Medveditskaya ridge is the most famous anomalous zone in Russia. It is located in the Volgograd region in a hilly area in the Zhirnovsky district, on the left bank of the Medveditsa River.
In these places, there have been legends about enchanted or cursed places, strange creatures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), etc., for a long time. Since 1982, enthusiastic ufologists have been conducting regular expeditions here, most often from the Cosmopoisk organization. Many anomalous phenomena are associated with the Medveditskaya ridge, but we will focus on the network of mysterious underground tunnels.
There were stories about local tunnels and underground caves back in the past centuries, in which robbers allegedly hid. From one cave to another, they supposedly could pass underground through someone long ago laid tunnels, and these tunnels were very straight and even.
In the 1920s-1930s, the local lore enthusiast Peshchilin climbed through caves and tunnels. However, it is no longer possible to establish which caves he examined. There is practically no information left about Peschilin's investigations, only the old people interpret that he walked along straight passages for whole weeks.
Much later, in the post-war period, a local old woman, a former nun, told the researchers Gusev and Gayvoronsky that these passages stretched from the Bear to the town of Serafimovich. The penultimate time of the caves was apparently used by gypsies-horse thieves. They stole herds of horses from the villages several times. Moreover, local men tried to catch the thieves, ambushed them, but they went "as if underground", and together with the horses.
Horse breeders know that a stranger cannot lead a horse into a cave (the horse trembles in panic in front of narrow passages, fears that he will not be able to turn in them). However, these stolen horses entered the caves quickly and without misfires. The conclusion suggests itself: the tunnels had a relatively large entrance. So large that the horse must enter, feeling enough space.
One of the half-buried tunnels found in the Medveditskaya ridge zone.
According to the story of the former local chairman of the region, Nikolai Ilyich Doroshenko, in 1942, when the Nazis broke through to the Volga, in these places mysterious caves were found by the local. They found them while digging defensive trenches, and then sappers blew up the entrance to them.
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In the post-war years, the magic word "tunnel" appeared in the people's memory only a few times. At first, when in the summer of 1970 (or 1971) four teenagers went missing near the village of F., all that was known about them was that they went up the mountain to fry potatoes at the stake. Cadets were sent from the regional center to comb the surrounding hills up and down.
Only a month later, someone drew attention to the fresh traces of a recent landslide. They began to excavate and found the bodies of all four. As it turned out, they found the entrance to some cave and settled in it. Why the collapse occurred is now unknown. It is also unknown how far the cave (or tunnel?) Went before the collapse: excavations stopped immediately as soon as rescuers found the last body.
A dozen years later, in the 1980s, a large, beautiful pond, a local landmark, suddenly dried up in the village of M. The local village leader Viktor Vasilyevich Skoritsky tried several times to fill it with water, invited ameliorators for this, but the specialists were powerless to fix anything. Their diagnosis was: somewhere through the formed crack, water goes into underground voids. What kind of voids - no one knew for sure, but in the memory, of course, the tunnels surfaced.
In the mid-1990s, some half-buried entrances to the caves (or, again, tunnels?) Were discovered on a slope overlooking the Medveditsa River.
Diagram of the tunnels of the Medveditskaya ridge, drawn up by Vadim Chernobrov. First diagram and augmented diagram:
Versions of the origin of the mysterious tunnels
If we discard the most unrealistic hypotheses, then here are the main versions of the origin of these tunnels:
1. Tunnels are secret MILITARY BASES
There was a version that there was precisely a secret Soviet object in the caves, and the chiefs of the sappers who were in charge of the construction of defensive structures most likely knew about this, and to protect against the possible capture of this very object by the Germans, they blew up the caves during the Second World War.
Sentenced to death for treason to his homeland, former Soviet intelligence agent Viktor Rezun, and now a well-known writer, who publishes books one after another in the West under the pseudonym “Viktor Suvorov”, claims that Stalin sent a lot of dungeons for various purposes to be built in different places, among them were well-equipped gigantic underground defensive fortifications along the entire western border of the USSR (now blown up, with buried entrances).
