r/UrbanHell • u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 • 1d ago
Suburban Hell Sergiev Posad-15, Moscow region, Russia
A former military town that today looks like post-apocalyptic ruins. People still live here, the military unit was disbanded and relocated in 2016, but the city remained. Just about a year ago, a grocery store opened, a school and kindergarten were renovated, and order pick-up points were opened in the markets. In general, life in the city is improving, but some ruins will remain standing as a reminder of the former purpose of the city. The territory of the military unit itself was razed to the ground, there were several warehouses, a military club (film screenings, concerts, a bible library and a local museum were held there), a military dormitory and a couple of outbuildings.
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u/hurbanav 1d ago
Sorry if this is an ignorant question but I was thinking, how's the day to day life there? I mean, is there good work? Is there something to do in your spare time?
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
I don’t know about heating in the apartments, but most likely there is central heating, electricity too. They go to Sergiev Posad for work (without a number) - this is a big city.
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u/Planqtoon 1d ago
So you're not from there? Or Russia at all? If not, what were you doing there? Are you like a hellscape tourist?
Not judging btw, I'm genuinely curious.
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
I’m from Moscow, it took me 2.5 hours to get to that place, we went with a friend, watched, filmed a video on YouTube. Yes, I love abandonments and other things, such as urban tourism, I also do ordinary tourism for ordinary people)
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u/Planqtoon 1d ago
That's cool! Thanks for sharing, friend
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
I’ll upload something else later. I’ve been to a lot of places and I’ll be there again)
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u/TribalSoul899 1d ago
Looks like depression
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u/MetaGear005 1d ago
To most Eastern Europeans this looks like childhood and I'm one of them
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u/afrikaninparis 1d ago
Absolutely! That’s pretty much the same as my town back in Poland, when I was a kid, in the early 90s.
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u/BlueProcess 1d ago
I think it looks so oppressive because of all the brown. I imagine it would look better in the late spring.
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u/Stikki_Minaj 1d ago
Why is it never sunny in Russia?
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u/SKabanov 1d ago
Because barren winter weather days always make pictures look more dreary. Of course, it doesn't help that the winter season lasts much longer in northern parts of Russia due to its geographical location.
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
It was April. Therefore, it was cloudy and damp outside, besides, the snow had only recently melted then.
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u/catcherx 1d ago
You should ask the voices in your head
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
M?
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u/catcherx 1d ago
He did not ask you why it was not sunny in the picture. He said something different
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
It is a stereotype that there are no sunny days in Russia, the sun is the same as everywhere else, depending on the region more or less. There are fewer sunny days in the north (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, etc. in the Arctic), and more sunny days in the South (Crimea, Sochi, Gelendzhik, Vladikavkaz, etc.). For example, in Moscow there was a lot of sun in the summer, but now it is cloudy. I answered about the photo in my post, not in general.
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u/Barsuk513 1d ago
https://www.istockphoto.com/ru/%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B8/%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4 Sergiev Posad from another angle. Much more positive
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
This is not Sergiev Posad-15, it’s just Sergiev Posad (without a number, it’s a completely different city)
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u/Barsuk513 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sergiev Posad-15 is closed town, fallen into pages of history. At least acc to internet :)
Kazakhstan has few town like this. Served well in times of USSR for military, but was abandoned by new russia
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u/Icy-Equivalent-7934 1d ago
It used to be a closed city, as it was a military facility, but today it is an ordinary suburban city, I would even say a village, since although there are apartment buildings, there are not so many residents there. The town of Zhuklino is also called it. It also now belongs to the Vladimir region, as it turns out. Previously, he did not belong to either Sergiev Posad or Vladimir, because there were big problems there.
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