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Hello again! At the beginning of the year, my friends and I visited several abandoned and semi-abandoned villages in the Moscow region. In this regard, I present a new photo report. Here we will talk about the most memorable moments, abandoned houses, curious finds, rural household items and other interesting things.

By the way, I don’t write from places like this very often. There was a similar blog (just part 1) last fall, you can see it. Before this, there were a couple more blogs in 2009 and 2010, but now I won’t bother searching, it’s better to move straight to the new part. So, today's report is dedicated to a couple of villages and country houses in the Moscow region. All of them are located at different distances from the capital, but they have one thing in common - either the village is being actively demolished for development, only a couple of living houses remain. Or in a working village there are remote abandoned houses that no one has visited for a hundred years, the windows are partially broken, and there is no fence. This is not the case everywhere, but since the capital is growing quickly, many villages, falling within the boundaries of Moscow, are gradually degrading. Villages near highways are also unlucky, as well as, on the contrary, villages very far from residential agglomerations. For the most part, these houses are empty, homeless residents often live, and there is nothing interesting to be found. But sometimes you come across some rather interesting locations. You even wonder how so many ancient and rather rare things, interior items, old dishes and much more. So, I’m posting the photos mixed up to make it proportionately interesting, otherwise some places are quite empty, and some, on the contrary. Go.

1. A typical house built before the revolution. No one lives inside, the door is wide open, the windows are broken. We came here again cold winter. Not the most interesting, but still.

2. We move several tens of kilometers. We get to a more interesting house. Shall we sit down and have some tea? In the corner we find an old chest, Viennese chairs near the table. We lift the seats and find a pre-revolutionary label, a small thing, but nice) There are many clocks scattered on the table. By the way, there will also be a lot of hours in the report.

3. Another house is next. On the terrace we find a portrait of the great poet, clearly caught under the scythe.

4. In one of the houses we find an antique piano. The same company, by the way, as the piano that some freaks threw out the window of an abandoned school (see blog at the end). This, thank God, is still alive, but the keys are already sticking. At the top of the piano we find a Soviet domino set.

5. Another stopped clock. Ordinary plastic ones, Soviet ones.

6. Sometimes you come across houses completely destroyed; for example, this one’s roof collapsed after a fire. The sofa looks a little crazy.

7. And this is a house with Pushkin on the terrace. The ceilings are rotten, the floor is collapsing. For example, here, the closet fell down.

8. An old birdhouse next to one of the abandoned vegetable gardens near the house.

9. You can often find various curious things in the attic. In this house, for example, it is antique items peasant life(spinning wheels, rakes, pitchforks, wooden shovels, sieve, etc.), notebooks from the 20s and 30s, textbooks of the same time, newspapers, Christmas decorations, porcelain dishes, etc. In this frame you can still see a radio in very poor condition from the 1940s.

10. Typical kitchen in such houses. An old stove, a water heater, a beautiful but dusty mirror and various junk.

11. Children's dolls always look especially creepy.

12. Another interesting room. Here we find a pre-revolutionary Singer sewing machine, or rather a table from it and itself. The condition is very bad. Time and dampness take their toll. There are a lot of old and half-rotten clothes in the closets.

13. I will show you the foundation of the camp. Rusty letters "ZINGER" on the back.

14. Every village house should have a red corner.

15. On the way past residential buildings, you often come across local residents)

16. Rusty bikes were found on the terrace.

17. But in the room there is a curious clock lying on the floor.

18. A house in a village a short distance from the rest. Strange, by the way. In one room the ceiling collapsed, in the second it was barely breathing, there was virtually no fence, the windows were broken, and the light in one of the rooms was still working! Traces of destruction are visible inside.

19. This piece of paper really hooked me. Teaching writing in the 20s. “Arise, branded with a curse, the whole world of hungry and slaves!”

20. In the kitchen of an abandoned house. There are letters underfoot and an old radio on the wall.

21. All clocks show different times.

22. Cute wooden bookcase.

23. Header photo. The rug looks especially sad. Rus'-troika, where are you going? And really, where...

24. Soviet pinball. Curious thing, never seen before. Although I’ve seen a lot of Chinese 90s. The condition is terrible.

