By Tsarizm Staff | January 18, 2020

Although Chernobyl gets most of the attention, and the ghost town of neighboring Pripyat, there are other ‘lost cities’ in the forests of Ukraine.

The consequences of communism’s priorities to the people of the Soviet Union was frequently very tough.

Orbita was built for workers at the Chigirinsky nuclear plant. The workers moved in, but the plant was never finished, and Orbita is now a crumbling ruin with just 100 inhabitants, reported RFERL.

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