Abandoned military sites near Moscow
As a rule, capital cities are protected by the latest developments of the defense industry, and Moscow is no exception.
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A Type-95 Ha-Go Japanese tank wreck
For those rare travellers who get to Shumshu Island this tank was a must-see.
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The town of Zarechinsk. An abandoned signals intelligence center
There is a small shack on the coast of Gabriel bay. It is windy, rainy and nasty outside, but inside the cosy shack there is...
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An abandoned military science institution
Today’s post is about a rather curious and fascinating location. This is a huge academic building with dozens of labs, testing benches, departments, workshops and...
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Secret Laboratory №5 of Research Institute-400
You know, for some people, Abkhazia is a resort country that has nothing to do with military and secret developments, but not for me.
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A derelict airfield and a Su-24 bomber aircraft
A partially abandoned air facility. Quite a few protected hangars and taxiway strips.
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Interiors of the abandoned Lun ekranoplan
You can look at it from the outside in this post. Let’s climb inside this ship/plane.
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This Soviet ghost town is only 200 km from the USA
Anadyr-1 is located closest to the ideological enemy The United States of America.
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Type 97 Chi-Ha Japanese Tank Wreck
This Chi-Ha tank of the 11th tank regiment of the Japanese army was destroyed by the Russian troopers on the Shumshu island on August 18th,...
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A command center for intercontinental ballistic missiles launch
12 underground floors built in case of a nuclear war… The 15V52U Integrated Command Center.
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Abandoned biological-warfare weapons storage facility
For the readers’ information: the site described in the article was abandoned by the military a few years ago.
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Chernobyl-2
One of the most exceptional and secret sites in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is the object named Chernobyl-2.
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Abandoned Soviet Military Vehicles Graveyard
The usual abandoned military unit. Even, as it turned out later, not completely abandoned, but unused as intended 🙂
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A derelict shelter
Last fall we visited a half-abandoned, or, rather, currently inactive shelter located under a manufacturing facility.
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Abandoned Navy Analytical Center
Today in my report I would like to tell you about one very unusual and colorful place that we managed to visit with friends last...
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Abandoned military machinery
Once again we are in the Moscow region, and once again in the woods.
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An abandoned warship
This post is about a decommissioned warship named “Druzhny”. Its fate is sad and its future is uncertain. Having been left to corrode in the...
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The Soviet “nuclear shield”. Abandoned Strategic Rocket Forces military base
One dark autumn night, when I was enjoying a cup of coffee and looking through some photos, my friend Dima messaged me saying that he...
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A tour of the 419th aircraft repair plant
I first felt intrigued by this place when I was digging through maps on Wikimapia in another search for an airdrome and I saw an...
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Abandoned Lun ekranoplan
Lun, the first in the family of military missile-carrying ekranoplans weighing 400 metric tons, was put into service in 1987.
