The Oktyabrsky village was built in the 1960s for geologists working at uranium deposits in the Krasnokamensky region. When building the village, the engineers did not take into account the fact that over one of the large uranium deposits there was an intense release of natural radioactive gas radon along tectonic faults, which caused an increased background radiation. In 2010, the resettlement of residents of the village began. Oktyabrsky, and in 2014...
A small military town located 5 km from the town of Borzya. Once upon a time, an aviation regiment of fighter-bombers (military unit No. 42943) was based here, but after the military left in the 90s, the town acquired an eerie connotation. After the military camp was transferred to the balance of the city administration, the comfort that had surrounded it for several decades instantly disappeared from the village. Lack of heating, garbage collection and problems with sewerage...
A small abandoned farm consisting of 5 plots with dilapidated houses. The areas are quite densely overgrown small trees and bushes. Residents left their homes before 2013 and the maximum number that were registered in this village. Several half-collapsed cellars and one well without a foundation or superstructure, into which one could fall, were discovered. Residents of neighboring villages dismantled their houses for building materials and firewood, so only one had...
The former settlement of Mungui, located 350 km south of Dikson, or 243 km north of Dudinka. In 1938, a reindeer herding state farm was created there. new life" In 2016, the village already had the status of abandoned. There are several houses, abandoned equipment, and a helipad. Houses are slowly being cut up for firewood. At the moment there is an elderly couple living there who are engaged in fishing.
The village has been deserted for quite some time. There were once about 50 here strong houses, now (June 3, 2017) there are less than a dozen left. Some owners come in the summer, some are uninhabited, rickety, windswept and blackened. The winds blow here almost constantly. Esotericists say that Kochkomozero is a good place for self-identification. There are some special energy flows there. Many people say that the village stands in a place of power. And what...
Almost abandoned five working peat mining villages. Only summer residents live and only in the summer in separate, their own houses. Very atmospheric. From the first village to the fifth it is about 15 kilometers. The main attractions are old two-story buildings, some almost destroyed and well-preserved ones.
The merchant part of the village, located on a peninsula along the Kama River. IN Soviet time should have been flooded during the construction of a hydroelectric power station upstream. People were resettled, but the hydroelectric power station was not built. At the moment there are about 20 brick merchant houses. Some houses have already been restored and cafes, hotels, and hostels are located in them.
The once residential urban settlement of Dikson (aka Dikson Airport), located on an island in the middle of the Kara Sea, 1.5 km from its mainland. Now empty: since 2009, the population was relocated to the mainland. There are only 1-2 people on the island at all times. The rest of the staff comes to meet/depart the plane (runs once a week) by water transport or on the winter road. Schools, kindergarten, several military units, a cultural center,...
Without taking Pripyat into account, since this city today is not in Russia, but in Ukraine, we will name 10 ghost towns in our country, the most famous:
The city was located not far from Rybinsk, at the confluence of the river of the same name into the Volga. It was created at the end of the 12th century; in the 15th-19th centuries it was a large trading center. In 1936, during the construction of the Rybinsk Hydroelectric Complex, it was flooded along with 700 villages. But this was not the cause of death. After 1941, the city was given over by the authorities to be “torn to pieces” by prisoners. Residents watched with sadness as they dismantled their small homeland, stone by stone. Afterwards, the authorities decided to resettle the townspeople. Most people were taken by force to other cities. Of approximately 5,000 people, only 294 Mologans remained. After a wave of suicides swept among them (many drowned themselves in the Mologozhsk reservoir), the authorities decided to evict those who remained and cross Mologa off the list of cities that have ever existed. Mentioning it as a place of birth was punishable by arrest and imprisonment. Soon Mologa went under water. Only twice a year does it appear on the surface, exposing ancient cemeteries and bridge churches.
City located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, was once one of the largest polymetallic deposits. When in the early 90s, molybdenum, tungsten and tin began to be mined unprofitably, workers began to slowly leave it. It was completely empty in 2000.
Alykel (translated from Dolgan - “swampy meadow”) is located not far from Norilsk. It has never been inhabited by people. No, of course, the authorities first wanted military pilots and their families to live there, and even began building new houses for them. But soon, for unknown reasons, everything was abandoned. Today the city is left to the mercy of merciless time, complex weather conditions and marauders.
The city of the Magadan region, whose name translated from the Even language means “small gorge,” was built by political prisoners during wartime along with a mine. In 1986, an explosion occurred at the mine, killing 6 people. It was decided to close it. People began to be relocated to other cities. In 2012, there was only one person living in Kadykchan Old man, who did not want to leave the place to which he was accustomed.
