The details of the campaign could have been somewhat different, but the 534th had to go into both secret arctic bases located in the deep rear of the USSR /

Moreover, after returning from the Arctic, U-S34 was planned to travel to the shores of Argentina, and possibly Antarctica to participate in the Tierra del Fuego special operation (according to one version, the delivery of some important cargo or some officials to secret bases South America). Perhaps the performers of the aforementioned performance with doubles?

The lost submarine was found by Danish scuba divers back in 1977. After its inspection, some of the preserved ship documents told about the route of the campaign and the loading of certain boxes of special cargo on board. But this cargo was not on the submarine!

What was in them and who was supposed to receive the special cargo on Severnaya Zemlya remained a mystery. Only in the early 90s was it possible to establish that the day after the death of the submarine, that is, already on the morning of May 6, 1945 (1), despite the chaos that reigned then in the German headquarters, a special team of Kriegsmarine divers lifted all the cargo and took it out in an unknown direction. Such efficiency and organization, of course, makes one think and assume that the cargo exported by U-534, had a special significance for the Third Reich!

In addition, according to documents found on the boat, it was found that there were 53 people on board (along with some passengers) (although these days on Type VII-C40 submarines, which included U-534, the maximum crew size was not more than 48 people). This was due to the fact that after the death of the Nazi transports "Wilhelm Gustlov" and "General Steuben" in the Baltic, which evacuated cadets and teachers of the Kriegsmarine Diving School, on German submarines that went to sea, the shortage of personnel was legalized by special order.

It turns out that U-534 carried not only special cargo, but also five passengers to Severnaya Zemlya or at the mouth of the Lena, and could take up to ten people back, for whom there were sleeping places on the submarine due to a decrease in staffing. But some passengers did not wait for their savior.

It is quite appropriate to recall here that in May 1945, somewhere on the shore of the Buor-Khaya Bay (Laptev Sea), there were still representatives of the Wehrmacht. And this is not a fantastic assumption, but a real fact, which is confirmed by a very mysterious find made in the summer of 1963, not far from the Soviet port of Tiksi, on the deserted shore of the Neyol Bay.

On that day, about 25 kilometers from the port, on a scree near the bay, the remains of dead person in gray "non-Soviet" form. Neither documents nor any papers were found on the deceased, and the polar beast worked on his appearance. However, on the collar of the jacket of the deceased, a black buttonhole with yellow patterned sewing has been preserved, and on a piece of fabric that was once the left sleeve of the jacket, there is a piece of black bandage "...tsche Wehrm ...". The decoding of the remnants of this inscription suggests that, most likely, it was a private or non-commissioned officer from the German emergency corps. technical assistance TeNo (Technische Nothilfe).

At the same time, the height of the slope on which the unknown was found completely ruled out even the assumption that he could have been brought here by the current from the Vilkitsky Strait. Perhaps it was a repairman from some Nazi unit that served the base in the Lena River Delta, sent to reconnoiter the Soviet airfield at Tiksi, but died on the way.

In addition to the ambiguity with the true purpose of the secret base in the Lena River Delta, there is another, one can consider, a global question: how could such a fundamentally built base be created in the distant Soviet rear, and even in the conditions of the Arctic?

After all, for the construction of a 200-meter concrete berth, it took more than a dozen qualified construction workers and more than one thousand tons of cement and metal fittings. ”And without the presence of special equipment on site, building such a pier is very, very problematic. Moreover, all construction problems (and they certainly were) had to be solved not on the territory of the Reich or at least occupied Norway, but 3 thousand kilometers from them, and even in the conditions of the Arctic climate. But since there is a secret base, then all the specialists, all the necessary equipment and building materials were somehow delivered here!

Of course, it can be assumed that all the necessary cargo, equipment and people were delivered on board the German raider "Komet", which in August 1940 passed through the Laptev Sea, but this assumption is absolutely unrealistic, because the landing of such a large group of builders and many days of unloading building materials and the technicians for the base could not but see our pilots who were on board the cruiser at that time.

In addition, the Komet could hardly have carried these cargoes on board, since the raider covered the entire route along the Northern Sea Route in record time and his crew simply did not have time for long unloading (and even on the unequipped coast of the Arctic). But then who, how and when delivered and built all this at the mouth of the Lena?

And further! If the German construction specialists were nevertheless taken away after the construction was completed, and ordinary laborers, most likely Soviet prisoners of war, were liquidated on the spot, then where did all the construction equipment go? They probably didn't take her away. Apparently, they drowned here, somewhere near the pier. Therefore, it would be very interesting to explore the soil near this pier, which, of course, is much easier and more promising for an introductory expedition than to open up the rocks that blocked the entrance to the cave. So it turns out that today there are only questions about this Nazi base in the Lena River Delta, and what else! But it is extremely important to search and find answers to them! At least for the sake of state security new Russia.

By the way, it is no coincidence that we started talking about security. After all, all these and similar structures, almost like Egyptian pyramids, erected for centuries! At the same time, let's remember our probably almost fantastic assumption that one of the bases for fascist submarines on Novaya Zemlya is a legacy from the time of the Kaiser's Germany. But it is quite possible that it was actively used during the war with the Soviet Union! So why not assume that, perhaps, somewhere someone dreams that the secret bases of the Third Reich, mothballed in the former Soviet, and now the Russian sector of the Arctic, can be actively used in case ... however, these are already questions not our area of ​​expertise!

Of course, it can be said that today such assumptions are generally unrealistic. But as we will see in the next story, some of the mechanisms launched by the Nazis more than 60 years ago continue to work today with the accuracy of Swiss watches, for example, the mechanisms for flooding galleries at the Nazi factory in Liinakhamari.

By the way, I would like to draw attention to the following very interesting fact.

At present, it is to the Lena River Delta that one of the German firms has organized a tourist route for residents of Germany and Austria on the motor ships Mikhail Svetlov and Demyan Bedny. Only in 2003-2006, twelve tourist groups visited here, which included more than one and a half thousand German and Austrian tourists.

In the future, the possibility of organizing somewhere in the area is further considered. tourist camp for fans of extreme rest. Involuntarily, a completely legitimate question arises: “Why exactly here, in the area where there was once a secret Nazi base?”

Maybe someone needs to determine how this base has retained its military purpose, or find something very important in a cave littered with an explosion or at the bottom near the pier?

Could it be that in September 1944 the aforementioned fascist submarines tried to break through into this secret base (and not at all into Nordvik Bay, as Soviet military historians believed for a long time)?

