Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in the USSR. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating, coffee-table book.

Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of propaganda along a journey sparsely dotted with statues of Stalin or Lenin, from traditional Moldovan houses to ghosts of the Caucasian wars, by way of petro-chemical factories in the Donbass ... this report invites the reader to relive, through its striking pictures, more than a hundred years of history, from the beginnings of the Soviet period to the legacy of a communist era now fast fading from memory.

Terence Abela has spent nine years travelling across the former USSR unearthing fragments from its past. His love of history, of photographing relics of the past and discovering the unknown, have combined to create this work. Driven by a desire to preserve the heritage abandoned by states that lurch between the threat of nationalism, wars and the will to invent a new history for themselves, he appeals to us through his pictures to protect these mementos which are at risk of disappearing in the not too-distant future.

美丽迷人的苏联废墟照片——曾经辉煌的历史建筑如今饱受自然和时间的蹂躏。

苏联征服太空的遗迹、莫斯科先锋营、沿途斯大林或列宁雕像的宣传遗迹，从传统的摩尔多瓦房屋到高加索战争的幽灵，再到顿巴斯的石油化工厂……本书邀请读者通过引人注目的图片，重温一百多年的历史，从苏联时期的开端到现在迅速从记忆中消退的共产主义时代的遗产。

特伦斯·阿贝拉（Terence Abela）花了九年时间穿梭于前苏联，发掘其过去的碎片。他对历史的热爱，对拍摄过去的遗迹和发现未知的东西的热爱，共同创造了这幅作品。在保护被国家抛弃的遗产的愿望驱使下，他通过照片呼吁我们保护这些行将消失的纪念品，这些国家在民族主义的威胁、战争和为自己创造新的历史之间徘徊。