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Old January 7th 06, 09:30 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Default Mystery abandoned military site at Baykonur





The site photofile.ru is full of hundreds of
thousands of images posted by Russians
on all subjects.

More than a thousand of the pictures are
in and around Baykonur -- the city and
the cosmodrome. "SergKhan", for example,
seems to have imaged every major building
in the entire city.

A guy with the screen name 'Breugel' has several sets.
One particularly fascinating sequence is he
http://photofile.ru/album.php?id=484347

It shows an 'abandoned military installation"
about half an hour's drive into the steppe
from the cosmodrome. 34 photos. The facility
was apparently abandoned in September 1991.

Walls, gates, empty barracks, etc... I'd sure
like folks with military experience to make some
guesses about the installation's purpose,
whether it might be associated with the
now-abandoned SAM sites, or even nuclear
weapons storage.

There's a trick to getting the hi-res image
sometimes. When you click on the
thumbnail and only get a drawing of a camera,
scroll down until you see the option
???????????? ??????
(Originalniy razmer -- original scale)
and click it. The hi-res image appears
in a pop-up.