Abandoned industrial facilities. particle accelerator

After the collapse of the USSR, the young states inherited many once powerful military and scientific facilities. The most dangerous and secret objects were urgently mothballed and evacuated, and many others were simply abandoned. They were left to rust: after all, the economy of most newly-made states simply could not pull their maintenance, they turned out to be of no use to anyone. Now some of them are a kind of mecca for stalkers, "tourist" objects, visiting which is associated with considerable risk.

"Resident Evil": a top-secret complex on the island of Renaissance in the Aral Sea

During Soviet times, on an island in the middle of the Aral Sea, there was a complex of military bioengineering institutes involved in the development and testing of biological weapons. It was a facility of such a degree of secrecy that most of the employees who were involved in the maintenance infrastructure of the landfill simply did not know exactly where they worked. On the island itself, there were buildings and laboratories of the Institute, vivariums, equipment warehouses. Very comfortable conditions were created in the town for researchers and the military to live in conditions of complete autonomy. The island was carefully guarded by the military on land and at sea.

In 1992, the entire facility was urgently mothballed and abandoned by all the inhabitants, including the security of the facility. For some time it remained a "ghost town" until it was scouted by marauders, who for more than 10 years removed everything that was thrown there from the island. The fate of the secret developments carried out on the island and their results - cultures of deadly microorganisms - still remains a mystery.

Heavy-duty "Russian woodpecker": radar "Duga", Pripyat

The Duga over-the-horizon radar station is a radar station created in the USSR for the early detection of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles by launching flashes (based on the reflection of radiation by the ionosphere). This gigantic structure took 5 years to build and was completed in 1985. The cyclopean antenna, 150 meters high and 800 meters long, consumed a huge amount of electricity, so it was built near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

For the characteristic sound on the air emitted during operation (knock), the station was named Russian Woodpecker (Russian Woodpecker). The installation was built to last for centuries and could successfully function to this day, but in reality, the Duga radar station worked for less than a year. The object stopped its work after the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Underwater shelter of submarines: Balaklava, Crimea

According to people in the know, this top-secret submarine base was a transit point where submarines, including nuclear ones, were repaired, refueled and replenished with ammunition. It was a gigantic complex built to last for centuries, capable of withstanding a nuclear strike, under its arches up to 14 submarines could be accommodated at the same time. This military base was built in 1961 and abandoned in 1993, after which it was dismantled piece by piece by local residents. In 2002, it was decided to arrange a museum complex on the ruins of the base, but so far things have not gone beyond words. However, local diggers willingly take everyone there.

“Zone” in Latvian forests: Dvina missile silo, Kekava, Latvia

Not far from the capital of Latvia in the forest are the remains of the Dvina missile system. Built in 1964, the facility consisted of 4 launch silos with a depth of about 35 meters and underground bunkers. A significant part of the premises is currently flooded, and visiting the launcher without an experienced stalker guide is not recommended. Also dangerous are the remains of poisonous rocket fuel - heptyl, according to some information, remaining in the depths of the launch silos.

"Lost World" in the Moscow region: Lopatinsky phosphorite mine

The Lopatinskoye phosphorite deposit, 90 km from Moscow, was the largest in Europe. In the 30s of the last century, it began to be actively developed in an open way. At the Lopatinsky quarry, all the main types of bucket-wheel excavators were used - moving on rails, moving on caterpillars, and excavators walking with an "added" step. It was a gigantic development with its own railroad. After 1993, the field was shut down, leaving all expensive imported special equipment there.

The mining of phosphorites has led to the emergence of an incredible "unearthly" landscape. The long and deep trenches of the quarries are mostly flooded. They are interspersed with high sandy ridges, turning into flat, like a table, sandy fields, black, white and reddish dunes, pine forests with regular rows of planted pines. Giant excavators - "absetzers" resemble alien ships rusting on the sands in the open. All this makes the Lopatinsky Quarries a kind of natural and man-made "reserve", a place of increasingly lively pilgrimage for tourists.

"Well to hell": Kola superdeep well, Murmansk region

The Kola superdeep well is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters. It is located in the Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the city of Zapolyarny. The well was drilled in the northeastern part of the Baltic Shield exclusively for research purposes in the place where the lower boundary of the earth's crust comes close to the earth's surface. In the best years, 16 research laboratories worked at the Kola superdeep well, they were personally supervised by the Minister of Geology of the USSR.

