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Some of there was used for a short time from the wehrmacht, and part of them was rebuildet, but 99% was blow up after the war. View from Kameneck Podolski fortress ...

The bunker's are near Kamenec Podolski from Stalin line : The Stalin Line was a line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union. Work began on the system in the 1920s to protect the USSR against attacks from the West. The line was made up of concrete bunkers and gun emplacements, somewhat similar but less elaborate than the Maginot Line. It was not a continuous line of defenses along the entire border but rather a network of fortified regions, meant to channel the potential invaders along certain corridors. In the aftermath of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with the westward expansion of the USSR in 1939 and 1940, into Poland, the Baltic, and Bessarabia the decision was made to abandon the line in favour of constructing the so-called Molotov Line further west, along the new border of the USSR. A number of Russian generals felt that it would be better to keep both lines and have defence in depth, but this conflictedwith the pre-World War II Soviet military doctrine. Thus the guns were moved, but were mostly in storage as the new line began construction. The 1941 German invasion caught the new line unfinished and the Stalin Line largely abandoned and in disrepair. Neither was thus of any use in stopping the onslaught of Operation Barbarossa, though parts of the Stalin Line were manned in time and contributed to the defense. Following World War II, the line was not maintained, in part due to its wide dispersal across the USSR. Unlike in Western Europe, where similar fortifications were demolished for development and safety reasons, much of the line survived beyond the breakup of the USSR in 1991 due to being ignored. Today, the remains of the Stalin Line fortifications are located in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine (plus possibly the eastern parts of Moldova) .

Outside from the back side, together with the tower ...

One of the 2 inside security ambrasur's ...

Walkie talkie place ...

The condition of the partition ...

Second exit ...

CO place ...

View from the CO room...

The hole for the generator oil ...

View from the 1 floor coridor to the stairs ...

Stairs to the second flor...

Window to the second flor...

The hole fot the wather they cool Maxim...

Maxim place...

Comming in ...

View from the top of the bunker...

Together wit the tower ...

View from the river ...

The entry ...

5m left from the bunker nr2, a XIV century age tower...

Thank you! 200m further the flow, bunker nr 2 ...