The Soviet Union was a huge power with equally large-scale projects in a variety of industries. Unfortunately, history has turned out that not every one of these projects was implemented.
But it also happened that an already implemented project, which seemed like such a promising project, turned out to be unnecessary and fell into decay over time. This review is about 13 mysterious, frightening, and sometimes downright creepy places on the territory of the former USSR.
1. Ball near Dubna
A protective dome that was accidentally dropped.In the forest near Dubna, in Russia, a huge hollow ball with a diameter of approximately 18 meters can be found. Finding it yourself will be a bit salty, but local residents will always be happy to tell you how to get to the local “attraction”. From a bird's eye view, the ball can be mistaken for a UFO, but in reality it is a dielectric cap for a parabolic antenna space communications. The cap was transported by helicopter, but the cable broke during transportation. Removing the dome turned out to be too problematic an undertaking. By the way, it is made of fiberglass with a honeycomb structure. It amplifies any noise many times over and produces a powerful echo.
2. Khovrinskaya hospital
It's funny, but the cases resemble a sign of a biological threat.
An eleven-story abandoned, unfinished hospital in Moscow. Traditionally, it is included in all sorts of unofficial ratings of the most terrible places on the planet. Build multidisciplinary hospital started in the 80s. It was designed for 1,300 beds. Construction was stopped after 5 years, when all the buildings had already been erected. Ironically, over the next decades, the Khovrinsk hospital does not save, but maims and takes lives. Homeless people, drug addicts and amateurs have long been “registered” here thrills. Accidents on the territory of patients are a sad reality.
3. Crimean Nuclear Power Plant
Completely plundered.Unfinished Nuclear Power Plant, which is located near the city of Shchelkino. The first design calculations were made back in 1964. Construction began in 1975. It was assumed that this nuclear power plant would provide electricity to the entire Crimean peninsula. It was also supposed to be the starting point for the further development of industry in these places. The first reactor was planned to be launched in 1989, construction proceeded without any deviations. However, the shaken economy of the USSR, together with the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, put an end to the Crimean project. At that time, more than 500 million Soviet rubles were spent on the station, and there were another 250 million Soviet rubles worth of materials and equipment in the warehouses. All this was stolen in subsequent years. It is worth adding that the Crimean nuclear power plant was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive power plant of this type.
4. Balaclava
Today this facility can be visited by anyone.
In 2003, for the first time in 46 years of its existence, the Balaklava submarine base appeared on public display for the first time. Today it is exclusively a tourist site, but the base was once one of the most secret sites of the Soviet Union. The huge underground complex housed submarines. The base could withstand a nuclear attack with powerful charges and was built in case of a nuclear war. The base consists of a water canal, a dry dock, numerous warehouses of various types and buildings for military personnel. The facility was closed in 1994, after the last submarine was removed from it. For many years, the pride of the Soviet Union was simply stolen.
5. Object 221
The alternate command center is now abandoned and looted.
Not far from Sevastopol, in addition to the already mentioned submarine repair base, you can find another, once secret, facility of the Soviet Union. We are talking about a bunker - object 221. It had many names, but behind all of them there was a reserve command post. black sea fleet. You can find the object near the village of Morozovka. It was a real underground city. Construction began on it in 1977. The object lies at a depth of 200 meters, where there are 4 floors of buildings. The total area of the underground part of the complex is 17 thousand sq.m. To date, the facility has been completely looted and destroyed.
6. Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva
The unique lighthouse stands idle and is almost completely plundered by looters.On Sakhalin you can find Cape Aniva, where a unique atomic lighthouse is located. The lighthouse is the height of a nine-story building. Previously, up to 12 people could be on duty there. Today, this once unique complex has been completely looted by looters and is not functioning.
7. Dvina missile system
The Soviet legacy is flooded.The collapse of the Soviet Union “gave” former republics a huge arsenal of a wide variety of weapons, including launch silos. So, near the capital of Latvia, in the forests, you can find the once unique, secret Dvina launch complex. It was built in 1964. This is a huge complex consisting of bunkers and launch shafts, most of which are currently flooded. Visiting the complex is highly discouraged due to the remains of extremely toxic rocket fuel there.
8. Workshop No. 8 of the Dagdizel plant
This is not Fort Boyard, this was once a super secret workshop.
