A Russian company, Alekseevskoye-Serviss, bought an entire Latvian town for EUR 2.2 million at a privatization auction. The former military installation of Skrunda-1 is deserted and its 70 buildings are in disrepair. The town used to be home to 5,000 military personnel, who worked two enormous radar facilities in the area. The property spans 45 hectares and has several residential buildings, a school, officers club, sauna, and a medical clinic. Skrunda-1, which is located in Latvia's Kuldiga region, was built in the 1980s. The military installation had one of the so-called Hen House radar systems that could listen to objects in space and watched the skies for NATO missiles. The Pechora radar facility was a 19-story building that soared over the Kurzeme countryside. It was exploded by US demolition experts in 1995. The last residents left Skrunda-1 in 1998. No one has lived there since.
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