Military installations

The Orgov Radio-Optical Telescope

The Orgov Radio-Optical Telescope, also known as ROT54 or the Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope, stands proudly in Orgov, Armenia. This remarkable radio telescope was constructed over a decade, from 1975 to 1985, and commenced its operations in 1986 until 1990, when its use was temporarily halted. After a period of inactivity, it was once again […]

August 5, 2023
TNA-400, an abandoned Soviet radio telescope

The TNA-400 was the first small-scale, high-precision Soviet radio telescope with a 32-metre diameter main reflector. It was created in 1961 to track the USSR’s Soviet Lunar, Mars and Venusian missions and communicate with the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. The radio telescope is located in the village of Shkolnoye, 21 km from the city […]

June 14, 2022
Crimean abandoned heliostation

Heliocentre of the Institute for Material Science Problems at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located in the village of Katsiveli, Crimea. The heliostation was established in 1967 to study the power of the sun. This particular location was chosen for a number of reasons and factors: the atmosphere, the highest flow of […]

June 12, 2022
The Ekranoplane of Derbent, legend of the Caspian Sea

The ekranoplane, the Soviet pachyderm of the skies beached on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

July 1, 2021
Hidden Parts of Submarine Museum

Everyone one today knows about Former underground submarine base in Balaklava, or Object 825 GTS (GTS or City Telephone Station – it’s secret name in the times of Cold War). Though not many people even locals know about some abandoned parts of this place, hidden somewhere near.

November 15, 2020
Coastal Battery Drapushko

We continue to discover underground Sevastopol, this time we will visit one of the coastal batteries.

November 14, 2020
Tesla Towers

This place was supposed to become a center of Russian science. Here could be made one lightning compared to all power plants in the country. Though how it is now? Completely abandoned.

October 12, 2020
Phantom Seaplanes

Swallowed by the darkness and the waters of Lake Trasimeno we end up catapulted into its meanders and winding paths.

September 15, 2020
Plane Graveyard

The time has come to retire to private life, to go to “retirement”, as humans say. After fulfilling our duty, after fighting countless battles in the sky and flying over the skies of Russia, we finally collapsed to the ground.

February 12, 2019
Monino in Ruins

In search of lost planes, amid mud and snow, I and Giada, my traveling companion, venture into the meanders of Monino.

January 30, 2019