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  • Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari -

    En mer Caspienne, grandeur et décadence de « l’Atlantis » (des installations pétrolières offshore) stalinienne

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/exploring-the-crumbling-soviet-oil-platform-city-of-neft-dashlari-a-867055.h
    By Arno Frank
    Photo Gallery: A Stalinist Utopia on the Caspian Sea

    Forbidden City of Oil Platforms The Rise and Fall of Stalin’s Atlantis

    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.

    Bullets whip past James Bond as he sprints along the wooden quay. A sniper opens fire from a helicopter hovering above while 007, played by Pierce Brosnan, races through a labyrinth of pipes and bridges. Suddenly an explosion tears through this massive industrial plant run by the Russian mafia, a huge city in the Caspian Sea. Bond manages to leap into a vehicle conveniently equipped with a missile launch system and promptly shoots down the helicopter.

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