Mysterious underground cities of Russia. D.U.M.B: underground cities with sinister secrets

Paris and Naples, Rome and Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa... What unites all these cities? The presence of an extensive system of underground passages and tunnels underneath, built at different times and for different purposes. In this article you will find the most Interesting Facts about the underground cities of the world. Many do not even suspect that some of them are connected with Russian territory.

Underground cities of the world: history and modernity

Incredibly, within the former USSR there are over two thousand artificial objects built underground at different times and eras. The most ancient underground cities historians date back to the 14th millennium BC. e. This is the so-called “Stone Tomb”, which is located near the village of Terpenye in Ukraine.

Today, underground cities and various catacomb-type objects have been discovered in different parts of the globe: in France, Italy and Spain, Malta, Turkey, Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine... This list can be continued for a very, very long time .

The underground cities of Paris are a whole network of tunnels and galleries, the total length of which is almost 300 kilometers! And what is most surprising is that the first underground passages were built here before the Nativity of Christ.

Under Rome there are underground cities, which are older than those in Paris. Today we know about forty catacombs, once hollowed out in tuffs - the porous rock of the Apennine Peninsula. Their total length, according to some sources, can reach 500 kilometers.

The Neapolitan catacombs are also widely known (there are about 400 of them in total). Researchers discovered not only a network of tunnels under this city, but also the remains of a water supply system, aqueducts and food storage facilities.

Several underground cities are located in the Cappadocia region in Turkey. More recently, an underground city was found there, in which about 20 thousand people could simultaneously live! Archaeologists found in it not only the remains of residential premises, but even traces of churches and wine factories.

The underground cities of Russia are also known. Some of them are surrounded by many secrets and mysteries. First of all, we are talking about the underground city of Yamantau, as well as the dungeons in Ramenki (Moscow).

“Cities underground”: why were they built?

The main mystery of underground cities (most of them) is why they were created. There are several main reasons.

1. Residential structures underground were built so that they could hide from enemy attacks from the outside.
2. People “burrowed” underground for industrial purposes, in particular, to extract valuable rocks from it. Thus, in Paris in the 11th century, a large network of catacombs was created for the extraction of limestone. But in Chisinau in the 19th century, many kilometers of dungeons were created for other purposes - to store wine in them.
3. Since ancient times, dungeons have been used by people as burial places. In particular, the remains of about 800 thousand people are now buried near Rome, and almost 6 million near Paris.
4. Underground tunnels were created by people for religious purposes, for prayer and solitude. An example is the artificial caves carved out by monks in Kyiv and Chernigov.

Underground cities are being created in our time, but to perform other functions. Urbanists argue that any city first grows in breadth, then upward, and even later goes underground. In many of the largest megacities of our time, dungeons are actively used: they house parking lots, huge shopping malls, cafes and restaurants, even the offices of large companies.

Derinkuyu - underground city in Cappadocia

Cappadocia is a historically unique area of ​​Turkey, in which a whole complex of underground cities and monasteries has been preserved. The largest of them is ancient city Derinkuyu. Today it is completely landscaped for visits by tourists.

The construction of the underground city of Derinkuyu began in the second millennium BC. People hid in its tunnels and halls during raids by aggressive nomads. The city consists of eight tiers, going 60 meters deep.

A unique monument of history and underground architecture was discovered by scientists only in the 60s of the twentieth century. To date, only 15% of the area of ​​the entire city has been studied. However, scientists have already calculated that up to 20 thousand people could take refuge in it at the same time!

Derinkuyu is a complex and intricate system of halls, rooms and passages, both horizontal and vertical. Apparently, the underground city was built in such a way that a potential enemy, entering it, could easily get lost there.

The Derinkuyu Tunnels are carved out of very soft and pliable rock - volcanic tuff. At the same time, this rock quickly hardens when exposed to air, which makes it an ideal material for creating underground structures. Researchers have already established that Derinkuyu had everything necessary for a long life large quantity people - living rooms, stables, premises for livestock, cellars, bakeries, wells and even their own underground churches.

