A Soviet Shelter
This is a shelter back from the Soviet Era and Cold War when every house had a shelter nearby in case of America attacking. Most of the things there are 20-30 years old, including the batteries, lamps etc. The glass retorts with different chemicals were used for testing the air on the surface and determining the type of attack - different chemicals indicated different type of attack: nuclear, chemical, biochemical etc.
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cool! where is it? 11111
WoW! I´ve bought myself a Geiger counter like that on the 16th photo!
No that is not Geiger counter,that is Gas detector.I collect myself this piece of history.now they are just junk, but once the cold war was at peak ,these gadgets were so valuable.difference between life and death……………
It IS a Geiger counter in photo 16. Gas detector is in the next one, and in Photo 14, those are total dose received meters, an equivalent of radiation badges. Heh, those soviet Civil Defence classes in middle school weren’t a TOTAL waste of time.
What’s Ka[v,l]is.ru? Neither kalis nor kavis .ru exists.
Fantastic set of photos I really enjoyed them…
We can all laugh about the Cold War.
I dont think Cold War should ever be laughed at. On the contrary, we should always remember what happened, learn for our mistakes and reject any temptation to start a new one.
Peace
I love you all!
It looks like your atomic bomb shelters were better stocked than ours. All the photos I’ve ever seen of American shelters showed boxes of stale crackers, water, canned food and gas masks.
Here’s to the end of the Cold War - may we never repeat it, or start a Hot War.
Those darn Americans!
Amazing to find one in such condition. I would have thought that by now all the neighborhood shelters would have been looted, flooded, or turned into nightclubs.
сууууууууууукааааааааааааааав жёлтых аптечках ТАРЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭН!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fear of attack from capitalist evil,is the reason behind all of these.
I hope you lose some sleep because we are coming to invade next week.
Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh really?
only someone from Texas can say such a stupid thing
You know president numnuts is from Texas, too.
We’ll be armed and ready. Come get some.
Anyone else notice the Nazi SS lightning bolts in picture 12
yeah i noticed it too. wtf?
Looked like the photographer used his finger to write SS in the dust.
Maybe the are Kiss fans.
Maybe is only a 44 signed to number the objects…
All that stuff should sell well on Ebay.
By the way, what are all the keys for? Cells for keeping evil capitalist revisionist in?
Please clarify - I got very frightened looking at these photos!
You wrote:
“The glass retorts with different chemicals were used for testing the air on the surface and determining the type of attack - different chemicals indicated different type of attack: nuclear, chemical, biochemical etc.”
Does this refer to the group of photos showing an open hinged wooden case with 20 sealed test tubes? When I saw these photos, I thought that they were (are) actual samples of dangerous materials, ranging from the not-fatal-but-annoying CS gas (tear gas) to the insanely dangerous VX Gas, which if actually used on the battlefield, would probably trigger a nuclear response. Reading the captions, you can see the following:
CS, CN - tear gasses (CN is more serious)
http://www.zarc.com/english/tear_gases/cn-main.html
BZ - a superhallucinogen comparable to LSD on steroids
http://www.levity.com/aciddreams/samples/bz.html
Adamsite (DM) - vomiting/choking agent
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/byname/cbrne—vomiting-agents–dm-da-dc.htm
Chloropicrin - a World War I -era chemical weapon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloropicrin
Yperite (HD, H) - Mustard Gas (also WWI-era)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas
Hydrogen Cyanide (AC) - Cyanide gas
Sarin (GB) - Insanely dangerous nerve agent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
VX - INSANELY INSANELY dangerous nerve agent!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_%28nerve_agent%29
Now… are these substances DETECTORS for the above-mentioned chemicals, or are they the ACTUAL chemicals themselves? If they are dectectors, I suppose I can rest easy, although how would they be used? In the event of an attack (God forbid), you would take this box outside, break every single tube open, and any reactions (or non-reactions) would tell you what the attack was? Does this make sense? Efficient?
My fear is that these are actual samples to be used for research purposes. Where were these photos taken? Is this a special command & control civil defense bunker, or does this represent the typcial Soviet-era CD bunker? In other words, can you find this box of chemicals in every bunker in Moscow? If these are actual chemicals, you need to tell the proper authorities IMMEDIATELY, so they can be secured. If they are real, the photographer is lucky he didn’t drop the box or touch the wrong thing.
