Abandoned Engineering — S01E01 — Silent Cities
2017 · 44 MIN · IMDB 7.5
Overview
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strangest engineering projects that created empty silent cities. We ask why a ruined cold war air base has become a no-go area and how a tiny Japanese mining island become the most over-crowded place on the planet. We find out if the street layout of the Soviet Union's model city become a matter of life or death for its population. And how did Nazi Germany create a huge mind control facility at a holiday resort?
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00:00:01 Once, they were some of the most advanced structures and facilities on the planet.
00:01:51 became a matter of life and death for this population ?
00:03:55 The workers were supposed to rest here, but what really happened?
00:05:48 But how did an ordinary rest camp become
00:07:44 They came from industrial cities and had never seen the sea,
00:09:44 It is tall and must have influenced and intimidated the workers who came here.
00:11:48 who turned it into a military prison for opponents of the communist regime.
00:13:37 How it became the most crowded city in the world
00:15:12 I couldn't see the whole island when I landed.
00:17:02 This is a big logistical challenge
00:18:57 you take less material and thus weaken the ground
00:21:03 So people moved around horizontally
00:23:06 The Hashima mine was closed in 1974.
00:25:08 You realize that something happened very quickly and it was very bad.
00:27:20 When Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house Chernobyl workers,
00:29:38 The first reactor of the Chernobyl power plant was completed in 1977. A.
00:31:29 and having arteries to carry people away,
00:33:06 Nobody can see it.
00:35:04 it was not as solid a mountain as it was thought to be.
00:36:43 yes, here's a mountain overhead for protection,
00:38:24 You also have to think about the logistics of this whole operation.
00:40:11 Today, few people risk entering
00:41:56 and after the end of the tour, the excitement of radiation control follows.
00:43:36 turns an abandoned place into a resort, as it was originally supposed to be.
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Abandoned Engineering, season 1, episode 1: Silent Cities.
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