The airfield was built by the Japanese, then the Kuril Islands became Russian, and was used by a Russian Air Force regiment until 1994, when the airfield was closed, almost all the planes were transferred to another base, and only two MiG-23 ml stayed behind, their fuselages now rotting and forgotten.
The whaler was washed ashore by a storm on a desolate coast, many nearby villages had been deserted so no one came to move it and it became rusty and abandoned.
Cellar 13 was the only cellar of all the construction projects in 1910. This cellar had five 100-meter-long tunnels for storing shells and fuses, and according to some adventure enthusiasts, some of the leftover equipment can still be found inside.
At 525 meters deep and 1,200 meters in diameter, the Mir diamond mine is the second-largest man-made hole in the world, after the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, USA. Helicopters are banned from flying over the mine because it is so big that the huge air currents when the helicopters fly over will drag it in.
This spectacular viaduct in the village of Mockley is over 100 years old. During the Second World War, it was used to carry munitions, and the Germans searched for it until 1986, when it was decommissioned.
The wooden church is located 33 kilometers from Kazan, near the abandoned village of Russkoye Khodyashevo, which has been abandoned since 2010, when the last inhabitants of Khodyashevo left.
Kadykchan was built by prisoners, which translates as "valley of death". People left after an explosion in a nearby coal mine turned off the heat, and in 2012, only one elderly man lived in the settlement, which once had a population of 12,000 people.
With the development of communications satellites, there was no longer any need to maintain such a large facility, and in 2003, the tropospheric weather station near Anadyr was permanently closed.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the USSR, a hammer and sickle monument was built on Mount Satka, but the monument was not recorded, and it remains an unanswered question, standing alone as a witness to a bygone era.
This is an old abandoned mountain village in Dagestan*** and the country, located in the North Caucasus, whose inhabitants died in the cholera outbreak of the 20th century, and which has since been forgotten by the world.
Located on the Caspian Sea, 3 kilometers off the coast, this Soviet-era avant-garde building was abandoned in 1966 because it was not up to the task of testing a new generation of torpedoes.
The largest mudslide dam in the Soviet Union was built in 1999 next to the town of Tyrnyauz on the slopes of the Central Caucasus Mountains. As recently as 1999, it saved the town of 27,000 people from a powerful mudslide, only to be abandoned because there were no funds to repair the dam.
Located in the Dombay ski area, this unfinished, striking structure was intended to be built as a resort hotel, but cracks in the foundation forced the soon-to-be-completed project to be abandoned.
This Lutheran church, located in a field in the village of Grechikhino, was dedicated in 1892. It has survived intact because it was used as a grain warehouse.
In 2014, this village, located just outside the Arctic Circle, became an overnight sensation, having been the set of Andrei Sagintsev's internationally acclaimed movie Leviathan. One of the most atmospheric places in Jelibirka is the graveyard of wooden ships, which was also featured in the movie.
The flooded bell tower sits on an island in the Uglich Reservoir, 200 kilometers north of Moscow, and was once part of the Kalyazin Monastery, which was frequented by Russian tsars. When the reservoir was later built, the entire area was flooded. The only structure that was not completely submerged was the bell tower that served as a lighthouse, and since 2014 the land underneath the bell tower has once again appeared out of the water as the water level has dropped.
The Gothic castle is situated near a lake in the center of the forest. It was built in 1914 by Vladimir Geisler, a descendant of a Russified Dutch family, who had to flee the country when the Bolshevik Revolution (October Revolution) broke out in 1917. The building was used as a sanatorium during the Soviet period, however it did not survive perestroika.
This was a cardiac sanatorium for 500 patients, one of the most brilliant examples of Soviet modernism, but it was never completed.
This church, with its wooded roof, is located in the village of Tuni in the Tver region, a village inhabited only in the summer, and dates back to 1908, but is now abandoned by mankind, nothing has survived inside the empty church, neither the floor nor the frescoes, but only a carved frame for a portrait.
The church in the village of Koy in the Tver region was built between 1828 and 1833. The interior of the church has no floor or doors, and although it's all empty, the stunning frescoes on the dome have survived.
Since its construction, this defensive fortress on the Gulf of Finland never took part in any battle and was eventually removed from the list of the city's defensive buildings, but it was soon put to good use again as a laboratory for the study of the bubonic plague in 1899.
In the center of St. Petersburg, in an alley next to St. Isaac's Cathedral, is an old mansion of a once very wealthy industrialist. It survived the revolution of 1917, and for a time housed the Bureau of Works, now deserted but owned by a commercial organization.
When peasant Nikolai Brusnitsyn moved to the city in 1844, he set up his own tannery and quickly prospered, building a magnificent mansion next door to it as a home for the poor, housing old people and children, who were fed and clothed by working in the factory. Today, the abandoned mansion is the perfect setting for a fashion magazine shoot.
