Rides through abandoned villages. Abandoned houses of abandoned villages - a new trend of the season Abandoned villages and villages of Russia

LIST OF ABANDONED VILLAGES IN RUSSIA – FOR THOSE WHO COULD NOT DECIDE TO LEAVE THE CITY. DECIDE NOW! Many people say that they don’t know where to start, where to go, where to try if they don’t have much money. So the best option is to gather several people to make it more fun (preferably at least one of them is experienced, handy, and someone you can learn from), and go to an abandoned village. There you can either buy a house for pennies (30-100 rubles), or rent it, or just live for nothing, because often the owners cannot be found. Going to an abandoned village is the easiest first step when moving from the city to the land. This is almost a turnkey peasant farm, because in many places you come across houses with a shed for livestock and with various outbuildings. And this immediately means savings on the entire infrastructure - 3-10 million, if you build everything from scratch in an open field. And here everything is already here and now. All that remains is to come, buy cattle and start working. From our thread on abandoned villages, we have collected all the information and sorted it by region for your convenience. Here they are - SPECIFIC PLACES WHERE YOU CAN GO TOMORROW AND START ACTING! And you need to start now so that by spring you have time to settle down and prepare for the sowing season. FINALLY TAKE THE FIRST STEP! PLAN YOUR TRIP AND SET YOUR DATE TODAY! May God help you! HERE IS THE LIST OF ABANDONED VILLAGES (and only a few dozen people left the coordinates of the villages; there are hundreds of thousands of such villages in the country!): SAMARA REGION Samara region, Klyavlinsky district, village. Podgorka, in my opinion, there are 4-5 people left at home, around 400 hectares, in houses there in the village council or at the secretary, they were allocated there almost next to me under the OKRM program. Nearby is a pond and fields. Evgeniy Solychev https://vk.com/barankin_140 KOSTROMA REGION 1. Kostroma region, Kologrivsky district. Located 600 km northeast of Moscow. its settlements stretch along the Unzha River. most of them are empty or sparsely populated. the city of Kologriv itself is located in the central part of the region. its population is just over three thousand people. buildings and houses are mostly wooden and most of them are one or two storeys. The city, like the entire region, has not yet been gasified. The roads, as throughout the entire Zakostroma part of the region, are, to put it mildly, very bad, and communication is exclusively by land, that is, by road. The nearest railway station is 120 km away in Manturovo. the area itself has no transit connections. the road to it is a branch from the highway to Perm, Syktyvkar or Arkhangelsk. There is a station, but there are no trains. There is an airport, but no planes fly. there is a pier, but there are no steamships... This is true Kologriv. all this existed, but went into oblivion along with the union of Soviet republics. The reason for the migration of the local population is the lack of any jobs. There are no enterprises other than logging. well, one and a half collective farms to boot. so the houses are empty. but recent years five more and more Moscow and St. Petersburg license plates on the dead roads of the region. strange, right? the village runs to the city, and the city to the village... this is how the reclamation of villages quietly takes place by those who were once cut off from them in one generation or another... What else is Kologrivsky REGION poor and rich in? probably the absence for many, many kilometers of all kinds of industries, factories, mines, military units, zones, dams, hydroelectric power stations, nuclear power plants, etc... the presence of one of the few places on the globe, near the city, where in the spring from different places on the planet, even from Japan , migratory swan geese flock and make a multi-day stopover. "Kologrivsky Forest" is a state natural reserve. The forest itself is very rich in everything that a real living forest should be rich in. even reindeer come here to shed their antlers, not to mention the Bigfoot, who has taken a fancy to these places. The Unzha River is winding, not very deep, with riffles. and is not very wide, about 100 meters. It originates from the Riphean Mountains. and since it flows from the source through the Kologriv region between forests and semi-abandoned villages, the water in the river is exclusively potable. really, but the ecology here is at a high altitude. which was recently confirmed by an expedition of ecologists visiting the village of Chermenino, saying that in the entire western part of Russia, right up to the Urals, the Kostroma region is the cleanest, and the Kostroma region is the most eco-friendly, there is the Kologrivsky district and geese-swans confirm this .. only the roads are not in suit. ..by the way, the ancient, that is, the original Kologriv, is located behind the outermost populated village of Chermenino. in ancient times, for well-known reasons, like many ancient Russian cities such as Ryazan, it was moved. 