Damanhur - the eighth wonder of the world

Damanhur is not only a unique underground city in Italy, but also a world-famous scientific and environmental community. The lifestyle of this community was recently assessed by the UN as a model for sustainable development of the future.

The community borrowed its name from the ancient Egyptian city of Damanhur, which translated means “abode of Horus.” It was in this city that entire generations of priests of Ancient Egypt were trained.

Today Damanhur is an entire underground complex carved into a cliff in northern Italy. The underground city consists of five levels and several temples over 30 meters high. But not only the architecture of this place is striking, but also its inhabitants. These are people with the most interesting teachings, combining ancient knowledge with the latest developments in the field of psychology and medicine. The inhabitants of Damanhur are known for conducting specific rituals of rejuvenation, as well as healing from various ailments, which attracts a considerable number of tourists from all over the world. Various tour operators organize trips to Damanhur with the goal of introducing everyone to the inhabitants of the unusual city, as well as their philosophy and scientific activities.

Catacombs of Naples

One of the main attractions of the Italian city of Naples are its catacombs.

Today, several systems of ancient catacombs remain under this city. All of them are ennobled and qualitatively restored. You can only enter the Neapolitan Catacombs with a guide. The entrance ticket is not very expensive - only 8 euros. The tour of the catacombs lasts about one hour.

The most interesting in Naples is the San Gennarro catacomb system, which began to be created in the second century. And two centuries later, it was here that the martyr Januarius was buried. These catacombs had one purpose - funeral. Underground tunnels were built until the 5th century, as a result the catacombs of San Gennarro have two horizontal levels - upper and lower.

On lower level The catacombs' vaults are decorated with stunning paintings. On them you can also see images of David and Goliath, the goddess Victoria, as well as Adam and Eve. The lower tier includes three galleries, the most interesting of which is the central one. Here tourists can see mosaics depicting grapevines and peacocks - a symbol of immortality. Most of these ancient mosaics are being restored today.

Odessa catacombs

Odessa is not only the sea and humor. Under South Palmyra there is a catacomb system unique in its scale, created at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It includes dozens of quarries and mine workings, which are interconnected by a complex and intricate labyrinth of passages. Their total length is 2500 kilometers. For comparison, a similar system of underground tunnels near Paris is only 500 km long.

Odessa catacombs are a real monument of history and geology. It is surprising that it still does not have the appropriate legal status.

Underground voids and labyrinths appeared near Odessa as a result of the extraction of shell rock - a material that at one time was actively used for the construction of the city and its buildings. The system of artificially created catacombs is further complicated by karst cavities of natural origin.

The first quarries appeared here in the middle of the 19th century. The so-called Pontic limestone was mined there to meet the construction needs of the young city. By the beginning of the twentieth century, underground mining was already carried out so intensively that cases of failures, subsidence and even collapses of entire buildings became frequent in the city.

During the Second World War, the Odessa catacombs became a reliable refuge for Soviet partisan detachments. In particular, the life and struggle of partisans in the catacombs of Odessa against the Nazi invaders are beautifully described in V. Kataev’s novel “Waves of the Black Sea.”

Minsk and its "underground city"

An excellent example of a modern underground structure is the underground city in Minsk (Belarus). This - shopping mall with the appropriate name "Underground City". It is located truly underground, right under the Belarus department store, built in Soviet times. You can get into it from the Partizanskaya metro station.

The unique shopping center was built after the collapse of the USSR. It consists of one underground hall of enormous size. It houses at least two hundred shops located in several rows. Here you can buy anything: from cosmetics and souvenirs to expensive jewelry.

As for the historical underground passages of old Minsk, they most likely have not survived. True, there is a legend that there is an old underground passage under Freedom Square connecting the Jesuit Church with the Bernardine monastery. Also of interest to stalkers and diggers are the collectors of underground rivers and streams in Minsk, which stretch for several kilometers under the city.

Secrets of the Moscow microdistrict Ramenki

Is there an underground city near Moscow? Many people ask themselves this question.

Probably every Muscovite has heard that in the capital of Russia there is a huge underground city in Ramenki, right under a residential neighborhood. It is assumed that up to 15 thousand people will be able to hide in it in the event of a nuclear war. The secret underground city is approximately located under the area from Moscow State University to Udaltsova Street. By the way, the hypothesis of the existence of this city is supported by the fact that this area for a long time was not built up.

If you believe certain sources, the underground city in Ramenki began to be created back in the 60s of the last century. Construction continued in complete secrecy until 1979.

The underground city was created to be completely habitable in case of a nuclear attack. Presumably, the Moscow State University complex is directly connected to it by an underground tunnel, the purpose of which was to instantly deliver the country’s “best minds” to a safe place in case of a military threat.

The secret second capital of Russia

Recently, there has been more and more talk about a secret facility called Yamantau. The underground city for Russian President Vladimir Putin is allegedly located in a mountain near the town of Mezhgorye, in Bashkortostan.

It is known that active construction work is underway in the area. But what exactly is being built there is unclear. Some argue that a “reserve” capital of Russia is being created in Mount Yamantau - an underground city designed for 300 thousand inhabitants.

There are quite a few so-called “closed” cities in Russia. However, there is neither a military base, nor a research institute, nor any other secret institution in Mezhgorye. But the city-forming enterprise of a small town is construction company"US-30", which gives rise to certain thoughts.

The most popular version is that an underground city is being created in Mizhgorye in case of the Third World War. By the way, the idea of ​​cities that double as capitals is not new at all; it is being successfully developed, for example, in Japan and the Republic of Korea. According to sources, a network of tunnels with a total length of about 500 kilometers has already been created under Mount Yamantau in Bashkortostan.

Metro - underground "city" of Moscow

The metropolitan area in a large metropolis has long been perceived as a separate and large underground city. And Moscow is no exception in this regard.

Rumors that, in addition to the completely official ones, there are also secret metro lines near Moscow appeared quite a long time ago. And over the years they have already acquired various hypotheses and versions, often extremely fantastic and incredible.

Thus, the routes of the secret lines of the Moscow metro were first published in 1992. The most interesting is the so-called “secret line No. 1”, connecting the Kremlin with Vnukovo-2 airport. By the way, it also passes through a hypothetically existing underground city in Ramenki. The line was built back in 1967 and is 27 kilometers long.

Finally...

Underground cities have been created and continue to be created in our time. Previously, they served people for various purposes: they protected them from enemy attacks, provided shelter for monks and hermits, and acted as burial places. Some of them hide many secrets and mysteries, which scientists, historians and archaeologists have yet to solve.

Today, underground cities often house car parks, company offices, and large shopping centers.

American military engineer Philip Schneider, after the death of his friend Ron Ranel, violated a non-disclosure agreement and in 1995 told the world about underground cities of refuge created for the “elite” in case nuclear war or major natural disasters. These cities were designated D.U.M.B. as an abbreviation for “Deep Underground Military Base” or “deep military base.”

There is no official information about these bases. However, F. Schneider claimed that, together with his friend, he participated in the creation of these underground cities for 17 years, working for the American government. He was a geologist and engineer at the most classified US bases. He was also one of the few survivors of the incident with the "grays" at the Dulce underground base, which had seven underground levels.

This is what he stated: "My main goal is to tell what is really happening in these underground military bases. It is called the "new world order"... These bases are the size of large cities, they are connected by high-speed maglev trains. They have special equipment , which digs these cities. The speed of advance is 14 kilometers per day. Huge amounts of money are spent on the construction of these bases. And for these purposes there is a so-called “black budget.”

The "black budget" is a secret budget equal to a quarter of US GDP. About a trillion dollars is spent on shadow programs such as underground military bases. A total of 129 bases have now been built, and this is only in the USA... This worries me very much. There are people who lie to the government, who refuse to tell the truth about the purpose of these bases."

In total, according to Schneider, about 1,500 such underground cities of refuge were built in the world. Most of these bases were built on the site of underground caves. On average, one such base is designed to accommodate about 60 thousand people, but there are also larger ones. All underground cities are interconnected by many kilometers of tunnels. The funds spent on this project in the USA alone amount to up to a third of the GDP of this state.

