Podborsko

Podborsko [pɔdˈbɔrskɔ] (formerly German Kiefheide) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tychowo, within Białogard County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of Tychowo, 13 km (8 mi) southeast of Białogard, and 118 km (73 mi) northeast of the regional capital Szczecin.

Podborsko
Village
Podborsko
Coordinates: 53°55′58″N 16°8′14″E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipWest Pomeranian
CountyBiałogard
GminaTychowo
Population
60

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. The village has a population of 60.

Nuclear weapons depot

A little to the north of the village are the remains of an underground Cold War Soviet Union nuclear military base.[2][3] From the late 1960s, the base held Soviet nuclear weapons underground, in a hidden bunker, to be used by the Polish Army in the event of war.[4] The base, special depot 3001, was one of the three in Poland that held nuclear weapons (the two others being in Brzeźnica-Kolonia near Jastrowia (No. 3002) and on Lake Buszno near Templewo (No. 3003)).[5] The weapons were withdrawn from Podborsko before the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland in 1993. In 2005, the facility was transferred to the Polish Prison Service and an external branch of the detention center in Koszalin was established here.[6] Since 2015, the facility has been run by the Museum of Polish Arms in Kołobrzeg, which in September 2016 opened an exhibition in the bunker titled "Cold War Museum".[7][8]

References
  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Blakemore, Erin (21 January 2019). "Archaeology reveals Cold War nuclear bunkers in Poland". National Geographic. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. Palka, Jaroslaw (2018). "The Vistula Programme - Nuclear Weapons for the Polish People's Army in case of war" (PDF). Kwartalnik Historyczny. ISSN 0023-5903. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  4. "The two remarkable mistakes that betrayed the secret locations of Soviet nuclear bunkers in Poland". nationalpost.com.
  5. "Archaeology reveals Cold War nuclear bunkers in Poland". Culture. National Geographic. 21 January 2019.
  6. Kiarszys, Grzegorz (NaN). "The destroyer of worlds hidden in the forest: Cold War nuclear warhead sites in Poland". Antiquity. 93 (367): 236–255. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.173. ISSN 0003-598X. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. "Unknown elements of Soviet nuclear bases discovered in Poland". Science in Poland.
  8. "Muzeum Zimnej Wojny Podborsko 3001". Muzeum Oręża Polskiego w Kołobrzegu. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

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