MiGs, Stars & Magic Books: A Brief History of Trespassing in Moscow
An illustrated guide to urban exploration in the Russian capital.
Friday 18 November 2016
You know that gallery I shared last week, with all the photos from underground stuff in Ukraine? Well, that wasn’t everything we saw in those two days. Because we saw this place, too – a fallout shelter built deep in the earth beneath a military factory in Kiev.
The factory itself has changed hands now; no longer military, it’s owned by some flashy tech company who’ve installed their own security barriers and guards. Beyond those though, tucked away in a back corner of the staff carpark, sits the bulkhead entrance to the bunker down below.
It was amazing just how intact this place was. I’ve been in fallout shelters before – Soviet ones, too – but they’ve typically been stripped bare during the intervening decades. So here, once we’d disabled the alarm systems and managed to get inside, it was a rare treat to stumble into a timeless space filled with supply crates, medicine and gas masks, watched over still by dusty portraits of Lenin.
An illustrated guide to urban exploration in the Russian capital.
Poltergeists, ritual murder & a live-in succubus – the 1000-year-old pub with a ghostly reputation
A month-long monument hunt, and what I learned along the way.
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