30-40 km downstream, where it still stands today. Local people, at their core, are kind and sympathetic. although they were brought down by the Green Serpent and the habit of walking in formation. Well, in general, if there is a pleasant craving for village life without civilization, health, money, a bright and sober head, then you come here, to the Kologrivsky Territory. that's all in a nutshell. https://vk.com/id224648021 2. Kostroma region, Chukhlomsky, Soligalichsky district. Already on the way there (200 km from Kostroma) there are many abandoned villages right next to the road. There is no need to say what is further from the road. There is a forest around and many small rivers. There are also many abandoned fields of former collective farms. It is better to ask the head of a particular settlement for accurate information about hectares and their cost. Alexey Plotnikov https://vk.com/ariystokrat STAVROPOL REGION Stavropol Territory, Izobilnensky district, Kozlov village. Residents 4-6 houses. I don’t know how much land, but it’s definitely a lot. https://vk.com/daud_1 PERM REGION 1) Perm region, Pozhva village. 2) according to data for 2010, there are 3,131 people, now even less. 3) Almost all the land is empty, with the exception of a small number of small farms with 1 cow each. 4) many houses are abandoned, some more are for sale. More detailed information is available on Wikipedia "Village Pozhva Perm Territory". Igor Demidov https://vk.com/id13765909 LENINGRAD REGION 1. Leningrad region, Volkhov district, Vyndinostrovskoe administrative settlement, Khotovo village 2. 3 people have registration, 10-15 live, in the summer with summer residents about 30. 3. there are empty lands in the village itself and in neighboring ones 4. there are abandoned houses A temple is being restored in the village in which it is planned to establish an Orthodox farm. Oleg Merkulov https://vk.com/merkulov_o KIROV REGION 1. Kirov region. Podosinovsky district, empty seaside villages, it’s impossible to list them all. I know specifically where houses are sold - the village of Prichalino, Utmanovsky village council (we ourselves have a house there, we use it as a summer house), the places are beautiful, there is a river, a forest nearby, mushrooms, berries, fish. I also know for sure about the village of Okulovo, Yakhrensky village council, it’s also not a bad place, the river is a little further away, but mushrooms and berries are nearby. Let people come!!! Alexander Vorobiev https://vk.com/id133994347 2. We have many abandoned villages in the Kirov region. Indescribable landscapes fresh air, no one cares, everything is overgrown. I can show it to anyone interested. Sergey Zlobin https://vk.com/id63022118 TVER REGION 1. Tver region, Borovskoye village, there is no population, there are also forests, fields and a river nearby around the village. Nikita Soloviev https://vk.com/id226975029 2. Tver region. Sonkovsky district. There are many uninhabited villages, even more where there are 2-3 residential buildings left! Sergey Pletnev https://vk.com/id156314601 3. Tver region, Torzhok district, village Lunyakovo. Abandoned. 1 summer resident in the summer. Around 80 hectares of land I own. There is a forest around, a stream flows through the area, and electricity along the border. Wholesale sales at cadastral value. They took the land for themselves, but by the time they had completed everything, they managed to settle in another area of Tverskaya. More details with plans and photos on the website - http://www.agronavt.ru/zemli.htm Tatyana Lokshina https://vk.com/id108644159 UDMURT REPUBLIC Udmurt district Glazovsky district, Vasilievka village. The houses are still dilapidated, no one lives the status of the village for now, there are 400 hectares of fields in the area, a clean stream, a well with soft water, springs. Mikhail Pak https://vk.com/id168526518 PSKOV REGION 1. Pskov region, Porkhovsky district, villages of Rystsevo (about 30 houses), Zarechye (1 person lives, 10 houses abandoned), Spassky district, Medveditsa. The last house was bought there about 7 years ago for 30,000, the villages are all next to each other, 360 km. from St. Petersburg to Rystsevo there was a bus service from Pskov and Porkhov. Boars, I’m silent about mushrooms and berries - they always carried away the preparations in buckets, there is a lot of land, there is a small river (through all the villages). I haven't been there myself for 15 years. Irina Kalinkina https://vk.com/id1233040 2. We are from the Pskov region...we lived in Opochka...but it’s crowded...we went to the Plyussky district of the village of Zayanye...Gorgeous places...maximum 70 houses and mostly summer residents...200 km to St. Petersburg . We have already acquired poultry, grown a very good harvest of potatoes and everything else from the gardens... Now we are also planning to raise rabbits for ourselves... we have a goat or a cow in our basting... We bake our own bread... there is a convent in the village.. .they also have their own farm... Sergey Skomoroshkin

