Our couch travels continue. Last time we flew to the moon, and today we will go underground. The Coal Mines await us.
Go!

To get to the Coal Mines, you need to fly to the North, to the Anadyr airport. Here it is, in the photo.
From here you can indeed get to Anadyr, but our goal is located much closer.

In the background is the village of Coal Mines.
Multi-colored.

At the edge of the airfield, the small aircraft of Russia fell asleep in eternal sleep.

The petrified shark's fin reminds us of our vigilance. They say he has been here since Stalin's times.

High-tech ruins also remain from the bygone days.

At one time it was a rather busy air traffic hub.

Well, let's go, let's take a look at the village itself. This road is called Thank you Abramovich. Why is that? That's how.

We pass an abandoned building. It was planned to build something like a power plant here. The city was supposed to grow and flourish. But something didn't work out ...

Meet the Coal Mines. Village.

Istanbul is a city of contrasts.

Guidance of beauty. In general, a typical technique for modern northern urban architecture. Bright, multi-colored paints in the middle of the icy desert.
Life is great, pineapples.

The interior of the village.

Playground. Pretty childless by the way. Looking closer, you can see a child in a yellow overalls and a lonely gopnik on a bench.

Here's another cub.
- Where do you live, baby?
- In the Coal Mines, uncle ...

On warm August evenings, it is sometimes quite crowded here. Everyone is walking, enjoying the last summer days.

Let's see how people live.

High-tech nano-refrigerators "Sever-Zero" are installed on the windows.

In case of water supply interruptions, a cross-country water carrier is on duty around the corner.
Interestingly, by the way, does the water freeze in it in winter?

But ... not everything is so great in the Coal Mines. First, the weather.
It's cold here and even very cold.

The second drawback is the population and the condition of the housing stock.
Colorful funny houses are wonderful! And here, in the photo, is the other side of the Coal Mines. The pipes hanging from the second floor are a homemade drainage system.
That's how we live...

Coal Mines. In winter and summer.

Garages.

This trail is called the Silk Road. It leads to the second part of the village, to a military town.

You know, pineapple, what the Headquarters of Long-Range Aviation of Russia looks like?
That's how.

And this is how the neighborhood looks like.
As you can see, there is something to teach Syria.

Urban beauty.

Half of the building in the center (behind the puddle) belongs to Voentorg, and half to a merchant. Guess where whose half is.

Someone lives right here, and not in the multi-colored splendor that we saw in the beginning.

This is how they go to work here. Every day, back and forth.
Nails would be made of these people!

Playground.

Secondary school and general view of Shkolnaya street.

Since 1989, the population of the Coal Mines has decreased by four times. From twelve thousand to three and a half (in 2015).

Traces of rabid militarism.

Monument to the pioneering aviators. Nobody is forgotten.

The House of Officers was installed near the plane. Acting. In spite of everything.

Shopping complex. This is Voentorg, comrades.

Winter still life.

This is the Motherland, son!

The military presence in the Coal Mines is kept to a minimum. In practice, only the civilian sector remained.

The barracks are empty and plundered.

The outskirts are full of ruins. This is how they build it. They do not dig a foundation pit.

So why are we here? To answer, you need to go beyond the red city line.

Ahead of us are steep hills.

And this, by the way, is a water supply system. Just two words - permafrost. It is expensive and difficult to dig a ditch.

We pass the remains of the air defense. This tangle of wires is a sophisticated antenna system for catching enemies as they approach the Mausoleum.

We need to go to those mountains.

See this building here? It stands roughly like the Russian base on the moon.
Do we have a lunar base? No. But, we dumped funds into this mountain.

There is a village near the Mountain. This is the base of the Strategic Missile Forces. It is called Gudym. There is a legend that by the name of the chief of the construction site.

As expected, the money was spent, the houses were built, the object was abandoned.

The purpose of the facility is storage and routine maintenance of nuclear weapons (nuclear warheads, nuclear warheads). Subordinated to the 12th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense. (Wikipedia)

The inertia of historical choice. Instead, there are buildings, there could be a hospital somewhere. Cancer center, for example. And now, at this very minute, tens of thousands of saved people would live in the world.
They are dead. On the other hand, we have THIS devil-those where in the North and long rotted away.

Oh yes, there are also underground structures here. We will return to them later.

We will admire the reliably guarded abandoned houses.

And here, by the way, is an interesting house. Local residents (yes, they are!) Tell a legend that the building was supposedly five-story.
As if a hurricane destroyed the fifth floor and, it was decided - fate, sir! - left four stories.

