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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Podborsko
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = File:Podborsko.JPG
| image_caption =
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| image_map =
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Pomeranian Voivodeship|West Pomeranian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Białogard County|Białogard]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Tychowo|Tychowo]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|55|58|N|16|8|14|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 60
| website =
}}
'''Podborsko''' {{IPAc-pl|p|o|d|'|b|o|r|s|k|o}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Tychowo]], within [[Białogard County]], [[West Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in north-western Poland.<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish}}</ref> It lies approximately {{convert|9|km|mi|0}} west of [[Tychowo, Białogard County|Tychowo]], {{convert|13|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} southeast of [[Białogard]], and {{convert|118|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} northeast of the regional capital [[Szczecin]].

For the history of the region, see [[History of Pomerania]]. The village has a population of 60.

==Nuclear weapons depot==
A little to the north of the village are the remains of an underground [[Cold War]] [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] nuclear military base.<ref name=nationalgeographic-20190121>{{cite news |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/archaeology-reveals-cold-war-nuclear-bunkers-poland/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122110543/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/archaeology-reveals-cold-war-nuclear-bunkers-poland/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |title=Archaeology reveals Cold War nuclear bunkers in Poland |last=Blakemore |first=Erin |website=National Geographic |date=21 January 2019 |accessdate=22 January 2019}}</ref><ref name=palka-2018>{{cite journal |url=http://kh-ihpan.edu.pl/images/KH2018EngLangEdNo2/05_KH-2018_Eng.-Lang.Ed._Palka.pdf |title=The Vistula Programme - Nuclear Weapons for the Polish People's Army in case of war |last=Palka |first=Jaroslaw |journal=Kwartalnik Historyczny |issn=0023-5903 |year=2018 |accessdate=23 January 2019}}</ref> From the late 1960s, the base held Soviet [[tactical nuclear weapon]]s underground in a hidden bunker, to be used by the [[Polish People's Army|Polish Army]] in the event of war.<ref>{{cite web |title=The two remarkable mistakes that betrayed the secret locations of Soviet nuclear bunkers in Poland |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/two-remarkable-mistakes-betrayed-the-secret-locations-of-soviet-nuclear-bunkers-in-poland |website=nationalpost.com |language=en-CA}}</ref> The base, special depot 3001, was one of the three in Poland that held nuclear weapons (the two others being in [[Brzeźnica-Kolonia]] near [[Jastrowie]] (No. 3002) and on Lake Buszno near [[Templewo]] (No. 3003)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Archaeology reveals Cold War nuclear bunkers in Poland |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/archaeology-reveals-cold-war-nuclear-bunkers-poland/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122110543/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/archaeology-reveals-cold-war-nuclear-bunkers-poland/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |website=Culture |publisher=National Geographic |language=en |date=21 January 2019}}</ref> The weapons were withdrawn from Podborsko before the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland in 1993. In 2005, the facility was transferred to the Polish Prison Service and an external branch of the detention center in [[Koszalin]] was established here.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kiarszys |first1=Grzegorz |title=The destroyer of worlds hidden in the forest: Cold War nuclear warhead sites in Poland |journal=Antiquity |year=2019 |volume=93 |issue=367 |pages=236–255 |doi=10.15184/aqy.2018.173 |s2cid=166760759 |language=en |issn=0003-598X|doi-access=free }}</ref> Since 2015, the facility has been run by the [[Museum of Polish Arms]] in [[Kołobrzeg]], which in September 2016 opened an exhibition in the bunker titled "Cold War Museum".<ref>{{cite web |title=Unknown elements of Soviet nuclear bases discovered in Poland |url=https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C31337%2Cunknown-elements-soviet-nuclear-bases-discovered-poland.html |website=Science in Poland |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://muzeum.kolobrzeg.pl/pl/muzeum/muzeum-zimnej-wojny/ |title=Muzeum Zimnej Wojny Podborsko 3001 |publisher=Muzeum Oręża Polskiego w Kołobrzegu |accessdate=23 January 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Gmina Tychowo}}

[[Category:Villages in Białogard County]]
[[Category:Military installations of the Soviet Union in other countries]]

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