Pride of place inside the Toktogul power station is a large frieze showing Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and his quote: "Communism is Soviet power and the electrification of the whole country".

It’s probably a dream most of us share, to stumble upon a dusty hall full of fascinating abandoned tech frozen in time as though its operators walked away one day and simply never returned.

This was the first time a President of the USA had been in the Soviet Union since 1945. Nixon met Brezhnev, leader of the USSR. In the 1970s, the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to ...