The other day, information surfaced in the community that a very beautiful and unusual place- abandoned research stand. Young stalkers gathered to organize a “gathering” there and for some reason, with photos and descriptions, announced this event three weeks in advance.
Well, then - someone was able to find it themselves using these input data, for someone it turned out to be easier to ask through friends, and someone had even been near this object before, but did not pay enough attention to it... In general, it’s like Whatever it was, last weekend history buffs and aesthetic connoisseurs went to the site, trying to get ahead of not only the destruction squads, but also each other :)
The object turned out to be very worthy, although fairly battered by life... The complex of buildings included a couple of research installations with the units attached to them. One of the installations - a wind tunnel - visually resembles a huge dragon. Having lived intensely for 50 years and suffered for another dozen after the stagnation of the 90s, he died, leaving connoisseurs with his aesthetically beautiful and mediocrely protected corpse :)
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- January 18th, 2017 , 05:12 pm
Being very passionate about defense structures civil defense, I love almost all of them, but I rejoice like a child when I manage to discover and visit another highlight among dozens and hundreds of similar bombers. For the sake of an unusual refuge, sometimes I’m even ready to rush to another city or region! However, this object was somehow not even noticed in the database before, although more three years there was a wonderful report back with enough detailed description various circumstances: undermountain placement and panel tunneling, a tightly locked emergency alarm and a deep ventilation shaft with rotten brackets, an unseen diesel engine and the location of the main entrance in a lively area with video surveillance...
In fact, this was the last object in the past 2016 that we decided to visit. Literally on the eve of the start towards Abkhazia, one of the participants in the upcoming trip suggested adding this curious structure to the route, located somewhere in Krasnodar region. All that remained was to find out its exact location, which the Urban3p admin promptly helped us with, and also to resolve the issue of the need to use alps equipment, which we did not have (here we turned for help to friends who, quite by chance, happened to be at about the same time place with a full machine of ropes)
In the end, it turned out that no alpine gear was needed, but high boots would be needed... Because part of the shelter was flooded - probably due to the fact that in three past years someone left both main entrances wide open, as well as an emergency vehicle hidden on the mountainside. Well, adding to the pulp of this whole situation was a viscous and dark oily film floating on the surface of the water from some kind of vile liquid, which literally oozes into the shelter from the cracks in the walls.
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- January 16th, 2017 , 06:51 pm
Hello again!
I’ll probably continue the story about my trip to Abkhazia.
It ended with us safely reaching the village from the coal mine, accompanied by a local hunter. After which he offered to show us another mine right in the village. Like, it’s normal and passable.
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- December 14th, 2016 , 06:26 pm
The cold season has brought the Moscow climbing crowd a significant tidbit in the form of a rather pleasant enterprise with a free entrance to the territory that is about to be demolished.
And it’s not even ZIL!
A dozen and a half buildings have been slightly less than fully occupied by tenants for several years now. Part of the territory (small, but still) has already been taken over by the new construction... Most likely, next year the rest will be demolished, but now anyone can enjoy the atmosphere of empty workshops, stroll through several shelters, and also see the remains of a unique radio frequency measuring and testing facility stand - anechoic chamber peculiar shape(only lazy people haven’t published photos of it over the past couple of weeks)
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- November 17th, 2016 , 05:21 pm
Good afternoon
Today I will show you a very abandoned shelter.
Friends sometimes ask the question - how many shelters have you already seen?
The context of this question is “when will you get tired of it”, but I’m seriously wondering - how long? - and I regret that I didn’t count them from the very beginning, because now I can’t remember the number. But I remember well the biggest and the smallest, the fullest and the emptiest, the coolest and the darkest...
The shelter that I will show in today's report is definitely the most rotten in my memory.
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- November 7th, 2016 , 05:39 pm
When a curious shelter appeared in the urban3p database of abandoned objects with only one photo at the time, I immediately wanted to visit it: despite the fact that I have visited several hundred protective structures under my belt, they never cease to amaze me! Especially unusual in layout and configuration, which is what this bomb shelter at the railway station turned out to be.
