Irbene is an abandoned army town near Ventspils.

In Soviet times, employees of the space research station "Zvezda" lived here. The town had its own culture house, school and post office.

In the 1990s, the employees of the Soviet station left the city, and the station became the property of the Engineering Institute of the Ventspils University.

The city itself is completely deserted. Here you can walk through empty school classrooms, look into apartments where Soviet officers once lived.

If you like the atmosphere of abandoned places, we recommend entering Irbene on the way to Ventspils or to the Ventspils radio telescope.