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SOVIET GHOST TOWN
A Latvian astronomer and his wife drove 190 miles to a secret Soviet ghost town in 1994; found a 600-ton telescope the Russians had poured acid on - adapted the Cold War machine built to spy on the West and listen to the starsAfter the retreat of Russian forces from Latvia, a concealed Soviet-era radio telescope came to light. Astronomer Juris Zhagars dedicated h...- This 19th-century Russian town 420 kilometers north of Moscow was submerged underwater by a massive Soviet reservoirAmid the reservoir development in the 1940s, the remote Russian city of Vesyegonsk grappled with significant flooding, with two-thirds of i...
- Gulag prisoners built this town during WW2, it grew into a USSR mining centre of over 10,000 people; before the end of the Soviet era brought its decline in 1996Once a vibrant Soviet town dedicated to coal mining during World War II, Kadykchan was home to a lively community complete with schools and...
- In 1973, a plane crash killed 14 people and a once idyllic French settlement slowly turned into a ghost town near one of the most populous part of EuropeGoussainville-Vieux Pays, near Paris, became a ghost town due to a 1973 aircraft disaster and airport expansion. The devastating crash kill...
- In 1991, the Soviets abandoned anthrax island, a bioweapon facility which still has over 90% chance of killing people decades after its creationVozrozhdeniye Island served as a Soviet biological weapons testing site for decades. Weaponized anthrax spores left behind remain a dangero...
- Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowUkraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster i...
- Knights of Samarkand: Inside the thriving chess scene in Uzbekistan, India's upcoming great rivalIn the great game of chess, Uzbekistan will be India’s rival in the foreseeable future. Young girls and grizzled men duel over chess boards...
- US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebelsThe US Navy is engaged in intense combat with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, marking its most significant sea battle since World War I...
- Ukraine fighting intensifies as Russia seeks to recapture lost citiesThe General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said in its morning report that Russia forces were attacking populated areas on the right bank ...
- Abandoned plant and wasteland: Ukraine eyes UNESCO World Heritage tag for ChernobylOn April 26, the former Soviet republic marks the 35th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the plant, loc...
- From Ryugyong Hotel to Jeddah Tower, mega-structures which never rose to the occasionThe Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea is a hulking, gloomy spectacle on Pyongyang’s skyline.
- Why stories of Bihar comes with more lows than highsCrisscrossing Bihar during elections can be an exhilarating experience, but it comes with more lows than highs.
- 2011: A remarkable year that saw rise of the common manThe year gone by saw teeming masses of the ruled raise an angry fist at cruel despots, avaricious money-makers and indolent rulers.
- Danube: A charm centred on timelessness and warmthHungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania- countries of Eastern Europe have the slightly tousled air of a beautiful woman who has just got out of ...
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