Many interesting discoveries were made at the well, for example, the fact that life on Earth arose, it turns out, 1.5 billion years earlier than expected. At the depths where it was believed that there was no, and could not be, organic matter, 14 species of fossilized microorganisms were found - the age of the deep layers exceeded 2.8 billion years. In 2008, the facility was abandoned, the equipment was dismantled, and the destruction of the building began.

As of 2010, the well is mothballed and is gradually being destroyed. The cost of restoration is about one hundred million rubles. There are many implausible legends about the “well to hell” associated with the Kola super-deep well, from the bottom of which the cries of sinners are heard, and the hellish flame melts the drills.

"Russian HAARP" - multifunctional radio complex "Sura"

In the late 1970s, as part of geophysical research, a multifunctional radio complex "Sura" was built near the city of Vasilsursk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, to influence the Earth's ionosphere with powerful HF radio emission. The Sura complex, in addition to antennas, radars and radio transmitters, includes a laboratory complex, an economic unit, a specialized transformer electrical substation. The once secret station, where a number of important studies are still being carried out today, is a thoroughly rusted and battered, but still not completely abandoned facility. One of the important areas of research carried out at the complex is the development of methods for protecting the operation of equipment and communications from ion disturbances in the atmosphere of various nature.

Currently, the station operates only 100 hours per year, while at the famous American HAARP facility, experiments are carried out for 2000 hours over the same period. The Nizhny Novgorod Radiophysical Institute does not have enough money for electricity - for one day of operation, the equipment of the test site deprives the complex of the monthly budget. The complex is threatened not only by lack of money, but also by theft of property. Due to the lack of proper protection, "hunters" for scrap metal now and then make their way to the territory of the station.

"Oil Rocks" - a seaside city of oil producers, Azerbaijan

This settlement on overpasses, standing right in the Caspian Sea, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest oil platforms. It was built in 1949 in connection with the beginning of oil production from the bottom of the sea around the Black Stones - a stone ridge barely protruding from the surface of the sea. There are drilling rigs connected by overpasses, on which the settlement of oil field workers is located. The settlement grew, and in its heyday included power plants, nine-story dormitory buildings, hospitals, a cultural center, a park with trees, a bakery, a lemonade production workshop, and even a mosque with a full-time mullah.

The length of overpass streets and lanes of the sea city reaches 350 kilometers. There was no permanent population in the city, and up to 2,000 people lived there as part of a shift shift. The period of decline of the Oil Rocks began with the advent of cheaper Siberian oil, which made offshore mining unprofitable. However, the sea town still did not become a ghost town; in the early 2000s, major repairs began there and even began laying new wells.

Failed Collider: Abandoned Particle Accelerator, Protvino, Moscow Region

In the late 80s, the construction of a huge particle accelerator was planned in the Soviet Union. The scientific center of Protvino near Moscow - the city of nuclear physicists - in those years was a powerful complex of physical institutes, where scientists from all over the world came. A ring tunnel 21 kilometers long was built, lying at a depth of 60 meters. He is now near Protvino. They even began to bring equipment into the already finished accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals erupted, and the domestic “hadron collider” remained unassembled.

The institutes of the city of Protvino maintain the satisfactory condition of this tunnel - an empty dark ring underground. The lighting system works there, there is a functioning narrow-gauge railway line. All sorts of commercial projects were proposed, such as an underground amusement park or even a mushroom farm. However, scientists have not yet given up this object - perhaps they are hoping for the best.

25.09.2014

The Soviet empire has died, but its ghosts are still found both in Russia, where they have not disappeared anywhere, and in Europe.

Abandoned military bases, deserted hospital wards and movie theaters now in the shadows of their former glory are unforgettable images of the ghosts behind the iron curtain of the former Soviet Union. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Buzludzha, Bulgaria

During the reign of the Bulgarian Communist Party (September 9, 1944 - November 10, 1989) Buzludzha is considered a shrine of the Bulgarian communists. On August 23, 1981, a huge memorial house in honor of the BKP was solemnly opened at the top. The construction of the monument began in 1974. After the fall of communism, the BKP memorial house was completely looted.

Sanatorium in Russia

Sanatoriums in Soviet times were intended for recreation and medical care for "workers of the national economy." Now most of them have either been privatized or have fallen into disrepair. Although some large enterprises still maintain such institutions.

