Mount Yamantau: underground city. Escape of the elite into the depths of the Earth: tunnels, high-tech subways and underground cities
BAD TRANSLATE. THERE IS NO OTHER WHO WANTS - WILL UNDERSTAND Putin's secret underground city "the kings of the earth, and the nobles, and the rich, and the commanders, and the strong, and every slave, and every free man hid in caves and in the gorges of the mountains, and they say to the mountains and stones: fall on us and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb" APOCALYPSE A secret base of the Russian government was discovered in the mountains of the Southern Urals, not far from the Abzakovo ski center, where Russian President Vladimir Putin frequented. There are a lot of rumors around the mountain bunker, and even the residents of nearby settlements do not really know what kind of objects have been built in the mountains since the Cold War. "URA.Ru" decided to find out what kind of secret complex is located in the Southern Urals. What do the builders of the underground city say? Where it is located? How is it protected? What communications are provided? All the secrets are in the material of our agency. At the beginning of the new, 21st century, Russian President Vladimir Putin became a frequent visitor to the South Ural ski resort Abzakovo, located about 60 km from Magnitogorsk. Neither Putin nor his aides could explain to the public why the head of state chose this place. Officially, Putin liked skiing there. But there is also an unofficial version. Thus, the president came to supervise the completion of the construction of a secret underground city located in the highest mountain of the South Ural massif - Yamantau (translated from Bashkir - "bad head", height 1640 m). Greetings from America It is in this mountain (pictured) that a secret city was built. The Americans were the first to tell the whole world about the existence of a secret mountain facility in the South Urals. On April 16, 1996, The New York Times published an article reporting on a mysterious military base being built in Russia. “In a secret project reminiscent of the horrific Cold War era, Russia is building a giant military complex underground in the Ural Mountains, according to Western officials and witnesses in Russia. Hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region (today - the city of Mezhgorye - ed.) in the Southern Urals, a huge complex is approached by a railway and a highway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work,” the newspaper wrote. The topic was picked up by other foreign media. The Washington Times published an article on April 1, 1997, "Moscow is building bunkers in case of a nuclear attack", which stated that "while the United States has closed most of these facilities, Russia is rapidly pursuing a costly program to build underground shelters, tunnels and command posts inherited from the Cold War. In particular, work continues on the creation of an underground command post for strategic forces in the Urals near the city of Beloretsk.” Foreign publications tried to take comments from Russian officials. But, of course, no clear explanation followed. Russian journalists did not pick up the sensation about the secret facility in Mount Yamantau: several materials followed, in which there were suggestions about the extraction of uranium ore in the South Ural mountain, and about the repository of state values, and about the reserve of food products. Among the others, the version of building a bunker for the Russian government in case of a nuclear war was put forward. But slowly the topic of the special facility in Yamantau faded away. Spy tourists At the top of the mountain there is a heliport (pictured), at any time it can receive a government helicopter with passenger No. 1. Meanwhile, unlike the general public, tourists who annually climb this mountain have not forgotten about Yamantau. They say that just since the beginning of the 2000s, measures to protect the environs of Yamantau have become tougher. On the one hand, the mountain is located on the territory of the South Ural State Reserve (they say that the reserve was established there not by chance). But the Yamantau neighborhood is patrolled not only by rangers, but also by the military. “In the area of the Yamantau special facility, it is necessary to be careful, not to make noise, not to make smoky fires and not to give out your presence in any other bad way. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting acquainted with the life and traditions of the special forces, giving them the footage (money, knife, cigarettes), hoarse, proving that you are not a spy from Alabama, and if in the end you are nevertheless released or handed over to the rangers (and not shot), you will still be sincerely grateful to them, ”tourists share their advice. Those who have reached the top of Yamantau say that it is a huge rocky plateau, with a small pile of rocky outcrops in the center. “At the top until the early 90s. there was a military unit serving a concrete helipad and military special equipment. After the military, ruins of former buildings, puddles of fuel oil and piles of rusted iron remained on the top of the mountain,” eyewitnesses say. We saw tourists and mines leading deep into the mountains. But most of the people who have visited Yamantau claim that uranium mines are most likely located there. “We found pool sections there, separated by concrete partitions. Most likely, they were intended for pre-transportation storage of uranium ore,” says one of the tourists. “However, even the inhabitants of Mezhgorye, located at the foot of the mountain, do not fully know about what is hidden in the bowels of Mount Yamantau. The Yamantau facility has the status of increased secrecy - this is a fact, everything else is just speculation and assumptions, ”says another. The secret city The underground city is provided with all communications, including electricity (pictured is the vicinity of Yamantau). But the observers turned out to be wrong in their assumptions. In Mount Yamantau, not mines were built, but a real underground city. Our agency was able to contact several builders who took part in its construction. All persons related to Yamantau signed a non-disclosure agreement, so their names are not disclosed. So, as one of the participants in the events said, the construction of an underground base in Mount Yamantau really began in the Soviet years, during the Cold War. The facility was designed and built by the Department of Construction-30, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The administration is based in ZATO Mezhgorye (formerly Belorets-16, also called the city of Solnechny). Construction Department-30 specializes in the construction of facilities and facilities for underground and surface accommodation, conducts large-scale underground construction: in this area, US-30 is one of the largest construction organizations. Work on the construction of the underground city was completed around 2002 (just at the time of Putin's frequent visits to Abzakovo). Since then, constant work has been carried out to maintain the complex (hence the enhanced protection of the territory). A branch of the railway has been brought to Mount Yamantau. A motor road was launched from Magnitogorsk. The city in the mountain is designed for the simultaneous residence of 300 thousand people (for example, 400 thousand people live in Magnitogorsk, 1.5 million in Yekaterinburg). “In the underground complex, which is divided into so-called “houses”, all the necessary infrastructure has been created: communications have been connected, life support systems have been established. All conditions have been created so that people can stay in this underground city for at least six months without leaving the surface, ”says an eyewitness. According to another witness, the complex consists of a system of shafts with a diameter of 30 meters and a total length of about 500 km. An official explanation of the purpose for which a secret underground facility was built and is still being maintained in Mount Yamantau, for which such unprecedented security measures are being taken, has not been obtained.
Humanity has been buried underground for a long time. To protect yourself, hide your secrets, prepare for the inevitable. Examples include dugouts, ancient underground tunnels, catacombs, bunkers, and even entire cities.
Turkey. Derinkuyu, Cappadocia. In 1960, archaeologists accidentally discovered the underground village of Derinkuyu, which has up to 18 levels. Presumably, it was built in the 8th century BC. e. fugitives hiding from enemies. One could live there for a long time without fear of the longest siege. Who these builders were, from whom they were hiding and who pursued them, scientists cannot yet answer for sure.
France. Naur. In ancient times, in the north of France, the Romans made a stone quarry under the forest. In the Middle Ages, the locals adapted the quarry as a shelter where they could hide from mercenaries and armed groups. In the constructed caves, 3 thousand people could hide, wells, chapels, bakeries and even stables were hollowed out there.
Mining salt for seven centuries, people dug deeper and further into the ground. Empty spaces gradually began to settle down, turning into a seven-level palace. The tunnels stretch for 300 kilometers and are located at a depth of more than 200 meters.
Ethiopia. Lalibela. In the African country, the memory of King Gebre Meskel Lalibela has been preserved. His reign falls between the 12th and 13th centuries. The king from the Zagwe dynasty was a restrained in food, fair in deeds and an ambitious ruler in thoughts. Having once visited Jerusalem, he began to build a semblance of the Holy City. Of course, he doesn’t have such monuments in the Eternal City, but there are a large number of catacombs deepened into the ground, where different ones are still found.
Italy. Orvieto. On the Italian hills is the ancient town of Orvieto. It is interesting not only for architectural buildings located on the surface, but also underground. Even the ancient Etruscan tribes began to deepen here. Each generation expanded, enlarged and ennobled the dungeon. Until it turned into a semblance of a real city.
