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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1981
SPACE TYPE: Monument, Propaganda place
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
The monument is located on Mount Buzludzha, in Stara Zagora Province. It is the biggest ideological building in Bulgaria and was built as a tribute to the creation of the Bulgarian socialist movement in 1981. Several access roads were built (today in [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Just a few hundred meters away from the lights and the luxury of the winter resort Borovets in Rila mountain, Bulgaria, there is a place which looks like forgotten from many years. The photo shows an abandoned ski jump track, very close to theBorove [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Shop
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The complex office and commercial building of the local agricultural and consumer cooperatives in the village of Podvis, Karnobat region, Bulgaria. The ground floor accommodates shops for fabrics, clothes and shoes, a cafe, a restaurant and a yout [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Shop
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A modernist commercial centre of the local consumer cooperative in the village of Prilep in Bulgaria from (probably) the early 1970s. According to the remains of the neon signs the two- floor building accomodated a restaurant, ironmongery shop and [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1981
SPACE TYPE: Monument
In the Bulgarian mythology, well before the appearance of human beings, the earth was inhabited by a race of giant named the Ispolini. It is difficult not to invoke these mysterious figureheads while walking the site of the «Founders of the Bulgari [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1974
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The ‘’Hillock of fraternity’’ monument symbolizes a Thracian hillock. It reminds of a stone wreath from above. A 90m long sculpture composition inside the monument is dedicated to the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, the The Unifi [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Shop
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A fruit and vegetables shop of the former state monopolist company "Bulgarplod", from the 1960s. Located in the Hadji Dimitar housing estate, Sofia [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1964
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
One of the most notable sculptures dedicated to the partisans is the monument in the village of Balvan, near Veliko Tarnovo. The figures of the guerrilla fighters, also known as "shumkari" because they usually operated out of forests, stand on a c [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
These images were taken at the now abandoned, ruined and derelict "Kranostroene" crane-building factory in Aytos, Bulgaria. The factory had been operational since the 1970s and had manufactured cranes for local industry and for export abroad to Europ [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1981
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Demolished
The monument was built on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian State. It was completed in a hurry (construction only took eight months), which resulted in low quality controls. The monument is located in the So [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1977
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This massive Memorial Complex was erected in 1977 to celebrate the memories of whom who falled during the Russian- Turkish Liberation War. This brutalist monument reached 50 feet tall and includes giants statues of a Russian officer alongside six [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The former Hydrostroy complex, located near the village of Debelt, Bulgaria is now completely abandoned. There are a number of smaller buildings surrounding the main office and operations building showed in this photos. The Hidrostroy company has bee [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The yarn factory was built in the 1970s in the east suburbs of the town of Kyustendil. The factory was named after the medieval name of the town: Velbyzhd. The facade has preserved the graphical decoration and the propaganda slogan "Let turn the [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This monument located in the village of Topchiysko, Bulgaria, is a socialist monument to partisan fighters that died in the summer of 1944, while fighting for the communist regime which was soon to come to power. These were all people from the regi [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1954
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The Monument to the Soviet Army was built in 1954 in Sofia, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the liberation by the Soviet Army. The monument is surrounded by a large park where many young people gather. The monument is located on Tsar Osvo [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1971
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A photo of one of the administration buildings of the abandoned oil refinery Plama Pleven located near the city of Pleven in Bulgaria. The refinery was open in 1971 as a state-owned enterprise. In 1996 the whole facility was privatized, but the n [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This is the abandoned building of the former Factory for capacitors (transliterated "Zavod za kondenzatori") in the suburbs of the city of Kyustendil. Electronic industry in Bulgaria was one of the perspective economic branches in the 1970 and 198 [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Shop
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
An abandoned commercial centre. Probably there were a supermarket, a café and other shops with curved glasses at the entrances [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This 37 meter high monument is located at the highest point (1550 m) of the Troyan-Karnare pass in the Balkan Mountains (Stara planina). The arch commemorates the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman empire during the R [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Bulgarplod factory building in Sevlievo, Bulgaria, was a fruit and vegetable processing warehouse that belonged to "Bulgarplod" (literally "Bulgarian Fruit") - a state-owned produce and food supplier that, more-or-less, went belly-up after the fa [...]
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SPACE TYPE: School
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This is an abandoned kindergarten from socialist times, located in the town of Apriltsi, Bulgaria. The building and whole lot, including a Russian-made MIG-17F airplane, have been sitting abandoned for years. There are lots of artifacts from schoo [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Theatre
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
One of the biggest theatres in Bulgaria, abandoned since the fall of the Iron Curtain [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares's factory, situated 4 km out of Sofia's city limits at the time in what is today the Zaharna Fabrika ("sugar factory") neighbourhood, was opened on 28 November 1898 in the presence of Bulgarian monarch Prince Ferdin [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
A barely visible invocations salute you from the pediment: "Viva the nations fighting for peace" and "Welcome Congress". Just few meters away lies the modern subway station G.M.Dimitrov, but nearby residents have forgotten the purpose of these rui [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Depot, Station/rail
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Close to the former industrial train station named "Pioneer", whose railway was recently disassembled despite several protests, these storehouses and former plants from the communist era is now irreversibly lost. Not far from the heart of the city [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1962
SPACE TYPE: Sports facility
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
An abandoned ski lift. Built in 1962, it was the first ski lift in Bulgaria [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1945
SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A secret bunker built around 1945 for the exclusive protection of the Bulgarian leaders during WWII, the Cold War and other attacks. Bunkers are usually built underground, but because of the high water level this one is above. It has two secured exi [...]
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