Schneider managed to give 30 lectures on this topic and survived 13 assassination attempts before supporters of the “new world order” managed to kill him, just like his friend a little earlier in 1993. Schneider's murder occurred on January 17, 1996. And if the information he voiced was not reliable, then no one would need his death and the death of his friend, with whom they were preparing a book about the underground cities of the “elite” for publication. All materials prepared for publication after Schneider's death disappeared without a trace.

American journalist David Wilcock claims that the deaths of Schneider and Ramvel frightened many people who also wanted to make statements about underground cities. And since 1946, more than 3 thousand people have been killed by the servants of the world “elite” for trying to talk about these underground bases. What caused this curtain of secrecy? What kind of terrible information are the representatives of the “new world order” hiding from us?

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences S. Sall states: "The information that has been disseminated over the past 10 years suggests that almost the entire territory of the United States underground is covered with a network of underground tunnels and underground shelters. The largest shelter is the Denver airport, truly a shelter of colossal proportions, where there are underground cities, underground factories and even underground greenhouses so that the “elite” could take refuge there and consume fresh vegetables.”

And here is what D. Wilcock says about this, who spent many years studying underground bases and found people who had been there: “The history of these cities is very strange and you need to know that there are technologies that were hidden from us, and thanks to which it was possible to build these cities. There are skyscrapers, roads, buildings, cars, which, by the way, do not burn gas. They use free energy , electric cars There is no pollution in these cities.

I asked: “Do you really feel the same there as you do outside? Like you’re on the surface?” They answered: “Well, to be honest, it doesn’t feel real.”... They use, if they can find them, deep natural underground caves with water flowing through them. They create beautiful rivers and lakes from them. There are also trees and birds, in general, everything that is on the surface of the Earth."

Now everything becomes more or less clear. It turns out that for many years, initially under the pretext of protecting the population from nuclear war, the world “elite”, in secret from peoples, and often governments, built underground shelter cities, equipped with the latest science and technology, including technology free energy, the existence of which is carefully hidden and denied at the official level. Why would that be?

Yes, the fact is that this entire world “elite”, together with its “sixes” and servants, planned the destruction of the rest of humanity. Remember, in the tablets from the state of Georgia it is written that humanity should not exceed 500 million people. How to achieve this by following the orders of the lizard-headed masters?

Well, firstly, you can provoke a global thermonuclear war and even before the “cannon fodder” decommissioned by the “elite” perishes in the fire of thermonuclear explosions or from the consequences of a nuclear winter, the “elite” itself, together with its devoted servants, will take refuge in underground cities - shelters. Secondly, the same can be done if there is a threat of the fall of large meteorites, or other global disasters, such as the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, which can be “helped”. After all, those who have such shelters do not risk anything.

Surely, for representatives of this “elite” and their “sixes” there are conditioned signals that make it possible to notify everyone in such cases the right people and evacuate to the nearest shelters along certain routes, without arousing suspicion among the rest of the population. It is possible to exist in these shelter cities absolutely autonomously, given the level of technology used in them.

Well, it is not at all necessary for the people living on the surface and suffocating from the ruined ecology to know about these technologies and about the shelter cities themselves. After all, they are not included in the “golden” 500 million of the Earth’s population, whom the “owners” allowed to continue living. And it is very good that some unknown, but very powerful force intervened in the plans of these dark forces, which has already destroyed only in the USA several dozen of the largest cities of refuge for the “elite”. And perhaps it is precisely for this reason that the world “elite” has not yet organized a thermonuclear apocalypse for us.

Hide from prying eyes. It is no coincidence that the first Christians preferred to meet in the catacombs. People were engaged in the construction of underground settlements long before the advent of Christianity. Protection from the enemy was the main function of the tunnels. In case of danger, you could hide underground. A special category of secret cities are the catacombs, which were built for the elite, for example, the richest people in the country or rulers. Probably, even today, underground secret cities hide the government from humanity.

