The town that disappeared - BBC News
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Across Russia, hundreds of small towns have been abandoned in the past 20 years.
Hundreds of thousands of people have lost jobs and homes after their town’s main industry collapsed.
The future of more than 300 single-industry towns hangs in the balance. The race is on to try to save them.