Mount Yamantau (Bashkir: Ямантау, Russian: гора Ямантау) is in the Ural Mountains, Bashkortostan, Russia. The name means 'wicked mountain' in the Bashkir language (Яман тау). It is also known as Mount Yamantaw. It stands at 1,640 metres (5,381 ft) and is the highest mountain in the southern Urals. Along with Kosvinsky Mountain (600 km to the north), it is suspected by the United States of being a large secret nuclear facility or bunker, or both. The closed military town of Mezhgorye (Russian: Межгорье) is situated nearby. As late as 2003, Yamantau was not yet fully operational.
Large excavation projects have been observed by U.S. satellite imagery as recently as the late 1990s, during the time of Boris Yeltsin's government, after the fall of the Soviet Union. Two garrisons (Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16) were built on top of the facility, and possibly a third (Alkino-2) as well. They became the closed town of Mezhgorye in 1995, and are said to house 30,000 workers each. Large rail lines serve the facility.
Repeated U.S. questions have yielded several different responses from the Russian government regarding Mount Yamantau. They have said it is a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for leaders in case of nuclear war. Responding to questions regarding Yamantau in 1996, Russia's Defense Ministry stated: "The practice does not exist in the Defense Ministry of Russia of informing foreign mass media about facilities, whatever they are, that are under construction in the interests of strengthening the security of Russia." In 1997, a United States Congressional finding, related to the country's National Defense Authorization Act for 1998, stated that the Russian Federation kept up a "deception and denial policy" about the mountain complex after U.S. officials had given Cheyenne Mountain Complex tours to Russian diplomats, which the finding stated "... does not appear to be consistent with the lowering of strategic threats, openness, and cooperation that is the basis of the post-Cold War strategic partnership between the United States and Russia."
By elevation Mount Yamantau is
# 1 out of 90 in South Ural State Nature Reserve # 1 out of 445 in Beloretsky District # 1 out of 1570 in Bashkortostan # 18 out of 3636 in the Ural Mountains
By prominence Mount Yamantau is
# 1 out of 90 in South Ural State Nature Reserve # 1 out of 445 in Beloretsky District # 89 out of 24823 in Russia # 1 out of 1570 in Bashkortostan # 2 out of 3636 in the Ural Mountains
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