12 abandoned places from the former USSR that still have not lost their beauty (13 photos)

Abandoned religious buildings in Armenia and Georgia.





The beauty of abandoned buildings fascinates many photographers. However, often such abandoned places turn into real dens, which are scary to enter. But if you try, you can find completely unique structures, forgotten by everyone, in which nature has seized power. These are exactly the kind of buildings that Frenchman Dimitri Bourriau, who works under the pseudonym Jahz Design, finds.

Jahz Design specially went to Armenia and Georgia to find old buildings



Old Georgian school

Soviet architecture was distinguished by its greatness, it left its mark in many countries





Abandoned astrophysics laboratory in Armenia

Perhaps someone disavows these structures as something from the bad past



Old airport in Armenia

But brutalist architecture has its own beauty



A station in Armenia where trains once arrived

The photographer manages to highlight it



Former cinema in Georgia

Dilapidated cultural centers and old theaters convey a unique atmosphere



Old House of Culture in Georgia

It's like they're frozen in time



Abandoned fountain in Armenia

And nature takes over



Rest house for writers on Lake Sevan in Armenia

There is a certain beauty in this, because the vegetation bursts through the cracks



A forgotten archaeological museum in Georgia

Earth appears on the floor, and sunlight breaks through holes in the roof and windows.



Inside an old Georgian sanatorium

All this gives rise to a strange harmony between architecture and nature



Inside a cultural center somewhere in Georgia

You want to explore and get to know such places, don’t you agree?



Statue of Yuri Gagarin