Legends and Truths of Underground Moscow

10 hrs. 18 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Yury Suprunenko

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

On the pages of the work “Legends and Tales of Moscow’s Underground” you’ll find a number of unknown and little-known facts about the history of the development of the capital’s underground; information about the lives and work of remarkable Muscovites, including diggers, archaeologists, as well as lovers of mysticism and extreme tourism. Many legends, facts, and discoveries are gathered together—for example, where the Neglinnaya River disappeared to, where to look for Ivan the Terrible’s library, how to get to Metro-2, and much more.

Contents:

Energy of the Earth of Moscow
Places on the map
And all of this is not by accident, and the connections here are not random
Geological monuments
From historical depths
Cultural layers hide basements with burial places
An underground archaeological museum
A collection of finds underground
The necropolis of the Moiseevsky monastery on Manezhnaya
Voskresensky Bridge beneath the thickness of centuries
“The secret passages” of the Kremlin authorities
The oldest underground passage in the capital
Secrets of the Kremlin wells… and towers
On white stone
The Ivan the Great bell tower has been restored
Kremlin bomb shelter
Underground hiding places of leaders
How many bunkers did Stalin have
Tunnels and bunkers of the nearby dacha
The Taganka command post
The underground tentacles of Lubyanka
Beria’s House
Underground passages to the execution house
A mausoleum—rock
Unsolved secrets of the Moscow depths
Holes under the Vagankovo hill lead to the Kremlin
Neglinnaya—a river in an unauthorized status
Empire—Moscollektor
Rebellious communications
Manholes of inspection wells as a museum exhibit
Moscow Museum of Water
A man’s jug of kindness
Basements of Solyanka
The deadly Lefortovo tunnel
What ghosts trouble television people
Ghost of the black old woman
Chicks of the Petrov nest
Mops of the underground
Digger tales and reality
Secrets of Moscow’s metro
Where the capital’s underground began
What did the metro builders encounter?
Digger tales
Notable metro stations
Where Moscow has gone
Marble caves in the metro
Three railway stations square and one metro station
A literary triangle
A Roman underground
The “Ceretelization” of underground Moscow
The deepest
Renaissance or repression
Metr-toponymy
Stations—ghosts
Shallow or deep
Metro under the sign of the zodiac. Recommendations of red astrologers
From the country of wonders to underground levels
Places where wishes are fulfilled
Metromaniacs
Playing at death
Tales of the Moscow metro
An underground city—double of the capital
Okhotny Ryad on Manezhnaya—starting point
Other underground new constructions of the capital
Mastering the layered “pie”
The evil fate of Tsaritsyno
Museum-theater—The Ice Age
Underground cavities of Moscow
Voids and sinkholes
Echoes of Moscow’s underground storms. Is it possible?
Earth-underground mysticism
Myths and phantoms of the Tsar of Grozny’s library
Traces of a mysterious book storage
Sukharev Tower and a country house of the legendary black magician
Cemetery
Deadly and mysterious places of New Moscow
A second life of a memorable place
Sukhanovo is the end. Death, hell—pure hell
This cannot be called a burial
Waycross crosses
Butyrka and the Gulag head toward the MKAD
Bunker, tunnel, metro
Mysterious bunker 59
Want peace—prepare for war
Does Metro-2 exist?
Special metro lines are still being built today
Troparevo, Rumyantsevo, Salarievo, and further everywhere
One of the forgotten wonders of the USSR
Secrets of estates
What hides the Voronov undergrounds
The underground treasure of Count Rastopchin
A Dutch cottage by the pond
The road to the stone
Syany on Pakhra
A “mecca” for speleologists
Syany tales
Speleological experiments in the Syany cave system
Archaeological proving grounds of New Moscow