Awesome thread OP! I remember coming across this mysterious "Blacked Out" spot a few years ago when it was making a little buzz on the net and ATS, so
I decided to do a little research at the time...
Appearantly it is called,
The source of this information was the Russian Airfileds Website ...The site was shut down Nov 2007 (suspicious?) and this information came from the
Internet Archive last active page Oct 13, 2007. (I think this was also mentioned in the older ATS thread, I could be wrong)
Aslo taken from that site,
Here are some photos from an anonymous on the scene at the site...
It would appear to be some sort of Unknown ICBM Facility which is currently not in use.
There are no actual sat images anywhere on the net of the site that aren't blocked out to my knowledge...
Also wanted to add that Lake El'gygytgyn is an important site for scientific research on climate change and is located in Chukotka, as is the village
of Uelen, the closest substantial Russian settlement to the United States.
Hope this sheds some light, I think I have some more info floating around...
EDIT: After 1945, Chukotka remained a military zone, packed with troops readied for any potential invasion of nearby Alaska. The move away from the
harsh excesses of Stalinism brought voluntary workers to the region, attracted by high wages and privileges. When communism finally collapsed it only
brought more troubles and hardships to Chukotka. Most of the imported Russian labour fled, and the indigenous people were left in poverty, unemployed
and unable to go back to their pre-Soviet way of life.
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