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 Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
< on 12/29/2008 10:45 AM >
|  | | | Hi all!
One of our teammates - girl named Mika, often tells us interesting things about uer.ca forum. So i decided maybe someone here is interested about our trips and objects in post-USSR countries. Today i'll post some pictures from one of our best visited objects. If there will be any interess i'll post more pictures of our trips.
Object called "535".
Its underground communication unit of former USSR government communication network called "ISKRA-II". Network "Iskra-II" was common in whole Ussr so its only one of hundreds or even thousands of similar communication units. We have visited two of them in Latvia and we are planning to visit one at Lithuania next summer. In case of nuclear or biological disease it is possible to hermetically seal this object. It has all what is needed for autonomically living - diesel generators, drinking water pump, complicated ventilation and air filtering room with climate controlling for all bunker.
Overall area of underground building - about 9600 square meters.
So...here comes the pictures!
Photos: KarlisKlotins, Mika
Entrance:
Hall of communication devices. Some remains of hardware.
Freezing devices. Its for keeping constant temperature in bunker.
Part of water supply system.
Air filtering system. Its here for keeping bunker suitable for living in cases of nuclear or biological disease.
Control panel of ventilation.
And little part of ventilation...
Power distribution room.
One of biggest surprises when we visited it at first was that theres still is electricity and we can turn the lights on.  This is picture of communication cross where the input communication cables were connected with communication hardware. Cables is stealed of course...
Manual commutator panel. This is place where is sitting operator and manually connecting input calls with destinations.
Its one of WTF things. 
One of greatest things at object - two fully saved 200kW diesel generators for autonomic power supplying in cases when external power shuts off.
Warning signs: "Do not turn on", "Attention electricity" and others.
Some kind of oldschool testing device...
And the new one.
And here we are closing the object when leaving. These doors is closing hermetically.
P.S. Sorry for my english...
[last edit 12/29/2008 3:25 PM by Vikings_LV - edited 1 times]
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JMSvenungson
 
Location: Sweden
Gender: Male
Its always funny until someone gets hurt, then its just hilarious.
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<Reply # 1 on 12/29/2008 3:00 PM >
| | | | Nice location, it makes me glad to see its so well preserved and not smashed. Really cool that you could actually turn on the lights, its as if one day everybody left work and the last one out locked the doors and never looked back.
Thanks for sharing and by the way, your english is fine.
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PhotoSeeker
   
Location: Sudbury
Gender: Male
MikeOnline
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<Reply # 2 on 12/29/2008 3:41 PM >
| | | | Welcome to UER. I enjoyed that post, and I look forward to seeing more.
Lots of Urban Exploration goodness at https://urbexobsession.com |
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Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 3 on 12/30/2008 12:38 PM >
| | | | Here is some pictures from diesel generator rooms of two non - abandoned underground bomb shelters.
Bomb shelters built under industrial or administrative buildings must have emergency exit. It means that underground tunnel that comes from shelter and ends in specific distance in small concrete box with small door. Its standard input into bomb shelters for trespassers. Sometimes emergency tunnel starts in shelters diesel room. Like in these two cases.
First - Shelter under active factory. Rest area of shelter (about 1000 square meters) is used as storeroom for old workbenches. I have seen pictures of these rooms, our fellows of other UE team been there.
OK, pictures.
Photos: KarlisKlotins, Spam
Emergency tunnel with locked hermetic doors at end.
Oh, if they're closed so we must find another entrance. We found it.
What did we found here? Perfectly saved standard 100kW diesel generator! Next to it we found test register of regular tests. Last test was about 20 years ago but it still stands as it was. It seems it's possible to still make it work.
Power distribution room:
And small room used as store for shelter opening tools. They're here if in time of war building ruins over the shelter and there is no other exit than break thru the ruins...
