Abandoned buildings of the USSR. The most dangerous and secret objects of the USSR

In the Russian Federation, the successor to the USSR, de-Sovietization is proceeding at an accelerated pace, the post-Soviet elites, who destroyed and plundered the Union, and now parasitize on its ruins, are mortally afraid of the awakening nostalgia of the population, once the Soviet people, for a state that has long sunk into oblivion.

Not a day goes by that the proteges of the West, who seized power by deceit and have been holding it for 27 years, do not take the next steps to denigrate the memory of a mighty state, destroyed due to the meanness of some and the naivety of others, out of evil will and a combination of tragic circumstances, because of betrayal and venality, lust for power and greed, stupidity and treason ...

After this state, the perished Soviet Atlantis, not only fragments of industry, science, culture remained, but also the ruins of some secret objects of its military power, which was supposed to guard its sovereignty, but did not help ...
The enemy destroyed the great country from the inside then, exactly the same thing he is trying to do now, so I propose to remember, to restore, at least from separate fragments, the picture of those defensive fortifications that were erected by generations of Soviet people, but did not save them from the betrayal of the elites .. ..

Look, think, draw conclusions - in front of you is the history and information for reflection in photographs of 10 objects ...

Top secret and forgotten
After the collapse of the USSR, the young states inherited many once powerful military and scientific facilities.
The most dangerous and secret were urgently mothballed and evacuated, while 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, 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 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, Ukraine

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 launch 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 staging post where submarines, including nuclear submarines, 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. (After joining the Russian Federation - a museum).

"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 depths where it was believed that there was no, and could not be, organic matter, 14 species of petrified 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 during 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, a city of nuclear physicists, in those years was a powerful complex of physics 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 given this object yet - perhaps they are hoping for the best.

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And here is the whole city, which can be examined more closely, holding back quite natural emotions in the chest, striving to overwhelm any person who has a memory and a heart...

Gudym - Soviet secret city
At the sight of abandoned cities, a nagging feeling of longing often arises, an involuntary desire to revive them to life, one of such places is the Soviet city of Gudym in Chukotka.
A top-secret facility located just 200 km from America, a military nuclear base, one of the trump cards of the USSR in the Cold War.
Rockets launched from here could destroy the Empire of Good if it dared to attack the Soviet Union, turning half of the territory of the aggressor country into a desert.

Gudym is one of the many names of the secret city. Officially, the military was often called Andyr-1.
It was here that Soviet nuclear bases were located, and in the event of a aggravation of the situation, missiles from Gudym were supposed to destroy half the continent.
Outwardly, the city looks quite ordinary: several three-story houses, a school and a shopping center.
Now all this is completely abandoned and half destroyed.
However, the most valuable thing in Gudym was underground - a giant multi-level dungeon, where rockets and fuel were stored.

Rusted portrait of a soldier.

Posters in honor of the sailors of the Navy.

Gudym was one of 15 secret or closed cities in the USSR. This city was not marked on the map, and the entry of foreigners here was under the strictest ban. The city was built in the 1950s; since 1961, about 5 thousand people (military men and their families) have lived here. There were three RSD-10 missile systems at the base, the name "Pioneer". In the event of a nuclear war, they were supposed to hit Alaska, the states of Washington, California and South Dakota.

Entrance to the park.

Despite the geographical remoteness and secrecy status, local residents were satisfied with the living conditions in Gudym. There were high salaries here, there was no shortage of anything, the shopping center in Chukotka had everything that other cities of the USSR only dreamed of.

She was not saved by high-tech military and scientific bases, the genius of her scientists, the work of her builders, the courage of her military, the patriotism of her people - the betrayal of the greedy, cynical, corrupt and narrow-minded degenerated elites, "stupidity and treason" turned out to be stronger.
Russian - not yet, but how dangerously the situation today resembles the period of the last Soviet years and decades.
And the elites - the elites remained, in many ways, the same and their motives - remained the same ...

A secret submarine base, an abandoned missile silo, giant excavators, the Duga over-the-horizon radar, a sea city on the Oil Rocks platforms, a Soviet hadron collider - an elementary particle accelerator and an ionospheric research station. The once mighty communist empire spared no expense either for defense or for science. And from the Pacific Ocean to the middle of Europe, huge antennas aimed into space towered, and secret military bunkers hid in the forests. With the collapse of the Union, the maintenance of many of these objects was too expensive for the heirs. And the newly formed young states were not interested in science, and the task of defending the borders was assigned to powerful neighbors. Here are just a few of the thousands of secret and not so secret objects hidden in the mountains and forests that characterize the full power of the collapsed empire. But these are only the least valuable ones, which turned out to be unclaimed during the division of property between the once fraternal republics.

