Nuclear facilities in Crimea and Sevastopol. All properties in Crimea (Russia)

“Secret”, “military”, “forbidden”, “abandoned” - these words have always excited the minds and attracted thrill-seekers. In Crimea, of course, you can find many military bases, secret bunkers and fortifications. Still, the peninsula was the front line of defense in the south of the USSR and the Russian Empire. Some of these bases are still in operation, while others have long been abandoned and now anyone can get there. The portal "" has prepared for you a list of the most interesting abandoned secret objects in Crimea.

Attention! Visiting most of the objects on this list can be dangerous to life and health.

Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino

Transport corridor of a nuclear reactor. Photo: aquatek-filips.livejournal.com

Of course, the “queen” of Crimean abandoned facilities is the Shchelkino Nuclear Power Plant. This cyclopean structure began to be built back in 1974. The station was supposed to supply electricity to the entire Crimea. However, in 1987, after the Chernobyl tragedy, construction was frozen. Although the Shchelkino NPP had already managed to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world. Now the station is in extremely poor condition. It has been stripped for metal for more than 20 years, and in recent years, official work on its dismantling has begun.

How to get there:

The nuclear power plant is located near the village of Shchelkino, on the shore of the Aktash reservoir.

Object No. 221

View of Object No. 221 from the mountains. Photo: perekop.ru

The power plant in Shchelkino, although grandiose, is still not too secret. But the reserve command post (ZCP) of the Black Sea Fleet, or object No. 221, is just the standard of an “abandoned secret facility.” Fearing a nuclear strike on Sevastopol, the USSR leadership decided to build an underground bunker for the Black Sea Fleet ZCP in the Alsou rock. The retaliatory strike was to be commanded from the bunker. In addition, 10 thousand people - officers of the Black Sea Fleet and their families - were to be evacuated underground in the event of a nuclear threat. The bunker, 90% complete, was abandoned in 1992. Since then, it has been stripped for metal, and some companies conduct excursions there.

How to get there:

Object No. 221 is located near an abandoned quarry near Mount Gasforta near Balaklava. The entrance to the underground bunker is located in the lobby of the prop building at the top of the hill.

Kerch fortress

Fort "Totleben". Photo: suntime.com.ua

The Kerch fortress, also called Fort Totleben (which causes slight confusion - there is also a Fort Totleben in Kronstadt) is the oldest of the objects on our list. The fort was built after the Crimean War. The fire from the fort's coastal batteries was supposed to block the Kerch Strait for enemy ships. In Soviet times, the fortress was used as an ammunition depot and prison; a disciplinary battalion of the Black Sea Fleet was based here. Now the fortress is open to the public and belongs to the Kerch Museum-Reserve. However, work in the fortress is so far limited to mine clearance. Every summer, sappers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations find hundreds of ammunition from the Great Patriotic War in the fortress.

How to get there:

The fortress is located on Cape Ak-Burun between the village of Arshintsevo and the center of Kerch.

Object No. 100

Entrance to Object No. 100. Photo: perekop.ru

Another abandoned “coastal battery” worthy of attention is located near Sevastopol. This is object No. 100, or simply “Sotka”, as the locals call the building. Sotka is an underground shelter for the Utes coastal anti-ship missile system. It was built in 1956. At facility No. 100 there are two launch silos. Cruise missiles were fed to them through tunnels along rails. Sotka missiles could send to the bottom any enemy squadron that dared to approach Sevastopol closer than a couple of hundred kilometers.

Now one of the Sotka divisions has been restored and is once again guarding the Crimean coast.

How to get there:

Object No. 100 is located between Cape Aya and Cape Fiolent. Turning off the Yalta-Sevastopol highway towards the village of Oboronnoye, you will come across a closed barrier. Then you will have to walk towards the sea.

"Barrel of Death"

"Barrel of Death" of Fort South Balaclava. Photo: naotduhe.ru

Another interesting fortification is located above the Silver Beach near Sevastopol. This is the so-called “barrel of death” of Fort South Balaclava. The semicircular structure of sheet armor with loopholes in the floor and walls was supposed to allow the fort's defenders to fire at the enemy on the beach. Moreover, initially there were two such firing points. Only one has survived to this day. “Urban legend” says that the Red Commissars were shot in this “barrel”. The legend is indirectly confirmed by many bullet marks on the inside of the barrel at head height. However, the “barrel” gives rise to certain concerns - the concrete base has cracked, so that the multi-ton structure could collapse on the heads of tourists on Silver Beach.

