Abandoned Mining and Chemical Combine

Writes blogger tov-tob

A month ago, went to the city, we stopped at the former Mining and Chemical Combine "Sіrka", which is near the city of Lviv region Novoyavorivsk. Generally, among the fans of abandonment is quite common plant accordion, but I first heard about it only in September. The spectacle there is certainly depressing - a huge factory rasdestroenny not rendered the market economy, is slowly dying mining shovels and others. Equipment.

Brief History

The company "Sіrka" began in 1969, when the Yavoriv district was started experimental extraction of sulfur. A few years later it was created a huge complex worth about 3 billion. Rub. The sulfur was mined as an open pit and underground smelting method. The company employed about 18 thousand. People, and for them and their families, was built by a separate city Novoyavorivsk (now Novoyavorivsk).

In the old days, "Sіrka" made up to 1, 5 million. Tons of sulfur per year. Across the Union, it was about a quarter of the annual needs. The acute shortage of this mineral has caused the haste in building the plant and its subsequent "scheduled" loss ratio (up to 50 rubles. Losses at 1 ton of sulfur).

With the collapse of the Union, the company was "unnecessary": impacted many economic relations and domestic factories, consumed sulfur were also in a state of stagnation. Moreover, the world has a new method for the production of sulfur in the purification of natural gas, which led to a crisis of all enterprises in the world that sulfur was mined by conventional methods. As a result, "Sіrke 'career from the most expensive way to opt back in the 90s. The rest of the company is somehow lived up to the mid-2000s, but eventually died and now are gradually work to eliminate it.

32 photos

1. In general, we have come to the territory. Conventional buildings, a couple of small tubes; somewhere else there is life, but somewhere in all requested but extraction of sulfur here a long time does not smell.





2. Suddenly the pipe with a minimum height of 50 m. Do not climb simply impossible.



3. After a few minutes we are at the top of teleportation.



4. inspection. Under the feet of one of the parts of the plant. On the left stands the most "delicious" - two large draglines, another smaller crane and raritny BC-1000. All this will be a separate post. For excavating the lake spilled at the site of the former quarry sulfur. By clicking - 2649h900



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9. To the north of us rise tube concentrator - this is another part of the plant, on it we will soon also visited.



10. dfaw and diablas approve surrounding landscapes



11. Next to the pipe showed rasdestroenny boiler:



12. At the concentrator's full of trash and Destro. That has not yet dismantled, actively understands; not rendered active anymore. This workshop took place crushing of mined rock quarry. Behind stands a small mine excavator.



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14. Elements of the crusher and diablas for scale.



15. Next was discovered another plant for crushing rocks, but it has remained on the walls and a couple of small "pool" in place of the lower level.



16. Another body factory.



17. Next is another one of the settlers, in which sulfur is adjusted to "condition". The whole area around the ground, and all are imbued with sixteen elements of the periodic table.



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19. Communication from the overpass have "somewhere" disappeared.



20. Lift up on the last floor of the building. Behind the building rise two attractive pipe height of the order of 100 m, but they have not had enough, and the sense was not - it was late in the evening. Nearby is a forest destroyed by settlers.



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23. On the other side lives a small station where to load the finished sulfur.



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28. The interior of the building:



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31. Someone was obviously bored



32. Where do you usually play dominoes?



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