Soviet buildings in the abandoned village of Naukan in MechigmanskiyBay, Cape Drezhnev (Siberia, Rus
Soviet buildings in the abandoned village of Naukan in MechigmanskiyBay, Cape Drezhnev (Siberia, Russia). Founded in the 14thcentury, the Naukan (a Siberian Yupik people) who inhabited it wereforcibly evicted during the 1950s.Lighthouse built as a monument to Semyon Dezhnev, the first Russianexplorer to travel around Asia’s far north-eastern cape in 1648.Soviet military outpost, built in 1963.A collapsing Soviet-era structure. Similar buildings are locatedclose to the remains of the older Yupik village. -- source link
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