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Explore #242: Three Houses of Culture, rural Georgia – October 2018

Explore #6 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour Continuing our Georgian road trip, we spent a great day exploring the countryside for abandoned ‘Houses of Culture’. These were once grand village halls / cultural centres which formed the hubs for community gatherings during Soviet times. We found three during the day, each with their own character… The ‘Blue’ House of Culture Our first find was this lost gem, abandoned on the outskirts of a small rural village. It was memorable for…

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Abstract Detail shot of apartments Drone aerial view side Nutsubidze Plato 1 I Saburtalo District apartment blocks skywalk sky bridge Brutalist architecture 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

** Bonus Post ** Nutsubidze Plato 1 Skybridge Apartments, Laguna Vere Swimming Pool, Tbilisi Sunset, and Soviet Mechanics murals, Tbilisi, Georgia – October 2018

Bonus Post #2 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour Here are a few more ‘non urbex’ shots, taken at various spots in and around Tbilisi… Nutsubidze Plato 1 Apartments Located in the Saburtalo District of Tbilisi, this trio of brutalist apartment blocks were designed by the architects Otar Kalandarishvili and Guizo Potskhishvili and constructed between 1974-1976. The apartments are still occupied to this day, with its lifts operated by coin, and the ‘sky bridge’ walkways falling into disrepair along with the…

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Broken piano classroom Abandoned School rural Soviet era Georgia Adam X AdamXPhotos Urbex Urban Exploration 2018 2019 Abandoned Access History decay ruins lost forgotten derelict location creepy haunting eerie security

Explore #241: Abandoned School, and WW2 memorial, Georgia – October 2018

Explore #5 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour After leaving Tbilisi, we drove out into the Georgian countryside to hunt down some possible leads from our research. Our mission was to visit various small villages to try and find abandoned ‘Houses of Culture’ – very grand village halls / cultural centres which formed the hubs for community gatherings during Soviet times. Our search was fairly successful, and my reports of those are coming up right after this one… Abandoned School, somewhere…

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