Next to the barrel are the concrete casemates of the South Balaklava fort itself, which are also of interest, but not so unique.

How to get there:

Fort "South Balaklava" is located on Mount Spitiya (Asceti) east of the Fortress Mountain in Balaklava.

Object No. 76

Nuclear bomb storage facility. Photo: milzone.at.ua

The first atomic bombs were very fragile structures that also had to be assembled immediately before use. Therefore, both sides of the Cold War built entire underground towns designed to store and assemble the most terrible weapons. One of these Soviet secret towns - Object No. 76 - is located between Sudak and Feodosia. There are four adits underground: 7-a, 7-b, 7-c and central. Moreover, the central adit is a giant horseshoe two kilometers long. The base was capable of surviving a nuclear strike - not only was it protected by the thickness of the earth, but also all vital systems were duplicated. So, if a nuclear explosion destroys the main substation, then the operation of the base will be ensured by a backup one, located far enough away so as not to be damaged in the explosion.

How to get there:

Object No. 76 is located in the Kiziltash tract near Sudak.

Not completely abandoned objects

Dish of the space communications center in Shkolny. Photo: urban3p.ru

Many former secret military facilities in Crimea cannot be called abandoned. Thus, the most interesting “object 825-GTS” in Sevastopol, although it is no longer a submarine base, has become a museum. Now there you can get acquainted with the history of the Cold War and the submarine forces of the Black Sea Fleet. In addition, after the return of Crimea to Russia, many military installations began to be restored. For example, in many guidebooks you can read about the abandoned space communications center in Shkolny near Simferopol. However, not so long ago the military announced the beginning of restoration of the station. So we don’t recommend visiting it - it’s not easy to joke with the sentries. The same applies to Military Special Plant No. 1, an underground power plant near Sevastopol.

We toured the sites of the former power of the USSR armed forces, which once operated on the peninsula and were considered a model of scientific and technological progress in the military sphere. A unique missile complex, an underground bunker of the Black Sea Fleet, the only lunodrome in the Soviet Union, as well as a nuclear air base are now abandoned, but, despite the predatory raids of scrap metal hunters, they are still waiting for better times.

The first thing that caught our eye when we approached the first destination of our journey, the Reserve Command Post of the Black Sea Fleet, were the ruins of numerous block buildings, administrative buildings and concrete structures of unknown purpose. The tallest, four-story building, similar to an ordinary apartment building, according to legend, was a kind of scientific center, and therefore this entire territory was supposedly guarded by armed soldiers. At first, we did not even hope to find the entrance to the notorious bunker, which the diggers who visited its depths talk about with genuine admiration. But following simple logic, we went along the asphalt road, which snaked up the mountain, because the Secretary General would hardly have been dragged through the forest thicket in the event of an alarm, but rather would have been transported in a government limousine. Our intuition did not let us down: on the top of the hill a cast building appeared in front of us, on the façade of which were painted windows that from a distance could not be distinguished from real ones. Looks like a red herring. A hole has been knocked out in the hall of the house leading to a tunnel. Previously, apparently, the entrance inside was walled up. A long corridor leads to the holy of holies - underground premises in which the top officials of the state were supposed to hide in the event of a nuclear war. However, four levels with a total area of about 20 square kilometers could accommodate up to 10 thousand people. These are, for example, officers of the Black Sea Fleet and even their families.

In general, the idea of building the ZKP, or conditionally object No. 221, known as “Alsu”, began in 1977. The reason for Brezhnev to build a reliable roof over his head was the news from overseas that the Americans were preparing a plan for a nuclear attack on the Black Sea Fleet, according to which it was planned to drop 12 nuclear warheads on Sevastopol. "Alsu" had to withstand a nuclear barrage. Being inside the bunker, you understand that he is capable of this. However, the nuclear strike was not aimed at him, but at the economy of the Soviet Union.

