Monday, March 25, 2013

ships and goods train at Paldiski, Estonia


It looks as if the train is on a breakwater. No date. Paldiski comes from the Estonian pronunciation of the Russian Baltiski, i.e. Baltic as the port is on the Baltic Sea.

In the Soviet era Paldiski became a nuclear submarine training centre. With two land-based nuclear reactors, and 16,000 employees, it was the largest such facility in the Soviet Union. The whole place was closed off with barbed wire until the last Russian warship left in August 1994. Russia relinquished control of the nuclear reactor facilities in September 1995.

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