There are many hypotheses about the origin of the mysterious huge white ball as high as a five-story building, hidden in the middle of the forest, on the outskirts of the Tver region - how it got there, what it was intended for, who built it … And to get to the bottom of the truth, the correspondent went on a trip and found out the whole truth about the ball.
A hollow ball in the forest near Dubna (or Kimr - depending on where to go), is located on the territory of the Kimr district of the Tver region, near the village of Ignatovo.
The diameter of the ball is about 18 meters, the height is about the size of a five-story building. To enter the ball, a small opening was cut at the height of a person.
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You can get directly to Shara only in winter - in summer these swampy places are of little use for movement, well, if only by a powerful jeep (and even then not always). If you get from Moscow, then the way to the ball lies along Dmitrovskoe highway, then Dubna, and there is still 28 km. to the village of Ignatovo (through the villages of Gubin Ugol and Lartsevo). It is in Larcevo, if it is impossible to get to Ignatovo, that you can leave your car.
According to the most probable version of the origin of the ball, it is a radio-transparent dome of the Soviet command-measuring system "Kub-U", installed in 1963-1965 in NIP-14 - one of the command posts in the town of Shchelkovo near Moscow to control spacecraft. Just in 1980, the year of the appearance of the "mysterious" ball near Kimry, the KIS "Kub-U" was written off as obsolete and replaced with a more advanced one.
One of the above radio-transparent domes could be transported later from Shchelkovo towards the science city of Dubna by helicopter, or by some other transport. This hypothesis is supported not only by the coincidence in time of the decommissioning of the Shchelkovsky dome and the appearance of the ball under Dubna, but also their similar color, texture of the panels and a ventilation hole on the side in the form of a keyhole.
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According to another version, in the area of the village of Ignatovo they were going to build a military base as the third ring of Moscow's air defense.
Local residents guard the ball from hooligans, and periodically go out into the raid to inspect the order. But especially entrepreneurial people say that the popularity of the place and the ball itself will help to make a lot of money. If you open a restaurant in it, and cook fish there, cook fish soup, then there will be no end to the Moscow rich, this is how the villagers argue in the kitchen.