Fragment of mine-launch installment

On the photo - the fragment of construction, which is, according to the local dwellers, the mine-launch installment of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, village Boleslavchik outskirts, Pervomaiskyi region, Nikolaevska oblast on Wednesday, August 23, 2000. On its right - signs of diggings. Village Boleslavchik is1 km far from Missile Station PC-24. At present solid-fuel missiles are installed on the territory of the station, which in 1978, in accordance with the Kharkiv-based Research Center of Military Ecology, replaced the liquid-fuel ones. In May-July the trench was excavated by the businessmen, who looked for non-ferrous metals. Villages Chausovo-1, Michurino and Pidgurie are also not far from the Missile Station. According to the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Olga Babileva, the probable reason of the toxic dermatitis outburst in the Oblast - is the pollution of the region by the components of missile fuel, which occurred in the air and underground waters in the course of diggings of the burnt fuel. Condition for Monday, August 28, 2000 is as follows: 331 dweller of the Pervomaiskyi region, including 175 children are ill. Photo by Vitalyi Savitskyi/ UNIAN