Grotto system southern ural. Solitary trip to the big yamantau. Journey to the top

North of the Bashkir city ​​of Beloretsk there is a mountain shrouded in secrets, intrigues and conspiracies - Mount Yamantau. It with amaya high mountain Southern Urals, 1640 meters, closed to the public. At one time, many fascinating, but not always believable stories were told about her. But first things first.

Perhaps it is worth starting with a story about the origin of the name of the mountain. Why? It is this information that gives the most vivid idea of ​​the elevation.

So, from the Bashkir language "Yaman" is translated as "bad" / "bad", "Tau" - mountain. There are a lot of explanations for this name - choose any. The first version says that the surroundings of the mountain are teeming with bears, which have delivered and continue to cause a lot of trouble for local residents and casual tourists. The next assumption is that the steep and difficult-to-pass slopes covered with kurumnik rivers did not allow safe grazing of cattle. An equally plausible version is severe weather factors, including thick fogs in which you can wander for hours; snow caps that do not disappear until August; difficult to pass taiga and swampy terrain, sudden changes in weather.

It is reasonable to assume that the mountain received such a name for the combination of all these factors. Dangerous wild animals, taiga, swampy terrain, inconstancy of climate, placers of sharp boulders, in a word, - Yamantau.

The mountain is located on the territory South Ural Nature Reserve Beloretsk region. The mountain, as if having foreseen its history, tried to isolate itself from the outside world as much as possible - it protects it from the west, from the north - ridge Mashak, on the east side - , and the south is under supervision Ridges Belyatur And Yusha. For greater reliability Yamantau surround small river And Big Inzer, originating on the western and eastern side (respectively) from the slopes of the highest point.

Not far from the mountain, on the south side is a closed city ​​of Mezhhirya. The city received the status of a closed administrative-territorial entity during the secret construction that began here in the 1980s. The population of the city is not much more than 15,800 people.

Having collected all the facts in one heap, it becomes clear that the campaign Mount Yamantau- it's not a simple matter. However, the law "On Specially Protected Natural Territories" (which is Yamantau) makes it almost impossible, especially for the average tourist. Practically - because they are still on Ural craftsmen who manage to slip into the territory of the reserve, bypassing the rangers and the military. However, not everyone manages to go back unnoticed.

Myths and legends of Yamantau

Secret base

For a long time now Mount Yamantau draws the attention of all Russia and abroad. Everyone - from a blogger to a journalist, from a schoolboy to a local historian - is trying to come up with the most plausible theory about a "secret construction" on Mount Yamantau.

In the 1960s, professionals from various fields began to flock to this area - geologists, designers, builders. Then, Yamantau and gained fame as a mountain on which a super-secret military facility is being built.

“The hype around the mountain was raised by the Americans in 1996, as they were indignant at the conduct of large-scale military construction there. Let me remind you that at that time Russia, like Ukraine now, was eating up one IMF loan after another, having no money to pay salaries to doctors and teachers. The explanation for this paradox is simple - it is very expensive to maintain mothballed underground construction sites in a non-emergency state. It is necessary to constantly spend money on drainage, ventilation, and monitoring of workings. For example, two hundred million rubles annually are required to maintain a mothballed underground automobile tunnel in neighboring Ufa, which is only 300 meters long. By the way, the construction of the tunnel was carried out by the same Construction Department No. 30 from Mezhgorye. The country could not afford either to abandon the huge project in which the Soviet Union had invested hundreds of millions of people's rubles, or to continue to waste them, having no return in terms of strategic security. (Vadim Kharichkov, local historian, video blogger)

After the collapse Soviet Union, the building was mothballed. However, by the end of the 1990s. here work began to boil again, the result of which was a concrete plant and a mining and processing plant. It is assumed that these objects are not the only ones and not even paramount - supposedly, these structures are interconnected by passages, equipped with autonomous water and power supply systems, communication lines, metro.

Against this background, the most popular legend is that there is a secret bunker inside the mountain. V.V. Putin, where in the case of some catastrophes The president can hide and live for a while. This theory was initiated by journalists who reported that in the early 2000s V.V. Putin loved to come ski resort hinting at the immediate proximity of the resort and Yamantau mountains.

