The Buzludzha Monument (image heavy!) - like something out of Fallout

[Syt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzludzha

Buzludzha (Turkish: Buzluca - lit. meaning "glacially/icy") is a historical peak in the Central Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria and is 1441 metres high. In 1868 it was the place of the final battle between Bulgarian rebels led by Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha[1] and the Ottoman Empire.

The Buzludzha Monument on the peak was built by the Bulgarian communist regime to commemorate the events in 1891 when the socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement with the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, a fore-runner of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The Monument was opened in 1981.[2] No longer maintained by the Bulgarian government, it has fallen into disuse.

Buzludzha can be reached by two side roads from the Shipka Pass:[3] either a 16 km road coming from Kazanlak or a 12 km road coming north from Gabrovo.

Now the monument is abandoned and vandalised. As the roof of the building is heavily damaged, the main entrance of the building has been closed for the public.

Fascinating piece of communist postapocalyptica:
























Pictures from the better days of the site:

[mongers]

Thanks for that, interesting photos.

As you're no doubt aware, there are lots of videos free climbers, or whatever they call themselves, climbing and doing stunts on Soviet era infrastructure; scary stuff. 


edit:

Syt, maybe you could start a permanent thread for architectural photography and this sort of imagery, as you quite like it and it would be nice to have it all in one place here?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

might be interesting to restore it. As a monument of a bygone age (and we have plenty of those)