Strachów (Ghost Town) Poland (visited Jun2012) 2013

[urbexosaurus]

Strachów, (which literally translated means; "spooky" ) is quite a suitable name for this place.

Even though nowadays this place is called differently, Strachów was the official name till 1992.

Strachów was a town built for the soldiers and families of the Russian Army.

The whole terrain is enormous and contains over 300 buildings. Till 1992, this was quite a busy town, including everything the Russians needed in day to day life. There were stores, churches, cinemas, a train station , theaters and so on...

Nowadays this area is sometimes used by the Polish army to practice.

Unfortunately, just after we entered this area and climbed to the top floor of the first building, we spotted a whole lot of army vehicles, heading our way and into the area carrying a lot of very heavy artillery and soldiers.

Since they obviously were going to do some training things, we decided to leave quickly because we didn't feel like ending up in the middle of their practice. :roll:

To make the entrance to the site a bit more difficult, they blew up the entrance bridge, as you can see in below pics... And to simply illustrate the scale of things, the buildings you'll see on the pictures are only the first 5 or 6 buildings of the 300 in total... :shock:

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Thanks 4 watching!!

 

[Wevsky]

Shame you didnt get to see more does look an interesting site

 

[skeleton key]

Thats a very large site & shows the vacume the Soviet s left in many ways in their withdrawal :cool2:

Cool to catch a glimps and great share

 

[klempner69]

Excellent report fella..the apartment blocks a bit like the ones in Pripyat.Thanks for sharing them.. :beer:

 

[shaddam]

Blimey that looks nice !, i would love to go to a site like that !, cheers :beer:

 

[Shush]

Excellent mate, makes for very interesting reading, with great pictures to boot

 

[Perjury Saint]

Looks like Pripyat... Therefore i like it!!

 

[Stussy]

Wow never seen this place before, looks massssive! Think you did the right thing getting out of there :lol:

Thanks for sharing

 

[Scattergun]

Oooh I do likes a ghost town and this one looks lovely. Gonna have to add it to the ever growing list. Looks like an awesome explore time permitting. It's a shame indeed that your visit was cut short. Just means a return visit is in order Oh lovely pano too by the way.

 

[Silent Night]

cracking thread mate shame time was limited site looks epic

 

[silverainbow]

Very nice nice indeed, interesting place not one I've heard of before, some really cool pics and I'd agree you def did the right thing getting out before the practice session kicked off :lol:

 

[Nelly]

Looks like a less radioactive Pripyat

Excellent

 

[urbexosaurus]

Thanks all!!