Object 221

Take yourself back 20 years. On a rocky hill of Soviet (now Ukraine’s) Crimea not far from Sevastopol, there is a mid-sized nondescript building. At least that’s what it looks like.

It’s not.

While giving all appearances of a normal building from afar, walking up to it you realize that it is simply a giant concrete block on the side of the hill. The windows are fake, painted on. There are no rooms inside. Only one small entrance tunnels through the concrete and enters the rocky mountain behind it, burrowing 200 meters deep into the rock.

Welcome to Object 221, the ultra-secret Soviet Black Sea Fleet Command Complex. Now entirely abandoned and looted of all furnishings, only a few even today know of its existence and whereabouts.

Armed with simply head lights and a guide (Soviet history buff Adam Contra http://www.lacontra4x4.webs.com/), we make our way deep into the chilly, pitch-black tunnels to explore the multi-leveled command bunker hidden deep inside the mountain…