Soviet History in Georgia

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city