Hello again, dear readers. Firstly, I want to inform you that I have returned from vacation, which means there will be new reports soon. By the way, I went to Lviv, so there will be many interesting perspectives of the city. Secondly, yesterday we had a wonderful trip to the abandoned pioneer camps, which means there will be photos later too. But this is all in the future, but for now I suggest going back to the beginning of the year. Then my company and I visited several abandoned and semi-abandoned villages. In this regard, I present a new photo report. Here we will talk about the most memorable moments, abandoned houses, curious finds, rural household items and other interesting things. By the way, I don’t write from places like this very often.

So, this report is dedicated to a couple of villages and country houses in the Moscow region. All of them are located at different distances from the capital, but they have one thing in common - either the village is being actively demolished for development, only a couple of living houses remain. Or in a working village there are remote abandoned houses that no one has visited for a hundred years, the windows are partially broken, and there is no fence. This is not the case everywhere, but since the capital is growing quickly, many villages, falling within the boundaries of Moscow, are gradually degrading. Villages near highways are also unlucky, as well as, on the contrary, villages very far from residential agglomerations. For the most part, these houses are empty, homeless residents often live, and there is nothing interesting to be found. But sometimes you come across some rather interesting locations. You’re even surprised how so many ancient and rather rare things, interior items, old dishes and much more have been preserved. So, I’m posting the photos mixed up to make it proportionately interesting, otherwise some places are quite empty, and some, on the contrary. Go.

A typical house built before the revolution. No one lives inside, the door is wide open, the windows are broken. We came here in the cold winter. Not the most interesting, but still.

We move several tens of kilometers. We get to a more interesting house. Shall we sit down and have some tea? In the corner we find an old chest, Viennese chairs near the table. We lift the seats and find a pre-revolutionary label, a small thing, but nice) There are many clocks scattered on the table. By the way, there will also be a lot of hours in the report.

Another house is next. On the terrace we find a portrait of the great poet, clearly caught under the scythe.

In one of the houses we find an antique piano. The same company, by the way, as the piano that some freaks threw out the window of an abandoned school. This, thank God, is still alive, but the keys are already sticking. At the top of the piano we find a Soviet domino set.

Another stopped clock. Ordinary plastic ones, Soviet ones.

Sometimes houses are completely destroyed; this one, for example, had its roof collapse after a fire. The sofa looks a little crazy.

And this is a house with Pushkin on the terrace. The ceilings are rotten, the floor is collapsing. For example, here, the closet fell down.

An old birdhouse next to one of the abandoned vegetable gardens near the house.

You can often find various curious things in the attic. In this house, for example, these are ancient objects of peasant life (spinning wheels, rakes, pitchforks, wooden shovels, sieve, etc.), notebooks from the 20s and 30s, textbooks of the same time, newspapers, Christmas decorations, porcelain dishes, etc. In this frame you can still see a radio in very poor condition from the 1940s.