I hope I’m over-reacting… please tell me these are just detectors, and “v’syo boodyet OK”…
If I am guessing right, those tubes are not samples, but rather mock-ups of indicator tubes: what the tube would look like if exposed to a specific agent.
…either that, or those are mock-ups of actual agents for training purposes: even in Russia (especially in Russia) gov’t would be wary about those things falling into hands of the population. In that regard, a story from my youth: a bunch of delinquents liberated a similar sealed tube from high school chemistry classroom. It was on display, which claimed it to be butane. Yet, when they tried to set it on fire, no such luck: it didn’t smell, it wouldn’t burn and it acted sufficiently like a polar solvent to conclude that the liquid was, in fact, water (for the record, I wasn’t involved with actual “liberation”, only testing afterwards). Good thinking: why use the real thing when a safer substitute would do. My guess those samples are close cousins to that “butane”.
I suspect they may be ’simulants’ so that if one encountered unexploded or poorly dispersed munitions, one could tell what they were. IE, compare the tube to the powder on the ground, or the color of the haze.
Interesting! reminds me of my one neighbors “fallout shelter” in the late 1970’s except it had more weapons and ammunition than food or water! What a putz!
In the US there’s lots of these, except on a much smaller scale. Any public school built in during the cold war has a fallout shelter. In high school the theater kids used to go down there to smoke pot, as the entrance was a hatch towards the back of the stage in the audotorium.
In my elementary school, there was this unexplained hatch in the gym on the side of the basketball court, that was the entrance. Same with middle school.
I don’t know if they had Geiger counters or a selection of chemicals… but they had provisions and such.
I don’t really think so, we got the standard hide under our desk training but I was never taken to a shelter and there were no public shelters available anywhere except universities. however looking at them these days none of them would have survived even a nearby hit. I’m pretty sure the reason they stopped building them for the public is no one was expected to survive a full on attack. or even more perversely no one who saw the damage in japan WANTED to survive.
eh… maybe it was just my area, in New England they are very common.
In that small first aid set on 2 and 9 pics there is so called ФОВ wich anti-poisoning chemical, it supposed to be taken after any kind of poisoning. But when we where kids we used to find many of those orange kits and take it to trip out, it is very strong hallucinogen, lasting for 5-6 hours, but if you are drunk and take one that pill you will become sober INSTANTLY like nothing ever happend before, no wonder why on pic 9 one ФОВ (FOV) pill pack (about 6 pills in each) is missing
i believe that all the chemicals in the tubes are actual chemicals.
i live in Estonia, Russia occupied it after WW2 and there still are crates with all kinds of stuff around our country, so sometimes kids find these crates and give the pills and stuff they find, to their classmates and stuff like that…
There are narcotics and stuff inside, that were used against radiation back in days…
Also some find very poisonous powders, liquids and other shit like that…
Grownups report to police immediately but kids tend to play with them, that could have a sad ending…
It’s amazing to think about all the production and work that must have taken place to create places like those……..all for nothing.
In Soviet Russia they had these well thought out and stocked bunkers and in America they had some crackers and taught the kids to hide under the desk when the bomb hits?
Because in the case of a FULL NUCLEAR exchange, full blown shelters like this would be utterly useless in the end. There would be no survivors in any major city. Smaller towns in the countryside probably would only suffer minor contamination, so food and water for the near term would probably be all that is required.
Of course, even then, the USSR and USA had enough nukes at the height of the cold war to essentially kill each other off over 100x over.
Anything beyond a severely limited nuclear exchange, survival would be nil.
Nice. I think if u will open that shelter as a museum, so youll get some cash :). But im just wondering,that were this place is??
This shows that USSR really cared about its citizens. Show me something like that in the USA?
I know that there was a secret shelter in London undeground, but never heard that it had that much medicine, special cloth etc.
Those FOV pills are disgusting - once me and 2 other guys took two pills on each of us and the only thing I was hoping all the time was that the high ends, it’s annoying…
Great job of urss forces.
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