MOSCOW. May 18 (Interfax) - Military engineers of the Russian Defense Ministry have completed the large-scale refurbishment of a museum of fortifications with an underground submarine harbor and dry dock in Balaklava Bay, Sevastopol, Crimea.
"Today, inside the unique hydro-technical facility, an opening ceremony took place for a new exposition of the museum complex. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov and Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozzhayev attended the event," the ministry stated on Tuesday.
The engineers recreated and reconstructed all main clusters, developed a new concept for the functioning of funds and created a 3D map. Previously, they only consisted of wall banners, stands and glass showcases with exhibits.
Adding to the special atmosphere of an authentic 20th century nuclear bunker are modern multimedia technologies, light and sound and design solutions and the original installations using genuine exhibits and artifacts.
"Now visitors to 'Object 825' can learn about the history of the creation of a previously secret site, its life-sustaining systems, repair work in the dry dock," the statement said.
The museum contains a restored collection of interesting historical details, including a 1980s map of Soviet submarine bases, an operating model of the powerful defensive gates, a mock-up of the Balaklava underground complex with dynamic lighting of the life-sustaining system and a fuel supply plan, the ministry said.
The zone titled 'The life-sustaining systems of a nuclear bunker' contains devices and museum exhibits about life-preserving systems with information and drawings for each of the systems. The Security Zone has on display a digital radiation meter, an airtight sliding door, the transport hub for the torpedo part of submarine armament with a recreated turntable for torpedo transportation, and an installation with a real-life torpedo on a railcar.
There is a glass showcase with mock-up diesel-electric submarines, a screw propeller hung on a cathead with an operation diagram of a dry dock repair workshop, 1960s-style posters about the destructive factors of a nuclear explosion, infographics of the speed of proliferation of a blast wave and movement of transport vehicles. Also refurbished are the zone titled 'Entering the postern of a nuclear arsenal' and a 'Crime against humanity' exhibition about America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the statement said.
The secret underground naval base was created in the middle of last century to service submarines and was capable of withstanding a direct hit by a 100-kiloton nuclear bomb, equivalent to five Hiroshima attacks.