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Speaking about the fact that many people noticed buildings covered with clay, we find similar cases in Siberia, and in the European part of Russia, and even in Ukraine and Belarus.
In particular, they sent just such a link with many interesting examples.
These are the consequences of destruction during the Great Patriotic War. At the same time, the windows are very clearly visible, which today are neatly covered with earthen parapet.
And here are some more interesting images of the Great Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. The first is a painting by Friedrich Hartmann Barisien. The Grand Tsarskoye Selo Palace of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna 1760-1761.
Promotional video:
The next two have a view of the church and the north wing now.
In the image of the mid-18th century, the lower floor near the church was filled up, but then, apparently when the building of the Lyceum was being built, they decided to remove the excess soil and the first floor was restored along this wall. In modern photos, this building clearly shows the full-fledged first floor. But they did not dig up the first floor of the rest of the 300-meter building, and during the restoration after the Second World War, apparently, they decided to carefully sprinkle it with earth so that unnecessary questions would not arise. When I dug deeper into the information about Tsarskoe Selo and the Catherine Palace, which in fact should be called Elizavetinsky, many interesting facts were discovered, on which I will most likely write a separate article a little later.
On buildings covered with soil, there is another interesting article, which I invite everyone to read.
First, it is already obvious that the filling of buildings with soil was not a one-time phenomenon. These were several events that have taken place around the world for at least the last 300, and maybe even 500 years. At least in Moscow, there are traces of backfilling of buildings and structures, including the old fortress walls of the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod, but this happened clearly earlier than the backfilling of buildings in St. Petersburg or Kazan, since as follows from the photos given in The first exile near buildings of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Moscow does not have such a level of excess soil. The example with Tsarskoye Selo also suggests that the falling asleep of the palace, according to the official dating of its construction, took place in the middle of the 18th century. But there is a lot of inconsistencies in dates and who built and rebuilt what in this palace. In particular, it is argued thatthat in 1752-1756 the final reconstruction of the palace was completed by Rastrelli, while he built multi-storey side wings. But in the painting, which dates from 1760-1761, the wings are depicted as one-story. At the same time, if you look at the outbuildings attached later, you can see very clearly that they are somewhat different in style from the rest of the palace, which is typical just for the elements of buildings that are completed later.
Secondly, according to the descriptions given by people from different places, we can conclude that the very process of the formation of excess soil can have a different nature. In some cases, this is, indeed, more like the consequences of floods and mudflows, since a higher level of excess soil corresponds to a decrease in the terrain. In other cases, as in the Kazan Kremlin or the Peter and Paul Fortress, it looks more like excess soil poured or ran down from above.
Thirdly, as some of the readers report, in Omsk, Kurgan and Novosibirsk there are buildings that were built before the war or immediately after the war, which also have a similar filling of the lower floor! This information still needs to be checked whether this effect is observed in single buildings or it is typical for all nearby buildings of this period, since in the first case we are most likely dealing with foundation subsidence due to design or construction errors. But, since such information came from several cities, I still assume that we are dealing with the same process.
The latest information that such events took place almost before the beginning of the 1960s prompted me to think that these events may be directly related to the nuclear weapons test, during which, according to official data, 609 open nuclear weapons were exploded by all countries. explosions of various strengths on the ground, in the atmosphere and in the ocean (the total number of explosions, including underground ones, is more than 2000). Of these, 214 open explosions were made in the USSR.
In fact, this is a lot, enough for a decent nuclear war. But the most important thing is that during ground and air overhead nuclear explosions, a large amount of soil and dust rises into the upper atmosphere from the surface of the earth. It is they who form the very nuclear mushroom that we all remember from feature films and documentaries.
Those wishing to see how this happens in reality can watch a selection of documentary footage from nuclear weapons tests.
This is an American photograph of an explosion over the Nagasaki Valley. The atomic bomb "Fat Man", dropped from the American B-29 bomber, exploded at an altitude of 300 meters. "Atomic mushroom" explosion - a column of smoke, hot particles, dust and debris - rose to a height of 20 kilometers.
