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A secret Russian bunker used during the Cold War period has been eyed as a potential new tourist attraction, with authorities calling the Bond-like bunker a potential discussion piece for European travelers looking for the next big thing.
The Daily Mail got an exclusive look inside the bunker, which is located on the border of Bosnia and Croatia — once a part of the Soviet Union, but now separate countries onto themselves.
The bunker, known as the Zeljava Underground Airbase, was abandoned and ultimately decommissioned in 1992, after the Serbo-Croatian War.
The bunker, which is not far from the Europe Plitvice Lakes, was built in the 1960s for $6billion in what was then known as Yugoslavia, and was designed to harbor Soviet fighter jets.
The bunker also had its own power, water purification, and ventilation systems, and could operate autonomously — making it the perfect place to hide in the event of a nuclear war.
The walls of the bunker were encased with more than 1000 tons of concrete, making it capable of withstanding a blast of 20 kilotons from a potential nuclear blast.
“All the systems were state-of-the-art at that time,” said Mirsad Fazlic, a former pilot who worked at the base for nearly a decade in the 1980s, to the outlet. “It was the then best military and civilian technology.”
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, the then-Yugoslavians took torches to the bunker and all but burned it from the inside out, in an effort to distance themselves from their Russian compatriots.
But in 2016, the release of a successful mockumentary called “Houston, We Have a Problem!” brought renewed interest in the base, prompting officials to consider how it could be repurposed.
After realizing the site brought in about 150,000 people a year, officials realized they had a potential goldmine with making it into a tourist attraction — and that’s exactly what they plan to do, though it’s not clear when this would go into effect.
“By revitalising Zeljava, we would create additional content for the national park enabling tourists to stay a day longer,” said Ante Kovac, the mayor of the area, to the outlet.
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