Balaklava Underground Museum Complex. To the Knights of the Black Sea Depths.

By fromSalekhard in My museums 01.08.2026

And we have another, non-returnable stop on the route with such a romantic name, which gave the name to the entire report.

Initial report: Balaklava Underground Museum Complex. Entrance.

Previous report: Balaklava Underground Museum Complex. Continuation of the route.

Behind the automatic door, a huge exhibition space awaits us.

There is a mine-clearing trawl hanging from the ceiling, and since few people know what it is and how it works, a diagram of it is provided nearby.

The corner on the right is entirely dedicated to deep-sea diving.

Some of the smaller exhibits are hidden behind the glass stand. My attention was drawn to the porthole of the manned submersible “Reef.”

More precisely, its thickness.

And you can’t pass by the full-scale model of the cabin of the autonomous working projectile (ARS), produced by Krasnoye Sormovo.

Around the corner, in a niche, there is a very attractive composition on the theme of underwater rescue,

Here we stop huddling in the nooks and crannies and emerge into the operational space, the right side of which is a full-size, cutaway model of the submarine’s conning tower.

I believe this is the diesel-electric submarine B-59, Project 641, decommissioned in 1990.

Since the compartments are quite large and don’t fit into a photo frame, I’ll provide a panoramic photo with further details.

Torpedo compartment.

Fighting compartment.

Radio room and chart room.

The wardroom and the commander’s cabin.

In the center is a model with a cross-section of an unnamed, but very long torpedo.

And along the other wall there are display cases dedicated to the ships and people of the modern submarine fleet, including, or rather starting with, the tragic nuclear-powered missile submarine Kursk.