How to get there:

Moving along the Yalta-Sevastopol highway towards the hero city, before reaching Mount Gasforta, you should turn right at the Morozovka sign. After driving four kilometers, you will come across a ditch blocking the path - this artificial obstacle was created to prevent the last scrap metal from being removed from the site. Behind it begins the Reserve Command Post of the Black Sea Fleet.

An entire naval flotilla could be bombed from the Utes

Another interesting object that we visited is located near the Alsou bunker, closer to Balaklava. Balaklava Bay is clearly visible from here, visible from a bird's eye view - in general, the entire coast from Cape Aya to Fiolent was once under the control of special forces of object "100" - the coastal stationary missile complex "Utes". Cruise missiles were launched from two launch pads, which were delivered through tunnels along rails on special platforms. In 1956, at the height of the Cold War, when the missile complex was just built, it was armed with S-2 cruise missiles, capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 100 kilometers. In 1971, the first rocket launched from here. True, not against the American Navy, which was supposed to be attacked in the event of military aggression, but for training purposes.

Two huge launch shafts located right in the rocks are impressive in their scale. Next to the rectangular necks, the remains of metal guide rails have been preserved, along which massive gates once slid away, and formidable missiles rose from the shaft on special platforms. The jet stream from their engines went down into the gas bumpers, which can still be seen today.

In 1996, the missile system was transferred to the balance of the Ukrainian Naval Forces. However, for some reason it was soon plundered. The presence of Ukrainian military personnel once here is evidenced by signs on administrative buildings with texts in Ukrainian and a stele with the emblem of the Navy and the flag of Ukraine.

How to get there:

Moving along the Yalta-Sevastopol highway, before reaching Balaklava, you need to turn left towards the village of Oboronnoye. The main road will lead you to a closed barrier. Then you will have to walk for about forty minutes to a security post, near which there is a sign: “private territory.” Whose private property this is, and on what basis the public road is blocked, we will still try to find out, but for now, if you can’t get through the checkpoint, you can go around, through the forest. We no longer saw any warning signs or fences that would indicate the boundaries of this supposedly private territory.

From Shkolnoye they controlled lunar rovers and communicated with astronauts

Under the cover of a residential village in the depths of Shkolnoye, during the era of space exploration, there was a real lunodrome, and the only one in the USSR. This place was chosen by the chief designer of rocket and space systems of the USSR Sergei Korolev. The favorable location was suitable for creating such a base. Korolev visited the unit several times, often with First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. In 1962, Nikita Sergeevich conducted the first radio communication session with cosmonauts Popovich and Belyaev from the command post in Shkolny. Between the ruins of buildings you can easily notice a small hill, and around it there are round craters. Now the ground here is overgrown with weeds, but in the 70s this place was an imitation of the lunar surface. Lunokhods and even Mars rovers were tested in a specially designated area.

On November 17, 1970, Lunokhod-1 was sent to its place of work - 400 thousand kilometers away. The apparatus was controlled from Shkolny using a huge dish antenna. During the year of operation, Lunokhod-1 covered a distance of 10 kilometers and transmitted more than 25 thousand images to Earth.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, all programs were curtailed, including the study of Mars. And the garrison slowly began to fall into disrepair. The last soldier left the unit in 1999.

How to get there:

Moving along the Simferopol - Yevpatoria highway, at the 19th km turn left at the sign “Shkolnoe”. Having reached the center of the village, you will see an obelisk with an antenna installed in honor of the space base. From it you should turn right - this road will lead you directly to the territory of the once top-secret facility of the USSR Space Forces.

In Bagerovo they were preparing to test an atomic bomb

All that remains of the once busy airfield on the Kerch Peninsula near Lake Chokrak is a runway 3.5 kilometers long and about 100 meters wide, made of the strongest reinforced concrete slabs, and several dilapidated buildings with broken windows, hangars and observation towers . Perhaps, even now, any modern aircraft can easily land on the runway, because it was also laid as a reserve for landing the Buran (the main runway for the space project that has sunk into oblivion is located in the area of Simferopol International Airport).