In Kaspiysk, in Dagestan, you can find a unique factory workshop built right on the water. The workshop belonged to the Dagdizel plant. Built it for testing marine species weapons, in particular a variety of torpedoes and missiles. The plant was unique for the USSR. It was built on a pit with a volume of 530 thousand cubic meters, which was dug using special shells. An “array” was installed into it, onto which a 14-meter all-metal structure was later lowered. total area The constructed workshop exceeds 5 thousand sq.m. The station was equipped for permanent residence and work. However, by the mid-60s of the 20th century, the project was abandoned as unnecessary due to too quickly changing trends in the field of weapons design. Since then, the building has been abandoned and is gradually being destroyed by the Caspian Sea.
9. Lopatinsky phosphate mine
The mine is almost stopped, plundered and abandoned.
Not far from the city of Vokresensk, in the Moscow region, you can easily find a huge mine for the extraction of phospharites. This deposit is unique in Europe and the largest. The first developments here began in the 30s of the 20th century. All types of multi-bucket excavators were used in numerous quarries: crawler, rail and walking. Rail shovels had special equipment to move the rails. Since the 90s, the mine has been virtually abandoned, the quarries are flooded with water, and expensive special equipment is simply rotting under open air.
10. Ionosphere research station
Today this scientific object only stalkers visit.
In Zmeevo, a district city in the Kharkov region of Ukraine, you can find a unique station for studying the ionosphere. It was built almost before the collapse of the USSR. It was a direct analogue of the American Harp project, which was deployed in Alaska and is successfully operating to this day. The Soviet complex consisted of several antenna fields and one giant parabolic antenna with a diameter of 25 meters. Unfortunately, after the collapse of the union, no one needed the station. Today, incredibly expensive scientific equipment simply rots or is stolen by stalkers and hunters for non-ferrous metals.
11. "Northern Crown"
The most sinister hotel.
Initially, the Northern Crown Hotel was called Petrogradskaya. Its construction began in 1988. The hotel is famous not for its beauty, but for the huge number of accidents during construction. The fact that Metropolitan John died of a heart attack within its walls did not add to the complex’s popularity, immediately after the building was illuminated.
12. Particle accelerator
The USSR could have had its own collider.
The USSR could have its own hadron collider. Construction of a unique complex began in the Moscow region, in Protvino, in the late 80s. As it is not difficult to guess, the collapse of the USSR actually put an end to scientific project. A 21-kilometer tunnel was already completely ready for the collider. They even began to deliver equipment to the site. Work continued after that, but very sluggishly. Funding was literally only enough to illuminate the tunnels that were falling into disrepair.
13. "Oil Rocks"
A real city on the water.In Azerbaijan you can find a real sea city. We are talking about the so-called “oil stones”. It appeared after Soviet geologists discovered huge oil deposits in the Caspian Sea in the 40s of the 20th century. Thanks to the development of mining, an entire city appeared on embankments and metal overpasses. Power plants, hospitals, nine-story buildings and much more were built right on the water! In total, there were about 200 platforms with residents on the water. The total mileage of streets was 350 km. However, cheap Siberian oil that appeared later put an end to local production, and the city fell into decay.
Abandoned city: the mining village of Promyshlenny. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, this village was suddenly cut off from electricity, and the country's government did not provide the necessary support. Photo: Oleg Shvets
When the water supply, gas and electricity stopped working, the residents of the village simply moved away and went in search of housing and work, leaving behind their houses, property and rubble past life. Photo: Oleg Shvets
The things left behind 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 Balaklava residents did not have the right to visit this closed military facility without special entry permission. 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 there is an abandoned and unguarded fuel storage facility. Photo: Russos
Abandoned concentration camps- a stone reminder of mass repression, a sad monument to backbreaking labor and a mass grave for hundreds of thousands of those sentenced to death. Photo: angelfire.com
In most countries, desolation and ruin 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 as unnecessary. In a sense, they can be used to study a unique history - the history of a corrupt and short-sighted government, the history of what did not come true, in other words, the history of what could have been. This unfinished abandoned factory was supposed to produce concrete panels. Moscow region. Photo: EUTHANASIA
In 1997, during the preparation for the World Youth Games in Moscow, a project for the construction of an aquadrome was approved. The construction area is 1.7 hectares, the building area is 43,500 sq. m. m., 12-storey building with a glass sloping roof. The building includes 3 underground and 9 above-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 city. Photo: EUTHANASIA
Abandoned silos of missile systems. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics inherited a dubious inheritance: silos 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 shafts, a central flight control console, 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. Vladivostok's military bases were once considered part of the country's security system: strengthening the country's Pacific coast was intended to protect the USSR from possible aggression from Japan. Photo: Shamora.info
