7) Plate Hotel, Russia

This, believe it or not, is a tiny little hotel in the skiing region of Dombai in Russia. It has got a 100% killer view to wake up to in the morning. The hotel is stuck up on the unforgiving slopes of Mount Mussa-Achitara, at 2250 meters above sea level. It’s made of polyester reinforced with fiberglass and has just three rooms and a communal fireplace. Apparently it can be dismantled and moved, or simply transported hook, line and sinker by helicopter.

8) Druzhba Holiday Centre, Ukraine

Welcome to Yalta, Ukraine. This bad boy was made in 1984 to support a once bustling resort town. There weren’t many places to go for a beach holiday in Soviet Russia, foreign travel was illegal. So places like Yalta thrived and were visited by rich and poor alike. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 it struggled. The rich now flew abroad for their holidays and the poor had suddenly got poorer and stayed put at home.

9) Kiev Crematorium, Ukraine

Crematoriums are normally the sort of thing you keep out of sight. Behind a hill or away from main centres. Not in the Ukraine it turns out. This massively weird bollock of a thing is the capital’s crematorium. It would be more at home on Tattooine.

So there you go. For all of its sins the Soviet era puked up some pretty bonkers buildings, and for that I am truly thankful.

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