Gallery: The Snowy Graveyards Where Soviet Subs and Planes Go to Die

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    The only surviving prototype of VVA14, a vertical takeoff aircraft, at the Russian Air Force Museum outside Moscow.
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    Dzerzhinsky, a formerly closed city in Moscow Oblast.
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    Tropospheric antenna in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, northern Russia.
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    A diesel submarine in the Samara region, Russia.
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    The futuristic headquarters of the Communist Party, in the Yugoiztochen region, Bulgaria.
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    A missile test bench in Kyzylorda Region, Kazkakhstan.
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    An antenna built to communicate with Soviet bases on other planets in the Arkhangelsk region, Russia.
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    The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
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