photographer sergey kozmin traveled to Povarovo, Russia, northwest of Moscow, in search of a single rusty radio tower for our story "Enigma" (page 172), about a shortwave station called UVB-76 that has emitted a stream of beeps and buzzes for the past 30 years. Kozmin had some difficulty locating the tower, but once he found it, the real trouble began. He wanted to shoot in darkness to conjure the mystery surrounding the station. At about 1 am, he was approached by three men, former or current military he guessed, who had seen his flash going off in the woods and arrived armed with a very large light. They told him the tower was a secret military asset and
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