Simushir is located in the middle group of the Big ridge of Kuril islands. The island is small - only about 60 kilometers long, with 13 km in diameter at the widest part, but there are three active volcanoes. The highest of them is Milne - 1539 meters.
On the northern end of Simushir there is a Broughton bay. In 1978 there was built a military camp - Kraterniy settlement for the needs of the Soviet Navy. As it is evidenced by a well-preserved monument of such a significant event.
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Broughton Bay - is, in fact, a ring of volcanic and bedrock, formed as a result of the explosion of an ancient volcano. Bay size (5.5 kilometers in diameter) allows to arrange dozens of large ships in it conveniently, and the depth (200 meters) is sufficient for modern nuclear submarines.
In the 1970s, according to the existing military doctrine, it was decided to create the second largest after the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky base of the Pacific Fleet of the USSR.
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