Meanwhile, the secrets of the Third Reich still live! And not only in remote areas of the Soviet Arctic, but also in such a long-established region of the Soviet Arctic as the Pechenga Bay. True, this secret can hardly be called a secret of a "district" scale. Most likely, it should be attributed to state level! However, judge for yourself.

We lived in a small hollow between rocks. Our housing is only barbed wire in one row, and no buildings. Here it was forbidden to walk in the same place, so that paths would not appear. and we knew that with the end of construction, none of us would ever return to the mainland.

This is one of three stories. Soviet soldiers, who nevertheless managed to escape from the top secret construction of the Nazis on the shores of Devkina Bay (in the middle part of the Pechenga Bay) near the small village of Liinakhamari.

Even today, many different mysteries of the Third Reich are connected with the shores of this bay, and the most important in this series is the secret of the Arctic activities of the German "ghostly convoy", or, more simply, the secret of creating a fascist underwater "bridge" to Taimyr.

After the end of the Second World War, in the studies of military historians, individual campaigns of blockade breakers, supply ships and some Kriegsmarine submarines to the South Atlantic, Indian or Pacific Ocean as well as hiking combat German submarines in the Arctic. But the activities of the German ocean "suppliers" who provided the German submarines in the Kara Sea (possibly in the Laptev Sea), and especially the transport submarines of the Third Reich, are still hidden behind a veil of stubborn silence.

However, as it turned out, the German submariners of Grand Admiral Dennitsa came to the shores of Soviet Siberia not only to hunt Soviet polar convoys.

In the aforementioned book by Hans-Ulrich von Krand “The Swastika in the Ice. The secret base of the Nazis in Antarctica” tells in detail about the mysterious German submarine squadron “A”, whose submarines were never even officially listed as part of the Kriegsmarine. In Soviet literature, analogues of this formation were usually referred to as "Hitler's personal escort", sometimes - "ghostly escort".

It is possible that we are talking here in general about two different formations of German submarines that the Reich needed either to carry out some serious military and economic tasks, or to divert attention from the secret flights of transport submarines from Squadron A. After all, it is not in vain that Mr. von Krantz believes that a “personal escort” is a props, because ... professionals leave no traces. Although the crews of seventy submarines can act and leave no traces at once, which, according to various sources, were part of the “ghost compound” (and taking into account combat submarines converted into transport ones, - ^ much bigger)? This is hardly possible!

Today we know that the submarines of squadron "A" include:

Submarines of the XA type were originally built as ocean-going minelayers. There was work on the project. unexpectedly terminated due to the fact that Grand Admiral Karl Dennits was a principled opponent of boats of such significant size.

Submarines of the XB type were minelayers of a slightly smaller displacement, but still remained the largest boats in the Kriegsmarine, Vsv 8 submarines of this type were most often not used for their intended purpose, but were used as underwater "supplies". In addition, the “ghost connection” could include 3 Type XI submarine cruisers and an unspecified number of high-speed German submarines of Project 476 (Type XVIII).

In general, the history of the creation of this secret submarine formation is also confused by the fact that before the start of World War II, OKM staffers did not really think about the transport activities of Kriegsmarine submarines. But already the Norwegian company forced Grand Admiral Raeder to reconsider the combat use of his submarines. Indeed, in the interests of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe units leading fighting in Norway, OKM had to urgently use almost all combat submarines to deliver ammunition and fuel. But they started talking seriously about submarine transports in Germany only in the autumn of 1942, when the question arose about the possible use of submarines for a surprise invasion. German troops to Iceland. Therefore, the submarine transport tanker U-459 (type XIV) was laid down and built at the shipyards of the Reich. Behind him, another and another ... Soon, the Kriegsmarine included two series of special transport submarines: ten underwater tankers milchkuh (colloquially "cash cows") and four underwater torpedo carriers.

These submarines were intended for refueling combat submarines located in ocean positions. With their own displacement of 1932 tons, they took on board up to 700 tons of diesel fuel to provide the positions of the wards of the "gray wolves". Torpedo carriers were somewhat smaller than submarine tankers. They had a special torpedo compartment, which received 39 torpedoes.

Only one submarine tanker, paired with a Torpedo-voz, ensured the extension of the hostilities of ten submarines in position for a period of at least 30 days,

However, in the waters of the Soviet Arctic, submarine tankers were almost never used. Instead, small fuel bases and small depots of torpedoes and mines, created on secluded Arctic islands, were widely used. Here the Reich needed transport submarines to transport bulk cargo. As it became known, after the war, OKM had to convert part of the serial submarines for water transport in order to use them on the Northern Sea Route for transporting special cargo from Taimyr, and mercury and rubber from the countries of the southern seas.

In the autumn of 1943, 15 submarines (type XX) with a snorkel system were ordered for the Kriegsmarine. The new submarines were specifically designed to transport especially valuable cargo. At the same time they could take up to 800 tons of liquid fuel. However, the construction of submarines of this type was first delayed until 1944, and then, according to official data, completely stopped. But whether this was actually the case is not yet clear, since this project was directly related to the provision of a “ghostly convoy” with special underwater transports.

The main measure of the effectiveness of the “ghost convoy” in the waters of the Soviet Arctic, most likely, was not the number of sunk Soviet transports and ships, but the number of certain cargoes, quietly, as if stealthily, delivered from Taimyr to the port of Liinakhamari and then, after some processing in the adits of Devkina backwater, sent to Germany.

Since these were very special cargoes, the documentation of these operations, of course, is available in some archives of the Reich, and familiarization with it could tell a lot.

In addition, it is quite possible that the Nazi submarine U-362, which was destroyed by the Soviet minesweeper T-116 near Biruli Bay (Khariton Laptev Coast), as we have already written, was part of one of these units.

As for the special cargo, which is probably on board U-362, its research could tell a lot about the secrets of the Liinakhamar plant in Devkina backwater, to which this story is dedicated. It is probably not very difficult to do this, since the very fact of the destruction of this submarine was confirmed by a diving inspection during the war years and, therefore, the coordinates of its death are precisely known! But no one dealt with this issue in the USSR, as, by the way, now in Russia,

After the review okay we got acquainted with the history of the creation and use of transport submarines in the Reich, it's time to tell about the underground secrets of the final point of the transarctic "bridge" - at that time still the Finnish port of Liinakhamari, where fascist underwater transports came very actively in 1942-1944.

