A once hubristic building, adorned with decorative balconies and windows that at one time held un-broken glass. Now the elements encroach through its gapping windows and doors, frost crawling along the walls like a cancer spreading through the bones of its victim. This building is derelict, abandoned and forgotten.
![An abandoned building in Moscow. It's winter and snow lays on the ground.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,3643,2429,700,2429/0-0-0/78d832c1-e9df-4f91-aa65-acda131e5de3/1/1/STU_1031.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=166327081f20adec959a284c7db065b1b1fc072a92988a9ae90dd19412e3b465)
![An abandoned building in Moscow](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/047d622b-0446-461b-9c84-c714d2e1346e/1/1/STU_0286.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
Deep in the cold, menacing bowels of the dereliction live people. In this frightful place they try to survive.
![A women climbs a wooden ladder to enter an abandoned building.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,2400,3600,700,3600/0-0-0/d845d71a-d929-4774-b5c7-c135cbe4fdd8/1/1/STU_0946sm.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=1c513b2f63e39618916b61516d1816f583e67af07e7dfdd53c684fdbe3765fd1)
![The cold, dark stair case inside an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/21e7cbc8-ef22-4733-8001-d011b2c32dba/1/1/STU_1018.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
![A portrait of a mother holding her baby. She is homeless and takes shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1067,1600,700,1600/0-0-0/09cc91b1-c59c-4c84-a5c1-717a7e8e9c8e/1/1/STU_0265.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=82e0e731facd015fd571ffaac7c2519e01073fca8ccdf9b0cf961a1d6be83b8a)
Her baby is lifeless, her baby is a toy doll.
![A portrait of a mother holding her baby. She is homeless and takes shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow. The baby is not real, it is a toy doll.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1067,1600,700,1600/0-0-0/42b65d34-f3f8-484c-9210-f9d6f4f666ed/1/1/STU_0971.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=82e0e731facd015fd571ffaac7c2519e01073fca8ccdf9b0cf961a1d6be83b8a)
![Ice forms on the window of an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/746b8a80-7134-446d-9a14-0cfd069db0a5/1/1/STU_0984.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
“We like to live like primeval hunters. We don’t want to be part of the social system. Every day could be our last day”
![A portrait of a homeless man in an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,2429,3643,700,3643/0-0-0/f8bf0892-d245-438c-83f3-de0116e8c08d/1/1/STU_0266-Editsm.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=b2d0253f5f0dc5db7a735aba2bd44722f8bb52d1d4b58dd06e1612fa22efa024)
![A portrait of a man and woman. They are homeless and take shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow. The woman holds a baby, it is not a real baby it is a toy doll.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/f704726c-64f0-4612-b6be-cba1916570ac/1/1/STU_0981.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
![Graffiti on the wall inside an abandoned building in Moscow, it reads "No one will keep us from death"](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/07daa6e3-a873-447a-ade8-c4f8cd168e3c/1/1/STU_1015.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
![An abandoned building in Moscow](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/278e0d72-a047-4407-8a10-14a7074b4f7f/1/1/STU_0952.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
Further along the hallway past the detritus and through a door sparkling in ice and frost, another couple, Lyudmila and Dmitry.
![A wooden door covered in ice and frost inside an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1067,1600,700,1600/0-0-0/4732dc09-cd00-4e6e-8b76-979384c9aad8/1/1/STU_1009.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=82e0e731facd015fd571ffaac7c2519e01073fca8ccdf9b0cf961a1d6be83b8a)
![A portrait of a man and woman. They are homeless and take shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/6a61162a-9082-4b72-b263-cf7fb3c71dd0/1/1/STU_0987.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
“I fell from a platform and broke my back. I had medical treatment and then my money ran out. I had no place to live”
![The ruins and rubble inside an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/eb8efd68-0487-45cc-ac20-26418b3a4cff/1/1/STU_1013.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)
![A portrait of a homeless man outside an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,3600,2400,700,2400/0-0-0/5466368f-a7a9-4b21-afc1-a41edcfe628c/1/1/STU_0960-Editsm.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=642df0a45f1df5252c72eb3f0281c75143bbdfbb2f607db27360bc8090697634)
![A portrait of a homeless woman in an abandoned building in Moscow. She is lit by a single candle.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,3600,2400,700,2400/0-0-0/a490f5cc-98f4-4649-87ed-4e4886f21bbc/1/1/STU_1005-Edit-DeNoiseAI-low-lightsm.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=642df0a45f1df5252c72eb3f0281c75143bbdfbb2f607db27360bc8090697634)
![Graffiti on the wall inside an abandoned building in Moscow, it reads "Blood From the Eyes"](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,3600,2400,700,2400/0-0-0/689fcfd2-db9c-4bae-adaf-9a2f187ef33d/1/1/STU_1014sm.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=642df0a45f1df5252c72eb3f0281c75143bbdfbb2f607db27360bc8090697634)
![A man walks down a graffiti covered alleyway towards an abandoned building in Moscow.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/7f94bee9-ff47-47ad-9609-075a622e6219/0/0/0/0,0,1600,1067,700,1067/0-0-0/931cf0be-bd56-4cfe-af41-c76448762ad0/1/1/STU_0966.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037560930~hmac=ccdf44f83be498a8774c93d9201d60ef26fd15fbd2f8cc4638ffa1c03ec4bc80)