Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Abandoned Russian city in ruins



Here's an amazing, haunting photo-essay on an abandoned Russian city that turned ghost after the fall of the USSR, when it was no longer strategically valuable and its support collapsed. Shops, schools, grandiose public buildings, all turned to Romanesque ruins in just a decade and a half.
Link (Thanks, Andrew!)



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