There is nothing more terrifying and intriguing than abandoned cities. They attract and enchant with their dark beauty, and over time they only become more attractive. Desperate adventurers are increasingly choosing abandoned settlements. If you're also looking for a spooky place to spend a weekend or a chilling photo op, check out the 13 scariest ghost towns in the world.

Craco, Italy

The Italian town of Craco, founded in the 8th century, was deserted due to endless natural disasters. Part of the population abandoned it in 1963 after a landslide. In 1972, Craco suffered a flood, making it an even more dubious place to live. The last straw for its residents was the 1980 earthquake, after which the rock beneath the city began to collapse. After the deadly disaster, picturesque Craco was abandoned forever.

Only daredevils go on a journey through the “dead” city, because the rock under Krako may not withstand it and collapse. The miraculously surviving statue of the Virgin Mary still stands in the city, which is why religious festivals are held here to this day. Despite the fact that Kracko is a time bomb, he was used for the filming of the film "The Passion of the Christ."

Terlingua, Texas, USA

In 1903, when local mining workers were hard at work in the mercury mines, the population of the Texas town was 3 thousand people. However, the cinnabar deposits became depleted over time, and the residents of Terlingua, left without work and money, had to leave their home. In 2010, the city barely had 58 residents. The enterprising descendants of miners who risked staying here have built a good business on tourists eager to see the ghostly cowboys with their own eyes in the local dilapidated churches and houses.

Pripyat, Ukraine

After the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which provoked powerful emissions of radiation, Pripyat turned into one of the darkest and most dangerous abandoned places on Earth. Almost 30 years ago, 50 thousand city residents hastily left their homes, not even suspecting that they would never return. The city itself entered the notorious Chernobyl exclusion zone. The highest level of radiation cut him off from the outside world for decades. Only vandals and looters visited Pripyat regularly and plundered the city. It is now open to the public. You can go to Pripyat and see the famous amusement park, city hospitals and schools, shops and cinemas as part of an excursion, subject to strict adherence to safety rules. Indeed, in lowlands, ditches and near large trees, background radiation is still elevated.

Calico, California, USA

Like Terlingua, this town was born out of a mining company founded in 1881, and just as quickly fell into disrepair as the silver that fed its inhabitants fell in price and the borax deposits that had brought it in were depleted. The last person left Calico in 1986. The deserted city was bought by a certain Walter Knott and turned into a historical landmark. Now Calico is open to the public, and there is a Wild West Museum on its territory.

Hashima Island, Japan

In 1881, underwater coal mines began operating on Hashima Island. Its population grew rapidly, and by 1959 its population was 5 thousand people. People abandoned Hashima when the mines began to dry up in 1974. Now the previously prosperous island is completely abandoned. Here you can see only tourists who came to look at the gloomy dilapidated houses, dilapidated shop buildings and deserted streets.

Garnet, Montana, USA

Garnet is another mining settlement with a sad history. Tilted log cabins are all that remain of the 19th-century town of a thousand people. You can now explore Garnet for just $3. There are camping areas nearby. Desperate tourists stop there, deciding to go on a dangerous night journey through the city.

Thurmond, West Virginia, USA

The deserted Thurmond cannot even now be called completely abandoned. According to the results of the 2010 population census, 5 people still live here. However, you will hardly see or hear anyone, as if there is not a single soul in the town.

Kolmanskop, Namibia

The somewhat pompous and pretentious Kolmanskop blossomed in the middle of the African deserts at the beginning of the 20th century, when diamond hunters who arrived from Germany settled here. The city was dotted with houses made in the German architectural tradition; a dance hall, a hospital and even a bowling club were built. The first X-ray machine in Namibia appeared in Kolmanskop. True, the townspeople did not use it for medical purposes. Over time, the diamond deposits became smaller, the precious stones decreased in size, and with the help of the device it was easy to identify the unlucky thief.

The city began to decline shortly after the end of the First World War. In 1928, richer diamond deposits than the local ones were discovered south of Kolmanskop, and greedy townspeople, hungry for profit, began to quickly leave their comfortable homes, leaving the settlement they had built with their own hands to be torn apart by the vast Namibian deserts.