25. One almost completely demolished hut.

26. In the house from frame 18. Buffet in the kitchen. Surprisingly perfect preservation! It’s as if no one has been living for two or three years, but no one has climbed or beaten. Although the dishes are late Soviet and not rare, so it’s not surprising.

27. Notebooks from the 20s, 30s, this time closer. Decorated with portraits of Lunacharsky, Lenin, faces of peasants and pioneers. And of course, “Workers of all countries, unite!”

28. In the house from the 1st photo, we find such a wonderful chest right on the threshold

29. A little bit of May nature from village plots =)

30. And again we find pinball. The condition is not much better.

31. One kitchen. It's strange that everything is just abandoned like that. Despite the apparent order, the dishes were covered in a layer of dust, and the ceiling behind had already collapsed.

32. Nice pre-revolutionary buffet in the room with a piano.

33. The quality of the shot is not very good, but I’ll post it anyway. Interesting content. Geometry notebook from 1929.

35. I want to finish today’s photo report with this shot.

Such abandoned houses make a very sad and painful impression. It feels like part of our culture is going away. The metropolitan way of life is changing the old established way of life. Is it good or bad? How much progress is needed, and what are we striving for? But these are rather philosophical questions, and everyone will have their own answer. That's enough reasoning for today. Until the next reports!

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Our world is full of such creepy and mysterious places. Old cemeteries, chapels, abandoned cities and hospitals.

Do you think this only exists abroad? Russia is huge, and we have more such places than in any other country. Shall we take a walk?

1. Damn cemetery

The Devil's Cemetery is a round bare clearing 250 m in diameter. It is located in the middle of the taiga, 100 km from the confluence of the Kova River with the Angara. It is noteworthy that there is no vegetation at all in the clearing, and the trees surrounding it are charred, as if a fire was raging here. According to one version, it was here, and not in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area, that the Tunguska meteorite fell.
In the 20s and 30s of the last century, cattle often wandered into the clearing. And he died. Local residents had to pull it out with hooks, because they were afraid to enter the clearing themselves. The meat of the dead cattle was abnormally red. It is believed that people also died here - before the Great Patriotic War Several hundred people died near or on the clearing. Walking there is not recommended. To put it mildly.

2. Myasnoy Bor

Myasnoy Bor, also known as Death Valley, is located in the Novgorod region. Finding this place is not so easy: now it is overgrown with forest, swampy, and only remnants lead to it railway wartime.

At first glance, there is nothing creepy in Myasny Bor. But there is a story: during the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of soldiers, both Russian and German, died here. The remains have not yet been buried. They say that terrible wartime artifacts can be found here: bayonets, helmets, bones and skulls.

3. Building of the sanatorium "Energy"

The ruins of an abandoned sanatorium are located 15 km from the Moscow Ring Road. Previously, the sanatorium was considered almost a work of art: a park was laid out in the courtyard and sculptures were installed. The building itself was once a beautiful two-story structure. And from the outside it still looks like an ordinary building, but a little renovation could do with it.

Inside the picture is different. There is trash everywhere, windows are broken. The rooms contain broken furniture, torn old books and photographs. Now the building is almost destroyed, and half of it has burned down, and in this part there are almost no walls left.

4.The village of Kadykchan in Magadan region

Kadykchan (translated from the Evenki language as “Valley of Death”) was built in 1943. Coal was found in this place at a depth of 400 m highest quality. Until 1996, several thousand people lived in the village. IN Stalin times there was even one of the Gulag camps here. And in 1996, there was an explosion at the mine, and people began to leave.

By 2006, 791 people remained in the village. A couple of years later - only 400. They refused to leave, but the authorities decided to close the unprofitable village back in 2003 and closed the only boiler house in the city. It became impossible to live in the city, and the Kadychkans dispersed. The authorities did not consider it necessary to evacuate the residents.

Now Kadychkan is a ghost mining town. There were books and furniture left in the houses, broken benches and monuments in the streets.

