These are "Quite Lagoon" and the "Elephant Lagoon."

The road along the Okhotskoe Sea, through Korsakov and to the plant of the Sakhalin-2 Project.

It doesn't mean that the whole town is decaying...just the old Soviet parts. The echo of the Soviet Union.

In 2001 there was an eruption of gas and dirt in the area. It is a dirt volcano.