Underground naval museum complex "Balaklava."
the time allotted for inspection tourist facility 1:00
Getting there
- A former underground factory is located on the western shore of the bay. From the area of 1st May move, skirting the bay, past the Balaklava Mine Group, a Taurian waterfront. Distance - 4 miles. The car can be left at the entrance to the museum.
Excursion to Balaklava start with a look exhibition of naval museum complex "Balaklava," The museum complex was created in 2003 as a branch of the Central Museum of Armed Forces of Ukraine. In an underground room, which previously housed the plant to repair submarines, designed the exhibition, which reflect the military history of Balaklava, the naval base and an underground factory, as well as the history of submarine and surface fleet of the country, the activities of the naval armed forces of Ukraine.
A former underground factory is arcuate channel, hewn into the mountain Psili-Rahi. The length of the canal - about 500 meters, depth - 8 meters. A unique underground complex was created during the "Cold War" and was intended to shelter and repair of submarines. Just a shelter could be placed seven submarines.
The complex was isolated from the outside world. His defense to withstand a direct hit by an atomic bomb up to 100 kilotons. With the threat of nuclear attack in the galleries of the plant could hide a few thousand people.
Log in to the dock was closed with a special device, caisson. After the service and repair of a submarine coming out of an underground channel from the opposite side of the cliff. This output is at the end Tauris waterfront, close to the exit of the bay. Once he had also been carefully disguised.
Several years ago, plant declassified - modern submarines are too large to fit in the dock. In a unique underground room has earned a museum - like nothing on earth, amazing imagination monument of the "cold war".
Underground naval museum complex "Balaklava"
st. Taurian embankment, 22
Tel. +38 0692 637590, 637 592
Opening hours: from 10.00 to 17.00
Summer: 10.00 - 19.00
On the west bank of the Balaklava Bay survived several historic buildings. Among them - giving the mining engineer A. Zavadsky, "Fata Morgana,". A beautiful palace with elements of oriental architecture, unfortunately, has lost almost all the decorative details on the bend of the bay swept the former "hunting lodge" Yusupov. Yusupov was bogateyshymi nobles of Russia, they owned several estates in the Crimea, including this little house on the beach in Balaklava