And we'll start the story with overview history of Liinakhamari.

Interest in this area as a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland, which was part of Russia, was made by German and Swedish miners as early as 1868, when they organized the extraction of gold and silver-lead ores on the shores of the Pecheneg Bay, near the Tana River, which is west of Pechenga, in for ten years they managed to mine several poods of gold, and in 1890, from the Dolgaya tuba, they obtained about 8 thousand poods of lead ore. As a monument of those past years, the remains of old ore trolleys are still lying on the banks of the Dolgaya,

In Russia at that time, little attention was paid to the ore resources of the Arctic, including the natural storerooms in the area of ​​the Pechenga Bay. Only two partnerships were organized here: the Russian-Finnish Stefanovich-Ostrem and the Russian-German Mining Society, which mainly carried out exploration work. But even with such unhurried work, Russian industrialists in the Pechenga region found peridotites, which could be associated with deposits of chromite, platinum and nickel. But the lack of sufficient funding (another eternal trouble in Russia - Auth.) very quickly put an end to the serious development of the found deposits by Russia. Moreover, almost immediately after the revolution (1920).

According to the Derpt (Yurievsky) peace treaty, Pechenga passed to Finland, which immediately formed the Petsamo region in this area. After 5 years, Finnish geologists either discovered themselves, or, using data on nickel-bearing rocks obtained by Russian geologists, announced the discovery of rich nickel deposits in the area of ​​Kaula and Kammikivi. These finds immediately attracted the close attention of the German company Friedrich Krulp and the Canadian company International Nickel Company of Canada (INCO). And in 1934, the Finnish government leased Pechenga to the INCO company for 4 9 years.

INKO formed its subsidiary Petsamon Nickel here, which acquired the monopoly right to develop all the identified deposits and began construction steel plant on the river Kolosjoki.

I would like to especially note that lovers of military history, search engines and local historians of the Arctic have long been interested in mysterious structures on the coast of the Pechenga Bay, which were erected by some builders from Canada even before the war.

This interest is primarily due to the fact that Canadians from the INKO company were working at the mines of the Kaula and Kammikivi deposits, which are more than 80 kilometers from Pechenga. But what were they building in Liinakhamari? Another still pre-war Liinakhamarskaya riddle! Maybe it's here in a few years something successfully completed and put into action by the Nazis?

But first things first, but for now let's continue the historical digression.

Even before the outbreak of World War II, the British Shell and the American company Esso built large fuel tanks in Liinakhamari, and the Swedes built a large fuel berth for ocean tankers.

But Germany tried to "step" furthest in the development of coastal areas near Liinakhamari. So, back in 1937, German industrialists expressed a desire to lease Petsamo for a period of 99 years in order to equip a trawl station here.

However, it was quite clear that such a station could be easily turned into a submarine base at any time and air force. Therefore, the Germans were refused. But this did not stop the Nazis, since the fishing German-Italian company Gismondi was nevertheless created in Liinakhamari through figureheads. But, apparently, something went wrong in the plans of the Reich. Perhaps this is evidenced by a granite monument to thirty-two German soldiers, which was installed on the western bank of the Pasvik River (near the village of Janiskoski). On this monument German written: "They gave their lives for the Fuhrer, XII.1939-III.1940." This is another riddle of the Third Reich in Liinakhamari, which must be unraveled.

Next main riddle Nazis in Liinakhamari originates in the summer of 1942, when, almost immediately after the failure of the Nazi blitzkrieg in the Soviet Arctic, the command of the Liinakhamari naval base of the Kriegsmarine received an order to accept, equip and provide with everything necessary a special group of the Wehrmacht.

Soon, the house, which had previously housed only officers of the local Gestapo, was remodeled and renovated. And in January 1943, little talkative officers in uniform with orange buttonholes and piping on shoulder straps appeared here.

From the very first days, the arrivals were given a high-speed sea boat, on which the guests went out to the Varanger Fjord area every morning. The crew of the boat, even when meeting with friends, was silent. And only the fact that every evening the fuel tanks of this boat were filled, so to speak, to the eyeballs, and moreover, additional canisters were loaded on board, definitely indicated the range of trips of the officers of this Sondergroup.

Simultaneously with the advent of a special group, qualified mining specialists (collected throughout the Reich) began to arrive in the village of Liinakhamari, and physically healthy prisoners of war from two concentration camps began to arrive in a special barrack of the nearest concentration camp: near the village of Elvenes (near Kirkenes) and near Mount Porvitash (south east of Nikel). The entrance to this barracks was forbidden to everyone, including the soldiers of the security units.

In June 1943, a ship moored at the Liinakhamar pier, delivering from Germany mobile compressor stations intended for drilling operations, and special equipment for mining drilling.

Most of the delivered equipment was placed in a closed area, some was taken towards Cape Numero-Niemi (at the entrance to the Pechenga Bay), and several sets were sent by cable car to the frontline Musta-Tunturi ridge. Very soon, breaking through adits and casemates in the rocks on the territory of the spetsstroy began to be carried out around the clock. At the same time, a grandiose plan was launched to provide the Liinakhamari area with all kinds of protection.

So, for example, to provide antiamphibious defense at Cape Krestovy, from which the entrance to the Pechenga Bay was clearly visible, in the very first days of construction, a 150-mm battery was installed at the water's edge, and a little higher - a 68-mm anti-aircraft battery. The gun yards of these batteries were lined with stone, the command post, several shelters for personnel and ammunition depots were securely hidden under the thick cover of coastal rocks.

At the entrance to the base, anti-torpedo nets were installed, and at Cape Numero-Niemi, a rocky smoke station was installed.

At the same time, on the Risti-Niemi peninsula and near the isthmus between the lakes Kantejärvi and Khikhnajärvi, the construction of concrete pits began, intended for the installation of four 210-mm guns, which were supposed to tightly “lock” the Motovsky and Kola bays. This battery had powerful underground casemates and communication passages.

In addition, two medium-caliber artillery batteries were installed at the entrance points of Risti-Niemi and Numero-Niemi. The only road to them from the east side was covered by a 2-meter stone wall, the thickness of which reached almost 1.5 meters.

Special anti-tank gates were built on the approaches to Lake Pura-järvi, although the use of tanks in the tundra was very problematic. The height of the gate reached 3 meters, and their powerful doors moved with the help of electric motors. Not a single tank, not a single vehicle could pass this obstacle without exposing its side to the mortal blows of shells from a neighboring anti-tank battery.

On the western side of the coastal mountain Valkelkivi-Tzshturi, under thick rocks, a torpedo complex was built, which included three torpedo launchers. Their machines with torpedo chutes were directed towards the bay through special loopholes. Under this complex, an extensive underground system of passages and a capacious storage for torpedoes were cut down. This torpedo system completely blocked the entrance to the Pechenga Bay for its entire width.

From the air, the entire Petsamo-Liinakhamarsky region, together with the Pechenga Bay, was reliably covered by fighters from four (!) airfields specially built in this area at once. Not a single Nazi base (including the one where the Tirpitz super battleship was based) had such a powerful defense complex (from sea, air and land) on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

This very strange fact of creating an unusually powerful defense of the Petsamo-Liinakhamari region Soviet historians always explained by the fact that, they say, in this area there were the main nickel developments of Germany, located only 40 kilometers from the front line - And it was their Third Reich that was forced to especially protect,

But was it really so? Most likely no!

Indeed, the protection of objects on the banks of Devkina Bay directly indicates that somewhere here the Nazis carried out some work that was of great importance for the Reich and was not only a special state secret, but also extremely dangerous for human life. The latter can be confirmed by the fact that, as is known, all construction sites strategically important for the Third Reich have always used the skilled labor of exclusively German military builders.

In Liinakhamari, special work teams and sapper units of the Wehrmacht carried out work on a secret facility under construction only in the summer of 1942 during the first two to three months. Then all the German builders were urgently taken out of the construction site and transferred to France and Norway for the construction of bunkers on the special order of the Kriegsmarine. And in their place were driven Soviet prisoners of war.

The prisoners cut in the rocks of Devkina backwater multi-meter adits for the construction of workshops of a factory and even ... underground rooms for a hospital. The construction was carried out in conditions of such secrecy that even German artillerymen from neighboring batteries were strictly forbidden to appear on the territory of the special construction, and even more so to enter the adits.

Every two or three weeks, new teams of Soviet prisoners of war from a special barrack were delivered to these adits to continue work. At the same time, their predecessors, who left for construction earlier, never returned to the barracks! Even the officers of the Liinakhamar Gestapo turned out to be unprepared for the work of such a massive and well-established "factory of death"!

Where did our compatriots disappear to? Until now, this secret is securely kept by the adits of Devkina backwater and, of course, the documentation for this plant, which is certainly located somewhere in the archives of the former Third Reich.

A peculiar continuation of this Liinakhamar riddle is that the adits of the plant's workshops and the hospital chambers, being much higher than the level of the Barents Sea, are constantly flooded with sea (!) Water. Any attempts to pump it out are unsuccessful, since initially the water from the flooded structures seems to start to leave, and then, as if on command, very quickly fills again all the rooms carved into the rocks of the Devkina backwater. At the same time, the mechanism of the “self-liquidation” system has been working flawlessly for 65 years. The most paradoxical is that for all the years that have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, not a single serious attempt (at the state level) has been made to reveal the secret of this strange and at the same time unique construction. Although it seems quite obvious that if the impossibility of pumping sea water, for example, from the dungeons of Kaliningrad, is explained by the fact that all these premises are located below sea level and the plugs of secret locks are open somewhere, then in the case of Devkina Zavod, the opposite is true, since all underground structures are located significantly above sea level. This means that powerful pumps and a certain power plant that feeds them continue to operate somewhere nearby today.

But where it is hidden, what kind of energy makes these pumps work smoothly for more than half a century (if they are pumps at all), and how this whole flooding system works in general, no one knows. And finally, for so many decades, has no one been interested in knowing the structure of this entire system?

Meanwhile, if the flooding of a secret military plant can still be somehow explained by the need to maintain secrecy of production, then why is the hospital flooded and so carefully hidden from prying eyes? Or maybe it was not quite an ordinary hospital? And these are far from idle questions, since it is reliably known that during the three war years Liinakhamari was not only a base for training and shipping nickel to Germany, but also a processing plant something, what was delivered here by German submarines from somewhere in the Arctic and then urgently sent somewhere to Germany!

Moreover, there is evidence that these cargoes were delivered in special containers placed outside the strong hull of the submarine. If to this at add the facts of the mass and complete disappearance of all those who worked in the workshops of this terrible underground monster, then there is a well-founded assumption that the Nazis were working here with some components of the very “weapon of retaliation” that Hitler so dreamed of?

It is possible that the work of this enterprise was associated with the enrichment of some kind of radioactive raw material, which has alpha-emitting isotopes in its composition, which, in principle, are quite safe for external human exposure. True, only external radiation! But God forbid, if such an isotope somehow, for example, in the form of gas or dust, got into the inside of the human body. Then death was inevitable, and in a fairly short time!

An example of this is the worldwide sensational death of a British citizen, Mr. Litvinenko, who, according to the official version, also died overnight from the alpha-emitting isotope of polonium.

And if we add to the above version the presence of a secret hospital directly at the plant, then this only strengthens the suspicion that there is a production facility for processing some radioactive materials in the adits of Liinakhamari,

It is possible that all these are just our fantasies, but after all, Adolf Hitler’s dreams of creating a nuclear “retaliation weapon” that are already in service today, and not only in the USA and Russia, were once regarded as such.

By the way, if something was really done on the banks of the Devkina backwater according to a top-secret program related to the "weapon of retaliation", then all those super-emergency measures that were taken by the Nazis to defend the Petsamo-Liinakhamari region, as well as the disappearance without a trace in the galleries of Devkina backwaters of Soviet prisoners of war who worked at this plant.

Of course, the hospital, as well as the cargo of the submarine U-362, which we have already written about, could tell a lot not only about the fate of those who were here, but also about the plant itself. They could, but in order to obtain this information, one must be able to drain the underground structures on the banks of the Devkina backwater or raise samples of cargo from the flooded U-362.

And since so far this has not been possible, it turns out that no one in Russia knows any data about the spetsstroy and its alleged (or real) “products” today! However, it is absolutely impossible to even assume that there are no detailed technical documentation and corresponding reports on the results of the activities of such a top-secret enterprise. Therefore, we again ran into the archives of the Third Reich, where these documents should be looked for.

But in order to get to archival repositories of this category, we need appropriate approvals at the interstate level! Probably, now such agreements and approvals are quite possible and even necessary, if only because the absolutely secret former Nazi enterprise, located during the war on Soviet, and now Russian territory, actually remains ready for proper operation! So find out what same hiding in the adits of Devkina backwater and the dungeons surrounding it - this is not only our right, but even a duty and obligation to future generations of Russians! This gives hope that the curtain of secrecy over Devkina backwater and the activities of the Liinakhamar port in 1942-1944 will still be lifted and that this will happen in the near future!

The very history of Russia is truly paradoxical. Not only did everything heroic and glorious be accompanied by tragedy and shame for decades - we managed not to notice the great, we did not know how to be proud of what was worthy of both pride and admiration. The history of the Arctic in this regard is a bitter and instructive example, from which it is never too late to learn.

Everything that happened in the Arctic in the 20-30s of the XX century was perceived by the inhabitants of the mainland with great interest and admiration. The very word "polar explorer" became a symbol of everything heroic in the Land of Soviets, and the biographies of those who were called the conquerors of the pole, the Central Arctic, the Northern Sea Route were printed on the front pages of newspapers with no less detail than later - the biographies of the first cosmonauts.

It is hardly possible to establish with great accuracy when exactly the Arctic was "closed" from the eyes of mere mortals. Who did this, of course, is not a secret: the "friend" and "father" of Soviet polar explorers, who undoubtedly loved his Arctic "children" - Joseph Stalin. Now we are not talking about the closure of the North from foreigners - it began back in the ancient tsarist era, in the 17th - 18th centuries. True, Stalin made one curious indulgence precisely in this: in navigation in 1940. The route of the Northern Sea Route to the east was secretly crossed by the German auxiliary cruiser Komet. He was accompanied by our icebreakers, on board the German, there were the best Soviet Arctic pilots, ice reconnaissance was looking for safe passages in the ice for him. Such was the result of the treacherous conspiracy between Stalin and Hitler, which was especially sinister because, upon entering the Pacific Ocean, the Komet became a warship that threatened our future allies in the anti-fascist coalition. But now we are talking about something else - about a direct ban on publications about the Arctic, about what happened every day in high latitudes, including the brightest, heroic events that would glorify our fatherland and strengthen its prestige.

They did not write about the passage of warships along the Northern Sea Route.

They did not write about the upcoming landing of the Papaninites on the Pole, reporting this after the fact, the next day. Later, this vicious practice was repeated during the polar voyage of the Arktika nuclear-powered icebreaker - as, we add, during all space launches up to the 80s.

During the war of 1941 - 1945, the coast Arctic Ocean became the front line, and, of course, for all four years, almost no information about how the Soviet Arctic lives, lives in poverty, buries its defenders in the Soviet Arctic, our people did not receive (except for reports about the high-profile victories of sailors Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea). As if by inertia, all the information about what is happening in the Far North, about the weather and ice, about expeditions and finds, gains and losses for a good ten post-war years also remained under lock and key. History was taken away from us, the right to know names and events, dates and biographies! The whole country was plunging into the darkness of self-isolation, having fenced off the world with an invisible, but impenetrable " iron curtain". Meanwhile, in the Arctic, discoveries and exploits were being made on a scale quite comparable to what the famous pioneers of past eras did in the polar seas and the polar sky. Every year, large expeditions "North" were supplied to high latitudes, which comprehensively studied the nature of the Central Arctic. And in the spring of 1960, the second ever drifting station "North Pole" was landed on the ice.

The fact that there was such a drift, the public of our country and the foreign world learned only four years later, when the stations "SP-3" and "SP-4" began their work in the polar ice. A year after Stalin's death, there was a "landslide" declassification of the Far North and a belated desire to restore justice appeared. It turned out that the SP-2 station lived in the ice of the Eastern Arctic for 376 days, much longer than Papaninskaya, that 11 winterers experienced ice breaks, repeated camp evacuations, a fire in the radio operators’ tent, and summer floods, and cases of polar bear attacks on person, not to mention all sorts of hardships.

But the main thing: they worked in an atmosphere of incredible, insane secrecy, without the right to be themselves, like scouts abandoned in an enemy lair. Even at the Arctic Institute, where that expedition was being prepared, even the relatives of those who went to the ice for a whole year knew nothing and instead of the spectacular “SP” they were forced to put down the number of a faceless mailbox on the envelopes. They were awarded by a secret Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, according to which the leader of the drift, Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov, became a Hero Soviet Union, and the rest received the Order of Lenin.

And only recently it turned out that the station chief had an order to burn the documentation and blow up all the buildings if the “American enemy” approached the ice floe. One of the most important secrets of the Arctic was the creation in the mid-50s of a nuclear test site on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. For more than 30 years, monstrous hydrogen weapons have been tested there, and today Novaya Zemlya is wounded, seriously injured. It is impossible, even in the first approximation, to compile a list of irretrievable losses suffered by its nature - blue and white glaciers, huge bird colonies on coastal cliffs, tundra vegetation, the number of seals, walruses, polar bears.

Perhaps one of the latest in a row was the declassification of the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. It was only in 1992 that it was first openly discussed. Now we know about its creation in 1959, and about the terrible disaster on March 18, 1980, when almost 60 people died as a result of a powerful explosion. It also became known that it was from here, from the cosmodrome near the city with the obligatory name Mirny, that the leaders were going to attack the overseas enemy with deadly missiles during the so-called Caribbean (Cuban) crisis of 1962.

Circumstances that were very far from considerations of common sense or at least reasonable secrecy of a military-strategic nature gave the Far North a special "closedness", the reason for this was massive political repressions.

The great terror that raged on big land in the 20-50s of the XX century, echoed loudly in high latitudes. There was not a single sphere in the Arctic human activity, not a single bearish corner, which would not have been reached by the punitive authorities, from where polar explorers of various specialties - sailors, pilots, scientists, geologists, winterers, economic and party workers, port workers, builders, would not have been taken to trial and reprisal, teachers, doctors, including representatives of the small indigenous peoples of the North (there are at least 30 of them).

As in the mainland, in the North, in due proportions, "enemies of the people" were found: wreckers and saboteurs, Trotsky-Zinoviev, Bukharin-Rykov mercenaries, kulaks and sub-kulakists. They were discovered on the basis of denunciations, slanderous slanders, created an unthinkable atmosphere of general suspicion, surveillance and mutual denunciation, arrested, imprisoned, sent to disastrous exile, destroyed.

It would seem, who could be prevented by people living in the Arctic in conditions of constant deprivation, danger, and mortal risk? How did they annoy the Stalinist regime, icebreaker sailors, employees of polar stations, geologists who were looking for gold and tin, oil and coal?