Originally, the building was a shelter for the children of military officers and widows, built under the patronage of Princess Olga Alexandrovna, the youngest daughter of Alexander III. Later it became part of the Red Cross and was deserted after it ceased to function in 1919.
All the products of this rubber factory were stamped with a triangle, hence its unofficial nickname, the Red Triangle Factory. This Russian-American factory was one of the oldest businesses in St. Petersburg, and at the beginning of the 21st century it was declared bankrupt.
The grain elevator of the SOK cooperative was built in the late 1930s in the Svetogorsk neighborhood. It used to produce everything from flour to bread to compound feed for livestock, yet it failed to survive the economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the plant has been abandoned since 1999.
Many children's camps did not survive the collapse of the Soviet Union, and neither did this one, a 180-acre (120,000-square-meter) children's camp with eleven buildings that looks like something out of a horror movie.
Built in the 1980s but never completed, the eerie concrete building has attracted homeless and XDers for more than 30 years, as well as bloggers and movie industry types who like to come here for inspiration.
The camp is known for its well-preserved artifacts, including the famous Soviet-era statue of a pioneer and the moss-covered playground.
During the Soviet era, it was the base of the missile defense system (S-25 and A-35) used to defend Moscow, *** There are six spherical buildings, two of which are former radars.
Gorky Leninskoye is famous for being the place where Lenin lived and died, and most of the facilities and buildings are open to visitors, but there is one boarded-up area that is off-limits to visitors, and those who manage to get in run the risk of being detained by the police because of a headless statue of Lenin.
The buildings, which look like something out of a sci-fi movie, are designed to test the lightning resistance of equipment and hardware. For example, levitating a test airplane and subjecting it to electrical impulses.
The Skazka Pioneer Camp, built under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, could accommodate about 300 children at a time, and is pictured here as the camp's cafeteria now looks.
This mansion in the town of Dolgoprudy, outside Moscow, was once guarded by police 24 hours a day, but is now abandoned. It is one of the main buildings of the Vinogradovo estate, which just recently celebrated its 100th birthday.
Since the 17th century this place was notorious, the village of Likhachevo, once densely populated, began to die out for unknown reasons, and it was decided to improve the situation by building a church here. However every church built in this place something unbelievable happened, and soon the troubles in the village of Likhachevo returned. The Nikskaya church, the last church here, was closed by the Bolshevik party in 1937, and during the Second World War the village of Likhachevo was completely destroyed by the Germans.
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the Ivanovo region is one of Russia's most memorable abandoned churches, its dome collapsed many years ago, grass gradually grew over it, and now everything here looks like a work of art.
The cinema, built in late 1975, has been derelict for nearly a decade, and is sometimes used as a makeshift market by vendors selling jackets, coats, fur coats, or honey on the ground floor of the theater.
Baron Maximilian von Meck, son of Karl Otto Georg von Meck, the "Railway King", was the first owner of the estate, which was reclaimed by the state in 1918, and all of his possessions were handed over to the "Museum of the Daily Life of Russian Noblemen" in Moscow. In 1918 the estate was returned to the state and all his property was handed over to the "Museum of the Daily Life of Russian Noblemen" in Moscow, where it was used for the cultivation of sugar beets and the breeding of livestock, and from that time on until the 1980s the Von Meck estate was used as an orphanage.
Before that it was a monastery, and after its abolition a church was built on the site of the monastery, and slowly a village cemetery formed around it, which is now also abandoned.
The neo-Russian crew hospital was built in 1880 in Lebinsk, and in addition to this wooden building there were several other buildings, as well as a house for medical assistants and a chapel. 1993 the whole complex was declared a cultural heritage site, but it fell into disuse due to lack of funds for restoration.
All that remains of this 100-year-old Roman Catholic church is a frame. During the Soviet era, the church was used as a warehouse for a tractor station, and in a fire in 2004, the dome and roof of the church were destroyed.
The Tamil capital is an outpost of Russia's Arctic, with modern new cranes but no dismantling of the old ones, and the Northern Sea Route and rusting harbor cranes are the most familiar sights here.
Pashkov's estate, with about 150 rooms and a large ballroom, was burned down by looters during the Soviet era. According to legend, the noble Pashkov family demolished a monastery while building the estate and used its bricks to build it, so the monastery's elders cursed the estate.
Formerly The spillway of the Tsitsik reservoir is located on a flooded island and it is difficult to get there without the help of locals. When the Krasnodar reservoir was built in 1975, the Zichik reservoir was soon abandoned.
Baltiysk used to be a military base of the Baltic Fleet, and on the military dock there is a warship Newkrotimi, sawn into many pieces, which was damaged during a naval parade in St. Petersburg in 2008 and towed here.
The irregular, pentagonal fortress on the Vistula promontory was built in the mid-19th century to protect the entrance to the ship channel, which in 1945 was the scene of a fierce battle between Soviet and German forces. Today, the fortress is at war with the sea, yet it is being ruthlessly dismantled.