Kosvinsky Kamen
| Kosvinsky Kamen | |
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| Косвинский камень | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Russia |
| Parent range | Ural Mountains |
Mount Kosvinsky Kamen, Kosvinsky Mountain, Kosvinski Mountain,[1] Kosvinsky Rock or Rostesnoy Rock (Russian: Косвинский камень, Косьвинский камень, Ростесной камень) is a mountain in the northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.[2][3]
Its summit is bare of vegetation with an uneven rocky surface and small lakes fed by melting snow. The Kosva River flows from the mountain, hence the name.[3]
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes Kosvinsky Rock as "mountain massif" of height 1,519 m.[4] Its constitution is pyroxenites and dunites of lower and middle Paleozoic era. The slopes are covered with conifers with some birch up to 900–1000 m, with alpine tundra above.[5]
Military
According to a 1997 article in the Washington Times, a CIA report stated that there were construction works for a "nuclear-survivable, strategic command post at Kosvinsky Mountain". The Russian Government later stated the bunker had been completed as a continuity of government facility in 1996. [6]
See also
- Mount Yamantau - another Soviet/Russian subterranean facility
References and notes
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- ↑ Brockhaus and Efron describe its location within the Russian Empire as Verkhoturye uyezd, Perm Governorate, in the okrug of the Bogoslovsky copper plant (Богословский медноплавильный завод)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Косвинский камень, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (Russian)
- ↑ Brockhaus and Efron say that its elevation is 2,375 ft., mountain foot circumference is about 40 km.
- ↑ "Косвинский камень," Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)
- ↑ "Moscow builds bunkers against nuclear attack", by Bill Gertz, Washington Times, April 1, 1997
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