Mount Yamantau

Yamantau
Yamantau
Part of Armed forces of the Russian Federation
Condition	Unknown
Site history
Built	Under construction (2003)
In use	Unknown
Garrison information
Garrison	Mezhgorye
Occupants	Unknown

Yamantaw
Yamantaw
Highest point
Elevation	1,640 m (5,380 ft)
Listing	Mountains of Russia
Coordinates	54°15′18″N 58°06′13″E / 54.255°N 58.10365°E
Geography
	Yamantaw Yamantaw
Country	Russia
Republic	Bashkortostan
District	Beloretsky
Protected area	South Ural Nature Reserve
Parent range	Ural Mountains

Mount Yamantau, or Yamantaw (

romanized: Yamantaw, Russian: гора Ямантау) is a mountain in the Ural Mountains, located in Beloretsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. Standing at 1,640 metres (5,380 ft) it is the highest mountain in the Southern Ural section, and is featured within the South Ural Nature Reserve

.

A secret extensive

Russian government or Russian Armed Forces, similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex

.

Name

The name of the mountain is derived from "Yaman taw" (Яман тау), which translates to "evil mountain", "bad mountain", or "wicked mountain" in the local Bashkir language. The meaning behind the name is believed to originate from the many inconveniences of the mountain: big bear population, surrounding swamps and rocky slopes, resulting in its area being a troublesome herding place. ^[2]

Geography

Yamantaw has two peaks - Big Yamantaw 1,640 metres (5,380 ft) and Small Yamantaw 1,512 metres (4,960 ft). Both peaks are plateaus, with a big area and flat relief.

Up to 1000 - 1100 m elevation, the mountain slope is covered with mixed forest, in some places with driftwood, occasional alpine meadows and rocky outcrops. Above 1100m elevation, there are no trees or bushes, and instead rock streams of various sizes, with grass, flowers and moss start to appear.^[2]

Bunker complex claims

Yamantaw, along with

Mezhgorye (Russian: Межгорье) in 1995, and the garrisons are said to house 30,000 workers each, served by large rail lines.^[4]

Repeated U.S. questions have yielded several different responses from the Russian government regarding Yamantaw, including it is a

nuclear war.^[5]^[4] Responding to questions regarding Yamantaw in 1996, Russia's Defense Ministry stated: "The practice does not exist in the Defense Ministry of Russia of informing foreign mass media about facilities, whatever they are, that are under construction in the interests of strengthening the security of Russia."^[4] In 1997, a United States Congressional finding, related to the country's National Defense Authorization Act for 1998, stated that the Russian Federation kept up a "deception and denial policy" about the mountain complex after U.S. officials had given Cheyenne Mountain Complex tours to Russian diplomats, which the finding stated "... does not appear to be consistent with the lowering of strategic threats, openness, and cooperation that is the basis of the post-Cold War strategic partnership between the United States and Russia."^[6]

In popular culture

Yamantau is featured in the video game Metro Exodus where it has been taken over by cannibals.
Yamantau is featured in the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops where it houses a base for a fictional chemical weapon – the Nova 6.
Yamantau is featured the video game Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
as one of the multiplayer maps.
Yamantau is the name of a map in the video game War Robots, it is based on Yamantau.^[7] The map was remastered in version 9.2 ^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "Topographic map of Mount Yamantau". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
^ ^a ^b "Ураловед - гора Ямантау" (in Russian).
^ ^a ^b Blair, Bruce G (May 25, 2003). "We Keep Building Nukes For All the Wrong Reasons" (PDF). The Washington Post. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gordon, Michael R. (April 16, 1996). "Despite Cold War's End, Russia Keeps Building a Secret Complex". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
^ "Yamantau, Beloretsk-15, Beloretsk-16, Alkino-2", Weapons of Mass Destruction, Global Security.
^ PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1119, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 (House of Representatives - June 19, 1997 (SEC. 1209 a.5)
^ "Yamantau - War Robots". warrobots.com. Retrieved 2023-07-08.
^ "WAR ROBOTS 9.2 UPDATE NOTES - War Robots". warrobots.com. Retrieved 2023-07-08.

External links

The Return of the Doomsday Machine?

[otm-1] "Topographic map of Mount Yamantau". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-04-02.

[:0-2] "Ураловед - гора Ямантау" (in Russian).

[Blair-3] Blair, Bruce G (May 25, 2003). "We Keep Building Nukes For All the Wrong Reasons" (PDF). The Washington Post. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2009.

[Gordon-4] Gordon, Michael R. (April 16, 1996). "Despite Cold War's End, Russia Keeps Building a Secret Complex". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 February 2009.

[5] "Yamantau, Beloretsk-15, Beloretsk-16, Alkino-2", Weapons of Mass Destruction, Global Security.

[6] PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1119, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 (House of Representatives - June 19, 1997 (SEC. 1209 a.5)

[7] "Yamantau - War Robots". warrobots.com. Retrieved 2023-07-08.

[8] "WAR ROBOTS 9.2 UPDATE NOTES - War Robots". warrobots.com. Retrieved 2023-07-08.

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