Hello, friends. This story should have been written in the very first article in my research, but there was too little data.
But thanks to my virtual friend konarija, the missing puzzles in this picture appeared and it's time to put them in place. Well, let's start. It will again be about the water supply system of the city of Murom at the end of the 19th century, which is described in sufficient detail in the article: "Atmospheric electricity of the past - everything is simple". In short, this water pipeline itself was a great technical breakthrough of that time, and it was not available in every city. The water supply system consisted of a water extraction system, a water tower and terminal devices - fountains and water points. But a detailed description of the water production system was not included in those articles. If the mysteries of the water tower and terminal devices were visible in old photos with the naked eye, then here all the secrets were safely hidden inside. And besides,until the late 90s, this water extraction system was a closed facility. There was no access to the inside, the fence reliably protected this object from penetration, and from the outside it was possible to see very little.
So, the water extraction system. What is known about her?
It is only known that it was built and commissioned in 1864. The site for the construction was chosen, on which numerous underground water sources emerged. Here they actually fell into the Oka. The building housed a primary water purification and filtration system, a primary water accumulation system, a system for pumping and supplying water to a water tower located about a kilometer uphill. Nothing technically unusual, such technological links are used in almost any water supply system. One small BUT - how did the water get from the source to the primary purification and storage system? The building could not stand right at the outlet of the aquifer to the surface. It is not safe for the building itself, and it was quite weighty even without a mass of water in the accumulation system. And it is equipped with an equally massive pipe. If the building were placed on an aquifer, it would have subsided at least one side. At that time, foundations were made on ordinary hewn stones without any fastening to each other, or even without them at all. The slightest displacement, and the building will immediately crack, regardless of the thickness of the masonry.
And here is the basement of this building. It was here that the primary accumulation of water was carried out. Judging by the marks on the walls, the water stood quite high here in the old days. And judging by the pipe flanges, it looks like these are the very pipes that were installed in 1864. Officially, the water supply system has not functioned since the 1920s and there was no need to modernize these pipes. And what pipes at that time, you know. If there were still 10 years left before the opening of Magnitka, they had absolutely nowhere to take them at that time.
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However, the bottom of our water tank does not contain any inlet valves. Water from the springs got into the reservoir obviously through some pipes that had already been dismantled. Perhaps instead of them there is now a modern remake.
So where did the water come from? This means that there was some kind of water supply system from springs coming out to the surface somewhere in the immediate vicinity of the building. And for sure.
A few dozen meters from the building was an inconspicuous wooden chapel. She stood there until the beginning of the 80s in fairly good condition, at least externally. Then it began to collapse and burned out during the fire.
This is probably one of the last pictures of her. If you look closely, there is a littered well inside. The chapel is clearly not designed for the presence of strangers inside, that is, there can be no question of any religious purposes. The construction of the chapel is quite simple, it is made of wood. No wonder, the construction was budgetary, there were probably not enough funds, and where wood could be used as the cheapest material. But why, then, was it necessary to make a complex dome for such a simple structure? Unfortunately, no old photos of this chapel have survived. It's hard to say what was on this dome. And the roof is made on four sides.
And of course, pumps were needed to supply water from this chapel to the storage tank, and from there on to the water tower. And the pumps had to be fed with something. At first glance, nothing complicated, it seems like the building is equipped with a steam boiler, and there is even a pipe.
But in not a single photo in the entire history, and even in art paintings, smoke does not come from this pipe.
And if you look at it, the top of the pipe does not contain even the slightest trace of soot. In addition, there are always brackets on chimneys of this kind so that the chimney sweep can climb up and do his job, otherwise the chimney will simply clog up after 10 years of operation. There are not even traces of staples. What is the secret here?
Here is the passage from the pipe to the building. He's overwhelmed with something. This heap is clearly the creation of human hands. There was a passage between the pipe and the building, which they did not even bother to close up with masonry. In some places the heap has already subsided and you can look inside.
Thick walls, however, are at the bottom of the chimney. But inside, absolutely no traces of soot are visible, even in the sediment.
