Forgotten Russia

These streets are still marked on city maps. Although it is likely, with them soon disappear. About the man and his way of life here in general there is little that resembles. Is that an empty and windswept box private homes. Some of them look like as if were abandoned recently. In some buildings the roof is missing, the remaining black holes gaping gaps in the floor. It is difficult to imagine that this city once the outskirts of seething life. And this is where the story began largest coal mining town of Kuzbass - Novokuznetsk.
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Honestly, at first I did not believe that is still within the city limits. Well you never know in Russia forgotten God and man at the same time small villages.



Navigator diligently trying to make sure we are in the open field. But in some places still preserved the names of streets. A search engine suggested that addresses these names really exist ... or existed in the past.



In the 30's they started to mine coal. Developments were on Aralichevskoy tunnel. Along the way, grew up around the village miners.



Coal was mined for the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine. It was very convenient - it is located just down the road.



Later on this place there were mines. First Ordzhonikidze (Commissar himself came to the city and, according to some information, the miners were asked to assign the company's name), followed by beginning work Dimitrov mine.



Of course, mine is not located in this very place, and to be precise, under it. In the 90s they both closed. Layers of partially exhausted themselves, partly coal mining in this place became unprofitable.



This is undermined by the territory. In the depths of the hill - mine voids, maintain and monitor the condition that no one else. Above them - the people and their homes, risking to fall down.



Undermined by the territory are potentially dangerous. Therefore, the resettlement of residents from the federal budget allocates money. The money was not enough, but the local authorities have iron argument for the needy - a federal program, so all questions to Moscow.



Nevertheless, the family gradually, year after year relocated. Young happy to change their private home for new apartments in residential areas of the city. Now the streets Bureya, Mercury, Lugansk Novokuznetsk almost deserted.



But not all leave. Islets of life and can still be found here. Someone is not waited for their turn. And some old people refuse to change their private house in the paneled walls and high-rise buildings, as a result, their way of life. Many of them do not believe in the danger of the collapse of the soil, and believe that in the territory of clearing someone's selfish interests.



Houses over which winds a narrow smoke, however, can be counted on the fingers. Mainly along the stretch of road empty rows and cold box houses.



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That's what they are inside:



We need to carefully examine the inside. From doorways nails sticking out.



Every now and then come across shards of glass.



But most of all should be afraid of failures in the floor. Or the occurrence of these failures under the weight sosbstvennogo weight - some boards decayed.



Even in these ruins you can find evidence of what many residents worked. We did not touch anything - suddenly the archaeologists of the future because of these discoveries will be able to determine what made their living inhabitants of these houses.



Houses resemble lifeless armor - like sometime in their life and heat, but now they are dropped as superfluous and in search of finding a new shell.



Here and there you can see, from which the shells are made.



In the absence of people in the streets settled the dog. Someone, it is possible threw home. Not all of them looked as harmless as these two dogs in the picture. Interest in the two invading foreign territory, travelers showed very healthy individuals, so that a couple of times we had to quickly retreat into the car.



If not for these new owners of old houses, there would be dead silence reigned. Neither the noise of passing cars or people on the call can not be heard in these streets. Only the crunch of snow underfoot. And there was a nearby barking.



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