In 1997-2002 several expeditions to Yamal and the Kola Peninsula took place under the auspices of the Science and Religion magazine. They were supervised by Doctor of Philosophy, Professor V. N. Demin. Researchers followed in the footsteps of the famous expedition of Professor A. V. Barchenko, which took place back in the 20s of the last century. Barchenko searched and found, according to him, the remains of the construction of the mysterious Hyperborea. But, as it turned out relatively recently, the “Varangian guests” did the same on the territory of our country. * _
On January 30, 1920, by order of the director of the Petrograd Institute of the Brain, Academician V. M. Bekhterev, an employee of the Institute, Professor Barchenko, began preparations for an expedition to Lapland. Officially - to study a strange phenomenon, or a spontaneous mental illness that occurs in people living in the Arctic Circle, - measurements. But Barchenko had his own secret interest in this area.
Having familiarized himself with a number of occult writings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he became an ardent supporter of the hypothesis of the existence in the distant past of a highly developed civilization that perished as a result of a planetary catastrophe. Those who survived after her took refuge in the impregnable Himalayas, founding underground laboratory cities of Shambhala and Agharti there. Another part of them chose the Extreme, as well as the practically deserted north of Europe, in particular, the Kola Peninsula. It was here, according to Greek and Roman legends, that the legendary Hyperborea was located.
Of course, life in the Far North is far from sugar, but the Hyperboreans possessed high technologies, including devices that release intra-atomic energy, which allowed them to arrange a kind of thermal oases in the polar tundra. To some extent, this legend echoes the famous novel of Academician V. Obruchev "Sannikov Land", in which the Onkilon tribe, who had gone north from hostile neighbors, settled in a natural thermal oasis next to a dormant volcano.
The very same esoteric ideas about high pracivilization are set forth in another science fiction novel - "Aelita" by Alexei Tolstoy.
Barchenko was also familiar with the reports of geographers and botanists who visited those regions, who described some centers of flora anomalies they encountered on the Kola Peninsula, suggesting the presence of some sources of soil heating. Barchenko believed that the heat engines of the disappeared Hyperboreans continued to operate, and hoped to find them.
Barchenko's expedition reached Lovozero, located in the center of the Kola Peninsula, at the end of August 1920. But when the researchers asked local fishermen to transport them to the Horn Island, where the route lay, they flatly refused - sorcerers and shamans allegedly settled there. We managed to persuade only the son of a local priest. But when the boat approached the island, the sorcerers called for help from the wind and waves, which drove the sailboat back, at the same time breaking the mast on it.
Having failed, the expedition decided to land on the southern coast of Lovozero. And then the first surprises began: in this wilderness they discovered by some unknown who and for what purpose built an almost two-kilometer paved road leading to the neighboring Seydozero. There, the road suddenly ended with a kind of observation deck. In a nearby gorge, the expedition found a giant yellow vertical column in the shape of a candle, and next to it, a large cubic stone. On one of the mountain slopes, at an inaccessible height, through binoculars, the entrance to a huge cave was clearly visible, and next to it was something like a walled up crypt.
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In the same area, they met several hills of a pyramidal shape and clearly of artificial origin. Not far from the coast, a strange passage into the mountain was found, but an attempt to penetrate it was prevented by "some kind of opposition of invisible forces." According to Barchenko, this move could lead to the bottom of Seydozero.
The recent expeditions of Professor Demin have confirmed that all the finds made by Barchenko are reality. But there were also new ones, no less mysterious. The preface to the recently republished monograph by N. F. Zhirov "Atlantis" written by A. Voronin says:
“In July 2001, Demin's expedition managed to record a vast, up to nine meters high, cave-type cavity filled with water on the bank of the Seydozero using radio waves. A tunnel filled with water and silt leads from here to the bottom of the lake."
Of particular interest are the stone blocks found by Demin, drilled through or punched through with some kind of metal tool (or weapon?).
In the fall of 1955, Yuri Romanov, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, visited this area with his geological party. He managed to find a blocked tunnel going deep into the mountain. It was clearly artificial, with smooth walls and an almost three-meter semicircular vault.
Geologists walked about a hundred meters along it, but did not dare to go further - time was running out, it was necessary to return to the base within the agreed time frame.
However, it turned out that someone had already visited this tunnel - a German cigarette butt was lying on the floor. And a day earlier, in a small natural cave with a blocked entrance, geologists discovered a mysterious cache. There were scientific instruments, including a Zeiss theodolite and even a sextant, which clearly indicated that those who left it did not have reliable maps of the area.
A chronometer was also found there - all made in Germany. The years of production of devices are 1935-1939.
To the great amazement of the geologists, the cache also contained a whole bale of clothing for ten people: quilted jackets, short fur coats, waders, as well as a whole set of geological hammers and climbing equipment.
Nobody touched everything that was found - the geologists had enough of their own cargo. Only one of them replaced his ragged boots, and at the same time changed his flawed hammer for a quality one made of Ruhr steel. The finds were photographed, and the cache was mapped. Upon arrival in Leningrad, a detailed report was drawn up about the find.
Oddly enough, then, in 55, the geological authorities were not interested in the find. But when the next year Romanov made a report in the Geographical Society, devoted mainly to archaeological artifacts, only mentioning in passing the strange finds of German production, the next day he was summoned to Liteiny, where he had to repeat the report, only from a different angle. The Chekists were clearly interested in the "German trace". The text of the report, submitted for preliminary review to the Geographical Society (then it was supposed to be), was immediately withdrawn, along with the "material evidence": a hammer, boots and photographic film.
Unfortunately, the release dates of the devices could not help answer the main question: before the war or during it did the "Varangian guests" visit? And what exactly were they looking for in the Soviet rear. Most likely, the leakage of information about Barchenko's findings occurred in those vague 20s for science, when many specialists, even without ideological convictions, went abroad, to Germany. And, as you know, Hitler and his entourage showed great interest in various occult theories and phenomena. It is worth remembering at least about the Nazi expeditions in search of Shambhala, the Grail and the "hole" near the poles to the underworld. Apparently, most of all the Nazis were interested in Barchenko's ideas about the atomic heat engines preserved in Hyperborea.
Author: Tatiana Samoilova, "UFO", St. Petersburg, N30 (347)