Voentorg Gudyma in all its glory.

Library.

Always on alert!

Recently burned down house. Seasonal "workers" come here - they rob non-ferrous metal and live until the cold hits.

Medical unit.

The main street.

Color metal hunters live here.

Gudym, in fact, is almost a cosmodrome.
One more. Abandoned.

Tractors with missiles were housed here.

Starting table. Only the concrete base and part of the guides remained. Rockets were launched from here.

There is a hatch at the edge of the landing.

There are a lot of interesting things below.
A heavy concrete block on wheels is a door. The structure had to withstand a nuclear strike.

The object was an autonomous underground structure exactly one kilometer long, with many separate branches that had no other exits, and had full anti-nuclear protection. (Wikipedia)

Inside, it was divided into parts according to the levels of access for personnel; transportation of goods was carried out by electric cars on a narrow-gauge underground railway. There are 2 central entrance portals with multi-ton pressurized doors. (She is the same)

Here, devices were kept and inspected, from which the Chernobyl Geiger counter would turn red.

Nuclear weapons were taken away by the military, and copper and other usefulness disappeared from here thanks to seasonal "workers". We drove a truck inside ... and inside there are kilometers of copper cable and other goodies.

The exit is reliably protected from a sudden shock wave arising from a nuclear explosion.

Well, it's time to leave Gudym. Who wants to know more - Google in hand.
Most of Gudym's photos are taken from here.

And we are going to the Coal Mines. There we are waiting for the icy blue sea and return home.

We've almost arrived.

Fishermen's house. You can wait out the rain and the collapse of the empire.

Waiting bench. While we are waiting for the ferry (to Anadyr), you can admire the coal transporter. From here the coal was loaded onto barges and sent to consumers.

View of the conveyor.

The banks are littered with rusty iron. Only the most rabid Russophobe will notice these ruins.

There was a man here.
Some of the trash are artifacts obtained in Gudym. Awaiting shipment to China for smelting.

Well, here's the ferry. It's time to go to another wonderful place.

In accordance with the Law of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug "On the Status, Boundaries and Administrative Centers of Municipal Formations in the Territory of the Anadyr District of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug" dated November 25, 2004 No. 41-OZ, the settlement of Ugolny Kopi is endowed with the status of a municipal formation urban settlement.

The urban settlement Ugolnye Kopi is located in the Far North region, 200 km south of the Arctic Circle, within the tundra zone, in the permafrost development zone.

The settlement - Coal Mines was founded at the beginning of the 20th century as a settlement of miners working at the mine, supplying the Novo-Mariinsk post with coal.

The date of foundation of the village of Ugolnye Kopi can be conditionally attributed to the end of the 1920s. Then, handicraft year-round coal mining was organized here, the first mine was cut, and a section of the Anadyr fish processing plant was created.

Coal Mines is an urban-type settlement, which occupies 80.55 sq. km. The resident population as of 01.01.2018 was 3,761 people, mostly Russians, along with them Chukchi, Evens, Chuvans, Eskimos, and others live in the Coal Mines. The temporary population as of 01.01.2018 was 1,087 people.

The urban settlement Ugolnye Kopi is part of the Anadyr municipal district and covers an area of ​​8055 hectares.

Of the total number of residents, an average of 69.6% are employed in the economy.

On the territory of the village of Ugolny Kopi there is OJSC "Mine" Ugolnaya ", engaged in the extraction of brown coal, and the airport of international importance" Anadyr "(Ugolny). At the end of 2005, a new airport complex was opened at the" Anadyr "airport, which has a high level of comfort and technology passenger service.

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Borders of the urban settlement Coal Mines

Description of the border of the urban settlement Coal Mines

The border goes from the conditional point A (8th berth) along the northern side of the highway "Avtovyaz to the 8th berth" 1700 m. To point B (turn to the former settlement "Geologichesky").

Sergey Dolya writes: The most mysterious and hard-to-reach abandonment is located in Chukotka - the nuclear military unit Anadyr-1, or, as the locals call it, Gudym. It appeared in the early 60s to deploy nuclear missiles closer to a possible enemy, that is, the United States. The base was super-secret, the locals only knew that there was a military unit nearby.

The heart of Gudym is a huge concrete "hole" with warehouses for storing and servicing nuclear missiles. How and how it was "gnawed" in the permafrost is a mystery to me. In addition to the military facility, there was also a town where employees and their families lived.

