Few people know about this ghost town marked on the map of Ukraine. More recently, the city lived its own life, and now it is completely empty.
Instructions
Step 1
The distant year 1949 is the time of restoration of the global destruction that the war left behind. The affected cities and settlements are being actively reconstructed. At the same time, on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Stepnoye settlement was being built for the employees of the Tsentralnaya mine, which later became the Ingulets mine. This village has such a name only in documents, but for local residents it still bears the name Otvod.
Step 2
The first stone in the creation of the Branch was laid back in the immemorial 30s of the last century, after which, for unknown reasons, they returned to its construction only in the early 1940s, and by 1949 the settlement was handed over for settlement.
Step 3
The diversion grew just before our eyes, and after a couple of years there was a kindergarten, a school, a shop, a stadium, a palace of culture, a vocational school, squares and parks on its territory. The village flourished and its inhabitants lived well, but the arrival of the new millennium changed everything. In the early 2000s, the Ingulets mining and processing plant, located not far from Stepnoye, announced its intention to wipe this piece of paradise off the face of the earth. As it turned out, the Branch fell under the sanitary zone of the plant, which decided to globally expand its space at the expense of housing the branch offices. In 2009, the Branch was liquidated, its residents were forcibly relocated to new buildings on neighboring Ingulets.
Step 4
The branch is empty. Houses are dilapidated, windows and doors are boarded up. There is no more life here, no screams coming from the windows, no such familiar noise, no more clothes to dry on the balconies, no children playing on the playgrounds, and only the howling of the wind wandering among the empty walls is heard.
Step 5
If you get inside any of the once residential apartments, you can clearly see that the tenants left in a great hurry and took only the most necessary things with them: clothes, old photographs, scraps of newspapers and children's toys were scattered on the floor, like fragments of memory of past happy times.
Step 6
In 2014, the village finally turned into ruins, some of which were absorbed by the waste dumps of the plant, which created another ghost town on the map.