Virginia City, Montana, USA

This is a former mining town, whose inhabitants lived in gold mining. Virginia City was founded in 1863, and its population was about 10 thousand people. The now deserted city is preserved as a historical monument. However, instead of the traditional deserted streets and tumbleweeds, once here, you will see how before your eyes Virginia City rises from the ashes thanks to actors located behind store windows, in residential buildings and public buildings, ready at any moment to send travelers visiting them to the past.

Kennecott, Alaska, USA

At the beginning of the 20th century, the town was the center of the copper industry in Alaska and brought in millions of dollars a year. However, single-industry towns built around one mining enterprise have little chance of success. Copper mining began to gradually decline, and Kennecott no longer had anything to offer its residents. The town was abandoned and turned into a silent ghost, whose eerie dilapidated buildings attract hosts of adventurers.

Animas Forks, Colorado, USA

In its heyday, Animas Forks was home to about 30 residential buildings, a general store, a post office, a hotel and a bar. However, like many mining settlements, it suffered a sad fate. Now Animas Forks is a desolate place with nine run-down shacks and a small prison.

Ross Island, India

Ross Island was once ruled by British officials. Here they built an entire city with extravagant dance halls, bakeries, clubs, swimming pools and gardens, and at the same time built a correctional facility for the local population. The "Paris of the East", as Ross Island was called, witnessed the extreme brutality of the British colonial system.

The city flourished until 1941, when there was an earthquake and the Japanese invasion. Ross came under British control again only after the end of World War II, and in 1979 it was transferred to the Indian Navy. Now the former “Paris of the East” has been reclaimed by tropical vegetation, and the island itself has become an attractive tourist attraction.

Rhyolite, Nevada, USA

Abandoned Rhyolite is a legacy of the Gold Rush era. At the beginning of the 20th century, the pursuit of easy money brought the first gold miners here, who built a settlement in record time, and, having enriched themselves from gold mines, turned it into a garden city. A school, hospital, shops, hotels and even an opera house with a stock exchange were built in Rhyolite. The population reached 12 thousand people.

However, Rhyolite was emptied as quickly as it appeared. Gold mines became scarce, and a crisis began in the United States. By 1911, the population had dropped to 1 thousand people, and in 1920 the last resident left Rhyolite. Now the city has been transformed into an art space where artists from all over the world create art. The sculptural compositions of Charles Zukalski, reminiscent of ghosts in their gloomy appearance and called “The Last Supper,” gained particular popularity.

The world is full of ghost towns, abandoned settlements that appeared as a result of either economic crises or natural or man-made disasters. Some are so far from civilization that they have turned into a real time machine, capable of transporting them to those distant times when life was seething in them. They are incredibly popular with tourists, although they can be dangerous or off-limits. We offer an overview of the most incredible ghost towns in the world.

Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, located a few kilometers from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, a diamond rush swept the area and people rushed to the Namib, hoping to get rich. But over time, after World War I, when diamond sales fell, the city, which has casinos, schools, hospitals, and residential buildings, turned into a barren sandy desert.

Metal structures collapsed, beautiful gardens and neat streets were completely covered with sand. Creaking doors, broken windows overlooking the endless desert... another ghost town was born. Only a few buildings are in good condition. Their interiors and furniture have been preserved. However, most are just ruins inhabited by ghosts.

Pripyat is an abandoned city located in the north of Ukraine in the “exclusion zone”. It was once a home for workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was abandoned in 1986 after an accident on it. Before the disaster the population was about 50,000. Now it is a kind of museum dedicated to the end of the Soviet era.

Multi-storey buildings (four of which had just been built and were not yet inhabited at the time of the accident), swimming pools, hospitals and other buildings - everything remained as it was at the time of the disaster and mass evacuation. Records, documents, televisions, children's toys, furniture, jewelry, clothes - everything that every normal family had remained in the dead city. Residents of Pripyat were only allowed to pick up a suitcase with personal documents and clothes. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, many apartments and houses were almost completely looted, leaving nothing of value, even the toilets were taken away.

A futuristic village was built in northern Taiwan as an upscale luxury resort for the wealthy. However, after numerous accidents during construction, the project was stopped. Lack of money and desire to continue the work caused it to stop completely. Strange buildings in a futuristic style still stand there as a memory of those who died during construction. There are now rumors in the area about numerous ghosts now wandering around the city.

