soviet

This was our final stop on what was a warm 4 days exploring the areas south of Berlin. Having failed at another Soviet bunker in the south, where it turned out we were looking about 500m in the wrong area for the entry, we decided to try a sure thing. After a nice walk through some lush german...

So...of you're looking for a large town of almost nothing but epic Urbex opportunities, Tskaltubo is it. In short, it was the town where the Soviet Union came to relax and take in the restorative waters that Georgia is known for. The town is nearly complely deserted apart from a couple of...

Radio Ga Ga Another from last years roadtrips though it seems like a eternity ago. Cant find much about this place but it was clearly a radio broadcasting / listening station at some point in its existence. The building has a distinct soviet feel & had what appeared to be a hardened...

What is now the village of Keszyca Lesna started life as a German barracks complex for the use the Wehrmacht with construction starting in 1929 with the grand opening in 1936 attended by Adolf Hitler. Over the course of the WW2 the barracks was home to an array of different regiments including...

This school is in a garrison town in an area of East Germany which has long had military links. It was built in 1912 and was originally an officers mess. After the second world war it was used as a school for the children of those serving in the Soviet army and many were brought here by bus from...

Once again, I find myself doing a mega report. Every time I tell myself I’ll make it shorter, only to end up writing more. I’ve done a big intro here to set the scene but there’s plenty. I’ve got to thank UrbanX from DP and @The_Raw for some general advice on visiting these bases. We didn’t get...

The Cold War was a time of intense war-preparations by the two opposing blocs NATO and the Warsaw Pact, including for a potential nuclear war. The building of massive underground bunkers was an essential part of these developments, with Object No.1180 being an example of a Soviet bunker building...

Once upon a time during the year 1965, a big factory was built, at that time one of the largest buildings by footprint in the world. People moved from all across the country to work in this factory, but they needed a place to stay so Mālkalne was built - the first neighbourhood of what would...

I couldn't find much history of this place, I only just found out that it was a hospital - at first I thought it was some sort of office building. The building is located in an industrial area with many similar abandoned buildings, underneath the building there is also a nuclear bunker which is...

New to this site first post... Visit a Hospital over in Germany before the pandemic.

As much as I would LOVE to give you some info on this place I can't. In years gone by we've spent a lot of time hanging with friends in Poland. I've lost count of the number of explores carried out with alcohol dripping from my pores. This was one such trip. As well as a piano factory Legnica...

The Palace was built in 1960 in the Imereti Region of Georgia. As part of the Soviet educational system, pioneer palaces were a crucial propaganda programme to the Communist regime of the Soviet Union. They were a mass youth organisation for children of age 9–15 that existed between 1922 and...

"Everyone needs a good slice of Pyestock"... And I couldn't agree more! For a good few weeks, @Olkka and I had been planning something on a miniature road trip to Pyestock, and with a somewhat considerable amount of chopping and changing to our provisional dates, we finally followed through...

Travels round Kaliningrad; September 2019 A former German lunatic asylum in konisberg built in 19th century. When it became Kaliningrad part of the Soviet Union it became a soviet military hospital built to support naval and ground to air missive defence battalions, based in the region...

Travels round Kaliningrad; September 2019 A former German lunatic asylum in konisberg built in 19th century. When it became Kaliningrad part of the Soviet Union it became a soviet military hospital built to support naval and ground to air missive defence battalions, based in the region...