Hunting The Caspian Sea Monster 🇷🇺

Summary by Krater

A travel vlogger journeys through Southern Russia, Kalmykia, and Dagestan to find the abandoned Soviet ekranoplan known as the Caspian Sea Monster.

From the video

Answers: Where is the abandoned Soviet Caspian Sea Monster ekranoplan located?

• Soviet ekranoplan exploration
• Caspian Sea Monster history
• Dagestan ghost town Gamsutl
• Kalmykia and Dagestan road trip

What it concludes

• The Soviet ekranoplan was a ground-effect aircraft designed to fly low over water and remain undetectable by radar.
• Technical difficulties and internal politics led to only one Lun-class ekranoplan ever being built.
• Gamsutl is an abandoned mountain village in Dagestan that was inhabited for 2,000 years before being completely depopulated in the 1990s.
• The Lun-class ekranoplan, often called the Caspian Sea Monster, ultimately sits abandoned on a beach in Dagestan after years of neglect.