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enough. and one of the other main news stories of the week in the largest anti terror operation is russian security forces have killed seventeen militants and destroyed the camp of the north caucuses it comes on the eve of the first anniversary of the moscow metro bombings that killed thirty eight. programs continue next r.t. takes you on a trip on the ground revealing sturrock all secrets and showing hidden churches and fortresses enjoy. it's always docking here people who come often face things just getting at the gym and their nation thank god it doesn't work and. rage here a long time ago now they played. in aid. and even perform religious rites google you know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds these manmade caves which are a significant part of russian history a touch of underground. adesa

a city in the south of ukraine the famous site republic. of the weekend local day has set out on an underground expedition. the most comfortable way to get around the depths of the underground amazed because by car. these nine make age of the world's longest more than two and a half thousand kilometers and what it will show me the way it does a slave to the right or to the left is normally i go from the outside but if you make your choice this is a short cut but over there the scenery is more beautiful ok or go to the right age . locals call these pits catacombs stones the construction used to be mined is the first excavation began some two hundred years

ago. it's stretching over some one and a half thousand kilometers have already been mapped each year research is chart and you need discovered caves the schools of kilometers in length. a leg to starvation or long as there's no one. told the truth and also the other end. how many meters than. twenty ok thanks. the investor catacombs 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 known especially ologists found another passage that they map out the newly found corridor. but they can't go any further than the pits of flooded they can only continue with the help of diving equipment. the water is too muddy really can't

see anything else where is the 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 mindset of and 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 yes i'm freezing. khushboo member out that bit of passage to you. will have to look for an alternative route now that will discover another bleach spot of your desert catacombs. blood of all stalled the main mission minutes from naval base in russia's far east some eight thousand kilometers from

a desolate russian engineers built the fortress here at the beginning of the twentieth century advantage it was the biggest and most modern naval military construction in the world. the southerland of us don't defense frontline was located mostly young and the only way to get there was by ferry it was the military alone which knew about the existence and location. of the many underground hideouts for many theaters today the island is open for visitors and members from the inflatable stork digger club author of the tally dimitri and alexi carrying out scientific expedition zombie cannons they explore military architecture monuments from different eras the island has the world including fortifications built by the military engineers of the songs as well as soviet underground hideouts is the if you kick the mouse directions and

don't lose your way chances are you'll find those installations the problem though is that they're hidden somewhere in the case beyond the woods it was in more than one attempt to find them at. the ferry to the village of god knows you're on the island of russkie which is its destination in forty minutes the diggers came here to take a look at a unique fortification of additional battery which for a long time had been a classified facility it was a key element and vladivostok 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 for military purposes and the last salvo for training was fired in one thousand nine hundred two now the fourth is a museum. these guns were cast in the oval cough steel works in one nine hundred thirteen. barrels almost sixteen acres long and weigh about fifty tons.

principle if you really want to yes it's still capable of firing. complex of underground structures three stories deep lies underneath the tower. 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 powder. i feel but 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. each shell weighs nearly five hundred kilos a mechanical winch operated by king soldiers was needed to lift them. the soldiers did their job like clockwork. between shots it took them less than two minutes to reload the cannon and fire it. it push it all

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

true for of occasions and let it all stored in the same every fortification has its unique layout and pending on a particular district. the fortifications have been built of the highest points. the 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 dug with a known as camp to mine galleries these are the deepest underground votes of the fortress. we soldiers would sit in the. listening to what was happening on the other sign if they heard someone digging underneath the thought these were extended that way everything would collapse because of the explosion rendering this part of the fortress impenetrable to the enemy. catechumens scattered on the ground in all

directions and the exact opposite of the straight cemented tunnels of logical strong the soft rock allowed the address of my nose to extract any way. connected to the only ones creating a complicated network of underground passages. but there's not a soul was found in this because of the cancer groups and. it still works well for they can be used. kirk you can see how it cuts through limestone you can see how horus it is. until the nine hundred seventy s. stone was extracted manually with the help of special smalls but the process became much simpler after a local miner invented a special stem cutting machine. the average depth of a desert catacombs is twenty five meters with a million years ago it was actually the seabed of the remains of shellfish slowly built under extreme pressure to form a solid but tonight countless rock layer after layer i guess as they do business

there on new forests around the debt will simply become be used as building material grace gandhi made in the absence of coal and at the soupy built into limestone and began mining it as soon as it does was founded and you constructions in the city are required more limestone. truck stone is used for almost all of the buildings and that's a residential houses theaters shops and restaurants and even churches. today the vladivostok fortress is abuzz with activity each scofield's tear up the client number seven scarcities. going to take a fancy to the central park to come from vacation. to schoolchildren on a slab until to perfect their skills by caring as they said. if

we know that our grandfathers and grandmothers before it's part of their part of our history or whether. we really come here to skate. as a rule we skate here when it's just rainy or saw it you know it's them. but most of the time the force of the vladivostok fortress acquires. in the peaceful environment of the central russian penza region a hammock monk seeking silence dug around a small cave in a hillside close to the cezanne river. that was in one thousand one. later other monks turned the cave into russia's largest underground church. in soviet times the structure was almost destroyed and very put in two thousand and five excavations began. and.

