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

Residential Complexes in an Abandoned Polar Biological Research Center

Obsolete Tropospheric antenna

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

Remains of Industry on a spent Oilfield

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

An Abandoned Observatory with a Shuttered Telescope

A Deserted Military stronghold with an Underground Bunker

The world’s largest Diesel Submarine, Now Beached

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

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

Space rockets left while still in their Building stage

Boiler House of a deserted Aerodrome

Previous Headquarters of the Communist Party

Rocket Fuel Waste Storage
Hangar at the Research Complex for Biological Weapons

Spy Antenna for Radio Surveillance

A desolate Coal Processing Unit

A lonely 4-km-deep Shaft for Research Purpose

Water Intake Plant

Excavator on a deserted Quarry

Remains of the ZET Laser Technology

Ground Control station for Spacecrafts

Research Outstation

The Forsaken Telescope

An Unfinished Space Port

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

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

A memorial on an abandoned Nuclear Complex

Bulgaria was never a part of the Soviet Union and there is photo of Buzludja or the House-monument of the party (it’s a monument dedicated to the Buzludja congress and not actual headquaters of the communist party), which is located near Kazanlak – a bulgarian town… still – the resume says that the pictures are taken in the “remotest parts of the Soviet Union”… Check your information.
It says the “Ship Bulgaria”