After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to continue working the pits.

Russian authorities are confiscating thousands of apartments in occupied Mariupol from homeowners who fled the city after the ...

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

The train station where residents once gathered to flee is abandoned and ... AFP it had enabled Russian infantry to advance up to two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the city's outskirts.

As Melburnian Oscar Jenkins prepares to stand trial on mercenary charges in a Russian-held city, the prime minister says "we ...

As Melburnian Oscar Jenkins prepares to stand trial on mercenary charges in a Russian-held city, the prime minister says "we ...

The stone-walled passages are up to three metres high and were built to withstand cannon fire and other attacks common in ...

stretching between the port city of Vladivostok and Kamchatka Peninsula are some of the most breathtaking and beautiful in the world. Haunting beauty of Russia's Far Eastern abandoned ships ...

And for good reason. After just a few minutes, the word comes in that drones have been launched from the Russian side of the river. In this ghost city, it is too dangerous to be outside.