The tragic fate of city Pripyat is known to all, and to theespecially east slavs. Those, to whom after 30, without effortcan remember alarms 1986 year. Many and trouble of 24-years-old remoteness worries today, all more people areready to pay 70 dollars for an excursion on a dead city, wherethey are waited by the periodically renewed toys in sand-boxes and ominous graffiti, authors which was with disgracedriven out from a city without a right on further visits.
The 20th century progress turned sad consequences for the Earth. Technogenic catastrophes, contamination of soil and air, uncontrolled mining of minerals and raw materials - all this gave birth to ghost cities in Russia. Among the scientists there is even a hypothesis that the Earth self-cleaning, arranging destructive earthquakes and floods Neftegorsk is once a booming city of oilmen on Sakhalin Island. It was wiped off the face of the earth by a devastating earthquake on May 28, 1995. The strength of the tremors was 9 points. Under the ruins of their homes, 2,040 people were killed. Now, on the site of the once prosperous city of oil workers, there are ruins, over which rises a gloomy memorial