Korzunovo ghost town
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A golden bust of Yuri Gagarin stands in the center of Korzunovo under the wings of this greenish propeller on display. -
“The Victory of Communism is Inevitable,” reads the slogan on the wall of this abounded house in the main street of Korzunovo. -
The still-manned control tower is one of the few buildings left at Loustari air base next to Korzunovo. -
Along the runway, the disposition areas, the half fallen brick walls and the base plates of the former hangars is really a walk through Cold War history. -
The apron and taxiways are partly incrusted by boscage and tufts of grass. -
All airport landing lights, radars and radio signal systems are gone. Some scrap metal are left here and there around the air field. -
Workers tear down some of the old houses in the center of Korzunovo. -
A corroded bust of Lenin stands in front of one of the abounded buildings in the town center. -
During the Cold War, thousands of people were living in Korzunovo. Today, most block of flats are empty. -
Once upon a time this was a flat that likely housed a air force pilot and his family. -
School bus drives the main street of Korzunovo. The local school also serves the nearby military garrison towns. -
School children in Korzunovo. -
Ghost town image. -
“Peace on earth. We protected our freedom in fight,” reads this slogan painted on the wall during Soviet times. -
The town got its name after Colonel Yuri Korzunov, war hero and pilot with the Soviet Black Sea fleet. Here on bust next to Yuri Gagarin. -
Marina Popova receives visitors to the Yuri Gagarin museum in Korzunovo. -
The front page of Komsomolskaya Pravda from April 13, 1961, proudly announcing that Yuri Gagarin successfully became the first man in outer space. -
The exhibition at the museum gives you a good insight to the life of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. -
The post-office in Korzunovo. -
A few hundred meters from the end of the runway at Loustari air base is the newly built Pechenga monastery. Loustari is Finnish and means monastery. This part of Russia belonged to Finland before the end of the second world war.
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