Enormous abandoned objects. Done and forgotten in the USSR: abandoned cities, factories and military installations

Military bases and installations whose service life was designed to last only a few years, or, conversely, facilities built to support the thousand-year Reich, are scattered throughout to the globe. Some of them have found a second life, while others still remain abandoned and continue to collapse.

RAF Hethel

Base Royal Air Force Hethel is a former Royal Air Force base which was used by the USAF and RAF during the Second World War. The airfield is located 11 kilometers southeast of Norwich, England; it is currently owned by the English sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus Cars.

In 1966, Lotus Cars moved into a building specially built on the site of the airfield and reconstructed part of the runways and taxiways into test tracks for its cars. The plant and engineering centers occupy an area of ​​0.22 sq. km of the former airfield; 4 km of former runways are allocated for test runs. Most of the remaining runways were removed and used for road construction, and some of the land was also returned to agricultural use. The old layout can still be seen in aerial photographs.

Today the company also operates in the field of engineering consulting, carrying out engineering developments for the automotive industry. The Lotus Driving Academy, the racing arm of Lotus Racing, is also located in Hethel.

In Crimea there is the Balaklava maritime museum complex, which is an underground base for submarines. During the Cold War era, a super-secret military facility was located in Balaklava Bay.

Stalin issued a secret directive: find a place where submarines intended to retaliate could be based. nuclear strike. After several years of searching, the choice fell on the quiet bay of Balaklava and the city was immediately classified. The city of Balaklava is located in a narrow bay only 200–400 meters wide. Small coves protect the city not only from storms, but also from prying eyes from the outside. open sea it is not visible from any angle. In addition, the site is located near Sevastopol, the main naval base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

In 1957, a special construction department number 528 was organized, which directly supervised the construction underground structures. The construction of this underground complex lasted four years, from 1957 to 1961.

After closing in 1993 most the complex was left unguarded. In 2000, the abandoned facility was transferred naval forces Ukraine.

The museum was organized in 2002 in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, according to which a branch was established Central Museum Ukrainian Armed Forces - naval complex "Balaklava".

Fort Ord opened in 1940 and closed in 1994. This Fort became the largest American military base closed at that time. Most of the old buildings and infrastructure remain abandoned, but many structures have already been demolished for planned construction.

In April 2012, President Obama signed a declaration according to which 5,929 hectares were given over to the creation of the so-called Fort Ord National Monument. In his declaration, the President stated that "protecting the Fort Ord area will preserve its historic and cultural significance, will attract tourists and lovers active recreation from everywhere and will enrich it with unique natural resources to the joy of all Americans."

Johnston Atoll is a so-called unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States. The atoll is managed by the United States Game and Fish Department. You can get to the atoll only with a special permit and the contingent arriving there is mainly limited to scientists and researchers.

Zeljava Air Base on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was the largest underground airfield and military airbase in former Yugoslavia and one of the largest in Europe.

Construction of the Zeljava or Bihac airbase (code name "Object 505") began in 1948 and was completed in 1968. Over these two decades, Yugoslavia spent $6 billion on construction, triple the current annual defense spending of Serbia and Croatia combined. It was one of the largest and most expensive military projects in Europe.

The airbase was used intensively in 1991 during Yugoslav wars. During the Yugoslav withdrawal people's army destroyed the runway by filling pre-prepared voids (directly intended for this purpose) with explosives and then detonating it. In order to prevent any possible use The complex was later destroyed by opposition forces of the Serbian Krajina in 1992, detonating another 56 tons of explosives. The subsequent explosions were so powerful that tremors were felt in the nearby city of Bihac. Residents of the town said that smoke was still rising from the tunnels six months after the explosions.

The cost of the destroyed main buildings and equipment cannot be estimated, and damage was also caused great damage environment. Possible restoration (reconstruction) of the facility is limited by the lack of financial resources. The international border divides the base into two parts, and the entire area around it is heavily mined. The barracks in the nearby village of Ličko Petrovo Selo are run by the Croatian Army.

Duga-3 is a Soviet over-the-horizon radar system used as part of the Soviet system early warning about a missile attack. The complex operated from July 1976 to December 1989. Two Duga-3 radars were deployed, one near Chernobyl and Chernigov and the second in eastern Siberia.

In the late 80s, a Ukrainian radar located in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant, has been deactivated.

Before the Second World War, Saint-Nazaire was one of the deepest harbors on Atlantic coast France. During the Battle of France german army landed at Saint-Nazaire in June 1940. The harbor immediately began to be used for operations submarine fleet, in September 1940 to the profit base German submarines U-46.