Craco is located in the region of Basilicata and the province of Matera, 25 miles from the Gulf of Taranto. The town, typical of the Middle Ages, is built among numerous hills. Its appearance dates back to 1060, when the land was owned by Archbishop Arnaldo, Bishop of Tricarico. This long-standing connection with the church had a great influence on the city's inhabitants over the centuries.

In 1891, Craco's population was over 2,000. Residents had many problems related to poor agricultural conditions. Between 1892 and 1922, more than 1,300 people moved from the city to North America. Earthquakes, landslides, wars - all this became the causes of mass migration. In 1959-1972, Craco was particularly affected by natural disasters, so in 1963 the remaining 1,800 residents left the city and moved to the nearby valleys of Craco Peschiera. Today it is the stunning ruins of a medieval city that is very popular with tourists.

5. Oradour-sur-Glane (France): the horrors of World War II

The small village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France is the epitome of unspeakable horror. During World War II, 642 residents were killed by German soldiers as punishment for French resistance. The Germans initially planned to attack Oradour-sur-Vayres, but mistakenly invaded Oradour-sur-Glane on 10 June 1944. According to the order, some of the residents of the French town were driven by the Germans into barns, where they were shot in the legs so that they would die long and painfully. Women and children were kept in the church, where they were shot. Later, the Germans completely destroyed the village. Its ruins still stand as a monument to all those who died, although not far away after the war a new town was rebuilt.

Gankajima is one of Japan's 505 uninhabited islands. It is located approximately 15 kilometers from Nagasaki. It is also called “Gunkan-Jima” or “Armadillo Island”. In 1890, the Mitsubishi company bought it and began mining coal from the bottom of the sea. In 1916 the company was forced to build Japan's first large concrete building. It was a multi-storey building in which workers lived.

In 1959, the island's population increased rapidly. It was one of the most densely populated islands ever recorded in the world. In Japan, oil replaced coal in the 1960s. As a result, coal mines began to close across the country. The island was no exception. In 1974, Mitsubishi officially announced the cessation of work. Today the island is completely empty. Travel there is prohibited. The 2003 film Battle Royale II was filmed here and was also featured in the popular Asian video games Killer7.

Kadykchan was one of many small Russian towns that fell into ruins after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Residents were forced to move to gain access to running water, schools and health care. The state resettled the townspeople to other cities within two weeks and provided them with new housing.

It was once a mining town with a population of 12,000 people. Now it's a ghost town. During the eviction, residents were in a hurry to leave their belongings in the houses, so now old toys, books, clothes and other things can be found there.

Kowloon City was located outside of Hong Kong during British rule. The former guard post was created to protect the territory from pirates. During the Second World War it was occupied by Japan, and after its surrender it passed into the hands of squatters. Neither England nor China wanted to be responsible for it, so it became an independent city without any laws.

The city's population flourished for decades. Residents built real labyrinths of corridors above the streets, which were filled with rubbish. The buildings became so tall that sunlight could not reach the lower levels and the entire city was illuminated with fluorescent lamps. It was a veritable center of lawlessness - brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlors, food courts serving dog meat - all operated unhindered by the authorities. In 1993, the British and Chinese authorities made a joint decision to close the city as its anarchic mood began to get out of control.

Varosha is a settlement in the unrecognized republic of Northern Cyprus. Until 1974, when the Turks invaded Cyprus, it was a modern tourist area of ​​the city of Famagusta. Over the past three decades, he has become a real ghost.

In the 1970s the city was very popular among tourists. Every year their number grew, so new high-rise buildings and hotels were built. But when the Turkish army gained control of the region, it blocked access to it. Since then, entry into the city has been prohibited to all but Turkish military and United Nations personnel. Annan's plan envisaged the return of Varosha to the Greek Cypriots, but this did not happen, since they rejected it. Since no repairs have been made over the years, the buildings are gradually falling apart. Metal structures are rusting, plants are growing on the roofs of houses and destroying sidewalks and roads, and sea turtle nests have been spotted on deserted beaches.

