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Aralsk-7/PNIL-52 lyrics
Rusted relics lie strewn about
A metal mound of past might
Military machines left in situ
Like children done with play
Their toys of warfare idled
Careless resolution to decay
Buildings stand empty echoing
The wind laughs behind them
Bakhan lies in ruins dried
A sea gone from 'round it
Legacy of short-sightedness
Dust blows, concealing breezes
PNIL-52 left unguarded
Forsaken of its evil purpose
A biochemical test site once
Dedicated to man's malevolence
This Renaissance Island fated
A rebirth of hostility unmanaged
That would bite the hand near
A force destined by the winds
So many animals sacrificed
They had no choice to die
Such malice unimaginable
It took their lives needlessly
A ghost town upon an island
Then a peninsula, an arid sea
Hulks of vessels lie very near
Time has left them stranded
They floundered in silican waves
Submerged in the drifting tides
Sands that ebb and flow onward
Dusty sea, landscape of wrecks
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Comments
Aral Sea island, called:
Ostrov Vozrozhdenyia, Остров Возрождения
Kantubek Complex with a social club, a stadium, two schools, and shops)
An island until 2001 then it became a peninsula due to draining the Aral Sea
Aralsk-7 1942-1992, a biochemic test site
Code name: Bakhan/Бархан
Official name: 52d Field Research Laboratory (PNIL-52/ПНИЛ-52)
Lab animals: dogs, monkeys, rats, horses, sheep
Closed by Yeltsin in 1991.