However, in the traditional attempt to "outplay everyone", we mostly outplayed ourselves. On December 8, 1987, a Soviet-American summit was held in Washington, during which Gorbachev and Reagan signed an indefinite "Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles," after which all weapons were removed from the base. For some time, the underground premises were used as a storage base for the Anadyr military garrison, but in 2002 Gudym was completely abandoned.

Today it is a ghost town. What was more or less valuable was stolen. Nevertheless, despite the rotten mills of houses and the peeling paint of underground tunnels, one can see the grandiose scale of Gudym ...

Warehouses on the way to the base. Cruise missiles are lying around. Apparently educational. In the panorama, they are to the left of the blue barrel:

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There are a lot of them here. Didn't count, but offhand 20 pieces:

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Flaps on the rocket:

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Some balls inside:

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So Gudym. Shoigu came to Anadyr 3 days after me and had to visit this abandoned base. Now this object is not guarded by anyone and is not needed by anyone, but maybe soon a castle will be hung here and then I will become the last blogger who has been inside:

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At the entrance to it, an inconspicuous bunker:

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The entrance to the main military facility where the missiles were stored:

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We drove there right by car. Inside there is a long corridor with branches. We did not poke into the branches, but drove through the tunnel:

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The tunnel is closed by a massive armored door weighing 40 tons (the weight of a medium tank). Closing time approx. 2 minutes:

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Remote control next to the door:

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The object has full anti-nuclear protection, is designed for air bombing:

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It is interesting, of course, where these branches lead, but did not dare to study:

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Second way out:

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Signs of the former guard of a military facility:

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But now Gudym is guarded only by euraska:

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Ominous installations were left by, apparently, rare travelers. The locals definitely don't care about this, they cut out the last doors:

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The military town is now completely destroyed and plundered. It is not of interest as a "abandonment", since there is nothing left here:

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Locals come here as a warehouse for building materials and carry everything that is not nailed down. I saw 3 cars with teams that tore boards and logs from houses and loaded onto trailers:

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The former shopping center may be of some interest:

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For a military town in the far north, it is rather big:

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Former headquarters:

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Inside there is complete ruin:

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Caption: "On guard, as in war - be doubly vigilant." This is a punishment cell:

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Guards' quarters:

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Restroom:

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Prison entrance:

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To put it mildly, small:

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Finally, a short exposition by an unknown military author:

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Coal Mines

Coal Mines is a village opposite Anadyr. They are separated by a wide river, which can be crossed for 100 rubles in a small, roughly boiled boat. The village is home to 5,000 people - only half as many as in the city - but due to the fact that all government buildings are located in Anadyr, the Coal Mines look much smaller than their neighbor.

However, this is another atypical Chukchi village ...

Around the village of tundra. Sometimes bears come into town. Last year there was a she-bear with a bear cub. She drove the fishermen onto the roof of the barn, ate all the fish and left:

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As well as in Anadyr, asphalt is not used here. All roads are covered with poured and absolutely level concrete. There is even a traffic camera sign, but the camera itself is only displayed on holidays:

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Residents pick berries and mushrooms right outside the village. You don't need to go far:

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All houses are cheerfully painted:

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This plays a huge role in the life of the North, since everything is white and cloudy for most of the year:

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Sidewalks everywhere, car markings, painted curbs:

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It is unclear whether this is the courtyard area so marked, or whether this road winds so, but beautifully:

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Monument to the first Chukchi pilot:

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Kindergarten:

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The school was built according to a special northern project. I have never seen such before:

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Artificial turf stadium next to the school:

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There are many playgrounds in the village. There is even a skate park:

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Gym:

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Free buses run around the city 3 times a day. They take people to work in a coal mine or airport, and then back:

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The rest of the time, people move by taxi, of which there are a huge number in the village:

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You can't go far on the tundra on ordinary wheels, so there are many all-terrain vehicles in the city:

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The terrible cuttlefish is called the Wanderer:

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The city continues to fill the dusty areas with concrete, although it is a very expensive task. For example, filling this site costs the village 4 million rubles:

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The village is developing. A new store is under construction:

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Although, of course, he is unlikely to surpass this emerald house:

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IN the photo: Chukotka, Ugolnye Kopi village, Komsomolskaya street

Ugolnye Kopi is an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the Anadyr region of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. It is located on the shore of the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea opposite the city of Anadyr. In 2010, 3367 people lived here, which is significantly lower compared to the 2002 census - then 3863 people lived here.

