We have already talked about crocodiles in the Shukhov Tower, the problems of the reservoir, sexual slavery in Yekaterinodar, the Chekist meat grinder and the hijacking of a submarine from Zaton. We received a lot of responses, confirmations and refutations of these facts. It's time to tell about other, no less interesting stories. What is true in them and what is fiction is difficult to determine, and sometimes it is already impossible. The Yuga.ru portal recalls the most terrible urban legends of Krasnodar.
Karasuns and their inhabitants
Now the majority of Krasnodar residents know that there is one big river in the city - the Kuban, and only two centuries ago, the Karasun flowed through the entire Yekaterinodar. The river originated from underground springs north of the village of Starokorsunskaya, had a length of about 45 km and flowed into the Kuban south of the present "City Garden" (Gorky Park). At the end of the 19th century, in order to cross to the other side, the Cossacks began to block Karasun with dams. As a result, the river turned into a chain of lakes fed by groundwater.
Today, on the territory of Krasnodar, 15 lakes remain from the once independent river: two Pokrovsky (near the Kuban stadium), three lakes of the Kalininskaya gully (between Seleznev and Stavropolskaya streets, one behind the main building of KubSU, two near the administration of the Karasunsky district (separated by Starokubanskaya street) and ten Pashkovsky lakes (in fact - a river bed, broken into lakes by dams.) The channel above the Pashkovsky lakes is practically not traced.
The name Karasun comes from the Turkic words "kara" - black and "su" - water. For a long time the black waters of Krasnodar have been shrouded in a mysterious halo and have figured in mystical stories. One of them tells of a woman rinsing clothes in Karasun in the 1870s and cutting herself on something sharp. Imagine her surprise when the fishermen dragged the drowned Cossack out of the river on horseback and with a lance in hand, about which the washerwoman cut herself!
In Karasun, the townspeople saw the root of the troubles associated with the spread of mosquitoes and malaria, and constantly fought against the recalcitrant river, which they covered, dug up dams, and in 1910 its lower course was driven into a specially dug Karasun canal, which was then locked in underground pipes, covered with earth and later named Suvorov Street. But people did not manage to finally conquer the element. The bodies of suicides, careless drunkards, fishermen and victims of robbers continued to be pulled out of the dark water.
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They say that during the Great Patriotic War, two German Panzerkampfwagen IV tanks drowned in one of the Pashkovskie lakes. Eyewitnesses recalled how in February 1943, two 24-ton colossus fell through the ice and literally in a matter of seconds sank under the water along with the crews. Attempts by the Germans to save people did not lead to anything, and the advance of the Red Army made a full-fledged rescue operation impossible. After the liberation of Krasnodar, the military tried to get the German tanks, but the divers could not find the sunken vehicles. Over time, history was forgotten, until, since the late 1960s, people began to appear every two or three years and began to discover mysterious finds. According to rumors, these citizens were urgently summoned to the relevant authorities and asked to forget about what they saw.
Another legendary inhabitants of the Karasun Lakes are huge catfish, individual specimens of which reached 3 m in length and weighed more than a centner. There are known cases of how these river monsters attacked not only domestic animals and water birds, but also tried to attack people. The largest specimen, according to old-timers, was pulled from Karasuny in the mid-1970s, when as a result of the discharge of pesticides in one of the lakes of the Kalinin Balka, all the fish died, including a huge three-meter catfish.
One of the last mentions of giant fish dates back to 2002, when a correspondent for the Krasnodar newspaper Ulitsa Krasnaya attempted to find German tanks sunk in the lake. According to him, the main reason for the failure of the old searches was that the cars did not sink in Pashkovka, but in a lake located behind the Kuban State University. As a result, the search operation nearly cost the life of the brave journalist - during the dive he was attacked by a huge fish, but was able to get out thanks to a safety rope.
The bridge of kisses as a secret weapon
The bridge of kisses was opened in 2003 and immediately became a place of attraction for the attention of Krasnodar residents and guests of the city. However, it is believed that this magnetism is based on something more than just beautiful architectural forms. According to a number of researchers, the so-called psychotropic generator (PG) has been operating in Krasnodar for about 15 years. The decision to implement the secret project was allegedly made in the late 1990s. The Ψ-generator was supposed to help improve the health of the population, reduce crime and improve the emotional background of the city.