It's hard to imagine that incredibly complex, expensive machinery and equipment could be abandoned as easily as a dilapidated building. However, the builders of communism distinguished themselves in this area: rusting equipment can still be easily found in abandoned fields, and huge satellite dishes scattered throughout the country are apparently destined to disintegrate into elements. Photo: Avi_Abrams / Flickr
Abandoned Fort: Fort Alexander is popularly known as the Plague Fort. Built in the 19th century, and already in 1869 it was excluded from the defensive structures. Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio
Currently 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, and a shopping area. Photo: anglerfish / Panoramio
Abandoned "sea city": Neftyanye Kamni is an urban village in Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea. It is located on a metal overpass, built in 1949 in connection with the beginning 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 to each other by bridges and overpasses. Oil production continues to this day, but the city has fallen into disrepair and this moment not populated. 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 abandoned mines from the former USSR, located in the vicinity of the city of Kyshtym, are not radioactive. This potassium mica mining complex has been considered abandoned since 1961. Photo: Evgeny Chibilev
Then the explosion of a holding tank for radioactive substances caused radiation contamination over 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
Abandoned city of miners: On the Svalbard archipelago there was once an entire Russian settlement - the city of Barentsburg, and three mines - the Barentsburg mine and the mothballed Grumant and Pyramid mines. According to the 1920 agreement, the archipelago was transferred to the jurisdiction of Norway, but other states, including Russia, which has traditionally been present on the islands, are allowed to use the islands for any non-military activities. The USSR began mining coal. Photo: Erling Svensen
In the early 90s. For the Pyramid mine, a decision was made to mothball it on the basis of the mine’s unprofitability. The population was given only a few hours to get ready. As a result, their abandoned houses resemble a picture from Chernobyl - abandoned personal belongings, books, children's toys. Photo: vizion, Anne-Sophie Redisch
Abandoned estates: Abandoned country houses and estates of historical and architectural value are in no hurry to be restored. The reason is simple - 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 leader 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 Joseph Brodsky spent the summer before leaving abroad in Belogorka. Places around Belogorka - the villages of Novsiverskaya and Starosiverskaya - are associated with the name of landscape artist 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-Abkhaz conflict of 1992–1993. Photo: Natalya Lvova/ Rodionova Publishing House
In 1994 after a devastating war, as a result of which the Georgian side was defeated, Abkhazia acquired independence and the status of an Unrecognized State. Now, due to the lack of funding in the country, it is impossible to restore the transport network and buildings destroyed during the war. Photo: Natalya Lvova/ Rodionova Publishing House
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, while many others were simply abandoned. They were left to rust: after all, the economies of most newly created states simply could not support their maintenance; no one needed them. Now some of them represent a kind of mecca for stalkers, “tourist” sites, visiting which involves considerable risk.
“Resident Evil”: a top-secret complex on Vozrozhdenie Island in the Aral Sea
During Soviet times, a complex of military bioengineering institutes was located on an island in the middle of the Aral Sea, engaged in the development and testing of biological weapons. It was an object of such secrecy that most of the employees involved in the landfill maintenance infrastructure simply did not know where exactly they were working. On the island itself there were buildings and laboratories of the institute, vivariums, and equipment warehouses. In the town, very comfortable living conditions were created for researchers and military personnel in conditions of complete autonomy. The island was carefully guarded by the military on land and sea.
In 1992, the entire facility was urgently mothballed and abandoned by all occupants, including the facility's guards. For some time it remained a “ghost town” until it was discovered by looters, who for more than 10 years removed from the island everything that was abandoned there. 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
Beyond the horizon radar station Duga is a radar station created in the USSR for early detection of intercontinental ballistic missile launches by starting flashes (based on the reflection of radiation by the ionosphere). This gigantic structure took 5 years to build and was completed in 1985. A cyclopean antenna with a height of 150 meters and a length of 800 consumed great amount electricity, therefore it was built near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
For the characteristic sound on air made during operation (knocking), the station was named Russian Woodpecker (Russian Woodpecker). The installation was built to last and could function successfully to this day, but in reality the Duga radar operated for less than a year. The facility stopped operating after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.
