Now the military will estimate the possibilities for the restoration of airfields and the creation of the base Pacific Fleet.. Andrei Ivlev about the sensational finds of the expedition.
Uninhabited island now - inhabited. To solve his secrets and in the literal sense of the word to get to the truths, which were hidden so long, scientists are trying - members of the Russian geographical society together with the military. In the tent camp constant fuss. They work here from sunrise to sunset. Lunch is strictly on schedule. To this unique expedition, participants prepared thoroughly. In service with researchers the most modern technique. With it, it is possible to carry out the works of any complexity. Accuracy and caution - the key to the success of the operation. Footprints of World War II on Matu Island everywhere.
Andrey Ryabukhin, Deputy Commander of the Pacific Fleet of Russia:"When our search parties lead work, find a lot of ammunition mass, small arms, hand-held grenades, including left-sided. Therefore, there are constantly engineering exploration lead and the ammunition found in place. "
During the years, the Second World Curil Islands were a strategic barrier of Japanese armed Forces To exit the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk in the Pacific Ocean. Matua was used as a bridgehead in case of an opponent's offensive actions.
A powerful protection system was located on the next island ITUURUP in five hundred kilometers. Evidence of the presence of Japanese soldiers in one of the most picturesque planet corners can be found today.
Here is the strengthening - the so-called dot - the firepoint of times of the Second World War. More than 70 years ago, there was a naval base of the Armed Forces of Japan. It was an impregnable fortress with many secret moves, bunkers ... After in August 1945, Japan capitulated, having surrendered to the Soviet military, Matu Island became Russian.
Before sending an expedition, the board of the commander of the Eastern Military District of Sergei Surovikina flew on Matui. The island in the fall of last year examined in detail and already then appreciated its potential opportunities for the placement of troops. The large-scale expedition of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Geographical Society started in May of this year. Six ships and vessels of the Pacific Fleet took a course on Matu. A week later reached the goal.
To get to the island of the air, while you can only with a transplant. From Khabarovsk to ITUPUP. Further at good weather - at a helicopter. Water route more long, but reliable. Everything will change after commissioning a new airfield on Matu Island. Now the Russian military is engaged in his recovery.
Vitaly Korevsky, Deputy Commander for the Tit of 303 Mixed Aviation Division of the 11th Army of the CCS of the Russian Federation: "Concrete thickness 12 centimeters. Concrete is in a satisfactory condition. According to its carrier ability, it allows us to ensure the rise - landing of the Mi-8 and Ka 27 helicopters.
Complex research work On Matuy never previously was not carried out just because of his strong remoteness. The main success of the current expedition is the underground city detected here. His secrets of scientists are still to be revealed.
Mysterious Matu Island is located in the center Kuril Ridge. 11 kilometers in length and almost 6.5 - width. Here is the volcano Sarychev. Winters are very snowy, summer - rainy. The average annual temperature is minus three degrees.
From the West - the Sea Okhotsk. From the East - Pacific Ocean. Obviously, to restore the infrastructure of the distant and long time of the uninhabited island is the task of at least. In the future, it is planned to create a new base of the Pacific Fleet of Russia.
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Moscow. Interfax-AVN - Russian military reported on the creation on the Kuril Island of Matu Aerodrome, which takes light military transport aircraft. "For the functioning of the airfield, an appropriate infrastructure has been created, which is protected and serves a division of the Pacific Fleet. The personnel is ensured by everything necessary, "said the commander of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation Admiral Sergey Avakianz in an interview with the Red Star newspaper. "At the moment, a Military airfield is located on the island of Matu, who is able to make light military transport aircraft and helicopters," he said. In 2016, the Russian military reported on the plans to create on the island of the Matu item of the Basement of ships. In the fall of 2016, it was officially reported that Russia placed the newest coastal missile systems "Ball" and "Bastion" on the Kuril Islands. The combat duty of reinforced batteries carries the Division of the Bastion complex on the island of ITUURUP and the division of the "Ball" complex on the island of Kunashir, reported the newspaper of the Pacific Fleet (Tof) "Combat Watch". A machine gun-artillery division is deployed on the islands of the Kuril Ridge. In May 2017, the press service of the Eastern Military District reported that new samples of weapons arrive in the division and military equipment, including drone. It was reported that infrastructure was developing for the military on Kurilah. -
Scientists of the Kamchatka branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences published research results on the island of Matu (Kuriles). Specialists have discovered new types of animals and plants.