5. Finval Bay, an abandoned Navy submarine base

The bay is located in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54. Official name bay - “Bechevinskaya”, but due to secrecy it was renamed “Finval”. Previously, submarines were stationed here: since 1971, the composition of the division has changed several times, until in 1996 they decided to close the base. All property was removed, electricity and water supply were turned off. At the same time as the base, the Shipunsky missile village was also closed.

All that was left was at home. The submarines were moved to another bay.

7. Abandoned naval training base on Russky Island

Military unit 25108 was disbanded in 2001. Russky Island for a long time had the status of a closed territory. IN Soviet times there were many military camps here - in fact, the island was the largest training base of the Soviet Navy.

In 1993, four soldiers died of starvation in units of the Pacific Fleet, and another 250 sailors were hospitalized with a diagnosis of dystrophy. The main military prosecutor's office opened a criminal case, the investigation was conducted until 1998. Only senior midshipman Vytrishchak was punished, in whose house food stolen from a warehouse was found. The rest of the people involved got off with fines. Now the part is disbanded and abandoned, and inside the buildings lie the remains of furniture and soldiers’ equipment. Some jokers sometimes “decorate” the buildings additionally - they hang raincoats so that from the outside it seems that a person is dangling in a noose.

8. Sablinskie caves

The cave system was created by the mining of quartz sand from the 18th to the 20th centuries. In 1922, the mines closed and the caves were abandoned.

Sablinsky caves were a classified site until the end of the 1970s. Then escaped prisoners hid in the catacombs, and every year ten people disappeared in these places. Bandits, quicksand, and collapsed corridors were to blame for this. But attempts to take the bandits holed up in the caves were useless: the Sablinsky caves stretched for several kilometers, and it was impossible to look for someone in the natural labyrinths.

In the 1980s, the caves were home to 200 people living in communities. Now there are no active underground groups, and the creepy Sablinsky caves have turned into a tourist attraction. A tour of the safe part of the caves costs only 600 rubles. Tourists are not allowed into the unsafe area.

9. Death Valley in Kamchatka

Death Valley in Kamchatka was discovered in 1975. The corpses of animals and birds are often found here. Animals die due to high concentrations of toxic gases - hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide. Animal corpses in this place are preserved for an unusually long time and do not decompose even in the open air - the toxic atmosphere suppresses oxidative processes caused by bacteria.

People shouldn't stay here for long either. Scientists and tourists after Death Valley suffer from headaches, fever, dizziness and general weakness. But if you leave in time dangerous place, you'll get back to normal pretty quickly.

A walk through this natural “hell” is not for the faint of heart. There is a very high chance of stumbling upon the corpses of careless animals. People usually manage to leave.

10.Khovrinskaya Hospital in Moscow

Construction of the Khovrinsky hospital began in 1980 on the site of the cemetery. Five years later, construction stopped and the huge, unfinished building was abandoned. Now the basements are flooded, and the building is slowly sinking underground.

The place is overgrown with numerous urban legends. Thrill-seekers come here - of course, this is a gateway to other world right in the middle of Moscow!

11.Shelter for submarines in Pavlovsk

Construction of the shelter began in the 1960s. Construction lasted 20 years, but stalled in the 1980s, and the base was never completed. All concrete work was completed, only the interior finishing remained to be done. But in 1991, the United States and the USSR signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, and the Pavlovsk submarine base in the Primorsky Territory was included in the list of facilities that the USSR undertook to close.

It's creepy in the shelter. Its central part is two parallel tunnels connected by passages. Both tunnels, so huge that a submarine could easily enter, are flooded with water. There are eight entrances to the shelter in total. It is difficult to estimate its true size: many passages are flooded, and it is unknown where they lead. Yes, one more thing: on the territory of the military unit there are sources of radiation and increased background radiation, so it is better not to walk here without a special suit.

Alykel is a settlement of military pilots near Norilsk, several multi-storey buildings in the tundra. After the withdrawal of the squadron, it remained practically uninhabited. When the military unit in the city was disbanded, residents moved to Norilsk and Kayerkan. Now the ghost town stands in the middle of the tundra.

At one time, it was planned to place a flight squadron here, and these houses were built for military families. But times and plans changed, and the houses built turned out to be unnecessary.