The creepy city of Aghdam was once a thriving city of 150,000 people. In 1993, he “died” during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. There were never any terrible battles in the city; it simply became a victim of vandalism during the occupation by the Armenians. All the buildings are empty and dilapidated, only the mosque, covered with graffiti, remains untouched. Residents of Aghdam moved to other regions of Azerbaijan, as well as to Iran.
If you don’t have any strength to look at dead cities, then it’s better to go on a trip

There are many unexplained phenomena in the world. However, the most interesting and mysterious have always been. There are many nuances and reasons for their occurrence. In one case, these are large-scale disasters, and in the other, inexplicable phenomena. Here are a number of the most famous and interesting ten ghost towns that still excite the minds of contemporaries today.

Taiwan, the dead city of San Zhi

Sometimes even the most ambitious projects become failures due to fate, chance, or inexplicable reasons. This is the city of San Zhi in Taiwan.

It was built as the greatest and unique. The city project was created back in the seventies. A huge amount of money was allocated for the construction, and the architecture itself was amazing. For a decade, construction was in full swing, but there were no customers. Everyone was afraid of this city of glass and plastic. This is strange for us, since nowadays it attracts tourists and rich people who want to relax. At that time, such styles in architecture were frightening.

Throughout the construction, the city was plagued by failures. Mostly these were the absurd and horrific deaths of workers, installers and guides. It is worth saying that the excursion groups could not find a place for themselves and tried to leave the entertainment complex as quickly as possible. Soon the money for construction ran out, and investors abandoned the project. The local homeless people immediately fell in love with it, but they could not live in it for long, since the dead constantly appeared to them.

After lengthy proceedings in the government of the country, they decided to completely demolish the city. However, local residents did not allow this. According to popular belief, the spirits of the dead can, and as long as they have their own city, no one bothers anyone.

In any case, this is probably the most mysterious story, and the city of San Zhi rightfully ranks.

Chernobyl

Number two is one of the most terrible and mysterious cities in the world - Chernobyl, Ukraine.
Chernobyl became abandoned after the disaster that occurred in 1986. The explosion at a nuclear power plant shocked the whole world without exception.

The wind carried radioactive particles. The city was deserted within a month, as the government feared disclosure. People lived for several more days, not knowing that a mortal threat hung over them. The mass removal put an end to the existence of this small town. In those days, Chernobyl was the great pride of the USSR, but in the end it became its biggest disappointment.

It is worth noting that a huge number of films have been shot about him, and computer games have been created. Even at this moment, the phrase “Pripyat is a ghost town” causes trembling in the body. A huge amount of radiation made Chernobyl and its territory both dangerous and popular. Now tourists from all over the world and people calling themselves stalkers go there. They are willing to pay money for excursions and the opportunity to see ghosts caused by anomalies in places where radiation accumulates. Excursions are held daily to the reactor itself, covered with a dome, and simply around the territory of the city, which was abandoned. The guides show apartments with remaining furniture, toys in the kindergarten, etc. Against the general background, it actually looks creepy and unpleasant.

Abandoned Chernobyl will continue to attract tourists and ghost hunters for decades to come.

Famagusta

Among the most famous places in the world is Famagusta, a ghost town on the island of Cyprus.

On the sunny tourist island of Cyprus lies the most famous abandoned city in the world, Famagusta. No one lives in it except the wind. Silence and trees that grow through concrete walls are his lot for many years to come.

The reason for the desolation of the city was the war between two states - Turkey and Greece. They did not divide the right to the territory among themselves. And now Famagusta stands in complete desolation and is covered with barbed wire. It has become the border between two states that are not moving towards reconciliation.

The once successful and prosperous center was completely looted, only a few buildings remained intact, but they had already begun to collapse under the influence of water, wind and sun. You cannot visit its territory, but the abandoned city still attracts a huge and irrepressible desire to visit it.

Villa Epequeen, Argentina

This once wonderful place is now one of the most famous abandoned ghost towns on the planet. The villa was built on the banks of a beautiful estuary and opened as a huge spa, where the rich could recover their health at great expense. However, the city authorities found there were few buildings and clean water on the coast, and they decided to expand the territory by expanding the fresh lake. However, less than ten years had passed before water from the reservoir began to flood the beaches and resort area.

