TRABZON

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As the helicopters were no longer suitable for flying in European airspace, they were sold privately. The Dutch owner hoped to find an African buyer for them, but his efforts were unsuccessful. In the meantime, the machines had languished for years, suddenly disappeared from view and reappeared just as suddenly, albeit in a particularly pitiful condition. Many parts had been demolished or were lying disassembled in the hold of the helicopters. Previously made agreements to return them to the Rostov-on-Don factory fell through. After all, it would cost a lot of money to make the aircrafts ready to fly again. Since the costs of stocking them started to increase, an intensive search was made for an alternative which now seems to have been found: some aviation museums are interested in including the special helicopters in their collections. However, the final decision on this has yet to be made… 

Currently, the 27-hectare site is owned by a private company that intends to convert the buildings into a village for SMEs, where several companies can establish themselves. 

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Small but sweet… A signal box was a small building where railway officials regulated rail traffic, by operating signals and switches, among other things. During the time that this signal box was active, a manageable number of switches and signals were operated from here. This particular signal box was part of a large railway yard, which mainly served goods transports from the nearby industrial city. The railway yard is still active today, but nowadays the train traffic of the entire area is served from one place. Since 2006, Belgian railway manager Infrabel has been working on a concentration plan at a national level, with one traffic control center. From 2005, the number of signal boxes was systematically reduced from 368 to 31. This signal box was one of many such signal boxes that was abandoned as a result of this concentration plan. 

Karaçam Trabzon,TR

Kackar Mountains National Park Trabzon,TR

I don’t usually visit private houses. For some reason it always feels like invading someone’s privacy, even though the place may have been abandoned for many years… When I do on occasion visit and photograph a house like that, I always try to focus on the decay and not so much on personal items, still lying around. I don’t know anything about the background or history of this house. The upstairs was full of junk, but the downstairs had some nice rooms with lots of mold and decay.

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