A typical kitchen in such houses. An old stove, a water heater, a beautiful but dusty mirror and various junk.

Children's dolls always look especially creepy.

Another interesting room. Here we find a pre-revolutionary Singer sewing machine, or rather a table from it and itself. The condition is very bad. Time and dampness take their toll. There are a lot of old and half-rotten clothes in the closets.

I'll show you the base of the camp. Rusty letters "ZINGER" on the back.

Every village house should have a red corner.

On the way past residential buildings, you often come across local inhabitants)

Rusty bikes were found on the terrace.

But in the room there is a curious clock lying on the floor.

A house in a village a short distance from the rest. Strange, by the way. In one room the ceiling collapsed, in the second it was barely breathing, there was virtually no fence, the windows were broken, and the light in one of the rooms was still working! Traces of destruction are visible inside.

This piece of paper really resonated with me. Teaching writing in the 20s. “Arise, branded with a curse, the whole world of hungry and slaves!”

In the kitchen of an abandoned house. There are letters underfoot and an old radio on the wall.

All clocks show different times.

Cute wooden shelf.

Header photo. The rug looks especially sad. Rus'-troika, where are you going? And really, where...

Soviet pinball. Curious thing, never seen before. Although I’ve seen a lot of Chinese 90s. The condition is terrible.

One almost completely demolished hut.

In the house from frame 18. The buffet is in the kitchen. Surprisingly perfect preservation! It’s as if no one has been living for two or three years, but no one has climbed or beaten. Although the dishes are late Soviet and not rare, so it’s not surprising.

Notebooks from the 20s and 30s, this time closer. Decorated with portraits of Lunacharsky, Lenin, faces of peasants and pioneers. And of course, “Workers of all countries, unite!”

In the house from photo 1 we find this wonderful chest right on the threshold

A little bit of May nature from village plots =)

And again we find pinball. The condition is not much better.

One kitchen. It's strange that everything is just abandoned like that. Despite the apparent order, the dishes were covered in a layer of dust, and the ceiling behind had already collapsed.

A nice pre-revolutionary buffet in the room with a piano.

The quality of the shot is not particularly good, but I’ll post it anyway. Interesting content. Geometry notebook from 1929.

I want to end today’s photo report with this shot.

Such abandoned houses make a very sad and painful impression. It feels like part of our culture is going away. The metropolitan way of life is changing the old established way of life. Is it good or bad? How much progress is needed, and what are we striving for? But it’s more likely already philosophical questions, and everyone will have their own answer. That's enough reasoning for today. Until the next reports!

Hello again! At the beginning of the year, my friends and I visited several abandoned and semi-abandoned villages in the Moscow region. In this regard, I present a new photo report. Here we will talk about the most memorable moments, abandoned houses, curious finds, rural household items and other interesting things.

By the way, I don’t write from places like this very often. There was a similar blog (just part 1) last fall, you can see it. Before this, there were a couple more blogs in 2009 and 2010, but now I won’t bother searching, it’s better to move straight to the new part. So, today's report is dedicated to a couple of villages and country houses in the Moscow region. All of them are located at different distances from the capital, but they have one thing in common - either the village is being actively demolished for development, only a couple of living houses remain. Or in a working village there are remote abandoned houses that no one has visited for a hundred years, the windows are partially broken, and there is no fence. This is not the case everywhere, but since the capital is growing quickly, many villages, falling within the boundaries of Moscow, are gradually degrading. Villages near highways are also unlucky, as well as, on the contrary, villages very far from residential agglomerations. For the most part, these houses are empty, homeless residents often live, and there is nothing interesting to be found. But sometimes you come across some rather interesting locations. You’re even surprised how so many ancient and rather rare things, interior items, old dishes and much more have been preserved. So, I’m posting the photos mixed up to make it proportionately interesting, otherwise some places are quite empty, and some, on the contrary. Go.

1. A typical house built before the revolution. No one lives inside, the door is wide open, the windows are broken. We came here in the cold winter. Not the most interesting, but still.

