Abandoned sites from the Soviet Union Era

The photographer Rebecca Lichfeld took a series of photographs of military bases, abandoned hospital halls and cinemas in the former Soviet Union, despite the possibility of being exposed to the radiation there. The photographer tried to photograph military barracks, laboratories and gymnasiums.

Rebecca, a 32-year-old resident of London, traveled to nine countries that were part of the Soviet Union for her book "Soviet Ghosts" and her first visit to "Chernobyl" at the site of a catastrophic nuclear accident in 1986. She also visited places in Russia, Latvia Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. She explained that there are not many explorers traveling to Russia. The bases there are very different and tightly guarded, and there are serious consequences for infiltrating into abandoned areas.