Where can you get away from a submarine that has not sailed anywhere for 27 years?

Today I would like to show you a very cool Crimean artifact - the B-380 submarine, built in 1981-1982, and tell you a little about the PD-16 floating dock (built in 1938-1941 and has not sailed anywhere since virtually the day of victory), in where she has been since 1992.
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• November 18th, 2018 , 12:22 pm

Greetings readers!
Today I have some unexpected material on my blog. The fact is that I really love almost any technical museum and visit them quite often, but I rarely decide to review it on a blog or anywhere else at all, because few people can be surprised by a museum (especially a famous and popular one). Unless it’s a museum that is completely unusual (for example, like) or that really impressed me (in Vladivostok, St. Petersburg or Krasintsovsky in the Tula region)

Today's report is different. Today I want to show from the inside one of the exhibits of the Navy Museum in Tushino, Moscow, which for some reason is not allowed to visitors. As you might have guessed from the title, we will talk about the A-90 "Eaglet" ekranoplane.
I have already published once before, at the time of my visit to the Volga plant hidden in one of the workshops of Nizhny Novgorod. Since then, alas, the Rescuer has never become a museum, just as it has never left the closed territory of the shipbuilding enterprise.
What about the "Eaglet", which has been in the Moscow Navy Museum since 2007? What is stopping the museum from adding the opportunity to view this beautiful unit into the entertainment program for tourists along with visiting the submarine? It would seem that a bridge to the door was built a long time ago, but the ekranoplan is closed to visitors. Maybe it's a matter of poor internal security? - after all, this Eaglet, being one of five copies released (and only two surviving today), is quite long time was lying idle somewhere in Kaspiysk, just as the beautiful Lun is lying there now (of the same project as the Rescuer, but in combat).
The only way to find out how the Eaglet feels from the inside is to go inside by moving the partition installed across the bridge and opening the door with the handle from the balcony, while the guards are not looking (note: the circumstances of the entrance are described at the time of inspection some time ago - everything could have changed) . I hope that someday the guards will forgive me for this terrible crime, because curiosity is not a vice?
Below the cut is the result of the visit.

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• May 16th, 2018 , 03:49 pm

Good day everyone!
Today we will walk through the empty floors of the buildings of the former Strategic Missile Forces Academy, located in the very heart of our capital, literally a few steps from the Kremlin - right behind Zaryadye Park, on the embankment of the Moscow River.
Two or three years ago, the academy was transferred to Balashikha, where it was decided to locate it on the basis of the Military Technical University of the Ministry of Defense. The plot of land became the property of the city, after which, along with all the buildings, it was put up for auction under a number of conditions. In particular, the future investor was required to preserve and restore all buildings on the territory, as well as open it to visitors. The former buildings of the Academy are expected to house a hotel, apartments and retail space, and also connect the resulting complex with Zaryadye Park.
From an economic point of view, the place is extremely rich and is much better suited for business than for training senior military personnel... Be that as it may, since the missilemen moved, the academy buildings were cut off from power supply and heating and, in fact, abandoned. On the corner there was a town of Zaryadye construction workers, the territory was taken under lax security by several private security companies.

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• May 3rd, 2018 , 06:13 pm

Greetings to everyone who returned alive from the May holidays :)
Well, I’m also back and ready to delight readers with photos from a number of unusual European abandoned objects.
In particular, today I propose to take a look from the outside and inside at underground air bases.

This time, many of the photos will feature silhouettes of people - mostly to convey an idea of ​​the scale of the structures.
Due to the fact that Yandex decided to close its “Photos” project, I’ll try Flickr as a new hosting - I hope at least this one doesn’t die :)

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• September 20th, 2017 , 11:50 am

Everyone has been told the standard Cinderella story with a happy ending and no moral, but today I have a completely different tale for you.

No glass slippers or princes willing to waste time searching - only harsh modernity!

