Abandoned Opencast Mines in Ukraine: Soviet Iron Dinosourus

Urban explorer climbing on crane

After dissolution of the Soviet Union independent Ukraine don’t need so much industrial objects, even whole cities became abandoned. Another.kiev urbex photo expedition visited two most exiting and impressive abandoned opencast mines in Ukraine they really looks post-apocalyptical. Opposite to Abandoned technics graveyards that we explored in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone this iron gigants not poluted by radiation and they are easy prey for looters.

Urban explorer climbing on crane

Konstantynovsky open-pit mine

This is flooded open-pit mine with a lot of abandoned mining techniques step-by step goes to the bottom. This incredible Soviet iron dinosaurs valley  situated in central Ukraine, next to Alexandria town.

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This is the youngest coal mine of the “Alexandriaugol” – put into operation in 1987. In its best days, it produced more than a million tons of coal per year. Since 2010 coal mine has not worked and it has gradually been flooded. Here you can see a canned 16-bucket rotary excavator ERSHRD-5250 with a mass of 4100 tons, a height of more than 30 m with a conveyor flight length of 190 m. Also available for inspection is the German multi-bucket chain excavator TAKRAF ERs 1120.

huge submerged excavator

We steal pontoon from a dredger on the beach and sailed to climb on excavator.

huge submerged excavator

bucket of a semi-submerged excavator

urban explorers near submerged excavators

One from our team went to climb ERSHRD-5250.

heights of abandoned mining machine

view from the top of flooded abandoned open mining digger

climbing on abandoned excavator absetzer

climbing on abandoned mining machine

Nobody need them and gigant machines will be cut and sell as metal soon.

Digger abandoned excavator cables

Digger abandoned excavator in Ukraine

quarry and submerged excavator

abandoned mine in central ukraine

Abandoned opencast brown coal mine Morozovskiy

Abandoned opencast brown coal mine Morozovskiy is located near the city of Oleksandriya (Kirovograd oblast).

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Морозовский угольный разрез

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There is no roads near by mine, so we were able to explore mine only with 4×4 Niva. This car was made in USSR but still the best for explore. Cheap and angry.

niva raw 4x4 the best soviet offroad car

The enterprise is under liquidation, coal mining is not carried out for 5 years, despite the fact that the brown coal reserves are sufficient for at least another 20 years of active mining.

The mine is flooded by groundwater. Several machines were built before the Second World War.

abandoned excavator in the Morozovo coal mine

Small houses for workers right on the giant excavator

drum rotor of an abandoned excavator

two excavators are completely abandoned

We had with us inflatable boat. So we went down to water and swam to one of excavators.

soon the excavator will go completely to the bottom

we float on an inflatable boat to a submerged excavator

natural erosion of slopes of an abandoned quarry

We swam to abandoned machine by gum boat

it was easy to climb on excavator

Hard to imagine how many human work was needed to built so huge thing. If you ever want to seein while you visiting Ukraine, contact us. We will Try to help you.

worth rust on the bottom of the quarry which is continuously flooded by groundwater

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