I have to start this with.. for the life of me I can't remember where I've read this... but I do remember reading about a supposed "facility" in the Far East (people often mistakenly call this part of Russia "Siberia") that essentially housed equipment for an invasion of the US during the cold war.

Now, I'm not too sure about the practicality of a cross Bering Sea invasion, but for #s and giggles I love searching places like the RFE on Google Earth. Have found a lot of interesting stuff and it has me curious.

Has anyone else heard of any such related facility? I'm wracking my brain to try and remember where I've heard this claim.

Originally posted by 21cdb
I have to start this with.. for the life of me I can't remember where I've read this... but I do remember reading about a supposed "facility" in the Far East (people often mistakenly call this part of Russia "Siberia") that essentially housed equipment for an invasion of the US during the cold war.

Now, I'm not too sure about the practicality of a cross Bering Sea invasion, but for #s and giggles I love searching places like the RFE on Google Earth. Have found a lot of interesting stuff and it has me curious.

Has anyone else heard of any such related facility? I'm wracking my brain to try and remember where I've heard this claim.

I guess that probably they didn't and don't have such "one-stop" facility, base or closed city which houses the entire equipment, forces and resources for full scale war. There are lots of information about many different facities/bases/closed cities scattered across Russia which each one of them operates on it's own field - for example nuclear R&D, armored vechiles R&D, space technology R&D etc. So in case of a war, they would just gather the needed forces/technology/weapons etc across Russia to where it is needed.

Russia has it's Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok, near the Bering Sea.

Btw, have you heard about Mount Yamantaw (or Yamantau / гора Ямантау) ?