In December, a commission from the Third Reich's construction department inspected the harbor to see if it was possible to build a submarine base invulnerable to attack. aerial bombings from England.

Construction began in February 1941, with parking lots 6, 7 and 8 completed in June 1941. Docks 9 to 14 were built from July 1941 to January 1942; and from February to June 1942, berths 1 to 5. Work eventually culminated in the construction of a tower.

In late 1943 and early 1944, a fortified lock was built to protect submarines as they moved out of the Loire River and shelters. The gateway was 155 meters long, 25 meters wide and 14 meters high, and anti-aircraft weapons were installed on the roof.

Since 1940, only 8 huge concrete structures, the so-called anti-aircraft towers, have been built in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2) and Vienna (3).

In others German cities For example, air defense towers were also built in Stuttgart and Frankfurt. Smaller, dedicated air defense towers were built at key remote German locations such as Angers in France and Helgoland in Germany.

During World War II, these towers were used by the Luftwaffe to protect cities from Allied air raids and coordinate air defense. During raids, they also became shelters for tens of thousands of people.

The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications and gun complexes that France built along the border with Switzerland and the borders with Germany and Luxembourg in the 30s. This line did not run along the English Channel because the French military did not want to jeopardize Belgium's neutrality. French combat experience gained in World War I formed the basis for the concept of the Maginot Line, which was built mainly in the 1930s in preparation for World War II.

The French built these fortifications in order to gain time for their army, to carry out general mobilization in case of attack and advance French army to Belgium for a decisive clash with the Germans. Success in static, defensive battles The First World War had a significant impact on French military thinking. French military experts praised the Maginot Line as an ingenious design, believing that it could prevent any invasions from the East.

If this entire system prevented direct attack, then from a strategic point of view it turned out to be useless, since German troops invaded through Belgium, bypassed the Maginot Line and attacked it from the rear.

At the end of 1944 and the beginning of 1945, the Germans were already defending the Line from the advancing Allies, who again attacked it from the rear.

The Maunsell sea forts are located in the North Sea, near the coast of Great Britain, at the mouths of the Mersey and Thames rivers. They served as fortifications for the army and navy and were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and were later used for other activities, including hosting pirate radio stations. One of the forts is controlled by the unrecognized principality of Sealand. Ships visit the remaining forts sporadically, and a consortium called Project Redsands plans to preserve the fort located at Red Sands.

During the summers of 2007 and 2008, Red Sands Radio operated from Red Sands Fort in memory of the pirate radio stations of the 60s. The fort was later declared unsafe and the commercial radio station Red Sands Radio moved to its offices on the coast.

Materials used:
www.thebrigade.com
www.wikipedia.org

The USSR ceased to exist several decades ago - but the monuments of this great colossus still excite the minds of millions. The leaders never forgot that they ruled an empire: the scale of construction always corresponded to their status. The now abandoned buildings were once vibrant places where entire generations of people spent their lives. Just look at what places look like that are overwhelming in their scale even today.

• City Industrial

  Thousands of people lived and worked here. In the early 90s, when the era of socialism was replaced by the time of wild capitalism, the mine became unprofitable. No one was in a hurry to support the city: communications were cut off, water, electricity, and water supply disappeared. Residents of Promyshlenny fled from their homes, forced to seek refuge in neighboring villages.




Object 825

A secret submarine base was built near Balaklava. The government was so worried about security that no one could visit this base except personnel and those who were issued a pass on the actual day. high level. In 1995, as usual in our country, everything went wrong.




Helicopter Graveyard

This, of course, is not architecture at all - but we simply could not pass by the real helicopter cemetery. Here in the southwest Leningrad region, not far from the village of Gorelovo, an abandoned military airfield has been preserved. It was actively exploited until 1992. At the sites, rusty equipment is still waiting in the wings.




Gulag camp

No one will miss these artifacts. The camps covered Siberia with a vile mold; here thousands died and tens of thousands tried to build a wretched life. Now all this terrible legacy of our past is rotting under the merciful heel of nature.

Where can you get away from a submarine that has not sailed anywhere for 27 years?

