The mystery "object 825 GTS" Bashny.Net

60 years ago in Crimea has begun the construction of one of the most unique fortifications of modern times - "nests submarines" in Balaklava.

With workers and engineers take a subscription to disclose. And many veterans are still referring to the prohibition of the KGB (!), Refuse to talk about the company under the code name "Object 825 GTS." Today, the cave is already possible to walk with a guide (walking tour - 140 rubles., Water-walking - 200 rub.). Secret facility from 2004 works as a museum - the largest in Europe.

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Dungeon is so huge that it would be gone in an Egyptian pyramid. In the 90s, when the object went after the partition of the Navy Ukrainians use it was never found. As part of the Naval Forces of Ukraine was only one slow-moving submarine "Zaporizhia" which was necessary not to frighten the enemy, and for star admiral - without "underwater section" as part of the title of Commander of the Navy Rear Admiral above could not get. In the mid-90s the object looted - driven trucks. Metal taken as much as the whole of the Crimea are not Pioneers gathered in the history of its existence.

Restore order there began enthusiasts. When organized the first tour, it turned out - a huge interest in the project, especially from foreigners. Former spies from different countries with their mouths open looking at the "nest" of submarines - at one time they did not solve the mystery of submariners. The galleries of Balaklava, visited after Italy, China and Israel in Ukraine. A shocked by what he saw, the niece of Churchill, Countess Clarissa Eden scrawled on a wall stud his name.

 - Without exaggeration object a masterpiece of military engineering, - says one of the founders of the museum "Balaklava" Valery Sadovnichenko. - Object protective structure was conceived as the real nuclear threat then.

Unbeknownst to potential enemies of the USSR at the turn of 50-60-ies. Balaklava submarine base appeared. 1, 5-kilometer-long artificial canal (depth of 8-9 m and a width of 12 to 22 m) with a system of tunnels through sews 126-meter cliff. Submarines 608, 613 and 633rd of the project, were armed with the Black Sea Fleet from the open sea on their own channel into the mountain and fell quietly under water out of her on alert. In parallel with the channel runs dry dock - 107 m where the repaired boat.

Channel, as well as dry dock caisson gate overlaps powerful (waterproof gate gateway). For example, at the entrance to the rock from the bay installed 150-ton caisson gate (8 m below and 7 m above the water), which is moved by powerful engines and compressors. All the interior isolated from the external environment in the shelter could be 7-8 submarines and up to 1500 people.

 - US intelligence officers were severely puzzled - says Valery Fedorovich, - where the Soviet submarine disappear. With the satellite in the Black Sea track the movement of boats, and suddenly they disappear into the "black hole". It is clear that the spies wanted to find out what is happening in these coordinates. But the object and the approaches to it carefully guarded, it was disguised so that even with 5-10 meters could be seen in the gallery entrance. All that remained a mystery to all, as we do not disclose it.

In times of nuclear confrontation is particularly cherished from prying eyes arsenal, which is also in the depths of the rock, and under the earth had access to the channel.

 - The object was to withstand a nuclear attack to 100 kilotons (Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs the Americans dropped to 20 Km. - Approx. Ed.) And does not lose its capacity, - says captain Valery Kalach, in the 60-70-ies. a senior officer of the manual of arms. - If a nuclear bomb exploded near Balaklava Bay, it would not cause arsenal, docks no harm. The height of the rock above the object - 70 m.

Each submarine participated in the exercises at least twice a year. But on combat duty with warheads ships began to emerge all the time - even in the Mediterranean Sea - after the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The year before, "the complications of the political situation" in the facility visited by Nikita Khrushchev himself.

 - He looked at an underground factory, walked along the canal - says Rear Admiral Bezpalchev, - we did not go.

After the tour, Khrushchev had the idea to convert the object - in tunnels equipped with storage for wines. But events swirled around Cuba, and Khrushchev had no doubt of the need for an underground base. But when the Navy began to emerge a new generation of boats with priority nuclear submarines, for their "hole" it was too close. At that time I raised the issue of expansion moves, and they say, the Black Sea Fleet admiral even knocked it means, but General Secretary Gorbachev was busy with the global restructuring. Eventually object loses significance. After the collapse of the Soviet Union nuclear weapons in 1991-1992. It was exported to Russia and Balaklava submarine repair plant ceased to exist.

A heavy-duty valves Ukrainians were useful only during the currency reform - here from all over the Crimea trucks were brought karbovanetses. Instead of missiles on the shelves rose in human growth heap of money.

Where is the "black hole»?

District Balaklava in the south-western part of Crimea on one parallel with the Italian AC Milan and French Lyon (44 degrees 30 minutes. Sat. Latitude 33 degrees 36 min. East. Longitude). The city has a population of 40 thousand. People. the administrative part of the Sevastopol, although located 12 km away. Secret "subway" built on the western slope of the Balaklava Bay. On the other side of the bay, almost invisible from the sea, stretches the "old city".