Western Kildin Island. Abandoned military camps on Kildin Island. Our Kilda odyssey

With this post I begin a short photo report about one of the mysteries of the Earth - the island of Kildin. There will be a lot of photos and comments on them. The photos are mine and not only. But I received permission to publish them from the authors a long time ago, but unfortunately not all photos are of good quality.
I’ll start the photo report with an annotation for the site created by my friend and colleague Dmitry Kosintsev:
- Kildin Island, located off the Murmansk coast, a few miles east of the exit from the Kola Bay. The largest of the islands lying off the Murmansk coast. The island is a mystery! Everything about it is unusual: name, geology, landscapes, lakes, history of development, inhabitants...! The island differs sharply from the mainland in its geological structure. The island is mountainous; The mountain slopes are gentle, in places covered with mosses and grass. The western and northern shores of the island are high and steep. The height of the northern coast constantly decreases from west to east. In the northeastern part of the island there is deep canyon, through which a stream flows.

In several places in the north and south of the island, on steep slopes, there are small waterfalls with the colorful names “Maiden’s Braids”, “Sailor’s Tears”, There is a waterfall that, due to the wind, does not reach the ground. In the south-eastern part of the island of Kildin there is a convenient bay for anchorage small ships - Mogilnaya Bay, known since the 16th century. The bay was first mapped by the Barents expedition in 1594. There were fisheries here in the 17th-18th centuries. Solovetsky Monastery. To the east of the bay is Lake Mogilnoye, a relict lake formed approx. 2000 years ago. The lake consists of several layers: the top is fresh, the bottom is hydrogen sulfide, which kills everything, and in the middle part there is salty water with marine fauna!!! The lake is home to a rare endemic species - the Kilda cod, listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, and the lake itself is a Federal natural monument. This section of the island, the bay, cape and lake, was called Mogilny after the barbaric destruction and plunder of the camp by English filibusters in 1809. After this, the island remained deserted for a long time. In the 19th century there was a project to build a “megacity” on Kildin, but in the end only a young Norwegian couple, the Eriksens, moved to Kildin. Three generations of the Eriksen family lived on the island for approx. 60 years... At the beginning of the 20th century. The region's authorities have invested considerable sums in the island's infrastructure. At the same time, Social Democrats settled on the island under the guise of fishermen and organized a warehouse and transshipment point for the illegal shipment of literature from Norway to Arkhangelsk. In the first years of Soviet power there were very ambitious plans for the development of the island. IN short term a fishing artel, an iodine factory, and an arctic fox animal farm were formed on the island... By the beginning of the war, the civilian population was resettled to different areas of the Murmask region. Many members of the Eriksen family were subjected to repression... Then the military era began on Kildin, which lasted until the early 90s of the last century: observation and communication posts, the first naval battery in the USSR MB-2-180, air defense, first anti-aircraft guns, later missile systems, a coastal missile regiment, an airfield, a border outpost and the necessary infrastructure to provide all of the above... Today on Kildin there are only one or two inhabitants... just like the first world war. The towns are plundered and destroyed. There is no population. Everything is abandoned, including observation and communication posts... But we believe that the exhausted, forgotten, abandoned island will revive its former power!
The fauna of the island is represented by many species of birds, including those listed in the Red Book, and these are not only seagulls, but also birds of prey (buzzards, polar owls). Among the rare plants, Rhodiola rosea, the “golden root,” can be distinguished.

More details about the above facts and events can be found at
ostrov-kildin.narod.ru/index.html, as well as on the forum of islanders. I count myself among them. I will post photos gradually, as this is the first time. Please do not spoil the selection until the end. So:
Yacht "Katarina". Captain Sergei Kuritsyn, a reserve airborne officer. It was on her that I visited Kiltdean Island again after 22 years

Gifts for the islanders. They also brought films and music, kurekha and pickles. But this one was the main thing

In the evening we arrived at Mogilnaya Bay and stood on the bank. In an hour we will be met by the inhabitants and owners of the Island

While they are gone, I am posting some island landscapes:
- local- ringed seal

The famous and mysterious “multi-story” sepulchral lake.

