Balaklava Underground Museum Complex. Beginning.
Even if objects on the ground and underground are similar, the latter have greater attractiveness.
Previous report: Balaklava Underground Museum Complex. Entrance.
It’s like walking on a plank lying on the ground, and then placing the same plank at a great height. The board is the same, but there is a nuance!
After the entrance tunnel, we enter the complex’s enormous “anteroom.”
In the far corner there is a model that makes it clear where we are and where we are going.
In another corner, the tools used to build it all are on display.
including stresses mining loader.
In the opposite corner, the period of operation is already concerned.
With a map of USSR submarine bases,
samples of anti-submarine weapons
and ship communications equipment.
Next, we will become acquainted with a key element of the anti-nuclear infrastructure – the protective gates.
And there is something to marvel at: starting from the weight (the entire structure is 10 tons and one gate leaf is 2.4 tons) and to the size of the structure itself (height 4 meters, thickness of the “door” is 0.4 m).
Behind them, in the airlock space, a standard set of fallout shelter systems is briefly demonstrated: food and drink supplies, ventilation, warning and signaling, etc.
It was not for nothing that I called the room a gateway, because further on there is another similar gate,
behind which the dosimetric control post is located.
Everything is as it should be: guys in special protective suits and a crackling Geiger counter (simulation).
And then, behind a rather “ordinary” door, a very long corridor awaits us.
Text: “20 m high mountain“.
Please note the height indication of the cliff on the right. Normal underground structures are forced to go deeper to build up the earth above them. This structure is marine and tied to sea level, so it’s limited from below. The increase in the protective thickness is achieved by increasing the height of the mountain from above.
To give you an idea of where we are and where we’ll be going, the entrance is marked with a red arrow on the evacuation plan, and the area shown in this post is marked with an ellipse.
To be continued: Balaklava Underground Museum Complex. Transport passage.