illegal circulation of weapons and non-ferrous metals increased sharply in the region. The tracks, of course, led to the Devil's finger.
According to operational data, which local security officers have at their disposal, ammunition left after the fire and illegally collected here is dispersed today throughout Far East and are used by criminal gangs.
The army has not been able to ensure the protection of former military depots, as well as the effective destruction of ammunition left after the fire, for many years, FSB operatives say. As a result, some residents of nearby villages and Birobidzhan established a criminal business here to extract ammunition and precious metal from shells.
The territory of the former warehouses was mastered by the so-called "black diggers", immediately divided into two specialties: "gunsmiths" (looking for grenades, fuses, TNT) and "metalworkers" who turn ammunition into scrap metal. FSB operatives tell how "black diggers" work. People, sitting on the ground, smashed 82-millimeter mines into pieces, rightly believing that they would be accepted in this way at any point of metal procurement. The TNT contained in the mines was carefully piled into a heap.
According to operational data, up to 200 people work on the territory of the warehouses every day. Brass sleeves from the old-style shells, the equipment of modern shells made of non-ferrous metals - all this fits tightly into bulky backpacks and is taken out to the illegal collection points for non-ferrous scrap, working nearby.
As a result, shortly after the fire around the former warehouses, a kind of infrastructure was formed, which has been feeding hundreds of residents of the surrounding villages for a dozen years, united in a chain: a digger - a receiver - a buyer. It is next to them that those who extract and then sell grenades, cartridges and explosives work. Several years ago, police officers conducted a kind of experiment here. We changed into civilian clothes, entered the territory of the warehouses, collected a couple of backpacks of ammunition and entered the federal highway directly ... through a checkpoint guarded by soldiers.
There has never been a normal security guard for the perimeter of the former warehouses. Although once the situation was still managed to be brought under control. Detained by the arrivals of the prosecutor's office, the media and local authorities the command of the Far Eastern Military District sent army special forces to guard the territory. The slender ranks of diggers thinned under the professional onslaught of trained fighters. But winter came, the special forces were removed from the facility and were no longer sent.
It is clear that without strict control of the entire perimeter of the former warehouses, the situation with the illegal circulation of ammunition and scrap metal cannot be remedied. The command of the Far Eastern Military District knows very well what is happening in a place called Devil's Finger. Video materials and an analytical note on the situation here employees law enforcement autonomy, in particular the Department of Internal Affairs of the Jewish Autonomous Region, was sent to the Ministry of Defense.
Abandoned city: Industrial mining village. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, this village was suddenly cut off from electricity, and the government did not provide the necessary support. Photo: Oleg Shvets
When the water supply, gas and electricity stopped working, the residents of the village simply took off and went in search of housing and work, leaving behind houses, property and wreckage. past life... Photo: Oleg Shvets
The things left by the settlers have survived to this day, becoming sad monuments to the past. Photo: Oleg Shvets
Abandoned submarine base: Object 825 - The small town of Balaklava on the Black Sea coast was once secret base submarines. Photo: Russos
Even relatives of residents of Balaklava were not allowed to visit this closed military facility without a special permit to enter. Photo: Russos
In 1995, the complex was abandoned, but already in 2003 a museum was opened on the territory of the base. Photo: Russos
There is an abandoned and unguarded fuel storage near the base. Photo: Russos
Abandoned concentration camps- a stone reminder of mass repressions, a sad monument to backbreaking labor and a mass grave for hundreds of thousands of those sentenced to death. Photo: angelfire.com
In most countries, desolation and devastation reign in abandoned buildings, which at their best were used for their intended purpose. In the Soviet Union, there are many buildings that have always been empty: the remains of unfinished projects, unfinished and abandoned due to lack of funds or as unnecessary. In a sense, they can be used to study unique story- the story of a corrupt and short-sighted government, a story of a failed, in other words, a story of what could have been. This unfinished abandoned factory was supposedly supposed to produce concrete panels. Moscow region. Photo: EUTHANASIA
In 1997, in preparation for the World Youth Games in Moscow, a project for the construction of an aquadrome was approved. Building area 1.7 hectares, building area 43,500 sq. m., 12-storey with a glass sloping roof. The building includes 3 underground and 9 ground floors, 5 swimming pools, water slides, track and field arena, a palace for playing sports, a hotel for nonresident athletes, offices, a cafe, a center physiotherapy exercises and medicine. In February 2002, the construction of the aquadrome was frozen. Moscow city. Photo: EUTHANASIA
