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Abandoned Soviet Infrastructure Show What Happens When A Nation Goes Too Far To Create A Utopian Society

Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko scaled the length and breadth of the country during his search for the ruins of the once important structures in the remotest parts of the Soviet Union. His two-year-long journey has culminated in a unique collection titled the Restricted Area.

Tkachenko has tried to depict what happens when a nation tries too hard to create a utopian society via by progress in the arena of science and technology.

“I travel in search of places which used to have great importance for the technical progress—and which are now deserted. Those places lost their significance together with the utopian ideology which is now obsolete. Secret cities that cannot be found on maps, forgotten scientific triumphs, abandoned buildings of almost inhuman complexity. The perfect technocratic future that never came.”

Tkachenko’s work will be displayed at the Fotogalerie Friedrichshain in Berlin.

 

VVA14 Airplane–amphibia with vertical take-off

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

 

 

Residential Complexes in an Abandoned Polar Biological Research Center

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Obsolete Tropospheric antenna

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

A Cultural Center In A Former Mining Town, now converted into a Bombing Trial Field

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Remains of Industry on a spent Oilfield

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

The city where Rocket Engines were made was a Restricted Area till 1992

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

An Abandoned Observatory with a Shuttered Telescope

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

A Deserted Military stronghold with an Underground Bunker

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

The world’s largest Diesel Submarine, Now Beached

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

An Interplanetary Connectivity antenna to connect the strongholds that the USSR planned to build on the other planets

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Secret City Chelyabinsk-40 where the first Soviet Nuclear bomb was made

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Space rockets left while still in their Building stage

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Boiler House of a deserted Aerodrome

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Previous Headquarters of the Communist Party

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Rocket Fuel Waste Storage

Hangar at the Research Complex for Biological Weapons

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Spy Antenna for Radio Surveillance

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

A desolate Coal Processing Unit

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

A lonely 4-km-deep Shaft for Research Purpose

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Water Intake Plant

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Excavator on a deserted Quarry

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Remains of the ZET Laser Technology

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Ground Control station for Spacecrafts

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

Research Outstation

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

The Forsaken Telescope

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

An Unfinished Space Port

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

The rocket atop the Monument to the Conquerers of Space reflects German V-2 Missile

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

The Salvaged Ship “Bulgaria” that drowned with 122 people aboard

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko

A memorial on an abandoned Nuclear Complex

Image Source: Danila Tkachenko
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