2. We move several tens of kilometers. We get to a more interesting house. Shall we sit down and have some tea? In the corner we find an old chest, Viennese chairs near the table. We lift the seats and find a pre-revolutionary label, a small thing, but nice) There are many clocks scattered on the table. By the way, there will also be a lot of hours in the report.

3. Another house is next. On the terrace we find a portrait of the great poet, clearly caught under the scythe.

4. In one of the houses we find an antique piano. The same company, by the way, as the piano that some freaks threw out the window of an abandoned school (see blog at the end). This, thank God, is still alive, but the keys are already sticking. At the top of the piano we find a Soviet domino set.

5. Another stopped clock. Ordinary plastic ones, Soviet ones.

6. Sometimes you come across houses completely destroyed; for example, this one’s roof collapsed after a fire. The sofa looks a little crazy.

7. And this is a house with Pushkin on the terrace. The ceilings are rotten, the floor is collapsing. For example, here, the closet fell down.

8. An old birdhouse next to one of the abandoned vegetable gardens near the house.

9. You can often find various curious things in the attic. In this house, for example, these are ancient items of peasant life (spinning wheels, rakes, pitchforks, wooden shovels, sieve, etc.), notebooks from the 20s and 30s, textbooks of the same time, newspapers, Christmas tree decorations, porcelain dishes, etc. In this frame you can still see a radio in very poor condition from the 1940s.

10. Typical kitchen in such houses. An old stove, a water heater, a beautiful but dusty mirror and various junk.

11. Children's dolls always look especially creepy.

12. Another interesting room. Here we find a pre-revolutionary Singer sewing machine, or rather a table from it and itself. The condition is very bad. Time and dampness take their toll. There are a lot of old and half-rotten clothes in the closets.

13. I will show you the foundation of the camp. Rusty letters "ZINGER" on the back.

14. Every village house should have a red corner.

15. On the way past residential buildings, you often come across local residents)

16. Rusty bikes were found on the terrace.

17. But in the room there is a curious clock lying on the floor.

18. A house in a village a short distance from the rest. Strange, by the way. In one room the ceiling collapsed, in the second it was barely breathing, there was virtually no fence, the windows were broken, and the light in one of the rooms was still working! Traces of destruction are visible inside.

19. This piece of paper really intrigued me. Teaching writing in the 20s. “Arise, branded with a curse, the whole world of hungry and slaves!”

20. In the kitchen of an abandoned house. There are letters underfoot, and an old radio on the wall.

21. All clocks show different times.

22. Cute wooden bookcase.

23. Header photo. The rug looks especially sad. Rus'-troika, where are you going? And really, where...

24. Soviet pinball. Curious thing, never seen before. Although I’ve seen a lot of Chinese 90s. The condition is terrible.

25. One almost completely demolished hut.

26. In the house from frame 18. Buffet in the kitchen. Surprisingly perfect preservation! It’s as if no one has been living for two or three years, but no one has climbed or beaten. Although the dishes are late Soviet and not rare, so it’s not surprising.

27. Notebooks from the 20s, 30s, this time closer. Decorated with portraits of Lunacharsky, Lenin, faces of peasants and pioneers. And of course, “Workers of all countries, unite!”

28. In the house from the 1st photo, we find such a wonderful chest right on the threshold

29. A little bit of May nature from village plots =)

30. And again we find pinball. The condition is not much better.

31. One kitchen. It's strange that everything is just abandoned like that. Despite the apparent order, the dishes were covered in a layer of dust, and the ceiling behind had already collapsed.

32. Nice pre-revolutionary buffet in the room with a piano.

33. The quality of the shot is not very good, but I’ll post it anyway. Interesting content. Geometry notebook from 1929.

35. I want to finish today’s photo report with this shot.

Such abandoned houses make a very sad and painful impression. It feels like part of our culture is going away. The metropolitan way of life is changing the old established way of life. Is it good or bad? How much progress is needed, and what are we striving for? But these are rather philosophical questions, and everyone will have their own answer. That's enough reasoning for today. Until the next reports!