The economy is based on brown coal mining. The Ugolny international airport, the largest in Chukotka, is also located near the village.

In the village there is the Temple of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God. He is an unusual architecture for a church.

In winter, when the water area of ​​the Anadyr estuary is covered with thick ice, an ice road opens, and then the travel time by car from Anadyr to the Coal Mines is only 30 minutes. The Anadyr estuary is part of the Bering Sea and the Anadyr Bay. As scientists explain, it owes its origin to the Anadyr River. This is one of the largest rivers not only of the Chukchi Peninsula, but of the entire Northeast.

IN the photo: Chukotka, sunset on the Anadyr estuary

The settlement was founded at the beginning of the 20th century as a settlement of miners who supplied the Novo-Mariinsk post with coal. The district administration in different years was located in Anadyr, then in Shakhtyorskoye. Since 1997, the urban-type settlement Ugolnye Kopi has finally become the center of the district. All regional offices and several military units are located here. There is a chain of stores, a communications center, a library, schools, and a house of culture. The village is stretched along the road from the airport to Shakhtyorsky. The most comfortable is the "Pervomaika" microdistrict. There is no hotel in the village, but there is one at the airport.

The outskirts of the village are very picturesque with a view of the Anadyr estuary, endless tundra. In summer, there is great fishing and an abundance of berries and mushrooms.

The village of Ugolny Kopi is located opposite the capital of Chukotka, Anadyr. Previously, it was one of the largest settlements in Chukotka, more than 12 thousand people lived here, which is a lot by the standards of Chukotka. Most of the residents are military men, members of their families, people serving military camps. In the early 90s, the military left, most of the buildings turned out to be useless, the number of residents decreased by four times.
Now the abandoned part of the village is an eerie sight.
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3. In the Coal Mines there were several military units of different types of troops, a whole garrison.
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5. The officers lived here mainly in these houses.
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6. Now in "Ugolki", as the locals call the village, there are several residential buildings, a court, a church. The population lives nearby in the village of Pervomaisky, which emerged from the Coal Mines, there are colorful houses, school and life. The Coal Mines are empty, abandoned and ruined.
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Pay attention to the wooden extension to the house, we will come back to this topic later.

7. Residential buildings. For some reason, they did not even begin to paint them, as is now customary in Chukotka. Painted houses are in Pervomaisky and the airport village, also known as "Coal Mines-3".
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8. In the center of the village there is a MiG-19, a monument to aviators - pioneers and defenders of the Chukotka sky. The aircraft was installed in August 1977.
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9. Several years ago, the MiG-19 wanted to take the city of Engels, where it was supposed to take a place in the Museum of Long-Range Aviation. Residents spoke out strongly against and defended the plane.
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10. A whole MiG-19 surrounded by empty dilapidated houses, an unusual sight.
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11. There is a school opposite the plane. I wrote a separate report about her.
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12. Near the building of the House of Officers. Let's go here.
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13. Former dressing room or warehouse, many identical shoes.
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14. Front staircase to the second floor.
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15. Top view of the cinema and concert hall. Films were played from this cabin.
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17. Technique is not needed by anyone.
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18. Once upon a time cultural life was in full swing here, children went to circles, concerts were held for the congresses of the CPSU.
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19. Later there was a rental of videotapes.
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20. Now everything is abandoned and overwhelmed. We go to the exit.
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21. The next item on our program is a shopping mall.
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22. In fact, only the walls have survived.
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23. The supplies in the North were good, but now nobody needs the building.
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24. The surviving tablets.
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25. Remains of an atelier where the military sewed clothes.
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26. The most common scales "Tyumen".
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28. Abandoned garages and remains of equipment.
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31. It looks like the economy of the military.
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32. Most of the village is abandoned houses.
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33. Let's go inside, see how people lived.
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34. In most apartments, everything that can be used in the household has not survived. The floors have been removed almost everywhere, they are used in the construction of sheds.
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35. Some houses have recently been empty.
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36. Pay attention to the detail on the right side of the frame, this is a portable toilet bucket.
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37. It is hard to imagine, but there were no toilets in the apartments. They were located in wooden outbuildings.
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38. Each toilet served the residents of several apartments.
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39. In such conditions lived people who were on round-the-clock combat duty.
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40. From the series "Stopped clock in Chukotka".
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41. Empty apartments, some things were not taken out by the former tenants.
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45. Some book about aviation.
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47. Children's toys in such places always cause dissonance.
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48. Judging by the ad, the house was resettled less than three years ago.