Kadykchan

Kadykchan (translated from the Evenki language - a small gorge, gorge, sometimes translated as “Valley of Death”) is a former urban-type settlement in the Susumansky district of the Magadan region. It is located in the basin of the Ayan-Yuryakh River (a tributary of the Kolyma) 65 km northwest of the city of Susuman on the Magadan - Ust-Nera highway. Since the beginning of the 2000s. Kadykchan is an abandoned “ghost town”.

It arose during the Great Patriotic War as a workers' settlement at a mining enterprise. coal Arkagalinskoye field. The mine and the village were built by prisoners, among whom was the writer Varlam Shalamov. Mining was carried out underground from depths of up to 400 meters. Coal was used mainly at the Arkagalinskaya State District Power Plant. The village arose in stages, so it was secretly divided into 3 parts: Old, New and Newest Kadykchan. Old Kadykchan is located closest to the above-mentioned route, New surrounds the city-forming mine (No. 10), and Newest is 2-4 kilometers away from both the route and the mine and is the main residential settlement (with its construction, Old and New Kadykchan were increasingly used for conducting farms (greenhouses, vegetable gardens, pigsties, etc.) In the east there was another coal mine (popularly called seven, No. 7, it was abandoned in 1992).

In September 1996, an explosion occurred at the mine, killing 6 people. After the explosion the mine was closed. All people were evicted from the city, giving them from 80 to 120 thousand rubles for resettlement, depending on their length of service. The houses were mothballed, disconnecting them from heat and electricity.

Almost the entire private sector was burned to prevent people from returning.

However, even in 2001, 2 streets (Lenin and Stroiteley) and one house on Mira Street (which housed a clinic, and by that time a hospital, as well as utilities) remained residential in the village. Despite this dismal situation, in 2001, construction was still underway in the village of a new boiler house-skating rink and a shopping complex next to the village council.

By 2010, only two of the most principled residents remained in the village. By 2012, only one elderly man with two dogs remained.

Kolendo

The northernmost village of Sakhalin, located in the Okha district of the Sakhalin region.

The Kolendo oil field is located in the northern part of Sakhalin, onshore. This is an old field, put into operation in 1967 and is in the final stages of development.

The history of the development of the Okha field began in 1923. From 1923 to 1928, the Okha field was developed by Japan under a concession agreement. From 1928 to 1944, exploration and development of the field was carried out jointly by the Sakhalinneft trust (formed in 1927) and the Japanese concessionaire. In 1944, the agreement with Japan was terminated, and from this period the development of the Okhinskoye field has been continued by the Sakhalinneft association (NGDU Okhaneftegaz).

Sakhalin's oil industry achieved significant development in the 60s. This was facilitated by an increase in the quality of preparation of structures for exploratory drilling, intensive geological exploration work in new areas, and justified drilling in new areas with single exploratory wells to a depth of 2000-3500 meters.

The decree on the resettlement of residents of the village of Kolendo was issued in 1996, after the earthquake in Neftegorsk. In 1999, construction of Canadian modules began in the Zima microdistrict in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In 2001, residents of the village of Kolendo began to move into the 13th microdistrict of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In addition, residents are being resettled in Okha and Nogliki.

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Khalmer-Yu (Komi Republic)

In the 40s, a coal deposit was found here, but attempts to establish a full-fledged one here locality proved unsuccessful until 1957. Then a serious material base appeared here and the village began to grow, turning into a city with a population of seven thousand people.


In 1993, the mine was closed, people were relocated to Vorkuta, and now there is a landfill on the site of the abandoned city. It was used in 2005 to demonstrate the power of the Tu-160 to Vladimir Putin. Then the president was the co-pilot on board a strategic bomber and fired a missile at one of the Halmer-U buildings.

Mologa (Yaroslavl region)

Kursha-2 (Ryazan region)

Kolendo (Sakhalin region)

Industrial (Komi Republic)

Neftegorsk (Sakhalin region)

Charonda (Vologda region)

Kadychkan (Magadan region)

Iultin (Chukchi Autonomous Okrug)

Yubileiny (Perm region)