Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk was one of the main reasons people came to live on Kozlov. The island had large supplies of coal, while this wasn't greatly desired, it gave the citizens work. Blagoveshchensk started out as just a small camp for miners so that they would not have to hike all the way back to Petrovgorsk. As more and more people came to find work in the mines, it became a small town. The Blagoveshchensk Coal Mines were a great discovery for Kozlov, giving the island something to trade other than crops. When the Pandemic hit, most people in Blagoveshchensk fled back to Petrovgorsk; but some men had become obsessed with the mines and, unwilling to give up the riches in the mine, instead ran into the mines to fight for the resources. The miners had become so obsessed that they butchered their friends over the coal. The few miners that survived the slaughter were then killed by the zombies that came flooding into the mine. The whole town is now deemed cursed and the survivors tend to keep their distance. Rumor says that there is one miner still alive in the coal mines, mining day and night, without rest, murdering all that come near his treasures.