Kilometre Post 826

Kilometre Post 826, the rendezvous point for Gordievsky and the M16 extraction team, is the point of no return. While the extraction process was by no means complete at this point, making it to this location meant that Gordievsky was leaving his past life behind, including his family, and committing to a life with the West. Gordievsky almost botched the extraction, leaving Kilometre Post 826 to go into town and have a few drinks, and with it almost ruined his chances of making it out of Russia alive.