This hospital was built back in 1898 for the treatment of military personnel during the world wars. Adolf Hitler was also treated here, after being wounded in the Battle of the Somme. During the Cold War, in the grouping of Soviet troops, this military hospital was the largest outside the USSR. After German reunification, it was abandoned due to its "bad history".

This 260-hectare complex was occupied by the Soviet Army and was initially used to manage the construction and operation of the Berlin Wall. About 100 thousand people lived and worked there.

battery prison, Estonia

Built in the middle of the 19th century as an artillery fortress, this building, fortunately, did not take part in the hostilities. He was destined for a different fate. After the independence of Estonia in 1918, the fortress became the central state prison, which it remained until 2004. In the Stalin years, it was a transit point for prisoners on their way to the Gulag.

Railway depot, Hungary

Skrunda-1, Latvia

During the Cold War, there was a radar complex near the city of Skrunda, whose personnel lived in the nearby Skrunda-1 residential area. The radar ceased operation on August 31, 1998. After the dismantling of the radar and the withdrawal of the last Russian troops from the region in October 1999, Skrunda-1 became a ghost town.

Friendship Monument, Bulgaria

The monument stands on the highest point of the city - Crane Hill and is a massive concrete structure in the form of a radar pointing east. On the one hand, it depicts girls in folk Bulgarian costumes, on the other, Soviet soldiers in helmets. Now the monument is in a deplorable state, there is no proper care for it, and the large hall under the monument has recently become a gathering of drug addicts.

Irbene, Latvia

The Zvezdochka space reconnaissance station was built in the 70s. The station was a system of 3 radars designed to intercept signals from satellites, submarines and military bases, as well as tracking satellites, and to provide satellite communications. At the same time, the village of Irbene was built. Several hundred people lived in it - the military with their families, but on the map the village was not marked in the flesh until 1993. The village has now become a ghost

Pioneer camp, Russia

Pioneer camps in the USSR were created for the recreation of children, the relaxation of parents from children and propaganda among the younger generation of communist ideas. Now, if these areas are not redeemed by private owners and organizations, many camps have fallen into decay.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Pripyat, a city of nearly 50,000 people, was completely abandoned after the accident at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. Now nature rules there and the city resembles the backdrop for an apocalyptic movie.

Aviation cemetery, Latvia

After the fall of the USSR and the demilitarization of the former Soviet Baltic states, the Riga airport became a cemetery and a museum for military aircraft.

Krampnitz, Germany

Military town, located 15 minutes drive from Potsdam. Was abandoned in 1992.

Hospital in Pripyat, Ukraine

After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Pripyat hospital was turned into a camp for firefighters and rescuers who remained to eliminate the consequences of the accident and monitor the evacuation of the population. They received the largest doses of radiation.

Milovice, Czech Republic

Milovice is a city in the Czech Republic near Prague, where the headquarters of the Soviet Central Group of Forces was located in 1968-1991. Finally, the already unused military camp with a training ground was abolished in 1995.

Submarine "Black Widow", UK

The Soviet submarine B-39, nicknamed the "Black Widow" of project 641, in the NATO classification known as Foxtrot, has been slowly rotting on the Medway River, Kent for several years. She left the stocks in the Soviet Union on April 1, 1967. In 1994, after 24 years of service in the Baltic, the submarine was decommissioned and sold to a private buyer in the UK.

Captain Vitaly Burda, who commanded her crew for 23 years, brought the boat to the shores of Albion. Until 1998, the B-39 stood in the London docks as a floating museum. Then she was transferred to Folkestone, where the museum was reopened on board. In 2004, the boat was taken to the River Medway in Kent, where she is still waiting to find a new home for her.

"Dome" - Germany

Military airfield, Germany.

Built in 1870 in Prussia, this military base went through many hands before becoming the training center for Soviet aviation pilots in 1994.

Laboratory in Latvia

A layer of dust covers abacus, papers, chemicals and utensils at an abandoned science lab in Latvia.

Missile base in Slovakia

Soviet anti-aircraft missile base in Devinska Kobyla, Slovakia. Built in the 1980s, ceased to function in 1990. It still remains closed to the public.

Military base in Poland

Abandoned Soviet military base in Krzyw, Poland.

Satellite Center, Russia

Receiving-transmitting RC of the Central Control Center for Satellite Communications of the General Staff of Russia. Callsign "Eureka". The unit was formed in November 1976 and disbanded in December 2009.

