Across the vastness of Russia—the world’s largest country, at some 6.6 million square miles—and over the span of its long history, countless houses, factories, churches, villages, military bases, and other structures have been built and then left behind: imperial-era palaces, log cabins of pioneers in the Far East, Christian cathedrals, massive Soviet blocks of concrete, speculative-mining camps, and more. For years now, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing these intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling chapels.
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A drone photo of the collapsing Von Meck Estate in Khruslovka, Venyovsky district, Tula Oblast, south of Moscow, taken on May 27, 2016. Satellite view on Google Maps. #
The ruins of an old pulp and paper mill on Sakhalin Island #
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The overgrown ruins of an industrial building in the Voronezh region #
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A derelict dock stands in front of a volcanic structure on Atlasova Island, which is part of the Kuril Islands #
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A seal colony on the shores of the abandoned Tulenyi Island, which is in the Kuril Islands #
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An old giant dome of a radar antenna, part of a former antiballistic-missile system in Naro-Fominsk. Satellite view on Google Maps. #
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A drone view of an abandoned building of a former restaurant on top of Mount Akhun in Sochi #
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Kalyazin Church, also called the "Flooded Belfry," standing alone in the Uglich Reservoir. This structure is all that remains of the old town of Kalyazin, which was submerged when a dam was built in in 1939. Satellite view on Google Maps. #
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A destroyed railway bridge in Kholmsk, Sakhalin Oblast #
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A building in the ghost town of Alykel, located above the Arctic Circle #
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An aerial photo of the abandoned, unfinished Khovrino Hospital in Moscow on May 18, 2017 #
A ruined, overgrown red-brick bridge in the forest, in Kiritsy, Ryazan Oblast #
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An aerial view taken with a drone on October 30, 2017, shows the neglected estate of Grebnevo, east of Moscow #
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The ghost town of Ugolny Ruchei, a former coal-mining site, near Norilsk #
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The Church of the Nativity in Krokhino, Vologda Oblast. Built on a lakeshore at the end of the 18th century, the church was isolated after rising waters created to improve shipping inundated surrounding villages. The church has been slowly crumbling since. #
A decaying industrial building of a Soviet electronics factory in Novovoronezh #
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A destroyed center for social and cultural activities for Soviet citizens, captured in early morning fog, in Kotelnich, Kirov Oblast #
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Abandoned ships from the Russian federal fleet sit in the repair-operational base of the Yenisei River Shipping Company in Podtyosovo village, about 217 miles north of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on June 15, 2013 #
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Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Novinki, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast #
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I loved you; and perhaps I love you still,
The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet
It burns so quietly within my soul,
No longer should you feel distressed by it.
Silently and hopelessly I loved you,
At times too jealous and at times too shy.
God grant you find another who will love you
As tenderly and truthfully as I.
(¯`•.¸ ♥¸.•´¯)
I loved you and my love may still be there,
Deep in my soul remains to stay aglow.
That should not be an object of your care
I do not want disturb you any more.
I loved you unrequited in still wonder
Through bouts of jealousy and diffidence.
I loved you so sincerely and tender
God bless you with such love of someone else.
(¯`•.¸ ♥¸.•´¯)
I loved you so. My love may still be there.
Its remnants in my heart may smolder still.
But you need not be touched by my despair.
To cause you grief is not at all my will
I loved you so in hopelessness and silence,
Too timid or too jealous to confess.
I loved you with sincerity and kindness,
I pray the one you're with loves you no less.
(¯`•.¸ ♥¸.•´¯)
I loved you: the affection, for that matter,
Has not quite faded in my heart as yet;
Howbeit, you may just as well forget it:
I'm not about to have you feel upset.
My love was inarticulate and hopeless,
By shyness and by jealousy imbued;
I loved you so sincerely, so fondly,
Like may another be in love with you.
(¯`•.¸ ♥¸.•´¯) Slava Chetin
I loved you; even now I may confess,
Some embers of my love their fire retain;
But do not let it cause you more distress,
I do not want to sadden you again.
Hopeless and tonguetied, yet I loved you dearly
With pangs the jealous and the timid know;
So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely,
I pray God grant another love you so.
Д. Журавлев
Я вас любил: любовь ещё, быть может,
В душе моей угасла не совсем;
Но пусть она вас больше не тревожит;
Я не хочу печалить вас ничем.
Я вас любил безмолвно, безнадежно,
То робостью, то ревностью томим;
Я вас любил так искренно, так нежно,
Как дай вам Бог любимой быть другим.
افضل صيانة الان نوفرها لك في فني ستلايت الكويت الشهير بااعمال الصيانة للاجهزة الالكترونية تواصل معنا الان في فني ستلايت الجهراء هندي واحصل علي خدمات لم تحصل عليها من قبل الان ستشاهد التليفزيون بالجودة التي تليق بك مع ستلايت السالمية لاننا دائما نهتم بمتعتك وراحتك في فني ستلايت حولي الكويت تواصل معنا الان وتعرف علي الاسعار المميزة جدا التي نقدمها لم وقم بالاتصال علي ارقام فني ستلايت الفروانية او قم بزيارة الموقع الالكتروني الخاص بنا
افضل صيانة الان نوفرها لك في فني ستلايت الكويت الشهير بااعمال الصيانة للاجهزة الالكترونية تواصل معنا الان في فني ستلايت الجهراء هندي واحصل علي خدمات لم تحصل عليها من قبل الان ستشاهد التليفزيون بالجودة التي تليق بك مع ستلايت السالمية لاننا دائما نهتم بمتعتك وراحتك في فني ستلايت حولي الكويت تواصل معنا الان وتعرف علي الاسعار المميزة جدا التي نقدمها لم وقم بالاتصال علي ارقام فني ستلايت الفروانية او قم بزيارة الموقع الالكتروني الخاص بنا
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