17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Siberian Ghost Town

By the notorious Kolyma Highway at the Russian Far East, in the middle of Siberian taiga forest, there is the ghost town of Kadykchan. At the Soviet era a city of 10 000 inhabitants, now no-one is left.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2017
Date Uploaded: 11.2019
Photo Location: Kadykchan, Russia
Copyright: © Ville-Juhani Sutinen