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place in the u.n. resolution. unless they are forcing victims of last year when metro suicide last week shocked the nation but how did this all the fight against the sun. up next we explore what was the largest underground church in the soviet union and secret to consequence our special report up next. it's always darkest people who come often face things yes you can acknowledge i'm a grenade thank god it doesn't work. rage here a long time ago now they played. and even perform religious rites with all you know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds these manmade cade's which are a significant part of russian history i talked to him on the ground.

a desa a city in the south of ukraine from a song at republic. of the weekend local because set out on an underground expedition. the most comfortable way to get around the depths of the underground maze has by come. these manmade caves and the world's longest more than two and a half thousand kilometers and what it will show me the way doesn't translate to the road or to the lives normally i go from down side but if you make your choice and this is a shortcut but over there the scenery is more beautiful ok i'll go to the right of . locals called these pits catacombs stones the construction used to be mine kid the first excavation began some two hundred years ago. pits stretching over some one and

a half thousand kilometers have already been mapped each year research is just new discovered caves the schools of kilometers in length. the leg. no longer there is no. the other end. so many meters there. were twenty ok thanks the adesa catechumens were home to ponce's and bases during world war two members of the underground expedition hope to find one of them the scientists who study caves. just found another passage they map out the newly found colorado. but they can't go any further the pits a flooded they can only continue with the help of diving equipment. the water is too muddy we can't see anything where is the clear deep water is

a bid for the room. the pits in the water and you can lose your way and time. they have to tread very carefully to avoid kicking up the line sediment it's next to impossible to find their way back through the muddy. alexander has been able to determine the pits direction and height. but unfreezing. about that bit of passage two. will have to look for an alternative route now that will discover another bleached part of the a desert catacombs. the main russian military naval base in russia's far east something thousand kilometers from a. russian engine is beautiful. it was here at the beginning of the twentieth

century advance time it was the biggest and most modern naval military construction in the world. the southerland of a stoke defense frontlines located at muskie aren't the only way to get there was by ferry it was the military alone which knew about the existence and location of many underground hideouts for many theaters today the island is open for visitors and members from the blood of a stoke digger club author the tali dimitri and alexi carrying out scientific expeditions on weekends they explore military architecture monuments from different eras the island has them all including fortifications built by the military engineers of the songs as well as soviet underground hideouts is that if you keep to the maps directions and don't lose your way chances are you'll find those

installations the problem though is that they're hidden some way and takes it beyond the woods it would take more than one attempt to find them. the ferry to the village of god knows you're on the island of russkie reaches its destination in forty minutes the diggers came here to take a look at a unique fortification the vision of battery which for a long time had been a classified facility and was a key element in a lot of all stocks defenses the purpose of these guns was to protect the city from sea and land assaults their range of fire was thirty five kilometers they were never actually used for military purposes and the last salvo for training was fighting one hundred ninety two and now the fourth is a museum. is the only way these guns were cast in the steel works in one thousand nine hundred eighteen. barrels a new almost sixteen acres long and weigh about fifty tons. principle if you really wanted to they still capable of firing.

complex of underground structures three stories deep lies underneath the tower. that was the last commander of the boat as she left battery now retired he's a museum curator and is only too willing to show guests the underground storage of shells and powder. they feel that this is the third under ground floor located underneath the tower it's sixteen meters deep the room was used to store shelves and here the shelves. shell weighs nearly five hundred kilos a mechanical winch operated by two soldiers was needed to lift the. soldiers did their job like clockwork. between shots it took them less than two minutes to reload the cannon and fire it. if you push it

a little shell has really loaded the platform goes to the next rock show you how it's done. through other two kills of various types are rotating racks which of them is loaded depends on the orders of commanding officer would be thought out. if you turn around and now you can see a rag containing armor piercing shell its. level stops first caves were dug in the late nineteenth century russian military engineers build the world's most powerful fortifications inflatable stalks after the defeat of the russian naval base at port arthur in one thousand and five during the war with japan. special care was taken to protect personnel from shells the votes were reinforced with for me to think concrete underground passages were also built between the caves. the fortifications cost seventy three tons of gold which equated at the time to approximately two hundred million dollars.

