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Underground Moscow. Part 3. Subway-2

This is the third part of the Underground Moscow post series. The first two articles are

“Underground Moscow. Part 1. Dungeon History”
“Underground Moscow. Part 2. Dungeon Tales”

Here I will tell about the subway-2 objects. There are schemes of the subway-2 in the Internet but since it is a top secret object and no one have been there except for special people, you can hardly believe what it published in the Internet. I will only tell what the diggers tell here.

Underground Moscow. Part 2. Dungeon Tales

...Next time they found bones of an unknown big animal but the culmination was a ghost of a woman that appeared in a small concrete chamber where the tunnel led...

This is the second part of the Underground Moscow post series. The first article “Underground Moscow. Part 1. Dungeon History” tells about the history of the Underground Moscow and some general facts.

Moscow diggers explored 12 levels and 24 sublevels of Underground Moscow, namely Moscow subway, subway-2, drainage systems, bunker systems, nuclear reactors, master mines and many other objects. On the 10th level there are Neolithic caves, then Moscow sea in the karst cavities. The 12th level contains unexplored pilot objects. So Moscow is dug along and across.

The psychology of the depth creates weird legends.

Underground Moscow. Part 1. Dungeon History

Subway, drainage and other communication systems are only the visible part of what was constructed under Moscow in the last 70 years. Moscow subway has many top secret sections that were planned to be constructed long before the subway and bunkers were built.

The Moscow underground is one of the most mysterious areas of Russia. The labyrinth under Moscow was started in XV century in the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He dug Russia along and across. Some tunnels led to the neighbor principalities hiding in their bosom mysterious stories and unrevealed facts and maybe treasures of Russian ancestors.

Moscow diggers explore the subterrene under Kremlin and Kitai-gorod, tunnels of the Borovitskiy hill, the Temple of Christ the Saviour, Moscow monasteries and many other Moscow areas.

It is well-known that in the reign of the czar Alexei Mihailovich a craftsman Azancheev attempted to construct tunnels under the Moskva-river. The first tries failed but all of a sudden the czar conferred a nobleless craftsman nobility and after that no chronicles mention about any tunnels under the Moskva-river.

Czar-Pushka (Czar-Cannon)

Czar-Pushka (Czar-Cannon)Those who were in Kremlin were possibly told that this cannon had been made as a memorial to all Russian weapon and never shot. Indeed, how could shoot with these big heavy cannonballs? In fact it is an operational cannon that was made to shoot with case-shots in XVI century and these balls were put there only in XIX century for the tourists. They are fake, empty inside and their wall thickness is only 9cm (3.5”). By the way the gun-carriage was added in XIX century too.

Video: Kremlin. View From The Moskva River

A few days ago me and my friend from Chicago had a boat trip along the Moskva river (in Moscow, Russia). Here's the video of the Kremlin taken from the boat with my cell phone :)

Red Square. Why Red?

Everyone knows the Red Square in Moscow but maybe not everyone knows why it is red. Well, possibly nobody didn’t think of that, it is called red because it is made of red bricks. But in fact it is made red because “red” in old Russian meant “beautiful”. Even now words that refer to “beauty” contain the same root with the “red”. Though most likely the color took that name because of being beautiful. Who knows now.

Subway In Moscow, Russia

Its map

Subway in Moscow, Russia

And here are some stations

Komsomolskaya

Subway in Moscow, Russia

The Museum-Park “Tsaritsyno” (In October 2008)

The residence of Russian empress Catherine II :)

Entrance

The museum-park Tsaritsyno in Russia

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