Russian Girl Lana Secretly Sneaks into a Moscow Rocket Factory

The British Daily Mail reported on January 8 that Russian online writer Lana Sator and her friends had secretly sneaked into a classified rocket factory in Moscow, capturing many breathtaking photographs and afterward boldly publishing these secret photos publicly on the internet.

According to the Daily Mail, the rocket factory belongs to a downstream facility of the “Power Machine-Building Research and Production Association (NPO Energomash),” specializing in the production of military liquid-fuel rockets.

Yet Lana and her companions were able to easily climb over the factory wall, and during the shoot they were not stopped at all by factory employees or security personnel, as if they had entered an uninhabited land.

NPO Energomash

A deserted factory area

A sci-fi-style factory interior

A claustrophobia-inducing barrier

Unattended control pipelines

The cool heroine appears

The lovely Lana

Looking down from above at the production line at the bottom of the factory

Unidentified equipment

Overlooking the interior from the factory’s upper levels

To everyone’s surprise, Lana’s photo shoot this time did not seem to anger the relevant Russian authorities.

Officials merely sent a letter demanding the removal of the related photos and took no further action against Lana. Even so, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin still ordered the Federal Space Agency to thoroughly investigate the responsibility of the relevant personnel before the end of January, as well as whether the factory’s building structure violated safety regulations. He even warned that if the same thing happened again, tough measures would be taken.

Lana Sator’s personal blog: Lana-Sator (stopped updating at the end of 2007, which inevitably makes one wonder about her situation.)