Underwater submarine shelter: Balaklava, Crimea
As they say knowledgeable people- this top-secret submarine base was a transshipment point where submarines, including nuclear ones, were repaired, refueled and replenished with ammunition. It was a gigantic complex built to last, capable of withstanding a nuclear strike; under its arches, up to 14 submarines could be accommodated simultaneously. 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 build 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
Very close to the capital of Latvia, in the forest there are the remains of the Dvina missile system. Built in 1964, the facility consisted of 4 launch shafts approximately 35 meters deep and underground bunkers. Much of the premises is currently flooded, and visiting the launch site without an experienced stalker guide is not recommended. Also dangerous are the remnants of toxic rocket fuel - heptyl, which, according to some information, remain in the depths of launch silos.
“The Lost World” in the Moscow region: Lopatinsky phosphate mine
The Lopatinskoye phosphorite deposit, 90 km from Moscow, was the largest in Europe. In the 30s of the last century, they began to actively develop it using the open pit method. At the Lopatinsky quarry, all main types of multi-bucket excavators were used - moving on rails, moving on tracks, and excavators walking at an “added” step. It was a giant development with its own railroad. After 1993, the field was closed, abandoning all the expensive imported special equipment.
Mining of phosphorites has led to the emergence of an incredible “unearthly” landscape. The long and deep troughs of the quarries are mostly flooded. They are interspersed with high sandy ridges, turning into table-flat 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 air. All this makes the Lopatin quarries a kind of natural-technogenic “reserve”, a place of increasingly lively pilgrimage for tourists.
“Well to Hell”: Kola superdeep well, Murmansk region
Kola ultra-deep well- the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters. 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 solely for scientific research purposes in the place where the lower boundary of the earth's crust comes close to the surface of the Earth. 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.
A lot has been done at the well most interesting discoveries, for example, the fact that life on Earth appeared 1.5 billion years earlier than expected. At depths where it was believed that there was no and could not be organic matter, 14 species of fossilized microorganisms were discovered - 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 has been mothballed and is gradually being destroyed. The cost of restoration is about one hundred million rubles. The Kola superdeep well is associated with many implausible legends about a “well to hell” from the bottom of which the cries of sinners are heard, and the drills are melted by hellish flames.
"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, a utility unit, and 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 object. One of the important areas of research carried out at the complex is the development of ways to protect the operation of equipment and communications from ion disturbances in the atmosphere of various natures.
Currently, the station operates for only 100 hours a year, while the famous American HAARP facility runs experiments for 2,000 hours over the same period. The Nizhny Novgorod Radiophysical Institute does not have enough money for electricity - in one day of work, the test site equipment deprives the complex of a monthly budget. The complex is threatened not only by lack of money, but also by theft of property. Due to the lack of proper security, “hunters” for scrap metal continually sneak into the station’s territory.
"Oil Rocks" - a sea city of oil producers, Azerbaijan
This settlement on trestles standing directly 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 extraction from the seabed around the Black Rocks - a rock ridge barely protruding from the surface of the sea. Here there are drilling rigs connected by overpasses, on which a settlement of oil field workers is located. The village grew, and in its heyday included power plants, nine-story dormitory buildings, hospitals, a community center, a park with trees, a bakery, a lemonade production plant, and even a mosque with a full-time mullah.
The length of the elevated streets and alleys 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 the rotational shift. The period of decline of Oil Rocks began with the advent of cheaper Siberian oil, which made offshore production unprofitable. However, the seaside town still did not become a ghost town; at the beginning of 2000, major repair work began there and even the laying of new wells began.
Failed collider: abandoned particle accelerator, Protvino, Moscow region
In the late 80s, the Soviet Union planned to build a huge accelerator elementary particles. The Moscow region scientific center Protvino - the city of nuclear physicists - was a powerful complex in those years physical institutes, where scientists from all over the world came. A circular tunnel 21 kilometers long was built, lying at a depth of 60 meters. It is still located near Protvino. They even began to deliver equipment into the already completed accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals struck, and the domestic “hadron collider” remained uninstalled.
The institutions of the city of Protvino maintain the satisfactory condition of this tunnel - an empty dark ring underground. There is a lighting system there, and 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 are not giving this object away yet - perhaps they are hoping for the best.
On the territory of the former USSR you can find a large number of abandoned objects that remind us of the greatness of the Soviet Union. Military facilities, equipment, factories, submarines and spaceships turned out to be unnecessary to anyone, and therefore their fate was not the best. Let's take a look at the legacy of the USSR times cold war, which is found in Russia and neighboring countries.
