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Urban exploring, the hobby of visiting abandoned industrial buildings, military camps, airports and other buildings, is surreal already. You enter deserted worlds and lost civilisations, and feel as if you ...
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So you thought Moscow was basically a vast collection of concrete highrise towers, occupied by orthodox, capitalism-fearing Christians? You were right, but also incredibly wrong. Because Moscow is what you ...
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