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Opera and Ballet Theater of Yekaterinburg.
Definitely a reconstruction! The ground level is not displayed in the horizon. The building seems to be sunk or covered with soil. This is especially evident on the left wing - the windows are in the ground.
Most of these buildings do not show construction photos. A photograph appeared in the 30s of the 19th century! Well, it has been massively available since 1860. And no one wanted to capture such moments of construction? I do not believe!
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Excavations (and I would like to dig out a rock) in Rome in 1936-50:
Promotional video:
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Old houses of Kursk.
House of merchant V. N. Logvinova (Pioneers 3).
House of Colonel A. G. Vasilieva (Soviet 18).
House of the peasant woman E. P. Vasilyeva (Uritskogo 24). Why is the house so weird? If this is a slope, then why was it put here? Maybe all this soil on the left was blown out sometime? The wooden part was probably built later.
House of the heirs of astronomer F. A. Semenova (Semenovskaya 14). A similar example.
House of burghers. I. K. Subbotin (Bolsheviks 4).
House of the psalmist F. F. Avvakumova (Dimitrova 15).
House of State Councilor N. G. Kudryavtsev (Volodarsky 47).
House of the personal honorary citizen I. D. Dolgintsev (Soviet 48).
House of priest S. F. Psarev from the widow of Lieutenant Colonel N. N. Anoshchenko in 1902 (Semenovskaya 19).
House I. A. Borovkov. Former. S. F. Tsybina (Chelyuskintsev 10). Pay attention to the entrances to such houses. They were clearly not initially thought out for projects. They were built taking into account the available ground level.
Sibilev House (Mozhaevskaya 21). Demolished in summer 2007.
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Krasnoyarsk. In the center of the city, they began to restore an abandoned mansion.
Large estate of the tradesman S. S. Tropin (Marx St., 96). S. S. Tropin acquired this estate in 1911 and built a two-storey stone house and two similar outbuildings here. Prior to this, the estate belonged to the owner of a mechanical plant on Posadny Island, an engineer-technologist E. N. Aleksandrov.
The Tropin estate was one of the ten most expensive in the city. In 1921-1922 there was an orphanage here, and in 1922-1926 - orphanage No. 2. Then it was used as a residential one. Then kindergarten.
Now workers are strengthening the foundations of the building on Karl Marx, 96 and covering the roof of the mansion. The brick building near the Central Department Store is a cultural monument of regional significance.
Thanks to izofatov, I share the photos he took the day after this news appeared:
The builders, having dug out the building around the perimeter, reinforce its walls with reinforced concrete, and now the foundation is already. Apparently, this is already the final stage of outdoor underground work. The remainder of the wall lamp is visible. Most likely, not so long ago, in Soviet times, it was still the entrance to the basement.
The building is legendary. Among others - connected with its belonging to the owner of a mechanical plant on the island of Posadny, E. N. Aleksandrov. It is intriguing with the existence of an underground (and underwater!) Passage under Marx Street from the building all the way to the island itself. The asphalt collapse on Marx in the early 2000s is believed by those who are serious about the legend as proof of this possibility.
izofatov shared the story that two Far Eastern ash trees grew not far from this place in Soviet times. At one point they fell into the ground. Then the management of the neighboring building dumped a black soil truck into the failure without clarifying the reasons for the failure.
Video filmed by izofatov at the reconstruction site.
Ground level for example.
There are also basement windows. They were also brought in or covered with soil.
On the back of the building. As you can see, here, too, full-fledged windows are buried in the ground.
Soil cut. Sandy loam, clay and a thin layer of black soil is visible under them. The building is far and high enough from the Yenisei. According to official data, floods and floods (before the construction of KrasHES and even more so later) never reached this place.
Basement windows look into the ground.
Those that are not laid down are boarded up to prevent soil spillage.
Pit inside the basement. It was done by specialists who examined the building. It can be seen that the basement was once reinforced with concrete from the inside.
Basement wall thickness meter.
Some passages are blocked.
Something was taken apart again for examination.
And there is a foundation on rubble stone.
Iron beams were already made in Soviet times.
Also a segment of a rubble stone foundation.
There are low passages in the basement, no higher than 1.2m. Why did the builders make them like this?
Before the start of the restoration. I would never say that there is a basement below with full windows.
View of the neighboring building. It is possible that the situation is the same with him.
Conclusion: following examples from other Siberian cities such as Omsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, a vivid example of a building covered by soil from Krasnoyarsk appeared. Judging by the photographs, it’s not true that it cannot be explained that he was buried during the construction of neighboring buildings. The soil is taken out during the construction of pits.
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If without any cataclysms, then for me this whole picture can be explained by such a version. Buildings were built on unsteady ground, which did not settle down after the water left the flood of the late 16th century. There were swamps somewhere. And in such places houses slowly sank. The shrinkage process stopped at the beginning of the 20th century. - everything finally dried out to the level of soil hardness, when the mass of houses no longer went down. From the point of view of construction technology, this is nonsense. But I don't see other traditional versions.
also, with this subsidence, there should be cracks along the walls and the structure should collapse. This has not been observed, and this is not the case now. The plaster is flying around, but nowhere are there any cracks in the masonry of the walls.
Continued: Part 20