## Cancer hospital

Perhaps I, Mutabor, is growing old, as I find out new location from newspapers reading. You might guess that now I'll narrate about one of such places. I'd found out an address from the official issue of St. Petersburg Government, and it led to some consequences. At first I'd visited this location alone, going back from work. I had easily entred the house and found out that here was a hospital before (newspaper said nothing about it). I had ramblered in the entangled corridors, picked up some artifacts and left the building with an intention to return here in day-time and with a photo camera.

Before the next visit I had inquired about the location. It was turned out that the abandoned buildings (in fact they were two plus yard outhouses) first were the property of E. N. Naryshkina and N. M. Lamsdorf. Then these buildings many times were changing their destination: in particular, here were housed (in diffrent time) the Artillery Department Staff and the Plants Protection Station. Since 60th years of XX century the 8th Municipal Cancer Hospital took place here.

So, after some time together with Lanivs we have visited this place once again (pic 1). In order to inspect buildings systematically we decided to start from basement. As it often happens, the basement was in better condition than upper floors. Here we were pleased by Soviet safety posters (pic 2). In one room we found quite ravaged card index boxes; the label on one of the remaining boxes caused us smile (pic 3). At all, this basement was appeared to be not so empty as it might be expected for these buildings, which had been abandoned (as we found out) more than a year. We often saw remainders of various medical stuff, sometimes quite dangerous like this heap of mercury thermometers, partly broken (pic 4). We paid attention to brutal wash-tubes, probably used for medical inventory cleaning (pic 5).

Finally, rambling through the basement, we had reached its end (as it seemed to us that time) and passed to the yard (pic 6). Having some walk there (pic 7), we entered buildings once again and continued inspection of the upper floors. Here we had found a lift stopped at one of the floors (pic 8). Having stepped one floor up we had had a look on its cabin from top (pic 9). After that we stepped down by a peeled stairs (pic 10) and entered the basement again for a short time since we understood that we didn't see all basement (it was divided in some parts; one could get from one part to another only having rose upstairs) (pic 11, 12). Probably the basement was the most interesting part, because the rest of the buildings was so ravaged that there was almost nothing to see (pic 13). One could take note only of few details (pic 14). Or just saw the sights of the Petersburg centre from the balcony (pic 15, 16).

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