Heres another interesting story. These little orange boxes is individual first aid kits. It contains pills against radioactive, bacterial weapon efficacy, pills against vomit and little anti-pain syringe. And - pills against phosphor poisons. The last pills is narcotic and was stolen from most shelters about 20 years ago when Latvia leaved USSR and shelters became abandoned. I don't know cost of these pills but in every shelter they were six for every man to use the shelter in case of war or disease. (for example this shelter - 1200 man).
And here is another bomb shelter with similar diesel generator. We wanted to go further thru hermetic doors to shelter rooms but we were shocked when we saw that beyond the doors is storeroom of brand new home technics...
Emergency tunnel:
Generator:
Another view:
Boxes of gas masks. Every box contains 40 kits - gas mask, carbon air filter, special bag for carrying gas mask and special stickers against steaming of gas mask viewing glass. Pictures of gas masks will be other times. ;)
| Thanks for sharing and by the way, your english is fine. |
Thx. ;)
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NAN
  
Location: rochester NY
bathroom expert
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 4 on 12/30/2008 12:48 PM >
| | | | Awesome post and location. This place so so cool!
Through the darkness of future's past
The magician longs to see
Once chants out between two worlds Fire, walk with me |
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Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 5 on 12/30/2008 2:21 PM >
| | | | Today is the last working day in the year and no one of engineers at my work is doing something useful. So do i.
There are some pictures of former educational radars of aviation institute. They're in good condition.
Photos: KarlisKlotins
Tesla aviation radiophare. Similar device i saw working in one Moscow airport. Here it stands forgotten...
Two mobile radar stations. I heard a lot of horror stories about deaths and mutilations to people who accidentally entered working radar beam...
Cabin of one military radar. When i was there second time there was old man who was instructor when university was still working. He told us about military radar seen on next pictures. It can sense plane from 300m to 300km distance. Reflector is turning on high speed, it is about (as i remember) 100 turns per minute. For example airport radar speed is approx 30 - 50 turns per minute. All hardware in cabin is backuped for cases if something stops working.
To see that not all is good in Latvia next i'll post pictures from some bomb shelters in saaaad condition...
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Darkwolf
  
Mellow Moderator
Location: Florida... Again...
Gender: Male
I fix things!
| | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 7 on 12/30/2008 2:58 PM >
| | | | Breathtaking, Thank you for sharing it with us
DW
*Best Post Ever* any meetups to go to the malt plant? I'll join and be the first one over, so you know I'm not a cop. Also I'll bring beer. *DO NOT MESSAGE ME WITH ISSUES. PLEASE USE CONTACT A MODERATOR* |
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telefontubbie
Location: Latvia, Riga
Gender: Female
"No Trespassing" - It's an invitation!
| | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 8 on 12/30/2008 5:51 PM >
| | | | | Posted by rob666Awesome location. Prieka! |
I'm agreeably surprised about you saying "Cheers" in Latvian! Awwwww!
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Aleksandar
Location: United States
Gender: Male
your darkest shadow, my oldest friend; the world's become ashes, this is the end.
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<Reply # 9 on 12/30/2008 5:56 PM >
| | | | Awesome job! I am very impressed with your team. Great pictures, too.
Freedom breeds war; and Peace, slavery. So it shall be forevermore: Men who love freedom buy it with their lives, and lovers of peace with their freedom. |
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zero5four
Location: Southwest Florida
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 10 on 12/30/2008 6:20 PM >
| | | | You are my new hero... that place looks amazing!!! Thanks for sharing : D
gotta get in, before its gone forever |
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 11 on 12/30/2008 6:27 PM >
|  | | | Posted by teletubijs
I'm agreeably surprised about you saying "Cheers" in Latvian! Awwwww!
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Latvian friends!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob666/ |
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Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 12 on 12/30/2008 8:10 PM >
| | | | Thank you all. Hero? Remember that i'm not alone, we are team... And that Prieka made me surprised too. I'll continue tomorrow.
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Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 13 on 12/31/2008 1:43 PM >
| | | | Hi all in the last day of the year!
As i promised here comes the pictures of bomb shelter in bad condition. Let's look what water can do...