Therefore, in the evening of the same day I was already going down the concrete steps, breathing in the cool, damp air with the smell of an underground structure...
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- October 19th, 2016 , 05:54 pm
Today I will show you photos from a hefty A-class shelter (they are also called “district shelters”) - separately standing structure dual-use, not tied to anything specific and built for shelter local residents in wartime or for rent in peacetime.
Now is a time of peace, and it’s quite strange to see a district where there is no car service, sports club or warehouse. However, according to information from Wikimapia, the bomber has not been used in any way for 4 years now... And it is glamorous because it has pink walls :)
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- October 17th, 2016 , 04:11 pm
Sometimes I receive letters in my mail and personal messages from people who have noticed something abandoned somewhere in the city and want to see photos from the inside.
Most often they write about evicted people residential buildings- and I have to simultaneously thank and wriggle out, explaining the reasons for my reluctance to go into an abandoned residential building.
Most often, vacated apartment buildings and dorms present an extremely disgusting sight - they are not only boring, but also disgusting.
Most often - but not always.
That's exactly the one rare case eviction, pleasant to visit.
Relative cleanliness, comfort and atmosphere.
And as a pleasant bonus - a Soviet abandoned bomb shelter in the basement of a pre-revolutionary building!
We found it by accident, heading to a completely different object :)
Somehow, a bomb shelter from one of the towns in the Moscow region ended up in the database of abandoned objects on urban3p.ru - despite the fact that it was not abandoned at all and was even recently renovated. The author who added it, in his report, drew attention to the “old, but in good condition, cabinet"
When we found ourselves in that town and, having nothing else to do, decided to look into this building, inside the nightstand we found not only garbage and some old coupons, but also a sheet of paper with a list of all the shelters in the vicinity.
There is nothing strange in the fact that a list of nearby people was found in the shelter.
But the funny thing was that this list did not contain addresses, but only serial numbers, capacity figures and a list of organizations and services whose employees will have to take refuge in one or another protective structure.
Having photographed the list and armed with Wikimap, we set off to explore the area block by block and assemble a mosaic of bombards :)
Unfortunately, not everything on the list was found.
One bomber turned out to be a “poddomnik” - an anti-radiation shelter in the basement of a residential building.
We couldn’t get into the other one - in the park, because... its entrances are filled with rubbish.
And the bomb shelter of the clinic turned out to be flooded up to the roof of the emergency exit gallery.
As a result, in addition to the first shelter, we managed to climb into two more.
Oh yes, I had just bought myself a fish-eye 8mm from Samyang - that’s why all the photos are from it.
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I was born and raised in our capital vast homeland, as well as my parents. But I haven’t lived in Moscow for more than 10 years now, and recently I don’t go there to work. It’s somehow calmer beyond the Moscow Ring Road, and it’s easier to breathe. By 2012, Saturday and Sunday remained the only days, when you can still somehow move around Moscow, and not stand with your nose buried in the brake lights of the car in front.
But there are very, very many interesting objects in Moscow. I try to use the weekend, naturally first look at “yandex. Traffic jams" to go to the metropolis and see its sights.
In April of this year I visited the Cold War Museum. A declassified underground bunker that is now accessible to all who are curious. The building is located in the Taganka area and is called “Bunker - 42”, however, it became a museum only in 2006, and before that it was Spare Command post Civil Aviation(GO-42).
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From the outside, the bunker, as befits any secret object, is disguised as an ordinary building. All information about him was kept in the strictest confidence; the imperialists were not supposed to know about our military secrets. All the windows in this mansion lead “to nowhere”.
And this old photo is a still from the film “The Black Prince” - a Soviet detective story, where this building “lit up”.
It’s easy to find; a good landmark is the nearby Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gonchary.
The entrance to the building is marked by a barrier with inscriptions in Russian and English languages and a big red star on the entrance gate.
