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. Read more...