The village, whose name alone is truly impressive (translated from Nenets as “Dead River”), is located in the Komi Republic. It began construction in 1943, when a valuable type of coal was discovered here. On December 25, 1993, a decree was issued to close it and liquidate the mine. People began to be evicted with the help of riot police. They were forced into wagons and taken to Vorkuta. In 2005, the House of Culture was destroyed during military exercises. 3 missiles were launched at it from a TU-160 bomber, on which Vladimir Putin was already president of Russia. Today no one lives in Halmer-U.
The Yakut city of Nizhneyansk, located in the delta of the Yana River, arose in 1954 and within 10 years was inhabited by river workers from Yansk, who were supposed to maintain and maintain the river port. In 1958 it was designated as a workers' settlement. In 1989, about 3 thousand people still lived in it. Today, less than 150 people live in the city, or rather “live out” their days, and no one needs them. And he himself was badly destroyed.
It was once a mining village. Today it is very much destroyed.
Until 1970, it was called Vostok and numbered about 3,100 people. On May 28, 1995, it was destroyed by an earthquake that occurred at one in the morning. More than 1000 people died. To date, the city has not been restored. A memorial complex was built on its territory, a chapel was built and a cemetery was located where all the dead are buried. It is worth noting that " landscape design"Neftegorsk can be used for filming films about the Apocalypse.
The workers' settlement was built almost immediately after the revolution. The main task of its inhabitants was to develop the significant forest reserves of Central Meshchera. In 1936, a fire broke out here strong fire, which, with the help of the wind, quickly reached the village and absorbed all its inhabitants, leaving only 20 out of 1200 people.
The city was founded on November 30, 1956. There were 2 mines operating on its territory: “Promyshlennaya”, which was closed in 1995, and “Tsentralnaya”. On the second, at 03:46 on January 18, 1998, a terrible fire broke out, leading to a methane explosion and the appearance of coal dust. 27 miners out of 49 who were there at the moment were killed, 17 were missing. After the incident, the Tsentralnaya mine was liquidated. In 2005, the school in Promyshlenny closed, and people began to leave there. In 2007, the village was officially closed. At that time, 450 people lived in it.
The list is closed, but far from complete. How many more cities, villages and villages have died out, how many people have been left without their small Motherland probably no one can count them.
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Deserted streets broken windows, broken wires, asphalt overgrown with grass - each of these numerous settlements in Russia has the nickname “ghost town”. Dead villages, towns and cities were sometimes abandoned overnight, leaving behind personal belongings, furniture, clothing and cars. Residents cherished the hope of returning someday, but fate decreed otherwise, and today the cities attract only numerous lovers of dark romance and industrial tourism.
Alykel is an unfinished city of military pilots. While the military unit was alive, several were built here apartment buildings, ready to accept many families, but after the disbandment of the squadron, the village was abandoned.
In the 90s, dozens of cities, urban-type settlements and hundreds of villages disappeared from the map of Russia. They turned out to be no longer needed by their homeland and became ghost towns: Iultin, Korzunovo, Promyshlenny, Kolendo, Amderma.
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When you look at photographs of these settlements, the thought always comes to mind: these are real locations for filming thrillers or science-fiction blockbusters about the outcome of the Third World War... But this is not science fiction. According to the results of the 2010 census, more than 1,100 settlements in Russia have city status. Of these, about fifty are abandoned and depopulated.
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For the first time in my life, I remember the eerie feeling of anxiety and hopelessness that I experienced when, in the 90s, after a short break, I again visited the polar submarine base of Gadzhievo on the Kola Peninsula. Unexpectedly, I discovered there a whole block of former residential five-story buildings with empty socket windows. Houses still built in the “Khrushchev era” stood like decorations for “Stalker”... But Gadzhievo is not an abandoned city, there are new quarters there, excellent cozy houses. But I wanted to immediately run headlong from that block.
In general, on Kola there are already many abandoned not neighborhoods, but entire cities. During Soviet times, the peninsula, and indeed the Murmansk region in general, was called the most militarized zone of the country. Countless military garrisons with standard five-story buildings were left without inhabitants. I saw it myself.
Moreover, I did not find their exact number even on the all-knowing Internet. Once upon a time, all Kola garrisons were closed; most were not even listed on the map. And although they all belonged to the same Soviet military department, they were still “confined” to some specific types of troops. Garrison of pilots. Garrison of rocket men. Submariners' garrison. A significant part of them are now, again, just like shooting grounds for horror films.