The version sounds crazy enough, but the authors of the article conducted their own investigation, an important link of which was the testimony of a former employee of the secret laboratory S. Rulev, who said that a pedestrian bridge across the Zaton was built to mask the antenna-feeder system of the generator. The main units and control rooms of the steam generator were located on three underground floors, and the antennas were made in the form of stretch cables, supposedly holding the bridge. Why supposedly? Let's tell you now.
According to researchers, there is some evidence that the bridge is just a cover for a secret development. First, the bridge is useless. It has no practical use and connects the peninsula with land a few hundred meters from the existing transition for decades. It is unlikely that the huge money at that time was spent simply for beauty.
The second argument is the absurd engineering solution of the structure. An arched structure of such a short length does not require support in the form of steel ropes - especially since the bridge is pedestrian and does not imply a heavy load. Compare it with the Turgenevsky Bridge, which is crossed by hundreds and thousands of trucks and trucks every day. Where are the supporting cables?
The mysterious glow in the dark serves as further proof of the work of the psychotropic generator. Since several megawatts of current were supplied to the antenna cables to ensure the operation of the generator, the bridge began to glow noticeably in the dark. In order not to attract attention, multi-colored spotlights were directed at him, but in some pictures it is clear that the bluish light comes from the bridge itself. This was especially noticeable when, during the rolling blackouts, the bridge over the Zaton continued to glow as if nothing had happened. After several vigilant residents wrote "where to go" complaints about the strange glow, there have been no rolling blackouts in the Kuban embankment area for more than ten years.
And the last argument - locks are regularly cut off the bridge. To whom and how can they interfere? The Henry IV Bridge in Paris or the Malo-Konyushenny Bridge in St. Petersburg are covered with locks, and no one really cares. In our case, the iron locks hanging on the antennas of the generator bridge create interference and interfere with the operation of high-precision equipment.
Ancient cemeteries of Krasnodar
Many people know that the city was founded by the Cossacks at the end of the 18th century, but not everyone knows that people on the site of today's Krasnodar began to settle at least 2.5 thousand years ago. Meots, Sarmatians, Scythians, Pechenegs, Polovtsians - whoever has not been here for hundreds of years. Especially often archaeologists come across traces of the Meots, whose tribes, according to one version, are considered the progenitors of the present Adygs.
Since even then the Kuban was considered a breadbasket, the Meots were engaged in farming, growing grain and raising livestock. For local tribes, the cult of veneration of dead relatives and funeral rites were important. Items were lowered into the grave that might be needed by the deceased in the land of the dead. Funeral gifts were also lowered there: dishes, weapons, clothes, jewelry. An earthen embankment was made over the burial - a mound.
One of them was located on the site of the Aurora cinema. In 1967, a cinema was erected in its place, which became the symbol of the city, but before the start of work, a 4 m high mound was excavated and examined by archaeologists. A burial chamber with a vaulted ceiling was discovered under the embankment. The bottom of the cell was lined with leather, traces of red paint were found inside, which was supposed to protect the deceased, but the burial itself turned out to be empty. Inside, only a phalanx of the big toe was found, while no traces of the opening of the grave and its looting were found. Who owned this tomb, scientists still do not know. Now the figure of Aurora stands on the site of the mound, and only the small Kurgannaya Street reminds of what was on the site of the cinema.
It is known that at least five Meotian settlements were located on the territory of Krasnodar. Behind the outer moat of the fortified settlements, there were usually burial grounds - ancient cemeteries that currently have no visible external signs. One of them was discovered in the summer of 1929 at the corner of Sedin and Postovaya, when the construction of a large residential building - the so-called stodvorka - began. When the workers began to remove the land along the Postovaya, at a distance of 4 m from the sidewalk at a depth of 1.5 m, they found several dozen burials and many household items. There is a version that the burials stretch to the street. Rashpilevskaya and from the spa on the street. Zakharova to st. Komsomolskaya. They were also found on the territory of the medical academy.
