Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

/// Murmansk Ski Jump

Where: Russia - Murmansk
Source: English Russia
What: This old ski jump is towering over Murmansk like a huge dinosaur. But 50m skeleton and this old wooden “skin” is everything that has remained from the pride of the local skiers.





/// Vozdvizhenka Airdrome

Where:  Russia - Vozdvizhenka
Source:  English Russia
What:  In Vozdvizhenka Airdrome, was based the 444th bombing regiment, moreover there are still 18 bombers Tu-22M3, but all bomb equipment was removed. It is completely disabled and abandoned.








/// Nizhny Novgorod Observatory

Where:  Russia - Nizhny Novgorod
Source:  English Russia
What:  This is a kind of facilities that is very rare to found abandoned. We don't know the contours of this story, but it's real.







/// Spacecraft Buran Program

Where:  Russia - Baikonur
Source:  World of Mysteries
What:  Facilities of Spacecraft Buran Program called "The Baikonur Cosmodrome", that is analogous in funcion to the US Space Shuttle in Cape Canaveral, but most ambitious. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the program was partly dismantled and partly simply abadoned, including the spacecrafts. The Buran-Energia project was one of the largest, most ambitious and expensive space programs ever attempted in history. The Buran-Energia is composed of the the Buran shuttle, the Energia core booster and the Zenith strap on boosters, all designed to be fully reusable.