However, as the Soviet Union took its place in the dusty pages of history, it left behind a huge ruin not only ideologically but also materially. Abandoned factories, mines, laboratories and even cities!
Here are 8 ghost cities that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Tskaltubo
Tskaltubo in Georgia was once among the favorite settlements of the ruling class in the Soviet Union. Because of the hotels, baths and health centers in the region, Soviet leader Josef Stalin often visited this city.
Vozrozhdeniya Island
Vozrozhdeniya Island, located in a region between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was used by the Soviet Union as a top secret facility for chemical and biological weapons experiments. However, it was abandoned after the dissolution of the union.
Klomino
Klomino, a small settlement in Poland, was captured by the Soviet Union in 1945. The region was transformed into a city where thousands of people could live in a short time. However, the end of the Soviet Union also brought the end of this city of thousands.
Irbene
The city of Irbene in Latvia was one of the cities built for the soldiers of the Soviet Union. More than 50 thousand soldiers could live in the city at the same time. However, Soviet military intelligence units were stationed in the city. These troops were working with huge satellites to listen and get information from friendly and enemy countries. The city was completely abandoned in 1993.
Mologa
In fact, it is not quite right to describe the city of Mologa as a ghost town. Because there is no such city today! The Soviet Union decided to build a hydroelectric power station in the region in 1935. More than 130 thousand people living in the city were evacuated, more than 300 people lost their lives due to the floods in the city.
Neftegorsk
Neftegorsk was one of the cities that experienced significant changes with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But it was the 1995 earthquake that caused the city to become a ghost town. Almost all the buildings in the city were destroyed due to the disaster, which is among the biggest earthquakes in the history of modern Russia.
Skrunda-1
The settlement named Skrunda-1 was built in 1963 in Latvia. The area, which was designed as one of the important structures of the Soviet defense line, also included military buildings, air and land defense systems, bunkers, tunnels, factories and schools.
But immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Skrunda-1 region was also abandoned.
Kadykchan
Located in the Magadan Oblast of Russia, the city of Kadykchan was founded in the 1940s. After the existence of important coal mines in the area was discovered, Kadykchan became an important settlement with large numbers of workers. By the end of the 1970s, the population of the city had exceeded 100,000 people.
However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the city was abandoned. In the mid-1990s only 300 people lived in the city
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