Ureliki

 military, settlement, ghost town, border guard

The serious deterioration of relations with former allies in the anti-Hitler coalition - the United States, the Soviet Union led the Government to take measures to strengthen the defensive lines, located closest to the U.S.. In 1946, Chukotka began to focus a large group of Armed Forces. On the peninsula began to move rifle, tank and air connections. Similar activity was observed and the American side of Bering Strait. They urgently set up new military bases.
Part of Soviet troops deployed around the Anadyr, and another - in the Bay of Providence. Some time later, they transformed in the 14 th of landing an army under the command of General NN Olesheva.
In 1947, in Providence Bay perebroshennye connection Soviet Army began construction of bunkers, firing points, barracks, bomb shelters and other engineering structures. At the tops of hills there were anti-aircraft batteries along the shoreline - the position of Field Artillery. In the ravines mask tanks. Just a few weeks, lifeless space tundra has become a strong fortified area. Today only the ruins of military and defense structures reminiscent of the once powerful group, the Armed Forces. All thrown, smashed and looted.
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Mid-1945. Split the fascist Germany on the horizon of the war with Japan, Stalin quickly solves one of the most important for the preservation of their power problems. "Cats" Marshal, adorable people, winning on the battlefield rather than in classrooms war became contenders for power and influence on people. To speed the player in the card-generalissimo recalls the famous military leaders in different parts of the vast empire. Marshal Zhukov is sent to Germany, the marshals Meretskov, Malinovsky, Vasilevskiy - to the Far East, Marshal Rokossovsky appointed commander of the Northern Group of troops. Hastily dispersed on the immense expanses of the motherland entrusted to marshal troops.

In August 1945, started the blitz-war with the Japanese and in a few days had been completed a full rout Kvantunskoy army. Some troops who have successfully acted against Kvantunskoy Army, distinguished themselves at war with Germany, Georgia at the court. To the troops attached part, positioned in areas of Moscow, fought under the command of Marshal Rokossovskogo. The army planted in the Bay of Providence, in fact, was thrown to survive in extreme conditions.

To survive in the snow stylyh Chukotka, it was necessary to construct at least some shelter. Thus, the vast coast of the Bay Area Providence has become a building site. Built bunkers, develop the firing points, rylis trenches, bomb shelters, built barracks.
The tops of several hills occupied by anti-aircraft batteries firing points, along the shoreline occupied artillery, in the secluded log camouflage tanks. In a few weeks, lifeless, a wild place has become a strong defensive point. To many gun emplacements were roads to the land vgonyalis warehouses with munitions, fuel tanks. Personnel of the drum need to improve vigilance for possible attack by American imperialists in Chukotka.

The first harsh winter, the soldiers lived in barracks built of planks, which are covered slag or land, winterized tents, and even in primitive dugouts. For the officers managed to build a prefabricated wooden Finnish house. Lived, and officers and soldiers close, dirty, but many were drinking and eating.
According to eyewitnesses, snowstorm in those years were an incredible force. Coal is brought by courts only to the territory of the seaport. When peremetalo roads and cars choking in the snow, stood a chain of soldiers, and backpacks, from hand to hand, coal is supplied to Ureliki, barracks and housing, which are located in five to seven kilometers from the seaport. With the arrival of the military itself has become a commercial port to grow rapidly. To ensure the Army needed not only food, ammunition, uniforms, and especially a lot of fuel, cement for construction dotov, Bojnice and bomb shelters, underground command posts, already thinking about nuclear war. Many were imported military equipment.
At the same time hastily expanded airfield served mainly as a spare when перегоне military aircraft on the route of Alaska - Siberia. Several years in the Providence based IGCI latest, then they moved to Anadyr.

In the early fifties Providence became one of the largest military bases in the North. Hundreds of tanks and hundreds of artillery, anti-aircraft pawns. Tens of thousands of soldiers and officers were ready to face death for the northern frontiers.

Difficult now to establish the name of fighting under the authority of the celebrated Marshal Rokossovskogo, but for some reason all the soldiers who were in Providence, called rokossovtsami. And the soldiers themselves in that time proudly called themselves rokossovtsami. Lihie, untethered guys. Behind their backs, two wars, two victories, the sea of blood, death, risk. Uniforms of soldiers and officers cover honors for valor and heroism, and to you - for that victory, that shed blood. The frustration expressed in booze, violence against women.

Army rokossovtsev gradually remove from Chukotka after arrival Malinowski in 1952. By the mid-fifties rokossovtsev was not in Chukotka. The army began to replace part of the rocket troops. In Urelikah was built a small town with a missile barracks, power plants and even a workshop for assembling missiles.
Missiles were collected at the base and razvozili to launch the site, which ponatykano around the bay Providence a great many. And the road, and are launching sites were classified and well guarded. On the hill were building finder. Through the rocky hills it was impossible to penetrate the road, because the entire stroymaterial soldiers pulled on me.

Missiles of Providence began to harvest in the early seventies Town missile is now in ruins, like after the bombing. Protrude heating pipes, electrical wires hanging, grass roads, only a machine-gun nests, vylozhennye of stone, not touched by time. They can be used at any time.
Do not stop to wonder how much money the state spent on the construction and maintenance of military bases in the North. Billions vgonyalis in concrete bunkers, barracks, the launch site, and stood beside the poor villages of Chukotka.
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2000: "This winter Ureliki cease to exist. There is no light, no heat boiler. Decision of the heads of the district town is liquidated. Who was able, moved in the district center of Providence, who is not - is doomed to vymerzanie. As the saying goes, there is no village - no problem: neither food or water or heating. And that was not the temptation to have a particularly persistent citizens to stay here the winter, all the wooden houses are burned. So, firewood for heating the apartments do not get.
- On the eve of winter, not only eliminates Ureliki. This is a common problem throughout Chukotka - village electrician Basil Михайлюк hardly hold back anger. - But in Providence, we offer detailed abandoned apartments, to repair that simply do not have the money.
In recent years the population Providenskogo District, whose territory is equal to Belgium decreased from 9 to 4 thousand people. In part because of cuts in military units. But mainly because of the fact that civilians leave the area specialists: «Gates of the Arctic» - the port of Providence - did not work. The last three years, the so-called northern delivery - threatened. Instead, May - June, food and fuel brought in November, with the help of icebreakers.
School Urelikov closed even in spring. Therefore, one of the barracks border detachment, which is nearby, urgently converted under the classrooms. The plan commander squad in early October to drill Platz prozvenit first call. For children of border guards and those who, against all odds, decided not to leave town. "
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