What kind of mysticism? But apparently for a reason, this building immediately occupied the NKVD in the 1920s and completely closed the entrance here to everyone, and for decades to come.
Nobody knows what was happening in that building at the time. If in the House of Karatygin before the war, NKVD officers shot people (information from old-timers, you will not find it officially anywhere), then there are not even rumors here.
But still, what's the secret? The pumps couldn't feed on the holy spirit. Probably, you need to carefully look at the old photos.
Since there is no Oka, this is a photo from 1895-1905. It can be seen that there is an equipped passage upward from the building. He goes to the veranda at the edge of the Oka Garden. There are some kind of domed structures on the veranda. Stop. We look closely.
What is this masterpiece of wooden architecture with a spire? Probably, we need to raise the story. Oops … it turns out that the veranda was built in the second half of the 19th century, as well as the water supply. And in 1912 it was also rebuilt. What was she like? Unfortunately, all further photos of this structure are already dated after 1920.
It is very strange that all these wooden structures with spiers, and even a fountain with a spire. In Soviet times, entertainment establishments were located here, but there is no information about what was in this building before Soviet times, at least in the upper parts.
In the last years of its existence, the veranda looked something like this:
What is this mystery of wooden architecture? Yes, in fact, there was no mystery at the time of construction of this structure. Similar structures were available in many large cities, and they can be easily found in old photos, which are abundantly posted on many resources.
If you are interested in such masterpieces, I recommend looking at old photos of Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk or Kungur. There are whole streets of such houses and structures. What unites all these structures?
That's right, all these wooden structures have some kind of incomprehensible complexity on the roofs. But moreover, there were a lot of varieties of such wooden structures. Why complicate the primitive and short-lived construction of a wooden building with such complexity of roofs? The answer to this question has already been described in previous articles, and it is quite simple.
This is the same building from the late 19th century. Its purpose is a music kiosk. In addition to the sound of the orchestra, it had to glow and attract attention. Actually, this was implemented in the removable elements on this kiosk. In Russia in the 19th century, this was also common, but it was only used not for outdoor lighting. The domed installation produced electricity that was used for domestic and industrial needs. And it was so simple and cheap that such installations were also used in all more or less prosperous wooden houses of the Russian Empire. The only difference was in their power. Remains of these installations can still be found in old wooden houses. But back to our tower. If you do a geographic reconstruction, you get strange things.
If we remove the geodetic error, then the chapel, chimney and veranda form a right angle. And one of the sides of the tower on the veranda looks directly at the pipe. If you look closely at the photo, then they are approximately equal in height. Some kind of mysticism. However, if you look at it all from a different perspective, then again everything begins to take shape in a harmonious system.
Let's imagine that our pipe is nothing more than an ordinary column, but with a slightly modified structure. Namely, its domed part was moved to another structure in the form of a wooden veranda. Why the designer decided to do it this way is difficult to say, but apparently there were reasons for that. Perhaps, for ease of use, it was possible that it was supposed to use the dome part for other loads standing nearby, for example, a fountain. It is not for nothing that he has a spire, which in itself is very strange, even more strange, how he worked at the end of the 19th century without a visible external power supply. Now this fountain has been moved to another place and its functioning is not of great interest. In the veranda, more precisely in its tower above, reference electrical vibrations were generated, which were transmitted to the pipe. At the top of the pipe there was a receiving element and several amplifying stages that did the conversion, and at the bottom of the pipe there was already electricity ready for use. How it looked in detail, it is difficult to say, there is no access to the pipe, and perhaps the NKVD has long since removed everything unnecessary for ordinary people from there. Well, in fact, electricity from the pipe went in the same way to the chapel at the water intake, where it fed the primary pump. No wonder, the roofs of wooden buildings are similar in shape and work according to the same principle. And because of the economy, which is generally confirmed by historians, whenever possible, all structures were replaced with wood. Even the pipes from the water tower to the terminals were made of wood. How it looked in detail, it is difficult to say, there is no access to the pipe, and perhaps the NKVD has long since removed everything unnecessary for ordinary people from there. Well, in fact, electricity from the pipe went in the same way to the chapel at the water intake, where it fed the primary pump. No wonder, the roofs of wooden buildings are similar in shape and work according to the same principle. And because of the economy, which is generally confirmed by historians, whenever possible, all structures were replaced with wood. Even the pipes from the water tower to the terminals were made of wood. How it looked in detail, it is difficult to say, there is no access to the pipe, and perhaps the NKVD has long since removed everything unnecessary for ordinary people from there. Well, in fact, electricity from the pipe went in the same way to the chapel at the water intake, where it fed the primary pump. No wonder, the roofs of wooden buildings are similar in shape and work according to the same principle. And because of the economy, which is generally confirmed by historians, whenever possible, all structures were replaced with wood. Even the pipes from the water tower to the terminals were made of wood.and worked according to the same principle. And because of the economy, which is generally confirmed by historians, whenever possible, all structures were replaced with wood. Even the pipes from the water tower to the terminals were made of wood.and worked according to the same principle. And because of the economy, which is generally confirmed by historians, whenever possible, all structures were replaced with wood. Even the pipes from the water tower to the terminals were made of wood.