Nature warned that it was not worth interfering with the sequential course of events. However, the authorities of Villa Epequeen decided that it was worth strengthening the city’s borders with dams and dumping excess water into irrigation fields.

Nature could not tolerate this careless attitude and one day completely flooded the city. The water rose 15 meters up, and also mixed with fresh water. Residents had to leave all their belongings and leave. Salt and sun have turned the once prosperous place into whitish ghosts.

Soon a new spa resort grew up nearby, and tourists are gladly taken to the Villa, since it is a local landmark, and former residents are trying to look out for traces of their long-standing stay.

Centralia, USA

If you have ever played a game called Silent Hill or watched the movie of the same name, know that the idea was based on an example - the abandoned city of Centralia in Pennsylvania.

This is a truly scary and creepy place with smoke constantly rising from the cracks in the asphalt and in the houses. Once upon a time, this city was a successful and prosperous settlement of hard workers who mined anthracite coal. It lay very close to the surface. However, the mine was closed, and the residents successfully adjusted their lives and lived quietly, earning a living by farming and other things.

One fine day, the mayor of the city decided that it was time to burn heaps of garbage outside the city, since an inspection would soon arrive. However, he did not take into account how disastrous this would be and turn Centralia into the abandoned city of the world. It turned out that anthracite lies very close to the surface, and even after the workers burned the garbage heaps, it continued to smolder methodically.

The authorities miscalculated not only in this, but also in the fact that they closed the mine, since there was a lot of fuel left there. For a long time, everyone turned a blind eye to carbon monoxide poisoning. Centralia continued to live in peace. The impetus for complete desolation was the increasing frequency of tremors underground and ruptures of asphalt and houses at the most unexpected moments. Coal burns in the depths, and hot smoke needs to escape to the surface. Thus, city authorities evacuated people. However, it still burns to this day. Abandoned streets and houses smoke, and the air is saturated with carbon monoxide.

Neftegorsk

Among the most famous places in the world is Neftegorsk, Russian Federation.

Neftegorsk is probably the most terrible example of an earthquake. A terrible event happened in 1995. The city was founded as a settlement for oil workers who worked there on a rotational basis. However, as the years passed, high wages and jobs turned the town into a developing and successful one. However, it also became the last refuge for most of its residents.

So on the evening of May 25, an earthquake measuring 10 on the Richter scale occurred. Not a trace remained of the city; only a few buildings survived. More than two thousand people were buried alive under the ruins. They decided not to restore Neftegorsk, but only built a huge monument that reminds of the tragedy that happened on May 25, 1995. Thus, he enters the most terrible abandoned ghost towns, which were not just abandoned, but destroyed by natural disasters.

Detroit, USA

The city still exists and is partially inhabited. It is worth saying that it was founded back in the 17th century and was considered one of the most successful. A thriving industry, a huge number of majestic buildings, architecture that amazes the imagination, all this once existed. Now Detroit can be safely classified as an abandoned ghost town.

The first impetus for the desolation was the construction of huge corporations - Ford and General Motors. They are automobile manufacturers. The city is becoming industrial, pollution is only growing every year. The second step is the settlement of Detroit with a black population. Moreover, the majority of them are criminals and low-income people. The city simply began to be robbed. Crime reached unprecedented heights, and the white population simply began to leave.

Gradual desolation and lack of jobs have taken their toll, and now the ghost towns of the world have been replenished with another representative.

Time Beach, USA

A town in Missouri was destroyed by human hands. The small settlement decided to deal with the enormous dustiness of the country roads. In order to improve the situation, the authorities decided to spend money. However, either due to lack of funding or for some other reason, an unknown contractor was hired. Neither his documents nor the means with which he decided to spray the roads were checked.

For a small sum, he successfully completed the work assigned to him. However, after several years the city died out completely. It turned out that the agent the contractor used was dioxide. This is a powerful poison that causes mutations and a host of serious diseases, as well as livestock pestilence.
This is how the town was destroyed, as they say, with his own hands, due to a banal lack of finance. All that was left was dead houses and cracked asphalt.

Chaiten, Chile

The port town of Chaiten completely died out after a volcanic eruption that happened in May 2008.

