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Ghost towns are the abandoned towns ceasing to contribute to the economy. They are not essentially a haunted place, but they have either served their purpose and completed their lives, or the economic system that supported it once failed to support it later. A town can also become a ghost town following a natural epidemics […]
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Peter Ortner has spent seven years photographing bus stops across former Soviet countries, including a triangular pavilion and a dramatic winged shelter
When public transportation became an outlet for radical creative expression.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was well known for its censorship of literature and art. While political expression opposing those in power had
After stumbling across a peculiar bus stop—which was more of a work of art—photographer Christopher Herwig began seeking out these ex-Soviet relics with intent.
Garni is remarkable with a number of historical and architectural monuments of the Hellenistic and early Christian era. The most prominent among them are Garni temple and the fortress of the same name. Moreover, there you will find the ruins of the royal palace and baths built according to the Roman
Bukovyna, from Iryna
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Children's books coming out of the former Soviet Union were quite different from books produced in the West, reflecting a very different culture.
Memorial to the Hero of the Soviet Union I.I. Ivanov in Dubno, Ukraine, eastern Europe. Memorial monument featuring a Soviet aircraft in the former USSR.
Former BBC broadcaster Roger Clark looks back at his photographs taken in the former Soviet Union.
In the former Soviet Union, Palaces of Culture—known in Russian as Dvrortzi Kultury, or DKs—were important community centers. They hosted dance...
A scene that can still be seen in the country of the former Soviet Union.
The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy is a Soviet era pavilion style park with museums for former regions of the Soviet Union and ornate fountains.
Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.
An exhibition examining the landscape and abandoned spaces of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries opens in London.
collapse of the Soviet Union, sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 31, 1991. The former superpower was replaced by 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. That the Soviet Union was disintegrating had been subtly apparent for some time, but the final act began at 4:50 pm on Sunday, August 18, 1991. Soviet Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev was at his dacha in the Crimean resort of Foros when he was contacted by four men requesting an audience. They were his chief
