Pstrąże, the Post-Soviet Ghost Town, Will Be Demolished

The town will be demolished by order of the military. The information was reported today by TVN24.

"The residential buildings, along with the school building, are remnants of the Soviet troops stationed there until 1992. After that year, the site was looted and destroyed by adventurers, scrap dealers and thieves," says Lt. Col. Jerzy Tomaszewski of the Regional Infrastructure Board in Zielona Góra. From the buildings, "elements of metal lintels in partition walls, radiators, pipes, railings, electrical cables, doors, floorboards, sanitary fixtures, etc." were removed. Poland's ghost town is disappearing. "It was a small Soviet Union" Pstrąże is... read more » — The abandoned buildings now pose a threat to life and health because of their technical condition, emphasizes the RIB representative. Six buildings will disappear by the end of the year. This is not the end, however, as the remaining three are scheduled to be demolished in 2017. "The site will be leveled after demolition and allocated for military training needs," Lt. Col. Tomaszewski revealed.

In 2014, we wrote about the ghost town, presenting a film by brothers Marek and Darek Hoffman from Poznań. The creators of the popular YouTube channels AdBuster and SciFun, this time as Tube Raiders, made a video about Pstrąże near Bolesławiec.