"Secret", "military", "forbidden", "abandoned" - these words have always excited the minds and attracted thrill-seekers. In Crimea, of course, you can find many military bases, secret bunkers and fortifications. Still, the peninsula was the front line of defense in the south of the USSR and the Russian Empire. Some of these bases are still operating, and some have long been abandoned and now anyone can get there. The portal "" has prepared for you a list of the most interesting abandoned secret objects of Crimea.
Attention! Visiting most of the objects on this list can be dangerous to life and health.
Nuclear power plant in Shchelkino
Transport corridor of a nuclear reactor. Photo: aquatek-philips.livejournal.com
Undoubtedly, the “queen” of the Crimean abandoned facilities is the Shchelkinskaya NPP. This cyclopean building began to be erected in 1974. The station was supposed to supply electricity to the entire Crimea. However, in 1987, after the Chernobyl tragedy, the construction site was frozen. Although Shchelkinskaya NPP had already managed by that time to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive nuclear reactor in the world. Now the station is in an extremely deplorable state. It has been pulled apart for metal for more than 20 years, and in recent years, official work has begun on its dismantling.
How to get there:
The nuclear power plant is located near the village of Shchelkino, on the banks of the Aktash reservoir.
Object №221
View of Object No. 221 from the mountains. Photo: perekop.ru
The power plant in Shchelkino, although grandiose, is still not too secret. But the reserve command post (ZKP) of the Black Sea Fleet, or object No. 221, is just the standard of an “abandoned secret object”. Fearing a nuclear strike on Sevastopol, the leadership of the USSR decided to build an underground bunker for the ZKP Black Sea Fleet in the Alsu rock. The retaliatory strike was to be directed from the bunker. In addition, 10 thousand people were to be evacuated underground in the event of a nuclear threat - officers of the Black Sea Fleet and their families. The 90% ready bunker was abandoned in 1992. Since then, it has been taken away for metal, and some firms lead tours there.
How to get there:
Object No. 221 is located near an abandoned quarry near Mount Gasfort near Balaklava. The entrance to the underground bunker is located in the lobby of the fake building on top of the hill.
Kerch fortress
Fort "Totleben". Photo: suntime.com.ua
The Kerch Fortress, also called Fort "Totleben" (which causes slight confusion - Kronstadt also has Fort "Totleben") is the oldest of the objects on our list. The fort was built after the Crimean War. The fire of the coastal batteries of the fort was supposed to block the Kerch Strait for enemy ships. In Soviet times, the fortress was used as an ammunition depot and a prison - the disciplinary battalion of the Black Sea Fleet was based here. Now the fortress is open for free visiting and belongs to the Kerch Museum-Reserve. However, work in the fortress is still limited to mine clearance. Every summer, sappers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry find hundreds of ammunition from the times of the Great Patriotic War in the fortress.
How to get there:
The fortress is located on Cape Ak-Burun between the village of Arshintsevo and the center of Kerch.
Object №100
Entrance to Object No. 100. Photo: perekop.ru
Another abandoned "coastal battery" worthy of attention is located near Sevastopol. This is object No. 100, or simply "Sotka", as the locals call the building. Sotka is an underground shelter for the Utes coastal anti-ship missile system. It was built in 1956. Object No. 100 has two launch silos. Cruise missiles were delivered to them through tunnels along rails. The Sotka missiles could send to the bottom any enemy squadron that dared to approach Sevastopol closer than a couple of hundred kilometers.
Now one of the Sotka divisions has been restored and is again guarding the Crimean coast.
How to get there:
Object No. 100 is located between Cape Aya and Cape Fiolent. Turning off the Yalta - Sevastopol highway towards the village of Oboronnoye, you will run into a closed barrier. Then you have to walk towards the sea.
"Barrel of Death"
"Barrel of death" fort South Balaklava. Photo: www.naotduhe.ru
Another interesting fortification is located above the Silver Beach near Sevastopol. This is the so-called "barrel of death" of the South Balaklava fort. The semi-circular design of sheet armor with loopholes in the floor and walls was supposed to allow the defenders of the fort to fire at the enemy on the beach. And initially there were two such firing points. Only one has survived to this day. "Urban legend" says that the red commissars were shot in this "barrel". Indirectly, the legend is confirmed by many bullet marks on the inside of the barrel at the height of the head. However, the "barrel" inspires certain concerns - the concrete base has cracked, so that a multi-ton structure can collapse on the heads of tourists on Silver Beach.
