Rotting grand tropical rail-station in former USSR
Marilyn sez, "There's something elegiac in these photos of lovely stone balustrades, porticoes, colonnades, and an empty, pale blue waiting room an with elaborate ceiling along this abandoned rail line in Abkhazia, now an autonomous republic in northwestern Georgia." Abkhazia’s Abandoned Railway Lies Forgotten (Thanks, Marilyn!)
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"Rotting Rail Station?"
We got one of those where I live too. Check out this photo of the original terminus of the transcontinental railway.
http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/11/03_yplan.shtml
Plenty of similarities.
send David Byrne over there to democratize it up!
Looks like a set in a Tarkovsky film.
Looks like parts of Hackney.
Lots more here:
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=814
Note, that Abkazhia is one of the separatist areas of Georgia that was part of the recent "contrempts"
Also there seems to be some maintenance, in certain photo's the vegetation is still pretty landscaped rather than running wild.
Definitely a Czarist building though, for the Black Sea tourist trade.
#5: "This was once a Southernmost part of Russia" says your link.
"In 1860, having failed to subdue Circassians in ninety-seven years of warfare the Russian government decided to enforce their mass migration to other regions... and advanced into the still unconquered parts of Circassia with newly formed mobile columns of riflemen and Cossack cavalry.
Subsequent military operations against them began in the spring of 1862. The Russian soldiers systematically burned the Circasian villages (without exception) while the crops growing in the fields were trampled by under the hooves of the Cossacks' horses.
By 1984, the north-western Caucasus had been emptied of its indigenous population almost in entirety... The number who died in the Circasian catastrophe of the 1860s could hardly have been fewer than one million, and may well have been closer to one-and-a-half-million."
(Stephen D. Shenfield, essay in The Massacre in History, ed. Mark Levene et al.)
Marilyn from the link... "The railway was once a busy passenger route between Abkhazia and Russia and is testament to the former Soviet’s rich past."
That certainly is rich.
Gorgeous photos and a worthy subject nonetheless.
"...in Abkhazia, now an autonomous republic in northwestern Georgia."
nitpicking here, but as far as I know the Abkhaz Constitution consists entirely of Russian armored columns blowing raspberries at the rest of Georgia. Just sayin'.
Also, that pic shows exactly the sort of setting I imagine when reading Gogol and Tolstoy.
I wonder why it isn't being squatted? So much light! So much free housing!
C'mon... that's not a Half-Life 2 map?
Outbreak!
What are the squatting rules in Georgia?
There are a number of great warehouses near where I live that are going to fall apart just like the station in this picture, but squatting is totally illegal here so no one will be able to rescue them.
Abkhazia, your new vacation destination!
That picture eerily reminds me of that beginning room in the Resident Evil movie. Are there any sightings of zombies there?
Don't know where 'tropical' came from; Abkhazia is at about 43 degrees latitude- slightly further north than Boston.
Nice pictures, though.
"Abkhazia, now an autonomous republic in northwestern Georgia."
Good to see you concurring with Vladimir Putin on that one.
why go that far, just look at the rotting Erie Lackawanna ferry terminal in Hoboken, NJ.
@ beanolini:
There are palm trees everywhere in the pictures and the ocean is definitely "tropical" blue in the background.
Here is the original post, give the photographer your thanks if you enjoyed these.
http://zyalt.livejournal.com/59755.html
why go that far, just look at the rotting Erie Lackawanna ferry terminal in Hoboken, NJ.
The one that had the $115 million renovation and is now gleaming?
The one that had the $115 million renovation and is now gleaming?
sure :)
The one that had the $115 million renovation and is now gleaming?
sure :) http://picasaweb.google.com/yourturingtest/091708#
Why do I get a renovated station when I google it?
show me what you get - then i can try to answer