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About radio telescopes (14 photos)
Abandoned settlement Irbene, and a huge radio telescope, a former military facility is strategic. Station space exploration "Zvezdochka" (it is in / h 51429) was built in the '70s. It is a system of 3 radars designed to intercept signals from satellites, submarines and military bases, as well as being spy satellites and for satellite communications. At the same time, the settlement was built Irbene. It lived a few hundred people - military and their families, but on the map of the village has been designated in the flesh until 1993.
