There is an abandoned factory right at the entrance to the road that leads to Iskander-Kol, Tajikistan’s pristine mountain lake. It must have taken an incredible amount of strength and will to build a factory in this remote site, but the Soviet’s did it – they’d haul tons of cement and steel to the most inaccessible places to provide jobs, utilize manpower, and extract resources. Now it is an empty shell, a postcard on the way to a vacation spot.
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