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Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari

Arno Frank for Spiegel Online (via Kiki Sanford):

In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded, this astonishing place inspired a fiery scene in a James Bond movie.

I would love to do some old-fashioned urbex there.