By the way, I don’t write from places like this very often. There was a similar blog (just part 1) last fall, you can see it. Before this, there were a couple more blogs in 2009 and 2010, but now I won’t bother searching, it’s better to move straight to the new part. So, today’s report is dedicated to a couple of villages and country houses in the Moscow region. All of them are located at different distances from the capital, but they have one thing in common - either the village is being actively demolished for development, only a couple of living houses remain. Or in a working village there are remote abandoned houses that no one has visited for a hundred years, the windows are partially broken, and there is no fence. This is not the case everywhere, but since the capital is growing quickly, many villages, falling within the boundaries of Moscow, are gradually degrading. Villages near highways are also unlucky, as well as, on the contrary, villages very far from residential agglomerations. For the most part, these houses are empty, homeless residents often live, and there is nothing interesting to be found. But sometimes you come across some rather interesting locations. You’re even surprised how so many ancient and rather rare things, interior items, old dishes and much more have been preserved. So, I’m posting the photos mixed up to make it proportionately interesting, otherwise some places are quite empty, and some, on the contrary. Go.

1. A typical house built before the revolution. No one lives inside, the door is wide open, the windows are broken. We came here in the cold winter. Not the most interesting, but still.

3. Another house is next. On the terrace we find a portrait of the great poet, clearly caught under the scythe.

4. In one of the houses we find an antique piano. The same company, by the way, as the piano that some freaks threw out the window of an abandoned school (see at the end). This, thank God, is still alive, but the keys are already sticking. At the top of the piano we find a Soviet domino set.

5. Another stopped clock. Ordinary plastic ones, Soviet ones.

6. Sometimes you come across houses completely destroyed; for example, this one’s roof collapsed after a fire. The sofa looks a little crazy.

7. And this is a house with Pushkin on the terrace. The ceilings are rotten, the floor is collapsing. For example, here, the closet fell down.

8. An old birdhouse next to one of the abandoned vegetable gardens near the house.

10. Typical kitchen in such houses. An old stove, a water heater, a beautiful but dusty mirror and various junk.

11. Children's dolls always look especially creepy.

13. I will show you the foundation of the camp. Rusty letters "ZINGER" on the back.

14. Every village house should have a red corner.

15. On the way past residential buildings, you often come across local residents)

16. Rusty bikes were found on the terrace.

17. But in the room there is a curious clock lying on the floor.

19. This piece of paper really intrigued me. Teaching writing in the 20s. “Arise, branded with a curse, the whole world of hungry and slaves!”

20. In the kitchen of an abandoned house. There are letters underfoot, and an old radio on the wall.

21. All clocks show different times.

22. Cute wooden bookcase.

23. Header photo. The rug looks especially sad. Rus'-troika, where are you going? And really, where...

24. Soviet pinball. Curious thing, never seen before. Although I’ve seen a lot of Chinese 90s. The condition is terrible.

25. One almost completely demolished hut.

27. Notebooks from the 20s, 30s, this time closer. Decorated with portraits of Lunacharsky, Lenin, faces of peasants and pioneers. And of course, “Workers of all countries, unite!”

28. In the house from the 1st photo, we find such a wonderful chest right on the threshold

29. A little bit of May nature from village plots =)

30. And again we find pinball. The condition is not much better.

31. One kitchen. It's strange that everything is just abandoned like that. Despite the apparent order, the dishes were covered in a layer of dust, and the ceiling behind had already collapsed.

32. Nice pre-revolutionary buffet in the room with a piano.

33. The quality of the shot is not very good, but I’ll post it anyway. Interesting content. Geometry notebook from 1929.

35. I want to finish today’s photo report with this shot.

Such abandoned houses make a very sad and painful impression. It feels like part of our culture is going away. The metropolitan way of life is changing the old established way of life. Is it good or bad? How much progress is needed, and what are we striving for? But these are rather philosophical questions, and everyone will have their own answer. That's enough reasoning for today. Until the next reports!

