Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko travelled to formerly closed areas of the old Soviet Union, where massive technological and military works aimed to project Soviet power have been left abandoned in the icy wastes.
A city where rocket engines were being produced in Soviet times. Was a closed city until 1992. Russia, Dzerzhinsky city, 2013
Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation. Russia, Moscow area, 2013
The world's largest diesel submarine. Russia, Samara region, 2013
Secret city Chelyabinsk-40, which was not marked on the maps until 1994. The first Soviet nuclear bomb was created there. In 1964 there was the first nuclear catastrophe, one of the largest in history and equal in scale to Chernobyl. It stayed secret thanks to the fact that wind was blowing east. It is still impossible to enter the city unless one has special permission or relatives living there. Russia, Chelyabinsk region, 2013
Excavator on a closed quarry. Russia, Moscow region, 2015
Former residential buildings in a deserted polar scientific town specialised on biological research. Russia, Komi Republic, 2014
Deserted observatory located in the area with the best conditions for space observations. Kazakhstan, Almaty region, 2015
[Photos © Danila Tkachenko]
There's a book - Restricted Areas.
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