The main thing is that the authorities managed to evacuate the population and save them from imminent death. Despite the fact that the village is located deep in the mountains. It is worth saying that the volcanic eruption lasted from May to September 2008. The city was completely covered in ash. Only 10% of the houses remain. Everything is covered with a thick layer of ash several meters deep.

Namie, Japan

The catastrophe of our time, which occurred in September 2013, shocked. In Japan, the Fukushima nuclear power plant exploded, turning a successful city with a huge population into an abandoned one.

A big disaster has struck all countries of the world, since Japan has always been considered the most responsible and strict in its approach to electronics and inventions. However, the worst thing happened - a nuclear explosion.

Thus, the city overnight turned into an exclusion zone. No one is allowed to be on its territory, as the dose of radiation reaches unprecedented heights.

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Hello, friends!

You, of course, have heard about dead abandoned cities, abandoned villages, villages and towns, of which there are a lot, not only in the post-Soviet space, but all over the world: in the USA, China, Japan, Germany and so on.

Yes, today I want to talk about ghost towns in Russia. And not those that, due to their tragic (or not so tragic) fate, have become part of tourist trails, but those that are not so known to the general public, but are no less interesting.

So, friends, if you are here hoping to find information about Pripyat, which, frankly speaking, has already set the teeth on edge. Or about the tragic fate of Kadykchan or Kurshi, then I will disappoint you - they are deliberately ignored in this article. There are several reasons, and one of them is that it is better to share information and impressions about such cities after visiting them.

Dead cities and tourism

The relatively new genre of “post-apocalyptic” has gained wide popularity over the past half century. This is reflected in films, books, and games. More and more photographers, directors, people of other creative professions, and just thrill-seekers are visiting abandoned buildings.

Some people look for inspiration there; for others, dead cities are a blank canvas on which to create. And someone wants impressions and new emotions. It is now clear that this, whatever one may say, is another direction for tourism. It may not be the most popular, but it is certainly very interesting. Such cities allow you to see another life, to touch something mystical and creepy.

Abandoned settlements of the Central Federal District

Most often, such an unenviable fate occurs in small settlements whose residents worked at one, city-forming enterprise. If it closed, the settlement “closed.” Sometimes everything can be much more tragic, a vivid example of this is Pripyat.

My list is more likely to fall into the first category. These towns and villages "were the victims of an economic recession" rather than natural or man-made disasters. Below are 20 dead settlements in Russia, which are located in the Central Federal District (photos attached).

Not quite a ghost, some houses still have a glimmer of life. The history of this military town is eerily typical: the military unit was disbanded and everything was abandoned. The barracks, hangars, canteen, and so on, all of this is slowly crumbling.

The object is quite well known in certain circles of abandoned junk lovers.

Remember the forest fire in central Russia in 2010? So, this village stood in the path of the destructive power of fire. The private sector burned out almost completely; the boiler room, garages and vegetable gardens burned down. People fled for their lives, leaving their property behind.

Only high-rise buildings remained virtually untouched by the fire. As of 2015, Mokhovoye is a completely dead village.

This is Belevsky district. Chelyustino has been allegedly abandoned since 1985. There are 24 houses left in it, no people.

Well preserved. In some houses they even found closets with clothes.

But this is a residential village. I don’t know what’s sadder - a ghost town or THIS.

Glubokovsky has a typical fate for a working mining village. After the closure of all the mines, approximately 1,500 people still lived in it, but in the 90s of the last century people gradually began to leave.

The proximity of the regional center saves the village from complete extinction, but... how much effort does it take to live in it? After all, this is not even a small town.

Kostroma is a completely extinct settlement in central Russia, of which there are hundreds. This village is not the only one here, there are several more similar ones nearby.

There are several houses left in it, all in disrepair.

The once large village is now living out its life. Some houses are well preserved, this can be seen both from their carved frames and from their internal condition (there are household items in good condition).

Over the past few years, this settlement has been completely deserted. Nowadays Korchmino is a ghost village.

Another of the many dead villages in the Yaroslavl region. Everything that can be taken from there has already been stolen, everything that cannot is slowly rotting.

The once rich village, with large houses and courtyards (in almost every courtyard there is a barn, bathhouse, outbuildings) is slowly dying.

The exact name is unknown; there is a possibility that this village has a different name. There is another similar village nearby. It is difficult to find them, since the main mentions remain on old maps.