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• February 6th, 2017 , 04:55 pm

The other day, information surfaced in the community that a very beautiful and unusual place- abandoned research stand. Young stalkers gathered to organize a “gathering” there and for some reason, with photos and descriptions, announced this event three weeks in advance.
Well, then - someone was able to find it themselves using these input data, for someone it turned out to be easier to ask through friends, and someone had even been near this object before, but did not pay enough attention to it... In general, it’s like No matter what, last weekend history buffs and aesthetic connoisseurs went to the site, trying to get ahead of not only the destruction squads, but also each other :)

The object turned out to be very worthy, although fairly battered by life... The complex of buildings included a couple of research installations with the units attached to them. One of the installations - a wind tunnel - visually resembles a huge dragon. Having lived intensely for 50 years and suffered for another dozen after the stagnation of the 90s, he died, leaving connoisseurs with his aesthetically beautiful and mediocrely protected corpse :)

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• October 27th, 2016 , 10:33 am

Since I have some free time, I decided to cheer it up a little - maybe someone uses them at least sometimes :)
I set myself the task of adding tags of the year of shooting to the photo reports.
Because even sometimes it’s curious to remember what year you visited and took photos. Especially in the context of repeat visits.
So far, only a part has been done, but the plan is to get to the very first posts - and even destroy those in which the photos have irretrievably disappeared, otherwise they are hanging. Well, if possible, restore photos where the hosting failed, but the pictures themselves remained on the computer. Although it won't be soon.

And then I found a relatively recently written photo post about decaying bunkers in, which I happened to see as early as January 2009 - for seven and a half years they lay on the hard drive, although there is nothing secret in them - just decay that I was too lazy to post.
No DSLRs or RAW - only jpg on a point-and-shoot camera, but from a tripod!
I remember that my delight at these abandoned buildings then was almost stronger than the current impressions of incredible and cool operating objects.

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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 an empire: the scale of construction always corresponded to their status. The now abandoned buildings were once vibrant places where entire generations of people spent their lives. Just look at what places look like that are overwhelming in their scale even today.

• 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 Promyshlenny fled from their homes, forced to seek refuge in neighboring villages.




Object 825

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




Helicopter Graveyard

This, of course, is not architecture at all - but we simply could not pass by the real helicopter cemetery. Here, in the southwest of the Leningrad region, near the village of Gorelovo, an abandoned military airfield has been preserved. It was actively exploited until 1992. On the sites, rusty equipment is still waiting in the wings.




Gulag camp

No one will miss these artifacts. The camps covered Siberia with vile mold; here thousands died and tens of thousands tried to build a wretched life. Now all this terrible legacy of our past is rotting under the merciful heel of nature.

After the collapse of the USSR, the young states inherited many secret and not very military facilities. The economies of some newly created states simply could not support the maintenance of these top-secret complexes, while for others they were simply unnecessary, so the buildings gradually rusted and became unusable.

Here are just a few structures out of 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 period of division of property between the once fraternal republics...

Balaklava, Crimea, Ukraine

Balaklava is a top-secret submarine base, which is located in the Crimean city of Balaklava and is one of the largest military facilities, under the arches of which up to 14 submarines could be accommodated. This military base was built in 1961 and abandoned in 1993, immediately after the collapse of the USSR. Balaclava is located directly below Tavros. As they say knowledgeable people- the base was a transshipment point where submarines were repaired, refueled and replenished with ammunition (including nuclear ones). The balaclava was built to last and can even withstand a direct nuclear strike. But now it’s just an abandoned military complex, which has been dismantled piece by piece by local residents, although in 2002 it was decided to erect a museum complex on the ruins of a submarine base, but so far things have not gone beyond words.

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

Since 1961, under Mount Tavros there was a complex where ammunition was stored (including nuclear) and repairs of submarines were carried out.

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

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

Dvina missile silo, Kekava, Latvia

After the collapse of a great power, many young republics received secret military facilities, the existence of which they did not even suspect. For example, near the city of Riga (Latvia), in the forests the remains of the Dvina missile system hid from prying eyes. This military complex was built in 1964 and consisted of 4 launch silos. Now the 34.6-meter-deep mines are partially flooded, but anyone who wants to, taking a local stalker as a guide, can go down into the bowels of the Dvina and take a walk through the abandoned complex. They say that there are some left in the missile silos large number rocket fuel, which, although not radioactive, is very poisonous, so I advise you to think carefully before going on an excursion to this place.