Next to the barrel are the concrete casemates of the South Balaklava fort itself, which are also of interest, but not so unique.
How to get there:
Fort "Southern Balaklava" is located on Mount Spitiya (Asketi) to the east of the Fortress Mountain in Balaklava.
Object №76
Storage of nuclear bombs. Photo: milzone.at.ua
The first atomic bombs were very fragile structures that also needed to be assembled immediately before use. Therefore, both sides of the Cold War built entire underground towns designed to store and assemble the most terrible weapons. One of these Soviet secret towns - Object No. 76 - is located between Sudak and Feodosia. Four adits stretch underground: 7-a, 7-b, 7-c and the central one. Moreover, the central adit is a giant horseshoe two kilometers long. The base was able to survive a nuclear strike - not only was it protected by the thickness of the earth, but also all vital systems were duplicated. So, if a nuclear explosion destroys the main substation, then the operation of the base will be provided by a backup, located far enough away so as not to be affected by the explosion.
How to get there:
Object No. 76 is located in the Kiziltash tract near Sudak.
Not quite abandoned objects
A plate of the Space Communications Center in Shkolny. Photo: urban3p.ru
Many former secret military facilities in Crimea cannot be called abandoned. So, the most interesting "object 825-GTS" in Sevastopol, although it is no longer a submarine base, has become a museum. Now there you can get acquainted with the history of the Cold War and the submarine forces of the Black Sea Fleet. In addition, after the return of Crimea to Russia, many military facilities began to be restored. For example, in many guidebooks you can read about the abandoned space communications center in Shkolny near Simferopol. However, not so long ago, the military announced the beginning of the restoration of the station. So we do not recommend visiting it - jokes are bad with sentries. The same applies to the Military Special Combine No. 1 - an underground power plant near Sevastopol.
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Some 25 years ago, it was impossible for an outsider to enter this territory - secret military bases were strictly guarded. Along a radius of several kilometers, “chekists in civilian clothes” were constantly on duty, along the perimeter there were checkpoint posts with firing points and armored personnel carriers on duty, and any illegal entry into the territory could result in the opening of “fire to kill”. And today all these military bases are open for visits to everyone.
Airbase "Bagerovo"
The very first base that was destroyed. This "strategic" object of the Crimea is located on the Kerch Peninsula - the construction of the air base was started in 1947.
Initially, the construction of the test site was carried out for the purpose of testing nuclear weapons there, and for this purpose more than three aviation regiments were deployed to it. However, in 1970, the USSR signed an agreement banning nuclear testing, which was the beginning of the end of Bagerovo.
Today, on the territory of a once super-strong strip almost 4 km long, you can see only a few half-surviving hangars and towers.
"Lunodrome" - a space object near Simferopol
This object is more of a cosmic nature than a military one. At one time, the location of the future cosmodrome was chosen by the legendary Sergei Korolev, the chief designer of rocket and space systems of the Soviet Union. This place turned out to be the village of Shkolnoye, which is located not far from Simferopol.
It was here that once Nikita Khrushchev carried out the very first radio-space communication session with cosmonauts Belyaev and Popovich. And it was from this lunodrome that the first Soviet lunar rover was controlled.
It is still not known for certain whether secret work was carried out to develop designs for military space rockets or not. Most likely, this secret will remain under the ruins of the first Soviet lunodrome.
Rocket stationary complex "Utes" / Object No. 100
This underground bunker, beloved by lovers of abandoned objects, is located on the coastline between Balaklava and Cape Aya. At one time, this Cold War complex protected the inhabitants of Sevastopol from possible enemy penetration (at that time, the United States was the most likely adversary).
Today there is practically nothing left of Sotka. To our great regret, the Ukrainian command was unable to maintain the serious "stuffing" of the missile system. What they managed to do was dismantled and taken away, the rest was safely plundered.
But until recently, the Sotka complex was a reliable defender of Sevastopol from a possible attack by American ships. But thanks to the "economic Ukraine", which has not learned how to rationally use the multi-million dollar top-secret military facilities, it was not possible to save it. Today, the ruins of this missile site are a favorite adventure spot for diggers.
Object 825GTS - Secret submarine base in Balaklava
As before, it is the largest declassified strategic facility in the world, which at one time was completed and successfully operated in full. Due to the large scale of this complex, Balaklava became a regime (closed) city in Soviet times.
