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In 1999, ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Oddy spent a month exploring one of the Soviet Union’s lesser-known legacies - the sprawling network of some 2500 sanatoria that had once been an integral part of the country’s healthcare system.

Armed with his large format camera, Oddy traveled between Odessa and Yalta. His aim was to coax these institutions - that had been the Eastern bloc’s equivalent of spas - into revealing something about the obsolete political system that had led to their creation.

Inside places such as the Magnolia Prophylactorium (previously the Buildings, Roads …