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    RELICS OF THE COLD WAR

    Oct 07, 2021 3 minutes

    BECHEVINKA

    KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, RUSSIA

    he town of Bechevinka was founded in the 1960s by Nikita Khrushchev as a secret naval base for the submarines of the Soviet Pacific Fleet during the Cold War. Its codename was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54, which combined the name of the regional capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, with the final two digits of the town’s postcode. Bechevinka had numerous apartment blocks and amenities such as a school, grocery store, hospital, shop, post office, boiler room and warehouses, but it was so remote that it could only be reached by helicopter or boat across the Pacific Ocean. The site

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