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 22 дня назад

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 22 дня назад

Idk

@Virtualversatility1 22 дня назад

Irish Sea bridge

@savemc6181 22 дня назад

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

@defaulton 22 дня назад

Seems like we have a investor in the comments.

@ritwiktrehan 22 дня назад

@@savemc6181bro's trynna be cool

@jovanleon7 22 дня назад

Oil money is a hell of a drug.

@jamilshekinski 22 дня назад

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 22 дня назад

😂👍

@o_s-24 22 дня назад

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

@sano5121 22 дня назад

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

@xxdesertstorm 22 дня назад

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

@user-tg5bo7gz5s 22 дня назад

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 22 дня назад

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 20 дней назад

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 22 дня назад

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 22 дня назад

Dubai isnt A Country, its A City

@nabangokashyap5218 22 дня назад

Except China!

@xxdesertstorm 22 дня назад

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

@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd 21 день назад

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

@Amm17ar 21 день назад

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 22 дня назад

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

@tamasvarga67 22 дня назад

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

@dryteishere289 22 дня назад

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

@planetdisco4821 18 дней назад

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 17 дней назад

@@planetdisco4821nobody cares about India

@emptiester 17 дней назад

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.

@percypower6876 22 дня назад

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

@Iweumati-td4mb 22 дня назад

U rock 😂😂

@dovidmaslin9710 22 дня назад

Thank you 🙏

@NYC_LIBERAL 21 день назад

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

@gregoryturk1275 21 день назад

Thank you Mr spoiler blocker

@lazykipper 18 дней назад

I applaud your work.

@raf1q_sw 21 день назад

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 20 дней назад

Armenian covert mission perhaps haha

@phdonme1 13 дней назад

Wut? Conspiracy theory much?

@inertiaMS 20 дней назад

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.

@dralakbarov 14 дней назад

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.

@richardellis69 22 дня назад

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

@vanceking354 22 дня назад

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

@imrannaim5234 15 дней назад

Great graphics & modelling. Cheers

@KingMidasTha5th 20 дней назад

Always love the graphics on this channel good shit!

@philipmurphy2 21 день назад

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

@firdaussalim1228 22 дня назад

Great documentary!

@danhutchins3237 20 дней назад

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

@idioticplayz_ 22 дня назад

Amazing megaprojects, though no hope of finishing.

@antomano5623 22 дня назад

👍

@jamesrawlins735 20 дней назад

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.

@Codeinvest 19 дней назад

Great explanation 👍

@cliffwoodbury5319 22 дня назад

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 22 дня назад

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

@joeyjoe7930 22 дня назад

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

@Kodakcompactdisc 22 дня назад

Real men don’t care about sustainability

@jamesrawlins735 20 дней назад

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 20 дней назад

Start thinking in general, would be good enough 😅

@ivanlefou9450 17 дней назад

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

@klsar1 22 дня назад

Money makes people become stupid

@TangerineUnicornDesign 22 дня назад

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 18 дней назад

With the property developer being the government.

@lordofvurgun187 22 дня назад

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.

@edgarsnake2857 20 дней назад

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

@shogunhk 21 день назад

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

@user-tg5bo7gz5s 22 дня назад

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

@Yusef-uh4wl 19 дней назад

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

@CBCCadet2013 13 дней назад

I love this channel

@grahamnancledra7036 21 день назад

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 20 дней назад

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 2 дня назад

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

@italianlifestyle7911 22 дня назад

Those would have been awesome projects 😍

@dryteishere289 22 дня назад

Waste of money tho. I doubt anyone will live there

@seki0242 22 дня назад

Love azerbaijan from turkey❤

@TheTrumpReaper 21 день назад

4:13 A symbolic stack of oil drums?

@Infernal_Elf 22 дня назад

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.

@WTW407 17 дней назад

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

@adamcheklat7387 20 дней назад

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

@asdisskagen6487 3 дня назад

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

@skylershank9309 20 дней назад

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

@gregstevens2917 22 дня назад

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

@keangwooichoo6138 21 день назад

Agree

@MehraliyevFuad 22 дня назад

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.....

@0fficialdregs 5 дней назад

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

@berfaedahbanget2305 День назад

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?

@pollutingpenguin2146 22 дня назад

Who could have foreseen that…

@mrdiego4368 20 дней назад

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

@meoct-ow7tu 18 дней назад

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

@-Katastrophe 15 дней назад

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.

@liamcollinson5695 18 дней назад

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 7 дней назад

He could have hired a consultant or two.

@maemilev 10 дней назад

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

@DimeDoppler 17 дней назад

Looks like a nice Airport can go there 😅

@kendahl7922 21 день назад

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

@michaelwilkie35 13 дней назад

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.

@TheToekutter 15 дней назад

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

@bryanturnbow8189 20 дней назад

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

@TRAZ4004 20 дней назад

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

@lanla6838z 21 день назад

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.

@EmeraldIslandGaming 22 дня назад

Wait What Happened To Top Luxury?

@abirjha1503 22 дня назад

They changed the channel name

@tomkershaw4384 14 дней назад

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

@hogofwar0 21 день назад

tell us about stuff which exists please

@keangwooichoo6138 21 день назад

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

@rogermoore27 День назад

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

@larsstougaard7097 22 дня назад

Great dream, harsh reality

@rogermoore27 День назад

3:04 - say it again

@SD78 17 дней назад

How cute, Azerbaijan thinks it's Dubai!

@gustavopaniza9964 22 дня назад

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

@MehraliyevFuad 22 дня назад

101%

@bobbybob3865 7 дней назад

Ideas are cheap...

@MassiveBuild 22 дня назад

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

@EyesOfByes 22 дня назад

Or you could do like Norway...

@yoaaauuiohheee7726 18 дней назад

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

@kamanama3671 22 дня назад

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

@Infernal_Elf 22 дня назад

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

@ThemePro24 22 дня назад

Building the largest phallic symbol possible is so oughties.

@kallekas8551 22 дня назад

😆😂🤣🤪👍

@Kodakcompactdisc 22 дня назад

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

@igoromelchenko3482 20 дней назад

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

@ruiutomy1 19 дней назад

It is called megalomania.

@shauncameron8390 18 дней назад

Ego for short.

@lovfro 7 дней назад

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

@hi_tta 11 дней назад

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 11 дней назад

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

@SoupErrScar 22 дня назад

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

@ulolgamehiglights4373 22 дня назад

The same From the Line to The Dot

@danhutchins3237 20 дней назад

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

@bobbybob3865 7 дней назад

...and a partridge in a pear tree.

@bongdeguzman1244 22 дня назад

$100b is insanely overpriced for a building.

@vcalblas 22 дня назад

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

@pineapplesareyummy6352 17 дней назад

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.

@ShivamGhosh-cn5pt 22 дня назад

💛❤🧡❤

@nitsaastro2162 11 дней назад

Who would travel to this country.

@IvanPlayStation4LiFe 9 дней назад

With what money that country cant afford that anyways.

@judyArsh 8 дней назад

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?

@michielstam8775 4 дня назад

Would this tower be connected to a sewer?

@phdonme1 13 дней назад

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