Abandoned collider. Protvino, Moscow region.
Aralsk-7, Renaissance Island. A ghost town where biological weapons were rumored to be tested. The completely autonomous city was urgently abandoned in the early 90s.
Duga over-the-horizon radar station (Duga radar, Pripyat, Ukraine) - created for early detection of intercontinental ballistic missile launches. Construction was completed in 1985 near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The Duga radar had cyclopean dimensions! Height – 140 m, length – 500 m. 200 thousand tons of metal were used for construction. The station was not on combat duty and did not pass tests.
The Kola superdeep well (Murmansk region) is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12,262 meters; diameter of the upper part - 92 cm, diameter of the lower part - 21.5 cm. ( Archive photo 1974).
Kola superdeep well. This is how the object looks today. In 2008, the facility was abandoned, the equipment was dismantled, and the destruction of the building began.
Station for studying the ionosphere (Ukraine, Zmiev). It was built as an analogue of the American HAARP project in Alaska in the late 80s.
Kyiv Electric Transport Plant has long story. The opening took place on May 1, 1906. In the photo: A factory workshop in the 80s.
During 1974 – 1985 About a hundred new KTG freight trolleybuses rolled off the assembly line every year. And this is what the Kiev Electric Transport Plant looks like these days.
Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino. There are many Crimean secret (and not so secret) abandoned objects, because the peninsula was a line of defense in the south of the USSR and Russian Empire. This nuclear power plant, for example, was supposed to supply electricity to the entire Crimea.
They started building the station in 1974, and in 1987, after the Chernobyl tragedy, construction was frozen. By that time, the station had already managed to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world.
Object No. 221, Crimea is a truly secret object. The photo shows a dummy building that hides a chain of bunkers underground. Fearing a nuclear strike, the USSR leadership built a bunker for the Reserve Command Post.
Tunnels of object No. 221 (Crimea). In addition to the command post, underground had to be evacuated in case nuclear threat 10 thousand people are officers and their families.
The Crimean bunker was abandoned in 1992. According to some reports, it was 90% ready.
Object 825 GTS - underground submarine base in Balaklava. Secret military facility during the Cold War. The underground complex was built over 8 years, from 1953 to 1961. After its closure in 1993, most of the complex was not guarded.
Object 825 GTS is located in Mount Tavros and is a structure of the first protection category (direct hit by a 100 kt atomic bomb).
Anti-nuclear doors of Object 825.
It’s hard to believe, but there are entire cemeteries of equipment left behind various reasons back in the days of the USSR. In the photo: Equipment that participated in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A familiar picture for fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
This sad picture in the photo is an abandoned hangar near the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A few years ago, photographer Ralph Mirebs visited the hangar. Assembled space shuttles Product 1.02 "Buran-2" - the USSR's answer to the American Shuttles.
In 1988, the Buran space shuttle (product 1.01) made an automatic flight into space. In 2002, when the installation and testing building No. 112 collapsed, Buran was destroyed.
The collapse of the USSR and increasing budget cuts forced the reduction and space program.
The spaceships remained frozen in time.
The building cannot be called destroyed, despite its deplorable condition.
This is what the hangar looks like from the outside.
The Project 903 ekranoplane missile ship Lun is a Soviet aircraft carrier killer, as it was called in the United States. And this was not far from the truth. The ekranoplan was designed to combat surface ships by launching a missile strike.
Due to its high speed of movement and imperceptibility to radar, the harrier can swim to aircraft carriers within the distance of an accurate missile launch.
Lun has come a long way from the start of development in the 70s to its transfer into trial operation in 1990. And already in 1991, operation was completed.
This is what the ekranoplan looks like these days. It was mothballed at the dock in Kaspiysk. All sensitive electronics have been put into warehouses.
Amderma, Lena-M radar. Village on the shores of the Kara Sea in Soviet time was the center of the largest military infrastructure in the Arctic. Large radar installations were installed here, based fighter aircraft.
Amderma, radar complex control center.
Amderma. Balls of radio-transparent shelters for mobile radars.
And this is the Moscow region, our days. A whole arsenal of military equipment abandoned in the forest.
Such a picture, as they say, is not so rare in our country. Entire military bases stand completely abandoned.
Skrunda – once secret military unit USSR – an entire city in Latvia stands abandoned. There are many similar ghosts around former union.