So, we had the following agreement: “My name is Hayk, I am your guide. We will go on a hike through three abandoned villages - Old Halidzor, Old Shinuair, Old Khot. The length of the hike is 16 kilometers.”
This description has one problem - it is very meager and from it it is impossible to understand that everything, miracles have begun. You can only agree at random. If you have the opportunity, agree)
I will break the story about the trip into two parts. In the first there will be cities and mountains and it will seem that it can no longer be better.
And in the second it turns out that it is possible.

So, part one. We go here:

The road begins.
- Wow, trekking poles
- This is to rustle them through the grass and drive away snakes.
(not a joke)

We were very lucky with the weather - it was a little gloomy. Firstly, it’s not better to walk in the heat, and secondly, it’s the burden of centuries, what rays of sun there are here.

We were closely watched the whole way.
When you look at the huge birds from the bottom of the valley you feel a little like a mouse.

We are approaching the first village.
It turns out that this is not a village in the usual sense, it is a city attached to the rocks. Most of the houses are completed caves.

City street and terraced garden

Looks like a giant hidden beast that tenses its paws before jumping

You can see how the masonry is squeezed between two rocky outcrops

Inside.
People lived here until the 60s of the 20th century.
!!!
For a long time there were no passports and there was a ban on movement, so it was impossible to leave here.
Then they built houses upstairs, closer to the road, and moved everyone there. Many did not want to leave; it was a pity to leave their native village.
Almost everyone took the beams with them so that the goods would not be lost.

There are houses “on the ground floor”, and there are caves higher up, which were also inhabited.
They climbed there using ladders or ropes.
If the enemy arrived (these are remote mountains, where does the enemy come from? Where does the enemy have so much energy to even chase people here?!) the ropes and ladders were pulled in and it became very difficult to get into the cave. And from above it was possible to attack the enemy with something.

There is a “well-known rule” - you cannot go on photo tours with a photographer guide, because he will, willingly or unwillingly, choose the best place for shooting and pushing aside his ward.

With Ike you can :) It happened several times that we liked the same angle and he ended up in place a second before me. Well, no big deal, he left after three seconds. But even more times he said: “And you can also take it from here.” “And this is also possible.” Or said something like this bright phrases, which immediately created the plot of the photograph.
(IN his facebook The photographs have very apt names. I am a witness - they are not invented painfully before publication, they are born immediately, on the spot).
And a completely unforgettable moment was in Khndzoresk, when he talked for a long, long time about something with a man on a horse. After the conversation ended, I asked what they talked about. He replied: “Nothing, it’s so you have time to take a picture of him.”

I think Ike gave me this idea:

How organically the masonry fits into the landscape - as a modern city dweller, you can walk by and not notice it.

I look at this photo and even now my head is spinning. A plastered cave wall with plaster the color of withered grass. Behind the mountain, a steep gorge goes down. Birds circle above, stones crumble underfoot. And the feeling of complete desertion and timeless place.

"View from the window"
(smoke and goat trails)

The sudden appearance of an “ordinary” roof is already surprising, it seems like something extraneous.

And suddenly an inhabited house.
Door from the back of the bed (very common method).

But these are bear raisins. Of course, you can’t easily confuse it with blackberries, but sometimes they grow in a single thicket, then you have to be careful what kind of black berries you pick.

And there's a vineyard nearby! The grapes are very tasty.
This is where you want to try homemade wine, in such an amazing valley.

Cemetery
Everything is very organic - from heaven to earth, from past to future.

Looking back - quite a large village:

Stone mushrooms like the ones we have.
There are much fewer of them here, but the principle is the same: hard stones lay on soft rock. The rock was washed out and weathered for centuries, and as a result the stones remained lying, but on “legs” made from the remains of the rock.

Photographer at work.