{"id":252489,"date":"2018-10-30T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=252489"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:17:03","slug":"this-soviet-era-ghost-town-is-being-reclaimed-by-nature-and-its-eerily-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/this-soviet-era-ghost-town-is-being-reclaimed-by-nature-and-its-eerily-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"This Soviet-era ghost town is being reclaimed by nature and it\u2019s eerily beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Natural order always wins. If saving Humanity is a priority, there is no need to fight to \u201csave the Earth\u201d. The Earth is doing fine with or without humans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Crumbling bricks, vines crawling up the walls and trees growing on roofs \u2013 see the silent beauty of an abandoned Soviet-era town nestled in the mountains of Abkhazia.<\/p>\n

In summer, you would have a hard time spotting Akarmara from above. The small town is almost entirely overgrown, with trees even growing on the few roofs that are still intact.<\/p>\n

Nature has been slowly reclaiming the Abkhazian town since the early 1990s. Most of its inhabitants fled the Georgian-Abkhazian war of 1992-’93, when the area was shelled, besieged and starved.<\/p>\n

This used to be an elite residential neighborhood of Tkvarcheli (or Tqwarchal), once a prosperous coal mining center and Abkhazia’s second-largest city. Despite having only a handful of apartment blocks, Akarmara boasted an autonomous infrastructure: a market, a restaurant, a hospital and a cultural center.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s a ghost town. Eerily quiet, with most of the plaster crumbled from the walls and most of the roofs caved in, Akarmara stands connected to the surrounding area with a picturesque tall railroad bridge, the\u00a0rails now gone and green moss settled in their place. The local train station is just another overgrown shell of a building.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most surprisingly, the ghost town is not entirely abandoned. About half a dozen families still live here, surviving on their own without the luxuries of modern infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Natural order always wins. If saving Humanity is a priority, there is no need to fight to \u201csave the Earth\u201d. The Earth is doing fine with or without humans.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}