The abandoned military bases of the Kuril Islands give an amazing insight into recent past. The bay was used by the Soviet Navy as a secret submarine base between 1978 and 1994. It was a home away from home for 3000 Soviet naval personnel and their families until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Now, amid the rusted skeletons of trucks and abandoned three-storey barracks,
credit: Austronesian Expeditions