Outspoken Poet's Blog

Imagine we are foreign intelligence service agents and we spy for Russian military bases. Just a few years ago it was impossible, not to mention how it was impossible during the iron curtain era. But now thanks to google we can see all the top secret Russian objects clearly on those shots.
Russia still stays very militarized country.
If to explore with Google earth just a small part of it, the Murmansk region (one of many of Russian regions) which is located next to Norway and Finland, we can meet tens of military objects, mainly Russian Navy ones.
Here they are:


All the locations on these shots as have been said are from Murmansk region.
This one is Olenegorsk, Russian air force base. Those are not just fighters, those are strategic bombers.

Murmansk itself, abandoned navy ships.

Murmansk. Nuclear-powered ice-breaker in the dock.

Kola Bay, near Murmansk, small town “Poliarniy”, oil-tanker “Belokamenka”. One of the largest oil tankers in the world. It is 100 feet tall (as ten stores building).

It is more than 1000 ft long (340 metres), width 200 ft (65 metres), it transports 4 millions tons of oil each year.

Severomorsk. Ships of Russian Northern Navy. The sixth from the left is the biggest ship in the Russian Northern Navy - nuclear-powered cruiser “Kirov”.


Russian submarines.

Different types of Russian submarines.

Russian S-300 (SA-10) long range surface-to-air missiles. The same ones as Russia now exports to Iran. We had a few months ago an article about an inflatable version of those missiles - the ones that can fool the from-air observer.

Another abandoned ship near Murmansk.

More Russian submarines. It is the home base of legendary “Kursk” submarine, the one which got sank a few years ago near Murmansk and whole crew died, because the rescue team has not come in time. Take a not on the submarine to the right - it is split to two parts, probably this is a bug of google photos.

And even more abandoned Russian Navy ships.

Some unidentified Navy object a few miles from the shore.

All the submarines we have seen before were children toys in comparisson with those. Those are sisters of the already mentioned “Kursk” submarine. 500 ft long, 60 ft high. They say it can sweep major USA cities of the ground.

Those are previously top-secret “Taifun” class submarines. The biggest nuclear-powered submarines in the world. They could carry up to 200 missiles.

Here are them from a more distant perspective. “Taifuns” from the left and “949A” (”Kursk sisters”) from the left.

This is the storage for a used nuclear fuel.

Gremiha. Empty nuclear missiles wells.


Gremiha. Under this cape there is another underground submarine base and from these road two tunnels lead inside.

Kovdor. A hidden mountain.

Allakurti. Military base.

Allakurti, same military base.

All those shots are from the area notso big, but so densily populated with military objects. Guess how many more there are across vast Russian Federation.
Thanks for the descriptive explanations to Makseem Kananenka.