Secret City Gudym

Public transport to Hudyma, as you know, do not go. We must look for the wheels. Not about what car rental in Chukotka not know, and a rental if there is simply no roads around? We found UAZ-loaf of 5 thousand rubles a day, but to know where we're going, the driver refused. Consent of the other, already over seven thousand, but guarantee us getting into the secret city. In the morning, when we saw our "taxi", we realized that it has paid off. "Pump" liftovanny UAZ with wheels 22 radius: checkered on the doors and the roof looked like a joke. But no, it seriously, too, such Chukotka taxi severe.



Our driver, Victor, lived here two years. It works two jobs, as a security guard at a certain company, and the actual driver "with a personal car." Judging by hand, at the time a good idea to travel across the country, but this topic we have not raised: he was a good guy.



Abandoned begin much earlier than the destination. Yes, almost I drove away from the airport, and has already gone exclusion zone. Unlike Chernobyl - voluntary.



From the village of Coal Mine to Hudyma ten kilometers to go, but the road a long time ago do not use: this distance can be overcome only an hour, and then on the right, the car prepared. Primer in some places is not bad, but the main straight road washed away and a few years ago, spare leads through several rivers and bridges were made of wood and collapsed. We have to force the river.



It became clear why the driver refused to take obyknochennogo UAZ us Gudym.



Gudym aka Anadyr-1, also known as Magadan-11, and he is - the secret city with more dozens of names, I was half a century of its existence. Located in a valley between two hills. To get this closed all outsiders there was no possibility. Of course, many of the local know that there are some parts of the army, but no more.



In the history of the appearance, and the existence of the village, mixed truth and fiction, all overgrown with moss legends, and today it is no longer to figure out what's what. Even the history of the building, they say, began with the most famous speech of Nikita Khrushchev, where he banged his shoe on the podium, and threatened to show "gruel" to Americans, saying that the rockets we have and Chukotka! .. In fact, they were then there It was not, but the military understood the words of the national leader as a guide to action, and quickly began to gnaw permafrost. Already in 1961 and have not appeared on any map of the town of atonement for combat duty. Officially, in the secret reports, the town was called "Anadyr-1", but the people called him Hudyma, in honor of Colonel Gudymova, supervised the construction, and committed suicide under mysterious circumstances just after the completion of construction. It tells a story, whether in jest, whether seriously, Comrade Colonel received an anonymous telegram from the US, where he was warmly congratulated on the successful completion of a secret military base.



It ended the glorious history Hudyma not so long ago: the final part of the disbanded, and the city was left in 2002, the year. Most former residents can now be found in the cities of Saratov and Engels.



Reading about this place before the trip, I imagined that the safety will be better here. Still, the ends of the Earth, stalkers and other lovers of profit should be thrown good bit. Wrong: town pilfered for building materials remaining in Chukotka residents. And they continue to plunder until now. Boards, bricks, stone, always short, everything in fact imported "from the continent".



What is the Gudym? The settlement of five thousand people, about fifty houses, wooden and stone roughly equal. Today, I abandoned everything. A little further on, in the same valley three kilometers, there is a "second town", but there only on foot, and it is not clear what safety there. And somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple more sites, including the airport and tankodrom. Here, in the "first", were many civilians and families of officers in other locations hanging out exclusively "green men".



Beautiful wooden building. You can go to all, open access. But the sense of self-preservation says that better not: overlap in terms of climate Chukchi rot much faster than our middle band.



Around Hudyma stretched wooden corridors: they hide communication and pipe. The earth did not dig, and houses are built on stilts because the accident happened, never dug up.



Strange thing: patriotic army stands almost all dedicated to the Navy, somewhere there is mentioned St. Andrew's flag and the Pacific Fleet. At the same time, it is known that was occupied by troops Gudym SRF. Maybe in the last years of life of the village, after the collapse of the USSR, there were also sailors, some rear part.



Rusty soldiers.



In the midst of civil war buildings vydyaletsya one two-story building, the end of the building is decorated with paintings by an unknown artist.



Inside everything strictly. Steel door, the viewing window. Password or butt in the ribs.



The building apparently housed the command, the headquarters or something officer. All the symbols on the posters and stands no longer the Soviet and modern Russian. Again maritime flags.



The form --Army. The mystery of some sort. And yet it is strange that in this gradual withdrawal (started in 1998, brought out in 2002) on the floor a lot of abandoned documents, including secret, the same clothes and insignia lying ...



There was a dining room.



A pharmacy in a room decorated with murals with machine guns, as if in some African country, a few walls dumped cans of canned potatoes.



Then again, you do not zdes.I fleet!



From some of the buildings were ashes and rusty metal sheets that were once roofs. Rubbish gsopoda military secrets to get rid of their most ancient way: burn everything to hell.



Each of these helmets, and every abandoned house - spent once the money of Soviet citizens. Break not to build.



It just so happened that the military was one of the wealthiest caste in the Soviet era. And the residents of a gated community, plus located in the Far North region of permafrost, had a very good salaries and allowances. The town was a shopping mall, at the grocery store which, they say, there were no shortages even in the years of stagnation.