for the cations of the same every fortification has its unique lands and pending on a particular district. the fortifications have been built of the highest points. again or some of such fortifications could defend independently each holding out for two months of the most vulnerable parts of the fortification where the enemy could dig underneath the buildings dug well known as counter mine galleries these are the deepest underground vaults of the fortress. we visited soldiers would sit in these now cold listening to what was happening on the other side if they heard someone digging underneath the force these were extended that way everything would collapse because of the explosion rendering this part of the fortress impenetrable to the enemy. catacombs counted on the ground in all directions the exact opposite of the straight cemented tunnels of vladivostok the soft rock allowed the

decimal ainus to extract stem anywhere. connected to the old woman's creating a complicated network of underground passages were. always found in this because of the cancer cures. it still works well it can be used. kirk while you can see how it cuts through limestone you can see how horus it is. until the nineteen seventies stone was extracted manually with the help of special some walls but the process became simpler after a month in i invented a special system coming from. the average depth of the adesa catacombs is twenty five meters but a million years ago it was actually the seabed of the remains of shellfish slowly builds under extreme pressure to form a solid goodnight calcareous rock layer after layer i guess as they did business there on new forests around the desk suiting become be used as building material

bridge scandal made in the absence of coal in the soup be able to into limestone and begin mining it as soon as it does was founded and you constructions in the city required more limestone yep. troops there was no instruments to pull the buildings and as a presidential houses appearances shops and restaurants and even churches. today the blood of all stock fortress is abuzz with activity the chase scolds tara the quiescence for number seven strategies. cases have taken a fancy to the sense of the country come from potential. school children the muslims can kill for perfect their skills by caring they've set.

it that we know that our grandfathers and grandmothers built a forts out of bed part of our history or whether. we really come here to stay it was as a rule we skate here when it's just rainy or saw is no way of life but most of the time the thoughts of the lot of us don't fortress a quiet. in a peaceful environment of the central russian panzer region monk seeking silence dug out a small cave in a hillside close to the savannah river. that was in one thousand one. later of amongst the cave into russia's largest underground church. in soviet times the structure was almost destroyed and buried but in two thousand and five excavations began. later a senior priest restored the church and now services

a. crime you are fifty people can be present at a service in the temple at the same time because that is why the temples considered the biggest underground temple in russia. all the temples history is full of mysteries. according to the legend the cave was the beginning of several underground passages which lead far beyond the monastery territory. the passages have not been found and excavation is still ongoing research as think the church items may have been hidden underground from the bolsheviks. excavators have already dug up and restored an underground cell one home at monkhams to live. city now we are coming to a special place in our monastery. the old men will have to sit at this spot

he would spend all his time in prayer he would spend ten years here. it would this is the window he was handed food through from the male monastery on the ground the entrance would be sealed up he would talk only to god and spend ten years here praying this. teyana and then it's geophysicists they hope that special equipment will help them locate underground voids to support the rumors which claim the existence of the secret passages. well good. luck bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered.

the adesa catechisms the world's largest manmade underground structure people extracting building stone here for over two centuries often found natural underground cavities filled with clay workers immediately halted in such places because of fears they could collapse local bakers take special care when examining such dangerous sections of the catacombs. the remains of prehistoric animals can be found in the cost kayser desert. clay preserves bones very well with their. level of for and their. red brown clay is a wonderful preserving agent for such burns. here. of

the. knees of fossilized bones. will give them to the museum of paleontology. address is a museum of paleontology is one of the best known museums across the former soviet union nearly one third of its exhibits function objects found in the catacombs scientists discovered that thousands of years ago the area of what is now a desa was inhabited by desert animals such as hyenas and camels there's also a unique exhibit two perfectly intact ostrich eggs they date back to the third century b.c. but the museum boasts even more valuable finds this region with the end very interesting a lab aeration of the greens they raise interesting question if you would this little how has been the subject of debate how did it come about was it the result of mechanical treatment someone doubt whether this could have been done by ancient

people this is highly unlikely there were no humans of any kind of three to five million years ago community of clay helps the paleontologists make discoveries but it makes life much more difficult for geologists looking for an underground passage in the ministry in the pens a region the clay is so thick that it prevents their instruments from examining the cavities hidden below. so the geophysicists turned to equipment used for vertical electrical sanding. it can pinpoint underground voids a depth of up to fifteen metres. up already. let's begin before we're ready just let me know. when you turn you're nearly got electric shock. what was the voltage about eight hundred volts i would

have thought. scientists gauge the electrical conductivity twice they carry on one test where they think a tunnel might be located the other is where they don't expect to find any tunnels this is to help make the results more accurate the tests reveal the vet and identify cavities around the ministry. the new shows and tony the churchwarden the outcome of the tests and suggests that excavation work should continue. the holy father's however have their own version of the underground ministries layout. according to the book the monastery points eastwards when we accidently turned the book upside down the underground monastery revealed an image of the holy mother of god. the two entrances look like her legs the cell is it with a baby's head. is the head of our lady the church and burial vault are her

shoulders and streaming robes we don't know whether it's a coincidence or providence all we know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deal. were. these manmade caves attract artists as well as scientists. and the show is a professional photographer and journalist some years ago she often took people on guided tours of the caves of the vladivostok fortress it was then that she came up with the idea of an art project to draw public attention to the neglected floor. after two years preparations she began taking pictures of the red thing is wearing long clothes and standing against the background of forts and underground galleries of the naval tryst.

