Kadykchan - the Largest Ghost Town in Eastern Russia
Kadykchan is a depopulated urban locality of Magadan Region, Russia.It was built by GULAG prisoners during World War II for the purposes of coal extraction. Coal was used mainly at a local electric power station, which supplied electricity to 2/3 of the Magadan region. In the late eighties, more than 10 thousand people lived there. Life was in full swing: shops, restaurants, a cinema, a House of Culture, a bathhouse worked. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, coal mining in the area became increasingly unprofitable.
Discover this abandoned ghost town in Kolyma region on the border of the famous Road of Bones, Magadan Oblast, in the far east of Russia!
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Produced by Pavel Ageychenko | Founder of BaikalNature: