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Former Russian Nuclear Facilities in Poland 

"object specjalny 3002"  

Near Nadarzyce North of Walz at  Kolinia Breźnica.

(Borne Sulinowo)  

The complex contained 3 bunkers, 2 of them where nuclear storage bunkers (T-7) each 3000 m3 an other one  that  was on the side of the others and looks like a garage with 2 doors on each side. A drive through that could contain a fully loaded  Maz  truck, witch a Nuclear weapon on the vehicle. A so called “Granit”. And a large platform nearby. The nuclear stuff  and storage of  Russian nuclear warheads for Scud B, SS-20,  SS21 and SS23 missiles, probable  of  the 15th Guards Division. The bunkers are big places, always 2 of a pair and one half turned of the other,  the entrance is at the first floor what is on ground level. The first Room is (6 meters long by 7.wide) between the two very big doors each one  2 by 2 meter. Than you are entering the bunker at a balcony from 5 meter long  in the two corners are staircases.    The length of the bunker is 26 meters and width 6,90 meters, from the bottom  till the loft is less than 10 meters.Down below on the right site are 3 very  big  rooms 6.90 meter .width and  21 meters long. In here they stored  the warheads.Under the balcony  are two  rooms for the fuses. On the left side there is an entrance to go to the living part and technical rooms like the engine room. The total measure of the bunker  are 40.50 wide and  35 meters long.    It was very dark in the bunker therefore the measure can some  deviate. The bunker contained  the missile nuke warheads  and  not  the rocket its self!

The Northern Group had nuclear weapons deployed in at least three bases. Poland was home to 178 nuclear assets, growing to 250 in the late eighties.
                                      
                                                

In 1933 the new German authorities bought all of the area and started the construction of a large military base, a training ground and various testing grounds there. Most of the local inhabitants were resettled and their homes levelled to the ground. In place of the village of Linde, a small military garrison and a town was built. Paradoxically, it was given the name of the nearby village of Gross Born (which was also levelled), despite the fact that the actual namesake was located several kilometres to the south-east. All facilities were officially opened by Adolf Hitler on August 18, 1938. Soon afterwards the Artillery School of the Wehrmacht was moved there. Shortly before the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939, the training grounds housed Heinz Guderian's XIX Army Corps. During the later stages of the World War II an artificial desert was built there for the units of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps (the other such training ground was established in the Bledów Desert near Olkusz). At the same time the area became part of the so-called Pomeranian Rampart, a line of almost 1000 concrete bunkers guarding the pre-war Polish-German border and eastern approaches to Berlin.

xAfter the war, the area of two military bases and the town itself was taken by the Red Army. There the Soviet military established one of the biggest military camps of the Northern Group of Armies. The town was excluded from Polish jurisdiction and erased from all maps. In official documents of the surrounding communes, the area of former Gross-Born and the surrounding 180 km² were called forest areas and remained a secret for almost 50 years.
Following the peaceful change of political system in Poland in 1989, an agreement was finally reached to withdraw the occupying Red Army from Poland. The last of the large Russian units, the 15,000 men strong Soviet 15th Guards Division (then renamed to Vitebsk-Novgorod Division of the Russian Federation) was withdrawn from Borne Sulinowo in October of 1992. The town became a part of Poland.
It was briefly controlled by the Polish Army, with a small contingent of the Polish 41st Mechanized Regiment stationed there. However, in April of the following year the Polish unit was withdrawn and the town was finally passed to civilian authorities - for the first time since 19th century. On June 5, 1993, at 12 am, the town was officially opened to the public. On September 15 of the same year the Council of Ministers granted the town with a city charter and a process of settlement started. Among the first inhabitants of the town were Polish repatriates from Russian Siberia and Kazakhstan, who were finally allowed to return to Poland after more than 50 years of  forcible resettlement in Soviet Union.

Since Jan-2010