Toxic Chemistry

Your factory is doomed to be abandoned if your workers are toxic people.

 

Stalin's Bunker — Object No. 31

What was hidden underwater will once again appear to curious enthusiasts.

 

Textile Production

Let's look at the well-preserved textile production.

 

Constructivism-Style Power Plant

I've already had a post from a vintage power plant. And now I'll show you another power plant built in 1926, a bigger one.

 

Electricution

The bright beams in the engine room changed to the muffled light of the explosion-proof lamps. A siren blared from the loudspeakers. 

 - Generator at the proper speed. 

 - Start! 

 - Frequency? 

 - One thousand... three... five thousand! 

 The hall was filled with the steady hum of a spinning shaft. 

 - It's stable. Close the circuit! 

 The hum was drowned out by the whirring of hundreds of kilovolts. 

 - Second, two seconds, circuit break! 

 - Shut it down. The fire extinguishing system went on in the test chamber. Everything worked properly, the subject passed the test.

 

Mothballed Flour Mill

The mill is to be demolished to build houses instead. I had a chance to look at it.

 

Burn Trash — Get Energy!

An incinerator, perfectly preserved for our exploration.

 

Unusual Rusty Bomb Shelter

The factory had the task of building a bomb shelter on its territory. The task was unusual: to place it in a small area, to integrate one of the entrances into the basement of the factory administration building, to create enough places for workers, and also to fit it within the limits of the regulations. The result was this place: a partly built-in, partly freestanding shelter. However, after some time it rotted away.

 

Paint Factory

A paint factory that did not survive modernization.

 

Big Machines Factory

One hot summer day somebody knocked at the workshop gate. However, because of the screeching of the seagulls, no one heard it and did not come to meet the guests.