In case of the Apocalypse

Legends about the end of the world have always excited people's minds. Previously, the end seemed more fantastic. According to the ideas of religious people, angels (horsemen) should come to earth, announcing the Last Judgment. The modern idea of ​​the end has a completely different character. He is portrayed terrible disaster: flood, meteorite fall, earthquake, etc. Climate change makes such fears quite realistic. If due to global warming Glaciers will melt and most of the land may be flooded. Ozone holes in the atmosphere lead to the fact that it ceases to be a natural shield for “uninvited guests” from space in the form of large meteorites.

The absolute reality of the threat forces the world elite to think about saving humanity. However, salvation does not mean concern for the lives of seven billion people living in this moment on the ground. It is simply impossible to hide every earthling from the elements. It costs too much and requires a lot of resources. In addition, no one knows exactly when the disaster will occur and what it will look like. There will probably be even more people on the planet by then.

Only the best of the best should be saved. From these people the human race will be revived. By the best, the earthly elite means themselves. Many famous politicians, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, etc. have already built or are still building underground shelters that will be useful to themselves or their descendants. The movie “2012,” which was popular several years ago, perfectly illustrates the idea that only the most solvent need to be saved. IN real life the elite will hide not on giant ships, but in a dungeon.

For those in power

The catacombs have always been required by representatives of the ruling elite. Secret underground passages were built for almost every major government official, who should have been able to leave his home in the event of an attack by external or internal enemies. Underground cities and bunkers are designed to hide the government from humanity and protect it from danger. Among the most famous underground shelters are:

In any state, the authorities have to fight not only with an external, but also with an internal enemy. The harm from the latter is often much greater than from the former, simply because the ruler does not always expect an attack from his own fellow citizens. Underground cities often hide the government from humanity during riots and rebellions. However, even such measures are not always effective. A government that has fallen out of favor with the people risks being overthrown, despite numerous tricks.

Underground cities and government: video

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.

Eric von Daniken in the book “In the Footsteps of the Almighty” describes these shelters as follows:

...were discovered gigantic underground cities designed for many thousands of inhabitants. The most famous of them are under modern village Derinkuyu. Entrances to the underworld are hidden under houses. Here and there in the area there are ventilation holes leading far into the interior. The dungeon is cut through by tunnels connecting the rooms. The first floor from the village of Derinkuyu covers an area of ​​four square kilometers, and the premises on the fifth floor can accommodate 10 thousand people. It is estimated that this underground complex can simultaneously accommodate 300 thousand people.

Only the underground structures of Derinkuyu number 52 ventilation shafts and 15 thousand entrances. The largest mine reaches the depth 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 Kaymakli or Derinkuyu, but their plans were carefully developed. People who know this area well believe that there are many more underground structures here. All cities known today are connected to each other by tunnels.

These underground shelters with huge stone valves, 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 ancient people hid in them from some threat coming from heaven.

In many regions of our planet there are numerous mysterious underground structures of unknown purpose to us. In the Sahara Desert (Ghat oasis) near the Algerian border (10° west longitude and 25° north latitude), underground there is a whole system of tunnels and underground communications, which are carved into the rock. The height of the main adits is 3 meters, width - 4 meters. In some places the distance between the tunnels is less than 6 meters. Average length tunnels - 4.8 kilometers, and their total length (together with auxiliary adits) is 1,600 kilometers.

The modern English 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 special need for irrigation.

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 Egyptian pyramids built. The work is truly titanic. To carry out the construction of underground communications in such a volume using even modern technical means almost impossible. Scientists attribute these underground communications to the 5th millennium BC. e., that is, to the moment when our ancestors just learned to build primitive huts and use stone tools. Who then built these grandiose tunnels and for what purposes?

In the first half of the 16th century, Francisco Pizarro discovered Peruvian Andes entrance to the cave, closed with rock blocks. It was located at an altitude of 6770 meters above sea level on Mount Huascaran. A speleological expedition organized in 1971, examining a tunnel system consisting of several levels, discovered sealed doors that, despite their massiveness, easily turned to reveal 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 an inclination of about 14°). According to various estimates, the total length of communications ranges from 88 to 105 kilometers. It is assumed that previously the tunnels led to the island of Guanape, but it is quite difficult to test this hypothesis, because the tunnels end in a lake of salty sea water.