In 1947, in accordance with the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the construction of a military air base of the Air Force began in the village of Bagerovo “for the purpose of aviation support for conducting aerial nuclear tests and testing technical means for delivering nuclear charges.” The timing of the formation of the 71st test site was timed to coincide with the summer of 1949, the first test of a nuclear charge at the Semipalatinsk test site, in which the “Bagerovsky” airfield was directly involved. The training ground included three aviation regiments: the 35th separate mixed bomber, the 513th fighter and the 647th mixed special support. But already in the early 70s, the test site ceased to exist after the Soviet Union signed an international agreement banning nuclear weapons tests.

How to get there:

Since 1961, submarines have been repaired there and ammunition has been stored there. The walls of the complex could withstand a nuclear strike with a power of up to 100 kilotons. Since 1993, the site has been abandoned, and in 2002 a museum was founded in it.

Fighting dolphin base in Cossack Bay of Sevastopol

The first Soviet military aquarium was opened in 1967. Dolphins and seals were trained in several areas: protection and patrolling of the area, destruction of saboteurs, search and detection of underwater objects. Nowadays a civil aquarium is located on this site.

The nuclear power plant was supposed to provide the entire Crimea with electricity and, in addition, part of the mainland. But, despite spending millions of Soviet rubles, in 1989 they decided to stop construction. Apparently, the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster were enough. Nowadays youth discos are held at the abandoned site.

Military airfield on Karabi-yayla

During the Great Patriotic War, there was a main partisan airfield here, which was also used during the period of confrontation between the USSR and the USA. The following aircraft landed at the airfield: TB-3, LI-2, R-5 and U-2. Obviously, the airfield was abandoned for the same reason as all other facilities - the collapse of the USSR.

Satanists gather at the Simferopol cemetery, and Stalker is played at the abandoned nuclear power plant in Shchelkino.

Many people, as psychologists say, in order to recharge with adrenaline, need to undergo some kind of psychological test and feel fear. This explains, for example, a passion for horror films or a desire to visit scary, mysterious places. There are a lot of them in Crimea, and they are overgrown with deep secrets and legends. “KT” has compiled a rating of the creepiest places on the peninsula, where an atmosphere of fear and mystery reigns.

No. 1. Abandoned nuclear power plant in Shchelkino

Dark corridors, staircases, a giant rusty crane that was supposed to install a nuclear reactor into the building. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino (on the Kerch Peninsula) makes an indelible impression. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino was supposed to be launched in 1989, three years after the accident in Pripyat. But the echo of the tragedy spread throughout the world and sowed seeds of doubt regarding the need to use nuclear energy. Thus, the Crimean Nuclear Power Plant, with the first power unit almost 80% ready, decided not to start up. And we inherited a reactor building, in the turbine section of which enterprising youth began to hold discos at the Kazantip festival. And some airsoft clubs organize shootouts in the dark corridors of nuclear power plants based on the popular computer game “Stalker”.

No. 2. Starorusskoe cemetery in Simferopol

Located in the Central Market area, the old cemetery is one of the few that have survived the many reconstructions of the city over the past two centuries. It is recognizable by the Church of All Saints, built and consecrated in 1864. Immediately behind it is the entrance to the cemetery, where many famous people of the late 19th - early 20th centuries are buried: Archbishop Gury, Crimean artist Nikolai Samokish, commissar of the 51st Army brigade Ivan Gekalo, underground fighters Viktor Efremov, Zoya Rukhadze, Evgenia Deryugina and many others. Some graves have been dug up by grave diggers and treasure hunters. And at the very end of the cemetery there is a Gothic temple, which is covered with black and red paints. They say that satanic inscriptions and pentagrams are left here by occultists during night rituals.

No. 3. Children's room in Adzhimushkay quarries

During the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of people died in the dungeons of Kerch. Most of them - 13 thousand - remained forever in the Adzhimushkai quarries (only 48 people survived). In addition to ordinary soldiers of the Soviet army and partisans, among the inhabitants of the quarries were local residents, including women and children. Most of them also died here without waiting for liberation. A rusty crib and charred dolls are all that now remind us of the terrible death of hundreds of boys and girls of all ages who were forced to hide from the Nazis in the dungeons of Kerch.

