Azerbaijan's $100BN Failed Islands

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From dozens of man-made islands, to a massive 1km tall skyscraper that would have been the tallest building in the world, these are Azerbaijan’s ambitious Khazar Islands! But today, more than a decade since it was unveiled to the public, only a few undeveloped islands and unfinished buildings remain on site. So, what actually happened here? Have the islands completely been abandoned?
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0:00 Azerbaijan's $100BN Failed Islands
0:43 Azerbaijan
2:37 The Khazar Islands
6:52 The Failure & Cancellation
9:48 The Future of Khazar Islands
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@MegaBuildsYT 27 күн бұрын

What do you think, could this project ever be really completed? 🤔 We made a mistake at 1:27. The tool we use to animate the maps incorrectly added Crimea to Russia. We stand with Ukraine and do not support this view and therefore apologize! Which projects should we cover next? 👇

@aidira84 27 күн бұрын

Idk

@Virtualversatility1 27 күн бұрын

Irish Sea bridge

@savemc6181 27 күн бұрын

I may actually invest in this project because of your video, they could use the help.

@defaulton 27 күн бұрын

Seems like we have a investor in the comments.

@ritwiktrehan 27 күн бұрын

@@savemc6181bro's trynna be cool

@jovanleon7 27 күн бұрын

Oil money is a hell of a drug.

@jamilshekinski 27 күн бұрын

As an Azerbaijani, I'm happy this project didn't take off. Azerbaijan has MUCH bigger issues to address than building artificial islands and competing with Gulf countries in di**-measuring contests.

@kallekas8551 27 күн бұрын

😂👍

@o_s-24 27 күн бұрын

Lmao "d*ck-measuring contest" is the best phrase I've heard describing this

@sano5121 27 күн бұрын

Hi , Im intending to visit Azerbaijan next month , can you help answer some questions? Thanks

@xxdesertstorm 27 күн бұрын

right while your country commits terrorist acts and steals land hmmm sounds like a Putin lap dog

@user-tg5bo7gz5s 27 күн бұрын

I wouldn't agree. Our position on global arena is quite poor and projects like that could earn more money for us to develop. We need that money for example for liberation of #southazerbaijan which includes Tabriz, Zanjan, Tehran, Urmia, Kum, Gazvin, Hamadan, Ardabil and other cities

@johnnymac6178 27 күн бұрын

That tower looks amazing but I really don't think the world needs anymore of these type of projects. There are so many better things humanity can do with the money and resources. Great video as always Regis.

@jamesrawlins735 25 күн бұрын

They are still in love with giant skyscrapers in Chicago. The Trump Tower (2009) is 1,388 feet tall. In 2020 they completed the St. Regis, which is 1,198 feet tall. One Chicago East (2022) is "only" 973 feet tall - and they are working on a pair of towers that will only be around 800 feet tall - but it wasn't that long ago that a proposed 2,000 foot tall building called the Chicago Spire was finally abandoned (too many legal obstacles). That plus a 900 foot tall apartment building that went up in 2019 shows that Chicago loves it's skyscrapers.

@Lifts_QWERTY 27 күн бұрын

Dubai can’t even complete any new projects because it’s too ‘unrealistic’. We don’t have the money or resources. If Dubai can’t do any crazy -rejects like this, no other country can.

@Vibe_Boss 27 күн бұрын

Dubai isnt A Country, its A City

@nabangokashyap5218 27 күн бұрын

Except China!

@xxdesertstorm 27 күн бұрын

yet they slow production of oil to price gouge it to profit of it

@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd 26 күн бұрын

@@nabangokashyap5218 Are you completely unaware of the collapse of China's property sector?

@Amm17ar 26 күн бұрын

Yeah, especially when Dubai uses migrant workers, pays them nothing, gives them little to no rights and prevents them from any sort of career in the country, lets them live in slums, die of exhaustion and just barely survive while their passports are taken hostage and forced to pay back money.... Easy to build a city for the 1% when you use modern slavery. So yeah any country with any sort of decent human rights is going to struggle to build anything close to what they built.