Jordan. Peter. Perhaps Petra is the most famous city carved into the rocks. It is difficult to call it underground, as the buildings seem to be in plain sight. However, recent excavations have shown that passages and rooms go deeper and further into the rocks. Once upon a time, trading life was in full swing on the territory of Petra, until the ways of transporting goods shifted.
USA. Burlington. During the Cold War, shelters were built all over the world, usually for high-ranking officials. In the American city of Burlington, underground bunkers were dug out and equipped, representing a whole complex capable of accommodating up to 4 thousand people. There were offices, medical rooms, cafeterias, and an Air Force radio station and studio. In 2004, the building was demolished.
China. Beijing. Chinese large-scale plans and fears are legendary. In the 60s and 70s they dug into the ground, fearing an atomic war. A shelter of such magnitude was created under the capital that more than a million Chinese could live there for six months, eating and having fun without leaving the surface.
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Recently, a huge complex of underground cities located on several tiers and connected by tunnels was discovered in Turkey (Cappadocia). Underground shelters were built by an unknown people in ancient times.
Erik von Däniken, in his book In the Footsteps of the Almighty, describes these refuges as follows:
…were discovered gigantic underground cities designed for many thousands of inhabitants. The most famous of them are located under the modern village of Derinkuyu. The entrances to the underworld are hidden under the houses. Here and there in the area there are ventilation holes leading far inland. The dungeon is cut through by tunnels connecting rooms. The first floor from Derinkuyu village covers an area of four square kilometers, and the fifth floor room can accommodate 10,000 people. It is estimated that this underground complex can simultaneously fit 300 thousand people.
Only the underground structures of Derinkuyu have 52 ventilation shafts and 15 thousand entrances. The biggest mine reaches deep 85 meters. The lower part of the city served as a reservoir for water ...
To date, 36 underground cities have been discovered in this area. Not all of them are on the scale of Kaimakli or Derinkuyu, but their plans were carefully crafted. People who know this area well believe that there are still many underground structures. All the cities known today are interconnected by tunnels.
These underground shelters with huge stone latches, warehouses, kitchens and ventilation shafts are shown in Eric von Däniken's documentary "In the Footsteps of the Almighty". The author of the film suggested that the ancient people hid in them from some kind of threat emanating from heaven.
In many regions of our planet, there are numerous mysterious underground structures of an incomprehensible purpose to us. In the Sahara desert (Ghat oasis) near the Algerian border (10 ° west longitude and 25 ° north latitude), there is a whole system of tunnels and underground communications, which are carved into the rock, underground. The height of the main adits is 3 meters, the width is 4 meters. In some places, the distance between the tunnels is less than 6 meters. The average length of the tunnels is 4.8 kilometers, and their total length (together with auxiliary adits) is 1600 kilometers.
The modern Channel Tunnel looks like child's play compared to these structures. There is an assumption that these underground corridors were intended to supply water to the desert regions of the Sahara. But it would be much easier to dig irrigation canals on the surface of the earth. In addition, in those distant times, the climate in this region was humid, there was heavy rainfall - and there was no particular need for irrigation of the land.
To dig these passages underground, it was necessary to extract 20 million cubic meters of rock- this is many times the volume of all the built Egyptian pyramids. The work is truly titanic. It is almost impossible to carry out the construction of underground communications in such a volume using even modern technical means. Scientists attribute these underground communications to the 5th millennium BC. e., that is, by the time when our ancestors only learned to build primitive huts and use stone tools. Who, then, built these grandiose tunnels and for what purpose?
In the first half of the 16th century, Francisco Pizarro discovered the entrance to a cave in the Peruvian Andes, covered with rock blocks. It was located at an altitude of 6770 meters above sea level on Mount Huascaran. A speleological expedition organized in 1971, while examining a system of tunnels consisting of several levels, discovered hermetic doors, which, despite their massiveness, easily turned to open the entrance. The floor of the underground passages is paved with blocks treated in such a way as to prevent slipping (the tunnels leading to the ocean have a slope of about 14 °). According to various estimates, the total length of communications is from 88 to 105 kilometers. It is assumed that earlier the tunnels led to the island of Guanape, but it is rather difficult to verify this hypothesis, because the passages end in a lake of salty sea water.
