The village of Zaput'e, Pskov Oblast, Russia, 181518
Just one of thousands of post-soviet villages. Completely abandoned. The fields are turning back into a forest.
Which makes us wonder, how many more villages/civilizations have already been covered by nature thousands of years ago and we have no clue about 🤔
zubie_wanders on
Per peeve: the order should be old-new, left to right.
GustavoistSoldier on
Russia declined a lot during the 1980s and 1990s
Odd-Albatros on
This is so sad. Farms/ranches are important and decentralized nation is healthy nation.
MB4050 on
The fields in the 1950 photo seem awfully small for collectivised farming: usually, when looking at pictures of the iron curtain from above, even today, on the eastern side fields are much larger, and on the western side much smaller.
Does anyone have any idea why it could be this way in the picture?
According-Try3201 on
plus, they’re trying to do this to Ukraine
Nervous_Green4783 on
A failed state with a failed government fighting in a failed war.
franky07890 on
What a place for urbex would that be.
DasistMamba on
The population of the Pskov region in 1950 was around 1.5–1.6 million people, and by 2025 it is expected to decline to approximately 580 thousand people.
learningfrommyerrors on
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lenin-1917 on
It was better in 1950 but people will bring anti soviet propaganda and tell us how good it is now !
RayB1968 on
Removal of internal passports end of collective farms and support for some heavy industries all helped push these villages to a death spiral.
iknowyeahlike on
In Soviet Russia, car drives you! Turn right at fork in road. In Soviet Russia, road forks you!
ObjectiveMall on
Go, nature!
Able-Ad3506 on
Instead of reviving these villages, Russians use their money on a genocidal war against Ukraine.
d_T_73 on
Moscow when?
climochange on
those damn Kulaks! good riddance
BabyThorn__ on
Nature’s reclaiming speed is both beautiful and a little unsettling.
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I read somewhere that Russia alone has some 30000 abandoned villages.
is this a website to see old maps on same locations?
The dude discovered urbanization in 2025… Better late than never.
so it became all green all of a sudden, who cares
Google maps link:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B044'15.6%22N+27%C2%B047'49.3%22E/@57.737675,27.7944651,479m/
Not to be confused with [the *other* Zaput’e in Pskov Oblast](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Zaput'e,+Pskov+Oblast,+Russia/@57.8230789,28.0286211,956m/), which isn’t abandoned yet but looks close to it…
Which makes us wonder, how many more villages/civilizations have already been covered by nature thousands of years ago and we have no clue about 🤔
Per peeve: the order should be old-new, left to right.
Russia declined a lot during the 1980s and 1990s
This is so sad. Farms/ranches are important and decentralized nation is healthy nation.
The fields in the 1950 photo seem awfully small for collectivised farming: usually, when looking at pictures of the iron curtain from above, even today, on the eastern side fields are much larger, and on the western side much smaller.
Does anyone have any idea why it could be this way in the picture?
plus, they’re trying to do this to Ukraine
A failed state with a failed government fighting in a failed war.
What a place for urbex would that be.
The population of the Pskov region in 1950 was around 1.5–1.6 million people, and by 2025 it is expected to decline to approximately 580 thousand people.
[ Removed by Reddit ]
It was better in 1950 but people will bring anti soviet propaganda and tell us how good it is now !
Removal of internal passports end of collective farms and support for some heavy industries all helped push these villages to a death spiral.
In Soviet Russia, car drives you! Turn right at fork in road. In Soviet Russia, road forks you!
Go, nature!
Instead of reviving these villages, Russians use their money on a genocidal war against Ukraine.
Moscow when?
those damn Kulaks! good riddance
Nature’s reclaiming speed is both beautiful and a little unsettling.