Inside, everything is as usual: several looted, destroyed houses, in which you can still find household items.

“This strange place Kamchatka” has been empty for about 10 years. Once upon a time this settlement belonged to the collective farm. Chapaeva. The collective farm collapsed, and the same thing happened to the village.

You can’t get to this village (except by tank), so it’s better to go on foot. At the moment, several houses in poor condition remain in Dora, but before, life was in full swing.

The village was connected to the outside world by a narrow-gauge railway built in 1946. At the moment, what remains of it are several destroyed bridges in the surrounding area.

A small village with 10 houses, now only 2 have survived. The village has been completely dead for 4 years now.

We were in the same house (pictured), on the table there was a letter from the mother from the “zone” from her son.

Another ghost village, but in the Belozersky region. Apparently empty since 1995.

Several houses and baths near the river have survived. The houses are of the North Russian type - on a high basement with a vestibule at the rear of the house. Inside are some pieces of furniture and household items. Everything is in bad condition.

A very old village in the Vologda region, founded on a water trade route in the 13th century. The settlement flourished in the 18th century, and in 1708 it became the center of the Charonda region and received the status of a city. The population at that time was approximately 10,000. This did not last long.

In the 1770s, the town of Charonda again became a village, and by 1917 less than 1,000 people lived in it. Nowadays there are a dozen houses left in the village, and the number of inhabitants is 2 (more in the summer). The village is extremely inconvenient: there is no road there by land, there is no electricity (all the poles have long since rotted and fallen into the swamp).

Khmelina is also an old ghost village in the Central Federal District of Russia. It was founded in 1626, there were 700 households, a mill, factories, a collective farm, a school and a store.

However, since the 70s of the 20th century, residents gradually began to leave. As of November 2017, no one lives in the village anymore. The houses are abandoned, only a few are used as country houses.

An almost dead village in the deep forests of the Kostroma region. The condition is average: there are several houses almost untouched by time.

Near the village there are 4 more abandoned villages.

A remarkable place. In the vicinity of this farm, a stone labyrinth several thousand years old was discovered in the late 1980s.

By the way, it is believed that this labyrinth is a place of power.

Some of the houses are mud huts with thatched roofs and look cool. At the moment, the farm is almost completely abandoned.

Ghost villages on the map

The map is very approximate. Firstly, not all villages were mapped onto it, and secondly, those that were mapped may not be entirely correct. You understand that abandoned cities in Russia, and not only, are not always easy to find.

But you can roughly get your bearings; all areas are correct.

That's probably all. I am finishing the list of dead cities and villages. But this is just one of many. I have not included many more areas of our vast Motherland.

P.S. All information about the once populated areas and photos are taken from the site urban3p.ru

Ghost towns are scattered all over the planet and silently keep their secrets. The creations of human hands, abandoned by people, stand deserted and silent for decades. They are not destroyed, they are simply abandoned - at one point people left them due to insurmountable reasons. The reason for this could be the threat of a natural disaster, man-made disaster, war or economic crisis.

This list contains the most famous ghost towns in the world!

1 Pripyat, Ukraine

2 Gunkanjima, Japan

3 Kolmanskop, Namibia

4 Famagusta, Cyprus

5 Kilamba, Angola

6 Tawarga, Libya

7 Kayakoy, Türkiye

8 Sanzhi, Taiwan

9 Oradour-sur-Glane, France

10 Kadykchan, Russia

One of the most famous abandoned cities in Russia is Kadykchan. It is located in the Magadan region, and was completely abandoned by people in the early 2000s. The city was built in the mid-20th century near a coal deposit, but after an explosion in 1996 the mine was closed. Residents of the village began to be slowly resettled, and in 2001 the houses were completely cut off from electricity.

Paris exists not only in France, but also in China, although it is very small. Construction of the city of Tianducheng began in 2007, when there was a fashion in China for copies of European landmarks. There is the Eiffel Tower, three times smaller than the original, the Arc de Triomphe and the Park of Versailles. However, housing here is so expensive that the city has practically remained a ghost - despite its splendor, no one lives in Tianducheng.

All these cities are completely deserted, so they gradually fall into disrepair, and nature wins its territory back, covering the gray buildings with lush greenery.