There were also some almost fantastic underground palaces - for the safe placement of the government, the highest command and other vital organs of the country. In the book by Viktor Suvorov "Choice" colorfully described such a top secret underground palace "Moscow-600", allegedly located in the Volga region, in the Zhigulevsky mountains.
2. Tunnels are not actually tunnels, but a RIFT IN THE KORA
- an ancient cave, some other void of natural origin. What we know about this void makes these hypotheses almost completely unrealistic. Science does not know such perfectly flat faults.
3. Tunnels are the ENERGY STRUCTURE of the living Earth
It is difficult to comment, we know absolutely nothing about the organism of our planet in order to refute or confirm this idea.
4. Tunnels are a man-made STRUCTURE OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
In 1997, an electronic version of the book was published by the director of the Ural Roerich Foundation Vladimir Shemshuk, who, studying ancient Vedic sources, is trying to prove that the nuclear catastrophe that happened on Earth is not a hypothesis, not an idle fiction, but a real tragedy that played out 25-30 thousand years ago. after which came the nuclear winter, known to science as the worldwide glaciation.
After the catastrophe, the decay processes that followed changed the gas composition of the atmosphere, the lethal concentrations of hydrogen sulfide and methane released (the latter is still frozen in the caps of the poles) poisoned all the survivors by a miracle. Oceans, seas and rivers were poisoned by decaying corpses.
Hunger began. People tried to escape from toxic air, radiation and low atmospheric pressure in their underground cities. But the ensuing showers and earthquakes destroyed everything they created and drove them back to the surface of the earth.
Using the device, which resembles a laser, described in the Mahabharata, people hastily built huge underground galleries, sometimes more than 100 m high, thereby trying to create conditions for life there: the necessary pressure, temperature and air composition. But the nuclear war continued, and even here they were overtaken by the enemy.
It is possible that the "pipes" that have survived to this day, connecting the caves with the surface of the earth, are of natural origin. Burnt by laser weapons, they were made to smoke people who tried to escape from poisonous gases and low pressure (or for ventilation.) In the dungeons. These pipes are too round to speak of their natural origin.
Of course, the construction of the tunnels began long before the nuclear disaster. Now they have an unsightly appearance and are perceived by us as caves of natural origin (how much would our metro look better after many centuries, when we could only admire the "play of natural forces"?)
Thousand-kilometer tunnels were dug throughout the planet, which were discovered in Altai, the Urals, Tien Shan, the Caucasus, the Sahara, the Gobi, and North and South America. One of these tunnels allegedly connects Morocco with Spain. According to P. Kolossimo, this tunnel, apparently, penetrated the only species of monkeys existing in Europe today, the "Magota of Gibraltar", living in the vicinity of the exit from the dungeon.
5. Tunnels are part of structures
HABITATS OF UNKNOWN UNDERGROUND CIVILIZATION or inhabitants of another space-dimension.
In principle, other earthlings, "secret" for us, can live next to us. Sometimes, by the way, they observe how people in strange clothes go out and enter the caves. Homeless or aliens more often live in caves? - we don't know yet!
Once Nicholas Roerich was shown long underground corridors. Unknown people allegedly left them to make purchases at the bazaar. They paid for goods and food with old coins, which were unknown in those places.
The mysterious bald patch in the grass on the Medveditskaya Ridge is considered the site of the UFO landing.
6. The tunnels are a kind of SECRET ALIEN BASE
- underground defensive bastion to repel possible attacks of stellar opponents or something else like that. This, of course, can only be indirect evidence, no direct evidence.
7. Tunnels are a TRANSPORTATION NETWORK hidden from our ancestors, made secretly from us by representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations
Famous contactee Betty Ann Andersson recalled during regressive hypnosis sessions that she was not only inside a man-made UFO, but also flew inside huge artificial tunnels on a kind of flat circular platform [Raymond E. Fowler "The Andersson affair"]. For what, for what purpose she flew here is unknown.
Several more contactees have more or less coherent memories of the tunnels, from which it is clear that the tunnels are huge (about 5-20 meters in diameter, at least several kilometers long) and very old (centuries-old incrustations of huge stalagmites and stalactites are visible).
