In the region of Moscow, in the town Dolgoprudniy, you can find a beautiful historical place - the abandoned House of R. German, which is stil in rather good condition. The estate was built in 1912 on the project by the Russian architect I. Rylskiy. The estate is not only beautiful outside, but its interiors also attract much attention: an amazing ( Read more... )

The school at the children's sanatorium in Istrinsky District was built with the best intentions. The main purpose was to create a place, where children would not forget school knowledge and continue to study in summer. But, as time passed, that idea stopped being topical and the school was closed. Unfortunately, it is still abandoned now.


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Not far from the metro station Paveletskaya, there is an old and abandoned building of the Moscow Aremkuz plant.


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You can find this interesting abandoned yard in Malaya Sukharevskaya Square in Moscow.


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At the 26th kilometre of Shelkovskoe Highway not far the village Medvezhi Ozera, there is a center of space communication. On its territory you can find one of the four largest radio telescopes of the former USSR, built in 1983. The diameter of the antenna is 60 meters. In the past it was almost impossible to approach such an object without a ( Read more... )

Today we would like to tell you about an abandoned underground shelter of civil defence, which is located under the square near Paveletskiy Station at a depth of 40 meters. Service passages of Moscow subway system keep many lost mysteries. Only Stalin knew how many of such underground places were built during the Cold War with the Western world. He ( Read more... )

Voskresensk is a wonderful city in Moscow region. Now we are going to tell you not about its architecture, history or inhabitants, but the abandoned industrial side of it. Voskresensk factories are among the largest ones of the chemical industry in Russia. Not far from the city, there are still many abandoned quarries and the famous phosphorite ( Read more... )

I've passed that estate in the Moscow region many times but had no idea that it was abandoned. It is hard to realize that such an interesting historical building can be neglected.

You'll be impressed by the unusual architecture of that ancient manorial estate: brick walls, gates with turrets, high towers, a church behind them - everything is in a ( Read more... )

Shliuzy ("shipping locks" in Russian) is a workmen's settlement on a small island. Initially, workers of the Moscow Canal lived there working at Perervinskye shipping locks (along Kolomenskaya Embankment).

The main part of this post is about the ships standing there. The atmosphere of the island is very nice and unusual.

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I suddenly noticed that interesting graffiti on the walls of an abandoned building when I was roller-skating in Galushkin street. The size of the work is impressive. The artist is undoubtedly a real professional as he/she used the unevenness of the walls, boarded-up windows and texture of the old house so skilfully and created such an amazing ( Read more... )