10 Unbelievable Secret Places Google Earth Doesn't Want You To See

6. Mysterious Russian Site

No one knows why this location in Russia was so thickly blurred out: it's amongst the Siberian tundra and the closest city is Egvekinot, Russia; neighbour to Alaska across the Bering Strait. In 1986, Russians were officially told that there were dozens of of closed cities and towns all over the country, with more than one million people living in them. What is most unsettling is the fact the cities had mysterious numbers attached to their names: Arzamas-16 (the home of the nuclear engineers who put an end to America's nuclear monopoly), Krasnoyarsk-26, Tomsk-7... the list goes on. Could this hidden tundra have anything to do with Russia's secret cities?
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