Socialist INFRA

First photograph from Brut Group, second from Wikimedia, final from Istvan on Flickr. 

Built in 1971 and closed in 2011 on the completion of Terminal 2. Despite cracks in the tower, there are plans to list the terminal complex as a national monument.

The furnace was built in 1946 and has been abandoned for some years. This video shows the beginning of the dismantling of the furnace for scrap.

Control Tower,  Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (formerly Budapest Ferihegy Airport), built 1977. 

Built in 1950 in the village of Mostyska Druhi, it is a situated on the Przemyśl-Lviv railway and is a vital gateway into Ukraine for travellers from Poland. Mostyska I is situated about four miles east in the city of the same name.

The locomotives in the video are MÁV M41 Series (nicknamed “Rattles”) built by the Mávag works between 1972 and 1984. 

The water tower was designed by M. Reisher and completed in 1931. Uralmash, or Ural’s’kiy Mashinostroitelnyy Zavod (Urals Machine-Building Plant), originally produced heavy equipment for the Urals’ mining and metallurgical industries. Later the plant produced military equipment, including the T-34 tank, before returning to heavy industry.  The area of workers’ homes around the plant is also called Uralmash.

Photography by Paul Zeng. 

Built 1969, designed by Irina Rosetti who was the architect of the station at Tulcea. The outside of the station can be seen in this video.  Photographs by Alexandru Mircea.