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Have you ever wondered what happens to decommissioned machines
and other similar facilities that people once used? Some of these
objects are being recycled, and many of them are piling up on the
so-called Object Graveyards and there waiting to be completely eaten
by the ravages of time. Places of natural decomposition of such objects
can be unusual tourist destinations and sites to capture amazing photos.
Here's MORE Of These Unique 'Graveyards'. Enjoy! :)
Soviet Tank Boneyard, Afghanistan:
On the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan there s a massive collection
of abandoned Soviet battle vehicles left behind after the failure of
a massive eastern bloc military occupation of the country in the 1970's
and 1980's.
The Soviets left in a hurry and couldn't be bothered to find a way to get
broken-down tanks back home, so now they sit, partially stripped and
covered in graffiti.
Afghanistan has few recycling facilities, so this cemetery of tanks
will likely remain where it is for many more years as a reminder
of the Russian invasion.
Submarine Graveyard, Russia:
The area around Nezametnaya Cove, close to the town of Gadzhiyevo,
in Murmansk Oblast on the Kola Peninsula, is a cemetery where is
located a lot of old Russian submarines. After serving their duty
underwater, the submarines were brought to this restricted-access
zone in the 1970s and then forgotten.
Locals said that some of the old submarines were used for target
practice in military exercises and often sunk, an employment of
the old out of sight, out of mind strategy. Others were simply left
in the bay to rust and rot, floating to the surface like so many
whale carcasses.
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Moynaq Ship Graveyard, Uzbekistan:
Moynaq is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan.
Home to only a few thousand residents at most, Moynoq's population
has been declining precipitously since the 1980s due to the recession
of the Aral Sea.
Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan's only port city with
tens of thousands of residents, Moynoq is now a shadow of its former self,
dozens of kilometers from the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea.
For travellers the main reason to visit Moynaq is to see the ship graveyard,
a collection of rusting hulks that were once the town s fishing fleet. It's
an image that perfectly illustrates the disaster - once proud vessels beached
in a sandy desert.
Unfortunately there aren't many left, as scrap metal companies
made short work of them before the tourism authorities forbade
it. In one final kick for a local population already downed,
the money didn't go to the people who owned the boats; it was
divided up between the scrap companies and government officials.
Taxi Boneyard, China:
Thousands of scrapped taxis are abandoned in a yard in the center
of Chongqing, China. Traffic congestion and pollution have worsened
dramatically in Chinese cities because the country's long-running
economic expansion has allowed increasing numbers of consumers to
make big-ticket purchases such as cars, which means many no longer
have to rely on taxis or public transportation.
Phone Booth Graveyard, UK:
This phone booth graveyard is located between Ripon and Thirsk, near the village of Carlton Miniott, UK. There are located hundreds of disused telephone booths.
Decommissioned old red booths are systematically replaced by new modern booths, and deposited
in one site near this English village.
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