A "Doomsday Bunker" Built for Putin in the Urals in Case of Nuclear War
In the north of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast, a secret facility codenamed "Grot" (Object 1335) has been equipped inside Mount Kosvinsky Kamen. Its purpose was discovered by researchers from the Dossier Center, the Danish investigative project Danwatch, and The Sunday Times, who studied documents related to the facility's construction and provision, as well as information from open sources, writes The Moscow Times.
According to the information they gathered, "Grot" could be a key element of Russia's modernized "Perimeter" strategic nuclear forces backup control system, known in the West as Dead Hand. The system is designed to ensure the possibility of a retaliatory nuclear strike in the event of the destruction of the country's top leadership.
According to retired Major General Viktor Khalin, who participated in the creation of "Perimeter" and later managed its modernization, Vladimir Putin signed a secret decree on the creation of a new element of the system in May 2005. By 2010, the new system was tested and deployed at the facility. A military town, Kytlym, was built near the mountain by 2020.
The facility itself is located inside the mountain and consists of underground rooms and tunnels, radio centers, communication and life support systems, as well as equipment for controlling strategic nuclear forces. A special feature of the mountain is its rock formations, which allow radio waves of certain frequencies, necessary for communication, to pass through.
Khalin claims that Object 1335 gives the Russian leadership the ability to launch a retaliatory strike in both automated and automatic modes, without human involvement in the final decision-making. In the Soviet version of "Perimeter," the final decision to launch rested with the duty officers. However, researchers note that they have not found documentary evidence of the new system's fully automatic operation.
American nuclear non-proliferation expert, Stanford University professor Jeffrey Lewis, believes that the Kremlin views "Grot" as an element that should increase the system's stability and give the Russian leadership more confidence and time to react in a crisis situation.
Construction of the facility began back in 1982. According to reviewed public procurement documents, approximately 22 thousand tons of steel and 56 thousand tons of cement were supplied for it. Researchers calculated that this amount of materials would be sufficient for the volume of concrete needed to build two large modern Moscow Metro stations along with their adjacent tunnels.
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