Close to this theory, the second legend, which says that this is not a bunker V.V. Putin, and the future residence for the country's leadership and a command post in case of a nuclear war. It is also believed that all the country's minerals, money supply, etc. will be transported here.

There are more diverse options: for example, that state reserves are stored in the mines, and maybe rocket launchers. There is also an assumption that uranium ore is being mined in the depths of the mountain. Another version says that under the Yamantau mountain there is a military warehouse.

Be that as it may, it is not possible to confirm any of these versions at the moment. And to believe in them or not is a personal matter for everyone.

"Mountain of the Lord of the Underworld"

The Bashkir people have a legend that tells about brothers-heroes. Shulgan takes the position of a negative hero - the ruler of the underworld. According to legend, the ruler of the world of the dead Shulgan became when he entered the cave of the mountain Yamantau is a portal to another world. Having moved to the other world, the hero survived, and later became the lord of the underworld.

Also, the legend says that having settled in his kingdom, Shulgan returned to his native settlement and took all its inhabitants to the world of the dead.

How to get there?

ATTENTION! Mount Yamantau is the center of the Yuzhnouralsky State Reserve, and climbing it is prohibited.

To the north of the Bashkir city of Beloretsk is Mount Yamantau - the highest point in the Southern Urals. For twenty years now, this area has attracted the close attention of many. And it's not just the beauties of the local nature.

Reserve of secrets

Translated from the Bashkir "yaman tau" means "bad mountain". It is difficult to climb it, on the slopes there is a deaf taiga, swamps, placers of sharp stone blocks, it is easy to get lost in thick fogs (see photo). In short - "bad mountain".

In the 1960s, geologists, designers, and builders frequented these parts. Then, at the height of the Cold War, on Mount Yaman-Tau, at an altitude of 1640 m, they decided to build a military facility. More precisely, not on the mountain, but inside it.

A railroad was stretched along the slope. At the foot of the mountain, workers' settlements grew up. The territory was declared a closed South Ural Nature Reserve. And for those who live here, work or serve, they introduced the same allowances and benefits as for residents of the Arctic. Although from the Southern Urals to the Far North ... You understand.

Yamantau small is the second hump of Yamantau, small 1510 m.

The secrecy and scale of the construction suggested that something very serious was being built in case of war.

When the USSR collapsed, the construction site was mothballed. But in the 1990s, work began to boil again on Mount Yamatau. A concrete plant and a mining and processing plant, called Yuzhno-Uralsky, grew up here. Concrete, for sure, required underground work. But the plant ... Nobody has ever seen its products.

Journalists also drew attention to the fact that in 2007 the Russian president fell in love with the Abzakovo ski resort and began to visit it regularly. And by the way, Abzakovo to Yamatau - 15 minutes by helicopter. It seems that the work was completed and the main "customer" accepted the finished object.

The mountains of Bashkortostan are quite popular with tourists. Some people manage to climb Yamatau, bypassing the checkpoint and not attracting the attention of military patrols and rangers. On a flat top the size of two football fields, tourists see the remains of rusting structures, an imposing tower with an elevator shaft from which powerful fans drive underground air out. From here, a concrete road leads down the slope to closed villages (see photo).

Soldiers who once served at the construction site and guarding the facility talk about eight shafts with a diameter of 30 m, each of which goes to a depth of up to a kilometer.

It is assumed that the mines are connected by tunnels, equipped with autonomous water and power supply systems, communication lines, electric trains (metro). Under the protection of a thousand-ton granite shield, this complex will withstand any thermonuclear strike.

Mines? Missile base? Storage? Bunker?

Decades have passed. The villages have long turned into a closed city of Mezhgorye on the slope of Mount Yamantau, inhabited by builders and military pensioners. But what the bowels of the mountain hide is unknown. There are only rumors and speculation.

Maybe uranium ores are mined in the depths of the mountains, and the plant processes them? But there is no such level of secrecy in any uranium mine. And the level of radiation on the mountain is within the normal range. It is possible that the GOC was built as a distraction to hide the purpose of the object.