Today I would like to show you a very cool Crimean artifact - the B-380 submarine, built in 1981-1982, and tell you a little about the PD-16 floating dock (built in 1938-1941 and has not sailed anywhere since virtually the day of victory), in where she has been since 1992.
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• November 18th, 2018 , 12:22 pm

Greetings readers!
Today I have some unexpected material on my blog. The fact is that I really love almost any technical museum and visit them quite often, but I rarely decide to review it on a blog or anywhere else at all, because few people can be surprised by a museum (especially a famous and popular one). Unless it’s a museum that is completely unusual (for example, like) or that really impressed me (in Vladivostok, St. Petersburg or Krasintsovsky in the Tula region)

Today's report is different. Today I want to show from the inside one of the exhibits of the Navy Museum in Tushino, Moscow, which for some reason is not allowed to visitors. As you might have guessed from the title, we will talk about the A-90 "Eaglet" ekranoplane.
I have already published once before, at the time of my visit to the Volga plant hidden in one of the workshops of Nizhny Novgorod. Since then, alas, the Rescuer has never become a museum, just as it never left closed area shipbuilding enterprise.
What about the "Eaglet", which has been in the Moscow Navy Museum since 2007? What is stopping the museum from adding the opportunity to view this beautiful unit into the entertainment program for tourists along with visiting the submarine? It would seem that the bridge to the door was built long ago, but the ekranoplan is closed to visitors. Maybe it's a matter of poor internal security? - after all, this Eaglet, being one of five copies released (and only two surviving today), is quite long time was lying idle somewhere in Kaspiysk, just like the beautiful Lun is lying there now (of the same project as the Rescuer, but in combat).
The only way to find out how the Eaglet feels from the inside is to go inside by moving the partition installed across the bridge and opening the door with the handle from the balcony, while the guards are not looking (note: the circumstances of the entrance are described at the time of inspection some time ago - everything could have changed) . I hope that someday the guards will forgive me for this terrible crime, because curiosity is not a vice?
Below the cut is the result of the visit.

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• May 16th, 2018 , 03:49 pm

Good day everyone!
Today we will take a walk through the empty floors of buildings former Academy Strategic Missile Forces ( Rocket Forces Strategic Purpose), located in the very heart of our capital, literally a few steps from the Kremlin - right behind Zaryadye Park, on the embankment of the Moskva River.
Two or three years ago, the academy was transferred to Balashikha, where it was decided to locate it on the basis of the Military Technical University of the Ministry of Defense. The plot of land became the property of the city, after which, along with all the buildings, it was put up for auction under a number of conditions. In particular, the future investor was required to preserve and restore all buildings on the territory, as well as open it to visitors. The former buildings of the Academy are expected to house a hotel, apartments and retail space, and also connect the resulting complex with Zaryadye Park.
From an economic point of view, the place is extremely rich and is much better suited for business than for training senior military personnel... Be that as it may, since the missilemen moved, the academy buildings were cut off from power supply and heating and, in fact, abandoned. On the corner there was a town of Zaryadye construction workers, the territory was taken under lax security by several private security companies.

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• May 3rd, 2018 , 06:13 pm

Greetings to everyone who returned alive from the May holidays :)
Well, I’m also back and ready to please readers with photos from a number of unusual European abandoned objects.
In particular, today I propose to take a look from the outside and inside at underground air bases.

This time, many of the photos will feature silhouettes of people - mostly to convey an idea of ​​the scale of the structures.
Due to the fact that Yandex decided to close its “Photos” project, I’ll try Flickr as a new hosting - I hope at least this one doesn’t die :)

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• September 20th, 2017 , 11:50 am

Everyone has been told the standard Cinderella story with a happy ending and no moral, but today I have a completely different tale for you.

No glass slippers or princes willing to waste time searching - only harsh modernity!

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• February 6th, 2017 , 04:55 pm

The other day, information surfaced in the community that a very beautiful and unusual place was about to be vandalized - an abandoned research stand. Young stalkers gathered to organize a “gathering” there and for some reason, with photos and descriptions, announced this event three weeks in advance.
Well, then - someone was able to find it themselves using these input data, for someone it turned out to be easier to ask through friends, and someone had even been near this object before, but did not pay enough attention to it... In general, it’s like No matter what, last weekend history buffs and aesthetic connoisseurs went to the site, trying to get ahead of not only the destruction squads, but also each other :)

The object turned out to be very worthy, although fairly battered by life... The complex of buildings included a couple of research installations with the units attached to them. One of the installations - a wind tunnel - visually resembles a huge dragon. Having lived intensely for 50 years and suffered for another dozen after the stagnation of the 90s, he died, leaving connoisseurs with his aesthetically beautiful and mediocrely protected corpse :)

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• October 27th, 2016 , 10:33 am

Since I have some free time, I decided to cheer it up a little - maybe someone uses them at least sometimes :)
I set myself the task of adding tags of the year of shooting to the photo reports.
Because even sometimes it’s interesting to remember what year you visited and took photos. Especially in the context of repeat visits.
So far, only a part has been done, but the plan is to get to the very first posts - and even destroy those in which the photos have irretrievably disappeared, otherwise they are hanging. Well, if possible, restore photos where the hosting failed, but the pictures themselves remained on the computer. Although it won't be soon.

