Exploring SOVIET abandoned buildings // Why there are so many abandoned constructions in Russia?
Let's go and explore it! I don't think that it's really safe. Trash, trash, and trash. Holes for the pipes. A part of our life is these abandoned buildings that stand there since the fall of the USSR. Hi guys! Welcome back to my channel. In this video i'll tell you about the topic that I love a lot, and that we in Russia luckily have in abundance, abandoned buildings, or zabroshka, as we call them. Because now I'm in my hometown Spassk, and it seems that I showed you
almost everything about this city, and I decided to show you the best zabroshkas of Spassk, and I will rate them according to several aspects, one of them is interesting history and is it interesting to walk here, because obviously this is why we came here, another one is it's safe, and the third one is it comfortable, I mean, is it close to the residence area. I hope you'll like this video, stay tuned... No, this for the end, anyway, let's go! An interesting place in our top is this construction in the Tsemzavod district, so this is a district which was prosperous in the Soviet times due to its cement factory, and now we still have these remainings of these cozy buildings, and this construction which for me looks like some catacombs, I've never visited this place but I've always looked at this and I was like "What's going on there?" So now let's go and see it! at the front of this house there is an old Soviet bus stop, it's named Dom Kul'tury Imeni Lazo, the House of Culture named after Sergey Lazo, yeah, but now this stop is covered with the tags and it's just the remaining of the Soviet past, and honestly, I don't know where iI can enter this place, okay I found...
like the entrance, welcome! The local people are like "What she's doing there?" And we have to be careful because there are holes. Wow look at these beautiful tags here, I really love graffiti, even those ugly tags, for me it's beautiful. Rooms and the walls, another graffitis, I wonder... oh my god... just nothing serious, I can try to climb there, let's go, but guys, I'm really scared, I'm really scared that I will fall, especially with my camera, so please make sure to like this video to appreciate the sacrifices I made to make this video. Probably I can use this plates as like stairs but it's kind of not really... I'm scared. And it's actually quite calm here. Let's go and explore it. Look, somebody drank beer here, this is the sticker from the beer, Baltika Kuler Svetloye.
I like these round shaped walls, probably these were some holes for the pipes, even woods for some rituals. There are many tags here, swear words. Anyway, guys, my conclusion is... First, safety. I wouldn't say that it's safe because all these cement walls, it's really dangerous, and by the bottles of beer we saw that people are drinking here and maybe doing some other bad things. The next one - comfortability, is it close to the residential area. And now, maybe you think that I want to say that the farther from the residential area the better, but no for me, it's quite opposite (I'M JOKING.) As we, Russian kids, really like to walk around such places, for us
it's really comfortable when it's close to your house, right? So definitely 10 out of 10 because it's located really close to these apartment houses, I bet that this is the playground number one for the kids who live here, unfortunately. Of course it's very interesting to walk here, it's interesting probably to play hide and seek here, the only thing that I don't know is actually the purpose of this place, probably we should ask local people about this. This man said that it used to be a construction of a residential building but when all this mess started, they stopped the construction, and by "this mess" he probably meant the fall of the Communist regime because as he said further, so many buildings in Spassk were conservated like this after the fall of the USSR. And unfortunately these constructions remain just in the neighborhoods. This place is called kormushka, a feeder for birds, and they put grains here in order for birds to feed in the cold winter, it's really nice. Now I came to a district called ATP, and there are many abandoned buildings, for example, this one or that one but it would be too simple to show them, so now I'll show another place it's called Stolby, which means pillars or columns.
Oh my god, I have The Slender Man game flashbacks, just when i saw them. I actually don't know this district really well, and the first time when I came here was when I was working with my friends, we were sticking ad posters to the doors of these khrushchyovka houses, and that's how I learned all the neighborhoods of Spassk, so when we first saw this place, I was like terrified because from the distance it really looks like a graveyard, and I was surprised that such a place exists here in this district. These pillars are even higher, and I have no idea why they are built here, you know, they look like some candles or like stalactics from the mountains, I don't know. This looks like a place for a picnic, the fire, the table, and even some decoration. Yeah guys, if i want to rate it, I would say definitely it's really convenient for the local people, if you are fond of such aesthetics, you can just walk from your house, and actually a friend of mine told me that here she was breathing butane with her classmates after school.
So yeah, Spassk kids definitely had some happy childhood here. And as for the safety, I don't think that it's really safe to walk here because you can easily stumble upon something and break something because of these concrete. Some homeless people are looking for food in the trash. Oh look guys, this is one more kormushka, there are many birds around it. What? *meows in Russian* I don't have anything for you. Eat the birds.
Probably it was too condensating to offer them the apple, but they were just digging in that trash box, and thought maybe they need some food, but apparently they were looking for the bottles, and yeah, I gave that man 20 rubles, and I asked him about this place, and he said, "Well, maybe there was some construction i don't know." Oh, look at those pigeons. They have a party there on the third floor. So I just asked that family, and the man said that they wanted to build a house back in the Soviet times, but they didn't finish it. I hear it so often today. Carpets in Russia are everywhere, but here it's made not only for the purpose of decoration but to protect the car from the wind. Very smart!