Several more burial grounds were found in different parts of Krasnodar: on Dubinka not far from the meat processing plant, on the territory of the former Krasnodar power plant (now “Kubanenergo”) at the beginning of ul. Stavropol, in the arboretum area, as well as on Minskaya street. Cremation burials of one and a half thousand years ago were found in the area of KubSU, graves of the X-XII centuries - at the beginning of st. Starokubanskaya, and at the intersection of st. 40 years of Victory and Moscow found the burial of a Polovtsian warrior of the XIII century.
In the 2000s, in Krasnodar, at the corner of Sedina and Postovaya Streets, opposite the very same "storehouse", they were going to build a hotel. Before the start of work, archaeological excavations were carried out, and scientists discovered several burials. Spearheads found next to the skeletons suggest that the deceased were warriors. In several graves, bones of domestic animals were found - the remains of sacrificial meat. Where residential areas are now located, our ancestors buried their soldiers and made sacrifices.
It is said that during the construction of the building of the Arbitration Court at the intersection of Postovaya and Zakharova streets, the builders took out human bones mixed with clay shards in bags. Whose bones are these? In all likelihood, they are also Meotic, however, scientists will never be able to assert this one hundred percent. There was really no time for research then. Desires seem to be too. Meanwhile, archaeologists believe that most of the ancient burial grounds of Krasnodar have not even been discovered yet.
The curse of the black "Tatra"
For more than a century of its existence, the Krasnodar tram has become one of the unofficial symbols of the city. Several generations of townspeople have appreciated the convenience of this truly popular form of transport. In severe frost and summer heat, under the tsar, under Soviet rule, in the era of developed socialism or in the dashing 90s, the tram remained the most convenient and fastest means of transportation. In less than 117 years, the Krasnodar tram has carried tens of millions of passengers. However, not everyone reached the final destination.
Rumors that people began to disappear in trams appeared more than a quarter of a century ago. The details of all the stories were completely different, but one detail appeared in each story - the Tatra T3 tram of an unusual black (according to some testimonies - blood-burgundy) color, which appeared in the dark. As a rule, the tram had no number and a sign “At the depot” hung on the front glass. Although there were several witnesses who claimed that the black "Tatra" was walking along Krasnodar streets at number 6. The mysterious tram was seen in Pashkovka, at Radiozavod, near Gorky Park, in Cheryomushki and in the Sennoy market area.
The scenario of encounters with a tram was the same - people stood for a very long time (sometimes at least an hour) and to no avail in the evening at the bus stop and began to curse the trams, scold the conductors, drivers and the director of the tram and trolleybus enterprise. And then, as if having mercy, a carriage almost noiselessly drove up to the man at a deserted stop, picked up and took the belated traveler to nowhere.
One elderly Krasnodar taxi driver personally told the author of the article about his meeting with Tatra in the late 1980s: “It was about three in the morning. I drove from the Sabbath down Sedin towards Karl Liebknecht [now Stavropolskaya] at a speed of 40-50 kilometers per hour, did not bother anyone. Passing the crossroads from Gogol, I looked to the left just in case. And I think it saved my life. A tram was flying at high speed towards the Cooperative Market. I saw his headlights and managed to hit the brakes. The collision could not be avoided, but the blow was tangential. I scratched his bochin, but he didn't even stop and drove on. I looked around, saw that there was not a single witness around, rushed into the garage and only a block later, already on Voroshilov [now Gymnazicheskaya], I stopped dead. Why? You see, there was nobody on the tram. Nobody at all, not even the driver. It was really scary. It is clear that no one would have believed me. What tram at three in the morning? What did you do there yourself? I don’t remember how I got to the garage of my friend’s locksmith, he was doing magic over my Volga until morning - he made a bumper, replaced the headlight, erased traces of black paint and tinted the hood. At the morning inspection in the taxi company I was shaking, but no one noticed anything."
They say that one day one of the townspeople wrote a complaint to the management of the Tram and Trolleybus Administration. The man complained that in the evening of such and such a date the tram was going to the depot, drove up to a stop, stood for a minute, and left without opening the door. The citizen demanded to understand and punish the driver who did not open the door, and gave the car number. The active city dweller had no idea what he escaped that evening. At the depot, the complaint was checked and found that the tram with this number was written off back in the early 80s, and the driver, a deserved grandfather, who drove trams for almost half a century, was retired. Grandpa categorically refused to go on a well-deserved rest and in the end he cursed all the management and left without even taking his work book. No one saw him again.