To date, one part of this plant has been given over to the museum, which successfully receives a large number of tourists. The other part of the strategic facility is still classified, and it is not possible for civilians to see it.
In the Soviet years, during the Cold War with the United States, the construction of the plant was skillfully disguised as the construction of a conventional automatic telephone exchange. And if curious people decided to poke their noses into matters of national importance and find out what kind of secret object it was, then the KGB officers instantly discouraged being interested in what was hidden from view. And the plant was built by a specially created department in a short time, in just four years, and it was intended for the repair of submarines.
The design of the plant was a huge, well-protected bunker, in which it was possible not only to carry out repair work, but, if necessary, to shelter people and maintenance personnel. The thick walls of the facility made it possible to very effectively defend against possible nuclear attacks from the enemy, cover and repair the submarine, and suddenly leave the camouflaged bunker to strike back. The plant was assigned the category of a strategic object of all-Union significance.
Object No. 221 - Reserve command post of the Black Sea Fleet in the mountains
The construction of one of the largest underground bunkers was a response to the American monstrous nuclear war plan called "Drop Shot", according to which more than ten nuclear missiles were scheduled to be dropped on the territory of Sevastopol. The leadership of the USSR understood that it was by no means impossible to lose its main southern base of the Black Sea Fleet, so it was decided to build underground equipped casemates of a huge scale.
It was decided to place the ZKP Black Sea Fleet at a depth of several hundred meters in the Alsu rock. It was there that a huge, multi-level bunker was mounted, capable of withstanding an atomic strike. It was planned to control nuclear submarines from this strategic facility, and in the event of a nuclear war, ten thousand officers and junior military ranks could be evacuated into it. Can you imagine the scope of the construction was deployed?
The construction of the point was almost completed when the USSR collapsed. There was no one to finance such a large-scale project, and Ukraine, in fact, did not have a single nuclear submarine. As a result, the ZKP Black Sea Fleet has undergone ruthless dismantling.
Today, guides guide tourists along the confusing corridors of the bunker, and some locals still live by the principle: "It's hard, but we'll carry it." Thrown into the hands of vandals, the “two hundred and twentieth object” is destroyed under the nozzles of the scrap metal cutters. Excursion companies make good money on tourists, luring them to a once-secret object, and marauders continue to fill their pockets with money from the sale of sawn metal. The object is available to everyone, and at the first acquaintance with it, you understand how large-scale and monumental work was ruined by Ukraine. Fans of abandoned objects should be warned that it is better not to go there without a guide - on the territory of the bunker there are holes in the floor and tunnels flooded with water, which can be deadly. And in such a huge complex, it is easy to get lost.
The locals have been waiting for the transfer of Crimea under the wing of their beloved Motherland for 23 long years. And now, in the hands of skilled business executives, the once important strategic objects will gain a new life, because the threat from the Yankees, who want to impose their world domination, is now renewed with renewed vigor. And here, by the way, we are completely protected, we just need to revive what was tightly built in the USSR, and was so ruthlessly ruined by the “friendly” Ukraine today.
Nuclear facilities in Crimea were actively built during the Soviet era. But after the collapse of the Union, many of them were closed, and later they were dismantled by looters. The Soviet legacy is a huge number of inactive objects in Russia and in the former Soviet republics. Abandoned objects of the Crimea attract diggers, tourists and just those who like to tickle their nerves.
Reasons for building a large number of nuclear facilities
Due to its border location, Crimea has always been at the center of military developments. During the Soviet era, after the country's leadership tried to secure the state.
Since a very tense situation reigned in the world political arena and there was a real threat of a nuclear strike from America, large-scale construction of objects for various purposes began in Crimea: from bomb shelters to storage of atomic weapons. Also began to develop the industry of the Crimea.
Unfortunately, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of these facilities were abandoned for various reasons. Russia's nuclear facilities are in the best condition.
Crimean nuclear power plant
The Crimean nuclear power plant was never completed. It is located near the city of Shchelkino, on the banks of the salty Aktash reservoir. It was planned to be used as a cooling pond.
With the help of this nuclear power plant, the authorities wanted to provide electricity to the entire Crimean peninsula, as well as initiate the further development of industry. In our time, a working nuclear power plant would be very useful when the Zaporozhye NPP is located on the other side of the border of a not very friendly state.
Construction here began in 1975, along with the construction of the satellite town of Shchelkino. They decided to name the settlement in honor of Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin, who was an outstanding nuclear physicist. The young city was populated by young specialists - nuclear scientists and experienced workers of operating nuclear power plants on the territory of Ukraine.
The construction of the station itself began only in 1982. The construction was carried out according to a strict schedule, the first launch was scheduled in 1989, but the station did not work. In 1987, the project was frozen. There are many reasons for this, the most important of which is the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Reports began to appear in the media that all nuclear power plants are nuclear hazardous facilities, that it is dangerous to use such fuel, it is unacceptable to build new stations, in particular the Crimean one. In addition to these arguments, there was another one - an unfavorable location from a geological point of view.
In the year of the proposed launch, the project was completely closed. Things were going to the collapse of the Soviet Union, so the almost finished Crimean nuclear power plant was left unattended, which was used by marauders of all stripes.
The nuclear power plant was plundered and taken away for ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Today, only a frame remains of it, and it attracts only tourists and filmmakers. However, like all abandoned nuclear facilities in the Crimea and Sevastopol, the nuclear power plant is destroyed not only because of marauders, but also under the influence of the environment and time.
Bunker "Alsu"
"Object 221" - the largest bunker on the site. It was planned to place the command of the Black Sea Fleet in case of a nuclear attack. In total, it has four underground floors, the depth of which is two hundred meters, and three of them are accessible only with climbing equipment.
Inside the bunker, images of the radiation sign are striking everywhere. Here are metal hatches that close passages, kilometers of mines and a huge room for a nuclear reactor.
The entrance to the bunker is located in the "Target" mountain and is disguised as a residential building. Even the windows are painted for believability. At the top of the mountain there are exits of ventilation and waveguide shafts. Looking at him, you understand that the Soviet leadership took the possible aggression from their enemies very seriously.
A visit to the bunker is not recommended due to the many technical passages in which it is easy to get lost, abandoned and dangerous elevator shafts. There is also high humidity inside the object, which creates a favorable microclimate for the development of microorganisms, such as mold, which can lead to lung necrosis.
Underground Sevastopol
They began to develop long before he became interested in the military. They showed interest in him only in the 30s of the XX century. Basically, underground premises were used as a warehouse for food and ammunition.
When the government appeared, it conceived a grandiose project in its scope. The country, which had not yet recovered from the Second World War, began to prepare for a new war. According to the plan of I.V. Stalin, every building on the surface had to have its counterpart underground. And in the event of a nuclear war, people would simply go down a few tens of meters and continue to live and work as usual.
The plan was very complex, and by 1953 the underground Sevastopol was not even half built. At this time, Khrushchev comes to power and throws all his strength and resources into the development of rocket development and nuclear submarines. As a result, the project with the underground city is frozen and never returned to it.
Only a few rooms were suitable as shelters and put into operation. Little is known about the rest of the structures. The especially secret ones disappeared, as if they never existed: the entrances were walled up, and the drawings were burned. Other rooms are simply abandoned.
It was assumed that all the premises would be interconnected, but since the city was not completed, many remained autonomous.
Nuclear weapons storage
Nuclear facilities in the Crimea in the middle of the 20th century were built very actively and using the latest technologies. The nuclear weapons storage facility was built in 1955 near Krasnokamenka. This is one of the first central storage facilities for nuclear weapons. The place was not chosen by chance: a valley hidden from prying eyes by mountain spurs. The vault is a tunnel, more than two kilometers long, cut into the Kiziltash mountain. According to experts, the ammunition will remain intact even with a close explosion of a nuclear warhead.
The first atomic bombs in this vault were assembled by hand, without any protection for workers, except for alcohol.
Secrecy was very strictly observed. Object 76 could only be accessed with a special pass. There were warning signs everywhere, and the perimeter of the vault was fenced with barbed wire. But, on the one hand, the name Krasnokamenka could be found on the map, and in the passport of local residents it could be “Feodosia-13”.
In 1994, having signed agreements with the United States and Ukraine, Russia transferred all the contents of the facility to its territory.
Balaklava ("Object 825")
Until 1957 it was a city, and now it is part of Sevastopol. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, this object was absent from the maps. In its place was a closed base of submarines, an arsenal of nuclear weapons. She was in a rocky shelter, which is an adit and is able to withstand a nuclear strike. For conspiracy, the object was called a repair and technical base.