According to the Russian Geographic Society, field studies on the island of Matua conducted a candidate of biological sciences Elena Panin and a candidate of biological sciences Nadezhda Sanamyan in July and August. Scientists have collected representatives of the sea and terrestrial flora and fauna of the island.
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August 4, Russian transport company Fesco delivered equipment and plates for the construction of the airfield to the Kuril Island; The infrastructure for the runway is ready, the director of the Flot Department of the Far Eastern Maritime Shipping Company (DVMP, FESCO) said Vladimir Chabrov.
Matua - Island of the Middle Group of Big Ridge Kuril Islands, Length is about 11 km, width - 6.4 km. During the war years, the naval base of Japan was located there, in 1945 the island went to the USSR. The island has preserved fortification structures, mines, grottoes, two year-round taketon strips Heated thermal sources.
"This year, we had an honor to take the cargo there, the equipment for the construction of the airfield: the airfield plates themselves, which will make up the basis of the runway, and technique for the construction of this airfield. We fulfilled the first flight in July, we safely delivered all the goods. It was a bit, metal plates laid in the associated packs, which were several thousand. It was the main load, it is only about 1.5 thousand tons, "said the chabrov.
The cargo delivered the ship "Fesco Pioneer" to an unequiguous coast, the losses managed to avoid. "There are very large tides and lowers, it is possible to work only in tides, and due to the fact that the coast is sandy, after each tide and low tide changes its line, approaches are changing. From a technological point of view, it is quite difficult to work, we need an experienced captain, and an experienced crew, "the interlocutor said.
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New, previously never met in Russia, the soil type was discovered in 2016 during the expedition to the island of the Curil Ridge Matu, the head of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) of the Expedition "Matua-2016" said Andrei Ivanov.
The expedition of the Pacific Fleet and the Russian Geographical Society was held on the Matuy Island from April to September 2016. One of its main goals was to study the possibility of construction on the island of the new item of the Basing Tof.
"A very interesting result that we managed to achieve is the opening of a new soil type. We thought for a long time how to call it, while they stopped at the version of the "volcanic-layered-pen-humus". After necessary analyzes, we will conduct its official classification, "said Ivanov during the meeting of the Russian Geographical Society Media Club.
"A scientific and popular publication on the history and nature of the island of Matu will be published. As a result of the second expedition, which will be held in 2017, we plan to write an extensive monograph released under the auspices of the RGO and the Russian Academy of Sciences. "
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On the Kuril Island, the former Japanese airfield of the Second World War is restored.
The territory is cleared with the help of construction equipment, which the expedition of the Ministry of Defense brought specifically for reconstruction from the mainland. On the former parking lot of Japanese aircraft there will be three helicopter platforms. The air harbor has already accepted the first board.
Second Expedition on the island Matu Kurilskaya The ridge is nearing completion. As reported on Thursday, September 7, in the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the ship group Tof went to the island for loading property and the personnel of the research expedition.
Two large landing ship "Osh" and "Peresvet", Kil-168 kilotor vessel, GS-269 hydrographic vessel, Sat-522 rescue tugboat and the Kalar maritime tug .
In the bay, Matuy's double islands on ships and vessels will load property, equipment, as well as representatives of the Expeditionary Center for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian Geographical Society, the personnel of the Tof and the Eastern Military District.
The participants of the expedition of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) began to survey work on the Kuril Island of Matua, where they arrived to study the Japanese fortifications left from the Second World War, the head of the information support department of the press service of the VO Roman Martov said.
The expedition under the leadership of the Deputy Commander of the Pacific Vice-Admiral Alexander Rabukhina launched on May 7 from Vladivostok. On May 14, about 200 people arrived on the island. Since the war, three runways have survived on the mati, the expedition participants will have to evaluate the condition of the airfield and its recovery.