Balaklava (Ukraine, Crimea)

The secret submarine base in the small Crimean town of Balaklava is one of the largest military facilities abandoned after the collapse of the USSR. Since 1961, a complex has been located under Mount Tavros where ammunition (including nuclear) was stored and submarines were repaired. Up to 14 submarines of various classes could hide in the docks of the base, and the entire complex was able to withstand a direct strike from a nuclear bomb with a power of up to 100 kT. Abandoned in 1993, the object was taken for scrap by local residents. Without accurate maps, it was dangerous to walk through the numerous tunnels of the base, since there was a real danger of getting lost or falling into one of the many hatches (they are open, since the locals handed over the covers for scrap metal). In 2002, it was decided to turn the remains of the submarine base in Balaklava into a museum complex dedicated to the confrontation during the Cold War.

Abandoned missile silo (Latvia, Kekava)

After the collapse of the empire, the young republics inherited a lot of military property, including ballistic missile silos scattered through the forests. Not far from the capital of Latvia 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 a visit to the launcher without an experienced guide is not recommended. Residues of poisonous rocket fuel also pose a danger.

Giant excavators (Russia, Moscow region)

Until 1993, the Lopatinsky phosphorite mine was a quite successful operating deposit, where the most important minerals for Soviet agriculture were mined. And with the advent of a market economy, abandoned quarries with giant bucket-wheel excavators have become a place of pilgrimage for tourists. Lopatinsky mine is an interesting place near Voskresensk. There are interesting things - giant excavators (paragraphs) and prehistoric fossils (ammonites and fragments of marine reptiles). Until recently, it was possible to climb ownerless paragraphs, but now they have been dismantled and only the active ones remain, which are guarded.

Over-the-horizon radar "Duga" (Ukraine, Pripyat)

The titanic facility, built in 1985 to detect ICBM launches, could still function successfully to this day, but in reality it has worked for less than a year. A giant antenna 150 meters high and 800 meters long consumed such an amount of electricity that it was built almost close to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and, of course, stopped its work along with the explosion of the station. At the moment, excursions are being taken to Pripyat, including to the foot of the radar station, but only a few risk climbing the 150-meter high.

Sea City "Oil Rocks" (Azerbaijan)

The Union needed oil, and in the 40s of the last century, its offshore production began in the Caspian Sea, 42 kilometers east of the Absheron Peninsula. And around the first platforms, a city began to grow, also located on metal overpasses and embankments. During its heyday, power plants, nine-story hostel buildings, hospitals, a cultural center, a bakery and even a lemonade shop were built on the high seas 110 km from Baku. The oil workers also had a small park with real trees. Oil stones are more than 200 stationary platforms, and the length of the streets and alleys of this city in the sea reaches 350 kilometers. But cheap Siberian oil made offshore mining unprofitable and the village began to fall into disrepair. Today, only about 2 thousand people live here.

Abandoned elementary particle accelerator (Russia, Moscow region)

In the late 80s, the agonizing Soviet Union decided to build a huge particle accelerator. The ring tunnel, 21 kilometers long, lying at a depth of 60 meters, is now located near Protvino, near Moscow, the city of nuclear physicists. This is less than a hundred kilometers from Moscow along the Simferopol highway. 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 to rot underground.

Station for studying the ionosphere (Ukraine, Zmiev)

Almost just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, an ionospheric research station was built near Kharkov, which was a direct analogue of the American HAARP project in Alaska, which is still successfully operating today. The station complex consisted of several antenna fields and a giant parabolic antenna with a diameter of 25 meters, capable of radiating a power of about 25 MW. For some time, the station was abandoned and was an object for tourists and hunters for non-ferrous metals, but fortunately, now everything is functional and the station even has a website: //www.iion.org.ua/

The Soviet Union was a huge power with the same large-scale projects in a variety of industries. Unfortunately, history has developed in such a way that not every one of these projects has been implemented.
But it also happened that an already implemented project, and it seemed such a promising project, turned out to be unnecessary and fell into decay over time. This review is about 13 mysterious, frightening, and in some places frankly 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 about 18 meters can be found. Finding it yourself will be salty, but the locals are always willing 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 space communications antenna. The cap was transported by helicopters, but during transportation the cable burst. It turned out to be too problematic to take out the dome. It is made, by the way, of fiberglass honeycomb structure. Any noise is repeatedly amplified in it and a powerful echo is emitted.

