The tour bus that took us to and from the museum
The ticket office, formerly part of the factory
One of the many tunnels we traveled through on the tour
One of the documents recovered from the site. Notice the greeting used in Germany at the time (Heil Hitler).
A spot in the wall where the Red Army stripped some equipment
One of the nitroglycerin production rooms. The rooms were covered on three sides with concrete, and on one side with glass to direct any accidental explosions away from the rest of the facility.
What the tunnels looked like from above. they would have been covered by vegetation to prevent detection from the air
A shot of one of the buildings in the complex. Note how it is covered in vegetation to prevent aerial detection.
A spot in one of the buildings which once had a bath to clean people contaminated with chemicals
The top of the graph of deaths during world conflicts.
Looking down from the top of that graph. The longest line is World War II, the second longest is World War I, and the third longest is the Russian Revolution/Civil War.
Looking at the graph from the ground floor (of four stories)
The large building that held the four-story war museum.
One of the many buildings in the complex
Looking outside from one of the windows in the mixing facility (where ingredients would be made into a nitroglycerin dough)
The mixing facility
Looking towards the building where the nitroglycerin dough would be rolled into packageable quantities
The most common weapons used by the Red Army
Another shot of the mixing facility
A Stalin quote saying, "You have to be brave to be a coward in the Red Army"
A quote from a Red Army general saying, "When we come across a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as if it wasn't there."
One of the abandoned rail stations in the complex
