This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

&#62; <i>This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory</i><p>It is neither <i>military</i> nor is it a <i>factory</i>. It is a rocket engine test facility. Interesting stuff nonetheless. Looks like a great source of grunge textures :)

this is a testing ground for rocket engines. It's not abandoned, but simply the photos were made at night when nobody is around. They perform engine tests quite regularly there.<p>the girl is lucky that she didn't get poisoned.<p>the nasty thing is that it's in the middle of a populated area.<p>UPD: here's the illustration of an actual engine test <a href="http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/2/33213654.df/0_71e83_5dfd0bfb_XXL.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/2/33213654.df/0_71e83_5dfd0bf...</a>

Translation into english: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&#38;sl=auto&#38;tl=en&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Flana-sator.livejournal.com%2F160176.html" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&#38;sl=auto&#38;...</a><p>I was thinking the same thing (vis-a-vis the hoax) like the girl who rode through Chernobyl on her motorcycle which turned out to be a hoax.<p>Then I thought about places where thieves are stealing cable to the street lights to resell as scrap copper and it makes me wonder if this place would be picked apart like that.

This looks familiar because it looks like a lot of video game levels.

I love photos of crazy, giant machinery. It's easy to forget that mankind builds things that are way, way larger than human scale that you just don't see in your comfortable city life.

Today I learned that Moscow has a giant exhaust pipe sticking out of it that discharges combusted rocket fuel mixture ... which is then combined with water vapor, turned into a giant toxic fume cloud, and spread through-out the city.<p>I would love to know the reason for its placement there.

For a second, I thought I spotted a Dalek in there. <a href="http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5/33213654.df/0_71e64_c0b3a07c_XXL.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5/33213654.df/0_71e64_c0b3a07...</a>

I love the images and it's a great story. But I'm cautious because of the "Russian Motorcycling girl sneaks into Chernobyl and takes photos" thing, which was part fake / hoax.

It seems she is an expert in this type of exploration- her whole blog is devoted to it, here's her entry of military finds- <a href="http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/tag/military" rel="nofollow">http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/tag/military</a>

This is not a hoax. It was on Russian national news network at about the same time when one of their satellites came down.

If these pics are real (and not a hoax), this is amazing!<p>Well, even if it's a hoax, this is amazing!<p>Im surprised she shows her face though...

I'd love to see a translation of this. There's a few shots with her in them that seem like they'd be tough to do with a tripod &#38; timer (though to be fair I am no photographer) so I'm curious who, if anyone, she went in there with and what brought them there in the first place.

Reminded me of this, a WWII/Cold War missile test site in San Diego:<p><a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/apr/02/--/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/apr/02/--/</a>

If this were an active military facility there would have been a portrait of Vladimir Putin hanging in every room. But obviously this factory has long been abandoned.

she states that the russian administrative code lets you visit the site if it is not surrounded by a fence (which had beed partially ruined before by someone).<p>i am not sure that that will help her against the prosecution, she must have revealed some secrets of a rocket engine factory.<p>check the wikileaks case, the guy published the information he didn't steal himself, he had the right to do so but it didn't help much.

Reminds me of the Sleepy City (<a href="http://sleepycity.net/" rel="nofollow">http://sleepycity.net/</a>) folks.

wow - just a reminder of the vast machinery required to produce rockets with chemical based propellants

And in this type of collapsing facility they test the engines that never reach the orbit.

Alyx, is that you?

Even if it's abandoned, isn't she going to wind up in the Russian version of gitmo? (Siberia?)

Sorry, but what is the relevance of this to Hacker News? Please don't let this turn into Reddit.