In 1965, in Ecuador (province of Morona-Santiago), between the cities of Galaquiza, San Antonio and Yopi, Argentinean Juan Moric discovered a system of tunnels and ventilation shafts with a total length of several hundred kilometers. The entrance to this system looks like a neat cut in the rock the size of a barn gate. The tunnels have a rectangular section with varying widths and sometimes turn at right angles. The walls of underground utilities are covered with a kind of glaze, as if they were treated with some kind of solvent or exposed to high temperatures. Interestingly, no rock dumps from the tunnels were found near the exit.
The underground passage successively leads to underground platforms and huge halls located at a depth of 240 meters, with ventilation holes 70 centimeters wide. In the center of one of the halls, measuring 110 x 130 meters, there is a table and seven thrones made of an unknown material similar to plastic. A whole gallery of large golden figures depicting animals was also found there: elephants, crocodiles, lions, camels, bison, bears, monkeys, wolves, jaguars, crabs, snails and even dinosaurs. The researchers also found a "library" consisting of several thousand metal embossed plates measuring 45 x 90 centimeters, covered with incomprehensible signs. The priest Father Carlo Crespi, who conducted archaeological research there with the permission of the Vatican, states:
All the finds taken out of the tunnels belong to the pre-Christian era, and most of the symbols and prehistoric images are older than the times of the Flood.
In 1972, Eric von Daniken met with Juan Moric and persuaded him to show the ancient tunnels. The researcher agreed, but on one condition - not to photograph the underground labyrinths. In his book, Daniken writes:
To better understand what was happening, the guides made us walk the last 40 kilometers. We are very tired; the tropics have exhausted us. Finally, we came to a hill that has many entrances into the depths of the Earth.
The entrance we chose was almost invisible due to the vegetation covering it. It was wider than a railway station. We passed through a tunnel that was about 40 meters wide; its flat ceiling showed no signs of connecting devices.
The entrance to it was located at the foot of the Los Tayos hill, and at least the first 200 meters went simply down towards the center of the massif. The height of the tunnel was about 230 centimeters, there was a floor partially covered with bird droppings, a layer of about 80 centimeters. Among the garbage and droppings, metal and stone figures were constantly coming across. The floor was made of worked stone.
We lit our way with carbide lamps. There were no traces of soot in these caves. According to legend, their inhabitants illuminated the road with golden mirrors that reflected sunlight, or with a light-gathering system using emeralds. This last solution reminded us of the laser principle. The walls are also covered with very well-crafted stones. The admiration caused by the buildings of Machu Picchu is reduced when you see this work. The stone is smoothly polished and has straight edges. The ribs are not rounded. The junctions of the stones are barely visible. Judging by some of the worked blocks lying on the floor, there were no subsidences, since the surrounding walls are finished and completely finished. What is it - the inaccuracy of the creators, who, having finished the work, left pieces behind them, or did they think to continue their work?
The walls are almost completely covered with reliefs of animals - both modern and extinct. Dinosaurs, elephants, jaguars, crocodiles, monkeys, crayfish - all headed towards the center. We found a carved inscription - a square with rounded corners, with a side of about 12 centimeters. Groups of geometric figures varied between two and four units of varying length, appearing to be placed in a vertical and horizontal form. From one to another this order was not repeated. Is it a number system or a computer program? Just in case, the expedition was equipped with an oxygen supply system, but it was not needed. Even today, the ventilation ducts cut vertically into the hill are well preserved and have performed their function. When exiting to the surface, some of them are covered with lids. It is difficult to detect them from the outside, only sometimes a bottomless well is shown among the groups of stones.
The ceiling in the tunnel is low, without relief. Outwardly, it looks like it was made of rough processed stone. However, it is soft to the touch. The heat and damp have disappeared, making the journey easier. We reached a wall of cut stone that separated our path. On both sides of the wide tunnel through which we descended, a path opened to a narrower passage. We moved on to one of those that went to the left. We later discovered that another passage led in the same direction. We walked about 1200 meters through these passages, only to find a stone wall blocking our path. Our guide extended his hand to some point, and at the same time two stone doors 35 centimeters wide opened.