"The sources of fresh water were explored. After laboratory surveys, water is determined to use for domestic purposes. The personnel of the Military Historical Expedition on the plan also conducted other research works, "said Martov.
According to him, the camp was equipped earlier on the island, and a field bath, a medical center, bakery, a dining room and a sanitary and epidemiological laboratory were commissioned.
Earlier it was reported that for the first time, the expedition raised the Russian and Andreevsky flags on the island.
Russia's military leadership considers the possibilities of prospective basic forces of the Pacific Fleet (Tof) on the island of Matua on the Kuril Ridge.
In May of this year, the uninhabited island of Matuy suddenly gained strategic status. The Ministry of Defense sent a powerful expedition to him - with technique, professional search engines, doctors, biologists ... Officially two goals. The first is to understand how is the island is suitable for the basing of the parts of the Pacific Fleet. The second is the audit of the inheritance left by the same owners. After all, 70 years ago, Matu was also a strategic point - Japan. Between the lines, of course, the third goal of Russia is read: to designate its presence on the Pacific front ... Beach and tranche
We waited for the weather on the island of Itupur for almost a week. The sky was tightened with milk fog, and we read all about the few post-war expeditions on Matu. There were a lot of questions. What did the Japanese do on this small volcanic island? Why did the Soviet troops pass it without a fight? Where did their armament and technology be suited? Why is the island that has no key value, submitted directly to the imperial rate on Hokkaido? The Japanese are silent. The commander of the Matuy garrison died, without leaving behind any memoirs, unlike his colleagues ...
And here we are in the helicopter. The pilot opened the cabin door so that we saw how the magnificent volcano Sarychev is inflated on the helicopter. The island is small - only 11 kilometers in length and 6.5 width. Below flashed stony beach, Zigzagi trench trenches in full growth, caponies of coastal batteries and, finally, the gray concrete of the jams of the Japanese airfield.
Mystery of fresh water
One of the openers of the island of Matua - Cossack Sotnik Ivan Black, wrote that the island did not interest him. There were no sources of fresh water on the mati - only the streams with Talah. Mice and foxes - all animal world. And there were a little people - the Iinov tribe balanced on the verge of extinction. But at the end of the 1930s, the Japanese military decided to turn the island into the fortress. Construction works They walked around the clock for about three years. The northern part busy by the volcano defended itself with the most complex relief. Everything else, Japanese engineering services turned inside out.
"I showed American aerial photographs of the 43rd year - tells us the commander of the expedition to Vice-Admiral Andrei Ryabukhin. - The shooting was made in winter, there is a fairly high snow cover here. And I noticed that all white snow in black points. These are pipes from the stoves in the dugout holes hid! 
The volume of fortification works shook the military historians of the XXI century. For obsessed with the work of the Japanese, they saw some superdiece and mystery. The capitulation of the island without resistance only dug fog. In the last few days of the 45th year, Matu's garrison surrendered to the Soviet paratroopers without a fight. In the middle of the 20th century, a part of the air defense was stood on Matu, then it was a border shop - she was removed in 2001, and the island again became uninhabited for 15 years. But the story if not the mysterious, then the strange island of Matu is not written to the end. It is these days that white spots are filled with new data, and fantasies refute or receive a logical explanation. We are delighted along the coast there, where a few dozen fighters are bungled into fatty coastal land. The expedition is trying to find answers to the most important questions: How did the Mato garrison get fuel and water? The domes of barrels on the island - the legacy of the Soviet period. There are also German barrels with the inscription "Wehrmacht". Some researchers built dizzying theories about the cooperation of the Third Reich and Japan. But in fact, after the war, several millions of such barrels remained, they were used in national economy USSR. And the Japanese garrison, most likely, was supplied with fuel, pumping it from tankers. The new fresh water is still not solved yet. The shore has concrete tanks and a network of ceramic pipes, valves, pumps. On each unit, Japanese marking by hieroglyphs. How did the Japanese solve the water problem? As Andrey Ryabukhin expressed himself, "we still do not understand exactly what and where I went and where it flows out."