The abandoned eighth workshop of the Dagdizel plant in the city of Kaspiysk. Naval weapons testing station, which was commissioned in 1939. Located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast.
If you wish, you can also find abandoned planes in the vast expanses of the former USSR. This one, for example, is near the airport in Riga.
Why are there planes? Entire airfields stand abandoned. For example, in the city of Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Territory.
Airport, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.
Abandoned planes, Vozdvizhenka, Primorsky Krai.
R-12 Dvina missile system (Postavy). The complex was built in 1964 and was in service until 1994. One of the objects from the Cold War.
According to some reports, this photo was taken the day before the death of K-159 during transportation for disposal.
Project 613 submarines are a series of Soviet medium-sized diesel-electric submarines built in 1951-1957.
Keys to the sky. Systems air defense Moscow.
After the end of World War II, in the context of the outbreak of the Cold War, work was launched in the Soviet Union in three most important defense areas: the creation of nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and an air defense system in Moscow impenetrable to atomic bombers.
The organization of work to solve these problems was entrusted to specially created structures 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 a Soviet rocket scientist Peter Dmitrievich Grushin, we have a product "B-750" complex "Dvina", which were produced in OJSC "MKB Fakel" in Khimki. It was precisely such a surface-to-air missile that shot down the U-2 spy plane piloted by Powers on May 1, 1960. The Americans were so sick of their impunity that they calmly flew through our lands from Kazakhstan to Norway. Airplane "Lockheed U-2" rose 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 useless. But a new missile, launched from an anti-aircraft missile complex near Sverdlovsk, calmly rose to a height of 22 thousand meters and knocked out the enemy’s vaunted aircraft.
It's no secret that Soviet air defense systems changed the course of history. Cuba owes its freedom precisely 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 protected the skies over Vietnam, Egypt, and Syria. In Vietnam, the US Air Force lost more than 4,000 aircraft shot down by our missiles and carpet napalm bombing stopped. And during the Arab-Israeli war, after our missiles appeared on Egyptian territory, Israeli pilots refused to fly and were shot in front of the formation. Jews have never been kamikazes. The Japanese flew disposable planes that took off but did not land. That's why they made a "banzai" into some kind of American warship.
By the way, we owe the missile defense rings around Moscow Lavrentiy Beria. It was he who ordered Stalin created KB-1, which included the best minds. The result of their work 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 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 with foreign orders for decades to come S-300. Obligations under contracts with foreign partners exceed state defense orders; defense enterprises, even today, cannot lose clients, but they will always wait for their own... Recently, the legendary 16th Air Army, which was created by order of Stalin in August 1942 and passed through combat, was solemnly disbanded the path from Stalingrad to Berlin. Many ace 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 Air Force, where it was based 16th Air Army to make the first airport in Russia for business aviation there. $%*$#(*#@#*$%(# (mat filter)
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, 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". An abandoned multi-story military bunker in Voronovo.
Our first target was an abandoned communications bunker located next to locality Voronovo on Kaluga highway. We got to it through the village of Trinity, and then through the field.
It is almost impossible to establish for certain the purpose of this object. Unless, of course, you have access to "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 a missile defense starting position, but all known starting positions have at least eight mines. And in our case, the object has only 4 silos, although they are suitable in size for anti-missile 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 focus on this version.
The facility is a three-story building built in a foundation pit for backfill. Combat duty is carried out in automatic mode, with a minimum duty shift. On the territory there are barracks of a security company, a checkpoint, a transformer substation and the remains of the Nuclear Power Plant. Behind the territory are the remains of the construction battalion barracks. The 3rd and 2nd floors of the building are intended for the installation of reception/transmission, the 1st for life support systems and ensuring the autonomy of the facility (air preparation, diesel, compressors, transformers, etc.) The system is two-channel. The 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
There is a fragile wooden bridge leading to the main entrance to the bunker. It's scary to climb it. 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 radio station Danube-3U. The Chernetsk Danube-3U radar is part of the A-135 missile defense system, the tasks of which are to detect the flight of enemy intercontinental missiles with the transmission of information to the Don-M (Sofrino) radar, and the Don-M provides the actual guidance of the missile defense.
Chernetsk radar Danube-3U
Anti-aircraft missile system S-300
Our next goal was an abandoned anti-aircraft missile fortification S-300, located just outside the village of Ermolovo. The facility was based S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, which went on combat duty at the turn of the 80s. The object is currently decommissioned. And we studied what was left of it.
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