It is very likely that not everything is being told about the real consequences of a vigorous explosion. If all this dust was lifted into the upper atmosphere, then sooner or later it had to fall back to earth somewhere. So the presence of buildings built before the 1960s, in which backfilling is observed, and in cities that are located quite close to the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, may be one of the consequences of these tests. Everything related to nuclear tests and their consequences was classified in the USSR and was not subject to publicity. It was forbidden to write about this in the media and therefore the majority of the population does not know anything about these phenomena.
Add to this the fact that the main countries that conducted nuclear weapons tests in 1963 suddenly decided to abandon open nuclear explosions and began to use only underground explosions for testing nuclear weapons, which will not have serious consequences for the atmosphere and the environment, and in including there will be no transfer and precipitation of a large amount of soil and dust.
If this soil fell out as a result of nuclear tests, then it, undoubtedly, should have a clear sign in the form of an increased level of radiation. But there is one but. In fact, we do not know how much this level should be above the norm. This depends on many factors, including the composition of the substance in the soil itself. In addition, it will not be primary radiation, as in the case of radioactive materials, but secondary radiation caused by the exposure of this substance to radiation during the explosion itself. From the information that I was able to find, in this case, mainly short-lived isotopes are formed, which decay very quickly, therefore an increased background is recorded only for a very short time immediately after the explosion. This means that now the radiation level of this soil will not stand out strongly from the general background.
In general, this question undoubtedly requires additional research, which is already beyond the scope of single enthusiasts.
At the same time, if in the 20th century nuclear explosions could be the reason for the appearance of excess soil in cities, then it is likely that the same reason could be in the excess soil that fell from above in the 18th and 19th centuries? True, this raises a problem with the fact that the first nuclear bomb was invented and manufactured by mankind only in the 1940s. But what does it mean that those bombs should have been made by us?
When I first heard that a nuclear war on Earth happened 200 years ago, I took it as a stupid joke or crazy ravings. But then films with Alexei Kungurov appeared on the Internet, in which there were not just empty statements, but also a lot of specific facts, from which it followed that the official version of history does not say much or even deliberately distorts. And it made me look differently at many things that we see around.
The first well-readable funnel, which by many criteria fits on the trail of a high-altitude nuclear explosion, was discovered by my brother, after I gave him links to the films of Alexei Kungurov. It turned out that it is located only 40 kilometers from Chelyabinsk, near the city of Yemanzhelinsk. I have already shown this image, but we will repeat it again.
The diameter of the funnel is 13 km, in the center there is an area of the so-called "suction zone". A perfectly round trace of this size remains only from an air nuclear explosion. From a meteorite impact, firstly, a crater with sides remains, and secondly, meteorites very rarely fall at right angles to the surface, and only in this case the crater from a meteorite impact will be round, and not elongated along the trajectory of the fall.
Later, another well-readable crater was discovered in the area of the Chebarkul fortress, which is noticeably smaller than Emanzhelinskaya. Either the force of the explosion in Chebarkul was weaker, or it was much lower, or perhaps both.
But there are also completely different traces that are not as easy to recognize as craters in the plains, since these are traces of the nuclear bombing of our Ural Mountains. Moreover, these traces are seen by tens and hundreds of thousands of people who travel through our mountains, they just do not understand what they really see.
The fact is that many mountains and even entire mountain ranges in the Urals have been destroyed! Many slopes are covered with the so-called "stone rivers", huge placers of large crushed stone. And if you begin to carefully study the rocky outliers sticking out of the ground, then most of them are covered with cracks. Moreover, these rocks and stones were split quite recently, since there are no traces of water and wind erosion on them, which should have been on the stones and rocks lying under the wind and water for thousands of years. All these stones, fragments of rocks, have sharp edges and fresh chips, which over thousands of years should have smoothed and become rounded. This means that they were broken not so long ago, not more than 300 years ago.
But there are other traces that indicate that it was nuclear weapons that were used in the Urals. This is a diagram of an area where I myself have repeatedly visited the mountains, most recently in the summer of 2014.
The diagram clearly shows the yellow line of the federal highway M5, which runs from Moscow through the Ural Mountains to the east (Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Omsk, etc.).