Abandoned mines missile systems After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics inherited a dubious inheritance: the silos of long-range missile systems scattered here and there. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr
The photo shows one of such complexes located in Latvia. It included 4 mines, a central flight control panel, and an underground bunker. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr
Decommissioned mines have long become places of pilgrimage for numerous tourists. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr
Abandoned ocean military bases. Once the military bases of Vladivostok were considered part of the country's security system: strengthening the country's Pacific coast was designed to protect the USSR from possible aggression from Japan. Photo: Shamora.info
It's hard to imagine that incredibly complex, expensive machinery and equipment can be abandoned as easily as a dilapidated building. However, the builders of communism distinguished themselves in this area: until now, rusting equipment can be easily found in abandoned fields, and the huge satellite dishes scattered throughout the country are apparently destined to disintegrate into elements. Image Credit Flickr Avi_Abrams
Abandoned Fort: Fort Alexander is popularly known as the "Plague Fort". Built in the 19th century, and already in 1869 it was excluded from the fortifications. Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio
At the moment, the fort is abandoned, and numerous visitors can only see it from boats. Even now, they are advised to wear respirators and rubber boots to avoid contamination. There is now a construction project in the fort entertainment complex with theatrical stage, museum, cafe, bar, restaurant, shopping area Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio
Abandoned "sea city": Oil Rocks is an urban-type settlement in Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea. It is located on a metal overpass, built in 1949 in connection with the start of oil production from the seabed. A "virtual city" with shops, pharmacies, schools and other buildings has been built around the oil rigs. All this splendor was connected to each other by bridges and overpasses. Oil production continues to this day, but the city has fallen into desolation and this moment not inhabited. Abandoned buildings are slowly returning to the depths of the sea. Photo: Azerbaijan International Magazine, REGION plus, Travel-Images.com, Google Maps
Abandoned Mine: Some abandoned mines from the former USSR, located in the vicinity of the city of Kyshtym, are not radioactive. This potassium mica mining complex has been abandoned since 1961. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev
Then the burst of the holding tank radioactive substances caused contamination with radiation with a radius of 40 km and provoked the evacuation of more than 300 thousand miners. The incident was carefully concealed from the public. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev
The abandoned city of miners: On the Spitsbergen archipelago, there was once a whole Russian settlement - the city of Barentsburg, and three mines - the Barentsburg mine and the mothballed mines Grumant and Pyramida. Under the agreement of 1920, the archipelago was transferred under the jurisdiction of Norway, but other states, including Russia, which was traditionally present on the islands, were allowed to use the islands for any non-military activity. The USSR began mining coal. Photo: Erling Svensen
In the early 90s. for the Pyramida mine, a decision was made to shut down on the basis of the mine's unprofitableness. The population was given only a few hours to get ready. As a result, their abandoned houses resemble a picture from Chernobyl - abandoned personal belongings, books, children's toys. Photo: vizion, Anne-Sophie Redisch
Abandoned estates: Abandoned country houses and estates of historical and architectural value are in no hurry to restore. The reason is simple - lack of adequate funding for state level... The history of the Belogorka estate begins in 1796, when Paul I granted these lands to General L. Malyutin, who soon sold part of them to the marshal of the nobility of the Tsarskoye Selo district F. Bely. At that time, the estate was called "Gorka", and after the death of the owner began to be called "Belyagorka", and at the beginning of the XX century it received its modern name... After the revolution, the estate was nationalized. The history of the estate is closely intertwined with the history of the country. Poet Joseph Brodsky spent the summer before leaving abroad in Belogorka. Places in the zokrug of Belogorka - the villages of Novsiverskaya and Starosiverskaya - are associated with the name of the landscape painter Ivan Shishkin. Photo: The Nostalgic Glass Abandoned Territories: Abkhazia is a territory that considers itself independent from Georgia. In the late 1980s, Abkhazia wanted to secede from Georgia and become part of Russia. This gave rise to the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992-1993. Photo: Natalia Lvova / ID Rodionova
In 1994. After a devastating war, as a result of which the Georgian side was defeated, Abkhazia gained independence and the status of an Unrecognized State. Now, due to the lack of funding in the country, it is impossible to restore the transport network and buildings destroyed during the war. Photo: Natalia Lvova / ID Rodionova
It would seem that more than 70 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, and the echoes of this terrible event are not so clearly felt. But still, to this day, there are still places where the war seemed to have stopped, froze. Warehouses of abandoned equipment since the Great Patriotic War can be found in many regions of Russia.