Rebecca Lichfield, the author of all these photographs, was born in 1982 in London. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from the University College for Creative Arts, an MA in Fashion Photography from the London College of Fashion and a PhD in Visual Anthropology from Roehampon University. Author of the book Soviet Ghosts – The Soviet Union Abandoned: A Communist Empire in Deca’.

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Abandoned city: mining village Industrial. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, this village was suddenly cut off from electricity, and the government of the country did not provide the necessary support. Photo: Oleg Shvets

When water, gas and electricity stopped working, the residents of the village simply took off and left in search of housing and work, leaving behind houses, property and the wreckage of a past life. Photo: Oleg Shvets

The things left by the settlers have survived to this day, becoming sad monuments to the past. Photo: Oleg Shvets

Abandoned submarine base: object 825.Once upon a time, the small town of Balaklava on the Black Sea coast was a secret submarine base. Photo: Russos

Even relatives of residents of Balaklava were not allowed to visit this closed military facility without a special entry permit. Photo: Russos

In 1995, the complex was abandoned, but already in 2003 a museum was opened on the territory of the base. Photo: Russos

Near the base is an abandoned and unguarded fuel storage. Photo: Russos

Abandoned concentration camps are a stone reminder of mass repressions, a sad monument to overwork and a mass grave for hundreds of thousands of those sentenced to death. Photo: angelfire.com

In most countries, desolation and devastation reign in abandoned buildings, which in their best times were used for their intended purpose. There are many buildings in the Soviet Union that have always been empty: the remains of unfinished projects, unfinished and abandoned due to lack of funds or uselessness. In a sense, they can be used to study a unique history - the history of a corrupt and short-sighted government, the history of the failed, in other words, the history of what could have been. This unfinished abandoned factory was supposedly supposed to produce concrete panels. Moscow region. Photo: EUTHANASIA

In 1997, during the preparations for the World Youth Games in Moscow, a project for the construction of an aquadrome was approved. Building area 1.7 ha, building area 43,500 sq. m., 12-storey building with a glass sloping roof. The building includes 3 underground and 9 ground floors, 5 swimming pools, water slides, an athletics arena, a team sports palace, a hotel for out-of-town athletes, offices, a cafe, a center for physical therapy and medicine. In February 2002, the construction of the aquadrome was frozen. Moscow. Photo: EUTHANASIA

Abandoned mines of missile systems. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics inherited a dubious legacy: mines of long-range missile systems scattered here and there. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr

The photograph shows one of these complexes, located in Latvia. It included 4 mines, a central flight control panel, and an underground bunker. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr

Decommissioned mines have long become places of pilgrimage for numerous tourists. Photo: martin.trolle / Flickr

Abandoned ocean military bases. Once the military bases of Vladivostok were considered part of the country's security system: the strengthening of the country's Pacific coast was designed to protect the USSR from possible aggression from Japan. Photo: Shamora.info

It's hard to imagine that incredibly complex, expensive machinery and equipment can be abandoned as easily as a decrepit building. However, the builders of communism excelled in this area too: rusting equipment can still be easily found in abandoned deposits, and huge satellite dishes scattered throughout the country, apparently, are destined to disintegrate into elements. Photo: Avi_Abrams / Flickr

Abandoned Fort: Fort Alexander is more popularly known as the Plague Fort. It was built in the 19th century, and already in 1869 it was excluded from the defensive structures. Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio

At the moment, the fort is abandoned, and numerous visitors can only see it from boats. Even now, they are advised to wear respirators and rubber boots to avoid infection. Now there is a project to build an entertainment complex in the fort with a theater stage, a museum, a cafe, a bar, a restaurant, a shopping area.Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio

Abandoned "sea city": Oil Rocks is an urban-type settlement in Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea. It is located on a metal overpass, built in 1949 in connection with the start of oil production from the bottom of the sea. A "virtual city" with shops, pharmacies, schools and other buildings was built around the oil rigs. All this splendor was connected with each other by bridges and overpasses. Oil production continues to this day, but the city has fallen into disrepair and is currently uninhabited. Abandoned buildings are gradually returning to the depths of the sea. Photo: Azerbaijan International Magazine, REGION plus, Travel-Images.com, Google Maps

Abandoned mine: Some of the abandoned mines from the former Soviet Union, located in the vicinity of the city of Kyshtym, are not radioactive. This potassium mica mining complex has been abandoned since 1961. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev

Then the explosion of the radioactive storage tank caused radiation contamination with a radius of 40 km and provoked the evacuation of more than 300 thousand miners. The incident was carefully hidden from the public. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev

The abandoned city of miners: On the Svalbard archipelago there was once a whole Russian settlement - the city of Barentsburg, and three mines - the Barentsburg mine and the mothballed Grumant and Pyramid mines. Under the 1920 agreement, the archipelago was transferred to the jurisdiction of Norway, but other states, including Russia, which was traditionally present on the islands, are allowed to use the islands for any non-military activity. The USSR took up coal mining. Photo: Erling Svensen

In the early 90s. at the Pyramid mine, a decision was made to mothball it on the basis of the unprofitability of the mine. The population was given only a few hours to pack. As a result, their abandoned houses resemble a picture from Chernobyl - left personal belongings, books, children's toys. Photo: vizion, Anne-Sophie Radisch

Abandoned estates: Abandoned country houses and estates of historical and architectural value are not in a hurry to be restored. The reason is simple - the lack of proper funding at the state level. The history of the Belogorka estate begins in 1796, when Paul I granted these lands to General L. Malyutin, who soon sold part of them to the marshal of the nobility of the Tsarskoye Selo district F. Bel. At that time, the estate was called "Gorka", and after the death of the owner it became known as "Belyagorka", and at the beginning of the 20th century it received its modern name. After the revolution, the estate was nationalized. The history of the estate is closely intertwined with the history of the country. The poet Iosif Brodsky spent the summer before going abroad in Belogorka. The places around Belogorka - the villages of Novsiverskaya and Starosiverskaya - are associated with the name of the landscape painter Ivan Shishkin. Photo: The Nostalgic Glass Abandoned territories: Abkhazia is a territory that considers itself independent from Georgia. In the late 80s, Abkhazia wanted to secede from Georgia and become part of Russia. This gave rise to the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict of 1992-1993. Photo: Natalia Lvova / ID Rodionova

In 1994 after a devastating war, as a result of which the Georgian side was defeated, Abkhazia gained independence and the status of an unrecognized state. Now, due to lack of funding in the country, it is impossible to restore the transport network and buildings destroyed during the war. Photo: Natalia Lvova / ID Rodionova

The USSR ceased to exist several decades ago - but the monuments of this great colossus still excite the minds of millions. The leaders never forgot that they ruled the empire: the scale of construction always corresponded to the status. The now abandoned buildings were once busy places where entire generations of people spent their lives. See how the places look, which even today suppress their scope.

• City Industrial

  Thousands of people lived and worked here. In the early 90s, when the era of socialism was replaced by the time of wild capitalism, the mine became unprofitable. No one was in a hurry to support the city: communications were cut off, water, electricity, and water supply disappeared. Residents of "Industrial" fled from their native walls, forced to seek refuge in neighboring villages.




Object 825

A secret submarine base was built near Balaklava. The government was so concerned about security that no one could visit this base, except for personnel and those who were issued a pass at the highest level. In 1995, everything, as usual in our country, was covered with a copper basin.




Helicopter cemetery

This, of course, is not architecture at all - but we simply could not pass by the real cemetery of helicopters. Here, in the south-west of the Leningrad region, not far from the village of Gorelovo, an abandoned military airfield has been preserved. It was actively exploited until 1992. Rusted equipment is still waiting in the wings on the sites.




Gulag camp

Nobody will miss these artifacts. The camps covered Siberia with vile mold; thousands died here and tried to build a miserable life by tens of thousands. Now all this terrible legacy of our past is rotting under the merciful heel of nature.

Keys to heaven. Moscow air defense systems.

After the end of the Second World War, in the conditions of the beginning of the Cold War, work was launched in the Soviet Union in three major defense areas: the creation of nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles for the delivery of these weapons, and the Moscow air defense system impenetrable to atomic bombers.

The organization of work to solve these problems was entrusted to structures specially created for this purpose, endowed with the broadest powers. According to the Moscow air defense system, such a structure was the Third Main Directorate under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Once upon a time, our country was ahead of the rest in the development and implementation of air defense systems on combat duty. Thanks to the Soviet scientist in the field of rocket technology Petr Dmitrievich Grushin, we have a product "B-750" complex "Dvina" which were produced in JSC "MKB Fakel" in Khimki. On May 1, 1960, a U-2 spy plane piloted by Powers was shot down by such a surface-to-air missile. The Americans were so sick of their impunity that they calmly flew through our lands from Kazakhstan to Norway. Airplane "Lockheed U-2" climbed to a height of more than 20 thousand meters and developed a speed that left our interceptor aircraft and the then existing missile defense systems out of work. But a new missile, launched from an anti-aircraft missile system near Sverdlovsk, calmly rose to a height of 22,000 meters and knocked out the enemy's vaunted aircraft.