It was not only a storage facility for nuclear supplies, but also an underground submarine repair facility.
The construction of this base took only four years: from 1957 to 1961. The channel of this underground harbor included seven diesel submarines at once, and if necessary, several thousand people could be accommodated.
Now "Object 825" is open to everyone and has been turned into a museum of submarines and ships.
"Object 100"
Between and Balaklava was a secret coastal missile system. From the 1950s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was he who controlled the entire water area of the Black Sea.
The underground complex was completely autonomous in case of prolonged hostilities and had an additional protective frame against nuclear weapons.
The construction of the facility was carried out from 1954 to 1957. The gun mounts of the underground missile system shot down any target within a radius of 100 meters. During construction, it was assumed that the enemy would attack from Turkey. While the complex was hitting the enemy, the command of the Black Sea Fleet could gather and deploy its forces.
For that time, Sotka was equipped with the most modern technology. In 1964 and 1982, reconstruction and re-equipment with new types of missiles were carried out.
In 1996, Sotka was transferred to Ukraine, like many nuclear facilities in Crimea. The government has sealed it. At first, the facility was guarded, but by 2005 no one was left there, and the entire complex was dismantled for scrap.
nuclear air base
Polygon No. 71, or Bagerovo airfield, is an object that can receive aircraft of all types. It is also a spare runway for the Buran spacecraft, which is still in good condition.
The main functions of the range were bombing from fighters in the mode of air nuclear explosions, "non-nuclear" bomb tests together with fighters. Hazardous waste was buried in the steppe, between the villages of Bagerovo and Chistopolye. The burial ground, which is called Bagerovsky, exists to this day, acquiring many rumors and omissions.
The airfield is located near Kerch - 14 kilometers. Construction was carried out from 1947 to 1949.
Today, four and a half thousand people live in the village. Most of them are former military personnel and members of their families.
In the 70-80s, the air regiment in Bagerovo was the training base for the navigators' school. Later he played the role of training and retraining of pilots from all over the USSR. The last graduates left for Russia in 1994. Since 1996, the airfield has not been operated. And in 1998, the military unit was disbanded. The test site fell into disrepair, like almost all nuclear facilities in the Crimea.
Polygon "Thread"
It is located at the Novofedorovka airfield. It was built in the 80s of the XX century for training and testing new models of aircraft carriers and for training pilots before landing and taking off on an aircraft carrier.
The polygon fully reproduces a three-deck aircraft carrier with all the necessary devices such as a springboard, a delaying network and other things. And the main simulators are underground.
Educational nuclear reactor in Sevastopol
The nuclear industry of Crimea is represented by only one reactor, which is located on the territory of the Sevastopol State University of Nuclear Energy and Industry. It was stopped in 2014 due to the use of a training reactor, a license is required, which the university has only on the territory of Ukraine, and has not been obtained to work in Russia. Therefore, at the moment the reactor is not functioning. The facility was built and put into operation in 1967.
In Crimea, you can not only soak up the warm sand or walk around the famous palaces, but also visit the so-called places of power, where people come for mysticism, harmony and a charge of cosmic energy.
According to esotericists, such places should not be visited in an angry or irritated state - they subtly feel the mood, and such a visit will do more harm than good. Also, in the mystical places of the peninsula, it is not supposed to raise your voice, joke and laugh - it is better to remain silent and keep calm, both external and internal.
Cape Meganom
One of the most favorite places of occultists and esotericists. It is located in the southeast of Crimea. The name of the cape is translated from Greek as "big house", but no ancient settlements have been found here. Desert rocks with a minimum of vegetation are not particularly conducive to this. But they say that UFOs like to visit Meganom. Ghosts have also chosen this place: they say that at night you can see a boy here who calls for him and can lure the gullible into the sea. Another ghostly inhabitant of Meganom is a lamb bleating on the edge of a cliff. (By the way, real pets avoid these places.) Another oddity of Meganom is yellowish rings on the grass, visible from a height. From time to time they dim, and then people who find themselves in their radius feel bad. But then the rings again gain color (sometimes they even glow at night) and at this time they become available again, people go to them for strength and energy. Practitioners of meditation claim that it is on Meganom that you can make transitions to the past or future, travel to parallel worlds.
