Artist Creates Awesome Fantastic Four Poster Using Abandoned Russian Hospital

Usually you don't want your hospital to be associated with the word "doom," but that's the reality for a Russian town whose abandoned medical center looks suspiciously like the face of the Fantastic Four's most formidable foe from the air.

Fan art ninja and friend of the site BossLogic took an aerial photo of Hovrinskaya, an abandoned hospital in Moscow. The original photo is one of more than twenty shots of the facility shared on a message board by people exploring modern-day ruins, abandoned construction sites, etc.

But somebody got it in their head that the building reminded them of Dr. Doom -- especially with the triangular slice of greenery that outlines it like the hood he wears in the comics -- and BossLogic went to town.

When an abandoned Russian hospital makes for a good @FantasticFour poster pic.twitter.com/8wRfEUideF

— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) May 30, 2016

Here's a loose translation of what the photographer said about the project:

For many years, a huge building that looks like a ghost ship, frightens its inhabitants view Hovrina, district on the northern outskirts of Moscow. This monument to the Soviet long-term construction has long been popularly notorious.

Hovrinskuyu abandoned hospital is often called the house of horrors, or the citadel of darkness, and that is a very good reason. What nightmares or have seen in their lifetime these dark walls! It all began in 1981. While Moscow authorities have conceived to build on the edge of a huge medical complex, which had no analogues in the Soviet Union. According to the project, a new hospital consisted of six 10-storey buildings and had to accommodate 1,300 inpatients (note for comparison that in the Sklifosovsky Hospital, a total of just over 900 beds).

In 1985, construction in general has been completed, building even brought some medical equipment. But then suddenly turned the project. According to knowledgeable people, it were two more reasons: First, do not have enough finances to complete the construction and decoration of the building, and secondly, after the construction of the building to reveal problems with the foundation, the hospital could have collapsed, and the chances for passage of the host committee are equal zero.

As a result, the project was closed and banned. That's just destroying already built no one, the hospital remained of the building on which the wind howled, and at times there occur strange and gloomy stories. At first, unfinished hospital guarded by the military, was considered strategically important object. But "perestroika and acceleration of socio-economic development", as used to say then CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, we were in full swing. And everyone had gone to the unfinished hospital, though she was considered a strategic target.

According to one version, the culprit - a lack of funds, which was common at the beginning of perestroika. On the other hand, which later became more obvious - because of an error in the draft. The instability of the soil under the foundation, or more simply quicksand, eventually led to the fact that the main building was a draft and give deeper dive into the ground. During the time that has elapsed since the beginning of the 1980s, this sludge was 12 meters.

Multi-storey building in Hovrino built in the style of brutalism. Building type is original and not quite typical for administrative buildings in the Soviet period. Hospital building is shaped with a triangular cross extra branching at the ends. The hospital has 2 buildings: the main building, reminiscent of the shape of a star and ophthalmic building, which was located a mortuary and crematorium.

Local old-timers give another reason why hovrinskuyu hospital from the very beginning plagued failures. It is said that earlier in place of the vacant lot was an old cemetery. It was razed to the ground in 1960, but to build something on the site, according to residents of the area, was a mistake. Since the last worker left the area, reinforced concrete giant began its own life, full of mystery and tragedy.

Since the beginning of the 80s of the last century in the vicinity of the hospital are missing, have been killed and maimed many people, and the walls Hovrinki, as it is often called, have become a haven for all sorts of shady characters.

That...totally sounds like a place Doctor Doom would enjoy. So...kudos. I think?