Inside a Top Secret Soviet Nuclear Submarine Underground Base
The name of this abandoned place is Object 825 GTS, a top secret Cold War nuclear submarine underground base located in the Balaklava Bay, Crimea, Ukraine.
The Gulf of Balaklava
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With the threat of nuclear attack three thousand workers can hide in Underground Submarine Base. The protection of the complex can withstand a direct hit by a nuclear ammunition capacity to 100 kilotons that is five times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Ability to completely isolate the object from the external environment provide autonomous air supply, powerful diesel generators, fuel and water lines, underground rail road.
The Soviet military started to build the base in 1957 under the directive of Joseph Stalin. Stalin commissioned his crony Lavrentiy Beria to find places for secret nuclear submarine bases. In the case of a nuclear attack, the submarines stationed in this base would launch a strike against the United States and its allies. Beria’s team thought that Balaklava was the perfect place, near the Sevastopol naval base, still in use by the Black Sea Fleet. The cost of the construction of Underground Submarines Base 825 GTS was 67 million Soviet rubles and the cost of equipment and life support systems – 65 million Soviet rubles.
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Object 825 GTS is a combined underground water channel to the outputs on both sides of Balaklava mountains, the dry dock, repair shops, warehouses for storage of torpedoes and other weapons, housing for staff, dining room, kitchen, bathrooms, showers, rest rooms, command posts and nuclear shelter. It can accommodate seven major submarines of 613th and 633rd Soviet projects.
After closing in 1993 most of the complex is 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 Underground Submarines Base was looted. Sevastopol “Marine Assembly” led by Vladimir Stefanovskiy proposed the project “Cold War Museum” in Object 825 GTS. So on 1st of June 2003 “Cold War Museum” as well as Underground Submarines Base Object 825 GTS was open to the public and tourists.