@vTransQueen 27 күн бұрын

I want to see a mega project that is just a shit ton of affordable housing

@tamasvarga67 27 күн бұрын

No way! They couldn’t compete in the dick measuring contest with that…

@dryteishere289 27 күн бұрын

Uh no i don't think any country wants to do that. I don't think they even know what "affordable housing" means

@planetdisco4821 23 күн бұрын

why? Gujarat needed the world's tallest statue! other impoverished autocratic nations need things like a city constructed entirely of marble that nobody actually is allowed to live in or the worlds largest indoor ferris wheel. how are those of us that perform the actual labor fort the insanely wealthy supposed to kno0w who is in charge otherwise lol....

@user-vb6df4sd8d 22 күн бұрын

@@planetdisco4821nobody cares about India

@emptiester 22 күн бұрын

I want to see people take personal responsibility for their inabilty to adress their basic needs and perpetually bitching about how they have to pay for necessities.

@dralakbarov 19 күн бұрын

I'm Azerbaijani and also happy to see that this project failed. This would've increased inequality even to further level. Azerbaijan needs to focus on more acute issues such as water shortages and Caspian Sea's shrinking.

@raf1q_sw 26 күн бұрын

As an Azerbaijani, it's sad that I was a kid back then and didn't hear about that comedy show. How can one "businessman" get $100B investment with a "project" that's just a ripoff of Dubai islands he "planned" in 20 MINUTES? Props to Regis for not laughing during the entire video lol

@Lurkzz 25 күн бұрын

Armenian covert mission perhaps haha

@phdonme1 18 күн бұрын

Wut? Conspiracy theory much?

@inertiaMS 25 күн бұрын

It's hilarious that the places that most want to build skyscrapers and make islands are also the places with unlimited land and zero need for more space.

@percypower6876 27 күн бұрын

I am here to contribute absolutely nothing to this comment section.

@Iweumati-td4mb 27 күн бұрын

U rock 😂😂

@dovidmaslin9710 27 күн бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@NYC_LIBERAL 26 күн бұрын

Yet, you have ended up contributing _much more_ than expected. 😅

@gregoryturk1275 26 күн бұрын

Thank you Mr spoiler blocker

@lazykipper 23 күн бұрын

I applaud your work.

@richardellis69 27 күн бұрын

The 3D work is excellent and adds a lot to the vid!

@danhutchins3237 25 күн бұрын

Looks like these islands/cities were about as well thought out as "The line"

@vanceking354 27 күн бұрын

Great job! Always a blast to watch! Thank you.

@joeyjoe7930 27 күн бұрын

We need to stop trying to build these high buildings and start thinking about sustainability.

@Kodakcompactdisc 27 күн бұрын

Real men don’t care about sustainability

@jamesrawlins735 25 күн бұрын

Sadly a lot of them are like the towering skyscrapers that China built over the past 2 decades. Terrible construction and they can't get tenants - and now the economy is tanking - that's how you end up with ghost cities.

@igoromelchenko3482 25 күн бұрын

Start thinking in general, would be good enough 😅

@ivanlefou9450 22 күн бұрын

The oil money must be spent and, in these countries, it's the least harmful way of spending. Some workers can benefit of the oil windfall

@philipmurphy2 26 күн бұрын

Great job, MegaBuilds is always interesting to watch and far better then any sport

@shogunhk 26 күн бұрын

This might be the most hideous skyscraper ever designed. Thank god it is not being built.

@Yusef-uh4wl 24 күн бұрын

This is why indonesia is different. It builds city for ppl to live and work. West asia and central asia build cities to show off

@KingMidasTha5th 25 күн бұрын

Always love the graphics on this channel good shit!

@lordofvurgun187 27 күн бұрын

No need these islands. As Azerbaijani i think We still need 10 years to boost our economy and all. Good thing I can tell is, we are developing in a faster pace. Yet I think these Islands would be nothing but fiasco, since Dubai already exists with high rise buildings. You need more than tall buildings to attract people. Great coverage though.

@imrannaim5234 20 күн бұрын

Great graphics & modelling. Cheers

@Up_Sikit 27 күн бұрын

Great documentary!

@klsar1 27 күн бұрын

Money makes people become stupid

@TangerineUnicornDesign 27 күн бұрын

Sounds like yet another example of an overly ambitious property developer out for personal profit getting absolutely spanked by reality. Which is lovely to see.

@shauncameron8390 23 күн бұрын

With the property developer being the government.

@christopherchapman9505 Күн бұрын

Great video, thanks… KEEP IT UP

@idioticplayz_ 27 күн бұрын

Amazing megaprojects, though no hope of finishing.