Yes, that's right, from the Arctic to the Arctic, to the terrible northern camps, romantic enthusiasts were transported, who devoted their lives to the study and development of these free, boundless, attracting lands. They were transported along the glorious route of the Northern Sea Route, in the holds of steamships, on open barges, and these boats got stuck in the ice, went to the bottom along with their live cargo, which brave pilots did not fly to rescue, mighty icebreakers did not rush at full steam.

One of the first who was arrested at the very beginning of the 1930s was the venerable professor-geologist Pavel Vladimirovich Wittenburg, a well-known explorer of Svalbard, the Kola Peninsula, Yakutia, and Vaigach Island. It was there, to Vaigach, where he had managed to make major discoveries before that, and they took the scientist to the lead-zinc mines. Fortunately, he managed to survive and after many years to return to his native Leningrad. But how many of his colleagues, friends, associates were not destined to do this.

Professor R. L. Samoilovich was shot in 1939. The same fate befell his good friend, the Consul General of the USSR in Svalbard and the father of the future famous ballerina (who wintered with her parents in the Arctic as a girl) Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetsky. Professor Pavel Alexandrovich Molchanov, who participated together with Samoilovich in the expedition on the airship Graf Zeppelin, died. The Chelyuskin heroes Aleksey Nikolaevich Bobrov, Ilya Leonidovich Baevsky, Pavel Konstantinovich Khmyznikov, the radio fanatic Nikolai Reingoldovich Schmidt, the first to hear distress signals from the Red Tent of Nobile, the veteran of the Northern Sea Route, the builder of the city and port of Igarka Boris Vasilievich Lavrov fell victim to repression.

In the Hydrographic Department of the Main Northern Sea Route alone, more than 150 employees were arrested and dismissed from work, declared "foreign elements." This was done with polar hydrographers, pioneers of the ice route, experts in its formidable dangers, lighthouse keepers - with people without whom it is impossible normal life Northern Sea Route!

The scientists of the Arctic Institute, which was headed by Samoylovich, were respectfully called the "USSR team" in those years. This unique "team" of like-minded, selfless patriots of their country was almost completely exterminated in a matter of months. Of the leading scientists, only Professor Vladimir Yulievich Vize was not touched, but how he was defamed, how he was insulted, how he was threatened for many, many years. The famous geologist and geographer Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, the leading connoisseur of ice and sea currents Nikolai Ivanovich Evgenov, the legendary polar explorer Nikolai Nikolayevich Urvantsev went to prisons and camps for huge, unthinkable periods.

It was Urvantsev who, back in the 1920s, discovered the richest deposits of copper, nickel, coal, graphite, cobalt in Taimyr, in the region of the future Norilsk. And, according to the “good” tradition established by the punitive authorities, in 1940 he was forcibly sent there, to the place of his former (and future!) Glory. Even in prison he continued to work as a geologist, went on expeditions, wrote scientific work, however, they all settled in the bowels of the "special guard" (this word denoted top-secret archives and book depositories, which contained priceless works of people declared "enemies of the people" who had lost the right to their own name).

Even against such a background, the repressions of the times of the Patriotic War look absolutely monstrous. Right at sea, the most eminent Arctic captains were arrested, presenting them with ridiculous accusations of sabotage and treason.

The Arkhangelsk navigator Vasily Pavlovich Korelsky spent eight years in the camps, and his namesake, the captain of the icebreaker Sadko, Alexander Gavrilovich Korelsky, was sentenced to death because his ship ran aground in stormy weather in the Kara Sea.

The famous polar pilots Fabio Brunovich Farikh and Vasily Mikhailovich Makhotkin were arrested during the war years, after the war several more aviators were added to them, as well as the famous Arctic captain Yuri Konstantinovich Khlebnikov, who was awarded the Order of Nakhimov, which is rare for a sailor of the civil fleet. He was sent to the "Stalinist resort" - to Vorkuta, where the imprisoned Khlebnikov had to mine polar coal for ten years.

Polar explorers were also caught at the most distant winter quarters from the mainland. The head of the polar station on Franz Josef Land, Filipp Ivanovich Balabin, a young talented oceanologist, an employee of one of the Chukotka stations, Alexander Chausov, were arrested and disappeared. The head of wintering on Domashny Island in the Kara Sea, Alexander Pavlovich Babich, a well-known radio operator, one of the first honorary polar explorers in the country, was finished off for nine years on death row and in the Trans-Baikal camps, knocking out of him a confession that he wanted to "transfer our Arctic fleet to the enemy." In May 1950, two months before his death in a concentration camp, Babich sent his last letter to his family in Leningrad: “Sometimes I artificially convince myself that I continue wintering and simply due to circumstances I cannot return to the mainland. But after all, once this "wintering" will end?

Terrible "wintering" ended for the vast majority of innocently convicted, erased from history and people's memory of people only after 1956.

Russian researchers told about the secret base of the Nazis discovered in the Arctic, called the Treasure Hunter. The object was located on the island of Alexandra Land, which is part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago and is located a thousand kilometers from North Pole. The artifacts discovered by the researchers are well preserved due to the cold northern climate. All the finds are planned to be sent to the mainland, where they are carefully examined, and after that they will be put on public display. inquired about the details of the opening.

press secretary national park"Russian Arctic" Yulia Petrova clarified: about 500 items were recovered from the ruins of the bunker opened by scientists historical significance during the Second World War - in particular, gasoline cans and paper documents, bullets and personal hygiene items, shoes with a swastika.

Rumors about the existence of a base on the island of Alexandra Land have been circulating for many decades. “Before that, it was known only from written sources, but now we have real evidence,” said Yevgeny Yermolov, a senior researcher at the national park.

Experts believe that the secret base was built in 1942 on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler. Most likely, the Germans began to operate the facility in September 1943 and left it in June 1944. Scientists believe that the reason for curtailing the mission is trichinosis - infection of station employees with nematodes due to the consumption of raw meat from polar bears. Some crew members, scientists believe, died, and the survivors were evacuated by a BV-138 seaplane as part of a special rescue mission. The most valuable equipment was later taken out by the German submarine U387.

The Treasure Hunter is one of the most mysterious Nazi bases in the Arctic. The existence of a meteorological and direction-finding station became known to the military as early as 1942, when Soviet pilots flew near the warehouses of the base. However, traces of the presence of the Germans on the island were observed by the Soviet military earlier - in 1941, and after the Second World War, a specially organized Soviet expedition visited the base abandoned by the Nazis, about which fragmentary information has been preserved.