later a senior priest restored the church and now service is 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 research is think that church items may have been hidden underground from the bolsheviks. excavators have already dug up and restored an underground cell with a home at monkhams to live. so. 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 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. touching on and then his geophysicists they hope that special equipment will help them locate underground voids to support the rumors which claim the existence of the secret passages. culture is that so much money and which are called life on it contents of your name is u.s. president barack obama still an honorable recipient of the nobel peace prize to be fair he inherited two wars with swimming office. twenty years ago

this country. to certain places of. the first six months have been trying to get to the janitor. where to take the. wealthy british style. that's like. the. market finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. 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. the remains of prehistoric animals can be found in that cost carriers are just. more than a. reserves bones very well. look for in a. red brown clay is a wonderful preserving agent for such burns. here. or fossilized burns. we'll give them to the museum of paleontology. addresses 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 can 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 watching it is with the have a very interesting elaboration of the grinds book a ways interesting question if you would this little how has been the subject of debate was how did it come the box was of the result of mechanical to the minute someone doubt whether this could have been done by ancient people this is highly unlikely they were no humans of any kind to me just five million years ago i don't know yet clay 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 and below. the geophysicists turned to equipment used for vertical electrical sanding. it can pinpoint underground voids a depth of up to fifteen meters. already. let's begin the program as soon as you're ready just let me know. for you turn your nearly go electric shock. what was the voltage about eight hundred volts i would have thought. scientists gauge the soil's electrical conductivity twice they carry out 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 that unidentified cavities around the ministry. of the nice 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. cromwell according to the book the monastery points eastwards when we accidentally turns a 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 at the baby's head at the loop 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. there were. these manmade caves attract artists as well as scientists.

and as 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. after to me as preparation she began taking pictures of figures wearing clothes and standing against the background of forts and underground galleries of the naval fleet trust. as a result you get something incompatible modern times you have current reality if one of those grandiosity is counted with stupid inscriptions like seven thousand have been here on the other you have these creatures. so you get contrasting images the last and the spiritual as opposed to basic human passions.

is now intend to draw attention to another underground object that up until now only special service officers knew about. oh oh . the facility consists of several long tunnels and is a former reserve command point for the region's leaders. the facility was declassified in the year two thousand and is now completely abandoned. they were enthusiastic intend to start a cold war museum in these tunnels and they've already got the first exhibit with. this scary figure out of the water diggers call it boring me and the guys from the digger club made it as a sort of sample of what a long on a it was like to one man in a hazard suit wearing a nine hundred fifty eight gas mask symbolizes the cold war years a constant readiness for war. very little is known about the

facility to this day. that's why art and vitale all the equipment and documents they find in the abandoned halls. well you know this is a teletype written with some text on it it's still work so we'll have to draw it to find out what it serves. these ribbons a very important it's big and help restore portions of the facilities history. 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. and there are two rooms there connected by a passage a wooden staircase leading up to it's a very old. the bunker was built during the second world war in one hundred forty two it was intended for use by the primordial regions of ministration and had all the resources needed to support people over two months rid of the this was obviously the communications room knowing the inhabitants to receive fresh information make decisions and inform people about their decisions this is over territory would be controls fortunately there was never a real war in these parts so the object was not needed. so i contrast severe fighting used to rage in the adesa caves explorers are still finding parties and bases down there. resistance fighters operating here fought against germany and

rumania and troops a group of diggers has found the camp ace of one of the potters and units like dust is all that's left of the straw that used to come out one of the beds. here's something big or there's a lot of something. let's try to dig. i found. one of the partisans were asleep sometimes coins rolled out of their pockets. one hundred twenty two hundred thirty here once again. you see the diggers take every object they find to the small museum the cartridges some small coins will be added to the collection. i want us 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 past of a camp or blocked up undermined sharpshooters carefully protected the main entrance . normally these barricades were manned by two fighters they were on duty for two hours at a time and it was pitch black here to 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 it's not the barricades it had to be unassailably. have never seen real life fighting today there frequented by members of a reenactment group response team imitating russian marines. there's

a comes here well do you read me. the wrong players submachine guns and pistols are exact replicas of real weapons the only difference is that small plastic balls are used instead of a mind i mean. 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 won't serve with me in the same division of the marines are quoting sources so we've got a lot in common i'm no good here. in this exercise stumbled as his soldiers to defend the barracks in the following passage 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 with and simply

says. i thought this was it and defend this firing from this nice little full well that the enemy khalid circle in because the corridor is exposed gunfire. all celebrities by thick concrete. even a flight of stairs stops attackers in that tracks it was the middle of it or if someone appears from that the defendant first sees his feet best to say even a cruel and old course of the first thing you'll see is the defenders gurnard. several assault attempts have ended in failure the blood of a stock fortress has proved once again that it cannot be conquered. people have a special fascination with manmade caves the footsteps and flashlights of news

stories abound 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.