the. price of a few. songs from fans to freshen its. stance on t.v. don't come. this is not to come july from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day top stories now the libyan rebels rapid advance towards the capital is halted as they're pushed further back from the outskirts of kidnappings home town there are reports of heavy bombardment by closed government forces despite declaring a cease fire. before and heavy weights for a long time to thrash out what's next for libya but not the government nor rebel delegates were invited to the meeting even though the picture of their country is being decided. and russia remembers the thirty eight victims of the moscow metro

costs a year ago after two suicide bombers blew themselves up during the morning russia doesn't admit it says all the suspects behind the crimes have been identified and most have been and. i'll be back with more news in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime as promised we explore what was the largest underground church in the soviet union and secret world war two that's in our special report next. it's always docking here people who come often face danger you don't acknowledge him a grenade thank god it doesn't work. raged here a long time ago now they played. and even perform religious rites with all we know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds these manmade caves which are a significant part of russian history atop to an underground.

adesa a city in the south of ukraine a film a song at republic. of the weekend local because sound on an underground expedition. the most comfortable way to get around the depths of the underground amaze is by car. these manmade caves are the world's longest more than two and a half thousand kilometers long to look at it will show you it was a slip of the right over the lives normally i go from that side but if you make your choice this is a short cut but over there the scenery is more beautiful ok i'll go to the writers . locals call these pits catacombs stones the construction used to be ninety as 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 researches chart new discovered caves the schools of kilometers in length. a leg to starvation how long as there's no. hold to tell you at all said the other end. how many metres than. twenty ok thanks. the inventor catechumens were home to partisan bases during world war two members of the underground expedition hope to find one of them the scientists who study caves known especially ologists found another passage did they map out the newly found colorado. but they can't go any further than the pits a flooded they can only continue with the help of diving equipment. the water is too muddy we can't see anything else where is

a clear deep water is the bid for the room. the pits all look alike on the water and you can lose your way in one time. they have to tread very carefully to avoid kicking up the lime sediment it's next to impossible to find a way back through the muddy waters or alexander has been able to determine the pits direction and height. but if you unfreezing. who went out that bit of passage to. it will have to look for an alternative route now that will discover another breach of your desert catacombs. level stalking the main mission military naval base in russia's far east some a thousand kilometers from a desolate russian engineers built the fortress here at the beginning of the

twentieth century advance time it was the biggest and most modern naval military construction in the world. the southern end of a stoke defense frontline was located most of them the only way to get there was by ferry it was the military alone which knew about the existence and location. many underground hideouts for many years today the island is open for visitors and members from the blood of a stork 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 though by the military engineers of the songs as well the soviet underground dance is that you if you keep to the mouse directions and don't lose your way chances are you'll find those

installations the problem is that they're hidden some way and thanks beyond the woods it was in 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 of the venetian love battery which for a long time had been a classified facility it was a key element in blood of all storms defenses for 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 a military purposes and the last salvo for training was five thousand nine hundred ninety two and now the fort is a museum. just these guns were cast in the steel works in one thousand nine hundred thirteen. almost sixteen acres long and weigh about fifty tons. principle if you really want to still capable of firing.

complex of underground structures three stories deep lies underneath the tower and after an encounter with yogi shambo it was the last commander of the battery now retired he's a museum curator and is only too willing to show guests the underground storage of shells and pouted. if you buy me this is the third underground floor located underneath of the tower it's sixteen meters deep the room was used to store shelves and here the shelves. 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. if bush it will show he's really loaded the platform

goes to the next rack i'll show you how it's done. through other group shells of various types are rotating ranks which of them is loaded depends on the orders of commanding officer would you thought of it. if you turn around now you can see a rack containing armor piercing shell it's. level stops first caves were dug in the late nineteenth century russian military engineers build the world's most powerful fortifications in blood of all stocks after the defeat of the russian naval base a course author 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.

to be cations and let it all storm in the same every fortification has its unique layout and pending on a particular district. the fortifications have been built of the highest points. garrison 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 dog with a known as count to mind down arrays 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 of what if they heard someone doing 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 calculus allowed the adesa miners

to extract anywhere. from connected to the old ones creating a complicated network of underground passages. there's not a soul was found in this because of the care of the koreans. it still works well it can be used. what you can see how it cuts through limestone you can see how horus that is. until the nine hundred seventy s. stone was extracted manually with the help of special some wills of the process became simpler after a monkey mind invented a special stem cutting. the average depth of the adesa catacombs is twenty five inches but a million years ago it was actually the sea bed the remains of shellfish slowly builds under extreme pressure to form a solid but night countless rock layer after layer just as they do business there on new forests around the desa will suit him become be used as building material

breaks can be made in the absence of coal and that the soupy built into limestone and underground mining it as soon as it does was founded for a new constructions in the city required more limestone up. troops there is no instruments school buildings in a residential houses theaters shops and restaurants and even churches. today the blood of all stock fortress is abuzz with activity each day scolds terror the quiet for number seven passages. cases have taken a fancy to the central focus attention. to schoolchildren from islam can kill to effect their skills by caring they've sent.

