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Underground spaces of the astronomical observatory: why is there a subway mine under Moscow State University? (third object)

Until now, we have never touched the legend as closely as we have done now. Usually, the degree of Unexplored World's participation in the life of a place is limited only to visiting and creating a photo report. In this case, everything was quite different. As one of the participants in the pumping process said: “Here and now: we are not

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Visiting the President: Departmental Bunker

At one time, various civil defense structures were actively built for senior government officials throughout Russia: both deep and not very. A lot of money is still being spent on the maintenance of such facilities, and these "privileged" bunkers are nowadays better preserved than others. Visit an underground facility that has even the slightest relation

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What the monuments hide: Underground Stalin's Bunker at a depth of 45 meters

Classics of the genre: it's 2 am on the street, three people are hurrying towards one of the city squares. All three of them carry backpacks, but the man in the middle, in addition to the backpack, can also see a huge bag in his hands. Why exactly with him? Nothing unusual - three chipped in on "tsu-e-fa". While they were getting to the intended point, the package had time to move from

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On the verge of new discoveries. Underground Abkhazia.

A slight shiver ran down my spine. Again these tunnels, by God, well guys, I came here cheap khachapuri to eat and swim in the sea! - Shh! Arthur hissed. “We decided to eat Khachapuri tonight, and you’ll have time to go to sea!” Hang around here for a week. - Yes, I'm sick of these tunnels of yours already,

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Around the world in 4 years - exclusive

The most anticipated festival in Moscow ended not so long ago. This year there were 6 sites. Not all of them were so interesting, but judging by the festival in general: it definitely thundered on a grand scale! And now there will be history. And this story will not be about what was on each

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Abandoned underground laboratory of Metrology VNIIM

As I already wrote, deep laboratories are very rare in our country, so we can safely say that they are unique. They are unique in terms of the type of structure, age and depth. Unique and individual. In my previous post, we descended to a depth of 45 meters and got acquainted with one of these laboratories. It was

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Abandoned underground laboratory of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University

In Soviet times, science developed at an incredible pace. One discovery was followed by another, no less significant. And human craving and greed for knowledge only grew along with this. So in our country there was an uncountable number of scientific research institutes - Scientific Research Institutes. Some of them function to this day, some have long been wiped off the face of the earth,

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In search of a real underground city - the Abandoned Unified Command Post of the Strategic Missile Forces (UCP)

Somewhere in the depths of the forest, at the edge, there is a whole underground military city. No, it does not stretch for tens of kilometers and does not have ultra-high-speed elevators at all. However, this city penetrates the earth to a depth of 15 floors! He is also responsible for launching a number of nuclear missiles into the air. This city

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