On it, I have identified three peaks that will be discussed. Yaman-Tau is the highest mountain in the Southern Urals, Mount Iremel is a favorite place for tourists, as well as Mount Bolshoi Shelom, which is the highest point of the Zigalga ridge, which runs along the left edge of the Yuryuzan River valley, which originates at the foot of the Yaman-Tau.
And this is how Mount Bolshoi Shelom looks like on a large-scale satellite image.
Instead of a pointed top, we see a flat area of almost rectangular shape, and in the middle of the lower face there is a small elevation, which is the highest point and is considered the top of Mount Bolshoi Shelom. If you look at Bolshoi Shelom from below, then it looks something like this.
That is, the summit itself is a mound of regular conical shape, poured from broken stone. At the same time, it is almost impossible to shoot it exactly as a top, impregnably towering over the surrounding mountains, since this small mound, which is clearly visible in the satellite image, stands in the middle of a flat plateau. Therefore, if you search the Internet for a photograph of Mount Bolshoi Shelom, you will most likely find something similar to the following photo, in which, in fact, we see not a peak at all, but an ascent to the plateau from the side of Maly Shelom, since the peak itself is from this points, as well as from many others, is simply impossible to see.
Or they will show you picturesque photographs of mountains, but it will not be Bolshoi Shelom, but Maly Shelom, or even more often 3 and 4 Sheloms, which are located on the Zygalga ridge nearby and already look like mountains, and not like an incomprehensible, albeit very large pile of rubble, which Big Shelom looks like more.
The very name "Shelom" comes from the word helmet, better known to most. But I suppose that this name was given to Maly Shelom Mountain at the beginning, since it was she who, from afar, with its rounded shape with a peak protruding above it, looks exactly like the ancient helmet of Russian knights. But how the peak of Bolshoi Shelom was originally called is a very interesting question. In the next photo on the left we see Bolshoi Shelom, to the right Maly Shelom in the form of a helmet, and even more to the right the top of the 3rd Shelom.
Why does Mount Bolshoi Shelom look so strange? And where did this amount of broken stone around, called "kurums" come from? All these are the consequences of an air nuclear explosion that occurred directly over the top of Big Shelom. The powerful shock wave that forms during the explosion propagates from the epicenter and destroys the crystalline structure of the substance at a certain distance, which depends on the power of the charge. It was at this distance from the epicenter that it "cut off" the top of the mountain, forming a flat plateau instead. Beyond this boundary, the crystalline structure of the substance is no longer completely destroyed, but simply crushing of the stone occurs.
Moreover, this fragmentation occurs throughout the entire course of the shock wave in a radius from several tens to one and a half hundred kilometers, depending on the strength of the explosion. As a result, all the nearest mountains for several tens of kilometers are covered with broken stone, kurums. In some places, these kurums are scattered along the valleys, where rivers and streams used to flow, as a result of which the so-called "stone rivers" are obtained. They are called that, among other things, because when you walk on these stones, then below you can clearly hear how water flows under the stones.
And that conical mound, which today is considered the top of Bolshoi Shelom, precisely marks the exact position of the epicenter of the explosion, since it is a consequence of the action of the so-called "suction zone", when the air heated by a nuclear explosion begins to rise rapidly upward, swirling into a nuclear mushroom, hurricane wind. Fine dust rises upward, while larger debris and stones remain below, forming a regular conical hill, which we observe.
It is also no secret that all these granite placers have an increased radioactive background, since according to the official version, all granite outcrops in the Urals have an increased radioactive background. But, according to my information, in the area of Bolshoi Shelom there are areas that are quite heavily contaminated with radiation, since there were several cases when, after hiking the Zigalga ridge, some of the people had strange illnesses, symptoms very similar to radiation sickness. One of the women even died in the early 1990s after such a trip, while the doctors officially made a different diagnosis, but in an informal conversation one of the doctors told relatives that for all the symptoms it was precisely radiation sickness.