In 1965, in Ecuador (Morona-Santiago province), between the cities of Galaquisa, San Antonio and Yopi, Argentinean Juan Morich 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 cutout in the rock about the size of a barn door. The tunnels have a rectangular cross-section with varying widths and sometimes turn at right angles. The walls of underground communications are covered with a kind of glaze, as if they were treated with some kind of solvent or exposed to high temperature. Interestingly, no rock dumps from the tunnels were found at the exit.

The underground passage leads successively to underground platforms and huge halls located at a depth of 240 meters, with ventilation openings 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 discovered 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 embossed metal plates measuring 45 x 90 centimeters, covered with incomprehensible signs. The priest Father Carlo Crespi, who carried out archaeological research there with the permission of the Vatican, states:
All the finds brought out of the tunnels date back to the pre-Christian era, and most of the symbols and prehistoric images are older than the time of the Flood.

In 1972, Eric von Daniken met with Juan Moric and persuaded him to show the ancient tunnels. The researcher agreed, but with one condition - not to photograph the underground labyrinths. In his book, Däniken writes:

To help us better understand what was happening, the guides made us walk the last 40 kilometers. We are very tired; the tropics have worn us out. Finally we came to a hill that had 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 walked 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 downhill towards the center of the massif. The height of the tunnel was approximately 230 centimeters, and there was a floor partially covered with bird droppings, a layer of approximately 80 centimeters. Among the garbage and droppings, metal and stone figurines were constantly found. The floor was made of processed 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 system of collecting light using emeralds. This last solution reminded us of the laser principle. The walls are also covered with very well-cut stones. The admiration aroused by the buildings of Machu Picchu diminishes when one sees this work. The stone is smoothly polished and has straight edges. The ribs are not rounded. The joints of the stones are barely noticeable. Judging by some of the treated blocks lying on the floor, there was no settling as the surrounding walls are finished and fully finished. What is it - the carelessness of the creators who, having finished their 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, about 12 centimeters on a side. Groups of geometric shapes varied between two and four units of varying lengths, appearing to be placed in vertical and horizontal shapes. This order was not repeated from one to the other. Is it a number system or 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 were well preserved and performed their function. When reaching the surface, some of them are covered with lids. It is difficult to detect them from the outside, only sometimes a bottomless well appears among groups of stones.

The ceiling in the tunnel is low, without relief. Outwardly, it looks like it is made of rough processed stone. However, it feels soft to the touch. The heat and humidity disappeared, making the journey easier. We reached a wall of dressed stone that divided our path. On either side of the wide tunnel we were descending there was a path leading to a narrower passage. We moved 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 and butterflies were flying, no one knew where. Various tunnels opened up. Our guide said that this Great Room always remains clean. Everywhere on the walls there are animals drawn and squares drawn. Moreover, they all connect to each other. In the middle of the Living Room there was a table and several chairs. The men sit back, leaning back; but these chairs are for taller people. They are designed for statues approximately 2 meters high. At first glance, the table and chairs are made of simple stone. However, if you touch them, they will turn out to be made of plastic material, almost worn out and completely smooth. The table measures approximately 3 x 6 meters and 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 and six or seven on the other. If you touch the inside of the table top, you can feel the texture and coldness of the stone, making you think that it is covered with an unknown material. First the guide took us to another hidden door. Once again, two sections of stone opened effortlessly, revealing another, but smaller, living space. It had a lot of shelves with volumes, and in the middle there was a passage between them, like in a modern book warehouse. They were also made of some cold material, soft, but with edges that almost cut the skin. Stone, petrified wood or metal? Hard to understand.

Each such volume was 90 centimeters high and 45 centimeters thick and contained about 400 processed gold pages. These books have metal covers that are 4 millimeters thick and are darker in color than the pages themselves. They are not sewn, but they are fastened in some other way. The carelessness of one of the visitors drew our attention to another detail. He grabbed one of the metal pages, which, despite being only a fraction of a millimeter thick, was strong and smooth. The notebook without a cover fell to the floor and when I tried to pick it up, it wrinkled like paper. Each page had an engraving, so exquisite that it seemed as if it had been written in ink. Maybe this is the underground storage of some kind of space library?

