The Buzludzha Monument wasn’t placed at random. Its location in the middle of the Shipka Pass witnessed a series of famous battles between Bulgarian rebels and the Ottoman Empire in 1868.

A Brutalist concrete tribute to socialism, Bulgaria's UFO-like Buzludzha Monument has sat crumbling and abandoned atop a peak in the Stara Planina mountains since the collapse of communism in 1989.

Built by the Bulgarian Communist regime in 1981, the 14,186,000 leva (£5.3million) Buzludzha Monument eventually became the headquarters for the Party.

Abandoned 'out of this world' UFO-shaped Soviet monument captured in incredible photographs Explorer Bob Thissen snapped the incredible location saying it looked like a scene from a sci-fi film ...

Explore Communist History And Brutalist Soviet-Era Architecture In Bulgaria Beyond the Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria's relationship with the Soviet Union left a stamp all over the country. Under ...

The Buzludzha monument is in an unstable condition and entry is prohibited. But that doesn’t stop it from attracting roughly 50,000 visitors a year including urban explorers and photographers.

The Buzludzha Monument was built toward the end of the Cold War by the Bulgarian communist regime, who hoped it would serve as a prominent and official headquarters for the Bulgarian Communist ...

Welcome to Buzludzha Monument — a historical monument built for the Bulgarian Communist Party. It was finished in 1981 after 8 years of construction, made out 70,000 tons of concrete and 3,000 ...

In 1981, on the 1300th anniversary of the founding of Bulgaria, proud citizens made the three-hour journey en masse from the capital of Sofia to see the newly opened Buzludzha Monument.