For example, it is known that in September 1951, the Semyon Dezhnev icebreaker, as military journalist Sergei Kovalev reports in his book The Arctic Shadows of the Third Reich, passed in the strait between the islands of George Land and Alexandra Land. The ship's crew explored an abandoned Nazi station. The expedition discovered five dugouts designed for 30 people, a meteorological platform and an antenna mast. The base's residential bunker consisted of seven equipment rooms, a bedroom, a dining room, a kitchen, and a pantry. A quarter of the structure was hidden in the ground, and the rest was painted with white oil paint.

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The dugouts were surrounded by trenches, in which the researchers found a radio station, mortars and machine guns. A more powerful radio transmitter was hidden under an awning five kilometers from the coast, in the depths of the island. Also, a motor boat was found on the coast near the base. The station was invisible from the water and was located half a kilometer from the coast, at an altitude of 30 meters above sea level. Obviously, the "Treasure Hunt" was run by the Kriegsmarine (from the German Kriegsmarine) - navy Third Reich.

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This was confirmed by the Soviet military, who in the area of ​​​​the Nazi station and airfield on Alexandra Land saw the underground base of German submarines. Unfortunately, today these witnesses are no longer alive, and the available information about the secret station is a collection of rumors that are difficult to verify. In wartime, there was a Soviet airstrip near the German airfield and weather station on the island of Alexandra Land. Unlike the German one, it was not located in the best place on the island: it was irregularly blown by arctic winds, so it slowly dried out.

Today, Alexandra Land is part of the Franz Josef Land state nature reserve. The only one locality on the island - Nagurskoye, where the base of the border service and the northernmost airfield of the country are located. Currently, the facilities of the village are being actively modernized. In particular, the runway is planned to be made year-round - due to thawing of the soil in summer time it comes into disrepair.

The second-class runway will measure 2.5 kilometers by 42 meters and will allow receiving Su-34 and MiG-31 fighters, as well as Il-78 tankers. An administrative and residential complex of a closed cycle with a total area of ​​more than 14,000 square meters. The modernized infrastructure on the island of Alexandra Land will allow Russia not only to quickly solve defense tasks, but also to follow the general course of the growing interest in the Arctic, associated with transport opportunities and the natural wealth of the region.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were many “blank spots” on world maps. One of the most "white" was the Arctic, in whose possessions travelers rushed not so zealously as in the tropics hung with bananas. It is understandable: wild cold, eternal ice and depressing stories of contemporaries. The only people who voluntarily lived in the neighborhood with polar bears and seals were the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and the Pomors, whose "frostbite" no one doubted ...

At the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, one of the first states in the history of mankind was formed in the Nile River valley - Ancient Egypt. This is known to any teenager from the school curriculum, in which, unfortunately, there is no mention of the fact that already two or three thousand years before that people lived not only in Africa, but also, for example, in the north of the European part of Russia. At a time when there were no pyramids and in the project, our ancestors, or, so to speak, "geographical compatriots" inhabited the Kola Peninsula. With primitive equipment, with a life extremely far from the norms of civilization, in conditions that we today consider extreme ... Three thousand years later, permanent settlements appeared on the coast of the White Sea. The people who lived in them went out to sea in primitive leather and wooden boats and hunted sea animals and fished. These campaigns gave rise to Arctic navigation. Slavic tribes appeared in the Russian North in the 5th-6th centuries AD. e. They traded with the inhabitants of the northern region, in particular, buying furs. In the X-XI century, Novgorodians appeared here, who by the XII century made the region a colony of Veliky Novgorod. The shores of the White Sea, Northern Dvina, Onega and Pinega were gradually settled by serfs who fled from the middle zone, with whom the indigenous population - Karelians, Komi, Lapps - partially assimilated. Then in the XIII century, the region was called "Russian Pomorye", and the descendants of the first settlers began to be called "Pomors".

In the 15th century, Pomors made long sea voyages to Grumant (Spitsbergen), Bear Island, and Novaya Zemlya. Northern expeditions are also actively organized by the Dutch, who are looking for a short sea route to India and China. True, for the latter, voyages in northern latitudes do not bring the desired results, and only Russians continue to successfully develop new territories ...

COLONY STROGANOV

The Novaya Zemlya archipelago deserves special interest in the Arctic. The rocky islands, unsuitable for human life, hold many mysteries, one of which is almost forgotten in our time.

At the end of the 15th century, the well-known merchants Stroganovs founded a fishing colony on Novaya Zemlya for the extraction of sea animals and furs. The business is profitable, and according to the few surviving historical documents, bringing multiple profits. Colonists - as a rule, "Strogano peasants" beat walruses, whales, polar bears, and in their free time they get married and have children. The furs and fat of marine animals are transported to the mainland in Arkhangelsk; the colony is flourishing. However, prosperity does not last long and after some ten years all the settlers die, and the developed fishing center turns into a cemetery...

The main cause of death of people is considered to be "an unknown infection caused by fogs" - an official of the Arkhangelsk governor Klingstedt writes about this in 1762. Also, there are references to “mysterious deadly mists” in northern legends, according to which, these are nothing more than people whose souls were not taken by the Polar Star for all kinds of sins. The fog then shrinks, spreads over vast spaces, extinguishes all sounds, does not allow you to see anything, drives people crazy, kills on the spot or forever “clouds”.

The death of the "Stroganos" colonists was taken for granted by the indigenous inhabitants of those places. According to the legends of the Nenets, the newcomers from the mainland were punished for breaking one important taboo. The fact is that in addition to fishing for sea animals, the colonists had another task - they were looking for pearls in the rivers of Novaya Zemlya. And not just pearls, but the legendary "Green Incorruptible", which the Stroganov merchants dreamed of getting...

GREEN INCORRECT

The Stroganovs of Novgorod have been mining pearls since the 15th century. They mined the precious mineral on the Kola Peninsula in the rivers near Lake Onega and the White Sea. The pearl harvest was considerable, because in addition to the domestic market, it was also supplied abroad. The mined pearls were used in the manufacture of icons, jewelry, various embroideries and ceremonial attire. Pearls can be very different - from white and pale blue, to yellow, reddish and even black. The only serious drawback is that it is short-lived; The life of pearls is on average 250-500 years. Over time, it loses its luster, fades, and finally turns into powder...