We stopped, holding our breath, at the mouth of a huge cave with dimensions that cannot be determined with the naked eye. One side was about 5 meters high. The dimensions of the cave were approximately 110 x 130 meters, although its shape is not rectangular.
The conductor whistled, and various shadows crossed the "living room". Birds, butterflies flew, no one understood where. Various tunnels have opened up. Our guide said that this Great Room is always clean. Everywhere on the walls are painted animals and drawn squares. And they all connect with each other. There was a table and several chairs in the middle of the Living Room. Men sit down, leaning back; but these chairs are for taller people. They are designed for statues about 2 meters high. At first glance, the table and chairs are made of simple stone. However, if touched, they will be made of plastic material, almost worn and completely smooth. The table, measuring approximately 3 x 6 meters, is supported only by a cylindrical base with a diameter of 77 centimeters.
The thickness of the top is about 30 centimeters. There are five chairs on one side of it, and six or seven on the other. If you touch the inside of the table top, you feel the texture and coldness of the stone, making you think it is covered with an unknown material. First, the guide led us to another hidden door. Once again, two sections of stone slid open effortlessly, revealing yet another smaller living space. It had a mass of shelves with volumes, and in the middle between them there was a passage, like in a modern book warehouse. They, too, were made of some kind of cold material, soft, but with edges that almost cut into the skin. Stone, petrified wood or metal? Hard to understand.
Each such volume was 90 centimeters high and 45 centimeters thick and kept about 400 processed gold pages. These books have metal covers 4mm thick and are darker in color than the pages themselves. They are not sewn, but fastened in some other way. The imprudence of one of the visitors drew our attention to one more detail. He grabbed one of the metal pages, which, despite being a fraction of a millimeter thick, was strong and even. A notebook without a cover fell to the floor and, when you tried to pick it up, wrinkled like paper. Each page was engraved, so jewel-like that it looked like it was written in ink. Maybe this is an underground storage of some space library?
The pages of these volumes are divided into various squares with rounded corners. Here, perhaps, it is much easier to understand these hieroglyphs, abstract symbols, as well as stylized human figures - heads with rays, hands with three, four and five fingers. Among these symbols, one is similar to a large carved inscription found in the museum of the Church of Our Lady of Cuenca. It probably belongs to the golden objects supposedly taken from Los Tayos. It is 52 centimeters long, 14 centimeters wide and 4 centimeters deep, with 56 different characters, which could well be an alphabet ... The visit to Cuenca was very important for us, because we could see the objects exhibited by Father Crespi in the Church of Our Lady, and also listen to legends about local white gods, fair-haired and blue-eyed, who from time to time visited this country ... Their place of residence is unknown, although it is assumed that they lived in an unknown city near Cuenca. Although the dark-skinned indigenous people believe that they bring happiness, they are afraid of their mental power, as they practice telepathy and are said to be able to levitate objects without contact. Their average height is 185 centimeters for women and 190 for men. The chairs of the Great Living Room in Los Tayos will definitely suit them.
Numerous illustrations of amazing underground finds can be seen in von Daniken's book "Gold of the Gods". When Juan Moric reported his find, a joint Anglo-Ecuadorian expedition was organized to explore the tunnels. Her honorary advisor, Neil Armstrong, said of the results:
Signs of human life underground have been found, and this may prove to be the world's major archaeological discovery of the century.
After this interview, there was no more information about the mysterious dungeons, and the area where they are located is now closed to foreigners.
Shelters for protection from the cataclysms that hit the Earth during its approach to the neutron star, as well as from all sorts of disasters that accompanied the wars of the gods, were built all over the globe. Dolmens, which are a kind of stone dugouts, covered with a massive slab and with a small round opening for entry, were intended for the same purposes as underground structures, that is, they served as a refuge. These stone buildings are found in different parts of the world - India, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Korea, Siberia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. At the same time, dolmens located in different parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to each other, as if they were made according to a standard design. According to the legends and myths of various peoples, they were built by dwarfs, as well as people, but the latter buildings turned out to be more primitive, since they used roughly processed stones.
