The abandoned cities of the USSR. Kotov A.

Over the past decades, tremendous changes have occurred in the life of the peoples of the former Soviet Union. A huge number of cities, factories, scientific institutions, cultural houses and sanatoriums were forever abandoned. However, all these objects retained their charm, history and memory of those who once lived there.

Arseniy Kotov - traveler, photographer, blogger. For more than eight years, he has been traveling around Russia and the former Soviet republics in search of unusual objects of architecture, once inhabited, and now abandoned places to see “traces of highly developed civilization”, which extended from the northern ice seas to the hot deserts of Central Asia, from the Baltic cities to endlessly Taiga of the Far East and take memorable pictures.

In the book of Arseny Kotov “The abandoned cities of the USSR” you will see the most legendary abandoned places of Russia and the post -Soviet space and get acquainted with interesting stories from Pripyat, Baikonur, Norilsk, Magadan, Magadan. Vorkuta and many other cities.