Video: Abandoned Cities: Dead Monuments to Humanity's Mistakes (Part 2)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Collocation "abandoned city" many have only one association - the infamous Pripyat, abandoned by people after the man-made disaster in Chernobyl. However, similar cities exist in many other countries around the world. Deserted streets, dilapidated roofs, ivy-covered old furniture, abandoned toys in the middle of the road and books covered in dust - all this looks like shots from horror films. The reasons for desolation are different, but they are all the work of human hands. Dead cities are like a monument to the fatal mistakes of people.
This city was built specifically for the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the 1980s. about 50,000 people lived in Pripyat. In April 1986, an accident at one of the reactors of a nuclear power plant led to an irreparable catastrophe: the level of radiation exceeded the permissible levels by several times. Within two days, all people were evacuated from the city. Nobody explained to them the real reasons or told them that they were leaving their homes forever. Clothes, personal belongings, furniture - everything was left in houses without owners. Now only stalkers come here.
The ruins of Time Beach in the US state of Missouri are reminiscent of a monstrous mistake that led to an environmental disaster. Due to lack of funds, the city authorities entrusted the fight against dustiness of dirt roads to non-professionals. From 1972 to 1976 they sprayed oil waste on the roads. The oil contained dioxide, a toxic carcinogen, and during the rains, the substances entered the soil and water bodies. The deadly poison decimated almost the entire population - more than 2,000 people.
Kolmanskop in Namibia was once a thriving city where diamonds were mined. The city in the middle of the desert was founded in 1908 by the Germans, when large reserves of minerals were discovered here. The city had a theater, a casino, schools, tennis courts, a hospital, a cinema, a power station, and the first tram line in Africa was launched. But natural resources were quickly depleted and people left the city. The sands gradually absorb the buildings. Now it is a ghost in the desert, uninhabitable.
Azerbaijan's Agdam was a small town with a population of 150,000. But during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, local residents had to leave their homes. Aghdam was occupied by Armenian troops who were engaged in looting and destroyed houses. Only the city mosque has survived.
The town of Villa Epecuen was the most popular mud cure resort in Argentina in the middle of the 20th century. During its construction, the natural hydraulic system was disrupted: water was pumped out from a neighboring lake and an artificial reservoir was created near the city. As a result, the dam burst in 1985, and Villa Epecuen was flooded. A few years later, the water disappeared, but the city was never rebuilt.
Scattered around the world are cities that remind people of their mistakes. They are unfit for life and are gradually destroyed, nature takes its toll. One of them - ghost town Varosha - exclusion zone in Cyprus
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