8. Tunnels are REMAINS OF HYPERBORHEA
In 1999-2000. MEPhI physicist Boris Ustinovich Rodionov, having familiarized himself with the results of the "Cosmopoisk" research on the Medveditskaya ridge, was the first to notice some intersections of the descriptions of the dungeons with the legends about this ancient mysterious country.
It was believed that the Hyperborean (Arctid) legends reflected a long, almost half-year stay of people underground, without sunlight, which gave reason for modern scientists who read these legends to think that these our ancestors lived in the Arctic Circle. As you know, there is also no sun for a long time - in winter, the polar night lasts for six months.
In addition, the researchers of Russian antiquity according to foreign sources could also be misled by the verbal element "arc", which in many European languages is found as in terms of builders - recall the various arches, arkatures and arcades [lat. arc - arc], and in words related to the north - arctic, arktida [lat. arcticus, gr. arktikos - northern].
Underground arched-type cities - with arched vaults or with a ring-shaped structure of underground structures - could be perceived by the translator as arctic cities - northern. And the concept of the north for the ancients was relative - the north for the southerners began where snow usually fell in winter.
The ancient common brown (not white!) Bears were called "northerners" - ursus arctors (arctus) - this is how the brown bear (she-bear) is called in Latin. Ursus - consonant with the words "Rus", "fair-haired" and "Russian". Some researchers think that this is where the words Rus came from, Russian - because of the predominantly light (not dark) hair, eyes and faces of the inhabitants of Rus.
The Greeks called the northern lands Hyperborea. Boreas - Borei is the north wind, the prefix "hyper" - over, over, on the other side. Everything as a whole - Hyperborea (or, in Latin, Arctida) means the northern harsh land. But nowhere does it follow that this is a circumpolar region of the globe.
This Hyperborea could well begin, for example, and north of the Bear. And, perhaps, as B. Rodionov says, Hyperborea consisted mainly of the space between the Volga and the Don - from the Bear to the meridian passing through present-day Moscow and Tula.
The very space through which they moved and where they inevitably stopped in order to survive the winter, the tribes that “flowed” through the Bear and then settled in Europe or Asia. If here the representatives of these tribes first encountered a new nature for them and a new way of life, then from here they spread their stories about the wonderful land of the Russians all over the world …
It was in the area of modern Moscow that the legends of the Germans about their ancestral home - the mysterious land of Tula and about the "paradise of heroes" - Valhalla could be born. The Russian word "tula" contains the meaning of secrecy: hence the sleeve is the inner part of the bearing, stoop - bend over, the chair is what one sits on, becoming lower and more invisible.
It is possible that in ancient times, somewhere in Russia, there could have been a large secret underground city or even an underground "metropolis" - a concentration of cities. With the name - Tula - Tule or Valhalla - Valdai. By the way, there are several amazing places in the Tula region, mainly north of Tula.
But the legendary “land of Thule” is described by Germanic legends almost as a paradise, with abundant blossoming gardens. In ancient times, the climate here could have been even better than it is now, the vegetation was lush. And the beast and fish were probably immeasurably larger than now: the underground way of life of people, the almost complete absence of ground structures gave great freedom to animals - the presence of people was minimal, the surface of the earth belonged to beasts and birds.
Now it does not seem surprising why, describing the life of our distant ancestors, the famous ancient historian Strabo naively believed that the Slavs live in forests without any buildings and dwellings. In summer it is still possible to live without buildings in our climate, but in winter … How could Strabo, or those serious people who had been to Russia and told him about our ancestors, could believe such a thing?
Most likely, the inhabitants of the dungeons "frolicking" on the surface would hardly have opened the location of their dwellings to a stranger. And from annoying inquiries they got off with a tale that they did not have any dwellings at all. And since a stranger - a foreigner really did not see any terrestrial dwellings and did not even search for them, he believed that the Russians - the descendants of the Aryans, like wild animals, live in the open air, in the forests. And their culture is primitive …
Based on the book by Vadim Chernobrov "Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places of Russia"