Lopatinsky phosphorite mine, Moscow region

Before the collapse of the USSR, the Lopatinsky phosphorite mine was an active deposit where the minerals and minerals necessary for the production of agricultural fertilizers were mined. After 1993, the rich deposit was closed, leaving all the equipment there. So the Lopatinsky phosphate mine with its giant multi-bucket excavators became a place of pilgrimage for tourists from all over the world. If you decide to explore this unusual place, then you should hurry up with your visit, because... local residents drag everything that is not bolted down and in a few years not a single one of the iron monsters will remain there. Although the popularity of this place is unlikely to fall: the unearthly landscapes of the Lopatinsky mine will remain a very remarkable place.

Ionosphere Research Station, Zmiev, Ukraine

This station was built literally a year before the collapse Soviet Union near Kharkov and was a direct analogue of the American HAARP project in Alaska, which is still successfully operating today. The giant complex consisted of several antenna fields and a giant parabolic antenna with a diameter of 25 meters, capable of emitting a power of about 25 MW. But the newly created Ukrainian state had no use for advanced, and very expensive, scientific equipment, and today only stalkers and hunters for non-ferrous metals are interested in the looted station. And of course, tourists!

Sea city "Oil Rocks", Azerbaijan

In the 40s of the last century, offshore oil production began in the Caspian Sea, 42 kilometers east of the Absheron Peninsula. Soon, cities began to be built around the first platforms, also located on metal overpasses and embankments. So, on the open sea, 110 km from Baku, power plants, nine-story dormitory buildings, hospitals, a cultural center, a bakery and even a lemonade production workshop were built. What can I say, the oil workers even had their own small park with real trees. The city of Oil Rocks has more than 200 stationary platforms, and the length of the streets and alleys of the sea city reaches 350 kilometers. Soon cheaper Siberian oil appeared, which made offshore production unprofitable and the sea town began to fall into disrepair. Oddly enough, Oil Rocks cannot be called a ghost town, because... to this day, about 2,000 people live there.

Abandoned Accelerator elementary particles, Moscow region

In the late 80s, the dying Soviet Union decided to build a huge particle accelerator. The 21-kilometer-long ring tunnel, located at a depth of 60 meters, is now located near Protvino, a city near Moscow, a city of nuclear physicists. It is less than a hundred kilometers from Moscow along the Simferopol highway. They even began to bring equipment into the already completed accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals struck, and the domestic “hadron collider” was left to rot underground.

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

Underground halls for housing large-sized equipment were connected to the surface by vertical shafts down 68 meters! Cargo cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 20 tons are installed directly above the well. The diameter of the well is 9.5 m.

At one time, we were 9 years ahead of the United States and Europe, but now the opposite is true, we are far behind and the Institute simply does not have the money to complete construction and put the Accelerator into operation.

The remaining engineers and scientists tried to use the crumbs provided by the state budget to bring the matter to a more or less acceptable conclusion. 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 destroyed 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 costs of creating an UNC are commensurate in scale with the costs of constructing a nuclear power plant.

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

Over-the-horizon radar Duga, Pripyat, Ukraine

The titanic structure, built in 1985 to detect launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, could function successfully to this day, but in fact it 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 right next to Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and, naturally, stopped its work along with the explosion of the station.

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

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 “SINT” - the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.

Semipalatinsk test site. Google view. Underground testing 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 facilities in the world.

On its territory there is the previously closed city of Kurchatov, renamed in honor of the Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov, previously Moscow 400, Bereg, Semipalatinsk-21, Terminus 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 exploded, including: 125 atmospheric (26 ground, 91 air, 8 high-altitude); 343 test nuclear explosion underground (of which 215 are in adits and 128 in wells).

