Dead military town

People living in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye know this place. While driving from one city to the other (and among them only 70 kilometers), it's hard not to pay attention to a complex of abandoned buildings and the old aircraft L-29, standing in front of a checkpoint on the object.
This is the Center of flight training to them. Pokryshkina. Once it was the most powerful school in which trained combat pilots for the three regiments based in Zaporozhye.
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According to the recollections of my father, who in his youth was fond Aviamodelirovaniye often been there, the plane takes off from the runway every few minutes, day and night.
But now about the past greatness of this place, you can only guess. For more than ten years, it is empty.
Decline Zaporozhye military aviation began in 1990, when combat aircraft were transferred to Kazakhstan, then left a training school and repair plant.
In independent Ukraine flight training school he has operated for several years, but in 1994 stopped all flights. And in 2001, he finally closed. Now all over the center of the work unless the PPC and a small administrative part.
Of the hundreds of training aircraft can take off only two.



Stopping near the former military town.



L-29 and a bust at the entrance to Pokryshkina Flight Training Center.



Stop tap the aircraft.



But this checkpoint - uninhabited.



In this hole could not squeeze through, but found next to her label Zaporozhye Watch.



Abandoned dormitories, barracks and other military buildings of the town.



The hostel, which I got.



From the roof visible vzeltno runway, located a kilometer away from the hostel.



Kompeks is located near the highway.



The base station Beeline



The corridors of the dead dorm.



Harsh conditions



Silent Hill



Dining likely



We walked along the fence and entered the airplane graveyard. AN-24

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Taxiways



They say there are more than hundreds of aircraft. Most of them - training A-29 in Czechoslovakia



Albatrosses



There are also helicopters



More



Legendary AN-2 "maize"!



These aircraft will never fly



In principle, they can still be repaired by investing a lot of money. But who needs it?



DOSAAF



Nobody wants



The sad look off into the distance



Machines for the deployment of mobile airfield



Mi-2



Mi-8



"Face" of the Mi-8 is similar to a dragonfly.
That's all. Thank you for attention.



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