Biologists confirm: the problem of water supply is
- We found only three suitable sources, "Vadim Simakov told us the head of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Group. - And two have already exhausted. Water in principle is pure, but needs additional mineralization. Basically flooding, due to the melting snow. The military brought to the island a whole laboratory. And not in vain.
- by the words of prisoners of war japanese soldiers It was possible to judge the presence of biological weapons here, "says Igor Volkov, a bacteriologist of the main center of SanEpidadzor of the Ministry of Defense. - The prerequisites were. During the war, Japan actively worked with biological weapons. The famous detachment of 731 was experiencing it on Soviet and Chinese prisoners of war. In Manchuria, they used many pathogens, but without much success. And on Matua, according to legends, there was a warehouse of this squad, or some laboratory. But so far the traces have not been detected.
"Fox holes"
Almost our eyes the excavator and bulldozer cut off the slope of the round. On the satellite images She really looks perfectly round. On the Internet you can find a lot of "testimonies" that the 54 floors of secret communications are hidden inside the hidden. This is, of course, myth. But the mountain really leads a powerful power cable, which means that there is still something inside. 
Notka Oboyan Trenches. The Japanese dug them special standards: those that are designed for one soldier must be a depth of 120 cm. And if on two, then 150 cm - the soldiers encountered in the trench crawled together. The Japanese covered these ditches with branches and camouflage networks, and the soldiers remained invisible to the enemy. ... the bucket will emphasize the cubic meters of the earth until the cleft is shown.
On wooden resolutions, it is immediately clear that the hole in the rocky breed is the work of human hands. The entrance was undermined by the Japanese, through a narrow slit flashlight snatches a long corridor into human growth in the mountain.
The first dungeons were examined by radio equipment officers, taking air samples. We were waiting for the streets on the street, hazardly looking at the vertical slices. At first glance, the gallery was enlarged - the ceiling was supported by the miner's fastener, the logs are fastened with standard wrought-iron brackets. But the tree was watered with water, although the shtrek himself was absolutely dry.
Chemists stayed inside the hills of ten minutes and reported - everything is clean. And in the dungeon climbed exploration. Rusk in the top ten meters from the entrance turned left, and everyone was very hoping that he ended much further. One of the scouts returned for us:
- I go quietly, talking in a whisper. Do not look at the ceiling, the appetite will disappear ... On the ceiling, the underground trolls played in Tetris, folding the folded stone into the slopful heaps that hung over the heads. And under the legs, two cables were served - telephone and power in the armored braid, calculated, judging by the cross section, to voltage up to 3000 volts. Everywhere, porcelain electrical insulators, coconut carriages, canned cans, pieces of cartridges and black paper layers were lying around.
In the top ten meters from the blown entrance, the Shtrek turned out to be the whole, fasten the vertical, and the ceiling without cracks - we went out into a small room in which we were crossed. On one we came, and the other two meters rested in the collapse.
"Most likely, they also blew them down," said Vice Admiral Andrei Ryabukhin. - These shtreki were ammunition warehouses. The standard fortification of the Japanese was used on the set of islands.
In a deadlock of the tunnel, where the trail from the last blow of the Kirk of Japanese farmer was left on the vertical wall, the scouts were sitting and looked at something. In an oblong subject, the cult Japanese thing was guessed immediately - Katana. The sword was just stood, leaning against the wall. Wooden sheaths were smelled, but the blade survived. A wooden handle survived. Japanese swords are easy to dock, on the shank of the blade, under the hand, the master usually put his brand stigma, wrote a name or year of manufacture. To remove the handle in the dungeon, we did not become - this is the task of museumors. The only thing we saw in the bright light of the lanterns is the remnants of the skin of the scope on the sheath and handles. 