This is a diagram of the location of the bunker when overlaying a map of Moscow. It's clear that ring line Moscow metro passes in close proximity Previously, there was even an exit from the structure for tourists to see passing trains, but subsequently access to the metro was closed.
The bunker regularly hosts organized excursions different types. I was on one of them, which was called “Extreme”.
At the entrance there are old socialist propaganda posters.
And someone’s “clever thoughts.”
The outside of the two-story mansion is a pure decoration that hides a downward shaft with an elevator and stairs.
The shaft is protected from the “outside world” by a door half a meter thick and completely filled with concrete. This video shows how our guide Alexey opens it.
Somewhere around floors 3–4, the mobile phone stops working.
Signs on the walls periodically warn you about how long you still have to go.
The last floor is “minus eighteenth”, a total of 310 steps. This is where the bunker itself begins. The depth of the bunker, 65 meters, was not chosen by chance; it is at this depth that people can be safe in the event of a nuclear explosion.
You can visit the bunker only accompanied by a guide - our “guide” was Alexei , who told us about secret facility With good feeling humor.
Before visiting all 4 halls of the bunker, Alexey gave us the “material part” of a helmet with a flashlight. For some reason I immediately remembered the film “Sanctum”.
The soda fountain, only repainted in proletarian red, has been preserved here as a reminder of the Soviet past.
The table and telephone are now also rare things.
After receiving the equipment, he led us to a special room, where, as expected of any “extreme excursion,” you must sign a paper stating that in the event of any mistake, it’s all your fault.
And then the most interesting part. To visit the site, everyone is given a special disposable overall - workwear.
You put it on and you look like a “Finnish marksman.” This is done because some places in the bunker are quite dirty and the likelihood of getting your clothes dirty is very high.
Our excursion took place in game form, we got every card underground bunker and had to find a way to a certain point.
Armed with maps and flashlights, we explored the bunker; Alexey, although he walked with us, gave us hints only in exceptional cases.
The entire bunker consists of 4 large blocks. This is block No. 2, which during the intended use of the bunker was occupied by long-distance communication equipment.
One of the previous “stalkers” who visited the bunker hid in a barrel and forgot to come out.
The bunker was built in 5 years. It was built, like the metro, on the principle of a large-section tunnel - this is the strongest thing that can be built underground.
The bathroom is in a bunker, the pipes are new, and the taps have been preserved from the times of the “Soviets.”
And the toilet, too, was installed and was not “renovated.”
A restored trolley, it was on these trolleys that the soil was transported to the top during the construction of the bunker.
In some places in the bunker, order had not been restored for quite some time.
Sometimes the excursion justified both its name “Extreme” and the need to wear special clothing. I had to go down into holes like this.
I found this cartoon in the bunker, I thought that it would be out of place in March of this year, only the flag would have said “Everyone to the elections.”
There is a room in the bunker where 3 specialists work every day; they look after all the systems and repair them if something goes wrong. This is their office, it’s good at least because there are no ties and shitty concepts like “smart casual” here.
Several films were filmed in this bunker feature films, such as “Generation Pi” and the series “Contagion” with Eric Roberts.
Previously, this facility functioned 24 hours a day as the headquarters of long-range aviation, and now today’s fashionable team building events, conferences, presentations, exhibitions, and so on are held here.
We ended our voyage by visiting all 4 halls of the underground bunker in a playful way, spending about two hours on it.
All 4 blocks of the bunker are tunnels with a diameter of 9.5 meters, parallel friend each other and lying on the same level.
At the end of the tour, in the bunker you can see a world map with the location of similar objects in different countries.
If on the way down to the bunker everyone goes down the steps, then I offered it back to those who want to take the elevator, but this is somehow banal and almost our entire mini group decided to climb all 18 floors on foot.
Everyone took off their protective uniform before ascending to the surface, but I decided to leave it and drive home in it by car, making last photo near the museum gate.
P.S. In conclusion, I would like to thank you again Alexey for a fascinating and educational excursion.
