Sorry if the format is a bit weird, doing this from my phone as I'm currently in The Balkans exploring. I've been obsessed with this place for a long time, and seeing how spots degrade so quickly once they're known, I took a little detour on my Balkan holiday to go to Split specifically for this: Objekt 182, the former command center of the Yugoslav People's Army naval component.
Built during the Cold War, it was the Yugoslav equivalent of Cheyenne Mountain: a whole hill emptied from the inside, turned into miles of tunnels and rooms in case of nuclear war.
There's a few videos of the place, and I had made up my mind that I would have to climb down the famous 60m escape ladder to get to it, but luckily after scoping the hill I found a much more reasonable entrance.
Once inside you're met with a long tunnel with some blast doors, leading to a crossroads with a staircase leading to the main part of the complex.
Even if it has become a bit trashed in the last 3 years (damn Youtube exposure), the place is quite a time capsule, and me coming from a place without any remarkable military infrastructure, I can say this has been one of the highlights of my exploring career so far.
After this inital set of rooms, I arrived at a corridor with much larger blast doors (still moving perfectly after 30 years of abadonment) which to me signaled that I was about to reach the belly of the beast, the command center itself:
It's a shame that this room is a bit destroyed, but laying around there were maps, manuals and charts of all kinds.
I guess this must've been manned 24/7 because near the plotting room there were some living quarters, moldy as hell.
And finally, some of the technical rooms with generators and stuff, and the escape ladder which I'm glad I didn't have to use, 60m might be a bit too much for me...
Finally, some more bits and pieces to finish the report, all in all a very fulfilling explore!
Built during the Cold War, it was the Yugoslav equivalent of Cheyenne Mountain: a whole hill emptied from the inside, turned into miles of tunnels and rooms in case of nuclear war.
There's a few videos of the place, and I had made up my mind that I would have to climb down the famous 60m escape ladder to get to it, but luckily after scoping the hill I found a much more reasonable entrance.
Once inside you're met with a long tunnel with some blast doors, leading to a crossroads with a staircase leading to the main part of the complex.
Even if it has become a bit trashed in the last 3 years (damn Youtube exposure), the place is quite a time capsule, and me coming from a place without any remarkable military infrastructure, I can say this has been one of the highlights of my exploring career so far.
After this inital set of rooms, I arrived at a corridor with much larger blast doors (still moving perfectly after 30 years of abadonment) which to me signaled that I was about to reach the belly of the beast, the command center itself:
It's a shame that this room is a bit destroyed, but laying around there were maps, manuals and charts of all kinds.
I guess this must've been manned 24/7 because near the plotting room there were some living quarters, moldy as hell.
And finally, some of the technical rooms with generators and stuff, and the escape ladder which I'm glad I didn't have to use, 60m might be a bit too much for me...
Finally, some more bits and pieces to finish the report, all in all a very fulfilling explore!
