Museum "Communication Center Loki" Bashny.Net

This tank is located in the Finnish town of Mikkeli. Here, from 1941 to the end of the war it housed the communications center and was so well protected that was able to withstand the bombing of Soviet aviation. Today, part of the tunnel take the Finnish army, and the other a museum of "Center of communication Locke." That's about it today, and you tell the author.

Entrance to the shelter. This tour did not lead

The communication center is responsible for teletype, telephone messages for the link. Radio communication was carried out through the station, located in the vicinity of Mikkeli. The center includes three office: teletype, the television center and office equipment. Telephone station was at the back of the grotto. Subscriber station 300 had 60 lines and long-distance transmission. In the depths of the cave was located, which was supposed to stay in office Mannerheim, commander in chief but never they never used.

The Center "Locke" worked, mostly women - 100-130 people, most of whom were lots (Finnish members of the Women's Auxiliary Service "Lotta Svärd"). They were responsible for a message-for each telephone operator has been allocated an individual headset, which is stored in a single cell with its name. Technology professionals engaged in military personnel and officials seconded from the post and telegraph offices.

After the war, the grotto for some time remained the center of the military garrison - a room used for housing and storage. Recent cables have been removed from the grotto in the '60s. The center was abandoned, while there was even a flophouse. In the late 80's the idea of the museum - the interiors have been restored from photographs and the memories of people who once worked here. Exhibited military uniforms, weapons and equipment, telephones and radios, even posters on the walls - real. Transformers and some of the "iron" preserved since the war. Impressive!