There are hundreds of abandoned places and objects in the Moscow region. Along with places that people were forced to leave, there are a lot of objects that can be divided into those that ceased to exist during the change political regimes; as a result of hostilities; victims of man-made and technical disasters; disappeared for other reasons. Today, such objects are of great interest to extreme tourists, people interested in history, as well as from simple human curiosity. To make them easier to find, local coordinates are provided.
Abandoned objects can be classified by type as follows:
Military facilities, communications facilities
military bunker(not completed, there are 4 missile silos) Voronovo village, N 55° 19.894E 37° 02.829
radar computing center(first early warning radar missile attack 1960-1970s The missiles were detected by reflecting radio waves from the ionosphere. Code name – “Shalash”, in NATO – “Konura”) near the village of Kubinka, 55°29’33 N 36°40’54 E
RK S-125 "Pechora"(low anti-aircraft missile system, recognized as one of the best examples of air defense weapons systems in the world) N 55° 27.656 E 36° 21.872
Architectural: estates, temples, churches and other interesting places
Estate Grebnevo (architectural monument federal significance) Shchelkovskoe highway 30 km from Moscow, N 55° 56.938 E 38° 5.211
(mentioned in 1358 in the will of Ivan the Red) +55° 43′ 21.36, +37° 0′ 16.92
Church of the Resurrection of the Word 16th century (a brick bell tower of the 18th century, an ancient cemetery with carved tombstones have been preserved) Bityagovo village, 55°23’10 N 37°44’26
St. Nicholas (Vvedenskaya) Church 16th century (built around 1562, rebuilt in the 19th century. Historical roots this church dates back to the time of Ivan the Terrible) village of Cherlenkovo, N 55° 56.831 E 35° 28.733
Church of the Nativity 18th century (a beautiful dilapidated temple) Podbolotsky churchyard N 56° 26.788 E 37° 41.985
Thematic: historical/memorable, religious, anomalous
mysterious ball(a dielectric cap designed for a parabolic antenna to track space signals, built in the 1970s.) is located 116 km along the Dmitrovskoe highway, go to Dubna, across the river. Volga by main road 10 km, then turn onto Fedorovka, further to Ignatovo
Geological: mines, excavations, quarries
syany(the system of artificial quarries arose as a result of unsuccessful construction of the reservoir; the high concrete frame of the dam remained) 55°29’6″N 37°47’14″E
Nikitsky catacombs(large catacombs near Moscow, there is a possibility of collapse) +55° 24′ 16.20, +37° 44′ 9.60
secret tunnel of physicists(a giant 21 km tunnel in which they were going to create an accelerator elementary particles– hadron collider) 97 km of Simferopol highway, turn onto Serpukhov to Protvino
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Small abandoned objects
Pioneer camp "Yasnaya Gorka" once belonged to the Stankokonstruktsiya plant and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Minskoye Highway, if you drive from Moscow, then after Pushkino (abandoned in 2002, well preserved) N 55° 22.352 E 36° 9.886
Most visited places:
Church of the Kazan Icon of Our Lady- a unique monument of architecture. It is represented by an original stone building in the spirit of classicism of the 17th century, built by Count Z. G. Chernyshev for 50 years. The structure consists of a church and a mausoleum connected by a vestibule with an underground crypt with identical symmetrical domes. The refectory is interesting with the chapels of Saints Zechariah and Anna. Closed 1962, transferred 1990s. for the use of believers, no repairs are being carried out. Guarded. Notable: bell tower 1869-1871. (converted into a water tower), tomb, sculpture of the tombstone of Count Chernyshev from the 18th century, abandoned stele (go through the linden alley behind the dam).
Location: Volokolamsk district, Yaropolets village, N 56° 8.228 E 35° 50.159
Get there:
- by bus: from Tushinskaya bus station (next to Tushinskaya metro station) to the village. Yaropolets (2 hours);
- by car: in the same direction (1.5 hours);
- by train: to Volokolamsk (2.5 hours), then by minibus to the village of Yaropolets (30 minutes).
