the most extreme websites in Russia for a photo shoot (photographs ...

attending to these places is an experience in itself! some of them are dangerous and pose a chance to lifestyles and also you'll should pass protection to get to others.

Mir quarry

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The totally tremendous gap in the ground subsequent to the small city of Mirny is a diamond quarry, no much less. This man-made abyss, 525 meters deep and 1.2 kilometers throughout, is intellect boggling. The quarry is determined in Russia's biggest and most abandoned location - Yakutia - and is the main "attraction" within the area. The quarry is so large that it is evidently seen from space.

"It gives the impression of whatever thing in outer area. it is found on the outskirts of town, so if you happen to seem to be into the quarry, you think to yourself: If the facets of the quarry ever began to fall down, the complete city would disappear into the ground," Yevgeny from St. Petersburg says, having paid a consult with there. In exact truth, there is not any hazard of the quarry collapsing. It even has a viewing platform for taking amazing photographs from the fringe of the precipice.

Cooling towers

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now not each person would possibility going internal an deserted cooling tower (a tower for cooling water at thermal vigour plants). it is without difficulty bad. One such cooling tower will also be discovered at the Artyom mixed heat and vigor plant in Maritime Territory. The plant itself isn't abandoned and has functioning cooling towers, too.

there's an access ladder resulting in the summit that, because of the curve of the cooling tower, appears to curve lower back on itself at the good. The top of the cooling tower is fifty five meters and there are ledges and platforms on the right. hiking to the top isn't for the faint-hearted, but enthusiasts of city tourism and dramatic photos do manage to get internal. To get in, there's a slope main down; as is to be expected, entry is closed, but people always find techniques of stepping into.

abandoned grain storage facility

This strategic grain storage facility in Tula place, which changed into run by means of Gosreserv, the Federal company for State Reserves, became closed down, since it grew to become too old and too expensive to maintain. except then, it had been used, hypothetically speaking, as a large grain sack for a rainy day - in case the country ran out of grain.

The storage facility is a whole underground city overlaying a neighborhood of 126,000 rectangular meters. It consists of countless tunnels that are so long that a torch beam can't reach the furthest partitions. "As we had been going down the shaft, I shone down now and again however the beam from my torch wouldn't reach the backside," recollects Aleksandr, a photographer and explorer of deserted sites.

the former grain storage facility has guards who regularly go around the site. On the web page, would-be "stalkers" are warned: "if you're noticed, the police will instantly be referred to as."

Siberian 'Maldives'

The vivid turquoise lake on the outskirts of Novosibrsk has turn into prevalent as a region resembling (if considered from the appropriate attitude) an upmarket vacationer inn within the Maldives. there's an enormous however, despite the fact: it could be awful to become in the water.

"for those who power as much as the lake there's a extremely amazing smell of laundry detergent or caustic soda. in case you walk down to it there is not any smell, but you naturally don't have any want to the touch the water. which you can suppose that it's no longer a safe region," in line with native journalist Mikhail Reshetnikov.

In precise fact, it's the ash dump of the local thermoelectric power station and the azure colour of the water is the outcome of the fortuitous combination of the water depth and its chemical makeup. skin contact with the water can cause an allergic reaction and it's well-nigh unimaginable to get out of the artificial pond unaided, on account of the excessively sludgy backside.

Mount Ai-Petri cable automobile

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Mount Ai-Petri is likely one of the most visited vacationer destinations in Crimea, but this does not make it any much less unique. A cable automobile with one of the longest unsupported spans in Europe goes to the appropriate. And there is additionally a suspended cable bridge for pedestrian access to the Ai-Petri rock pinnacles. And however that it is an authentic vacationer website, many company discover it a hazardous project.

"You get a very good view from the proper, of direction, but i was avoided from enjoying it by a sense of self-preservation: There is just a cable serving as a barrier, and the rocks are worn and slippery in areas," in response to Natalya from Yekaterinburg.

A sulphuric acid lake in Kamchatka 

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Kamchatka has so many wild places for awesome photographs that they might form a list of their personal. but the absolute number 1 spot belongs to the scary Maly Semyachik volcano with its crater containing an acid lake. there is an entire absence of any residing aspect in it because of the water's deadly chemical compound. 

you could handiest get all the way down to the lake from the north facet and it's standard to use a rope for support. or you need to fly in by using helicopter. 

Oymyakon in wintry weather

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This village in eastern Yakutia is essentially the most inhospitable locality with a human population. In wintry weather, the temperature falls to -50°/-60°C (-58°/-seventy six°F). The high temperature is in reality the leading aspect of pastime in these ingredients! every vacationer to Oymyakon receives immediately covered in a particular kind of "make-up" and the locals' favourite "display" for tourists is to roll around naked in the snow.

In other phrases, you'll be assured some astonishing photos!

Moscow metropolis rooftops

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The skyscrapers of the Moscow metropolis company district are among the many tallest in Europe and you'll discuss with the rooftops with the aid of purchasing a unique entry ticket. they're all in extra of 200 meters in top. the most "extreme" of the roofs, with its glass limitations, is on appropriate of Evolution Tower - 300 meters above the floor! although, the maximum is the roof of the OKO residential tower (at 354.2 meters).

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