No. 4. Bunker "Alsu"

Many kilometers of shafts, metal hatches tightly closing the passages, and everywhere on the walls there is an image of a radiation sign. Four floors underground, tunnels going down 200 meters, and a huge room for a nuclear reactor... Even standing at the entrance to the bunker, disguised as a residential building with windows painted for maximum effect, you understand how seriously the Soviet leadership took possible aggression from the side of their enemies - mainly the United States as a nuclear power. It was planned to evacuate the command of the Black Sea Fleet to the bunker in case of a nuclear strike.

No. 5. Sleepy cemetery

A destroyed stone fence, broken tombstones and holes in the ground at the site of the graves... In fact, the contents of the graves were barbarically plundered by looters, and the bones of soldiers and officers who fell in the Chernorechensky battle of the Crimean War in 1855 lie next to the tombstones. The Crimean authorities have not yet bothered to put in order the Sleepy, or, as it is also called, Gorchakovsky cemetery (after the name of the commander of the battle), so when visiting you should be careful - you can easily fall into graves overgrown with grass and bushes, and therefore not visible everywhere.

No. 6. Bagerovo ditch

In an anti-tank ditch near the village of Bagerovo in 1941, about seven thousand residents of Kerch, including 245 children, were shot. Nowadays there is a monument to those killed in this place. Announcements appeared on the streets of Kerch, according to which Jews registered with the Gestapo were to appear on Sennaya Square on November 28, 1941, from 8 to 12 o’clock. Failure to comply with orders resulted in execution. The bitter irony of fate turned out to be that they were shot just after reporting to the prison commandant’s office. From December 2, the anti-tank ditch began to fill with bloody naked bodies of people. The eerie atmosphere of death still, more than 70 years later, hovers over this place.

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No. 7. Roaring Grotto

The underwater caves of Mount Karadag on the southeastern coast of Crimea, according to geologists, lead into the depths of an extinct volcano. The largest grotto, cutting into the body of the rock for almost 70 meters, simply amazes with its gloominess and mystery, and the waves create their own unique ominous roar in it. Many Crimean local historians claim that the entrance to the kingdom of the dead, located in Cimmeria, which Homer mentions, was localized by the Greeks on Karadag, in a place that today is called the Roaring Grotto.

No. 8. Object "Sotka"

Another echo of the Cold War, in addition to the Alsou bunker, is located in the mountains near Balaklava - this is the Coastal stationary missile system "Utes", or, as it is called, object-100 (or simply "Sotka"). It has been abandoned since Soviet times and is being dismantled for scrap. Nevertheless, the scale of the two huge launch mines located right in the rocks still amazes. Next to the rectangular necks, the remains of metal guide rails have been preserved, along which massive gates once slid away, and formidable missiles rose from the shaft on special platforms.

No. 9. Cape Meganom

This place is famous for its mysterious “power rings” (they appear in the grass in ring-shaped strips up to half a meter wide and are clearly visible from a bird’s eye view) and the unhealthy interest in it from UFOs. They say that the cause of the “ring” phenomenon is some kind of magnetic anomaly. Perhaps these are the consequences of an underwater nuclear bomb test that allegedly took place here in 1960. As for flying saucers, they are regularly observed on the Cape. Crimean ufologists believe that one of the plates was shot down just above Meganom. The military found a piece of debris in which cold thermonuclear fusion allegedly occurred before their eyes.

No. 10. Petrovskaya beam

If there is an old civil cemetery in the area of the Central Market, then the largest military cemetery in Simferopol was located in the Petrovskaya Balka area. Soldiers who died from illnesses and wounds received during the battles of the Crimean War were buried there. More than 36 thousand Russian soldiers rested in the cemetery, but in the 30s of the last century the graves were razed to the ground, and on the newly formed hill local residents began to bury their pets, not even suspecting that they could stumble upon the remains of their ancestors.

One of the creepiest places in Crimea is the Starorusskoe cemetery in Simferopol. Photo: ktelegraf.com.ua

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Many people, as psychologists say, in order to recharge with adrenaline, need to undergo some kind of psychological test and feel fear. This explains, for example, a passion for horror films or a desire to visit scary, mysterious places. There are a lot of them in Crimea, and they are overgrown with deep secrets and legends. We offer a rating of the creepiest places on the peninsula, where an atmosphere of fear and mystery reigns.

