Thursday, August 12, 2010

The northernmost island...

in the Kuril archipelago is named Shumshu, and it was host to a small Soviet-era military camp, mostly to defend the island from claims of Japanese ownership. Artifacts litter the ground everywhere, but this monument stands tall above the slowing decaying infrastructure:
This armored personnel carrier sits trackless, rusting away in the tundra:
I was particularly amused by this can of Russian spam:

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