Last July I was lucky enough to live for a week on the island of Kildin, perhaps the most mysterious and unusual island Barents Sea. I was very lucky with the weather - before my arrival, the heat was extremely unusual for those places, at plus thirty degrees. I walked around the island, both on the surface and in the depths, picked berries, fished, sailed on a boat. In addition, I had the task of obtaining photographic material for a scientific collection dedicated to the history of Soviet fortification. In this article I will tell you about the history of the island, show you the landscapes of northern nature and its inhabitants. There will also be photographs of military ruins, but I will allow them to be emphasized in subsequent materials.


Much about it surprises scientists. For example, the rocks of the island form a multi-layered shale pie, but the opposite coast Kola Peninsula consists of granite. Only the Rybachy Peninsula has a layered structure, but it is many tens of kilometers away. Kildin is small - seventeen kilometers long, seven wide, but on these seven kilometers several natural areas. North Shore The island is steep and steep, with two-hundred-meter cliffs, stones covered with silver moss, and small lakes. Southern and eastern shores They descend to the water in gentle terraces; polar bushes and tall grass grow here.

1.2 - Views of Cape Bull - the western tip of the island. Steep and high layered cliffs begin from here and run along the entire northern coast.

3 - Cape Bull. Boundary between flat and steep zones.

4,5 - North coast islands. The radio tower on the left side of the photo is a sea observation post.

6 - Terraces of the southern coast, shrouded in night fog. In general, fog over the island happens quite often, milky-thick and impenetrable.

7,8,9 - Landscapes typical of the northern part of the island. Terraces hide the true distance to objects. It seems that the sea is very close, but as soon as you walk a little, another step opens, invisible from above.

10.11 - Small fresh lakes scattered in abundance around the island. In summer, geese, ducks and partridges nest here.

12,13,14,15 - Southern coast, facing the narrow strait between the mainland and the island. In the center of the strait is
the tiny island of Maly Kildin or, as the locals call it, Kildinyonok.

A similar zonation, starting from the subsurface, occurs under water. Lake Mogilnoye consists of three layers of water that never mix. The topmost layer is fresh, inhabited by freshwater fish. The layer underneath has a salinity similar to that of the surrounding sea. And at the very bottom there reigns a world of hydrogen sulfide, separated from salt water by a layer of bacteria that does not allow hydrogen sulfide to rise to the surface.

16,17,18 - The lake is separated from the sea by a narrow strip of land.

19,20,20a - A year ago, in a storm, the transport ship "Coast of Hope", carrying drilling equipment to Chukotka, was thrown ashore. Soon, the cargo was removed and the ship was abandoned, considering it unprofitable to remove it from the rocks. So it stands, attracting robbers and tourists.

Just one hundred and fifty years ago, the Sami, the indigenous people of the Kola Peninsula, swam reindeer herds to Kildin every summer, and fairs grew in the east of the island, in a bay convenient for ship anchorage. Furs, fat, freshwater pearls, fluff and fish were brought from Russia. In return, Dutch and Scandinavian merchants brought wine, spices, textiles and metal. From here in 1594 William Barents set out on a campaign, looking for a northern route to China and India.

21,22,23 - Coast in the area of ​​former fairs.

In the mid-eighteenth century, the monks of the Solovetsky Monastery built a camp on the island and established year-round fishing. But the government didn't care remote island and in 1809, English robber ships came to Kildin, sank fishing boats, destroyed and burned the settlement, killing all the inhabitants and throwing the corpses into the lake. Since then, it received the name Mogilnoye, like the bay.

24.25 - Mogilnaya Bay now. The yachts of the Murmansk Yacht Club stand at the mooring barrel.

26,27,28,29 - Automatic lighthouse and old power line, next to Lake Mogilny. In the last third of summer, purple Ivan tea blooms thickly on the island.

In the second half of the 19th century, the government finally became interested in the island, issuing large incentives for those who wanted to settle. They promised not to collect duties for several years, to allocate free timber for the construction of houses and ships, and to exempt them from conscription duties. In addition to Russians, foreigners also flocked to the island, who quickly settled in and established their economy.

30-36 - Various animals and vegetable world islands. In 2009, a bear even sailed from the mainland, terrifying fishermen and tourists.

After the October Revolution and civil war, as a result of the redistribution of state borders, trade communications with the island sharply decreased, and in 1931 the nationalization of the property of the islanders began. The Norwegians were forced out of the island, and in 1939, all remaining inhabitants. The Gulag was built, whose prisoners began building a 180-millimeter tower artillery battery. At a depth of many meters, in the thickness of the stone, walls and rooms were built. Berths for warships, an airfield, and military camp buildings were built at an accelerated pace.