This is our newspaper "Spassk". Okay now I'm in the city center, it feels lively and actually quite amusing here at those places, and now I'm going to the private houses neighborhood to show you one more interesting building. Some Uzbek cuisine here. Should be really tasty.
Bought some Uzbek bread. So here we're entering this neighborhood, as you can see, it's meeting us with these concrete plates, and yeah it's located just behind the apartment building, actually this is the house of my best childhood friend, and all these places are so familiar to me. You see these typical country houses... When I was a teenager, it was quite common for us to roam around such places, to drink there, well actually I didn't drink here, but I know that my friends did it, I visited this place for the purpose of making graffiti, yeah, and I'm surprised to see that now they built a roof here, and also they put this fence as you can see, and guys, do you see this yellow graffiti? Whose do you think this graffiti is? Let me guess...
It says Naty, and I painted it in 2014, but what is unusual is that, you see this plate, this concrete plate, it was not here before, so yeah, this building probably is undergoing some changes, and I don't know if we can go inside, actually I want to go there, so let's go! No you see, it's really... Maybe through this thing? Wow, it's so beautiful, you can make such good shots here. There's so many branches here.
This is harder than I thought. Well, I'm not 14 anymore... Look how peacefully this bottle lays here just on the branches. Entering this sacred place. I'll try to find some familiar tags. Some new Spassk kids' crews appeared. I don't know them. but yeah, I remember how I was sitting here with my friends, so many bottles, glasses, icicles. So my conclusion about this building would be that it's quite comfortable, I mean, if you live in that house you can walk here, I don't think that it's really safe, there're like holes in the ground, and yeah it's quite interesting here, I don't know the story of this place but probably some person is building this as a house. I hope I can get out of this the same
safely as I did before. Getting out of here is quite another challenge, because I don't want to go through the plates again, now let's try to go this way. Well it's not that hard actually. The only thing is that I have to touch the ground with my feet, and yeah, it's quite easy, I was dramatizing too much. And how? Oh yeah, there's the way, there's the path. Everything is made for me
because Iactually put my contribution to the decoration of this house. Right? Guys, do you like this graffiti? Share your opinion in the comments! Hi dog! Why are you scared? And in the summer it's really beautiful, you might have seen this river in my famous video about Spassk, I was sitting here with my friend Dasha, and yeah, this is how the frozen river looks. Let's go walk on the ice. Oh my god, I am kind of scared of walking here but that guy, that boy is sitting there, so maybe, maybe it's fine. I don't know guys, you see, since I'm risking my life and health for the content, I think I should walk here, yeah, I mean, it's quite okay. You see? The cars are driving just above us! Yay, we made it! Kuleshovka River! Oh, what are they doing? Ice fishing? Let's ask! So these ladies said that they watch my channel, and they they're actually not from Spassk but from a neighboring, a neighboring town of Chernigovka, and they are here to check the water, they're like from Primhydromet, and they said that it's a big problem that the water of Kuleshovka is dirty because the water from canalization is going into this river, oh my god, and yeah, they were really nice, and they said good luck with my channel, and that they know my channel and watch me, finally! But finally, why I came here to the shore of this river, to show you one more place.
It's located right here. I personally call it the house by the river. And yeah, this is another house that has not been finished yet, and probably is never going to be finished, and you can see this is my tag again, oh my god, so cringy, but yeah this is Naty, you see, I really liked parkour, oh actually there's one more, in the in the building. Let's see. Just trash, trash, and trash. But when I first discovered this place as a child, I was just walking here with my sister, this house seemed so scary to us, like wow, we were even scared to enter this door, and look guys, on the second floor, there's some other room on the second floor, and we really wanted to get there but it's impossible...
So my evaluation of this house would be that yeah, it's quite easy to get here, because it's literally like every time when I walked to my school through this bridge, I would see this house, it's a pretty small building, you cannot hang out, there you cannot drink, because there's only trash, and like dirty, and not really pleasant to be inside. As for safety, I think it's quite safe, if you don't fall on all this trash. So this was my video about zabroshkas over Spassk, and guys, I don't want to show you that we in Russia only have these abandoned buildings because in fact we do have normal buildings, we do have activities for kids, like in that ATP district where we saw the columns, there's the art school where I studied, or in the Tsemzavod district there is a sports center where I was going to swimming. So you see, we have life here, but a part of our life is these abandoned buildings that stand there since the fall of the USSR and that have not been finished, and people are really sad about it, and yeah, this is just a part of reality, not only of the far east, but I bet, of all regions of Russia besides the center of Moscow. This is it, write in the comments, do you have such abandoned houses in your country? Is it allowed to walk there, and what people think about it? So thank you for watching, special thanks to the wonderful people who support me on Patreon. I'll see you very soon in my next video. Goodbye, poka-poka!
2022-02-08 12:03
