WORDS: SOUAD MSALLEM
It’s still dark as we leave the town that time forgot. Plumes of smoke rise from chimneys atop rows of faded blue wooden houses.
Remnants of an era when Min-Kush was the crown jewel of the Soviet Union’s nuclear programme. It’s a place once so shrouded in secrecy that it didn’t appear on maps. Today, the all-but-abandoned mining town seems destined to disappear from the atlas entirely.