as a result you get something incompatible one lot of times you have current reality if there is grandiose stuff to come it would stupid inscriptions like so in south have been here on the aga you have these groups. so you get control of the name of the loft and the spiritual as opposed to basic human passions. think is now intend to draw attention to another underground object that up until now only special service officers knew about. the facility consists of several long tunnels and is a former reserve command point for the regions need as. the facility was declassified in the year two thousand and is now completely abandoned. bigger enthusiastic intend to start a cold war museum in these tunnels and they've already got the first exhibit. with

. this scary figure it is the will to do is call it borealis is a go to me and the guys from the deer club made it as a sort of sample of what along on a it was like joe montana has it suits where your nine hundred fifty eight gas mask is you do symbolizes the cold war years a constant readiness for war. very little is known about the facility to this day. that's why. all the equipment and documents they find in the abandoned halls. if i can i'll use is a teletype ribbon with some text on it would still work so we'll have to draw it to foreigner what it. is ribbon is a very important they can help restore portions of the facilities history. names addresses and other figures with a lot to decipher. we've never been past

this hatch. let's go. the official blueprints of the facility is still classified so the diggers have to study each room sounds. somewhat dangerous containing worn out electric lines but that doesn't stop the researches curiosity and they proceed carefully. as is their truth they're connected by a passage a wooden staircase leading up to it's very old. and bunker was built during the second world war in one nine hundred forty two it was intended for use by the primordial regions administration and had all the resources needed to support people over two months. rid of the this is obviously the communications room allowing the inhabitants to receive fresh information and make decisions and

inform people about their decisions this is over territory would be controls and fortunately there was never a real war in these parts so the object was not needed. by contrast severe fighting used to rage in the adesa caves explorers are still finding parties and bases down the. world war two resistance fighters operating here for to get german and roumanian troops a group of diggers has found the camp ace of one of the partisan units black dust is all that's left of the straw that used to cover one of the beds. here's something big or there's a lot of something. i found. when the partisans were asleep sometimes coins are rolled out of their pockets. nineteen twenty two. search here once again.

the diggers take every object they find to the small museum the cartridges and small coins will be added to the collection. these are the weapons that the partisans use they represent the types of armaments you would usually find underground. the germans were aware of the location of the camps but they never ventured into the depths of the stone mines the only exit to the surface was three kilometers from the partisans base camp mine a part of the camp were blocked up undermined sharpshooters carefully protected the main entrance. normally these barricades were made by two fighters they were on duty for two hours at a time and it was pitch black here the untrained men found it very difficult to sit here under such conditions very often the partisans saw the light when somebody

approached the barricades from the entrances and they targeted it is just the barricades had to be unassailably. the blood of us don't fall so i've never seen real life fighting today there frequented by members of a re-enactment group response team imitate russian marines. because it comes here well do you read me. the role players submachine guns and pistols are exact replicas of real weapons the only difference is that small plastic balls are used instead of line by munitions. and the fortress was designed for military operations in the first place thirty seconds a grandfather served here some birth but as a military spirit and the atmosphere of this place where you. will be even the people working here won't serve with me in the same division of the marines quitting sources so we've got a lot in common i'm no good. in this

exercise or stumbled as his soldiers to defend the barracks and follow a path which is seen by. punching bags out in the fields under. the russian engineers go for some one hundred years ago still be defended against weapons with and simply says. focus is going to defend this firing from this niche will full well that they will be carted circle around because the corridor is exposed gunfire. also lead protected by thick concrete. even a flight of stairs stops attackers in that tracks with the mickiewicz or if someone appears from neck side they defended first see his feet and ask to see either of

you crawling old bulls the first thing you'll see is the defenders gurnard. several assault attempts have ended in failure of lot of astarte fortress has proved once again that it cannot be conquered. people have a special fascination with manmade caves the footsteps and flashing lights of new smaller as a pound to disturb the quiet darkness of the underground labyrinths fifty years to come but those who've experienced the excitement of the trailblazers are almost bound to return to this sometime world again and again.

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