Underground base of the Naval Forces of Musco

When the whole world was on the verge of war, there was only one really safe place - this is a good bunker deep underground. That is why the world is littered with underground military bases today, many of which are still secret, although most of these were declassified, and some are even open to the public, like Sweden’s naval base Musko (Muskoanlaggningen), which looks like a decoration for good Hollywood movie.

Probably the largest underground military facility in Sweden. This naval base was built under the granite rock RockSolid. Base can not be destroyed by nuclear or other weapons. It took 17 years to build and it has a 4 dock.

The 1 and 2 dock is 145 meters long and approximately 40 meters high. Both have a 250 meter entrance tunnel.

The dock is 3 - 150 meters and is mainly used for submarines.

4 Dock - 350 meter tunnel.

Musko is an island that is connected to the mainland through a tunnel under the seabed (as bridges are easily incapacitated in the event of war), about 3 km in length that was built in 1964 year. In peacetime, 800 people worked at the base.

This is not just a dock located underground, the entire naval base is built under a mountain. There is a repair plant, hospital, canteens, barracks, etc., and all this inside the mountain. Thousands of soldiers will serve there in wartime, only in the hospital there are more than 1000 beds.

For comparison, during the construction of underground facilities in the Cheyenne mountains, they had to remove 350,000 m3 stone, Musko had to remove 1.500.000 m3 stone (even more, if you consider the underground roads that lead to Musko under the seabed.

An image of a true underground object would not be complete without a huge blast door. It weighs 45 tons, and can withstand pressure 200 tons / m2

This is reminiscent of a secret lair for a super-villain from some Hollywood movie.

What do you think of moving around such a large complex? By bike, of course.

Here is a photo of the supply sector in the facility. It looks like a mall.

You can see the location of the database on Google Maps.

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[Ascetic]

Object 825 GTS (or K-825) is an underground submarine base in Balaklava, a secret military facility of the Cold War times, located in Balaklava Bay.
The facility is a structure of anti-nuclear defense of the first category (protection against direct hit by an atomic bomb with a capacity of 100 kt), which includes a combined underground water channel with a dry dock, repair shops, fuel and lubricant depots, and a mine-torpedo section. It is located in Mount Tavros, on both sides of which there are two exits. From the bay side - the entrance to the channel (adit). If necessary, it was blocked by a batoport, the weight of which reached 150 tons. To access the open sea, an exit was equipped on the north side of the mountain, which was also blocked by a batoport. Both holes in the rock were skillfully covered with camouflage devices and nets.

Object 825 GTS, was intended for shelter, repair and maintenance of submarines of the 613th and 633th projects, as well as for the storage of ammunition intended for these submarines. In the channel (length 602 meters) of the object could accommodate 7 submarines of these projects. The loading of equipment in peacetime was carried out on the pier, given the movement of spy satellite satellites of a potential enemy. In case of a nuclear threat, loading had to be carried out inside the base through a special adit. The complex also included the repair and technical base (facility 820), designed for storage and maintenance of nuclear weapons. The temperature inside the base is about 15 degrees.
In the aftermath of World War II, both superpowers — the USSR and the USA — were building up their nuclear potential, threatening each other with preventive and retaliation strikes. It was then that Stalin gave Beria (who was in charge of the “nuclear project” at that time) a secret directive: to find a place where submarines could be based to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike. After several years of searching, the choice fell on the quiet Balaklava: the city was immediately classified and its status changed - the city of Balaklava turned into a closed area of ​​the city of Sevastopol. Balaclava was not chosen for the construction of the underground complex by accident. A narrow winding strait with a width of only 200-400 m covers the harbor not only from storms, but also from prying eyes - from the open sea it is not visible at any angle. In 1953, a special construction department No. 528 was created, which was directly involved in the construction of an underground structure. The underground complex was built for 8 years - from 1953 to 1961. About 120 thousand tons of rock were removed during the construction. To ensure secrecy, export was carried out at night on barges to the open sea. The object was built first by the military, and then metro builders, which was due to the complexity of drilling the rock. After the closure in 1993, most of the complex was not guarded. In 2000, the facility was transferred to the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the period from 1993 to 2003, the former base was actually looted, all structures containing non-ferrous metals were dismantled [1]. The Sevastopol Sea Assembly, led by Vladimir Stefanovsky, proposed to the Balaklava City Hall a project for creating the Cold War Underground dungeon in the anti-nuclear Shelter of the submarines. It would include thematic exposition halls housed in former workshops and arsenals, a submarine standing at the underground pier, a tourist center, a cinema hall with a chronicle of the times of the active military confrontation of the two political systems, and finally, an underground memorial where the memory of submariners who perished on that — without firing — a truly cold war in the depths of the ocean.
In 2001-2002, the underground plant in Balaclava was visited by the Ambassador of China, Mr. Li Giobang, the Italian Ambassador, Ms. Brunetti Getz, and the Israeli Ambassador, Ms. Anna Azari. And the leading TV commentator of the American company SMM McLaughlin, after leaving the underground city, could not resist, pulled out his penknife and scratched his name on the wall of the approaching lost ... Countess Clarissa Eden, the niece of the famous Winston Churchill, could not resist the temptation to do the same. The vast majority of foreign tourists from Holland, Great Britain, the USA and other countries call this object “a miracle of engineering equipment of the USSR
According to press reports of May 2010, the leadership of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is considering the possibility of restoring the base in Balaklava and resuming its intended use [2], but the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Konstantin Grishchenko denied this information, citing the Constitution of Ukraine [

[lukaviy]

I was at the underground submarine base in Balaclava in 2008. An impressive structure, of course.

[Col.]

Since the times of the USSR, we have a lot of similar objects left. I visited some on official business. The main impression is the enormous amount of work carried out during the construction of these objects (ZKP, PB). Many have already been abandoned and plundered, like the base in Balaklava. But, I hope, the existing facilities will serve for more than one decade, as they were created "for centuries".

[Evil Tatar]

I read somewhere that one of the first factories was built near Krasnoyarsk under Stalin to produce weapons-grade plutonium, or uranium ...
In a granite slab, more than 100 m thick (calculation - 200kt), there were two nuclear reactors with an infrastructure structure and several full-sized five-story houses ...
Direct-flow cooling of the reactors, due to the sleeve allotted from the Yenisei channel ...
Amer swelled when they still managed to take water samples at the mouth of the river ...

[Dmitry_24rus]

I had to visit near Krasnoyarsk .. There are no exact five-story buildings, and indeed, I doubt the advisability of building houses underground. And long-term and prepared shelters for thousands of people are available.

[Professor]

The rhetorical question is, who scared the Swedes so much that they bite into granite?

[German]

guess three times ....

[755962]

Do not go to a fortuneteller ...

[predator]

Estonians? or hot finnish guys?

[Skiff]

Mink Swedes Well, it’s possible to shoot a high-precision rocket there and is there any sense in these minks?

[FREGATENKAPITAN]

..Well, it’s necessary to get disappear, but ento is not a fact!

[FREGATENKAPITAN]

..... Who could be in Gadzhievo could see our, unfortunately unfinished, grandiose defensive structure to protect the nuclear submarines, there was even a television movie that talked about its construction ... unfortunately I do not remember what it is called .....

[Andriuha077]

Cool walls! You must ride your bike as smoothly as possible. We had decorative walls almost in the form of sandpaper, and races on freight carts sometimes ended in disrepair.

[APASUS]

Our base in Balaclava was much better.

[Alex_dnepr]

Cool article!
I dreamed for a long time to see something like this (like the Balaclava)