Secret Russian Encampment
Tuesday, 27th May 2008 by Alex Turnbull
Hidden away in the forests of western Russia, is a highly suspicious-looking collection of buildings which have never been place-marked by the Google Earth Community, and don't seem to have ever been mentioned on the web.
The buildings are all exactly the same size (around 30m long), are identically spaced, and point in an identical direction. They're likely to be impossible to see from the ground due to the dense forest, but the perimeter is marked by a road all the way round. Some of the buildings are missing however - several appear to have recently collapsed, and others have become completely overgrown.
There's a small branch railway that services this place from a depot in the nearest village, Semrino, and the nearest village with a Russian Wikipedia page is Susanin, just to the south. None of this information turned up any answers unfortunately.
Alexei, our multi-lingual author of Google Sightseeing Italiano who also speaks Russian, investigated further and turned up this contact page which describes the area as an active army "reserve" - which he says means a strategic reserve stock of food, arms or anything else that might be required in case of emergency...
Despite the general state of repair of the place, Alexei informs us that it's still very much active and is under 24 hour armed surveillance!
Thanks to ilya and Alexei.
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It’s probably an ammunitions depot. The buildings have a certain distance from each other so in case something goes wrong in one of them it won’t blow up the whole depot. NATO had and has lots of those all over Europe too.
See e.g. View Placemark (49.831561,7.111459) (formerly largest US depot in Europe, now defunct) (Ground level images)
Very much reminds me of DSDA Kineton near Gaydon UK. Rural location, small branch line etc etc Its also Western Europe’s biggest arms dump and is about 200 yards from the M40 motorway!
View Placemark
There is no proof here that those were not built by aliens. None.
What do they mean by “arms”? Is it just small arms like Rifles, Grenades etc or is it much bigger, like including missiles and tanks and the like?
These remind me of the munitions depot mounds at Midewin in Illinois:
View Placemark
The mounds there are concrete bunkers that have been covered on three sides with dirt:
http://www.wirelesscouch.net/~cluening/files/midewin1.jpg http://www.wirelesscouch.net/~cluening/files/midewin2.jpg
Looks like a smaller version of several places here in the states that used to be and some still are active weapons depots where chemical weapons are stored.
One word… Zombies…
Secret storage area where they are creating and collecting armies of the undead to unleash on the masses… Biological war fare at it’s finest.
We also have them in Italy (though it might be pig farming…
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=43.301836,11.654756&z=16
The trees are also a hint it could be an arms depot – they would help to stifle a blast. The 24 hour surveillance is quite standard and rather essential considering how many Russian weapons were stolen after the end of the cold war when they abandoned a lot of military bases.
Been there, seen it. Absolutely clear – there they do hide very secret and very dangerous weapons of mass distraction. And it’s highly possible they are hiding Osama right over there.
Some say the military have already established 24 hours surveillance over all of the Googlesightseeing blog readers. Think for yourself but I’m extremely anxious about it.
i think they will find us with KGB agents and kill us all for founding this location.. OMG
I hear that if you are being tracked by the KGB, a satellite will appear by your name.
Oh MY GOD! YOU HAVE IT!!
RUN TO THE HILLS!!!
it could be one of Stalins ‘camps’
LOL …
That´s a animalfarm ….
And why would they keep the barns for the animals separate like that? It’s very likely munitions … either storage or manufacture. In either situation they like to keep buildings separate so a mishap in one doesn’t blow the whole operation to kingdom come. Here’s the former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bishopton: View Placemark and here’s a depot in Germany: View Placemark the lower left part is a shooting range, the central part held (holds?) ‘regular’ munitions and the heavily wooded (and largest) area at the top right held stuff too ‘special’ for the German military to guard …
@ mulimullu saying: That´s [an] animalfarm ….
HAHAH, yes… That’s an animal farm from 1984, to be exact.
The train depot in the nearby town is very large considering the small size of the Town. https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=59.535624,30.382862&z=15
Here is the toxic sludge they are manufacturing to create the Zombie Army https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=59.53737,30.39579&z=18
Could be one of Stalin’s camps…
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1305
This place was meant to keep ppl out not in. its very obvious it has a really good perimeter. 30m of exposed area outside of the facility. in that 30m a primary, secondary and tertiary entanglements have been set to slow down ppl trying to gain access from the outside. although these entanglements can only be seen on the eastern perimeter due to heavy overgrowth of maybe old plants they are evenly separated in a text book military manner. if looking into the facility from the outside behind the entanglements is a chain link fence and then a road. This is the outer rim road used by a roving watch in a vehicle to watch the outside perimeter. Due to the absence of guard towers or fallen buildings on the corners inside or outside of the facility you can probably rule out an “encampment”. They where definitely guarding something. On the top right corner is a guard shack and formal gate to the facility, Which possibly couldn’t have held more than 10-15 guards, not enough to hold ppl or lol zombies in :-). But my realistic guess is more like 2-4 guards at the gate and an additional 2 to drive the perimeter periodically looking for intruders. Due to its condition though and the fact that all the entanglements are no longer in place and overgrown this facility has long been abandoned as an operational military facility.
on closer examination this is definitely a munitions depot. all buildings are at least 80m apart and have a shallow mount built around them to suppress any blast from reaching another storage unit. Typically a larger cordon area is needed for large munitions. Which leads me to believe its small arms munitions 7.62mm, rockets, rpg’s, grenades. The largest munition i could envision being there is 82mm mortars due to the spacing and the size of the berm around each building. If there are armed guards still there they are guarding ammo and lots of it.Theres nothing serious there though like wmd’s or gas cuz theres not enough covering the buildings i.e. concrete, dirt, large amounts of metal from contamination leaking out. It would be irresponsible for them to store stuff like that in a place like this.