No. 1. Abandoned nuclear power plant in Shchelkino

Dark corridors, staircases, a giant rusty crane that was supposed to install a nuclear reactor into the building. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino (on the Kerch Peninsula) makes an indelible impression. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino was supposed to be launched in 1989, three years after the accident in Pripyat. But the echo of the tragedy spread throughout the world and sowed seeds of doubt regarding the need to use nuclear energy. Thus, the Crimean Nuclear Power Plant, with the first power unit almost 80% ready, decided not to start up. And we inherited a reactor building, in the turbine section of which enterprising youth began to hold discos at the Kazantip festival. And some airsoft clubs stage shootouts in the dark corridors of nuclear power plants based on the popular computer game “Stalker”.

No. 2. Starorusskoe cemetery in Simferopol

No. 3. Children's room in Adzhimushkay quarries

During the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of people died in the dungeons of Kerch. Most of them - 13 thousand - remained forever in the Adzhimushkai quarries (only 48 people survived). In addition to ordinary soldiers of the Soviet army and partisans, among the inhabitants of the quarries were local residents, including women and children. Most of them also died here without waiting for liberation. A rusty crib and charred dolls are all that now reminds us of the terrible death of hundreds of boys and girls of all ages who were forced to hide from the Nazis in the dungeons of Kerch.

No. 4. Bunker "Alsu"

There are many kilometers of shafts, metal hatches tightly closing the passages, and everywhere on the walls there is an image of a radiation sign. Four floors underground, tunnels going down 200 meters, and a huge room for a nuclear reactor... Even standing at the entrance to the bunker, disguised as a residential building with windows painted for maximum effect, you understand how seriously the Soviet leadership took possible aggression from the side of their enemies - mainly the United States as a nuclear power. It was planned to evacuate the command of the Black Sea Fleet to the bunker in case of a nuclear strike.

No. 5. Sleepy cemetery

No. 6. Bagerovo ditch

Bagerovsky ditch

No. 7. Roaring Grotto

Roaring Grotto

No. 8. Object "Sotka"

Object "Sotka"

No. 9. Cape Meganom

This place is famous for its mysterious “power rings” (they appear in the grass in ring-shaped strips up to half a meter wide and are clearly visible from a bird’s eye view) and the unhealthy interest in it from UFOs. They say that the cause of the "ring" phenomenon is some kind of magnetic anomaly. Perhaps these are the consequences of an underwater nuclear bomb test that allegedly took place here in 1960. As for flying saucers, they are regularly observed on the Cape. Crimean ufologists believe that one of the plates was shot down just above Meganom. The military found a piece of debris in which cold thermonuclear fusion allegedly occurred before their eyes.

Cape Meganom

No. 10. Petrovskaya beam

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Just 25 years ago, it was impossible for an outsider to enter this territory - secret military bases were strictly guarded. Along a radius of several kilometers, “chekists in civilian clothes” were constantly on duty; checkpoint posts with firing points were located along the perimeter and armored personnel carriers were on duty, and any illegal entry into the territory could result in the opening of “lethal fire.” And today all these military bases are open to everyone.

Airbase "Bagerovo"

The very first base that was destroyed. This “strategic” object of Crimea is located on the Kerch Peninsula - construction of the airbase began in 1947.

Initially, the construction of the test site was carried out for the purpose of testing nuclear weapons there, and for this purpose more than three aviation regiments were stationed there. However, in 1970, the USSR signed an agreement banning nuclear testing, which was the beginning of the end for Bagerovo.

Today, on the territory of the once heavy-duty strip almost 4 km long, you can see only a few half-surviving hangars and towers.

"Lunodrome" - a space object near Simferopol

This object is more likely to have a cosmic character than a military one. At one time, the location of the future cosmodrome was chosen by the legendary Sergei Korolev, the chief designer of rocket and space systems of the Soviet Union. This place turned out to be the settlement of Shkolnoye, which is located near Simferopol.

It was here that Nikita Khrushchev once carried out the very first radio-space communication session with cosmonauts Belyaev and Popovich. And it was from this lunodrome that the first Soviet lunar rover was controlled.
It is still not known for certain whether secret work was carried out to develop the designs of military space rockets or not. Most likely, this secret will remain under the ruins of the first Soviet lunodrome.