Semi-abandoned missile defense positions are represented by the buildings of the A-135 “Amur” missile defense system to repel a nuclear attack on Moscow. 6 radars and 8 missile defense silos are in poor condition. The property has bedrooms and is not heavily guarded (there is an alarm system, access is possible from the back door).
Location: N 55° 21.017 E 36° 28.976
To get there: drive towards the military camp “Naro-Fominsk-10”, on the way to the “Yasnaya Gorka” camp.
Ghost town on Leningradskoye Highway- represents the scenery for the film “Notes of the Forwarder of the Secret Chancellery”, 2010. Imitates Vyborg of the 18th century. Notable: a fortress wall around the city, a ship, a port hotel building, a city dungeon, a scaffold, city hall, tavern, city fountain, medieval castle, church.
Location: Solnechnogorsk district, near the village. Serednikovo, N 55° 55.552 E 37° 14.043
Get there:
24 km by car from the Moscow Ring Road along the Leningradskoye Shosse, turn left onto the Firsanovskoye Shosse, drive straight along the main road (7 km), turn left in front of the sailboat standing in the field, drive along the fence to the entrance. Landmarks: Serednikovo estate, san. "Mtsyri", territory "KinoGorod".
Open to visitors from 10.00 to 19.30 (except Mondays).
Near the city there is the Serednikovo Estate, where M. Yu. Lermontov spent his teenage years. Worth seeing: a park, a pond, a poet's museum.
Estate Pushchino-on-Nara– a noble house in the classicism style of the 18th century. Princes Vyazemsky, built by architect N.A. Lvov on the bank of the river. Nara. Notable features: an estate with columns and antique masks on the façade, a front yard with a fountain, mosaics, and a linden alley.
The estate goes under water, the territory is not guarded, access is free.
Location: Serpukhov district, village Pushchino, 54°56’22 N 37°21’46 E
Get there:
From Moscow or Tula by train in the Kursk direction to Serpukhov; then bus number 29, which goes to Gavshino. Stop "Bolshevik State Farm Branch"
Lopatinsky (Voskresensky) mines- the only one in the Moscow region man-made desert where phosphorites were mined. It is represented by flooded quarries (with water lizards frozen in stones), which have been partially reclaimed. In the quarries there are multi-bucket excavators (absetzers). The “cuckoo” diesel locomotive sometimes runs along the preserved railway track. Location: 80 km. Novoryazanskoye Highway, 55°19’30 N 38°55’2 E. Access is possible from Voskresensk and Yegoryevsk, move from the village of Yolkino through the village of Novocherkasskoye in a westerly direction.
Church in a dense forest - a mysterious and difficult to access place in the Moscow region. It is intriguing that not everyone manages to discover the church, even following precise directions. Previously, there was the village of Kurilovo. In 1956, a missile range was established. A dilapidated stone church of interesting architecture with numerous frescoes has been preserved. The object is densely surrounded by forest and there are many snakes.
Location: ur. Kurilovo (ur. Pustolsky Pogost), 55°46’25 N 39°36’59 E
Getting there: 155 km along the Yegoryevskoe highway to Betonka-2, turn left, then take P106 right to the village of Severnaya Griva. From there, walk north 7 km.
- is architectural ensemble, leading history from the 16th century. It passed from hand to hand of nobles and princes, losing its historical appearance with every zigzag of fate. The palace, outbuildings, and St. Nicholas Church of the 18th century have been preserved. and the Church of the Grebnevskaya Our Lady of the 17th century, outbuildings, front arched gates. Since the 19th century the estate housed a tuberculosis dispensary, the Shchelkovo technical school of electric vacuum devices, and the Platan plant. In 1960, Grebnevo was declared an architectural monument republican significance. Attempts at restoration and conservation of the object were unsuccessful.
