Abandoned Train Station

Abandoned railway station in Abkhazia, a former Russian territory, left completely untouched since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia has so many beautiful abandoned buildings. [Source]

Lake Karachay

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Lake Karachay, sometimes spelled Karachai, is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in western Russia. According to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute on nuclear waste, Karachay is the most polluted spot on Earth. The radiation level in the region near where radioactive effluent is discharged into the lake was 600 röntgens per hour (approximately 6 Sv/h) in 1990, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Natural Resources Defense Council, sufficient to give a lethal dose to a human within an hour. [Wiki]

The Hermitage Museum

Originally, the only building housing the collection was the 'Small Hermitage'. Today, the Hermitage Museum encompasses many buildings on the Palace Embankment and its neighbourhoods. Apart from the Small Hermitage, the museum now also includes the 'Old Hermitage' (also called 'Large Hermitage'), the 'New Hermitage', the 'Hermitage Theatre', and the 'Winter Palace', the former main residence of the Russian tsars. In recent years, the Hermitage has expanded to the General Staff Building on the Palace Square in front of the Winter Palace, and the Menshikov Palace. [Source]

Abandoned Russian Village

Just one of many abandoned Russian villages, scattered across huge Russia. People simply leave for cities where they can earn more, and thousands of Russian wooden architecture masterpieces, sometimes more than 200 years old, stay by their own. [Source]

Old wooden church in Sudal, Russia

This building boggles the mind to think it's created solely of wooden logs! It's located in an abandoned village and was built more than 300 years ago.. imagine the history it's seen. [Source]

Church of Spilt Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, its official name. [Source]

Abandoned Russian Village

Just one of many abandoned Russian villages, scattered across huge Russia. People simply leave for cities where they can earn more, and thousands of Russian wooden architecture masterpieces, sometimes more than 200 years old, stay by their own. [Source]

Abandoned Russian castle

An amazing castle got abandoned. Russia got some abandoned castles. Still it looks beautiful. [Source]

Amazing Ostankino Tower

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Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia, owned by Moscow branch of unitary enterprise Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network. Construction began in 1963 and was completed in 1967. Extensive use of prestressed concrete resulted in a simple and sturdy structure. It surpassed the Empire State Building and was a masterpiece of Soviet engineering in the time period it was built, to become the tallest free-standing structure in the world. [Wiki]

Beautiful Russian Orthodox Cathedral

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The St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, Nice is a Russian Orthodox cathedral, controlled directly by the Property Administration of the Moscow Kremlin but nevertheless a national monument of France located in the city of Nice. The cathedral, consecrated in December 1912 in memory of Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, who died in Nice, was meant to serve the large Russian community that had settled in Nice by the end of the 19th century, as well as devout visitors from the Imperial Court. Opened in 1912, thanks to the generosity of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II, it is the largest Russian cathedral in Western Europe. [Wiki]

Amazing Sutyagin Wooden House

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The Sutyagin House was a wooden house in Arkhangelsk, Russia and it's The 13-story, 144-foot-tall residence. Constructed by Mr. Sutyagin and his family over 15 years (starting in 1992), without formal plans or a building permit. [Wiki]