The USSR automated the Aniva lighthouse and withdrew all the workers in 1990. It continued to be powered by atomic batteries until 2006, since when it has been abandoned. Now tourists come to peer ...

The abandoned ... lighthouse while it was under USSR control. Its remote location made delivering supplies and spare parts to the workers challenging. This led to officials deciding to make the ...

When it was operational the 31-meter-high Aniva lighthouse could comfortably accommodate 12 people. For almost 30 years, however, the lighthouse has been abandoned and is slowly collapsing under ...

Every year, hundreds of tourists make the perilous climb to the top of a degrading nuclear lighthouse in far-eastern Russia. The abandoned structure is perched on a remote rock at Cape Aniva ...