Korzunovo ghost town

“The Victory of Communism is Inevitable,” reads the slogan on the wall of this abounded house in the main street of 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.

All airport landing lights, radars and radio signal systems are gone. Some scrap metal are left here and there around the air field.

A corroded bust of Lenin stands in front of one of the abounded buildings in the town center.

Once upon a time this was a flat that likely housed a air force pilot and his family.

School children in Korzunovo.

“Peace on earth. We protected our freedom in fight,” reads this slogan painted on the wall during Soviet times.

Marina Popova receives visitors to the Yuri Gagarin museum in Korzunovo.

The exhibition at the museum gives you a good insight to the life of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.

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.