After that, persistent rumors spread among tourists in Chelyabinsk that somewhere in the area of Bolshoy Shelom there were illegal burials of radioactive materials, which were then associated with the nearby restricted area, which is today known as the "city of Trekhgorny". And all this was in the wake of the just declassified information on the accident at the Mayak plant in 1957, which only added arguments to the supporters of this version. Now we can already say unequivocally that the zones of increased radiation in the Zigalga area cannot be associated with production in the city of Trekhgorny, since it has nothing to do with the production or use of any radioactive substances.
Now let's take a closer look at what all these rocks and kurums look like now. The photos posted below are mostly from my personal photo archive. As I wrote above, many times I had to walk in the surrounding mountains, the last time in June 2014, when we made another attempt to climb the Bolshoi Shelom. The attempt, unfortunately, was unsuccessful, as the mountain itself was covered with clouds and it started to rain heavily. Jumping on wet stones is not the best pleasure, and taking into account the clouds and fog that completely covered the summit, there was still no point in climbing to the top, since we would still not be able to take pictures and videos.
Nevertheless, many interesting pictures were taken during the approach to the mountain, which I post below with a brief explanation.
Firstly, when you start climbing the Zigalga ridge from the village of Aleksandrovka located in the valley of the Yuryuzan River, you constantly come across a placer of stones in the forest. Moreover, many of them are not local rocky outcrops, as they lie on top of the ground. A similar picture is observed near stone quarries, where the extraction of stone is carried out in an explosive manner, in which some of the stones are scattered by an explosion into nearby forests. Here are just no blasting operations in this area. It looks something like this.
The stones are found to be relatively small:
And big enough:
And also medium in size. I doubt that anyone would need to bring and dump these stones in the forest.
We decided to dig the last stone to make sure that it lies on top of the ground, and is not part of the rock sticking out of the ground (we dug it in from the far side of the previous picture).
And this is how the slopes of the Zygalga ridge look like, mostly covered with chipped stone.
Firstly, pay attention to the fact that most of the stones are approximately the same size, and it will be seen later that this size is quite large, from half a meter to several meters. Taking into account the average density of granite 2.6 tons per sq. meter weight of these "stones" from a ton to ten tons.
Secondly, the slopes of the mountains in this place are not very high and steep, so that stone avalanches could descend on them. They simply have nowhere to accelerate to gain the necessary speed and energy to crush stones in such a way.
In other words, there are no natural reasons that could explain the appearance of these "kurums" in such quantities in these places. Neither earthquakes nor natural erosion due to wind, water and temperature changes can produce such a quantity of broken stone of this size, and even so scatter them along the slopes. Moreover, this area is not seismically active.
This is how, for example, Mount Antenna looks like on the Zigalga ridge, which was named so because of the passive reflector antenna, which is visible to the right behind the mountain.
Note that the entire rock is cracked and all edges are sharp. There are no traces of erosion of wind and water, which should be on old rocks.
This is another rock further along the side of the ridge towards Bolshoy Shelom, which looks exactly the same. Again, the rock is all in cracks, and the stones that are scattered around are its fragments.
And this is how these "kurums" look up close. Pay attention to the sharp edges of the stones that have not been smoothed out by the wind and water. This suggests that these stones were broken relatively recently. Somewhere 200 or 300 years ago, but not thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, as the official version says, since it is argued that the Ural mountains are very old, and therefore, allegedly, have long been destroyed by water and wind.
In the next picture, the volume of the "pebble" in the foreground is more than 2 cubic meters, so its weight is more than 5 tons.
A separate topic is the presence of stones with a ribbed surface, which resembles a washboard of the recent past.
It has been suggested that these may be traces of the stone melting by high temperatures during the explosion. But we carefully examined the found samples, the surface has no traces of melting and corresponds to the split surface. At the same time, it is completely unclear under what conditions granite will form a similar structure when cleaved, but there are great doubts that this is a consequence of splitting due to natural erosion under the influence of water and temperature changes. There are a lot of stones with such a surface.
We did not set ourselves the goal of specifically looking for them, we just followed the route, but even so we saw more than a dozen of them. We found similar stones on the slope of Mount Iremel, which I will discuss below.
And this is how the destroyed rocks look close, covered with a network of cracks and having sharp edges on the fractures.
Continued: Part 11