37 - The only paved section of road on the island, built by prisoners.

38, 39 - Undermountain ammunition storage facilities.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the island had turned into a military fortress with tower and open artillery batteries, an air defense division, a machine gun and tank company, radar stations, airfield, communication and observation centers, infirmary. But, despite such great firepower, Kildin did not fire a single shot during the war years.

40,41,42 - In the depths of a 180 mm turret artillery battery.

After the victory, some of the weapons were taken to the mainland, reviving a fishing base on the island. This continued until the 50s, and then underground construction began again. Huge trenches were dug in the rocks, in which concrete rooms for future stationary missile systems were built. Nearby were erected underground command posts, and on south coast undermountain storage facilities for torpedoes and other weapons.

43,44,45 - Remains of P-35 anti-ship cruise missiles, training mock-up of the missile, transport carts.

And many years dragged on, consisting of planned and surprise inspections, shootings, fresh mail, political studies and waiting for orders. With the commissioning of the Orbit space system, a television came to the island, and on weekends they showed movies in the sailor club. And then the huge country fell apart. Troop withdrawals and reductions in units began. The hour struck in 1994 and the night of December 31, 1995, the last rocket officer left the island, and in the spring, when the snow had just melted, other people arrived. People with autogens, cranes and tractors.

Nowadays, only ruins remain on the island from its past life, gradually being absorbed by nature. Of the military units, there are only two sea observation posts - ten conscripts, a midshipman, and a contract driver. Navy "shovels" regularly bring them coal, and exercises are held every August.

46,47,48,49 - Navy ships serving the island garrison. Transport "Pechora", sea tug, small landing ship.

Every year, large authorities come to approve the shooting site. Every year it is the same. Then three large landing ships enter Mogilnaya Bay and equipment crawls out of them. Cars are shooting, people are pouring. A few days later the equipment returns, the large landing craft leave and Kildin falls asleep under a blanket of snow until next spring.


Used sources:
1. Article “The Secret Island of the Arctic” from the January 2013 issue of the magazine “Science and Life”.

Today's publication will especially appeal to people who like to wander through abandoned and sometimes dangerous places– stalkers. We will talk about an island located in the Barents Sea and located close (less than 2 km) from the Kola Peninsula (Murmansk coast, Russia). So, let me introduce you - Kildin Island. The island is almost 20 km long and 7 km wide (usually less). The most high point rolling hill (the entire surface is actually covered with hills) 281 meters.In the northern and western parts of the island there are steep cliffs forming capes.


Western Kildin, Eastern Kildin and Upper Kildin are the populated areas of the island. Or rather, previously inhabited. The origin of the name of the island is not reliably known. There is a theory that it (the name) comes from the word “kilted” (Dutch), which means “to prohibit.” In principle, the names of the island of Kildin can be interpreted as a “forbidden place”. By the way, in Soviet times this name was just right, but first things first...

Since we have already touched on the topic of the origin of the name Kildin, I think it will be interesting to learn about its origin (dedicated to lovers of legends). The origin of the island is associated with the name of Tryphon. Thus, one of the founders of Russian ethnography, N. Kharunzin, in his famous study “Russian Lapps” (1890), writes: “...There is a legend among the Lapps that the Noids, being very dissatisfied with the success of the preaching of the Lapps, wanted to block the entrance with an island into the Kola Bay and thereby add salt to the Monk Trofim. As the land approached, people began shouting “the land is coming!” Because of their screams, the earth stopped, and all the noids on it turned into stones.”

There is another legend (more ancient). The layout is the same. Only the “aggressor” is the sinister Lapp sorceress, and the victims were supposed to be the Pomors.

Now let's move on to real story. To begin with, I would like to note that the earliest mention of the island dates back to the 16th century. Kildin is present in the plans to seize the Russian state (via Lapland). And the earliest settlements here were in the Neolithic era. In the 18th century, the Solovetsky fishery flourished on Kaldino. Until the end of the century, the entire island was under the rule of the Solovetsky Monastery. Even when secularization took place (the removal of something from church, spiritual jurisdiction and transfer to secular, civil jurisdiction - Wikipedia), the monks managed to leave the fishery at their complete disposal.

February 21, 20 of the last century is the date when red power was established in the Murmansk region. The executive committee of Kildin was subordinate to the Teribersky executive committee (Arkhangelsk province of the RSFSR).

