SVR Detention Center & Submarine Base, Russia | MCU Location Scout

Exterior of SVR submarine base.

I looked up SVR detention centers connected to the unit number found on the dead agents’ uniforms. And this one right here was a front during the Cold War for a submarine base.

Establishing Shot

Using some reverse image search (presumably), Daisy tracks Anton Ivanov, The Superior, to an old SVR Base in Krasnoyarsk Krai.

The establishing shots look like stock footage that may, or may not, be Russia with some additional visual effects added to them. The satellite image is from Russia, specifically the Tazovsky District. The image comes from a small slice on the eastern side of the inlet to the Gulf of Ob. Krasnoyarsk Krai is a district further to the east of Tazovsky, which borders the Kara Sea.

With all the discussion of the SVR in this episode, it might be beneficial to explain what that is. SVR is the Russian translation of the phrase ‘Foreign Intelligence Service’, or Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki.

  • Exterior of Russian river with mountains.
  • Daisy looking at screen showing satellite image of a SVR/submarine base.

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Warehouse and Submarine Bay

The base is broken into two areas: the first is the submarine pens with the catwalk, elevator, and narrow hallway. This is where the team witnesses Ivanov’s submarine departing as they regroup at the end of the episode.

The warehouse portions were filmed in the Firestone Tire Warehouse in South Gate, the same location used for Ivanov’s abandoned Nome, Alaska, warehouse. The submarine pen and water were a digital addition made to the location.

  • Anton Ivanov and others in an old SVR Base.
  • Anton Ivanov and Russian mercs in an old SVR Base.
  • Interior of an old SVR Base with submarine pen.
  • Agent Davis and Simmons in old SVR base.
  • Mack and Coulson escort Mace off an elevator in old SVR base.
  • Agent Davis and Simmons looking over railing in old SVR base.
  • Simmons in old SVR base.
  • Mack and Coulson escort Mace off an elevator in old SVR base.
  • Mack and Coulson holding Mace near Simmons in old SVR base.

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Hallway and Cell

The second portion of the base is the spacious cell where Mace is being held, the hallway, and the control room.

These areas were all created on a soundstage.

  • Jeffrey Mace chained up in old SVR base cell.
  • Hallway of old SVR Base.
  • Ivanov confronts Mace in the hallway of old SVR Base.
  • Coulson shooting man in old SVR base.
  • Coulson and Ivanov in old SVR base.
  • SHIELD Agents in hallway of old SVR base.
  • Fitz and Simmons in control room of old SVR base.

(Agents of SHIELD S04E14, 2017)