Kosvinsky Kamen | |
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Косвинский камень | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,519 m (4,984 ft) |
Coordinates | 59°31′N 59°03′E / 59.517°N 59.050°E |
Geography | |
Location | Russia |
Parent range | Ural Mountains |
Mount Kosvinsky Kamen, Kosvinsky Mountain, Kosvinski Mountain,[1] Kosvinsky Rock or Rostesnoy Rock (Russian: Косвинский камень, Косьвинский камень, Ростесной камень) is a mountain in the northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.[2][3]
Its summit is bare of vegetation with an uneven rocky surface and small lakes fed by melting snow. The Kosva River flows from the mountain, hence the name.[3]
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes Kosvinsky Rock as "mountain massif" of height 1,519 m.[4] Its constitution is pyroxenites and dunites of lower and middle Paleozoic era. The slopes are covered with conifers with some birch up to 900–1000 m, with alpine tundra above.[5]
According to a 1 April 1997 article in the Washington Times, a CIA report claimed that there were construction works for a "nuclear-survivable, strategic command post at Kosvinsky Mountain".[6] It was designed to resist US earth penetrating weapons and serves a similar role as the American Cheyenne Mountain Complex.[6] The timing of the Kosvinsky completion date is regarded as one explanation for US interest in a new nuclear bunker buster and the declaration of the deployment of the B61 Mod 11 in 1997: Kosvinsky is protected by about 1,000 feet (300 m) of granite.[7]
It is claimed that the command post of the Perimeter system is in the bunker under Kosvinsky Kamen mountain.[8][9]