It's no secret to anyone that Soviet air defense systems changed the course of history. Cuba owes its freedom to our air defense. Kennedy abandoned the invasion when another Lockheed was shot down over Liberty Island. Also, anti-aircraft missile systems developed by Academician Grushin defended the sky over Vietnam, Egypt, and Syria. In Vietnam, the US Air Force lost over 4,000 aircraft to our missiles and the napalm carpet bombing ceased. And during the Arab-Israeli war, after the appearance of our missiles in Egypt, Israeli pilots refused to fly, and they were shot in front of the formation. Not kamikaze Jews never. The Japanese won out flying on disposable planes that took off but did not land. Therefore, they made "banzai" in some thread of an American warship.

By the way, we owe the missile defense rings around Moscow Lavrenty Beria. It is he who ordered Stalin created KB-1, which included the best minds. The result of their activities was a unique multi-channel radar shield for guiding anti-aircraft missiles. But with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have lost all our former power. Now the situation is generally critical. Our defense industry cannot provide air defense troops modern complexes because it is inundated for decades to come with foreign orders for S-300. Obligations under a contract with foreign partners are higher than the state defense order, defense enterprises, even today, cannot lose customers, but they will always wait for their own ... Recently, they solemnly disbanded the legendary 16th Air Army, which was created by order of Stalin in August 1942 and went through combat way from Stalingrad to Berlin. Many aces pilots fought in its ranks, including three times Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kozhedub. And now modern hucksters want to take away the Kubinka airfield near Moscow from the aircraft where 16th Air Army to make the first airport in Russia for business aviation there. $%*$#(*#@#*$%(# (mat-filter)

With the collapse of the scoop, many unfinished strategic air defense facilities were abandoned, which were subsequently looted and desecrated. The purpose of this trip was to visit abandoned air defense facilities in the Moscow region.

Object "Protected communication node". Abandoned multi-storey military bunker in Voronovo.

Our first object was an abandoned communication bunker located near the village of Voronovo on the Kaluga highway. We got to it through the village of Trinity, and then through the field.

It is almost impossible to establish the purpose of this object for certain. Unless, of course, you have access to the "top secret" archives. Therefore, there are a number of hypotheses, each of which has the right to exist. According to one version, the object is a false position. This is assumed because the construction period is very long - more than 10 years. There is also an opinion that this is the missile defense launch site, but all known launch sites have at least eight mines. And in our case, the object has only 4 mines, although they are suitable in size for anti-missiles. Well, the most realistic version regarding the purpose of this object: an automated secure communication center with retractable antennas for communication with a satellite constellation. Let's stick with this version.

The object is a three-story building built in a backfill pit. Combat duty is carried out in automatic mode, with a minimum shift on duty. On the territory of the barracks of a security company, a checkpoint, a transformer substation and the remains of a NUP. Outside the territory - the remains of the construction battalion barracks. The 3rd and 2nd floors of the building are intended for the reception / transmission installation, the 1st floor for life support systems and ensuring the autonomy of the facility (air preparation, diesel, compressors, transformers, etc.) The system is two-channel. Channel antennas (one shaft for reception and one shaft for transmission) are grouped in pairs.

General view of the object. On the right in the photo is a cable walker

A fragile wooden bridge has been laid to the main entrance to the bunker. Climbing it is scary. Height - 5 meters.

I jumped in with a run.

I jumped in with a run.

Having examined the object up and down, we moved on. Not far from the village of Sharapovo, the road offers a view of the Chernetsk radar station Danube-3U. The Chernetsk Danube-3U radar is part of the A-135 anti-missile defense system, whose tasks are to detect the flight of enemy intercontinental missiles with the transfer of information to the Don-M (Sofrino) radar, and Don-M already provides the actual missile guidance.

Chernetskoe Radar Danube-3U

Anti-aircraft missile system S-300

Our next destination was an abandoned anti-aircraft missile fortification S-300 located just outside the village of Ermolovo. Based on the facility anti-aircraft missile system S-300, which took up combat duty at the turn of the 80s. At the moment, the object is decommissioned. And we studied what was left of him.