Forbidden City of Oil Platforms
By Arno Frank
Photo Gallery: A Stalinist Utopia on the Caspian Sea
In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded, this astonishing place inspired a fiery scene in a James Bond movie.
Read more @ Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari - SPIEGEL ONLINE
By Arno Frank
Photo Gallery: A Stalinist Utopia on the Caspian Sea
In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded, this astonishing place inspired a fiery scene in a James Bond movie.
Read more @ Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari - SPIEGEL ONLINE
