Saturday, 7 June 2008

Nuclear Institute - breakthrough attempt

On the same day we decided to explore the old estate in Cheremushki. It's now split in two, and you can enter neither part: The one in the pic is now an Institute studying intestinal worms (it is not REALLY well-guarded - what for?) 

But just across the street is a secret nuclear lab


this huge park is indeed the former estate, closed to public for the last decades. It even used to have a nuclear reactor, but that is now shut down. However, the place IS well-guarded: double fence and a strange (electric?) rail inside. Walking by, we saw traces of an apparent intrusion attempt
    
a car apparently rammed into the wall at full speed: you could see the tracks in the grass, and parts of the pavement were just broken out. The destruction was huge, and parts of the car were still lying on the ground.
  
We kept wondering, what kind of car it would take to break a brick wall - and asked a guard opposite. He said: "Oh that... a drunk driver didn't notice the road turn and crashed. It was a day or two ago... He was driving a mere Opel Astra. There were no cars around, but a passerby nearly got hit - he was so shocked that he kept walking, and thus saved his life, because the driver was turning erratically sideways... "

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