2. Khovrinsk hospital

It's funny, but the hulls are reminiscent of a biological threat sign.
Eleven-story abandoned, unfinished hospital in Moscow. Traditionally, it falls into all sorts of unofficial ratings of the most terrible places on the planet. The construction of a multidisciplinary hospital began in the 80s. It was designed for 1,300 beds. They stopped construction after 5 years, when all the buildings had already been erected. Ironically, for all subsequent decades, the Khovrinsky hospital does not save, but cripples and takes lives. Homeless people, drug addicts and thrill-seekers have been “registered” here for a long time. Accidents on the territory of patients are a sad reality.

3. Crimean NPP

Completely plundered.
An unfinished nuclear power plant, which is located near the city of Shchelkino. The first design calculations were made in 1964. Construction began in 1975. It was assumed that this nuclear power plant will 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, the construction went on 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 the warehouses had materials and equipment for another 250 million Soviet rubles. All this was stolen in the following 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 object can be visited by everyone.
In 2003, for the first time in 46 years of its existence, the Balaklava submarine base appeared for the first time on public display. Today it is an exclusively tourist site, and once the base was one of the most secret objects of the Soviet Union. Submarines were located in a huge underground complex. The base could withstand a nuclear attack with the most powerful charges and was built in case of an atomic war. The base consists of a water channel, a dry dock, numerous warehouses of various profiles and buildings for military personnel. The object was closed in 1994, after the last submarine was withdrawn from it. For many years, the pride of the Soviet Union was simply stolen.

5. Object 221

The reserve command center is abandoned and plundered today.
Not far from Sevastopol, in addition to the already mentioned base for the repair of submarines, you can find another once secret object of the Soviet Union. We are talking about a bunker - object 221. It had many names, but behind all of them was a reserve command post of the Black Sea Fleet. You can find an object under the village of Morozovka. It was a real underground city. Construction began in 1977. The object lies at a depth of 200 meters, where 4 floors of buildings are located. The total area of the underground part of the complex is 17 thousand sq.m. To date, the object is completely looted and ruined.

6. Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva

The unique lighthouse is idle and almost completely plundered by marauders.
On Sakhalin, you can find Cape Aniva, where a unique atomic lighthouse is located. The lighthouse is nine stories high. Previously, up to 12 people could be on duty in it. Today, this once unique complex is completely looted by looters and does not function.

7. Missile complex "Dvina"

The Soviet legacy is flooded.
The collapse of the Soviet Union "gave" the former republics a huge arsenal of various weapons, including silos. So, under 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 silos, most of which are now flooded. Visiting the complex is highly discouraged due to the remnants of extremely poisonous rocket fuel there.

8. Workshop No. 8 of the Dagdiesel plant

This is not Fort Boyard, this is, 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 Dagdiesel plant. It was built to test naval 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 out with the help of special shells. An “array” was installed in it, on which an all-metal 14-meter structure was later lowered. The total area of the constructed workshop exceeds 5 thousand sq.m. The station was equipped for permanent residence and work. However, by the mid-60s of the XX century, the project was curtailed as unnecessary due to too rapidly changing trends in the field of weapon design. Since then, the building has been abandoned and gradually 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 phosphorite mine. This deposit is unique in Europe and the largest. The first developments here began in the 30s of the XX century. All types of bucket-wheel excavators worked in numerous quarries: caterpillar, rail and walking. Rail excavators had special equipment to move the rails. Since the 90s, the mine has been practically abandoned, the quarries are flooded with water, and expensive special equipment is simply rotting in the open.

10. Station for studying the ionosphere

Today, this scientific facility is visited only by stalkers.
In Zmeev, a district of the city in the Kharkiv 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 is deployed in Alaska and has been 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 non-ferrous metal hunters.

11. Northern Crown

The most sinister hotel ever.
Initially, the Severnaya Korona Hotel was called Petrogradskaya. Construction began in 1988. The hotel is famous not for its beauty, but for the huge number of accidents during construction. The popularity of the complex was not added by the fact that Metropolitan John died of a heart attack within its walls, immediately after the lighting of the building.

12. Particle Accelerator

The USSR could have its own collider.
The USSR could have its own hadron collider. A unique complex began to be built 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 the scientific project. A 21-kilometer tunnel was already completely ready for the collider. Equipment has even been brought into the facility. Work continued after, but very sluggishly. Financing was literally enough only for lighting 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 1940s. Thanks to the development of mining, a whole city appeared on embankments and metal overpasses. Power plants, hospitals, nine-story houses 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 the streets was 350 km. However, the cheap Siberian oil that appeared later put an end to local production, and the city fell into decay. In the USSR, many secret facilities were built for defense and scientific departments

Vitaly Ovchinnikov

After the collapse of the USSR, many once powerful military and scientific facilities were inherited by the new young states on the territory of the former USSR. The most dangerous and secret objects were urgently blown up, 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", and a kind of "tourist" objects for extreme people, visiting which is associated with considerable risk.