People have noticed that every time a mysterious tram appears, some kind of misfortune happens. In the XXI century, the black Tatra was seen twice. Dozens of townspeople noticed the tram on September 11, 2001. The car was seen for the second time on the Dmitrievskaya dam on May 26, 2016. The next day, the football club "Kuban" flew out of the Premier League.
Secrets of the park named after Zhukov
Once on the site of the park named after Zhukov, the main Orthodox church of the entire Kuban was located - the military Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. It was founded on the Market Square of Yekaterinodar in April 1853. In the church, which became one of the main symbols of the city, there were Cossack regalia, and prominent representatives of the Kuban Cossacks were buried in the crypt of the cathedral.
After the revolution, the bells were removed from the church and a museum of atheism was placed there, and in 1932, by decision of the Council of Workers, Peasants, Cossack and Red Army Deputies, the cathedral was blown up. From the majestic structure, which was built for almost 20 years, the foundation and a huge basement remained, from which, according to legend, three underground passages were dug - one went to the Trinity Church, located on Frunze Street, the second passage connected the cathedral with St. Catherine's Church on the street Peace, and the third passage was dug up to the river itself in case Yekaterinodar was surrounded by enemy troops.
The old people told how in childhood they wandered through the underground labyrinths between Lenin, Krasnoarmeiskaya, Ordzhonikidze and Krasnaya streets, stumbled upon massive oak chests and heavy doors with huge locks on them. The mystery of the dungeons has interested onlookers, journalists and treasure hunters for many decades. During the Soviet years, many of these passages collapsed, some were buried for security reasons, and a number of basements were adapted for the needs of bomb shelters.
The entrance to one of the bunkers was located just opposite the regional administration - right under the Zhukov square - and was an ordinary sewer hatch. According to the recollections of eyewitnesses who made a sortie into the holy of holies of the headquarters of civil defense and emergency situations, there were not many police in the early 2000s in the center of Krasnodar and it was quite easy to get inside: “Opening the lid, we saw broken steps going down, under which there was a door opened by an autogen … Going down and walking along the corridor, we found ourselves in a bunker. The two-story dungeons frightened us with their absolute silence. Remains of radio equipment have been preserved in the next room. The bunker was practically empty, destroyed room with things thrown on the floor, metal rubbish. Nearby was a room for ventilation units with air pumps standing there,tanks with a supply of water and a water tap. When we turned on the tap, water came out of it.
On the ground floor there was a room with an electric generator and a large meeting room. In it hung a huge map of the city on the entire wall, which was made of a material similar to linoleum. The map had fallen in pieces in places and, like a mosaic, lay on the floor. Nearby were old Soviet chairs, and a rotting officer's cap was lying around. Small offices were located nearby. One could only squeeze through them. Several offices were glazed. Judging by the remains of pieces of paper with the phones of all services in the city, there was a communications center here. The remains of the documents bore the dates of the late 70s and early 80s. After wandering for about an hour, we felt how hard it was to breathe. I had to go upstairs."
Among the legends associated with the park, there is a story about a girl who could not survive the death of her beloved, who went to the front during the Great Patriotic War, and committed suicide. Since then, in the spring, at the fountain, where the couple saw each other for the last time, two translucent figures appear - a young woman in a colorful dress and a Red Army soldier in the uniform of the early 40s.
Then the romantic legends of the mid-century were replaced by more mundane stories of the post-perestroika era. For many years the square between the Gymnazicheskaya and Lenin's was called the "Prostitute". According to one of the versions, this is a nickname, it is easy to guess why, at the end of the 19th century, the Grand Hotel received the hotel (now the building houses the Museum named after ED Felitsyn), later the name passed to the square. But most researchers believe that everything is more prosaic - in the early 1990s, girls of easy virtue chose the place. However, today you will not meet them there - they live on another street. But that's a completely different story.
Victor Dereza