Under Soviet rule, a Morpost was created on Kildin, headed by Khludov. When the People's Commissar of the Navy N.G. Kuznetsov visited the island. (he was then the Flagship of the Fleet, 2nd rank - this is not “khukhry-mukhry”), a decision was made (an order was given) to install an anti-missile battery there (100-mm-trovka)

In the 30s. XX century The entire local population was removed from the island - the Soviet government loved this practice. The family of the first colonists (Norwegian Eriksens) was repressed. My question is: why?.. Since the Second World War, there has always been a military base on the island. Anti-aircraft missile forces and an airfield were stationed. It was not for nothing that Kildin was then called the impregnable “granite cruiser”. The enemies did not even attempt to take the island...

Okay, I won't bore you with the story anymore! Let's go to geography class)))

During the polar winter (November-March), the air temperature on Kildin ranges from -7°C to -14°C. In the first month of winter, the air in the mountains is very humid, and “thanks to” the frost, everything is covered with ice. The highest depth of snow cover is observed in March - early April (there is almost no rain during this period). If you decide to ride licks in such a distant mass, Kildin will burn you! The local winter is famous for its blizzards and heavy snowfalls.

During the summer months it is quite cool here ( average temperature+13°C) and rainy. September and November are the gloomiest months on the island. We come to the conclusion that best time to visit Kildin Island it is spring (March-April) and summer (July-August).

Kildin is characterized by tundra vegetation. Probably the main one natural feature(even uniqueness) of the island is the relict Lake Mogilnoye (south-eastern part of the island). This lake is worthy of a separate publication in a glossy nature magazine. But, briefly, let’s talk about it. Its whole uniqueness lies in the fact that, by some “miracle,” freshwater and marine organisms coexist in it. “I don’t know if there is anything similar to this on Earth...” K.M. wrote at one time. Deryugin.

Experts estimate the age of the lake at 3.5 thousand years. Lake dimensions Mogilny are not impressive (no more than 560 m in length, 280 m in width; depth - maximum 17 m). It is a lake of marine origin. This is a kind of mini-model of the Black Sea (hydrogen sulfide is released). The lake is inhabited by cod, sea anemone, amphipod, more than a dozen species of rotifers, two dozen species of crustaceans, polar jellyfish...

There is quite a lot on Kildin interesting places that are worth seeing. Let's take a virtual walk through them.

Cape Bull. Perhaps this business card today's Kildin. If you look closely, it looks like the stem (in other words, the “bow”) of a ship. When walking along the cape you need to be extremely careful - it is very steep.

Cape Koroviy. Located in the southern part of the island, not far from Cape Prigonny. It is believed that the name came from the fact that... deer were brought here to pasture. Just don't ask me why it's not a deer! I don't know!)))

Dashing Cliff. It is a rock in the northwest of the island. Previously it was called “Dashing Buttermilk”. The cliff is very steep and dangerous (almost 250 meters). Not far from it is the “Hacksaw” rock.

In the west there is another lake called Melkoe. The name speaks for itself...Northern and southern streams. Very beautiful in spring. North Creek (one of them) flows along the bottom of the canyon.

Stone chests. Remember at the beginning I talked about nodes? So... Litke wrote that from a distance “... these stones look like huts.” V. Konetsky also wrote about them, calling them “evil and treacherous stones.” Every year there are fewer and fewer stones - the cruel surf is doing its destructive work.

Of course, I can’t help but mention the strange cobblestone street called “ Rokossovsky's Golden Kilometer" This is no longer a creation of nature. People did it. People who served time in the local Gulag. Placing stones with bare hands was a "popular" punishment. The road has no purpose...

Last July, I was lucky enough to spend a week on the island of Kildin, perhaps the most mysterious and unusual island in the Barents Sea. I was very lucky with the weather - before my arrival, the heat was extremely unusual for those places, at plus thirty degrees. I walked around the island, both on the surface and in the depths, picked berries, fished, sailed on a boat. In addition, I had the task of obtaining photographic material for a scientific collection dedicated to the history of Soviet fortification. In this article I will tell you about the history of the island, show you the landscapes of northern nature and its inhabitants. There will also be photographs of military ruins, but I will allow them to be emphasized in subsequent materials.

