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"Mailbox" (Russian: Почтовый ящик, romanized: Pochtovyy yashchik) was the unofficial name of a secret Soviet facility much like the closed city, but smaller, usually the size of a factory. The name of such a facility was usually secret, as were the activities there.
Model submarine of Project 613, Balaklava Naval Museum Entrance tunnel to old Soviet submarine base. Old Soviet submarine pen Mine cars, Balaklava Naval Museum. Naval museum complex Balaklava (Ukrainian: Морський музейний комплекс "Балаклава", Russian: Музей холодной войны, "The Cold War Museum", designation K-825) is an underground submarine ...
It was the largest Soviet base abroad in the 1940s to 1950s. Cam Ranh Base Vietnam: 1979–2002 Pasha Liman Base, Vlore Albania: 1955–1962 It was the only Soviet base in the Mediterranean in the 1950s. [5] Porkkala Naval Base Finland: 1944–1956 Signals intelligence facility. Rostock East Germany: 1949–1990 Signals intelligence facility ...
Due to the Rose Revolution eventually the Russian bases were liquidated by 2007, [28] with the exception of the breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. See Russia–Georgia relations. East Germany: Western Group of Forces from 1945 to 1994. Finland: Porkkala Naval Base was used by the Soviet Navy between 1944 and 1956.
After the Cold War Soviet troops abandoned their former headquarters which have remained off limits to the public since their inhabitance. Exploring the 'Forbidden City,' a former Soviet military base
Moon expeditions and the construction of a Moon base would have required nearly 50 billion rubles (80 billion US dollars in 1997). [6] All crewed Soviet lunar programs, including a Zvezda moonbase, had been classified as top secret and were only published in the glasnost epoch since 1990. Before this time, the Soviet Union officially denied the ...
Map of Air Force bases of the Soviet union. This List of Soviet Air Force bases is a list containing all air bases within the Soviet Union or utilized by the Soviet Air Forces. Additional information includes the location of the air base, which military units were in command of or hosted at the air base, and aircraft types known to have been ...
During the Soviet era two military garrisons, Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, and possibly a third, Alkino-2, were built on the site. These garrisons were unified into the closed town of Mezhgorye (Russian: Межгорье) in 1995, and the garrisons are said to house 30,000 workers each, served by large rail lines. [4]