Yamantau
On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported on a mysterious military base being constructed in Russia. Deep in the Ural Mountains of Russia its
reported lies a massive underground base. Called by some Russia's Area 51 this complex is located inside Yamantau mountain in the Beloretsk area of
the southern Urals.
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U.S. satellite photograph of the Yamantau Mountain [left] region was taken on Oct. 16, 1997. Clearly recognizable signs of excavation can be seen at
the areas marked Yamantau Mountain and Mezhgorye. Two above-ground support cities, each housing 30,000 workers, are located at Beloretsk and
Tirlyanskiy.
The Yamantau Mountain complex is located close to one of Russia's remaining nuclear weapons labs,
Chelyabinsk-70. Two entire cities have been
constructed over the site, known as
Beloretsk 15 & 16 which are closed to the public, each with 30,000 workers. No foreigner has ever set foot
near the site. Some people estimate as much as 6 billion dollars have been pumped into the Yamantau complex alone by Russia and that it spans some 400
square miles.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett is one of a small group of people in congress who closely follow the Yamantau complex. Here are some quotes of his on the
Topic.
The only potential use for this site is post-nuclear war..." --- Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Yamantau Mountain is the largest nuclear-secure project in the world... They have very large train tracks running in and out of it, with enormous
rooms carved inside the mountain. It has been built to resist a half dozen direct nuclear hits, one after the other in a direct hole. It's very
disquieting that the Russians are doing this when they don't have $200 million to build the service module on the international space station and
can't pay housing for their own military people," ---Rep. Bartlett.
In 1998 then-Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Gen. Eugene Habinger, called Yamantau-
a very large complex -- we estimate that it has millions of square feet available for underground facilities. We don't have a clue as to what
they're doing there."
So why was this complex created and what goes on there? Neither the C.I.A or the Defense Intelligence agency will comment on what the Russians are
doing at Yamantau. Speculation have it being everything from a "doomsday" shelter, part of Russia's infamous `Dead Hand' nuclear retaliatory
command to things far more sinister.
I would like to hear peoples opinions on this complex and perhaps their theories on what goes on there.
www.globalsecurity.org...
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4_s96004.htm
many times more
massive then the Cheyenne Mountian Complex. What could they need all that room for? 
