After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the young states inherited a not only factories but also abandoned Soviet military installations.Among them are highly classified, and not so.The economy of many newly formed countries are not allowed to pull the content, ensuring and maintaining the functioning of these strategic facilities.Some states simply do not need them and did not consider it necessary to spend the huge amounts of money from the federal treasury.So there were the abandoned military installations.Gradually, they were destroyed and fell into disrepair.
consider most interesting abandoned military facilities from the huge variety of scattered forests and mountains complexes, indicating the former power of the collapsed empire.But this is only a fraction of declassified installations ...
Balaklava, Crimea
Storage submarines, located on the territory of Sevastopol, affects its size.Under its arches can simultaneously accommodate up to 14 large-size vessels.There is and abandoned military equipment, and spare parts to it.This base was built in 1961 and it ceased to function in 1993, almost immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union.As they say knowledgeable people, this place was a kind of transshipment point, which took place on the repair and charge the submarines here replenished ammunition.Balaclava built for centuries and, thanks to its advanced design, capable of withstanding a direct nuclear strike.But to date, it has expanded the list of "Abandoned military sites of the former Soviet Union."Now on her little left, as residents of the District dismantled it literally screws.In 2002, local authorities announced plans to create a museum in Balaclava, but more than talk is never gone.
Dvina missile silo, Kekava (Latvia)
After the collapse of the Soviet Union many former republics inherited these military facilities, the availability of which they do not even guessed.For example, not far from Riga, in the forest, the remains of a powerful missile complex "Dvina".It was built back in 1964 and consisted of four large silos, which were at a depth of 34 meters.Currently, they are partially flooded, but any interested person may go down in them with an experienced stalker, to see firsthand what the abandoned military installations.Though it is necessary to think well before you go on a tour.They say, in mines left a lot of rocket fuel, which, though not radioactive, but still toxic.
Lopatinsky phosphorite mine (Moscow Region)
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this complex is a large field where the extracted minerals and other substances used in agriculture and industry.After 1993, the mine has suspended its operations.All the equipment was left to rust ... So a huge field with giant excavator bucket was a place of pilgrimage for thousands of tourists from around the world.
station studying the ionosphere (Ukraine)
This complex, which is located in Kharkov, was built in just one year before the collapse of the Soviet Union and was a response to the creation of the famous American project HAARP, which is Alaska.An analogue of the US, by the way, is successfully operating to this day.Huge complex consisted of a giant parabolic antenna with a diameter of 25 meters, and a number of research fields.Now abandoned military equipment and goes on to remind sad graveyard.Souped Ukrainian state this expensive and energy-intensive complex was not needed, it is now only interested in the non-ferrous metals hunters, stalkers and travelers.
Marine City "Oil Rocks" (Azerbaijan)
In the 40 years of the last century, there began the development of subsea fields.They were carried out in the Caspian Sea, or rather, 42 kilometers from the Apsheron Peninsula.Around the first platform built entire cities, which were based on metal racks and bulk.Thus, 110 kilometers from Baku have been erected in the middle of water power plants, nine-storey buildings, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.There were also a bakery, a house of culture, and even shop for the production of lemonade.Oilers defeated even a small park with trees and greenery.City Oil Stones take more than 200 platforms, and the whole length of the street is more than 350 kilometers.
soon became popular more favorable Siberian oil, which immediately made the content of subsea fields unprofitable.Gradually, the city on the water emptied.Surprisingly, but the Oil Rocks can not be called a ghost settlement, as it and to this day there are more than two thousand people.
Abandoned particle accelerator (Moscow Region)
In the late 80-ies loses its political positions of the Soviet Union decided to embodied in the life of a stunning design.So there was a particle accelerator.Ring tunnel length is 21 kilometers, I lay at a depth of more than fifty meters.Geographically, it is located near the town of Protvino nuclear physicists.It is not far from Moscow - about a hundred kilometers to Simferopol highway.In the prepared tunnel have already begun to import expensive equipment, but then began perestroika and the Soviet "Atomic Collider" remained buried under the ground.
place for it was chosen on the basis of geological considerations.The soil in this area is ideally suited for the construction of large-scale underground structures.Huge rooms were connected with the outer part of the pipe up to 68 meters.Above the well installed giant cranes to 20 tons.
At the time, this development ahead of US counterparts by nine years.But with the collapse of the USSR money for research remains.The cost to build the collider can be commensurate with the cost of a huge nuclear power plant.
Currently, there are various abandoned military units that were once a sign of the power of the state, and is now gradually disappearing from the face of the earth.Unfortunately, it is practically impossible to recover them.Of particular interest are the extensive military installations of the Leningrad region, part of which was kept secret: the airport Navy Island powerful in Kingisepp district, abandoned landfills, catacombs, bomb shelters, plants for the production of ammunition, hangars and strength ... On the one hand, likewell that all this exists, and anyone interested in the history of his country, can see firsthand these facilities.On the other, they produce a painful impression: so much energy, and perhaps even lives have been laid for their creation, now has become much unnecessary and abandoned ...