@antomano5623 27 күн бұрын

👍

@jamesrawlins735 25 күн бұрын

Chicago actually had plans for a 2,000 foot skyscraper called the Chicago Spire - too many legal challenges stopped it. However, they are putting in a pair of 800-foot tall buildings in the same place.

@cliffwoodbury5319 27 күн бұрын

Could have been a jewel on the Caspian shore! This project intrigues me so much and I preriodically look at its progress, and have been hoping this project would be completed. This sea is one of the great water bodies on this planet and this shouldn't be it's only amazing location to visit (if built) and hopefully in the future more amazing places are built along its shores....

@MehraliyevFuad 27 күн бұрын

Totally agree about beauties of Caspian shore but not these guys. Lack of information misleading some ppl in wrong direction.

@grahamnancledra7036 26 күн бұрын

I worked and lived in Azerbaijan for eight and a half years from 2005, so I was around for the announcement of the project and the start of the construction. I passed by the site every work day. To be honest, each time I saw the site I had no faith that it would ever be completed. My local friends, and I had plenty of them, saw absolutely no need for the project or how it was to be funded. I'm not surprised that it's been abandoned. I'm sorry for the waste of money that could have been put into better projects that the nation needs. In my time, I saw major changes to Baku, but I also saw the ruthlessness in which people were evicted from the family homes to make way for new roads, shops, sports stadiums, hotels and so on. No wonder investors are hard to find.

@jamesrawlins735 25 күн бұрын

Even if by some miracle they could have finished, I wonder how they thought they would get enough tenants to fill such a massive project.

@Artsakh758 7 күн бұрын

What do you expect from a neofascist petrastate with some of the worst human rights freedoms in the world?

@Codeinvest 24 күн бұрын

Great explanation 👍

@user-tg5bo7gz5s 27 күн бұрын

Now we have Sea Breeze Resort Baku and soon there will be a project "Moon Island" (and Diamond Gem Tower) realised

@edgarsnake2857 25 күн бұрын

I never heard of this. Amazing blunder. Thanks for an excellent video on a bizarre undertaking.

@bryanturnbow8189 25 күн бұрын

Their big tower looks like a bunch of stacked oil barrels???

@TRAZ4004 25 күн бұрын

Could be. Some tops have a slope. Reminds me of a bunch of cut bamboo.

@TheTrumpReaper 26 күн бұрын

4:13 A symbolic stack of oil drums?

@tomkershaw4384 19 күн бұрын

Not mentioned is the level of chemical and radiological pollution in the Caspian Sea. It is the worlds largest lake poisoned by the Soviets.

@liamcollinson5695 23 күн бұрын

The whole one stupidly rich man has a ego to think he can design a actual city in this case in 20 mins is always the beginning of the end for projects like this.

@bobbybob3865 12 күн бұрын

He could have hired a consultant or two.

@seki0242 27 күн бұрын

Love azerbaijan from turkey❤

@gregstevens2917 27 күн бұрын

These vanity projects are a ginormous waste of time, money, and resources...seriously.

@keangwooichoo6138 26 күн бұрын

Agree

@italianlifestyle7911 27 күн бұрын

Those would have been awesome projects 😍

@dryteishere289 27 күн бұрын

Waste of money tho. I doubt anyone will live there

@CBCCadet2013 18 күн бұрын

I love this channel

@rogermoore27 6 күн бұрын

Ibrahimov is nuts. He never thought to make his citizens richer?

@gustavopaniza9964 27 күн бұрын

A rich delusional guy that thinks he's got an unique idea. What could go wrong.

@MehraliyevFuad 27 күн бұрын

101%

@bobbybob3865 12 күн бұрын

Ideas are cheap...

@Infernal_Elf 27 күн бұрын

There is a Channel between the rivers volga and don alllowing up to 141m long ships with 16m width and 4,6 m depth to reach the Caspian sea. from the Black sea.

@skylershank9309 25 күн бұрын

It's not a matter of completion but lack of occupancy. Where would they get the bodies to live there?

@MurrayMaffra 2 күн бұрын

Baku is already full of unoccupied and unfinished buildings.

@WTW407 22 күн бұрын

Not related To Azerbaijan tower but, MegaBuilds did you see the latest Jeddah Tower News?

@miscme7116 Күн бұрын

The tower looks exactly like the type of tubular traffic bollard that I see in my country. The base is an exact copy of the base of the bollard, even with the raised corners. Someone took a 3D model of that, copy-paste more tubes in different heights and... Azerbaijan Tower! 😂

@adamcheklat7387 25 күн бұрын

I remember watching an episode of Build It Bigger about Baku.