In the dangerous zones of the former test site, the radioactive background still (as of 2009) reaches 10-20 milliroentgen per hour. Despite this, people still live at the site.

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

Radioactive clouds from 55 air and ground explosions and the gas fraction from 169 underground tests escaped beyond the test site. It was these 224 explosions that caused radiation contamination of the entire eastern part of Kazakhstan.

Kadykchan “Death Valley” Russia, Magadan region

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

The almost 6 thousand population of Kadykchan began to rapidly melt after an explosion at a mine in 1996, then it was decided to close the village. There has been no heat here since January 1996 - due to an accident, the local boiler room froze forever. The remaining residents are heated using stoves. The sewage system has not worked for a long time, and you have to go outside to go to the toilet.

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

On the square near the cinema there is a bust of V.I., which was finally shot by residents. Lenin. Residents were evacuated within a few days when the city was “unfrozen.” It's been like that ever since...

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

A secret submarine base, an abandoned missile silo, giant excavators, an over-the-horizon radar "Duga", a sea city on the "Oil Rocks" platforms, a Soviet hadron collider - an elementary particle accelerator and a station for studying the ionosphere. The once mighty communist empire spared no expense on either defense or science. And from Pacific Ocean Huge antennas aimed into space rose to the middle of Europe, and secret military bunkers were hidden in the forests. With the collapse of the Union, the heirs found it unaffordable to maintain many of these facilities. And the newly formed young states were not interested in science, and the task of border defense was assigned to powerful neighbors. Here are just a few structures out of 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 period of division of property between the once fraternal republics.

Balaclava (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, under Mount Tavros there was a complex where ammunition was stored (including nuclear) and repairs of submarines were carried out. Up to 14 submarines of different classes could take refuge in the docks of the base, and the entire complex was capable of withstanding a direct hit from a nuclear bomb with a power of up to 100 kT. Abandoned in 1993, the object was stolen for scrap by local residents. Without accurate maps, walking through the numerous tunnels of the base was dangerous, since there was real danger get lost or fall into one of the many hatches (they are open, as the locals sold the lids 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 launch silos scattered throughout the forests. Very close to the capital of Latvia 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 guide is not recommended. Residues of toxic rocket fuel also pose a danger.

Giant excavators (Russia, Moscow region)

Until 1993, the Lopatinsky phosphorite mine was a completely successful operating deposit, where the most necessary minerals for Soviet agriculture were mined. And with the arrival market economy abandoned quarries with giant bucket excavators have become a place of pilgrimage for tourists. Lopatinsky mine interesting place not far from Voskresensk. There are interesting things there - giant excavators (paragraphs) and prehistoric fossils (ammonites and fragments of marine reptiles). Until recently, it was possible to climb through ownerless paragraphs, but now they have been dismantled and only the active ones remain, which are protected.

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

The titanic structure, built in 1985 to detect launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, could function successfully to this day, but in fact it 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 right next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and, naturally, stopped working with the explosion of the station. At the moment, excursions are taken to Pripyat, including to the foot of the radar station, but only a few risk climbing the 150-meter height.

Sea city "Oil Rocks" (Azerbaijan)

The Union needed oil, and in the 40s of the last century, 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 dormitory buildings, hospitals, a cultural center, a bakery and even a lemonade shop were built on the open sea, 110 km from Baku. The oil workers also had a small park with real trees. Oil rocks are more than 200 stationary platforms, and the length of the streets and alleys of this city at sea reaches 350 kilometers. But cheap Siberian oil made offshore production unprofitable and the village began to fall into disrepair. Today only about 2 thousand people live here.

Abandoned particle accelerator (Russia, Moscow region)

In the late 80s, the dying Soviet Union decided to build a huge particle accelerator. The 21-kilometer-long ring tunnel, located at a depth of 60 meters, is now located near Protvino, a city near Moscow, a city of nuclear physicists. It is less than a hundred kilometers from Moscow along the Simferopol highway. They even began to bring equipment into the already completed accelerator tunnel, but then a series of political upheavals struck, and the domestic “hadron collider” was left 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 emitting 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/