2017-10-21 17:38

Secret Soviet underground bunker for submarines in the Crimea

New episode of our short history of the nuclear arms race of the USSR and the USA.

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Let’s be fair: the massive military nuclear projects were the prerogative of not only the United States, reports Rus.Media. The USSR also took part in the “race constructions”. Take, for example, a gigantic underground submarine base in Balaklava in the Crimea!

The order on the construction of a bunker for submarines was given by Stalin shortly before his death. The object number 825 was built in the ideal from the point of view of strategy the Bay, the narrow entrance which was not visible from the sea. The bunker was a system of tunnels in rock with two masked inputs from the different parties, each of which overlaps a 150-ton caisson gate.

(The bridge is such a giant floating door that fills with water and sinks to the bottom, and it opens your hood the enemy submarine, amphibious vehicle James bond or something chasing a Soviet submarine in the world.)

Theoretically, this building had to withstand the hit of a nuclear bomb of 100 kilotons, after which, despite the nuclear broth boiling in the Bay, Soviet submarines would be proud to swim in the direction of the enemy and to strike back.

The construction of the secret object began in 1953 and lasted for eight years. At some point, the drilling was joined by the builders, as the mountain Tavros did not want to give up without a fight. All were seized 120,000 tons of rock, which, under the cover of night, was taken to sea on barges and dumped there for greater secrecy. In the bowels of the mountain came a deep-water canal, dry dock, workshops, underground roads, nuclear ammunition storage, command post, piers. Then came the boot in the tunnel of the military filling. It was held in the atmosphere of top secrecy, taking into account the calendar of the emergence of spy satellites over the Balaclava, which, as it turns out, was known to every dog in the USSR.

Nuclear military base and Parking warships and submarines existed in the bunker until 1993. In 2000, the facility was transferred to the naval forces of Ukraine — though by this point he was already long abandoned and looted. Now the base is a military Museum. However, in 2014 the Russian military has stated that they consider the possibility of returning Crimean underwater bunker strategic status. And even made for this reason serious steps!