Some people believe that state reserves are stored in the mines - food, manufactured goods, and so on in case of emergencies. True, for several decades no one has seen a hint that something like this was brought into the mines.

Are there missile launchers hidden in the mines? Experts are skeptical about this assumption.

More plausible than others is the version that the dungeon of Mount Yamantau will become a bunker - the residence of the country's leadership and a command post in case of a nuclear war. It is also possible that they plan to evacuate the main state values ​​(gold reserves, etc.) here.

In general, for now, Mount Yamatau is in no hurry to reveal its secrets.

A SECRET OBJECT IN MOUNTAIN YAMANTAU OR THE CRADE OF JUDGMENT DAY!

For 30 years, under the highest mountain range of the Southern Urals in Mount Yamantau, a grandiose construction of an underground city has been going on and to this day remains classified as “top secret”.

Work on the construction of a secret facility was started even under the USSR. According to one of the many versions, a headquarters was built at ZATO Mezhgorye, primarily to shelter the highest ranks of the CPSU Central Committee and scientists in the event of a nuclear war.

But soon the "cold war" with the United States ended, the nuclear arms race was stopped. Most ZATOs (closed administrative-territorial entities) are gone. Many scientists hastily left for the West, and those who remained began to eke out a miserable existence. The construction of a secret facility was mothballed.

However, with the coming to power of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the construction of the underground city resumed and the cutting of the rock began with renewed vigor. In the very first year (2000 AD) of Putin's presidency, only official injections into the budget of ZATO Mezhgorye increased significantly.

According to people who were involved in the construction and were directly at the site, it was found that the underground city under construction can be compared with a beehive, which is a system of mines with a diameter of up to 30 meters and a total length of up to 500 kilometers. The mines are divided into so-called "houses", which have all the usual infrastructure, communications, and life support systems. The grandiose scale of the underground city is illustrated by the fact that a crushing and screening plant was specially erected here to utilize the gigantic amount of stone extracted when cutting down the rock.

Analysts have calculated that currently 40-60 thousand people can live underground (with the official population of the city of Mezhgorye - 16.6 thousand), but if necessary, the underground city can simultaneously accommodate up to 300 thousand people.

Despite the economic crises, billions of dollars were allocated (and continue to be allocated) for the construction of an underground city, while the military, teachers, doctors, miners, workers, students, pensioners, large and low-income families for months did not receive their meager salaries, scholarships, pensions, not to mention about social subsidies.

Military units were disbanded, ships and submarines were sold, military bases abroad were closed, and so on. and so on.

But with all this, Vladimir Putin has always been sophisticated, is located next to a secret facility under construction and, with enviable regularity, not far from Yamantau, visited the Abzakovo ski base, which is unremarkable for a presidential level. In addition, later, in the same place at the confluence of the Katun and Ursul rivers, he “managed” to build another palace for himself, to which a guarded road of 20 kilometers was laid, reinforced, which has the official name as an adjoining to the M-52 highway. The real road is a serpentine, literally cut into the rocks of an absolutely empty track. The cost of building this road with a length, as mentioned above, of 20 kilometers, according to unofficial data, amounted to 4 billion rubles. By the way, this palace-residence is not included in the official network of residences of top officials of the Russian Federation. All these circumstances can only point to the fact of the true stay of our President Vladimir Putin and his personal control over the progress of construction, probably the most dear to his heart, with whom he obviously shares hopes for saving his life and the lives of his owners. In this case, I dare to responsibly assert that V.V. Putin and his inner circle, as well as others standing above him, are deeply mistaken and, as you know, hope dies last!

On the instructions of Vladimir Putin, Infrastructure CJSC controlled by Roman Abromovich and the German company Herrenkneeht AG signed a contract in March 2008 for the construction of the world's largest mining shield capable of digging tunnels with a diameter of 19 meters, which will be able to lay 250-300 meters in a month a two-tier tunnel containing a six-lane highway, or four lanes of a highway and a metro line. The cost of such equipment is 100 million euros.

The former first secretary of the Bashkir regional committee of the CPSU, Midkhat Zakirovich Shakirov, was the first to open the veil of secrecy about the facility under construction in ZATO Mezhgorye, he said that a shelter was being built in the mountains in case of a nuclear war. But his words were immediately refuted: "The object is being built for other purposes and has nothing to do with military needs."

