Russia

Eidtkunen Church

The Eidtkunen Church was built in 1883 according to the design of the famous German architect Friedrich Adler. Six years later, in 1889, it was consecrated. On the border with Lithuania The church is located on the border with Lithuania, in the village of Chernyshevskoye (once called Eidtkunen). The abandoned church in Kaliningrad The church […]

October 10, 2022
House of Soviets (Kaliningrad)

The House of Soviets (Russian: Дом Советов, transliterated: Dom Sovetov) is a building located in the Russian city of Kaliningrad. Locals often refer to this structure as the ‘buried robot‘ because of its appearance of a steel giant buried up to its shoulders. The architect who designed the structure was Julian L’vovič Švarcbrejm. It was […]

October 9, 2022
TNA-400, an abandoned Soviet radio telescope

The TNA-400 was the first small-scale, high-precision Soviet radio telescope with a 32-metre diameter main reflector. It was created in 1961 to track the USSR’s Soviet Lunar, Mars and Venusian missions and communicate with the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. The radio telescope is located in the village of Shkolnoye, 21 km from the city […]

June 14, 2022
Crimean abandoned heliostation

Heliocentre of the Institute for Material Science Problems at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located in the village of Katsiveli, Crimea. The heliostation was established in 1967 to study the power of the sun. This particular location was chosen for a number of reasons and factors: the atmosphere, the highest flow of […]

June 12, 2022
Karabanovo

The story of Karabanovo Karabanovo was first mentioned in 1630. At that time there were only a few huts built on the right bank of the then navigable Seraya River. Where the river was present, there was the possibility of delivering goods and generating electricity and water for production. That is why in 1812 a […]

June 11, 2022
The Ekranoplane of Derbent, legend of the Caspian Sea

The ekranoplane, the Soviet pachyderm of the skies beached on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

July 1, 2021
Soviet Hotel Amanauz

In Caucasus there is one of the most famous in Russia ski resort – Dombay. People spend here thousands of rubles. As a monument of Soviet architecture here stays abandoned hotel Amanauz.

January 4, 2021
Hidden Parts of Submarine Museum

Everyone one today knows about Former underground submarine base in Balaklava, or Object 825 GTS (GTS or City Telephone Station – it’s secret name in the times of Cold War). Though not many people even locals know about some abandoned parts of this place, hidden somewhere near.

November 15, 2020
Coastal Battery Drapushko

We continue to discover underground Sevastopol, this time we will visit one of the coastal batteries.

November 14, 2020
Old Aerodrome

Abandoned planes with no history and no name.

October 18, 2020