Mangup
The largest cave city in the Crimea. It is located in the south of the Bakhchisarai region. People lived here from the 3rd to the 15th century. Now only stones remain here, and also the powerful energy of this place, which for so long served as a haven for generation after generation. They say that in winter you can see luminous neon balls on Mangup. They hang in the air at a height of one and a half meters for ten minutes, and then simply dissolve and disappear. There are also ghosts on Mangup. The legend says that on the eve of the Turkish invasion in 1475, a boy lived on Mangup. His family died defending the city. The boy himself, fleeing from enemies, was on the edge of the abyss. The Turks rushed to him, but the rock parted and swallowed the child. And now, on quiet moonlit nights, you can hear a child crying and see a white figure among the trees: this boy wanders through the ruins of his native city and is looking for his parents. They say that if you hold your gaze on it, you will not tear it off - you will follow and step into the abyss.
Temple of the Sun
This is the name of an unusual stone ensemble on Mount Ilyas-Kaya (not far from Laspi Bay), resembling a giant opened flower. The stones are arranged so that the first ray of the sun falls exactly into the core of the "flower". At first glance, it seems that the Temple is not in such an inaccessible place, but only those who are really ready to visit it and who will be allowed by higher powers can get here. If you are one of those lucky ones, find the central stone of the "flower" - this is the main place of power. Having climbed onto it, mentally ask a question or make a wish. They say that the answer will come immediately, and the wish will come true very quickly. In gratitude, you can leave some kind of souvenir, a small gift in the Temple of the Sun, Crimean Journal reports.
Skelsky menhirs
The village of Rodnikovskoye (Sevastopol), near which they are located, used to bear the name of Skelya, hence the name. These are vertically standing stone blocks covered with moss and age-old cracks. At their foot, people performed rituals two or three thousand years ago. Now there are two menhirs: 2.8 m and 1.2 m high. It is believed that these stones have healing power: they stand at the points of accumulation of negative energy and transform it into positive. You can literally feel this energy with your hands: if you touch the menhir, you will feel a slight tingling in your fingers, and a wave of heat will pass through your body.
Karadag (Black Mountain)
This mountain range near Feodosia is considered a powerful place of power. A dormant volcano ejects waves of both positive and negative energy into space. People have long settled at the foot of Karadag, and its mysterious soul has been attracting artists, poets and musicians who feel the world subtly for centuries. Strong magnetic anomalies are observed on Karadag - there are places where the compass needle starts jumping like crazy. One of the ridges of the mountain range is called Magnetic. For some people, this has a healing effect, and year after year they come to Karadag to “recharge their batteries”.
Kizil-Koba (Red Cave)
The only cave in Crimea through which an underground river flows. Located in the Simferopol region. The valley near the Red Cave is considered to be an energetically very strong place. At night, you can see lights glowing in the air here. And four times a year, when one season replaces another, near the cave, some manage to notice the "firebird" - a cloud of luminous energy, shaped like a winged beauty. Not far from the cave, the Su-Uchkhan waterfall murmurs - swimming in its icy water helps to preserve youth and strength. Above the waterfall is a clearing, from where such a view of the mountains opens up that it takes your breath away. It is a place of special harmony, suitable for meditation.
Dolmens on Mount Koshka
Dolmens are called ancient structures, composed, as a rule, of four stone slabs, placed on edge and covered with a fifth slab. Our ancestors built dolmens in places where positive energy came out and concentrated. In Crimea, such structures are found near cave cities, but most of them are on Mount Koshka, near Simeiz. They say that dolmens are a kind of gate to other worlds. Next to these huge stone cubes (on average 1.5 x 2.0 x 2.0 m). a person feels calm, receives answers to questions that torment him, and can even finally understand his purpose in life.
Valley of ghosts on Mount Demerdzhi
It is believed that here (10 km from Alushta) there is an intersection of energy flows. It is better for unprepared people not to go here - you can see frightening pictures. True, skeptics claim that these are just bizarre rocks that take on strange shapes in the fog. Another feature of Demerdzhi is that on its slopes the sense of time is lost: it seems to a person that he has been here for only five to ten minutes, but in fact half an hour has already passed.
