Gallery: Inside the Post-Soviet Towns Built Around a 40,000-Foot Hole
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Vitaly Kuznetsov is an information security specialist in Nikel, Russia. He plans to start a lasertag club.
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Nikel is situated in Murmansk Oblast in the Kola Peninsula of Russia. It has a population of roughly 12,000 people.
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A discarded hard hat near the Kola Superdeep Borehole.
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A empty quarry near Nikel, Russia.
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SOLIDSMOOTH, a dubstep dance duo in Nikel, Russia.
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The train station in Zapolyarny, Russia.
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A street scene in Zapolyarny, Russia.
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A drill sample from the borehole that belongs to the local history museum in Nikel, Russia.
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A empty quarry near Nikel, Russia.
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Mikhail Borisenko as a staff photographer at the nickel factory in Zapolyarny during the Soviet Era.
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A wedding venue in Nikel, Russia.
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A grave monument in Zapolyarny, Russia.
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Wooden building constructed by a Canadian company in the 1920s in Nikel, Russia.
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