New York Times April 16, 2004.
“In a secret project reminiscent of the horrific Cold War periods, Russia is building a giant military complex underground in the Ural Mountains, according to Western officials and witnesses in Russia. Hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region in the Southern Urals, a huge complex is connected by a railway and a highway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work."

From a speech by US Congressman Roscoe Barlett:
“... In recent years, the Russians have been increasing their activity there (at the facility in Mezhgorye) ... This is more important for them than giving 200 million US dollars for the service module of the International Space Station. This is more important for them than the payment of salaries to military personnel. This is such a large underground facility, like the inner territory, which is surrounded by the ring road of our capital. And the only reasonable use of such an object is during or after a nuclear war. There is no other reason for a country as financially constrained as Russia to continue pumping vast resources into an enterprise like Mount Yamantau…”

P.S.
Many people believe that this area is the center of the Earth. From generation to generation, local residents tell their children from mouth to mouth the same legend about their special and magical land. Mount Yamantau, according to the beliefs of the ancestors, is the heart of the Earth, which supplies blood (life energy) to all blood vessels (life system) of the planet Earth. Now we all began to understand that Our Earth is not only a house in which we live and spiritually abide, but also a living organism endowed with consciousness and the ability to feel. From Us, and believe me, only from Us depends the favorable condition of the Earth and its lawful existence in the Universe.

There are many conflicting facts about the city under construction inside Mount Yamantau, but I am inclined to believe all of the above, and I know that this place is the “cradle of doomsday”.

WISH EVERYONE - PEACE AND GOOD!
RESPECT YOURSELF, SHOW YOURSELF PROUD, SAVE YOURSELF
AND WITH SINCERE LOVE TREAT OTHERS!
Svyatoslav the Righteous
Moscow November 19, 2012
www.antichrist2013.ru

A secret base of the Russian government was 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 the residents of nearby settlements do not really know what kind of objects have been built in the mountains since the Cold War. "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 a frequent visitor to the South Ural ski resort Abzakovo, located about 60 km from Magnitogorsk. Neither Putin nor his aides could explain to the public why the head of state chose this place. Officially, Putin liked 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 highest mountain of the South Ural massif - Yamantau (translated from Bashkir - "bad head", height 1640 m).


Hello from America
The Americans were the first to tell the whole world about the existence of a secret mountain facility in the South 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 horrific Cold War periods, Russia is building a giant military complex underground in the Ural Mountains, according to Western officials and witnesses in Russia. Hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region (today - the city of Mezhgorye - ed.) in the Southern Urals, a huge complex is approached by a railway and a highway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work, ”the newspaper 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 a nuclear attack", which stated that "while the United States has closed most of these facilities, Russia is rapidly pursuing a costly program to build underground shelters, tunnels and command posts inherited from the Cold War. In particular, work continues on the creation of 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, of course, no clear explanation followed. Russian journalists did not pick up the sensation about the secret facility in Mount Yamantau: several materials followed, in which there were suggestions about the extraction of uranium ore in the South Ural mountain, and about the repository of state values, and about the reserve of food products. Among the others, the version of building a bunker for the Russian government in case of a nuclear war was put forward. But slowly the topic of the special facility in Yamantau faded away.
At the top of the mountain there is a heliport, at any time it can receive a government helicopter with passenger No. 1
tourist spies
Meanwhile, unlike the general public, Yamantau has not been forgotten by tourists who climb this mountain every year. They say that just since the beginning of the 2000s, measures to protect the environs of Yamantau have become tougher. On the one hand, the mountain is located on the territory of the South Ural State Reserve (they say that the reserve was established there not by chance). But the Yamantau neighborhood is patrolled not only by rangers, but also by the military.
“In the area of ​​the Yamantau special facility, it is necessary to be careful, not to make noise, not to make smoky fires and not to betray your presence in any other bad way. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting acquainted with the life and traditions of the special forces, giving them the film footage (money, knife, cigarettes), hoarse, proving that you are not a spy from Alabama, and if in the end you are nevertheless released or handed over to the rangers (and not 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 outcrops in the center. “At the top until the early 90s. there was a military unit serving a concrete helipad and military special equipment. After the military, ruins of former buildings, puddles of fuel oil and piles of rusted iron remained on the top of the mountain,” eyewitnesses say.
We saw tourists and mines leading deep into the mountains. But most of the 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 inhabitants of Mezhgorye, located at the foot of the mountain, do not fully know about what is hidden in the bowels 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.