And then I found a relatively recently written photo post about decaying bunkers in, which I happened to see as early as January 2009 - for seven and a half years they lay on the hard drive, although there is nothing secret in them - just decay that I was too lazy to post.
No DSLRs or RAW - only jpg on a point-and-shoot camera, but from a tripod!
I remember that my delight at these abandoned buildings then was almost stronger than the current impressions of incredible and cool operating objects.

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On the territory of the former USSR you can find large number abandoned objects that remind 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 in the best possible way. Let's take a look at the legacy of the USSR times cold war, which is found in Russia and neighboring countries.

Abandoned collider. Protvino, Moscow region.

Aralsk-7, Renaissance Island. The ghost town where they were rumored to have tested biological weapons. Fully autonomous city was urgently abandoned in the early 90s.

Over-the-horizon radar station Duga (Radar Duga, Pripyat, Ukraine) - created for early detection of intercontinental launches ballistic missiles. Construction was completed in 1985 near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Duga radar had cyclopean dimensions! Height – 140 m, length – 500 m. 200 thousand tons of metal were used for construction. The station was not on combat duty and did not pass tests.

Kola ultra-deep well(Murmansk region) is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters; diameter of the upper part - 92 cm, diameter of the lower part - 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 studying the ionosphere (Ukraine, Zmiev). It was built as an analogue of the American HAARP project in Alaska in the late 80s.

Kyiv Electric Transport Plant has long story. The opening took place on May 1, 1906. In the photo: A factory workshop in the 80s.

During 1974 – 1985 About a hundred new KTG freight trolleybuses rolled off the assembly line every year. And this is what the Kyiv Electric Transport Plant looks like these days.

Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino. There are many Crimean secret (and not so secret) abandoned objects, 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 electricity to the entire Crimea.

They started building the station in 1974, and in 1987, after Chernobyl tragedy construction was frozen. By that time, the station had already managed to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world.

Object No. 221, Crimea - this is for real secret object. The photo shows a dummy building that hides a chain of bunkers underground. Fearing a nuclear strike, the USSR leadership built a bunker for the Reserve command post.

Tunnels of object No. 221 (Crimea). In addition to the command post, 10 thousand people - officers and their families - were to be evacuated underground in the event of a nuclear threat.

The Crimean bunker was abandoned in 1992. According to some reports, it was 90% ready.

Object 825 GTS - underground base submarines in Balaklava. Secret military facility during the Cold War. Underground complex it was built over 8 years - from 1953 to 1961. After its closure in 1993, most of the complex was not guarded.

Object 825 GTS is located in Mount Tavros and is a structure of the first protection category (direct hit by a 100 kt atomic bomb).

Anti-nuclear doors of Object 825.

It’s hard to believe, but there are entire cemeteries of equipment left behind various reasons back in the days of the USSR. In the photo: Equipment involved in the liquidation of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A familiar picture for fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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 Product 1.02 "Buran-2" - the USSR's answer American Shuttles.

In 1988 space shuttle Buran (product 1.01) made an automatic flight into space. In 2002, during the collapse of installation and testing building No. 112, Buran was destroyed.

The collapse of the USSR and increasing budget cuts forced the reduction and space program.

Spaceships remained frozen in time.

The building cannot be called destroyed, despite its deplorable condition.

This is what the hangar looks like from the outside.

The Project 903 ekranoplane missile ship Lun is a Soviet aircraft carrier killer, as it was called in the United States. And this was not far from the truth. The ekranoplan was designed to combat surface ships by launching a missile strike.

Lun thanks high speed movement and imperceptibility to radars, it can swim up to aircraft carriers within the distance of an accurate missile launch.

Lun passed big way from the start of development in the 70s to the transfer to trial operation in 1990. And already in 1991, operation was completed.

This is what the ekranoplan looks like these days. It was mothballed at the dock in Kaspiysk. All sensitive electronics have been put into warehouses.

Amderma, Lena-M radar. Village on the shore Kara Sea V Soviet era was the center of the largest military infrastructure in the Arctic. Large radar installations were installed here and fighter aircraft were based.

