The dying city of Donbass

• Dying city Donbass

Ukrain once famously handed out for free here abandoned apartment. After a major accident forming enterprise, the mine "Ukraine", was never able to fully recover. People went away, throwing a house. The rest live on a pension, and many of those who have not found work in the city, trying to park in Donetsk - 40 km to him on the bus.

What is interesting, there are visitors who have received free apartments, but they do not make the weather. Only part of the city is gasified and heated centrally, in the remaining apartments are coal stoves.

The fate of the Ukrainian share dozens of towns and hundreds of villages of Donbass. Productive forces killed or deliberately concentrated in the big cities in order to reduce expenditure on health, education, roads and other unnecessary luxuries of our top. It is much cheaper to drive away all in one place, and abandoned the territory to turn the area into uninhabitable.

Future Ukrainian vague.

In the Ukrainian in the last 20 years, little has changed in a good way.

Fully meet the abandoned house, but they are not so much.

It is much more likely to be found laid bricks or steel shutters tightly closed windows - they are everywhere.

At the door to the apartment two buckets - with coal and furnace slag - "zhuzhalkoy"

The people are forced to carry buckets of coal on the floors.

Next to the houses of the coal sheds.

No oven in the apartment will be gone. Some are cast-iron stoves, but most of the people got a brick ovens.

Retirees no longer hope to improve and attain the age surrounded by devastation.

Completely abandoned and plundered chetyrehetazhka was once habitable.

Inside dangerous to enter, but I took a chance.

Even the walls demolished, not to mention the window frames and panels.

It is hard to believe, but people used to live here.

Imagine that you live in the house next door, and every day you can see out the window bombed chetyrehetazhku.

a short time left, soon it will collapse.

Another completely abandoned house.

The water tower was the tower mobile communications.

Boiler went on bricks.

The city has a privileged part of its gasified.

In the center of the garbage disposal.

This is the city stadium.

There is even an open-air fitness equipment.

The stadium is still usable.

But it still looks pathetic.

What else is left? Only root for "Miner".

mine "Ukraine", which still holds the city.

One of the two equestrian statues in the Donetsk region. Khmelnitsky second on horseback stands in Donetsk.

The main square of the city.

Lenin-microcephal. He fought off his head, but the Communists found some table bust - and repaired leader.

The building of the City Council.

The mayor is quite accessible, while all regret the former mayor Neshin, who is trying to revive the city - he came up with to distribute the abandoned apartments in vain. Now Neshin drifter working on mine.