「restricted areas」 by russian photographer danila tkachenko
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Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation.
© Danila Tkachenko
「 Restricted Areas 」 by Russian Photographer Danila Tkachenko
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The project "Restricted Areas" is about utopian strive of humans for technological progress.
Humans are always trying to own ever more than they have - this is the source of technical progress, which was the means to create
various commodities, standards, as well as the tools of violence in order to keep the power over others.
Better, higher, stronger - these ideals often express the main ideology of the governments, for these goals they are ready to sacrifice
almost everything. While the individual is supposed to become a tool for reaching the set goals, and receive in exchange the higher
level of comfort.
I travel in search of places which used to have great importance for the technical progress - and which are now deserted. Those
places lost their significance together with the utopian ideology which is now obsolete. Secret cities that cannot be found on maps,
forgotten scientific triumphs, abandoned buildings of almost inhuman complexity. The perfect technocratic future that never came.
Any progress comes to its end earlier or later, it can happen due to different reasons - nuclear war, economic crisis or natural
disaster.. For me it's interesting to witness what is left after.
-- Danila Tkachenko
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Former residential buildings in a deserted polar scientific town specialised on biological research.
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Tropospheric antenna in the north of Russia – the type of connection which has become obsolete. There were many of them built in far North, all of them deserted at the moment.
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Former mining town which has been closed and made a bombing trial field. The building on the photo shows the cultural center, one of the objects for bombing.
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Pumpjacks on a spent oil field.
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City where rocket engines were being produced in Soviet times. Was a closed city until 1992.
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Screen for biological defence against radar radiation.
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Deserted observatory.
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Water contamination test at the lake around the previously closed scientific city Chelyabinsk-40. In 1964 there was the first nuclear catastrophe, one of the largest in history and equal in scale to Chernobyl, but it stayed secret. The city is surrounded by the lakes which are until now contaminated with radiation.
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Test bench for missiles.
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Former military base on the island, with an underground bunker.
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The world‘s largest diesel submarine. Samara region,Russia
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Landmark in the area of test underground explosions
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Antenna built for interplanetary connection. The Soviet Union was planning to build bases on other planets, and prepared facilities for connection which were never used and are deserted now.
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Secret city Chelyabinsk-40, which was not marked on the maps until 1994. The first Soviet nuclear bomb was created there. In 1964 there was the first nuclear catastrophe, one of the largest in history and equal in scale to Chernobyl. It stayed secret thanks to the fact that wind was blowing east. It is still impossible to enter the city unless one has special permission or relatives living there.
© Danila Tkachenko
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Stages of the space rockets. Stages of the space rockets. Kazakhstan, Kyzylorda region.
© Danila Tkachenko
18Boiler house of a closed aerodrome.
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Headquarters of Communist Party.
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Waste storage of rocket fuel.
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Hangar at the former firing field for biological weapons.
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Antenna for interception of signals.
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Coal processing plant.
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Sarcophagus over a closed shaft which is 4 km deep – was one of the deepest scientific shafts in the world at the time. Northern region, Russia.
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Water intake.
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26Excavator on a closed quarry. Russia, Moscow region.
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Ruins of experimental laser system “ZET”.
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Ground station for spacecraft control.
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Scientific storage at far North.
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Deserted observatory located in the area with the best conditions for space observations. Kazakhstan, Almaty region.
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Part of an unfinished space port.
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space. The rocket on top was made according to the design of German V-2 missile.
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“Bulgaria” ship lifted from underwater, 122 people drowned on it.
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Memorial on a deserted nuclear station.
© Danila TkachenkoJune 30, 2016 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.C All photos were taken from Internet. More : Danila Tkachenko Music : Kyeon Ji Pyeong - Sad Romance THE END