If you look closely at the pipe, you can see some of the oddities described above.
Those who have experience with pipes know that the pipe is usually not tightened with such studs. For these purposes, banding rings are used, which encircle the pipes inseparably. And these pins are most likely to have a distant relationship to strength, their main purpose is to carry a spiral staircase inside. And this staircase comes to some kind of upper platform, where something was previously installed. The brickwork separating this something from the tower on the veranda did not interfere with the operation of all devices at all.
In general, many mystical events took place with the construction of the water supply system and its further operation. Simultaneously with the commissioning of the water supply system, the vault of the church unexpectedly collapses, which was at the same elevation as this pipe, but at some distance. And this church has absolutely no damage to the building, which would certainly have been if the vault collapsed spontaneously. And the church itself clearly had nothing to do with religion. What was it? Electromagnetic incompatibility? Since that time, no one has restored the vault of this church, which is not typical for tsarist Russia. After the October coup, several years later, the water supply was closed. A very strange decision, considering that very little money was required for its operation and it was free for the population. The NKVD occupies the water intake building and no one knows what is happening there. At the end of the 30s of the last century, almost everything was demolished, leaving only three out of eighteen objects in their original place. But they do not just leave, but remove all the elements that were somehow connected with the technology of his work. It is not known whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship between these events, but then Moore becomes a closed city and the development and production of military communications equipment is concentrated in it. This is if we do not mention the world famous Zvorykin, who nominally does not belong to the Soviet history of Murom, but his youth was in this city, and it is not known whose design ideas he developed in the west.leaving only three out of eighteen objects in their original location. But they do not just leave, but remove all the elements that were somehow connected with the technology of his work. It is not known whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship between these events, but then Moore becomes a closed city and the development and production of military communications equipment is concentrated in it. This is if we do not mention the world famous Zvorykin, who nominally does not belong to the Soviet history of Murom, but his youth was in this city, and it is not known whose design ideas he developed in the west.leaving only three out of eighteen objects in their original location. But they do not just leave, but remove all the elements that were somehow connected with the technology of his work. It is not known whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship between these events, but then Moore becomes a closed city and the development and production of military communications equipment is concentrated in it. This is if we do not mention the world famous Zvorykin, who nominally does not belong to the Soviet history of Murom, but his youth was in this city, and it is not known whose design ideas he developed in the west.but then Moore becomes a closed city and the development and production of military communications equipment is concentrated in it. This is if we do not mention the world famous Zvorykin, who nominally does not belong to the Soviet history of Murom, but his youth was in this city, and it is not known whose design ideas he developed in the west.but then Moore becomes a closed city and the development and production of military communications equipment is concentrated in it. This is if we do not mention the world famous Zvorykin, who nominally does not belong to the Soviet history of Murom, but his youth was in this city, and it is not known whose design ideas he developed in the west.
So, as they say, the amazing is once again even closer.