During the construction of these structures, special layers dampening vibrations were sometimes made under the foundation, which protected the dolmens from earthquakes. For example, an ancient building located in Azerbaijan near the village of Gorikidi has two damping tiers. In the Egyptian pyramids, chambers filled with sand were also found, which served the same purpose.
The accuracy of fitting the massive stone slabs of the dolmens is also striking. Even with the help of modern technical means, it is very difficult to assemble a dolmen from ready-made blocks. Here is how A. Formozov describes an attempt to transport one of the dolmens in the book “Monuments of Primitive Art”:
In 1960, it was decided to transport some dolmen from Esheri to Sukhumi - to the courtyard of the Abkhazian museum. They chose the smallest one and brought a crane to it. No matter how they fixed the loops of the steel cable to the cover plate, it did not move. A second crane was called. Two cranes removed a multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. Exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhumi. In 1961, with the help of a new mechanism, all the stones were loaded onto vehicles. But the main thing was ahead: to reassemble the house. The reconstruction has been carried out only partially. The roof was lowered onto four walls, but they could not turn it so that their edges fit into the grooves on the inner surface of the roof. In ancient times, the plates were driven so close to each other that the blade of a knife could not fit between them. Now there is a big gap.
At present, numerous ancient catacombs have been discovered in various regions of the planet, it is not known when and by whom dug. There is an assumption that these underground multi-tiered galleries were formed in the process of extracting stone for the construction of buildings. But why was it necessary to expend titanic labor, gouging out blocks of the strongest rocks in narrow underground galleries, when there are similar rocks nearby, moreover, located directly on the earth's surface?
Ancient catacombs were found near Paris, in Italy (Rome, Naples), Spain, on the islands of Sicily and Malta, in Syracuse, Germany, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Crimea. The Russian Society for Speleological Research (ROSI) has done a great job of compiling a cadastre of artificial caves and underground architectural structures on the territory of the former Soviet Union. At present, information has already been collected on 2500 catacomb-type objects belonging to different eras. The most ancient dungeons date back to the 14th millennium BC. e.(Stone grave tract in the Zaporozhye region).
The Parisian catacombs are a network of winding artificial underground galleries. Their total length is from 187 to 300 kilometers. The most ancient tunnels existed before the birth of Christ. In the Middle Ages (XII century), limestone and gypsum began to be mined in the catacombs, as a result of which the network of underground galleries was significantly expanded. Later, the dungeons were used to bury the dead. Currently, the remains of about 6 million people are buried near Paris.
The dungeons of Rome may be very ancient. More than 40 catacombs carved in porous volcanic tuff. The length of the galleries, according to the most conservative estimates, ranges from 100 to 150 kilometers, and possibly more than 500 kilometers. During the Roman Empire, dungeons were used for the burial of the dead: in the galleries of the catacombs and numerous individual burial chambers, there are from 600 thousand to 800 thousand burials. At the beginning of our era, churches and chapels of early Christian communities were located in the catacombs.
Around Naples found around 700 catacombs, consisting of tunnels, galleries, caves and secret passages. The most ancient dungeons date back 4500 BC e. Speleologists have discovered underground water pipes, aqueducts and water tanks, rooms where food supplies were previously stored. During World War II, the catacombs were used as bomb shelters.
One of the attractions of the ancient Maltese culture is the Hypogeum, an underground catacomb-type shelter that goes several floors deep. For centuries (between 3200 and 2900 BC) it was carved into hard granite rock using stone tools. Already in our time, on the lower tier of this underground city, researchers discovered the remains of 6 thousand people buried with various ritual objects.
Perhaps the mysterious underground structures were used by people as shelters from various cataclysms that have occurred on Earth more than once. The descriptions of grandiose battles between aliens that took place in the distant past on our planet, preserved in various sources, suggest that the dungeons could serve as bomb shelters or bunkers.
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