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Georgia holds many decaying Soviet-era ruins. These include spa towns, culture houses, cable cars, bus stops and cinemas.
Sanatorium Metalurgi is a former Soviet resort in Tskaltubo, Georgia. Inside are a palatial elegant foyer, theatre, and a grand dining hall.
Sanatorium Imereti (Tskaltubo, Georgia) is a grand ruin featuring a stunning three-storey split-flight staircase, concert rotunda and stage.
Sanatorium Meshakhte (Shakhtiori) is a Soviet-era health retreat in Georgia. The architecture blends Stalinist and traditional Georgian styles.
Tskaltubo Train Station was once a bustling arrival point for Soviet holidaymakers. It now stands abandoned beside the disused railway line.
Inside the Sanatorium Tbilisi courtyard lies an oasis, encircled by Soviet concrete. Palm trees surround a central fountain, flanked by columns.
Culture House was once a focal point for workers' culture and community in a prosperous Soviet-era tea-growing region of western Georgia.
Spanning a small river on the outskirts of a town, the “bridge” is in fact an old Soviet railway carriage laid above the turbulent waters.
Hotel Sakartvelo is a ruin in the spa town of Tskaltubo, Georgia. The pool is adorned with ocean-themed mosaics, and a beautiful fig tree.
Laguna Vere is an outdoor leisure complex in Tbilisi, Georgia. It has an Olympic-sized pool, now filled with silt and wild growing plants.
The Former Pioneer Palace stands atop a hillside overlooking Chiatura, Georgia. Once a bustling cultural centre, it is now a crumbling ruin.
The Soviet Cable Car Network in Chiatura (Georgia) once carried miners, residents and ore between the mountain mines and the town below.
Sanatorium Iveria is a prominent ruin in the old spa town of Tskaltubo. A crumbling reminder of the days when Georgia was part of the USSR.
Mountain Hospital is a derelict medical complex in rural Georgia. Inside is like travelling back in time to a USSR hospital.
Culture House Acropolis lies decaying in a small mountain town in Georgia. A relic of the Soviet era, built in the 1950s for local workers.
Bathhouse Number 8 is an abandoned spa for to Soviet workers. It offered communal bathing and treatments with therapeutic spring waters.
Sanatorium Medea, is an impressive ruin of a Soviet-era spa, and once the grandest in the district of Tskaltubo in western Georgia.
An abandoned Soviet-era MiG-19 fighter jet stands mounted on a high plinth, its nose peeks out from the trees that surround it.
