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The ruins of coal mines on the slopes of Mount Schmidt and the settlement "Ugolny Ruchei" ( "Coal creek" - from russian) near Norilsk were abandoned in 70's, when mining became unprofitable.

Alykel - former military town near Norilsk, Russia.

Hi mates! I wasn't there for a long time. The beginniing of 2016 was really rich with explorations. And one of the places was a working magnesite mine in Chelyabinsk region.     I was there two times but this time we managed to reach the lowest horizont on minus 320 meters.      ...

Hi! This is one of our air raid shelters, it's situated under the city center and has modern filling in it. That's all, have nice trips! :P

Hi! Now there's for you a piece of Sverdlovsk machine-building factory, now conserved. Thanks for looking! :)

I'll not write a lot, but enjoy photos :) The abandoned castle in Moscow, where have been russian queen Ekaterina II Nowdays there is a scientifically research institute here, but this is not work. As far as a wrote rarely, I with my best friend will travel...

Hello everybody! I'm newly arrived at this forum. At first, I do not know English very well, but I try to write something about some of Russian locations. Unfot Today we would speak about abandoned railvay station on the Volga river. This place locates near the small town Volgsky and become...

Hi! I said that I love blast furnaces and I have a lot of them. Here it is a furnace from Nizhnij Tagil's steelworks, the second biggest steelworks in CIS. In time of second world war the factory made steel for tanks. On the top. So, that's all, I have some more furnaces, but...

Hi! In my city there's a metallurgical plant that occupies the fourth place in CIS by size. For three years we had a dream to climb its blast furnaces. And in 2013 we did it and celebrated there the birthday of a friend of mine:) We were on the top of this torch as well. Thanks...

Hi! I'm here not very often and frankly speaking sometimes I don't understand how the forum works:) But when I'm here I wanna show you places that are different from the norm you used to. Of cause in my country almost everything is quite different from Europe but maybe the greatest difference...

Hi! I think that our air raid shelters are quite different from yours. Just take a look! The first is in Ufa. And another two from Clelyabinsk. Thanks for looking!

Hi! Decided to post old photos of our factory. Unknown what's here now, maybe all that doesn't exist. It was a factory for making lorries and details for them. After the collapse of the USSR the factory felt into decay as many other ones. Some shops are still working but many are conserved in...

Hi! We have so many factories that I always don't know what to write. This is one of our working factories, it produces trucks and details for it. We visit it really often because security stuff here is really lazy:D During the Second World War the factory produced tanks, and exactly because of...

One more big factory in Chelyabinsk. In the workshop. On the roof. The biggest underground system in the city. In the tubes flow acids. Using multicoloured flashlights;) Thank you for attention! :beer:

Hi! Some days ago we visited half-working quartz mine. And now I have beg you some help. I plan to visit Europe in summer and need help in making a route. I mean I'll be very grateful If smb would tell me some locations. I'm interested in industrial places and...

Hey people! Unfortunately I don't have enough time to read all posts here and to chat with people as much as I want. But I hope you excuse me! :rolleyes: Today I show you unfinished metro tunnels in my city. The project was started in 80s, but later was frozen because of lack of money. I...

Hi people! I wasn't there for a long time but I promise it was the last time:) Today I wanna share with you some photoes from a factory where big autos were built but now there're only dry plants there. Thanx for attention and good luck! :P

Without many words... The only advice: never, you hear, never go to an abandoned mine without gumboots or smth like that. Unless you'll be wet to the skin like me in this day. Scary? :o Look down. Warm greeting from cold Russia:thumb