Location: Shchelkovsky district, Grebnevo village, 55°56’56 N 38°5’11 E
Get there:
- by car: 40 km along Shchelkovskoe highway, turn in Novy Gorodok in front of Shchelkovo to Fryazino. Having passed Fryazino, just beyond the bridge over the river. Turn right on Lyubaseevka and drive through the village.
- by bus: from Shchelkovskaya metro station No. 361 to the stops “Traffic light/Old bus station” 45 minutes, then walk along Mira Avenue
- by train: from Yaroslavsky station (Komsomolskaya metro station) by train to Fryazino via Ivanteevka (not Fryazevo!) go to Fryazino-Pasazhirskaya.
Unspoken rules for lovers of extreme tourism:
Some abandoned objects are of historical value and are protected by the state. The empty ones deserve special attention settlements where people used to live. The once luxurious dilapidated estates, destroyed temples and churches are striking. The forgotten military equipment, no one needs fairy-tale mansions and huts that function before prisons and factories.
All ghostly deserted places are impressively picturesque or depressingly gloomy, but invariably attractive. There is something mystical in them that does not grow old and does not become obsolete, from century to century. While there, you understand that age and decrepitude are only a deceptive appearance of time.
Tucked away in the middle of Suffolk fields, this derelict concrete structure with a rusty metal hatch instead of a door doesn't exactly attract attention. If you go down the stairs four meters underground, you can find yourself in a real bunker of times cold war. The bunker has hardly changed since it was abandoned in 1991, and there are still instructions on the wall about what to do in the event of nuclear attack.
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During the Cold War, Britain built 1,563 bunkers spaced about 25 kilometers apart. This was done in case of aggravation of relations between the USSR and the USA, which could result in a nuclear war. The bunkers were maintained by volunteers from the Ground Observer Service. Their task was to find out how much was being reset nuclear bombs where they can be dropped, and also monitor the level of radiation as it spreads across the country.
A bomb power indicator was installed underground to measure the blast waves per meter, as well as a radiation level sensor - these were connected to outside world through the pipes. In the event of a nuclear attack, volunteers had to continue working for three weeks while shells fell and exploded in the street. Using sirens, they could also inform the population of an impending air or missile attack.
The bunker was built in 1958 and abandoned in 1991. There is still a piece of paper hanging on the wall, where it is written what volunteers should do in the event of a transition to martial law in terms of preparing observation devices. During attacks, volunteers were required to report explosions and maintain the bunker daily.
There are mattresses along the walls throughout the bunker, and a chair with a fabric seat gathers dust in the corner. Maps, notes, tools and the contents of a first aid kit are strewn across the floor.
One of the recent visitors spoke about the feeling of claustrophobia that overtakes when descending into this bunker. “It takes courage to go into a bunker because you don’t know what to expect once you’re there. It was truly unsettling as I walked down the stairs to enter. I can imagine how difficult it was for the volunteers to recruit them. I was shocked by all the Cold War paraphernalia that was still there. It was as if time stood still while the rest of the world moved on."
The bunker explorer also praised the volunteers for their bravery. “I had only been downstairs in the room for half an hour and I was already feeling quite claustrophobic.
You have to give credit to the volunteers who spent hours and even days underground in these things at a time when people really believed it was possible. nuclear war. It's amazing to think that this bunker is hidden here in rural areas in Suffolk. Most probably don't know about its existence.
Nearly half of the Cold War bunkers were closed in 1968, and the remaining in 1991, after the collapse of the communist bloc.
Just 60 km from the Moscow Ring Road to the south along the Kaluga Highway, in dense forests there is a very secret military facility. So secret that it is still unknown what it was intended for. And rare mentions indicate that it was in a certain bunker not far from Voronovo that the secret Metro-2 line was once supposed to be extended. Yes, it used to be the Moscow region, but now it’s Moscow!
In fact, I told the entire Internet about the existence of this object already 10 years ago, having laid my first and last geocaching cache there. This was in those distant times, when geocaching and abandonment were the trend, and LiveJournal was warm and luminous. I remember a very funny incident on caves (caves.ru - a forum for diggers and stalkers). They started discussing that I had “set fire” to another military facility, but then an anonymous person burst into the comments with a very serious statement: “Shh, don’t make noise, before this post none of our people knew about this facility.”