Missile stationary complex "Utes" / Object No. 100

This underground bunker, beloved by lovers of abandoned objects, is located on the coastline between Balaklava and Cape Aya. At one time, this Cold War complex protected the residents of Sevastopol from possible enemy penetration (at that time the most likely enemy was the United States).

Today there is practically nothing left of Sotka. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian command was unable to maintain the serious “stuffing” of the missile system. What they managed to do was dismantled and taken away, the rest was safely looted.

But until recently, the Sotka complex was a reliable defender of Sevastopol from a possible attack by American ships. But thanks to “economic Ukraine,” which never learned to rationally use multimillion-dollar top-secret military facilities, it was not possible to preserve it. Today, the ruins remaining from this missile site are a favorite adventure spot for diggers.

Object 825GTS - Secret submarine base in Balaklava

It is still the largest declassified strategic facility in the world, which at one time was completed and successfully functioned in full. Due to the large scale of this complex, Balaklava became a regime (closed) city in Soviet times.

Today, one part of this plant is given over to a museum, which successfully receives a large number of tourists. The other part of the strategic facility is still classified, and it is not possible for civilians to see it.

In the Soviet years, during the Cold War with the United States, the construction of the plant was skillfully disguised as the construction of a conventional automatic telephone exchange. And if curious people decided to stick their nose into matters of national importance and find out what this secret object was, then the KGB officers instantly discouraged them from being interested in what was hidden from view. And the plant was built by a specially created department in a short time, in just four years, and it was intended for the repair of submarines.

The design of the plant was a huge, well-protected bunker, in which it was possible not only to carry out repair work, but, if necessary, to shelter people and maintenance personnel. The thick walls of the facility made it possible to very effectively protect against possible nuclear attacks from the enemy, shelter and repair the submarine, and suddenly emerge from a camouflaged bunker to launch a retaliatory strike. The plant was assigned the category of a strategic object of all-Union significance.

Object No. 221 - Reserve command post of the Black Sea Fleet in the mountains

The construction of one of the largest underground bunkers was a response to the American monstrous nuclear war plan called “Drop Shot”, according to which more than ten atomic missiles were planned to be dropped on the territory of Sevastopol. The leadership of the USSR understood that it was absolutely impossible to lose its main southern base of the Black Sea Fleet, so it was decided to build underground equipped casemates on a huge scale.

It was decided to place the Black Sea Fleet ZKP at a depth of several hundred meters in the Alsou rock. It was there that a huge, multi-level bunker was installed that could withstand an atomic strike. It was planned to control nuclear submarines from this strategic facility, and in the event of a nuclear war, ten thousand officers and junior military personnel could be evacuated to it. Can you imagine the scale of construction that took place?

The construction of the point was almost completed when the USSR collapsed. There was no one to finance such a large-scale project, and Ukraine, in fact, did not have a single nuclear submarine. As a result, the Black Sea Fleet ZKP was subjected to merciless dismantling.

Today, guides lead tourists along the tangled corridors of the bunker, and some local residents still live by the principle: “It’s hard, but we’ll get there.” The “two hundred and twentieth object,” thrown into the hands of vandals, is destroyed under the nozzles of the metal scrappers’ cutters. Excursion companies make good money from tourists, luring them to the once secret site, and looters continue to line their pockets with money from the sale of sawn metal. The object is accessible to everyone, and when you first get acquainted with it, you understand how large-scale and monumental work was ruined by Ukraine. Fans of abandoned objects should be warned that it is better not to go there without a guide - on the territory of the bunker there are holes in the floor and tunnels flooded with water, which can be deadly. And in such a huge complex it’s easy to get lost.

Local residents have been waiting for the transition of Crimea under the wing of their beloved Motherland for 23 long years. And maybe now, in the hands of skillful business executives, once important strategic objects will find a new life, because the threat from the Yankees, who want to impose their world domination, is now renewed with renewed vigor. But here it is absolutely impossible, by the way, we are completely protected, we just need to revive what was firmly built in the USSR, and was so mercilessly ruined by the now “friendly” Ukraine.