Steam sawmill - a historic industrial site

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Steam sawmill - a historic industrial site

Dilapidated but retaining much of the technical exhibits an old sawmill. Applies it seems, to the days of the Gulag, but whether she was herself a "zone" - is not clear. There is no trace of the fence or towers. And the rest is a real Polytechnic open-air museum. You can trace the entire production process.
It starts with a sawmill with a pool or bucket, which lined the walls with boards. In this bucket, connected by pipes to the sea, apparently struck up a log, raft in the bay rivers or delivered rafts. From the bucket logs filed on sloping troughs, from which left debris and concrete pillars, two sawmill machines located on the grounds of brick at the level of the second floor. Sawmills activated by two steam engines that were installed in a similar to the ancient castle with a multimeter set of turbine hall. One of the vehicles the U.S., even before the war, it is simpler, the second produced by the factory, Vladimir Ilyich, that in Moscow - "advanced, dual expansion with a single-flow boiler.
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Coordinates:   64°46'0"N   38°21'55"E
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