The pages of these volumes are divided into various squares with rounded corners. Here it is perhaps 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 gold objects believed to have been taken from Los Tayos. It is 52 centimeters long, 14 centimeters wide and 4 centimeters deep, with 56 different characters, which could well be the alphabet... The visit to Cuenca turned out to be very important for us, because it was possible to see the objects exhibited by Father Crespi in the Church of Our Lady, and also listen to the legends about the local white gods, fair-haired and blue-eyed, who visited this country from time to time... Their residence is unknown, although it is assumed that they lived in an unknown city near Cuenca. Although the dark-skinned indigenous population believes that they bring happiness, they are afraid of them mental strength, since 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 in the Great Living Room at Los Tayos will definitely suit them.

Numerous illustrations of amazing underground finds can be seen in von Daniken’s book “The Gold of the Gods.” When Juan Moric reported his discovery, 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 in what may prove to be the major worldwide 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 struck the Earth during its approach to the neutron star, as well as from all kinds of disasters that accompanied the wars of the gods, were built on everything globe. Dolmens, which are a kind of stone dugouts covered with a massive slab and with a small round hole for entry, were intended for the same purposes as underground structures, that is, they served as a shelter. These stone structures are found in different parts light - 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 standard project. According to the legends and myths of various peoples, they were built by dwarfs, as well as people, but the latter’s buildings turned out to be more primitive, since they used roughly processed stones.

During the construction of these structures, sometimes special vibration-damping layers were made under the foundation, which protected the dolmens from earthquakes. For example, an ancient structure located in Azerbaijan near the village of Gorikidi has two damping tiers. In the Egyptian pyramids, chambers filled with sand were also discovered, which served for the same purposes.

The precision of the fit of the massive stone slabs of the dolmens is also amazing. Even with the help of modern technical means, it is very difficult to assemble a dolmen from ready-made blocks. This is how A. Formozov describes in his book “Monuments of Primitive Art” an attempt to transport one of the dolmens:

In 1960, it was decided to transport some dolmen from Esheri to Sukhumi - to the courtyard of the Abkhazian museum. We chose the smallest one and brought a crane to it. No matter how they fastened the loops of the steel cable to the cover plate, it did not budge. The second tap was called. Two cranes removed the multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. For exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhumi. In 1961, using a new mechanism, all the stones were loaded onto vehicles. But the main thing was ahead: to reassemble the house. The reconstruction was only partially completed. The roof was lowered onto four walls, but unfold it so that their edges fit into the grooves on inner surface roofs, they couldn’t. In ancient times, the slabs were driven so close to each other that a knife blade could not fit between them. Now there is a big gap left.

Currently, numerous ancient catacombs have been discovered in various regions of the planet; it is unknown when and by whom they were dug. There is an assumption that these underground multi-tiered galleries were formed during the process of extracting stone for the construction of buildings. But why was it necessary to spend titanic labor, gouging out blocks of the strongest rocks in narrow underground galleries, when there are similar rocks nearby, 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, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Crimea. Russian society speleological research (ROSI) a huge amount of work has been done to compile an inventory artificial caves and underground architectural structures on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Currently, information has already been collected on 2,500 catacomb-type objects belonging to different eras. The oldest dungeons date back to the 14th millennium BC. e.(Stone Grave tract in 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 even before the birth of Christ. In the Middle Ages (12th 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 rest near Paris.

The dungeons of Rome may be very ancient. More than 40 catacombs carved into porous volcanic tuff. The length of the galleries, according to the most conservative estimates, ranges from 100 to 150 kilometers, and possibly exceeds 500 kilometers. During the Roman Empire, dungeons were used to bury the dead: in the galleries of the catacombs and numerous separate burial chambers there are from 600 thousand to 800 thousand burials. At the beginning of our era, the catacombs housed churches and chapels of early Christian communities.