@asdisskagen6487 8 күн бұрын

A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BRIDGES?! 😳 That is I N S A N E for a seismically active area like Azerbaijan!

@0fficialdregs 10 күн бұрын

How about build those islands but build smaller commercial and entertainment buildings and some apartments.

@EmeraldIslandGaming 27 күн бұрын

Wait What Happened To Top Luxury?

@abirjha1503 27 күн бұрын

They changed the channel name

@Nightfall2309 2 күн бұрын

I’m proud to be an azerbijani🇦🇿

@kendahl7922 26 күн бұрын

When Dubai runs outta water. Baku can then grow. They still have an F1 race. Street though

@michaelwilkie35 18 күн бұрын

To be fair though it’s probably the street race fans like the most, granted that’s not hard considering what the other street tracks are.

@MehraliyevFuad 27 күн бұрын

I was very active thus years in the diff projects in the country. Once approached and got that it is never going to take a place due to many factors and first of all is education level they are employing. In general, it's for good that all ended up as in the video. Many lives and resources are saved. Even location have been chosen partly over gas storage facility on the top old gas reservoir. The rest is history.....

@pollutingpenguin2146 27 күн бұрын

Who could have foreseen that…

@meoct-ow7tu 23 күн бұрын

Can't understand this fascination with this artificial islands. Just the making of islands is already going to cost millions what more the rest

@berfaedahbanget2305 6 күн бұрын

So, building that kind of project in 15 years was quite ambitious? Indonesia tries to build a brand new city from a sratch in the middle of forestry land and in 2-3 years fill it with new inhabitants. What would you say about that?

@TheToekutter 20 күн бұрын

Some parts of the world are trying SO hard to feel relevant. Wasting billions trying to flex instead of trying to improve their society.

@mrdiego4368 25 күн бұрын

Maybe countries should focus on creating sustainable infrastructure, which would eventually bring in the investments they want…

@kamanama3671 27 күн бұрын

How do you have an apparent lack of funding before going into a project like this?

@Infernal_Elf 27 күн бұрын

u are a scammer just like Trump and fool people to pay for u and stuff

@rrickard2874 Күн бұрын

Three drinks and a cocktail napkin, nothing but trouble.

@-Katastrophe 20 күн бұрын

Hey Bob, I want to build a skyscraper that's not only 3/4ths a mile tall, but I want it ugly as sin. Let me just copy and paste the Renaissance Center in Detroit, scale up the towers on center, and.. boom! that'll be 2 billion.

@lanla6838z 26 күн бұрын

I dont know if your research is correct but in scale, that building is nowhere near a supertall structure. Even if you look at the other proposed buildings surrounding it. Your own scale against Khalifa and Jedda looks off. You can barely recognise a floor in the Kalifa and Jedda but you can easily make up floor height/windows on Azerbaijan. Check again, that looks like a 60 storey building. Its also to wide in height versus width ratio to be called a tower. It looks like six towers conjoined together.

@EyesOfByes 27 күн бұрын

Or you could do like Norway...

@DimeDoppler 22 күн бұрын

Looks like a nice Airport can go there 😅

@rogermoore27 6 күн бұрын

3:04 - say it again

@MassiveBuild 27 күн бұрын

Asia sometimes has a big megaproject idea and The Khazar Islands is one of them, but the are struggling with that .

@hogofwar0 26 күн бұрын

tell us about stuff which exists please

@_Breakdown 4 күн бұрын

1:20 - - buildings + oil exports

@maemilev 15 күн бұрын

Not sure why are we even putting effort into unlivable country!

@larsstougaard7097 27 күн бұрын

Great dream, harsh reality

@keangwooichoo6138 26 күн бұрын

I guess the only city with 100b usd cost and 10k people staying is forest city malaysia

@yoaaauuiohheee7726 23 күн бұрын

Why can't they build the world's tallest water slide or something cool that people could use like the world's biggest library

@Kodakcompactdisc 27 күн бұрын

If they actually built all that for $100B that wouldn’t be a bad deal.

@SD78 22 күн бұрын

How cute, Azerbaijan thinks it's Dubai!

@ruiutomy1 24 күн бұрын

It is called megalomania.

@shauncameron8390 23 күн бұрын

Ego for short.