Amderma, radar complex control center.

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, as they say, is not so rare in our country. Entire military bases stand completely abandoned.

Skrunda – once secret military unit USSR – the whole city Latvia is abandoned. There are many similar ghosts around former union.

The abandoned eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant in the city of Kaspiysk. Naval weapons testing station, which was commissioned in 1939. Located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast.

If you wish, you can also find abandoned planes in the vastness of the former USSR. This one, for example, is near the airport in Riga.

Why are there planes? Entire airfields stand abandoned. For example, in the city of Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Territory.

Airport, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.

Abandoned planes, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.

R-12 Dvina missile system (Postavy). The complex was built in 1964 and was in service until 1994. One of the objects from the Cold War.

According to some reports, this photo 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.

The other day, one of my friends once asked: “Have you ever been to abandoned military bases?” I answered in the negative, and he invited me to take a tour of one of these bases, abandoned by the military many years ago. Unfortunately, I’m not good at geography, and I have problems with memory, so I’m absolutely unable to remember where this place is.

There are railway tracks at the bottom left. The track to the right that leads to the base is old and rusty - however, it is so overgrown with grass that in the photograph at first glance it looks like just a path.

The left track is in working order - trains still run along it occasionally.

Here it is, the entrance to the abandoned military base. The gate is locked, but the barbed wire on the right has already been processed by someone for comfortable passage into the territory.

“Damn them, bespectacled people, they must have figured out where to put the road: along the excavation! Well, I’m good too, where were my stupid eyes looking when I admired their map?”

When I saw this hangar, I involuntarily recalled something from the Strugatskys’ “Picnic”: “I stopped at the threshold and looked around. Still, how much easier it is to work during the day than at night! I remember how I lay on this very threshold. It’s dark, like a black man’s ear, from the hole “witch’s jelly” sticks out its tongues, blue, like an alcohol flame, and what’s offensive is that nothing, the bastard, illuminates, it even seems darker because of these tongues. And now what! My eyes are accustomed to the darkness, everything is clear, even in the darkest corners the dust is visible. And indeed, there is silver there, some silvery threads stretch from the canisters to the ceiling, it looks very much like a spider’s web. Maybe there are cobwebs, but it’s better to stay away from them.” Should I come in?

However, only the most ordinary web was found inside. And also - the rails around the pit: this room was clearly not intended for the repair of Zhiguli cars.

On the wall there is a torn switchboard: obviously, the local inhabitants had long ago pulled out everything that was of even the slightest practical interest.

Fuse panel.

...a Soviet-style railway lantern...

...felt boots are in quite good condition. Suitable, of course, for further stay in the same place.

Well, where there are felt boots, there are boots. Military boutique, choose for every taste.

An unknown crap the length of a man. Raise, judging by appearance, it would be possible only with a jack.

Time has not been kind to the rails.

There are steps leading down into the pit.

In the distance you can see covered sheds.

Very elegant plants grow along the openings - neatly, as if along a ruler, and therefore I got the impression that they were planted here on purpose. For what purposes, one can only guess, but it is unlikely for beauty - there were no other similar measures to improve the territory in the district.

Close up.

The entire territory of the base is thoroughly developed by all kinds of vegetation, and there is complete silence, you can’t even hear birds around - during the entire excursion we did not meet a single living soul. But birds fly even over highways. There is no one here.

Inside the well-preserved buildings there is complete desolation. In some places there are rusty locks hanging on the doors - if you wanted, you could enter the premises through the windows; in some of them, the glass was broken by uninvited guests. Needless to say, my friend and I only entered those buildings whose doors were hospitably open. We walked past the transformer booth without stopping - from inside, to our amazement, we could hear a measured hum, and our plans did not include either pretending to be a barbecue, or improving the demographic situation in the area by rolling blackouts.

In some places on the floor in the premises there are bags for gas masks.

Here uninvited guests They not only visited before us, but also arranged everything for their followers.

From the threshold you can see complete devastation.

And inside this room was somewhat reminiscent of a scene from the movie “Silent Hill”.

Among the half-rotted junk, the fresh plastic case of the monitor looks somewhat unusual.

A filter for a gas mask was found in a pile of oily paper.

And here is the gas mask itself. Stands on your windowsill.

The brush has a very unusual design. They probably liked cleanliness here.

Another find. Apparently, there have been no people willing to borrow the contents of the box yet.

Mysterious unknown crap with a pressure gauge.

Two brand new car air filters in plastic bags. Judging by the size, it’s never for the budget class.