Much about it surprises scientists. For example, the rocks of the island form a multi-layered shale pie, but the opposite coast of the Kola Peninsula consists of granite. Only the Rybachy Peninsula has a layered structure, but it is many tens of kilometers away. Kildin is small - seventeen kilometers long, seven wide, but several natural zones manage to coexist on these seven kilometers. The northern coast of the island is steep and steep, with two-hundred-meter cliffs, stones covered with silvery moss, and small lakes. The southern and eastern shores descend to the water in gentle terraces; polar bushes and tall grass grow here.

1.2 - Views of Cape Bull - the western tip of the island. Steep and high layered cliffs begin from here and run along the entire northern coast.



3 - Cape Bull. Boundary between flat and steep zones.

4.5 - Northern coast of the island. The radio tower on the left side of the photo is a sea observation post.



6 - Terraces of the southern coast, shrouded in night fog. In general, fog over the island happens quite often, milky-thick and impenetrable.

7,8,9 - Landscapes typical of the northern part of the island. Terraces hide the true distance to objects. It seems that the sea is very close, but as soon as you walk a little, another step opens, invisible from above.





10.11 - Small fresh lakes are scattered throughout the island. In summer, geese, ducks and partridges nest here.



12,13,14,15 - Southern coast, facing the narrow strait between the mainland and the island. In the center of the strait is
the tiny island of Maly Kildin or, as the locals call it, Kildinyonok.







A similar zonation, starting from the subsurface, occurs under water. Lake Mogilnoye consists of three layers of water that never mix. The topmost layer is fresh, inhabited by freshwater fish. The layer underneath has a salinity similar to that of the surrounding sea. And at the very bottom there reigns a world of hydrogen sulfide, separated from salt water by a layer of bacteria that does not allow hydrogen sulfide to rise to the surface.

16,17,18 - The lake is separated from the sea by a narrow strip of land.





19,20,20a - A year ago, in a storm, the transport ship "Coast of Hope", carrying drilling equipment to Chukotka, was thrown ashore. Soon, the cargo was removed and the ship was abandoned, considering it unprofitable to remove it from the rocks. So it stands, attracting robbers and tourists.





Just one hundred and fifty years ago, the Sami, the indigenous people of the Kola Peninsula, swam reindeer herds to Kildin every summer, and fairs grew in the east of the island, in a bay convenient for ship anchorage. Furs, fat, freshwater pearls, fluff and fish were brought from Russia. In return, Dutch and Scandinavian merchants brought wine, spices, textiles and metal. From here in 1594 William Barents set out on a campaign, looking for a northern route to China and India.

21,22,23 - Coast in the area of ​​former fairs.





In the mid-eighteenth century, the monks of the Solovetsky Monastery built a camp on the island and established year-round fishing. But the government had no business with the remote island, and in 1809 English robber ships came to Kildin, sank fishing boats, destroyed and burned the settlement, killing all the inhabitants and throwing the corpses into the lake. Since then, it received the name Mogilnoye, like the bay.

24.25 - Mogilnaya Bay now. The yachts of the Murmansk Yacht Club stand at the mooring barrel.



26,27,28,29 - Automatic lighthouse and old power line, next to Lake Mogilny. In the last third of summer, purple Ivan tea blooms thickly on the island.







In the second half of the 19th century, the government finally became interested in the island, issuing large incentives for those who wanted to settle. They promised not to collect duties for several years, to allocate free timber for the construction of houses and ships, and to exempt them from conscription duties. In addition to Russians, foreigners also flocked to the island, who quickly settled in and established their economy.

30-36 - Diverse flora and fauna of the island. In 2009, a bear even sailed from the mainland, terrifying fishermen and tourists.













After the October Revolution and the Civil War, as a result of the redistribution of state borders, trade communications with the island sharply decreased, and in 1931 the nationalization of the property of the islanders began. The Norwegians were forced out of the island, and in 1939, all remaining inhabitants. The Gulag was built, whose prisoners began building a 180-millimeter tower artillery battery. At a depth of many meters, in the thickness of the stone, walls and rooms were built. Berths for warships, an airfield, and military camp buildings were built at an accelerated pace.

37 - The only paved section of road on the island, built by prisoners.

38, 39 - Undermountain ammunition storage facilities.



By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the island had turned into a military fortress with tower and open artillery batteries, an air defense division, a machine gun and tank company, radar stations, an airfield, communication and observation centers, and an infirmary. But, despite such great firepower, Kildin did not fire a single shot during the war years.

