Weird Abandoned Structure in the Russian Forests

• hpavc
  December 3rd, 2007 at 6:39 pm

  Here ya go:
  http://www.sibniie.ru/experimental/complex.htm

  Translated:
  http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sibniie.ru%2Fexperi mental%2Fcomplex.htm&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

• Paul O.
  December 3rd, 2007 at 6:41 pm

  According to this, they’re giant Tesla coils used in electricity experiments. Seems like a plausible explanation, though I can’t vouch for the link’s authenticity.

• GeekAlerts
  December 3rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm

  Thanks for the link Paul! I must have missed the story when “Dark Roasted Blend” published it.

• Chris W
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 pm

  Yeh defo look like Tesla coils to me, was going to say that before i even read comment #1

• MikeB
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:06 pm

  It is not a Tesla coil, they are voltage multipliers. They take incoming AC
  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current )
  and turn it into very high voltage DC
  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_current )
  they are probably Cockcroft-Walton generators
  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockcroft-Walton_generator ).
  The single tower (the round one) shown on Dark Roasted Blend is a Marx Generator
  ( http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm )

  They are all very cool and I want one (a big one)!

• biltmore
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:08 pm

  Wow … that is insanely awesome.

• Louis
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:10 pm

  SIBNIIE complex near Moscow. Very high voltages (1.5Mv) experiments.

• Nastia
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm

  http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=ru&ie=UTF8&ll=55.924094,36.820015&s pn=0.005548,0.013411&z=17&om=1

  via the comments on englishrussia

• Louis
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm

  Whoops! It’s not near Mowcow but Novosibirsk
  More infos here:

  http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm#Longspark

• Mossel
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:49 pm

  wow…

  if they are tesla’s,
  them sure are some mean-ass coils!

• Vako
  December 3rd, 2007 at 9:48 pm

  Knock it off it’s a Commie jungle jim for the children of dissidents and subversives. When the children climb up on it the authorities turn it on and electrocute the spawn of the malcontents.

  

• rkolter
  December 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm

  We have smaller versions of these at our transformer production facilities. Much smaller versions.

  We use them to generate lightning strikes to test the transformers. But these are huge. And strangely standing alone in a forest.

• Louise
  December 3rd, 2007 at 11:07 pm

  Transformer production facilities? I thought transformers were just a cartoon fantasy!

• Dypok
  December 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 pm

  The map link is very interesting. It looks like its near a power substation, and maybe a blimp landing area in the circle just to the south.

• Alex
  December 4th, 2007 at 2:15 am

  The truth about global warming is out at last: Soviet Russian experiments to control the weather!

• jackpine savage
  December 5th, 2007 at 10:29 am

  Hey, thanks for the links that have cleared up a little mystery in my head now eight years old…

  When i lived in St. Petersburg, there was a smaller version of this just behind my dorm. I looked at it every morning through the window. I knew that it was attached to the Technological University’s high voltage lab, but i never saw anyone working. Then again, it was the late 90’s in Russia, not many people were working.

• heather
  December 5th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

  Looks like an evil lair to me.

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