TOP of the Most Impressive Urbex Spots in Ukraine

In 1992, Ukraine became an independent country after 70 years as part of the USSR. During the 1990s, many military and industrial facilities were abandoned, marking the beginning of the urban exploration era in Ukraine. We’d like to draw your attention to our list of the most interesting urbex spots, discovered by local explorers over the last ten years.

1. The deserted streets of Prypiat – the most famous nuclear ghost town in the world. On a par with the abandoned city is the second most interesting object, “Duga.” This gigantic antenna system, called Duga-3, is located near Pripyat in the Chernobyl area. It was built in the 1970s as an early missile detection system (an over-the-horizon radar system). It was also called the Steel Yard because of its distinctive appearance.

2. Abandoned Institute of Ionosphere Radar Station. The Kharkov HF radar system is the only one of its kind in the middle latitudes of Europe. There are 11 such radars worldwide, five of which belong to the United States.

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The main antenna has a diameter of 100 meters.

3. The World’s Largest Labyrinth: The Odessa Catacombs. Stretching to an estimated total length of 2,500km, the Odessa Catacombs are perhaps the largest network of tunnels anywhere in the world. They’re significantly longer – and more complex – than the famous catacombs found beneath Rome (300km) and Paris (500km)… in fact, if these Ukrainian tunnels were stretched out to full length, they’d reach further than the distance between Odessa and Paris.

4. Abandoned machinery cemeteries. During the Cold War, a large group of Soviet troops was stationed in Ukraine. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, much of this military machinery was no longer needed and was left in special sites. The largest abandoned machinery cemeteries in Ukraine are:
– Abandoned flight training center near Zaporozhye.
– Tank Cemetery in Kiev and Kharkiv.
– Chernobyl military machines graveyard.

5. Abandoned Unfinished Bunker in Kiev. This is a huge unfinished bunker that has been flooded by groundwater. Metro workers have not visited this place in years.

6. Object “Krot” – an abandoned underground power plant in Crimea. This huge underground facility was built in the 1930s. It is a 4-5-storey underground labyrinth with a total area of about 30,000 square meters. Object “Mole” was completed in the 1950s and is today probably the largest underground facility in Sevastopol.

7. Gypsum mines in eastern Ukraine. The mine is not abandoned — people work here every day.

8. The abandoned opencast brown coal mine Morozovskiy is located near the city of Oleksandriya (Kirovograd oblast). The enterprise is under liquidation; coal mining has not been carried out for five years, despite the fact that the brown coal reserves are sufficient for at least another 20 years of active mining. The mine is flooded by groundwater. Several of the machines were built before the Second World War.

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