About some of them this note

“RESIDENCE OF EVIL: A SECRET COMPLEX ON 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 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 20 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 POWERFUL "RUSSIAN WOODWORKPER"

The "over-the-horizon" radar station Duga is a radar station created in the USSR for the early detection of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles by launch 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 SUBMARINE

According to people in the know, this top-secret submarine base, codenamed "Object 221" in Balaklava, 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 THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA"

Exactly the same mines were located in Transcarpathia, in the areas of the cities of Stryi and Brody, near Kostroma, near Kozelsk and in other regions of the country.

"WELL TO HELL" or the Kola superdeep well.

The Kola superdeep well 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 depths where it was believed that there was no, and could not be, organic matter, 14 species of petrified 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 several hundred million rubles Many implausible legends about the “well to hell” are associated with the Kola super-deep well, from the bottom of which the cries of sinners are heard, and the drill bits are melted by hellish flames.

"OIL STONES"- a seaside city of oil producers in the Caspian Sea

THE FAILED SOVIET COLLIDER.

Near the city of Protvino, Moscow Region, there is a giant unfinished and now abandoned particle accelerator.

The Protvino scientific center near Moscow in Soviet times was a city of nuclear physicists, a powerful complex of physics 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 new equipment into the already finished accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals of the nineties broke out, and the domestic "hadron collider" remained empty, not mounted.

The institutions of the city of Protvino somehow 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 are not yet giving this object to "businessmen" - they are hoping for the best.

The once mighty communist empire spared no expense either for defense or for science. And from the Pacific Ocean to the middle of Europe, huge antennas aimed into space towered, and secret military bunkers hid in the forests. With the collapse of the Union, the maintenance of many of these objects was too expensive for the heirs. And the newly formed young states were not interested in science, and the task of defending the borders was assigned to powerful neighbors ...

Here are just a few of the thousands of secret and not so secret objects hidden in the mountains and forests that characterize the full power of the collapsed empire. But these are only the least valuable, which turned out to be unclaimed during the division of property between the once fraternal republics ...

Balaklava, Crimea, Ukraine

Secret submarine base
One of the largest military facilities that were abandoned after the collapse of the USSR.

Since 1961, a complex has been located under Mount Tavros where ammunition (including nuclear) was stored and submarines were repaired.

Up to 14 submarines of various classes could hide in the docks of the base, and the entire complex was able to withstand a direct strike from a nuclear bomb with a power of up to 100 kT.

Abandoned in 1993, the object was taken for scrap by local residents, and only in 2002 a museum complex was organized on the remains of the submarine base.

Abandoned missile silo, Kekava, Latvia

After the collapse of the empire, the young republics inherited a lot of military property, including ballistic missile silos scattered through the forests.

Not far from the town of Kekava, there is the former location of the R-12U complex. It consisted of 4 launch silos and a central control and technical support bunker.

This is a former secret object of the USSR - one of the missile shields of the motherland! In the 1960s, the Dvina complex was built here, which consisted of four "glasses" - shafts more than 35 meters deep and underground bunkers.

The territory was surrounded by a triple perimeter of a fence and barbed wire, behind which submachine gunners were on duty around the clock, and the area was viewed from towers. Residents of the surrounding villages did not even suspect WHAT was nearby!

But the military left the base already in the 1980s, took away everything valuable and secret, and then the same residents from the surrounding villages came and stole everything they could, in the early 1990s even convex-concave doors weighing more than a ton were cut off and handed over to scrap metal…

Now most of the underground facilities are flooded, at the bottom of the "glasses" are the remains of super-toxic rocket fuel ...

Giant excavators, Moscow region

It’s worth hurrying up with a visit, huge mechanical dinosaurs are gradually being dismantled for scrap. But even after the dismantling of the latest technology, the Lopatinsky quarries, thanks to unearthly landscapes, will remain a very remarkable place. And by the way, here you can still find fossils of ancient marine life.

Over-the-horizon radar Duga, Pripyat, Ukraine

The titanic facility, built in 1985 to detect ICBM launches, could still function successfully to this day, but in reality it has worked for less than a year.