The underground city is provided with all communications, including electricity
secret city
But the observers were wrong in their assumptions. In Mount Yamantau, not mines were built, but a real underground city. Our agency was able to contact several builders who took part in its construction. All persons related to Yamantau signed a non-disclosure agreement, so their names are not disclosed.
So, as one of the participants in the events said, the construction of an underground base in Mount Yamantau, indeed, was started in the Soviet years, during the Cold War. The facility was designed and built by the Department of Construction-30, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The administration is based in ZATO Mezhgorye (formerly Belorets-16, also called the city of Solnechny). Construction Department-30 specializes in the construction of facilities and facilities for underground and surface accommodation, 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 at the time of Putin's frequent visits to Abzakovo). Since then, constant work has been carried out to maintain the complex (hence the enhanced protection of the territory). A branch of the railway has been brought to Mount Yamantau. A motor road was launched 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 connected, 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 leaving 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.
An official explanation of the purpose for which a secret underground facility was built and is still being maintained in Mount Yamantau, for which such unprecedented security measures are being taken, has not been obtained. President Vladimir Putin said nothing in today's annual message about whether Russia is in danger.
An excerpt from an article in the Washington Post:
During a House Armed Services Committee hearing last Thursday, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, a Maryland Republican, urged caution. He drew attention to a huge underground facility deep under the Yamantau mountain in the Urals, which still employs some 20,000 workers to this day. Here is what Mr. Barlett, one of the few legislators who is a real scientist, said: “In recent years (the Russians) have been increasing their activity (there) - building football fields and other cultural and entertainment facilities that they do not provide to anyone else in their society . This is more important to them than paying $200 million for the service module of the International Space Station (ISS). This is more important for them than the payment of salaries to military personnel. This is such a large object (underground) as the inner territory, which is surrounded by the ring road of our capital. And the only reasonable use of this kind of object is during or after a nuclear war. There is no other reason for a country as financially constrained as Russia to continue pumping massive resources into an enterprise like Mount Yamantau.
from http://slavs.org.ua

Continuation of the theme of the secrets of Mount Yamatau.

As the analysis shows, construction in Russia private underground shelters long-term use is only at an early stage.

At the same time, one can mention the Russian experience in creating entire underground cities to shelter government organizations, their employees and families- http://cianet.ru/index.php?topic=45.0 or http://slavs.org.ua/secret-city.

The President of Russia knows a lot and acts correctly.

The results of the investigation of the pathfinders "URA.Ru"

The relevant article dated October 15, 2008 is titled "SECRET UNDERGROUND CITY IN THE SOUTHERN URALS" and is given below without any edits (search the Internet and you will find a number of forum discussions):

“The secret base of the Russian government was 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 the residents of nearby settlements do not really know what kind of objects have been built in the mountains since the Cold War.

"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, the President of Russia became a frequent visitor to the South Ural ski resort Abzakovo, located about 60 km from Magnitogorsk. Neither Putin nor his aides could explain to the public why the head of state chose this place. Officially, Putin liked skiing there. But there is also an unofficial version. So, the president came to control completion of construction of a secret underground city, located in the highest mountain of the South Ural massif - Yamantau(translated from Bashkir - "bad head", height 1640 m).

Hello from America

The Americans were the first to tell the whole world about the existence of a secret mountain facility in the South 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 horrific Cold War periods, Russia is building a giant military complex underground in the Ural Mountains, according to Western officials and witnesses in Russia. Hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region (today - the city of Mezhgorye - ed.) in the Southern Urals, a huge complex is approached by a railway and a highway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work,” the newspaper 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 a nuclear attack", which stated that "while the United States has closed most of these facilities, Russia is rapidly pursuing a costly program to build underground shelters, tunnels and command posts inherited from the Cold War. In particular, work continues on the creation of 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, of course, no clear explanation followed. Russian journalists did not pick up the sensation about the secret facility in Mount Yamantau: several materials followed, in which there were suggestions about the extraction of uranium ore in the South Ural mountain, and about the repository of state values, and about the reserve of food products. Among the others, the version of building a bunker for the Russian government in case of a nuclear war was put forward. But slowly the topic of the special facility in Yamantau faded away.

