Ghost town of Akarmara - Urbex Abkhazia

Akarmara was once a lively mining town built for coal mining by German prisoners captured during World War II. Around 40,000 people lived in the cluster of villages and cities.

Since the 1970s / 80s the war, the economic crisis, together with the end of the USSR shortly after, emptied the city of the 5,000 people who lived there and the mines were closed. Today only 35 residents remained.

In the early 1990s the siege of Tkvarcheli meant that Akarmara was effectively cut off from the rest of Abkhazia as there was only one main road that cut straight through Tkvarcheli. For 413 days the city could no longer supply itself so that it had to rely on helicopter supplies from Russian and separatist forces. The siege of Tkvarcheli still remains the greatest trauma of war for the population.
During the Soviet period, different ethnic groups lived and worked together in the area: Russians, Greeks, Abkhazians, Georgians and Armenians. Many of them left their homes during the war. Today live here mainly Russians and Abkhazians.
In the summer months there is a constant stream of 4x4s with loud music that takes tourists from the coast to the hills to see Akarmara and its mines.

There is talk of restoring the city to a resort to show its forgotten splendor, but this will require a lot of money and since Abkhazia is an unrecognized republic foreign investors are still not interested in buying.

More info: https://abandonedme.com/2019/09/12/the-ghost-town-of-akarmara/

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