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A Failed Sugar Factory’s Bitter Legacy In A Ukrainian Ghost Town

By News

January 13, 2022

Built in the 1980s, the Ukrainian town of Tsukrovarov used to be home for workers who operated a local Soviet-era sugar factory. By the time the plant went bankrupt in 2007, most of the population had left and the factory was stripped for scrap metal. But dozens of people still live in abandoned apartment blocks, surviving without basic services.