MAMMOTHS AND VANDALS: A FAILED RUSSIAN UTOPIA

By VICE BLOG

From the Viceland blog: At some unknown point in the nineties, a well-meaning but stupid entrepreneur decided to set up shop in Niigata. This northern Japanese port city is so listless and dull it’d have you confusing internment in North Korea with Young Jeezy’s coke and sodomy fortress. Recognizing its sea trade routes with those along the Siberian shoreline, this industrious fellow decided the Japanese needed a Russian peasant-themed tourist spot. It was abandoned to the vandals soon after.

See the rest of the pictures from this decaying Russo-Japanese outpost here.

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