@phdonme1 18 күн бұрын

I love all these dictators writing down stuff on paper and being like make it exactly like this Thinking they're the planning geniuses When in fact they're just morons

@bongdeguzman1244 27 күн бұрын

$100b is insanely overpriced for a building.

@vcalblas 27 күн бұрын

The entire project (so all islands including dozens of buildings) was supposed to cost $ 100b. The tower was going to cost "just" $ 2b.

@igoromelchenko3482 25 күн бұрын

Crimia is Ukraine. Could you please change your map at the beginning of the video.

@bobbybob3865 12 күн бұрын

...and a partridge in a pear tree.

@lovfro 12 күн бұрын

Unless prompted 100% by necessity, building big is a mistake

@hi_tta 16 күн бұрын

That's fuсkеd up. On the official economic channel of Azerbaijan, in telegrams and in general, it is not said anywhere that this is someone’s investment. It's just awful. I don’t want my taxes to go towards this, I don’t want Azerbaijan’s oil money to go towards the luxurious life of the authorities and any millionaires, and so on. Let them make sidewalks and asphalt roads in Azi Aslanov, let them raise money for the well-being of the people, let them raise pensions for poor pensioners, let them develop cities other than Baku and Ganja. Let the State do at least something only for the people

@hi_tta 16 күн бұрын

I watched to the end and I'm happy with the ending😊

@IvanPlayStation4LiFe 14 күн бұрын

With what money that country cant afford that anyways.

@SoupErrScar 27 күн бұрын

They should start a Gofundme, they'll raise that $100B in no time! 😂

@nitsaastro2162 16 күн бұрын

Who would travel to this country.

@ulolgamehiglights4373 27 күн бұрын

The same From the Line to The Dot

@danhutchins3237 25 күн бұрын

Hahahaha The Dot will be great...no doubt...

@pineapplesareyummy6352 22 күн бұрын

Firstly, I would like to point out that Baku's oil was a key factor why the Soviet Union won the Second World War. The Nazis tried to capture these oil fields - hence, you will have heard of the Battle of Stalingrad, as the Nazis needed to capture that city first before advancing south to the oil fields. So oil was what made Baku famous. If I recall, at the time of World War II, Baku produced 25% of the world's oil. Now, back to the main topic. The difference between Baku and Dubai is DEMAND! In order to fill a megaproject with businesses and residents, you need people to move there by the millions. The UAE opened the floodgates to migrants. True - you can't become a citizen in the UAE, but still, the rules allowed for millions of South Asians, Southeast Asians, and people from other parts of the world to live there. Migrants make up 80%+ of the UAE's population of 10 million. This massive population growth created demand to fill its skyscrapers. Azerbaijan isn't the UAE. As far as I know, Azerbaijan's immigration policies are just normal immigration policies. Unless they plan to flood their country with millions of migrants like UAE and Qatar did, they are never going to find the needed demand for what they want to do.

@RubbishGimpy Күн бұрын

Who would live there? You need the people. The biggest unspoken truth about Dubia and UAE buildings is a lot are not used. If London, New York and even China struggles to fill its skyscrapers small populace Countries must to. Like the Middle East, these plans are badly thought out vanity projects based on perception and status.

@michielstam8775 9 күн бұрын

Would this tower be connected to a sewer?

@ShivamGhosh-cn5pt 27 күн бұрын

💛❤🧡❤

@Xuebatt 26 күн бұрын

ngl that tower design looks ugly, like some random colored paper cups unevenly stacked upon one another

@Mooooty 27 күн бұрын

Third world oil...third world problems.

@JPWRana 26 күн бұрын

His pimple is healing

@user-lb2wb7wl1i 2 күн бұрын

Azerbaycan🇦🇿

@nicmoro2979 27 күн бұрын

As they saying goes ‘ if you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people who have got it!’

@SuikodenGR 24 күн бұрын

these people sure know how to waste their money on ultra projects...

@chazzcannon3614 6 күн бұрын

She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went.

@paulbo9033 12 күн бұрын

Remember when gilded age billionaires used to build public libraries and housing for the poor

@judyArsh 13 күн бұрын

We build up in places like NYC because there is a shortage of land. Supertall buildings are inherently inefficient and compromised structures. The trade offs might be worth considering if there is a land shortage. But realistically these buildings end up being disappointing money losers. These places have no shortage of unused land. So why waste money building inefficiently?