Kadychan is an abandoned city in Russia's far east, 720km by road from Magadan. It was built with gulag labour during the 1940s, originally to house workers from the local coal mines, but in the late 90s the mines became unprofitable and residents were offered incentives to move elsewhere. The result is an entire city of apartment buildings, shops, a hospital, streets, parks and squares left to decay.
I had the opportunity to stop off in Kadychan in July 2014 while riding the Kolyma Highway on my motorbike, so I spent a few hours there taking photos. I only had time to look at two buildings; you could spend a week here exploring and still not see it all.
The first building in this video is the hospital basement (I was looking for stairs); the second is the hospital administrative wing, and the third apparently used to be some sort of shop or supermarket. The last segment is the town square with the traditional statue of Lenin (vandalised).
The medical records I looked at were dated 1954, and apparently just left to rot. Someone had used one pile to start a fire.
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Video is super shaky because the camera was strapped to my chest. Steadicam is for wusses.