Next room. The words “unknown crap” stubbornly swirl on the tip of the tongue.

In one of the plywood boxes we found a gift repair kit for non-child size carburetors. Well, the Mercedes that overtook me half a day ago - now let's talk?

In general, the premises are full of all kinds of boxes. Naturally, almost all of them are opened, hacked and mostly empty.

Or with strange rubbish inside.

On the floor among the boxes there were two corrugated glass bars. As archaeologists say - objects of unknown ritual purpose. In a hundred years during excavations, this is probably how the contents of this base will be characterized.

True, archaeologists will no longer find glass slats there. It’s somehow awkward to leave without souvenirs, and the number is just right - just for the two of us and a friend. By the glass, they say, minimum degree penetration chemicals, second only to marble.

Documents with the number of a military unit were found on the windowsill of one of the premises. We did not touch them - let them remain in the same place, for posterity. Or for archaeologists.

Something like a boiler room. It is characteristic that not a single glass was broken in this building; the door was locked, like many other doors on the territory.

That same locked door.

On the porch of a military mobile trailer standing alone in the middle of the territory lies a lantern - exactly the same as those that swung with a rusty creaking in the dungeons computer game"Stalker"

Here and there on the walls hang all kinds of shields, reminders and other regulatory documents.

And in some places documents are scattered right on the floor.

Hangars for equipment look impressive from the outside...

...and from the inside.

Some of them even come across interesting finds, suggesting that perhaps the base is not so abandoned after all. It is unlikely that the local inhabitants would have brought two brand new fire extinguishers here, or the hangar was tightly locked until recently.

And at the sight of these trailers, I still involuntarily remembered the Strugatskys with their “Picnic”: “I got up, shook off my belly and looked around. Over there, the trucks on the site really stand as good as new - ever since I last time was here, they, in my opinion, have become even newer, and the fuel tanker - that poor thing is completely rusty, it will soon begin to fall apart.”

There is a scattering of already familiar air filters lying next to the trailers. The military left this place many years ago, and at the sight of almost brand new paper filters on the damp stone floor and the oily glistening wheels of the trailers, for some reason it becomes slightly uncomfortable. True, the shadows are not playing around here - they lie exactly in accordance with the laws of physics, but the vigorous gait somehow involuntarily gives way to a cautious gait.

The pallets are not quite ordinary - they are steel and brightly colored.

This is not an art design, as one might think at first glance - just barrels stood on sheets of cardboard, then the sheets were lifted and leaned against the wall.

Reservoirs of unknown purpose.

Inside there are definitely “stalker” interiors. Just look, a bloodsucker will jump out of the far corner.

Nearby is the same tank, but in a mirror image.

It was not possible to enter this room - it was flooded with water up to the waist. In addition, the water can easily become energized, and this is fraught with side effects and other similar consequences. Especially considering the hum from the transformer booth.

The bottom is completely empty - no boxes of ammunition, no machine gun belts for the Maxim.

Joyful stickers on the lid of a rusty barrel.

Behind the tanks you can see the barracks building. Locked and with absolutely intact glass. My friend and I considered it unnecessary to change the status quo of the barracks. There are no “no entry” signs at the borders of the territory, but we didn’t particularly notice any invitations to feel at home.

Patrol tower. Naturally, absolutely empty inside. “Remember: we are not protecting the Zone from you, but you from the Zone!” The glass on the entrance side was broken. Interesting artifacts are visible through the broken window (including a telephone and some other small things), but we did not come for loot, but for an excursion.

There are several tanks on the tracks. Judging by the condition of the rails, this is not the first year.

On the way, we looked through the window into the basement. It’s strange - the Strugatskys again, or is someone keeping this room in order?

The barrels were bypassed just in case. In principle, they have been here for quite a long time, but who knows?

Perhaps there used to be a barrel here too? However, if so, then judging by the result, the safest distance to the barrels is at least a couple of kilometers, and then without any guarantees.

But it’s definitely better not to come close here. Moreover, it is an unusually hot day. Everything comes to an end sooner or later...

A crane beam used to ride on these rails - the rusty motor still hangs on them (behind the scenes on the left).

Under one of the structures a small shunting diesel locomotive found its last refuge.

It is not entirely clear why it occurred to someone to break the windows in it - the door of the diesel locomotive is open.

Inside, as everywhere else, the house was thoroughly managed.

Through the broken glass of the locomotive, the surrounding landscape looks relatively peaceful and calm. Except that there’s just an unusual, dead silence all around. And not a single living soul on the territory except me and my friend.