The World’s Most Mystifying Ghost Towns: Kadykchan, Russia
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While the reasons for Kadykchan’s abandonment aren’t nearly as tragic as Chernobyl’s, the story is just as peculiar. An emblem for all things soviet, Kadykchan was built by the hands of prisoners during World War II and would, as its crafters hoped, receive the fruits of a booming economy with its two coal mines.
Those dreams were short-lived, though; a coal mine explosion took with it the lives of six people and the very marrow of the Siberian city’s foundation via the closing of both mines. In 2008, it was estimated that a mere 250 people remained in the once-burgeoning town of 7,000.
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