Skrunda-1 : Latvia’s Last Ghost City
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Skrunda-1, a Soviet-era ‘over-the-horizon’ radar defence settlement, has finally found a purpose after twenty years of neglect and decay.
Following the A9 highway west of the dynamic Latvian capital, Riga, to the historic Baltic port of Liepaja, the views rarely divert from fields, farms, and forests.
Indeed, the town of Skrunda in the Kuldiga district of Courland looks unremarkable, fusing seamlessly with the hundreds of other small settlements scattered throughout central Latvia; five miles west of Skrunda however, something remarkable takes shape on the periphery. Towering ominously are the vast, brutalist apartment blocks and monolithic water tower of the Soviet secret city, “Skrunda-1.”
#lettonie #skrunda #soviétisme #ville_fantôme #ghost (et désolé pour ceux qui sont énervé par les ghosts, mais skrunda c’est différent : c’est « toute » une Histoire !