40,41,42 - In the depths of a 180 mm turret artillery battery.





After the victory, some of the weapons were taken to the mainland, reviving a fishing base on the island. This continued until the 50s, and then underground construction began again. Huge trenches were dug in the rocks, in which concrete rooms for future stationary missile systems were built. Underground command posts were erected nearby, and on the southern shore there were undermountain storage facilities for torpedoes and other weapons.

43,44,45 - Remains of P-35 anti-ship cruise missiles, training mock-up of the missile, transport carts.


And many years dragged on, consisting of planned and surprise inspections, shootings, fresh mail, political studies and waiting for orders. With the commissioning of the Orbit space system, a television came to the island, and on weekends they showed movies in the sailor club. And then the huge country fell apart. Troop withdrawals and reductions in units began. The hour struck in 1994 and the night of December 31, 1995, the last rocket officer left the island, and in the spring, when the snow had just melted, other people arrived. People with autogens, cranes and tractors.

Nowadays, only ruins remain on the island from its past life, gradually being absorbed by nature. Of the military units, there are only two sea observation posts - ten conscripts, a midshipman, and a contract driver. Navy "shovels" regularly bring them coal, and exercises are held every August.

46,47,48,49 - Navy ships serving the island garrison. Transport "Pechora", sea tug, small landing ship.







Every year, large authorities come to approve the shooting site. Every year it is the same. Then three large landing ships enter Mogilnaya Bay and equipment crawls out of them. Cars are shooting, people are pouring. A few days later the equipment returns, the large landing craft leave and Kildin falls asleep under a blanket of snow until next spring.


Used sources:
1. Article “The Secret Island of the Arctic” from the January 2013 issue of the magazine “Science and Life”.

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Kildin Island - real land land. Further - only arctic ice. This is a rocky mass in the Barents Sea not far from the exit from the Kola Bay, 17 by 7 km. The steep banks drop into the sea from a height of a good hundred meters (the height of the island-plateau is 300 m). Severe, treeless, Kildin rises above the dark Arctic waters like an ancient fortress. Looking at this colossus, open to all storms, isolated from big world, it's hard to believe that people lived here. And yet, they lived.

There were three on the island settlements— Eastern Kildin, Western Kildin and Upper Kildin. On the island there is unique lake Mogilnoye, which is home to both marine and freshwater organisms.

History of the island:

The very first mentions of the island date back to the 16th century. In Korabelnaya Bay (now Mogilnaya), the navigator Willem Barents kept his camp, after whom the entire sea was later named.

At the beginning of the 19th century (20-30), the island was occupied by the military, who built a closed military base, Which even included a reserve fighter airfield (27th Air Force Base).

After the war, Kildin reached its peak. For the people living here, it was a whole separate small world. The three settlements were connected by a dirt road. The pier of East Kildin was in full swing with life; large ships regularly entered the bay.

Then there was the exclusively military era of Kildin. Even the construction of permanent housing for military families began, which, however, was not destined to end. In 1995, a decision was made to disband the unit. And again the command: everyone leave the island. Kildin was hastily abandoned by people. And then came the looters, metal detectors, destroyers of ancient monuments. What they did not sort out was destroyed by time and the harsh subarctic climate. Now the only reminders of the former military base are a border boat and piles of rusty metal scattered along the banks.

Kildin these days (Photo report):

Strictly opposite East Kildin, off the Kola coast, the cargo ship (refrigerator) “Coast of Hope” crashed. Special equipment was repeatedly sent for it, but it was never possible to get it off the ground. "Coast of Hope" was left to rust in its last refuge overlooking Kildin.

On the shore - another one a natural phenomenon Kildina: the so-called “chests” - stones of regular geometric shape really look like chests. They are twice the height of a man, but from a distance they appear much smaller than their actual size.

Killer whales are playing around and curious seals are bristling with their whiskers. Getting into the center of a killer whale play is scary. These are 6-7 meter hulks, from which it is better to stay away.

Next on the program is East Kildin. We disembark in Mogilnaya Bay. This is no longer a village, it is ruins. Such a trace would probably remain from human civilization, she will die tomorrow from an unknown catastrophe. Most of the houses don't even have their foundations left. We were unable to find the remains of my family’s house, except to roughly determine the place where it stood.

Under open air Abandoned military equipment is rusting:

The natural heritage of the island is the relict Lake Mogilnoye:

 

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