What happens to the utopian endeavor for technological superiority when its ideological staple crumbles? To answer this question, budding Russian visual artist Danila Tkachenko, a Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia graduate and World Press Photo winner, has travelled across the disappeared Soviet Union exploring its technological peaks, now deserted. Don’t miss his exhibition “Restricted Areas” in Berlin in September and October 2016.
For more information visit Danila Tkachenko's official website.
Former residential buildings in a deserted polar scientific town specialized in biological research.
A tropospheric antenna in the north of Russia – this type of connection which has become obsolete.
An amphibious airplane with vertical take-off VVA14.
A former mining town which has been closed and turned into a bombing trial field.
Pumpjacks on an old oil field.
A city where rocket engines were being produced in Soviet times.
A screen for biological defense against radar radiation.
A deserted observatory.
Water contamination test at a lake near the previously closed scientific city of Chelyabinsk-40.
A test bench for missiles.
A former military base on an island with an underground bunker.
The world's largest diesel submarine.
A landmark in the test area for underground explosions.
An antenna built for interplanetary connection.
Secret city Chelyabinsk-40, which was not marked on maps until 1994.
Stages of space rockets.
A boiler house of a closed aerodrome.
A monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Waste storage for rocket fuel.
A hangar on a former firing field for biological weapons.
An antenna for interception of signals.
A coal processing plant.
A sarcophagus over a closed shaft which is four kilometers deep and was once one of the deepest scientific shafts in the world.
A water intake.
An excavator on a closed quarry.
The ruins of the experimental laser system "ZET."
A ground station for spacecraft control.
A scientific storage in the Far North.
A deserted observatory located in an area with the best conditions for space observations.
A part of an unfinished space port.
The "Bulgaria" ship lifted from below the sea, 122 people drowned on it.
A memorial on a deserted nuclear station.