At the top of the mountain there is a heliport, at any time it can receive a government helicopter with passenger number 1.

tourist spies

Meanwhile, unlike the general public, Yamantau has not been forgotten by tourists who climb this mountain every year. They say that just since the beginning of the 2000s, measures to protect the environs of Yamantau have become tougher. On the one hand, the mountain is located on the territory of the South Ural State Reserve (they say that the reserve was established there not by chance). But the Yamantau neighborhood is patrolled not only by rangers, but also by the military.

“In the area of ​​the Yamantau special facility, it is necessary to be careful, not to make noise, not to make smoky fires and not to betray your presence in any other bad way. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting acquainted with the life and traditions of the special forces, giving them the film footage (money, knife, cigarettes), hoarse, proving that you are not a spy from Alabama, and if in the end you are nevertheless released or handed over to the rangers (and not 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 outcrops in the center. “At the top until the early 90s. there was a military unit serving a concrete helipad and military special equipment. After the military, ruins of former buildings, puddles of fuel oil and piles of rusted iron remained on the top of the mountain,” eyewitnesses say.

We saw tourists and mines leading deep into the mountains. But most of the 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 inhabitants of Mezhgorye, located at the foot of the mountain, do not fully know about what is hidden in the bowels 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.

The underground city is provided with all communications, including electricity.

secret city

But the observers were wrong in their assumptions. In Mount Yamantau, not mines were built, but a real underground city. Our agency was able to contact several builders who took part in its construction. All persons related to Yamantau signed a non-disclosure agreement, so their names are not disclosed.

So, as one of the participants in the events said, the construction of an underground base in Mount Yamantau, indeed, was started in the Soviet years, during the Cold War. The facility was designed and built by the Department of Construction-30, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The administration is based in ZATO Mezhgorye (formerly Belorets-16, also called the city of Solnechny). Construction Department-30 specializes in the construction of facilities and facilities for underground and surface accommodation, 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 at the time of Putin's frequent visits to Abzakovo). Since then, constant work has been carried out to maintain the complex (hence the enhanced protection of the territory). A branch of the railway has been brought to Mount Yamantau. A motor road was launched 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 connected, 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 leaving 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.

An official explanation of the purpose for which a secret underground facility was built and is still being maintained in Mount Yamantau, for which such unprecedented security measures are being taken, has not been obtained. President Vladimir Putin said nothing about whether Russia is in danger in today's annual message.

Note. The following is information from a forum on the topic - "Excerpt from an article in the Washington Post:

“In a House Armed Services Committee hearing last Thursday, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Maryland, called for caution. He drew attention to a huge underground facility deep under the Yamantau mountain in the Urals, which still employs some 20,000 workers to this day. Here is what Mr. Barlett, one of the few legislators who is a real scientist, said: “In recent years (the Russians) have been increasing their activity (there) - building football fields and other cultural and entertainment facilities that they do not provide to anyone else in their society . This is more important to them than paying $200 million for the service module of the International Space Station (ISS). This is more important for them than the payment of salaries to military personnel. This is such a large object (underground) as the inner territory, which is surrounded by the ring road of our capital. And the only reasonable use of this kind of object is during or after a nuclear war. There is no other reason for a country as financially constrained as Russia to continue pumping massive resources into an enterprise like Mount Yamantau.”

This Ural topic periodically gets into the media and is discussed.

VERSION for "KONT"

Whatever the technical details of this major Russian project, it should receive our positive assessment.

The creation of such strategic underground protective shelters is useful and not only in Russia. At the same time, we are talking not about objects of "military purpose" (in the event of a nuclear war), but also in the event of possible global catastrophes.

This is "something" for which you should not save money from the state budget even in the difficult crisis years of 2016-2020!