A collection of abandoned Soviet-era sports halls from the former USSR and East Germany. These spaces remain largely as they were left when the Soviet forces retreated in the early 1990s. Now they are relics from a different time, rotting in place as the world moves on around them.

#urbex #soviet #abandoned #history #architecture #photography #ussr #eastgermany

"The #Soviet flag flew high as this year's first passenger voyage from Murmansk came to Svalbard
A giant flag of the #USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – greeted the first passenger ship of the season as Russia begins direct travel from Murmansk to Svalbard."

#Russia #India #China #USA #Security #Iraq #News #Ukraine #War #Soviet

https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/the-soviet-flag-flew-high-as-this-years-first-passenger-voyage-from-murmansk-came-to-svalbardnbsp/446862

Has come a long way, since the days of #squatting in a former #Soviet Toy Factory—turned #Culture Factory—in Estonia: where it was colder inside than outside, and we burned chopped up #office furniture to heat our #makeshift #sauna built from repurposed #junk.

#Loyly 💨

Today in Labor History March 13, 1968: Student demonstrations in Warsaw led to street riots. All Polish universities went out on strike against the repressive communist regime, with students occupying the campus buildings. The strike, which came in the wake of Soviet withdrawals of diplomatic relations with Israel, in protest of the 1967 war, spread throughout the country, leading to a violent government crackdown and antisemitic purge that was branded as anti-Zionism. Thousands of Jews fled the country because of political harassment and being fired from their jobs.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #russia #soviet #ussr #poland #israel #antisemitism #zionism #Riot #strike #protests #students

L'Huffington Post - News, inchieste e approfondimenti HuffPost: Belli orgogliosi

Ovvero ci voleva un’artista nata nell’Ucraina sovietica, e che fu alla Biennale del dissenso, per spiegare perché non si deve censurare l’arte russa

Beautiful proud

Or, it took an artist born in Soviet Ukraine, who was at the Biennale of Dissent, to explain why Russian art should not be censored.

#Soviet #Ukraine #Russian

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/rubriche/buongiorno/2026/03/13/news/belli_orgogliosi-21405940/

Sanatorium Tbilisi is one of the large Soviet-era resort buildings in the spa town of Tskaltubo in western Georgia.

Stepping through the grand entrance leads to the plaza, an enclosed courtyard with a central fountain that is surrounded by palm trees. An oasis, encircled by Soviet concrete. Elsewhere there are other rooms, hallways and staircases that are quite photogenic.

#Architecture #Abandoned #Ruins #Photography #Georgia #Soviet #History