I once had the opportunity to visit one of these abandoned garrisons and see some of the moments of his tragic death. The rural settlement of Korzunovo is located in the south-eastern part of the Pechenga district of the Murmansk region. Its history begins on October 13, 1947, the date of the formation of a separate aviation and technical battalion of the Northern Fleet Air Force.
On the territory of the village of Korzunovo in different time The 769th Fighter Aviation Regiment, the 912th Separate Transport Aviation Regiment and the 122nd Fighter Aviation Division of the Northern Fleet, where Yuri Gagarin served, were stationed. Essentially a historical place. Back in the late 90s, more than two and a half thousand people lived there. According to the 2010 census, there are 245 of them left.
The only boiler house, as far as one can judge from the press, now heats only two apartment buildings. When the military left, almost everyone else left too. Internet photos of the current abandoned settlement present a sad, and even tragic, sight. Interestingly, the remaining local residents managed to restore and maintain the Yuri Gagarin Museum in a tolerable condition. The memory is still alive...
And I had a chance to see one more abandoned town in my life personally. Mologa is a city at the confluence of the Mologa River and the Volga, 32 kilometers from Rybinsk. I'm from those places. And all the ancestors are from there. The city was founded in end of XII century. From XV to late XIX century, the city of Mologa was a large trading center, with a population of more than five thousand people at the beginning of the 20th century. Those places are the real Russia, the most homespun, end-to-end, patriarchal. Nature is amazing. And the quiet town of Mologa seems to be here, but it’s not there...
In September 1935, the USSR government adopted a decree on the start of construction of the Russian Sea and the Rybinsk hydroelectric complex. This implied the flooding of hundreds of thousands of hectares of land along with the settlements located on it, 700 villages and the city of Mologa. At the time of liquidation, the city was living a full life, there were six cathedrals and churches, nine educational institutions, plants and factories. On April 3, 1941, literally before the Great War, the last opening of the dam was blocked. The waters of the Volga, Sheksna and Mologa began to overflow their banks and flood the territory.
The most high buildings cities and churches were razed to the ground. When the city began to be ravaged, the residents were not even explained what would happen to them in the end! They could only watch as Mologa-paradise was turned into hell. My grandmother told me that the residents were told to urgently pack up, take only the essentials and go for resettlement. 294 Mologans refused to evacuate and remained in their homes. Knowing this, the builders still began flooding. The rest were forcibly taken away.
As numerous historical primary sources testify, after some time a wave of suicides began among former Mologans. Whole families and one by one they came to the banks of the reservoir to drown themselves. Rumors spread about mass suicides, which reached Moscow. It was decided to evict the remaining stubborn residents to the “hospitable” north, and remove the city of Mologa from the list of ever existing ones. Until now, Mologa, they say, rises from the water a couple of times a year. The reservoir level periodically fluctuated, exposing cobbled streets, remains of houses, cemeteries with tombstones...
On the Roadplanet website. ru I found tragic stories and photographs of other abandoned cities in Russia, abandoned by residents not during the period of wars, cataclysms or bloody Soviet industrialization. They were already empty during the period " new Russia", in the dashing (without quotes) 90s. Here are some more examples.
"Halmer-Yu" translated from Nenets means "River in the Valley of Death." There is also such a translation option as “Dead River”. Nomadic Nenets reindeer herders considered the village of Khalmer-Yu in Komi a sacred place where they took their dead for burial. With the transition of new Russia to market economy The question arose about the feasibility of the existence of the village of Halmer-Yu as such. On December 25, 1993, the government of the Russian Federation adopted a resolution on the liquidation, so to speak, of the city-forming enterprise, the mine.
In the fall of 1995, it was planned to complete the liquidation of the village, and the government tried to carry out the process according to world standards, which required enormous financial and material resources. As a result, riot police were used during the eviction. Doors were kicked in, people were forcibly forced into carriages and taken to Vorkuta. People have not yet been provided with new housing; some received unfinished apartments. Relocating them to hostels and hotels in Vorkuta made people hostage to the promises of the authorities, which few believed... But now, in principle, almost all of the former residents of Halmer-Yu have settled in new places.
Now the territory of the village is used as a military training ground for code name"Pemboy" - well, at least the abandoned buildings were good for something. On August 17, 2005, during a strategic aviation exercise, a Tu-160 bomber launched three missiles at the building former home culture of the village of Halmer-Yu. What else can you do with it? People will never come here again...