Around Naples found around 700 catacombs, consisting of tunnels, galleries, caves and secret passages. The most ancient dungeons date back to 4500 BC e. Speleologists 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 ancient Maltese culture is the Hypogeum - an underground catacomb-type shelter, going several floors deep. Over the centuries (between 3200 and 2900 BC) it was chiseled out of solid 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 disasters that occurred on Earth more than once. 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.

Simonov V. A. Extraterrestrial trace in the history of mankind

BAD TRANSLATE. THERE IS NO OTHER WHO WANTS TO UNDERSTAND Putin’s secret underground city “the kings of the earth, and the nobles, and the rich, and the leaders of thousands, 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 Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb" APOCALYPSE Secret base Russian government 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 residents of nearby settlements do not really know what kind of objects they are since the “ cold war"are being built in the mountains. “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 frequent guest at the South Ural ski resort "Abzakovo", located approximately 60 km from Magnitogorsk. Neither Putin himself nor his assistants were able to explain to the public why the head of state chose this place. It's official - Putin loved 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 very high mountain South Ural massif - Yamantau (translated from Bashkir - “bad head”, height 1640 m). Greetings from America It was 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 site in the Southern 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 horrors of the Cold War, Russia is building a gigantic military complex underground in the Ural Mountains, Western officials and witnesses in Russia say. Hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region (today the city of Mezhgorye - Ed.) in the Southern Urals, the huge complex is connected by a railway and a highway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work,” the publication 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 nuclear attack,” which stated that “while the United States has closed most such facilities, Russia is rapidly pursuing an expensive program to build underground shelters, tunnels and command posts, inherited from the Cold War. In particular, work continues to create 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, naturally, no clear explanations followed. Russian journalists did not pick up the sensation about a secret facility in Mount Yamantau: several materials followed in which assumptions were made about the extraction of uranium ore in the South Ural mountain, and about a repository of state valuables, and about a food reserve. Among the others, a version was put forward of building a bunker for the Russian government in the event of a nuclear war. But little by little the topic of the special facility in Yamantau faded away. Spy tourists At the top of the mountain there is a helipad (pictured), at any moment 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 since the beginning of the 2000s, measures to protect the surrounding area of ​​Yamantau have become more stringent. On one side, the mountain is located on the territory of the South Ural State Reserve (they say that the reserve was not established there by accident). But not only rangers, but also military personnel patrol the area around Yamantau. “In the area of ​​the Yamantau special facility, you must be careful, do not make noise, do not make smoky fires, and do not give away your presence in any other bad way. Otherwise, you risk getting acquainted with the life and traditions of the special forces, giving them the footage (money, knife, cigarettes), becoming hoarse, proving that you are not a spy from Alabama, and if in the end you are still released or handed over to the rangers (and not will be 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 remains in the center. “At the top until the early 90s. there was a military unit servicing a concrete helipad and military special equipment. After the military, the ruins of former buildings, puddles of fuel oil and piles of rusted iron remained on the top of the mountain,” eyewitnesses say. Tourists also saw mines leading deep into the mountains. But most 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 residents of Mezhgorye, located at the foot of the mountain, do not fully know what is hidden in the depths 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. Secret city The underground city is provided with all communications, including electricity (in the photo the Yamantau neighborhood) But observers were wrong in their assumptions. In Mount Yamantau, not mines were built, but a real underground city. Our agency managed to contact several builders who took part in its construction. All persons related to Yamantau have signed a non-disclosure agreement, so their names will not be disclosed. So, as one of the participants in the events said, the construction of an underground base in Mount Yamantau actually began in Soviet years, during the Cold War. The facility was developed and built by the Construction Directorate-30, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The department is based in the ZATO Mezhgorye (formerly Belorets-16, also called the city of Solnechny). Construction Department-30 specializes in the construction of underground and above-ground facilities and structures, 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 during Putin’s frequent visits to Abzakovo). Since then, constant work has been carried out to maintain the complex (hence the enhanced security of the territory). A branch line has been connected to Mount Yamantau railway. A highway has been opened 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 installed, 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 going to 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. It has not been possible to obtain an official explanation for the purpose for which a secret underground facility was built and is still maintained in Mount Yamantau, for which such unprecedented security measures are being taken.