Maybe an officer who left this katana, hoped ... in heavy air, motionless in a shit of whole seventy years, woven the episode from last days Matu's defense: A Japanese officer leaves the family Katana to return. Sappers laid charges, and hundreds of people descend from the hill to the coast, where the Soviet landing is waiting for the island officially capitulate. VERBATIMFrom the interrogation protocol of the commander of the 91st Infantry Division of the Lieutenant General Tsutumi Fusaki: "... From other islands of the Kuril Ridge, an exceptional value is about. Matsuva, located in the center of the Kuril Ridge and is an intermediate airbase, as well as the base of the parking lot. With the capture of this island can be created good base For action against Hokkaido, and communications with northern Islands. The Americans were interested in this island, so Japan held a lot of strength there and built a good defense. This island was defended by the 41st individual mixed regiment, which directly submitted the headquarters of the 5th front and did not have a connection with the 91st PD. "All materials
According to Far Eastern historians, on this small island of Kuril Ridge during the Second World War, parts of the 42nd Infantry Division of the Japanese Army and the Third Maritime Brigade were located. The whole garrison of the island has about ten thousand people.
On the eve of World War II, the Japanese turned Matua - by the way, in Japanese, the island sounds like Matsua - to the most powerful fortress. There was a large airfield with several long take-off stripes, allowing to raise aircraft with almost any direction of wind. WFP was warmed by thermal waters, and therefore could be used year-round. From this point, the aircraft of the Japanese could control the entire North West Pacific Ocean.
Not only is the island is reliably protected by impregnable rocks and high shores, it has further built a whole network of various fortifications. Fearing bombing and shelling from the sea, the Japanese were all deeper into the ground, and by the summer of 1945 there was no free space From all sorts of defensive fortifications in the form of pvs, trenches, trenches, blocks, bits and sucks, linsers, underground shelters and underground galleries.
The Americans have repeatedly tried to destroy the airfield and island objects, losing in battles with a dozen aircraft, but everything is useless. The garrison of the Fortress Matuy folded the weapon in front of our troops on 26 and 27 August 1945. Since then, the island has become Russian, but so far continues to keep in itself a lot of Japanese secrets. Surprisingly, but, judging by the design of the arms captured on the island and equipment, the Soviet paratroopers did not find any plane, tank or tools on the mati. The Japanese command transferred to Soviet parts only small arms and food and ammunition reserves.
Heavy weapons in Dotha and Caponors did not turn out. Where it disappeared so far remains a mystery. According to the VGTRK television company, there are still three 150-millimeter guns on the island, they may still be in underground facilities. Town days reached the foundations of Japanese barracks and even cast iron furnaces. The concrete dots and trenches were survived, cut down in the rocks. The Japanese resembles a two-story dot on the shore, rolled by fragments of vessels and technology Beach, the remains of the pier and the cunning cooker in the Poire-Maru vehicle. Somewhere at the bottom of the coastal waters, there are other Japanese transports - "Ivaki Maru" and "Hiburi Maru", torpedoed by the American submarine SS-233 "Herring".
In Soviet times, three servicemen were missing in the underground catacombs who tried to explore them on their own. Pieces people and natural disasters. In 1952, 16 people poured a snowy avalanche. The last time the flowers for the fraternal grave were lifted 40 years ago, when the island was still inhabit. Expedition members renovated the monument and resumed the tradition of the tradition.
Unfortunately, the Russian military does not have modern accurate maps of the island, although here at the time of the USSR there was a border search, and therefore one of the most important tasks of the expedition inspect the entire territory and mapping the terrain.
Since the territory of the island is "rich" by military artifacts, then the research team, in addition to engineers-geodesists, is required to include sappers, military historians, specialists in chemical and radiation protection and doctor. Each with its equipment. The results of the work are encouraging.
"The runway was examined, prepared for work, deployed mobile airfield complexes and equipment to ensure flights, the drainage system of the airfield was cleared, the equipment was completed for planting the helicopters of any types. The airfield has two runways longer than 1,200 meters and 80 meters wide with concrete. and asphalt coating, "the official reports of the Ministry of Defense says.
In addition, engineering works are conducted in a double bay. There, the military want to prepare the coastal section of the island for the approach of a large landing ship to the shore of the way "emphasis" for loading equipment and material resources. Recall that the expedition under the leadership of the Deputy Commander of the Pacific Vice Admiral Commander Andrei Ryabukhin works on Matu from May 14. More than 200 people are involved in it - military personnel and specialists of the Russian geographical society. Six ships and vessels of Tof are involved.