Technique in the suburbs
Whole columns of abandoned cars, tanks, cannons and other unique military equipment and armored vehicles of the Great Patriotic War are found in the most different corners our country. Such a warehouse of abandoned equipment was found in the depths of the forest by residents of the Moscow region, picking mushrooms in the fall. Forgotten, abandoned equipment in the Moscow region, from a long standing here and there overgrown with moss, covered with foliage, as if it did not participate in hostilities, did not contribute to the Victory, was left in this place forever. Open doors, the abandoned equipment, the disorderly placement of some combat vehicles indicate that they were left in a hurry, without even saying goodbye, without bothering to thank the iron friend for his faithful service. Abandoned vehicles are in a different state: mostly broken, and some are even in combat readiness. The rows of abandoned cars are endless. Being here is like being in a cemetery. Only these are aircraft, tanks. And this case is far from the only one when abandoned equipment is found in the forests of the Moscow region.
Sunken machinery
A lot of military equipment sank during the war in the rivers, swamps and lakes of Russia. This once irreplaceable, and later sunken, abandoned technology, which once served humanity a great service, now sleeps in eternal sleep at the bottom of a lake or swamp, rusts, becomes overgrown with mud. Currently, there are more cases when the sunken military equipment is found and organized to raise it from the bottom of the reservoir.
A photo of the abandoned equipment that the military left near the Moscow region can be viewed in the article.
Military archeology
Military archeology is a search activity on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Are engaged in search activities special brigades... Buried in the ground, sunken at the bottom of rivers, swamps and lakes, searchers find wrecked or sunken equipment: planes, tanks and other types - as well as personal belongings of soldiers and officers. The trophies obtained help to restore a complete picture of a particular battle. But the search engines are digging more for commercial purposes. Collectors are ready to pay huge sums of money for the rarities they get - ammunition, personal weapons or military awards. And abandoned military equipment raised by search engines often finds a second life thanks to the work of restorers and, after repair, continues to live in the country's museums.
Legendary T-34
Symbol of the Great Patriotic War, legendary tank T-34, or, as it is also called, "thirty-four", is installed as a monument in many cities of Russia. As a combat and labor relic of the Great Patriotic War, this armored vehicle became a real nightmare for German troops... Undoubtedly, this tank had big influence on the outcome of the war, made a significant contribution to the Victory and brought glory to the great Soviet army... Therefore, special regret arises when you see this legend, the former power, strength, pride of our troops abandoned, unjustly forgotten somewhere in a deep forest, under open air, or left to rot and rust at the bottom of a river or swamp. Some T-34s are more fortunate, they are in museums as exhibits, but many remained standing in the same place where they were incapacitated by the enemy as a result of hostilities.
Outdated technique
Not only in, but throughout the entire history of mankind, there is a constant race of all existing states for the invention of the latest technical means... Consequently, even if military equipment has gone through all military operations without breakdowns and significant "wounds", it cannot serve forever. There is a modernization in the field of mechanical engineering, old military equipment is becoming obsolete. It is replaced by newer models with more advanced characteristics. Therefore, outdated military equipment that has served its service, "dies" and goes to rest, forming huge cemeteries of metal bodies, washed by rain, like tears.
Abandoned equipment locations
Abandoned equipment of Russia is not only military equipment of the times of the Great Patriotic War left on the battlefield or warehouses of obsolete, outdated mechanisms, which have been replaced by other, more modern cars... A lot of abandoned construction equipment is located in northern regions our country. In connection with climatic conditions, as well as the difficult passability of these places and the almost complete absence of roads, various tractors, tractors, machines are left here to their fate. V Chelyabinsk region in the local Serebryansky quarry, which was previously engaged in and is currently engaged (albeit in very small volumes) with the extraction of facing limestone, you can find abandoned equipment. Mainly different types excavators, which over time have grown into the ground with their buckets and caterpillars.
A huge amount of abandoned military and civilian equipment, if desired, can be found by exploring the vastness of our country. And if these places are not guarded or not guarded enough, cars become easy prey for those who collect scrap metal.
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