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View from the balcony upstairs Theatre Theater Entertainment Hall Tbilisi Georgia Soviet era Adam X AdamXPhotos Urbex Urban Exploration 2018 2019 Abandoned Access History decay ruins lost forgotten derelict location creepy haunting eerie security

Explores #240 and #240A (revisit): Ex-Soviet Theatre and Entertainment Hall, Tbilisi, Georgia – October 2018 and July 2019

Explore #4 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour History This theatre and entertainment hall was built over a century ago in the European Neoclassical style. During the Soviet era it was used as a cinema / movie theatre, and was the meeting place of Officers in the army. Other parts of the complex were a gathering place for poets, musicians, and other artists, as well as journalists. Whilst the rest of the building is still in use to this day, this…

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Ornate inside graffiti Cable car cableway station closed Tbilisi Georgia Soviet era Adam X Urbex Urban Exploration 2018 Abandoned Access History decay ruins lost forgotten derelict location creepy haunting eerie security Rustaveli Avenue mount Mtatsminda Georgian National Academy of Sciences

Explore #239: Rustaveli Avenue Cableway Station, Tbilisi, Georgia – October 2018

Explore #3 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour History (rewritten and abridged from here, here, and here) The lower station of the Mtatsminda cableway was designed by architect Konstantine Chkheidze, and is set in the grounds of the Academy of Sciences. Construction completed in October 1959, and its design has drawn comparisons with Frank Lloyd Wright’s far more celebrated Guggenheim Museum, which was built in New York in the same year. The station has a sense of space and airiness, with…

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Monument to Saint Nino Archeological Museum Drone Aerial from above Front entrance Soviet Monument to Saint Nino Tbilisi Georgia Soviet era Adam X Urbex Urban Exploration 2018 Abandoned Access History decay ruins lost forgotten derelict location creepy haunting eerie security

** Bonus Post ** Kutaisi and Tbilisi murals and architecture, Georgia – October 2018

Bonus Post #1 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour Whilst this blog/site/photographic journal is focussed on my Urban Exploration, I also throw in the occasional post which shares locations which don’t strictly fall into my definition of Urbex (loosely, stuff which is off limits or not ordinarily seen by the general public). My trip to Georgia included many such non-urbex sites of interest, so here’s part one… Kolkheti mural, Kutaisi As we travelled from Tskaltubo to Tbilisi we stopped briefly at…

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