it now we know that all grandfathers and grandmothers built the forts out of big part of our history. so we really come here to scare it was as a rule we skate here when it's just rainy or saw it you know it. but most of the time the faults of lot of us talk fortress a quiet. in the peaceful environment of a central russian panzer region panic monk seeking silence dug out a small cave in a hillside close to the zahn river. that was in one thousand no one's. later of the monks turned 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 temple is considered the biggest underground temple in russia. 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 researchers 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. just now we are coming to a special place in our monastery. the old man will have to sit at this spot he would spend all his time in prayer he would spend ten years here. which is

a vis 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. tatiana and dennis are geophysicists they hope that special equipment will help them locate underground voids to support the rumors which claim the existence of the secret passages.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. the adesa catacombs the world's largest manmade underground structure people extracting building stone here for over two centuries often found natural underground cavities filled with clay work was immediately halted in such places because of fears they could collapse local bakers take special care when examining such dangerous sections of the catacombs. ensure the remains of prehistoric animals

can be found in the cost kayser desert a quarter more than the. clay preserves bones very well with their. emotions and with the level of for in the course of the water. red brown clay is a wonderful preserving agent for such bone and since. long. before the cloth here. across the east nisa 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 feature objects found in the catacombs scientists discovered the thousands of years ago the area of what is now a desert was inhabited by desert animals such as hyenas and camels there's also a unique exhibit to 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 a very interesting elaboration of the bearings they raise interesting question is. this little how has been the subject of debate how did it come about wasn't 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 i. play helps the paleontologists make discoveries but it makes life much more difficult for geologists looking for an underground passage in the monastery in the pens a region the clay is so thick that it prevents their instruments from examining cavities hadn't been. so the geophysicists turned to equipment used a vertical electrical sounding. it can pinpoint underground voids the depths of up

to fifteen meters. up already. more let's begin before we're ready just let me know. so you will turn your nearly go 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 their identified cavities around the monastery. 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 east words when we accidentally 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 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 deviance. or. these manmade caves attract as well as scientists. and the show is a professional photographer and journalist some years ago she often took people on guided tools of the caves of the vladivostok full trust it was then that she came up with the idea of a project to draw public attention to the neglected. after

team is preparations he began taking pictures of the red think is wearing long clothes and standing against the background of forts and underground galleries of the naval fleet trust. as a result you get something him compatible i don't want to hans you have current reality if there's grandiose stuff to discount it with stupid inscriptions like so in south have been here on the other you have these creatures. so you can't control the images the left and the spiritual as opposed to basic human passions. is now intent to draw attention to another underground object that up until now only special service officers knew about.

and. the facility consists of several long tunnels and is a former reserve command point for the region's leaders but. the facility was declassified in the gear two thousand and is now completely abandoned. digger enthusiastic intend to start a cold war museum in these tunnels and they've already got the first exhibit. with . a scary figure it is the will to do is call it borealis this is me and the guys from the deer club who made it as a sort of sawmill of water along on a it was like joe montana has its roots where your nine hundred fifty eight gas mask the 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 written with some text on

it would still work so we'll have to draw it to find out what it serves. these ribbons a very important figure helped restore portions of the facility history. their names addresses and other figures with a lot to decipher. we've never been past this natural. 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 power lines but that doesn't stop the reception's curiosity and they proceed carefully. as is that there are two rooms there connected by a passage a wooden staircase leading up to it's very old fashioned. the bunker was built

during the second world war in one hundred forty two and was intended for use by the primordial regions of ministration and had all the resources needed to support eighty people over two months. 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 partisan bases down there. more to resistance fighters operating here for to get germany 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 come or one of the beds. here

is something big or there's a lot of something. less try to dig. it. i found. one of the partisans were asleep sometimes coins rolled out of their pockets. nineteen twenty two. thirty are 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 the partisans years 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 based out of. the past of the camp were blocked up undermined sharpshooters carefully protected the main entrance.

normally these very canes were made by two fighters they were on duty for two hours at a time and it was pitch black here 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 it's not the barricades are going to be unassailable in. the blood of a stone cold sober never seen real life fighting today there frequented by members of a reenactment group response team imitating russian marines. there's a chance here well do you read me. the old players submachine guns and pistols are exact replicas of real weapons the only difference is that small plastic balls are used instead of live ammunition. and the fortress was designed

for military operations in the first place thirty seconds a grandfather served here some birds as a military spirit and the atmosphere of this place where you. will given the people working here one served with me in the same division of the marines are quite useless so we've got a lot in common i'm no good. in this exercise stumbled as his soldiers to defend the barracks and follow a path which is seen by some. function breaks out in the fields under. the russian engineers go for a small one hundred years ago still be defended against weapons without simply says . i thought this was going to defend this firing from this nice little full well that

the enemy khalid circle in because the corridor is exposed gunfire. is also libertad by thick concrete. even a flight of stairs stops attackers in that tracks. or if someone appears from max i will defend to first see his feet if i'm asked to see even if you're crawling all the balls of the first thing you'll see is the defenders going are. several assault attempts have ended in failure the blood of a stock fortress has proved once again but it cannot be conquered. people have a special fascination with manmade caves the footsteps and flashlights of news more as a pound to disturb the quiet darkness of the underground labyrinths for 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.