A photo from open sources
A year ago, one could go down here. And the “tour” looked like that. We leave the forest, we come across a huge metal hangar. Local residents have already worked on it: sheets of iron in many places are removed, and in some places hang out on one honestly and ominously rumble. We enter the hangar and see that once upon a time there was a grand construction. Armature, rails, crane, red elevator car and finally huge gaping in concrete emptiness, mine, going deep underground. Shaky a metal staircase that creaks and walks underfoot, like on hinged, get down – floor by floor. Open the doors some of which are almost new, still in grease. On some doors you can make out the date: 1987. In the corridors and rooms – tons of rust equipment that eventually was not mounted. Minus 9th floor. Underfoot are dead numb frogs. But this is not the most bottom. The handrails of the stairs go into the ice – two more floors below … We used to think that permafrost is about Siberia, Antarctica or Greenland. But few people know that near Volkovysk there is a town in Western Belarus – there is a place where ice does not melt even at the very Hot Summer. Here is the unfinished underground command point of the combined armed forces of the Warsaw Treaty countries.
Two ten-story buildings would fit in the bunker Volkovysk, in the southeast of the Grodno region, is one of the most mysterious Soviet military facilities since the Cold War. There are legends about what this bunker is like. By to some of them, here in the case of the third world war was supposed to there is all the supreme command of the Eastern bloc: supposedly the bunker had to withstand a direct hit by a nuclear warhead. A someone believes that this is the so-called empty target, which created to confuse a potential adversary. Foe released missile, hit the KP (command post), aiming at the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Bloc – But There Is No One at the Communist Party! .. In 1984 in the tract Shadilki Svisloch region began a huge construction site. 
A photo from open sources – Freight trains with different building materials. And a lot of people worked, – says former deputy chairman of the regional executive committee Alexander Kolodko. Rumors circulated in the surrounding villages: Shadilki is being built secret military facility. Popular rumor was not mistaken – huge metal hangar measuring 160 by 40 meters and 24 meters high hid the construction of a grand bunker. Two went to the ground vertical trunk with a diameter of 32 and a depth of 62 meters (these are two ten-story buildings – see diagram). The bunker has 11 inputs and outputs of different destination – for the passage of people, for air intake and exhaust, for fuel lines and cable channels. Naturally, in the case of attacks provided for complete autonomy: inside wanted put a diesel power station, and arrange an underground fuel storage. Near the bunker they dug a mine for giant retractable telescopic antenna. – At the time when I I visited there, only people who had access to this object could special permission, says Alexander Kolodko. – To the very bottom we did not go down the floor – it was very dangerous. Most I remember the door with the sign “Gorbachev” – it seems the point Commander-in-Chief of the USSR troops was on the 3rd floor. Besides In addition, there were many offices for other managers. – Of money spent a lot on this business, – the builder from Vylkovysk says. – On the they could build a whole residential neighborhood. Digger closed access At the very beginning of the 90s the construction was still in full swing, a year – and command post would go on line. Even managed to deliver a secret equipment, its adjustment began. But the August happened putsch, the Soviet Union orders to live long, and with it – and “construction of the century.” The military unit serving the facility was disbanded, the triple ring of protection was removed, and since 1993 the usual hangar staff began to guard the secret hangar – grannies and grandfathers in short fur coats with Mosin rifles. Such a guard against theft didn’t save: according to local residents, everything of value was stolen in during the first years. And from January 1, 2009, due to lack of funds the security of the bunker was completely removed. The local population attacked unfortunate bunker with renewed vigor: they began to carry away everything that somehow may be needed on the farm. Another headache for the authorities became fans of underground extreme. Loved to go down deep and locals, and diggers from Russia. They say that in 2010 in several people crashed into the bunker. And soon the bunker is completely closed to outsiders. Workers covered the trunks with concrete slabs – and walled up all the manholes.
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