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Bunker "Feodosia-13" is a rare and little–known landmark, an abandoned military facility. It is also called "object 712a", "object 7b", "object 7a", "Enterprise postal code 105", but which of them is correct, now probably no one will figure out.
To be honest, it can be difficult to call this place a "landmark", because this is not an official tourist site, but a really abandoned military storage facility. But the fact that this is an intriguing, mysterious and secret place is a fact. We will not say that it is definitely worth visiting during your vacation in the Crimea, but if you have already seen everything from popular attractions, like non-tourist places and climb "abandoned buildings", then it's definitely worth coming here.
The bunker is located 20 kilometers from Sudak and 40 from Feodosia, respectively, and it is most convenient to visit it from these and neighboring resorts, and how, we will tell you at the end of the article. In addition to the bunker, the Kiziltash Stefano-Sourozh Monastery and the Church of Seraphim of Sarov are located in the same area, it makes sense to combine their visits.
In fact, the bunker we are talking about, which is actually accessible today, is only a small part of a large secret facility. It is a through tunnel, i.e. enter from one side, exit from the other. The length of 150 meters, i.e. the whole of it can be completed in a matter of minutes. But there are still several rooms inside, together with them it will take about 15 minutes to inspect. But, to be honest, being in it is not very pleasant, even creepy.
Now it is completely abandoned, there is a mess and garbage lying around inside, the air is musty and probably filled with harmful mold. Also, there are a lot of flying insects, just a whole swarm, especially at the entrance. Therefore, when visiting, a mask will not hurt at all, at least an ordinary medical gauze.
History and legends of the bunker
Bunker "Feodosia 13" or object 7b is one of the most secret places of the Soviet period in the Crimea, so there is not much reliable information about it. From fragmentary data and stories of local residents on the Internet, a certain picture of the history of this place has developed, but it is difficult to say which of this is true and which is fiction. Therefore, we will tell you everything that we managed to find and learn, and what to believe, decide for yourself:
The history of "Feodosia 13" began in 1950, when the Council of Ministers of the USSR decided to create central bases for the production and storage of nuclear weapons, and decided to create one of these bases in the Crimea in the thickness of Mount Kiziltash near the village of Krasnokamenka. In general, there are a lot of contradictions in this part of the information: it is called "object 712a", "object 712", "object 7b", "object 7a" or even "Enterprise postal code 105". But this is most likely due to the fact that according to some information there were several such objects here, at least 3. Moreover, some bloggers say that this bunker is located near the Kiziltash Stefano-Sourozh Monastery, where another operating unclassified facility is now located. But this is probably because these storytellers have simply never been here.
But back to the story. The construction of the facility began in 1951, and prisoners were involved in it. They say that some of the prisoners at the end of their terms remained at the facility in the service units of the enterprise. Although it sounds very doubtful, but who knows.
The facility was built on a very large scale, using the most modern equipment and the best specialists from all over the USSR. In a short time by 1955, the facility was ready. A two-kilometer tunnel was pierced in the rock, comparable in size to the tunnels of the Moscow metro. There was a twenty-meter-long atomic bomb assembly hall under the mountain, where each room was equipped with its own microclimate control system. The complex had an external power plant, but even if it was completely destroyed by an explosive wave, the situation could be saved by autonomous diesel generators located inside the facility.
The Kiziltash Stefano-Sourozh Monastery, which at that time had already been closed for a long time, got into the construction area. By order of the head of the NKVD Lavrentia Beria, all the buildings of the monastery were blown up. However, it should be noted here that the bunker, which we are talking about now and which is accessible to the public, is located away from the main construction site, and in all likelihood has nothing to do with the destruction of the monastery.
After the collapse of the USSR, the Crimean Peninsula was ceded to Ukraine, which renounced its nuclear status, respectively, the need for a storage facility disappeared. In 1994, the "Top secret" stamp was removed, and in 1996 the nuclear contents of the bunker were taken to the Russian Federation. For some time the facility was used by Ukrainian troops, and then it was completely abandoned.
For some reason (probably due to mismanagement), this bunker was not mothballed and not destroyed, so metal seekers visited here for some time. As a result, all the remaining "insides" of the booker were gutted into metal, only walls, debris and two sealing doors remained inside.
There is no information about the purpose of this particular bunker available for visiting, and perhaps it was used simply to store fuel and lubricants or ammunition.
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Around the clock.
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Free of charge.
🚶 How to get there
Bunker Feodosia 13 or "object 7a" is located near the village of Krasnokamenka in Feodosia, 40 kilometers from the center, even closer here from Sudaka, only 16 kilometers (bunker on the map). You can get here only by your own transport, there are no excursions and public transport here.
There is an asphalt road almost all the way to the bunker, but the last couple of kilometers are very bad. In principle, you can drive any car, you just need to drive slowly and carefully so as not to get into the pits on the asphalt. Navigator and Yandex maps perfectly "know" the route here, so just follow the navigator to the point from our map, and you will get exactly to the place almost to the very entrance to the tunnel. You can drive up here both from the village of Krasnokamenka and through a Forest Glade, but from Krasnokamenka there is a shorter section of bad road.
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