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Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari – SPIEGEL ONLINE
In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded, this astonishing place inspired a fiery scene in a James Bond movie.
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Huge industrial complexes have always fascinated me, but Soviet-era secret industrial facilities? Now we’re talking! It’s really amazing some of the structures that humans create, but even more amazing how much of the earth’s population is unaware of huge projects like this and their impact on the rest of the world. Living in the media-rich and educated West, I didn’t know about this, and I bet there are plenty more like it. Did you know that there’s an experimental solar power plant in Uzbekistan, one of only two of that type? Click on my name to follow the link to an article about it.