Rock Ak-Kaya (White Rock)
It rises above the valley of the Biyuk-Karasu River in the Belogorsk region, reaching 325 meters at its highest point. The centuries-old history of Crimea is concentrated in these places, and, of course, they have a special energy. People settled here even when mammoths, cave bears, primitive bulls were their prey, and hunters drove them to a high cliff. The Sarmatians lived at the foot of the White Rock, and on the plateau there are many Scythian burial mounds. There is a legend that once there was a sea nearby, and Ak-Kaya was a steep coast, to which ships moored, and iron rings for mooring supposedly even remained in the vertical walls of the rock. Ancient legends are also associated with the Altyn-Teshik cave (translated as “golden hole”) located in the White Rock. According to one of them, the cave was the lair of a werewolf snake, which brought here the beauties he had stolen in the district.
Mount Chatyrdag
Located in the Bolshaya Alushta region. Although it is the second highest (after Roman-Kosh), it is still considered the main one for Crimea - it was not for nothing that before the revolution it was depicted on the coat of arms of the capital of the peninsula. At the highest point of Chatyrdag, the top of Eklizi-Burun (height 1527 m), until the 18th century there was a Greek temple of Panagia, dedicated to the Most Holy Theotokos. The Orthodox of the surrounding villages still rise here year after year on the eve of Easter and serve a prayer service. In this place, people feel peace and are filled with strength. And some argue that the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to them here. They also say that you can make a wish on Eklizi: if it is material, then mentally you should turn to the Virgin; if the desire concerns the spiritual sphere, then to God.
Mount Ai-Petri
Protects the southern coast of Crimea from cold northern and western winds. And Ai-Petri also separates the energy zones of the South Coast and the Bakhchisarai region, so there are plenty of anomalous areas here. For example, in the gorge near the Wuchang-Su waterfall, many feel very dizzy. And the so-called Drunken Grove (the trees here are bizarrely curved) is a geopathogenic zone at all, it is advised not to go here. But on the very top of Ai-Petri, you can stand a little longer and, facing the sea, make a wish.
Stone mushrooms of the Sotera valley
These are huge bizarre blocks with a height of three to seven meters. If ordinary tourists come here to take pictures of stone sculptures, then fans of esoteric teachings visit this place to feed on energy and find inner harmony.
bakla
The northernmost of the cave cities of Crimea. It is located near the village of Skalisty, Bakhchisarai region. The exact time of its creation is still unknown, but no later than the 4th century. Bakla is a place of silence and solitude. Man-made caves and natural grottoes of this ancient city are the best suited for prayers and meditations. Previously, Baklu was guarded by a stone sphinx (a rock that very much resembled this mythical creature), but at the end of the 20th century it collapsed, and now only the Serpent Rock guards the peace of this place - its huge stone head rises above the surroundings.
One of the most terrible places in Crimea is the Starorussky cemetery in Simferopol. Photo: ktelegraf.com.ua
Many people, as psychologists say, in order to recharge with adrenaline, you need to go through some kind of psychological test and feel fear. This explains, for example, a passion for horror films or an attraction to visiting scary mysterious places. There are a lot of such people in Crimea, and they are overgrown with deep secrets and legends. We offer a rating of the most terrible places on the peninsula, where an atmosphere of fear and mystery reigns.
No. 1. Abandoned nuclear power plant in Shchelkino
Dark corridors, stairs, a giant rusty crane that was supposed to install a nuclear reactor in the building. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino (on the Kerch Peninsula) makes an indelible impression. The nuclear power plant in Shchelkino was supposed to be launched in 1989, three years after the accident in Pripyat. But the echoes of the tragedy spread around the world and sowed seeds of doubt about the need for nuclear energy. So, the Crimean NPP, with almost 80% readiness of the first power unit, was decided not to be launched. And we inherited the reactor building, in the turbine section of which enterprising youth began to hold discos of the Kazantip festival. And some airsoft clubs arrange shootouts based on the popular computer game Stalker in the dark corridors of nuclear power plants.
No. 2. Old Russian cemetery in Simferopol
The old cemetery, located in the area of the Central Market, is one of the few that have survived after many reconstructions of the city over the past two centuries. It is recognizable by the Church of All Saints, built and consecrated in 1864. Immediately behind it is the entrance to the cemetery, where many famous people of the late 19th - early 20th century are buried: Archbishop Gury, Crimean artist Nikolai Samokish, commissar of the 51st Army brigade Ivan Gekalo, underground fighters Viktor Efremov, Zoya Rukhadze, Evgenia Deryugina and many others. Some graves have been dug up - this was done by grave diggers, treasure hunters. And at the very end of the cemetery there is a Gothic temple, which is covered with black and red paints. They say that satanic inscriptions and pentagrams are left here by occultists during night rituals.