Well, today is something like ...



Today Gudym a dead city, a ghost town.



Northern Summer short-lived and severely, snow does not melt even in late June.



Quadrocopter lifted into the air over Hudyma. In the old days it was impossible to even think that a stranger to visit this city. And even more to raise the sky spy helicopter with a camera.



This photograph clearly shows how many buildings burned. By the way, this way is not something that shoot, it was impossible to watch. See boiler with two pipes, and then the bridge and two roads that go in different directions right in front of the hill? It was there, and there is the most interesting in-Hudyma. It is thanks to an underground base, hidden inside the hill, and here was a village, and a number were housed several military bases. But we have to take a closer look it yet, is continuing to walk through the empty streets.



All houses have a maximum of three floors. Of course, built on stilts. Seismic activity in the area of ​​Anadyr is not very big. I think the number of floors was predetermined privacy issues: the low houses harder to see from the air?



When looking at these houses, you can imagine how scary look the same Anadyr before it began building painted in bright colors. And yet here in the Chukotka region, nature is very strong. Vegetation is sparse, but takes its.



All pipes stolen from the apartment also made what appears at least some value. Marauders -The same locals, not really trying to be careful.



The entrances expected devastation, but the whole door. There were pluses and its in this gated community. None of the windows had no grills Hudyma, iron doors and no one was pulling a distant "mainland", they were simply not feasible. In the same Anadyr today fully and grids, and "armored" doors as across the vast Russian.



While walking through the village, at the mall incredibly materialized truck. Barabashka or ensign ghost still roams these streets? :)



I do not be surprised how a few years ago, there were full garage equipment, which are then also carried off in whole or for parts.



I think there are some features unavailable to me pleasure to arrange a total srach at their place of temporary residence. Especially if some of everything foul.



Deer in a gas mask.



After reviewing the paper genshtabovskie card I found at the scene. Victor said that before the second settlement is not reached on tankodrom washed away the road. Only one thing - to climb into the "hole" or "holes": the so-called local object "C".



The base is located across the river from the small town. Bridge almost destroyed the fence almost dismantled, but the massive bunker scares its loopholes so far. But documents no one asks, one of the main secrets of the Soviet regime no guards.



Not only mountain and river separated civilian life by the military top secret. The perimeter fence with two "thorn" in the towers and machine gunners.



From watching the clock peaceful life of the village. Soldiers lived separately, in the barracks, "the second" town, but the officers taking turns going down and at the time turned into ordinary people.



All bunkers and strengthening directed towards Hudyma. Either do not trust their own residents as, or assumed that the Americans somehow managed to land troops there, who first captures the village? Even without a military education, I would suggest that the first was bombed this place, and with the air.



Top secret. The object of the "C" was built in 1958, in 1961 has taken up combat duty. Appointment object - storage and routine maintenance of nuclear weapons. Submission to the 12th Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense. The object is a avtomnye kilometers of underground structures c galareyami has full anti-nuclear defense. Inside divided into different access levels. Transportation of goods carried by underground narrow-gauge railway. The photo depicts one of the two input portals. Due to the active attempts to get into the civilian population both inputs object repeatedly brewed MOE. As you can see, it is useless, it is still open, and then climb all sorts. The only problem when released into the "hole" was a mountain of snow, which we just climbed up and got inside.



It is said that "objects with" was the core, surrounded by several rings of protection. It was here stored warheads for missiles capable of destroying a lot of different objects in the western United States. Around missile units stood Regiment, covering the missile, Anary city and seaport. Airfields in the land covered tank battalion, and besides them, earth and air are protected by anti-aircraft gunners and artillery. Well, more infantry, signalers, engineers and builders. The sailors from their ships and submarines, plus guards. And in any case, NBC troops: here because nuclear fuel and highly poisonous, and if Anadyr would be attacked, would have someone to eliminate the consequences. In general, the Anadyr was centered around a number of military, a whole bunch of all the armed forces.



All the fuss was because three or four nuclear missiles RSD-10 "Pioneer". Another thing is, these missiles could destroy half of the continent. They are not located in the mines and on the basis of six-axle vehicles MAZ-547, capable of delivering a ballistic missile on any road and to provide start-up. You could make a start right out of the garage with a retractable roof, or with a conventional concrete pad of suitable size. Venues such as the time and have a "second campus". They say, but it is at the level of rumors that the "hole" kept the captured archives of the Nazi organization Ahnenerbe.



The underground facility also resides not in the best condition, because of the constant damp walls were covered with fungus and mold, the ice on the floor. Like, all warheads were taken away, but there is a danger of being inside: storage rooms exude acid, which never erode. I do not dare to go through the long corridors without a flashlight, with fellow travelers we missed, they usvisteli far ahead, and then stumbled on the dense fog of gas with a strange smell, prefer to go back. We assume that the "hole" would not let me, it happens in such a mysterious place.



The construction and maintenance of dozens of similar sites across the country were postracheno so much money that you could build a network of highways between cities, and raise the standard of living to a new level. As a result, objects have collapsed, and there is no road. And Russia is once again fond of finding enemies, instead of just starting to develop.



Source: macos.livejournal.com