The mythical "green incorruptibles" are pearls of a different kind - eternal, unfading, unfading. Pearls acquire such properties only in the rivers of the Far North, receiving their strength from the Polar Star. Northern shamans say that green pearls choose their owner themselves, and can both make a person happy and bring trouble on him.

According to rumors, one such pearl fell into the hands of the Stroganov merchants. A dangerous relic settled like a green spark in their hearts, clouding the minds of everyone who has ever seen it. And it was this legendary green pearl for the Stroganovs that the settlers on Novaya Zemlya were looking for...

The wholesale pestilence that devastated the colony was apparently caused by an epidemic of a virus that had no immunity to people who came from the mainland. Modern scientists are well aware that particles of such “wonderful” things as anthrax and smallpox are perfectly preserved in permafrost, and what the colonists exploring Novaya Zemlya could “catch” only God knows. Those who came to the site of the extinct settlement years later found only the final result: the pre-river ruins of dwellings, a few graves and ... a lot of scattered human bones.

CURSED BY THE POLE STAR

However, there is another version of the rapid death of the Stroganov colony. Arkhangelsk local historian V. Krestinin, in his notes published in January 1789, writes that the colonists were killed by "unknown warriors with iron noses and teeth." He heard this story from the Mezen sailors, and Andrei Vvedensky, the author of several books about the Stroganovs, writes about the same. Vvedensky believed that the inhabitants of the colony were exterminated by sharashuts - descendants of ancient people Arctic and the mysterious inhabitants of the Novaya Zemlya caves.

Legends about sharashuts circulated among the inhabitants of the Arctic until the beginning of the 20th century. The Nenets believed that on Novaya Zemlya in deep caves, where there are warm lakes, mysterious warriors live, who come to the surface in the form of fog and shadows. They, like many centuries ago, worship polar star, collect "green incorruptibles", and kill strangers, or take them underground with them.

Historian K. Vokuev, who lives in Naryan-Mar, collected little-known materials on sharashuts. According to him, it was the Sharashuts who were the very people who were cursed by the North Star. The Nenets historian believes that the main reason for the curse is cannibalism, which, although it was a huge rarity among the peoples of the Far North, still took place...

Now it is difficult to judge how real the attack of the sharashuts on the colonists was, one can only build hypotheses and speculate. On Novaya Zemlya, they have not been looking for “green incorruptibles” for a long time, although “unknown warriors” still live in the bowels of the archipelago, who, like their predecessors, probably have “iron teeth”. True, they are not sitting in caves, but at computers, and everything that happens is hidden from us under the heading "SECRET".

A Russian expeditionary team found a secret Nazi base in the Arctic called Schatzgraber. It is possible that the weather station built to control the region was looking for ancient artifacts.

A team of researchers have found more than 500 objects of historical value in the ruins of a Nazi base on the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

Presumably, the meteorological base is one of the complexes of the famous institute. Probably, the Nazis intended to use the base as a staging post for deep exploration of the Arctic in search of artifacts of ancient civilizations.

The discovered station with pillboxes and military bunkers is believed not to be the only Arctic site built by the Nazis in fulfillment of ambitious plans for world domination. Speaking more specifically about the find, which confirms the numerous rumors about the influence of the Nazis in the Arctic, we note: the find occurred on Alexander Island, 1000 kilometers from the North Pole.

Researchers made the discovery a few months ago, providing video footage from the site showing artifacts and the base of the collapsed base—strong evidence of Nazi exploration activities in the region.

Officially, the appointment of this weather station was required to support combat exits of cruisers and submarines along the Northern Sea Route. To carry out the operation under the symbolic name "Wonderland", a meteorological station "Treasure Detector" with defensive lines was erected on Alexandra's Land.

The arctic secret base of the Nazis "Schatzgraber" (Treasure Hunter / Treasure Hunter), was built in 1942 - a year after the invasion of the forces of the Third Reich into the territory of the Soviet Union.

About 500 items were found on the remains of the base: gasoline cans, paper documents, household items, personal belongings of employees, and many other items recovered by Russian researchers. The find is in relatively good condition, partly due to severe frost conditions.

The base is believed to have been evacuated in 1944 due to an outbreak of illness caused by eating polar bear meat. True, some admit the reason is somewhat far-fetched, implying a big secret in the hastily abandoned station. The base itself was dismantled in 1950; in other cases, targeted destruction is mentioned.

However, it is one of the most mysterious details surrounding the secret projects of the Nazis, which is why the weather station was named "Treasure Hunter". From this base, German scientists monitored the climate of the Arctic, tried to track the movements of ships, but is that all?

What if the Nazis were looking for real treasure? If so, why in the Arctic? What exactly did the Nazis expect to find in such an inhospitable area? Station 211 in Antarctica is said to have been similar to the Schatzgraber base in the Arctic.

Many people believe that the Nazis built several bases not only in the Arctic, but also in. It is well known that during the Second World War, the Nazis carried out a number of strange experiments with technologies unknown to the rest of the world, submitting to the desire to rule the world.

Researchers of the Ahnenerbe Institute searched for the lands of mythical artifacts, otherworldly technology, in the hope of finding access to the supreme power that allowed them to defeat the invincible. The Arctic and Antarctic were extremely important to the plans of the Nazis, as they expected to find "power ancient technology in two of the most inhospitable regions on Earth.

Many authors claim that in 1946-47, Admiral Byrd, the famous American polar explorer, was looking for secret Nazi bases. Indeed, the Admiral's operation "High Jump" (High Jump) had at its disposal a real expeditionary force.

Never in history has Antarctica been explored by such a large military force capable of invading any coast. But even despite such bulky forces, the operation ended in complete failure - the researchers hastily retreated from the ice desert to no avail.

Artifacts found at the Treasure Detector base in the Arctic are currently being transported to Arkhangelsk for analysis. Specialists will try to unravel the mystery and the true purpose of an abandoned Nazi base in the Arctic.

There are many hypotheses from, intertwined with the secret research of the Third Reich. In particular, it is assumed that by the end of the Second World War, the Nazis made a powerful innovative leap in physics and aeronautics. Allegedly, they got significant help from the records of ancient civilizations.

According to an intriguing theory, Nazi scientists have developed technologies that enable them to build "flying saucers" and establish serious underground bases. The Nazis were developing weapons of mass destruction at the level of the Manhattan Project even before the Americans.
It may be a mixture of fact and fiction as to what Hitler and his henchmen achieved, but who among the eyewitnesses of the events of those years can tell the truth ...