Ghost Town in Abkhazia – level 3

Ghost Town in Abkhazia

06-07-2022 15:00

Akamara in Abkhazia is a ghost town given up to nature. People built the mining town back in the 1970s in the Soviet Union and it had 5,000 residents.

After the collapse of the USSR, the town was in Georgia. However, there was a war during 1992–93 when Abkhaz separatists broke from Georgia which led to the first exodus.

The second emigration took place during the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia. Today, there are only 35 residents left and the forest is reclaiming public areas and abandoned buildings.

Difficult words: resident (a person who resides – lives somewhere), USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics = Soviet Union), separatist (a person who wants to separate an area of a country to become a new country), exodus (a big emigration), reclaim (take back what was once yours), abandoned (not used, without any people).

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