How it was №1 28.11.01 (2001)

Video chronicle: Assembly of a nuclear projectile at a testing ground.

Command post.

Underground nuclear explosion.

Folder - top secret.

On September 19, 1971, near the village of Galkino in the Ivanovo region, an accident occurred during an underground nuclear explosion.

A gas-water fountain appeared near the combat well, throwing radioactive sand and water to the surface and spreading them.

According to official information, the direct customer was the USSR Ministry of Geology.

After the secrecy was lifted, it was made public that, within the framework of the Globus project, from 1965 to 1988, 115 "peaceful" underground nuclear explosions were carried out in the USSR (81 - on the territory of Russia).

Anatoly Egorkin says that exploration of deposits, within the framework of the Globus project, allowed for blasting operations and not only nuclear ones.

The power of the charges was from two to ten kilotons, which is comparable to an earthquake of up to four and a half points.

The Ivanovo region was considered a promising area where gas and oil deposits could be located.

Residents of the village of Galkino in the Ivanovo region, who witnessed the explosion, talk about the events of 1971. Video chronicle: Work at the site of the explosion.

Abandoned equipment.

Mikhail Shilov led scientific expeditions to the site of the explosion in 1995-1998. Talks about the consequences of the accident.

Local residents talk about the changes that have occurred in the flora and fauna.

Olga Daricheva about the consequences of the explosion.

Interview with Valentina Uchaykina.

Her son died of acute radiation sickness.

Other children also died - residents of the village, whose parents were not warned about safety measures.

The children were playing near the source of the explosion.

Vyacheslav Klishin indicates the possible causes of the 1971 accident.

Vyacheslav Ilyichev talks about the safety measures provided for by the Globus project in the event of emergency situations.

According to him, the X-ray radiation was minimal and therefore no measures were taken after the explosion.

Vera Molozina lived in Kranogorye in 1971, not far from the site of the explosion.

No one informed the locals about the blasting operations.

Everyone continued to swim in the water and pick mushrooms.

The equipment abandoned at the site of the explosion was brought to local villages.

People who had contact with contaminated objects died.

Vera Molozina's seven-year-old son began to go gray.

The children's temperature rose; they were diagnosed with encephalopathy and an enlarged thyroid gland.

Vyacheslav Ilyichev denies the possibility of the spread of radioactivity.

He speaks of the localization of contaminated areas within a 200-meter area.

According to Olga Daricheva, after studying the area with the necessary equipment, it was discovered that at the well site, the indicator corresponded to the level, but when deviating in other directions, the devices indicated an increased radiation content: cesium radionuclides.

Vyacheslav Klishin questions these data.

Refuses to accept them.

He is supported by Vyacheslav Ilyichev.

Interview with Nadezhda Surikova.

According to her, oncological diseases have increased sharply, there have been cases of babies being born with six fingers.

Olga Daricheva gives the example of the situation in Chernobyl, gives comparative data on diseases in some areas of the Ivanovo region.

Olga Daricheva's husband received a toxic dose of radiation while taking soil from a nuclear waste burial site.