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Mount Yamantau is a mountain in the Ural Mountains, located in Beloretsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. Standing at 1,640 metres (5,381 ft) it is the highest mountain in the Southern Ural section, and is featured within the South Ural Nature Reserve.
Mount Yamantau is notable as the subject of accusations by the United States that a secret extensive bunker complex of the Russian government or Russian Armed Forces is contained within the mountain, equivalent to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.Mount Yamantau, along with Kosvinsky Mountain (600 km to the north), are suspected by the United States of being home to a large secret nuclear facility or bunker, or both. Large excavation projects have been observed by U.S. satellite imagery after the fall of the Soviet Union, as recently as the late 1990s during the government of Boris Yeltsin.
During the Soviet era two military garrisons, Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, and possibly a third, Alkino-2, were built on the site. These garrisons were unified into the closed town of Mezhgorye (Russian: Межгорье) in 1995, and the garrisons are said to house 30,000 workers each, served by large rail lines.
Repeated U.S. questions have yielded several different responses from
the Russian government regarding Mount Yamantau, including it is a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for leaders in case of nuclear war. Responding to questions regarding Yamantau in 1996, Russia's Defense Ministry
stated: "The practice does not exist in the Defense Ministry of Russia
of informing foreign mass media about facilities, whatever they are,
that are under construction in the interests of strengthening the
security of Russia."
In 1997, a United States Congressional finding, related to the country's National Defense Authorization Act
for 1998, stated that the Russian Federation kept up a "deception and
denial policy" about the mountain complex after U.S. officials had given
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
tours to Russian diplomats, which the finding stated "... does not
appear to be consistent with the lowering of strategic threats,
openness, and cooperation that is the basis of the post-Cold War strategic partnership between the United States and Russia."