Help "RG"
Matu Island is relatively small - 11 kilometers long and 6.5 kilometers width. Height the highest point - Peak Sarychev (Volcano Fuu) is 1485 meters. There is an island in the central part of the Kuril Ridge, therefore significantly removed from the populated areas of Sakhalin and Kamchatka. The first mention of the island of Matou was found at the Traveler Ivan Kozyrevsky and dates back to 1711. Before the beginning of World War II, the island existed a settlement of Ainov.
The other day on the tiny uninhabited island of Matu Kuril's ridge (about 52 square kilometers) began to work the second expedition of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. An impressive squad of warships and courts under the command arrived to the island from Vladivostok deputy Commander Tof Vice Admiral Andrei Ryabukhina. As part of the detachment of the BDK Admiral Nevelskoy, Kil-168 killeter and Sat-522 rescue tug. On their boards about hundreds of researchers and 30 units of engineering equipment to ensure various works.
Exactly a year ago, the first one expedition on the same "Admiral Nevelsky" has already visited Matu. And he also led her vice-admiral of Ryabukhin. Specialists conducted more than 1000 laboratory studies on physicochemical and biological indicators, more than 200 measurements of the external environment were made, radiation and chemical intelligence were carried out. Divers examined both tiny bays of this Sushi Kloch - Ain ( maximum depths up to 25 meters) and Yamato (depth to 9 meters). During the Second World War, it was through them that the seven-thousand Japanese garrison was supplied to the Mato, on which the largest and well-equipped military base of the imperial army was located. Most of its defensive structures were cut down in the surrounding rocks and served as a reliable shelter for personnel and combat seals.
But the main thing on the island was not numerous artillery dots and underground tunnels. The main importance was the largest military airfield at the time, which allowed the Japanese from these places to control the extensive part of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of \u200b\u200bOcean, as well as most of the islands of the Kuril ridge. Three concerned and heated thermal underground sources of the runway (GDP) in length in 1200 meters each did an airfield almost all-weather. Nevertheless, in 1945, the Japanese 41rd separate mixed regiment was defended here (in three thousand soldiers and officers, the rest of the garrison was already evacuated by the rest of the garrison) surrendered to the Soviet paratroopers without a single shot.
Despite the fact that after World War II, the island remained almost delubful and the Soviet authorities, almost nothing was used, as it turned out, that airfield and today in good condition. In any case, Russian military helicopters since the summer of 2016 are already sitting at him. Is it capable of the island's airfield after small restoration work, also planes? And if yes, what types of? This, too, last year found out the expedition of Vice Admiral of Ryabukhin.
The goal of such an unprecedented activity of the Far Eastern seafarers is not a secret. For the first time about it in May 2016, at the military council of the Eastern Military District announced colonel-General Sergey Surovikin: The possibility of accommodation on the island of the new base of the Pacific Fleet on the island is studied. Moreover, on June 29, when the work of the first expedition was still in full swing, a certain unnamed source in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated RIA Novosti that construction of base objects on Matu It will be started at a rabid pace - until the end of 2016. However, contrary to these plans while there is nothing there. Why?
It is known at least about one unexpected problem with which the TOO command faced: fresh water. When the Japanese garrison stood here, the water on Matu was clearly plenty. This is evidenced by huge concrete tanks, preserved in the rocks. As well as an extensive network of ceramic pipes, which stretches from them to defensive structures. While the pipes, understandable things, are empty. How to fill the cunning Japanese plumbing again, our engineers did not find out today. According to Vice Admiral of Ryabukhin, "We still do not understand exactly what and where I went and from where it flows out." In the meantime, this is a secret, it is impossible to start a construction site. Tankers and vessels-Aquarius of her needs in the lifeful moisture not satisfy.
But all this, apparently, temporary difficulties and a new base on this island, our fleet will ever ever receive. It seems to be important to try to understand why she is for us? And in general, what will it be for the base?
What can be said for sure today - for warships and auxiliary vessels there can be only temporary moorings. The reasons are not only that the bays of Ain and Yamato nature are too open and not enough protected from the ocean winds and storms. Although they are marked as possible places of anchor parking.
