Ruins of Past Life
Umbosersky Mine: Ruins in the Lovozero Tundra
Once, life thrived here in the vast halls of the Lovozero tundra. Day and night, the Umbosersky mine yielded a wealth of minerals—some of which were found and extracted only at this very site. But for reasons lost to t...
Teriberka Secondary School
When time is short but the urge to publish remains, there’s always a way out: we have photographs of the abandoned Teriberka Secondary School. A touch of eerie atmosphere straight from Northernfairytales.
Dumino Village
An abandoned settlement in the Kargopol lands, where you can feel like a true Robinson Crusoe. This place is an archetypal example of the coexistence of the sacred and the mundane: the silent village borders a sa...
Naglimozero Artova Hermitage
All that remains of the Naglimozero Artova Men’s Hermitage in the taiga wilderness of Kenozerye—founded in the remote 17th century by a former streltsy soldier named Timofey—is the solitary cell of its last monk and a ...
The Ruins of the Agua Church Amid January Mists
In the breath of the mountains. A touch of the northern south—or the southern north.