The giant antenna, 150 meters high and 800 meters long, consumed such an amount of electricity that it was built almost close to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and, of course, stopped working along with the explosion of the station.

At the moment, excursions are being taken to Pripyat, including to the foot of the radar station, but only a few risk climbing the 150-meter high.

Station for the study of the ionosphere, Zmiev, Ukraine

The station complex consisted of several antenna fields and a giant parabolic antenna with a diameter of 25 meters, capable of radiating a power of about 25 MW.

But the young Ukrainian state turned out to have no need for advanced, and very expensive, scientific equipment, and now only stalkers and hunters for non-ferrous metals are now interested in the secret station. And, of course, tourists.

Abandoned particle accelerator, Moscow region

This is less than a hundred kilometers from Moscow along the Simferopol highway. They even began to bring equipment into the already finished accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals broke out, and the domestic "hadron collider" remained to rot underground ...

The place was chosen for geological reasons - it is in this part of the Moscow region that the soil allows the placement of large underground facilities.

Underground halls to accommodate large equipment were connected to the surface by vertical shafts down 68 meters! Directly above the well, cargo cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 20 tons are installed. The diameter of the well is 9.5m.

At one time, we were 9 years ahead of the USA and Europe, but now everything is the other way around, we are far behind and there is simply no money for the Institute to complete construction and put the Accelerator into operation.

The remaining engineers and scientists nevertheless tried to bring the matter to a more or less acceptable conclusion with the crumbs allocated by the state budget. At least in the form of a completed unique engineering structure - an underground "donut" 21 km long.

But, it is quite obvious that a country with a ruined economy, which does not have clear prospects for its further development as part of the world community, will not be able to implement such a project ...

The cost of creating UNK is commensurate in scale with the cost of building a nuclear power plant.

Maybe next-generation physicists will find a worthy use for it...

Sea City "Oil Rocks", Azerbaijan

The Union needed oil, and in the 40s of the last century, its offshore production began in the Caspian Sea, 42 kilometers east of the Absheron Peninsula.

And around the first platforms, a city began to grow, also located on metal overpasses and embankments.

During its heyday, power plants, nine-story hostel buildings, hospitals, a cultural center, a bakery and even a lemonade shop were built on the high seas 110 km from Baku.

The oil workers also had a small park with real trees. Oil stones are more than 200 stationary platforms, and the length of the streets and alleys of this city in the sea reaches 350 kilometers.

But cheap Siberian oil made offshore mining unprofitable and the village began to fall into disrepair. Today, only about 2 thousand people live here.

Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk

The Semipalatinsk nuclear test site is the first and one of the largest nuclear test sites in the USSR, also known as "SIYAP" - the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

Semipalatinsk test site. View on google. Underground test sites

On the territory of the Semipalatinsk test site there is a facility where the most modern nuclear weapons were previously stored. There are only four such objects in the world.

On its territory is the previously closed city of Kurchatov, renamed in honor of the Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov, previously Moscow 400, Bereg, Semipalatinsk-21, Terminal station.

From 1949 to 1989, at least 468 nuclear tests were carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, in which at least 616 nuclear and thermonuclear devices were detonated, including: 125 atmospheric (26 ground, 91 air, 8 high-altitude); 343 test nuclear explosions underground (of which 215 in adits and 128 in wells).

In the hazardous areas of the former test site, the radioactive background still (as of 2009) reaches 10-20 milliroentgens per hour. Despite this, people still live on the site.

The territory of the landfill was not protected in any way and until 2006 it was not marked on the ground in any way.

The radioactive clouds of 55 air and ground explosions and the gas fraction of 169 underground tests went beyond the range. It was these 224 explosions that caused radiation contamination of the entire eastern part of the territory of Kazakhstan.

Kadykchan "Death Valley" Russia, Magadan region

The abandoned mining “ghost town” is located 65 km northwest of the city of Susuman in the basin of the Ayan-Yurya River (a tributary of the Kolyma).

Almost 6,000 population of Kadykchan began to rapidly thaw after an explosion at a mine in 1996, when it was decided to close the village. There has been no heat here since January 1996 - due to an accident, the local boiler house froze forever. The remaining residents are heated with the help of bourgeois stoves. The sewerage has not worked for a long time, and the toilet has to go outside.

There are books and furniture in the houses, cars in the garages, children's pots in the toilets.

On the square near the cinema there is a bust of V.I. Lenin. Residents were evacuated in a few days, when the city was "thawed". Since then it has been...

There are only two principal residents left. There is an eerie silence over the city, broken by the rare rattle of roofing iron in the wind and the cries of crows...

Portal for the student. Self-training