USSR

This sleepy Baltic town produced more than 100,000 tonnes of uranium for the Soviets.

"Beyond these gates the land groans."

Monuments, tanks and ghost towns.

Sun, sea & Soviet architecture in the unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia.

Propaganda, genocide, and the politics of memory.

Laguna Vere in Tbilisi, Georgia, was once the premier aquatic sports centre in the Caucasus.

Getting lost in the Soviet architecture of a Belarusian Winter Wonderland.

Now left abandoned for 15 years, this secret city once guarded a key Soviet radar facility.

Exploring the story of Cuba... as told by its battlefields, monuments & museums.

A unique pilgrimage site, which survived centuries of oppression under Imperial and Soviet rule.

Peeling back the layers of history at an abandoned Soviet military school in Latvia.

An illustrated guide to urban exploration in the Russian capital.

Deep beneath a Crimean mountain lurks a derelict nuclear facility that died with the Cold War.

Because no one throws a street party like the Communist Party.

Ghost towns, radiation & the ethics of ruin lust.