The main problem for creating a full-fledged ship-based location, obviously represents matu Vulcan Sarychev high 1446 meters high. His strong eruptions over the past century happened four times, in 1928, 1930, 1946, 1976, one eruption occurred in 2009. Then the two flux of hot lava crawled into the ocean, froze and increased the area of \u200b\u200bthe island immediately to one and a half square kilometers. No wonder in the language of those who had once in these parts of the people of Ainov Matuy - "Little Burning Pill".
But the volcano is not the only problem for Matu. This is a region of increased seismic activity. Regular mighty earthquakes cause destructive tsunami. Let's say that the most powerful in the history of modern smoked the Simushir earthquake, which happened on November 15, 2006, wrapped a gigantic wave on the island, which reached the height of 20 meters. What apparently is comparable to the consequences of the close underwater nuclear explosion. What would remain in this case from the berths and our ships on Matu?
Thus, the new item of ship basing Tof on Matu We will build hardly. Then in the name of what cheese bor? Restat a military airfield? Taking into account the three wonderful WFP built by the Japanese, their return to life, obviously, will not require great effort. But the length of each, as mentioned, 1200 meters, width - 80 meters. To plant even a helicopter regiment of this more than enough. For SU-27, Su-35 and MiG-29 fighters, too. But, let's say, for heavy bombers Tu-22M3 will be not enough, the strips will have to lengthen almost twice. But after all, it was in landing here the Russian long-distance aviation see the main meaning of the new military base on Mosti, most Russian military experts. Because in this case, within reach of our heavy bombers, the Pacific Coast of the United States will be. So, not only the "strategy" Tu-95ms and Tu-160 will be able to fly to patrolling the "state" front. The circle of potential threats to the Americans from Russia will be much wider.
On this account is full of optimism former commander-in-chief Air force RF General Army Peter Daenekin: "As for the airfield on Matu, then he is currently not enough to ensure heavy aircraft flights. But in the future everything will be done so that this airfield turns into an aviation base. "
The only question is whether this relief will allow terrain? After all, at least one lane for Tu-22M3 will have to lengthen more than twice as much as - up to 3-3.5 km. With the maximum length of the island at 11 kilometers and a 6.4 kilometer width, this may be a problem. Especially if you consider that a significant part of the territory is the volcano Sarychev. Surely and on the solution of this problem today, the expedition of Vice-Admiral of Ryabukhin is beating.
Meanwhile, even if the Russian long-range aviation will not be able to "plant" on Matuy, and it will be limited to fighters, a lot of meaning in a new island database will still be. Because the boundaries of our air cover opportunities of the atomic underwater rocket cruisers of strategic appointments, including new Boreev, in Vilyuchinsk (Kamchatka) will also be decently spread.
After all, today the task of a fighter cover of the Kamchatka is placed mainly on the 865th separate aircraft that flies on MiG-31 interceptors. The regiment is based on the aerodrome of Elizovo near Petropavlovsky-Kamchatsky. And Matua is about 700 kilometers south-west of the aircraft parking lots of the 865th separate shelf. Accordingly, in this direction to the center of the Pacific Ocean, the far boundary of the potential interception of the enemy air attack will be shifted. Winning in time and space for us in case of a sudden attack more than impressive.
There is nothing to say that the same thing on Matua will surely be done with the complexes of anti-religious winged rockets "Bastion", "Ball", as well as anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 "Triumph". Since last year, such a weapon is already deployed in Kamchatka, which immediately caused a completely understandable sharp response in the United States and Japan. There were concerned about the fact that in the Peninsula, Russia creates another "A2 / AD access limiting zone, as such areas are called in the Pentagon.
It was still believed that "A2 / AD zones" we have already been created in Kaliningrad, Crimea, under St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Yerevan and in Syrian Tartus. But all this in the North-West, Western and southwest directions. Now it was the turn of the Russian Far East. To the previous list of overseas strategists, it is necessary to plus and Kamchatka. However, if we manage to quickly turn into the fortress. And the island of Matuy, even the defense of the base of Russian atomic rocket cruisers will become deep-elapted. And to close to the peninsula will not work with impunity.
