The weather, I have to admit, was so gray and drab when I wandered to the abandoned stadium at the fringes of St. Petersburg, that the place looked even gloomier than on a normal day. I entered anyway, though I was sure that there would not be any big games played that day. As the […]Read Post ›
At one of the oldest industrial hubs of St. Petersburg, near the Bolshoi Port depots (see the earlier entry here) & the Narvaskaya station, there are lot of discarded red brick buildings from the turn of the 20th century. Among them one finds also more modern ruins, dating mostly from the Soviet era and abandoned […]Read Post ›
The port of St. Petersburg is endless logistical mayhem of containers and freight, and the area surrounding the water’s edge has been compressed into mottled collage of industrial halls & storage buildings from different eras. So it’s not surprising to find few abandoned places there, and even some quite massive halls just lying around, waiting […]Read Post ›
Once there were many of them by every longer stretch of road in Russia. Even in smaller towns the roadside post offices were grand and beautiful. They didn’t serve only postal purposes but were also resting places on journeys, spots to get information & so on. Not anymore. Now the only customers are birds flying […]Read Post ›
What could be more Russian than a galosh factory? Well, maybe an abandoned galosh factory. There it stands, at the outskirts of central St. Petersburg, like a forgotten bride in veils. Once a magnificent plant, then a large industrial area, the “Red Triangle” (or Krasnyi Treugolnik in Russian) rubber factory is now forsaken in all […]Read Post ›
Southwest from the polished center of St. Petersburg, near the wastelands of city’s harbor, there is a pleasant, green & airy park called Ekateringof, which is named after the empress Catherine I. Apart from trees, weeds, ponds & statues, there is, or was, also a small funfair for children. Now it has closed its gates […]Read Post ›
Wasteland 