Urbex investigators discovered the ruins of the old River Pilot Station near Rostov-on-Don on the banks of the Don River. Thank you to the previous owners for not adorning the center lobby with one-of-a-kind chandeliers.
River Pilot Station was located on the banks of the Don River near Rostov-on-Don and directed the movement of ships and vessels on the Don River. As of now, the building has been abandoned, and no additional renovations are planned.
Within, Urbex researchers discovered the remnants of a raucous past: corridors, leather furniture, rooms, a sauna, a swimming pool, and a bizarre mirrored chamber. Thank you to the previous owners for not adorning the center lobby with one-of-a-kind chandeliers! In general, owing to the participants and guardians for their vigilance, the Pilot station is in a lovely, perishable condition of authentic post-up.
History of Abandoned River Pilot Post
In the early 1890s, the pilot post emerged on the island of Pereboinom near the mouth of the girla Egurcha in Taganrog Bay. His major responsibility was to send information about the water level in the Don girls to the captains of ships. A telegraph and a mast were erected for this purpose, on which visual signs with numbers were hoisted. The mast was positioned on the roof of a tall faceted rotunda, above the center of a one-story extended construction.
Professor Alexander Popov, a distinguished scientist, came to the pilot station in 1901, having been requested by the Committee of the Don Girls to establish a receiving and transmitting radio equipment. He had already constructed comparable radio stations in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt.
The equipment was modified at the pilot station and the floating lighthouse (a distance of 12 kilometers), which took many days. On August 27, 1901, the radio station’s operations began.
Alexander Popov returned to the island of Pereboyny in August 1902.
As a consequence, radio connection between the pilot post, the floating lighthouse, the Rostov port, and ships sailing on the Sea of Azov was established. This civilian radio station operated for more than 10 years until being handed to the military department when World War I broke out.
The demolished wooden building of the pilot station was transferred to the Don’s left bank and reconstructed near the Rostov railway bridge in the late 1940s, handing over to the Dynamo water station.
On the island of Pereboin, a modest stone building was built for the pilot station, which was restored multiple times and today houses a historic plaque devoted to the world’s first radio program.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, a recreation complex was built on the site of the former Dynamo water sports base. Sauna parties were held at the old River Pilot Station building in the 1990s and 2000s. The structure was later shuttered and abandoned.