The former coal miners’ village in the Perm Territory, which was territorially subordinate to the city of Gubakha, had approximately the same fate. Back in 1721, the Kizelovskoye coal deposit was discovered in the Solikamsk district of the Siberian province, and in 1778 the once famous Gubakhinsky mines were founded, the workers of which lived in a village on the high right bank of the Kosva River (a tributary of the Kama).
During the period of industrialization, just before the Great Patriotic War, locality Gubakha was transformed into a city from the working villages of Nizhnyaya and Verkhnyaya Gubakha, Krzhizhanovsky and the Krupskaya mine village on March 22, 1941. Now these are just holiday villages. And the city itself is almost completely absorbed by nature. Notable buildings include a hospital, a cultural and business center building, and the NKVD building.
The village of Promyshlenny in Komi was founded on November 30, 1956. The history of this village is closely connected with the history of two mines - "Promyshlennaya" and "Central". At the moment, there is nothing left at the industrial site of the mines related to the coal industry. Some buildings have been converted into sawmills. The rest was destroyed, buried below ground level. As a result of the “restructuring”, the entire staff of this mine was instantly fired and abandoned to their fate. The leadership of the Perm region and Gremyachinsk then turned a blind eye to everything, as if silently supporting the actions of the “restructurers”.
In Soviet times, the urban-type settlement of Iultin in the Iultinsky district of the Chukotka National District in the spurs of the Ekvyvatapsky ridge was a kind of center for tin mining in Chukotka, at a deposit discovered in 1937. In market conditions, in 1994, the Iultinsky mining and processing plant stopped production and the deposits were mothballed. Once a thriving center of tin mining and manufacturing, the city of thousands was abandoned in 1995. People left here quickly, as if in an evacuation, taking with them only the essentials. The city was completely dead by 2000.
Nizhneyansk is a village (already former) in the Ust-Yansky ulus of Yakutia. Located beyond the Arctic Circle, in the delta of the Yana River. According to the 1989 census, the population was three thousand people. It emerged during the war years as a river port. Classified as a workers' settlement in 1958. Served as a transport center. Village facilities - river port, ship repair shops, cultural center, secondary comprehensive school, healthcare, trade and consumer services institutions.
Nizhneyansk today is a ready-made backdrop for a thriller. The wildest fantasies of a director who tried to paint an abandoned city are unlikely to be able to compete with what happens to this city in reality. Some old high and completely endless barbed wire fence. Gray blocks two-story houses with black eye sockets of broken windows stretch deep into the city, forming gloomy streets. Fallen lampposts, broken electrical wires, mountains of snow-covered rubbish, abandoned equipment...
Well, the story of another town, no longer even “named”, but “numbered”, which untimely went into oblivion. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54, in Finval Bay, the division was previously based submarines. Due to the special secrecy regime, the name of Bechevinskaya Bay was strictly classified, so it was decided to rename it Finval Bay. The expedition's submarine division was located in the bay special purpose, which were redeployed from the Northern Fleet. The brigade was completely disbanded in 1996. All military equipment was removed, electricity and water supplies were cut off. Now there are no people here. Come, filmmakers - make blockbusters for your health...
Let's stop there for now. Listing abandoned cities and towns in Russia is a thankless task. And my heart bleeds, so what...
Ghost towns in Russia are scattered throughout the territory. Each of them has its own story, but the end is the same - they were all abandoned by the population. Empty houses still retain the imprint of human habitation; in some you can see abandoned household items, already covered with dust and dilapidated from the passage of time. They look so gloomy that you could make a horror movie. However, this is exactly what people usually come here for.
Despite the fact that cities various reasons left abandoned, they are often visited. In some settlements, the military organizes training grounds. Dilapidated buildings, as well as empty streets, are good to use to recreate extreme living conditions without the risk of involving civilians. 
Artists, photographers and representatives of the film world find a special flavor in abandoned buildings. For some, such cities are a source of inspiration; for others, they are a canvas for creativity. Photos of the dead cities can be easily found in different designs, which confirms their popularity among creative personalities. In addition, modern tourists find abandoned cities interesting. Here you can plunge into a different side of life; there is something mystical and creepy in lonely buildings.
There are quite a few ghost towns in Russia. Typically, this fate awaits small settlements in which residents are employed primarily in one enterprise that is key to the city. What was the reason for the mass relocation of residents from their homes?
There are many cities with a similar fate in Russia. In some, there was a tragedy at the enterprise, for example, in Promyshlenny, in others, the mineral deposits simply dried up, as in Staraya Gubakha, Iultin and Amderma.
