According to the plans of the military, the planes were supposed to pick up nuclear ammunition from this facility for delivery to the United States. And that is not all.
The Soviet era left us many secrets and mysteries, and the more distant the region, the more there are. This most secret, at the time, object is located a few kilometers from the Anadyr airport, which served as a jump airfield for the long-range strategic aviation of the USSR. Here, according to the plans of the military, the planes were to take nuclear ammunition for delivery to the territory of the United States, to which it was less than an hour to fly. And that is not all.
So, after the threat of N. S. Khrushchev to the Americans, like, "… and we have missiles in Chukotka too …" the construction of a secret military town near Anadyr began. There were no missiles there then, but already in 1961 a military town, which later became known as Gudym, was built. According to the generally accepted opinion, it takes its name from the first head of the town, Colonel Gudym, who, by the way, committed suicide after the completion of construction, although the fact of suicide has not yet been proven.
To confuse the Western intelligence services, this place had many names: Magadan-11, Anadyr-1, Object C, Gudym. Locals call it "Portal" or simply "Hole". And so, we are there. A kilometer-long tunnel carved into the rocks of Chukotka. According to one of the versions - the main purpose of the facility: storage and maintenance of nuclear warheads for the RSD-10 Pioneer medium-range missile system, according to the NATO specification SS-20. But there is no reason to carry missiles down the street. I am sure that the mines have been and are being mothballed and in the "hole" itself.
There are two entrances to the base, for some reason marked "Entrance 14" and "Entrance 15". Why such a numbering, and where the rest of the inputs no one knows. The object was divided into parts according to the levels of access for the personnel, so even the specialists working here did not know the full location of all objects in the "hole". The conscripts were only engaged in the protection of the object, everything else was a secret for them.
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At this place we left the UAZ that had brought us here, turned on our lights and entered a top secret facility. Damn, how many folk funds were spent on the construction of this facility? How many more?
It is pitch dark inside, humid and the air temperature is about 10 degrees.
The lighting, of course, has been de-energized for a long time, the wires were cut off by local ones and handed over to non-ferrous metals.
Stop! But we cannot be stopped, we have covered 7000 km, and the old inscriptions will not stop us.
The object has full anti-nuclear protection, the weight of some armored doors reaches 40 tons.
We go deep into the object. Silence all around. The thought involuntarily comes that in such places one should be afraid of people. Mochkonut, and no one will even know where your carcass is. The nearest settlement is about 40 km away, and there are not many "visitors" here.
In the first zone from the entrance, there is equipment for maintaining the life of personnel. Powerful motors pumped filtered and heated air from the street into a secret portal.
All the equipment has now been abandoned.
The movement of goods was carried out on the underground narrow-gauge railway.
Here and there there are abandoned trolleys.
In one of the rooms, of which there are a great many, we found something that looked like a communications center.
A huge number of completely new radio tubes, moreover, produced by VEF.
The moment when you realize that everything of value has been stolen before us:(.
There are many branches from the main tunnel. We went into almost all of them, but some were closed with hermetic doors. What was behind them remained a mystery. After the withdrawal of nuclear weapons, the city existed for more than two decades. What was the military doing in the Chukchi wilderness? It seems to me that the equipment was being mothballed and concreting was carried out on what is possibly hidden in the "Portal" to this day. Hence the strange numbering of the entrances. There cannot be only two of them on such a huge object.
In one of the halls, we found boxes with shot cartridges and empty boxes. We saw similar ones on the street, on the road to Gudym 2.
Apparently, these are ship shells. After the signing of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles, in accordance with which all nuclear weapons were removed from the base, the underground premises began to be used as a storage base for the Anadyr military garrison.
Rechargeable. There was a scent of acid in the air, and we hurried to get our feet out of here. God saves man, who save himself.
Another control panel, most likely, is just power supply.
Warehouse of radio components.
Appliances, lamps, and other crap.
The walk took about 2 hours. We were afraid of increased radiation, but, taken with us, the dosimeters did not even peep. That's all. It's time to get out. I wish I could show more, but the photos are very dark due to poor lighting. Their processing took a very long time, and the rest would have to be laid out in black and white. Maybe someday I will.
And this is how the "Portal" looks on the diagram.
When we reached an abandoned house, where we hid our things in one of the rooms, we prepared dinner. After lunch, we moved to the abandoned village of Gudym-1, where the former Soviet Strategic Missile Forces base was located.