No. 3. Children's room in the Adzhimushkay quarries
During the Great Patriotic War, tens of thousands of people died in the dungeons of Kerch. Most of them - 13 thousand - remained forever in the Adzhimushkay quarries (only 48 of them survived). In addition to ordinary fighters of the Soviet army and partisans, among the inhabitants of the quarries were local residents, including women and children. Most of them also died here, without waiting for release. A rusty crib and charred dolls are all that now reminds of the terrible death of hundreds of boys and girls of all ages who were forced to hide from the Nazis in the dungeons of Kerch.
No. 4. Bunker "Alsu"
Many kilometers of mines, densely closing the passages of metal hatches, everywhere on the walls - an image of a radiation sign. Four floors underground, tunnels going down 200 meters, and a huge room for a nuclear reactor... side of their enemies - mainly the United States as a nuclear power. It was planned to evacuate the command of the Black Sea Fleet to the bunker in case of a nuclear strike.
No. 5. Sleepy cemetery
A destroyed stone fence, broken tombstones and holes in the ground at the site of the graves... In fact, the contents of the graves were barbarously looted by marauders, and the bones of soldiers and officers who fell in the Chernorechensky battle of the Crimean War in 1855 are lying next to the tombstones. The Crimean authorities have not yet bothered to put in order the Sleepy, or, as it is also called, Gorchakovsky, cemetery (by the name of the battle commander), so when visiting, you should be careful - you can easily fall into overgrown with grass and shrubs, and therefore not everywhere noticeable graves.
No. 6. Bagerovsky ditch
In the anti-tank ditch near the village of Bagerovo in 1941, about seven thousand residents of Kerch were shot, including 245 children. Now there is a monument to the dead on this place. Announcements appeared on the streets of Kerch, according to which Jews registered with the Gestapo were to appear on Sennaya Square on November 28, 1941, from 8 to 12 o'clock. Failure to comply with the order was followed by execution. The bitter irony of fate turned into the fact that they were shot just after they appeared at the prison commandant's office. From December 2, the anti-tank ditch began to fill with bloodied naked bodies of people. The eerie atmosphere of death still, after more than 70 years, hovers over this place.
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Bagerovsky ditch |
No. 7. Roaring Grotto
The underwater caves of Mount Karadag on the southeastern coast of Crimea, according to geologists, lead to the bowels of an extinct volcano. The largest grotto, crashing into the body of the rock for almost 70 meters, is simply striking in its gloominess and mystery, and the waves create their own unique ominous roar in it. Many Crimean ethnographers claim that the entrance to the kingdom of the dead located in Cimmeria, which Homer mentions, was localized by the Greeks on Karadag, in a place that today is called the Roaring Grotto.
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Roaring Grotto |
No. 8. Object "Sotka"
Another echo of the Cold War, in addition to the Alsu bunker, is located in the mountains near Balaklava - this is the Utes Coastal Stationary Missile System, or, as it is called, object-100 (or simply Sotka). Since Soviet times, it has been abandoned and is being scrapped. Nevertheless, two huge silos located right in the rocks are still striking in scale. Next to the rectangular necks, there are the remains of metal guide rails, along which massive gates once drove off, and formidable rockets rose from the mine on special platforms.
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Object "Sotka" |
No. 9. Cape Meganom
This place is famous for mysterious "power rings" (they appear in the grass in annular stripes up to half a meter wide and are clearly visible from a bird's eye view) and unhealthy interest in it from UFOs. They say that the cause of the "ring" phenomenon is some kind of magnetic anomaly. Perhaps these are the consequences of an underwater nuclear bomb test that allegedly took place here in 1960. As for flying saucers, they are regularly observed at the Cape. Crimean ufologists believe that one of the saucers was shot down just above Meganom. The military found a fragment in which cold thermonuclear fusion allegedly took place before their eyes.
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Cape Meganom |
No. 10. Petrovskaya beam
If the old civil cemetery is located in the area of the Central Market, then the largest military churchyard of Simferopol was located in the area of Petrovsky Balka. Soldiers who died from illnesses and wounds received during the battles of the Crimean War were buried there. More than 36,000 Russian soldiers rested in the cemetery, but in the 30s of the last century, the graves were razed to the ground, and on the newly formed hill, local residents began to bury their pets, not even suspecting that they could stumble upon the remains of their ancestors.