And this year began with the fact that I received a new Subaru Outback for a long test, which was already announced in the spring of last year. And if so, why sit at home during the holidays, it’s time to go travel! We decided to start with a small two-day outing together with russos And pavel_kosenko . In general, we initially wanted to go to our favorite place - the Ishutinskoye settlement, but then, figuring that with a short daylight hours, traveling 400 kilometers for two days was absolutely not an option, I suggested taking a ride around the outskirts of my country house, in the south of the Moscow region.
2. From the Moscow Ring Road to the bunker, it’s less than an hour’s drive along the calm Kaluga Highway. But the most interesting thing is the last 600 meters of the journey. It is impossible to count how many cars have been stuck here over the past 10 years. Now the main road has been blocked with a deep ditch and concrete blocks. The most reasonable option is to leave the car and continue on foot.
3. Although those who were especially persistent paved an alternative road in the forest. Its width may not be enough for large cars, but it is categorically not recommended to drive onto an old clearing, even if you are driving a TR-3 category cutlet.
4. Remains of the checkpoint at the entrance.
5. A temporary substation can be made into an excellent loft. Everything is as it should be - flat roof, panoramic glazing. Very cool!
6. Underground galleries of unknown purpose. If only for cables, then their dimensions are excessive.
7. Base for tunnels top level made in literally from shit and sticks.
8. You can see it better here.
9. We climb to the top floor using a wooden ladder.
10.B central hall there is a huge shaft that was probably intended to load equipment onto the lower floors. The upper floor is intended for receiver and transmitter equipment, as well as administrative premises.
11. They write that “System “S” was intended for communication of the USSR General Staff with individual, especially important points, through a satellite constellation. Each communication node has separate hardware solutions designed to function both in peacetime and in wartime. The system is also designed to transmit local combat control commands via radio relay communications. The system has two independent receiver-transmitter channels for satellite communications, but the antenna systems are retractable and are located in mine structures that vaguely resemble the Strategic Missile Forces mines.
12. Once upon a time there was a metal staircase in the central shaft, along which one could go down to the two lower floors and up to the roof. But all the valuable metal was cut off from the object.
13. And to get to the lower floors you need to go outside and go down one of the inclined galleries.
14. “Hey, who’s here?” Sasha examines the strange hatches in the ceiling.
15. In terms of layout, two types of “C” nodes are known. Type “A” is made in a three-story volume, and does not have a separate shaft for radio relay communication. To communicate with nearby command elements, it uses only cable channels. That's him in the photo.
16. And now we rise from the lowest floor to the intermediate second.
17. The lowest floor contains life support systems (air treatment, diesel, compressors, transformers, etc.) and refrigeration machines. More on ground floor usually the result is an excellent skating rink with clear water, but this winter there is relatively little water here.
18. Well, the most interesting thing is the roof. You can get to it from the second floor through the shaft using this improvised staircase made of rebar.
19. The system was never put into operation.
20. Like art photography in the style of Pasha, who now shoots only on film and does not recognize digital. However, under his influence, something apparently happened to all the photographs from this post.
21. And here is Pasha himself against the backdrop of the bunker.
22. Concrete block on the roof that everyone takes pictures of.
23. We continue our short journey. Very close, on the border of Moscow and Kaluga region, on the banks of the Nara River there is the Rainbow Waterfall. Warm spring springs do not allow Nara to freeze. In summer, on the contrary, they have very cold water.
24. Ford on the Nara, next to the swimming dam. Just recently we filmed here about the new Chevrolet Tahoe, and now most of the rivers froze.
25. And here is the waterfall itself. The largest waterfall near Moscow, by the way.
26. This is an excellent hill next to mine country house. Sasha plans to go kayaking here when there is more snow. And we are going to bed so that tomorrow we can continue exploring abandoned military sites.
To be continued.