Photos: KarlisKlotins
It's our luck that somehow water in shelter is less than it was times ago. Its seen from dirty lines on the walls that level of water in shelter times ago was more than level of knees.
It's the central room of shelter. In case of disease people is sitting here. On the background you can see old gas mask boxes and rusted chairs.
Gas masks GP-5. One of most widespread civil gas masks in USSR. Carbon filter not installed.
And the same gas masks floating in water...
Here comes some "rusty" pictures. For example petrol lamps.
Identical diesel generator as seen in previous pictures.
And the cine projector!
Here comes some pictures of civil guard equipment found in this shelter.
This is chemical exploration kit. It's here if happens chemical war. Kit contains something seen in chemistry at school - little air pump, cloth filters, fillers and other stuff. And few ampules with substances which changes color when reacts with poison gases. When bombing ends few people walks out from shelter and tests air with radiation testers and these kits. Its the best kit we found in this shelter but we will continue searching and i'll post pictures if [when] we'll found this kit in good condition in other shelter.
And these are the ampules which is used to test air for poison gases.
Here comes another interesting thing. I think all we know that gas masks and respirators just clean outer air from dust and dangerous substances. In the picture is seen one quite rare thing - oxygen regenerative filter for closed breathing equipment. It means that man who uses it is not breathing cleaned air but CO2 which man breaths out is getting thru this filter, chemical reaction is going on, C stays in filter and out of filter comes clean O2 - oxygen to breathe. Of course it is not working forever but for about 1,5 hours. The rest of breathing equipment i'll show another time.
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Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 14 on 12/31/2008 2:34 PM >
| | | | Underground automation.
Photos of our last mad trespassing night. This was best trespassing of all, all actions was more coordinated than other times. This place is automation control unit of some important infrastructure and one rooms is used as former civil guard storeroom. Now we get only in two opened doors. But lately i met some lock picker guy and we'll probably visit this place with him. It's just irresistible wish for me to see automation rooms, diesel generator and other techno stuff
Photos: Cucumber
Checking for motion sensors at entrance.
It's clear, going further thru some hermetic doors.
Fellow Spam is studying civil guard posters.
Posters they show how to use individual protection equipment - gas masks, respirators, first aid kits, how to clean cars from radioactive dust, how shelters are built and how to find them in civil guard alarm.
Happy new year!
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JMSvenungson
Location: Sweden
Gender: Male
Its always funny until someone gets hurt, then its just hilarious.
| | | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 15 on 12/31/2008 3:35 PM >
| | | | I love the one with the gas-masks in the water. It looks kind of eerie.
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Zee Ninetynine
Location: RIX vs LDN
hunting my sanity
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<Reply # 16 on 1/11/2009 3:47 PM >
| | | | yup, the floating gas masks just made my day
there's plenty to explore in Latvia still, big up fellow explorers!
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sensei
Location: Brussels
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 17 on 1/23/2009 9:55 PM >
| | | | looks very nice, In march I'm going to study in Latvia for 4 months.
I' m sure there will be many interesting things to see
life, it's a candy with a red hot chili pepper filling inside (Emir Kusturica) |
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Vikings_LV
Location: Latvia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 18 on 1/29/2009 10:17 AM >
| | | | This is the best bomb shelter we have visited. It's closed now but there is hope to get in there another time. Sad is the fact that it's gonna be destroyed soon.
Photos: KarlisKlotins
Entrance:
Ventilation:
Rooms:
Another stuff :
TecH:
Teletype:
Diesel:
Last night we have been in another interesting object, soon i'll post some photos.
Sensei - just give us a sign, we'll show you something interesting. ;)
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Quarantine
Location: Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: Military/Industrial/Civil guard objects ir Latvia.
<Reply # 19 on 2/9/2009 3:11 AM >
| | | | Thank you so much for sharing! Great locations, much more preserved than the Cold-War remnants left on this side of the Atlantic!
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