Eerie beauty: Abkhazia ghost town is being reclaimed by nature

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Akarmara was built after World War II. Mining production kicked off soon after and in the 1980s it was home to around 40,000 Soviet citizens. All that changed with the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict in the early ’90s. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9hjo

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