In pictures: a British adventurer and photographing the places of `Soviet ghosts`!

Written By ديانا الحموري on 2014/07/23

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com- The military bases, hospital wards and abandoned cinema halls are still surrounded by secrecy, in which <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/بالصور-جزيرة-جميلة-جداً-تحولت-الى-مدينة-أشباح">ghosts</a></strong> live behind the former Soviet Union, which prompted photographer Rebecca Lichfield to risk her life in order to experience the experience of photographing these places.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Lichvid risked exposure, arrest and interrogation while attempting to photograph army barracks and laboratories, old female warriors&#39; graves and old silos and gymnasiums.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">According to the British newspaper &quot;Daily Mail&quot;, Lichvid, 32, who lives in southeast London, traveled to nine countries that were part of the Soviet Union to appear in her book &quot;Soviet Ghosts&quot;, as her first visit was to &quot;Chernobyl&quot;, the site of the catastrophic nuclear accident in 1986 in October 2012.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">She has also visited many places in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the</span> <span style="line-height:1.6em">former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.</span> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Power is everywhere.&quot;</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">She added, &quot;There are serious consequences when you are arrested. We were able to remain hidden throughout our journey, and we were trying to evade them as much as possible, sneaking at night and walking through the trees while the security was asleep, but despite this care, on our third day we found a&quot; base Secret old radar &quot;While we were preparing to go to it, we were surprised by the presence of military forces who did not seem happy, except that after some negotiations they allowed us to continue our journey through the former Soviet Union.&quot;</span></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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