The public learned about Mount Yamantau in 1996, after the publication of an article in the newspaper "The New York Times” about a certain secret military base located inside one of the largest Ural mountains. According to rumors, there is a giant bunker in the rock mass, which, after the start of a nuclear war, will house the Government and the President of the Russian Federation ...

The author of the article argued that the construction was of a very large-scale and extremely secret nature, moreover, it was partially financed from subsidized funds allocated to the Russian government in the early 90s, as they say, to “support pants”. The American journalist was surprised by the fact that the construction was launched at the time of the most severe economic crisis that hit the Russian economy: there was not enough money for elementary social obligations, but despite all the difficulties, funds for the construction of a secret facility were allocated in the required amount!

According to published information, the secret complex was located in the depths of Mount Yamantau, located in the Beloretsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and was of an exclusively military nature. In a short time, military builders cut through inside the mountain, as well as in the adjacent underground space, a real "hive", which included several underground floors, a narrow-gauge railway line and even its own highway!

Having compared all the facts and conjectures, the American journalist summed up the essence of his publication to the fact that the Russians are again preparing for the "cold war", which they plan to unleash in the very near future, and the object in Mount Yamantau will be used by the first persons of the state if the degree of tension warms up the conflict to exchange of nuclear strikes.

Later, on the basis of this article, several myths associated with Yamantau were developed. For example, the most popular were rumors that there was a certain “ark for the golden billion” inside the mountain, where the powers that be would hide with the onset of major cataclysms, and with the coming to power of V.V. Putin began to call the object his personal bunker. The mystery of this whole story is added by the fact that none of the mere mortals knows the true purpose of the object, since access to the mountain is blocked by security units, and next to the mountain is the ZATO "Mezhgorye" (closed city).

The territory outside the ZATO perimeter belongs to the South Ural Reserve, the entrance to which is strictly prohibited under the pretext of conservation and recreation of rare species of plants and animals, although this circumstance is quite a typical task of such institutions. However, individual citizens manage to make their way to the mountain and even climb to its top.

However, having assessed the conditions of the location of Mount Yamantau and the logistics infrastructure in its vicinity, the myth that in the event of martial law, Government facility No. 1 will be located here seems rather strange.

First you need to decide that it is unlikely that the construction of any object, and, no matter whether it is a shelter or some kind of command center, can take place directly in the mountain itself, that is, in a rock mass. It would be logical to assume that, by analogy with similar, but more popular mega-fortifications, the mountain functions as a kind of screen, while the building itself is located under the mountain. In this connection, the calculations of the dimensions of the hidden habitable chamber are in no way connected with the total volume of Yamantau, while in some sources a direct parallel is drawn between the volume of the rock mass and the estimated dimensions of the bunker.

According to the myth of the government bunker, during the period when the country will be engulfed in the chaos of war or even worse, it will be covered with nuclear ash, from somewhere in the depths of Yamantau the Government of the Russian Federation will communicate with the remaining defense forces, as well as civilian enterprises. However, this version, taking into account several circumstances, can hardly be considered objective.

Firstly, in the conditions of a modern military conflict, the forces of our "overseas partners", which are still considered a strategic enemy, are capable of destroying a bunker hidden even by such a massive mountain as Yamantau. According to some estimates, several pinpoint strikes with warheads with a force of a hundred kilotons will be enough to pierce the rock mass and bring down the internal tunnel network, which will make it impossible to operate such an object, and absolutely endanger the lives of the first persons of the state. If we consider the actions of the Western coalition on the example of Afghanistan, where the followers of terrorist organizations take refuge in complex, but less technologically advanced bunkers located in the bowels of the mountains, it becomes obvious that a bunker in a rock mass does not guarantee the safety of its inhabitants.

For example, last year, the US Air Force, during an operation against terrorists from the ISIS organization banned in Russia, which took place in Afghanistan near the province of Nangarhar, used the most powerful non-nuclear bomb that is in service with the American army - GBU-43. The result of the operation was the complete destruction of the developed network of underground communications in one of the mountains. After being hit by a 9.5 ton projectile, the explosion from which is estimated at 11 tons of TNT equivalent, the object was destroyed.

Secondly, the removal of the center from Yamantau will not allow the first person of the state to urgently get inside the shelter. At a minimum, it will take two hours to fly from Moscow to the South Urals, in addition, the nearest airport in Magnitogorsk, from which you will need to fly by helicopter for another 20-30 minutes, will be able to take the presidential board. In conditions when it becomes known about a sudden (!) nuclear strike in a maximum of half an hour to evacuate the President across half the country, it seems not a very rational idea. Even Stalin's headquarters, in case the Germans occupied Moscow, was located in Samara, which is much closer to the center than Yamantau. In addition, you need to understand that the asylum of the first persons of the state should be secret, and not so popular that even an American newspaper publishes an article about a "secret" asylum. After all, what is the point in such a bunker if, in the event of a conflict, this object will become one of the first and most important goals of our “overseas partners”.

Thirdly, the location of the mountain can hardly be called successful in terms of organizing mass evacuation. Since in the event of the start of the introduction of emergency measures, in addition to the President, many other specialists, along with their loved ones, should enter the bunker. Delivery by air it is unlikely to be massive, so most will have to proceed to the shelter by land transport.

Section of the route "Teschin language"

And again we meet insoluble difficulties. The territory of Yamantau can only be reached by a single two-lane road, periodically turning into a serpentine. I think that there is no need to explain once again that in the event of a sharp increase in traffic, this section of the route will simply be blocked by cars due to a traffic jam and the organization of the delivery of valuable specialists will be in jeopardy. As for the railway line, at present the line is not functioning and it will be quite problematic to launch it urgently, since some of its sections are tritely missing rails: it is not clear whether this state of the line is another "strategic trick" or someone then one of the local residents fussed corny by handing over a section of the railway track to a ferrous metal collection point.

The railway junction to Yamantau can hardly be called "inhabited"

Of course, there may be some alternative railway line to the secret object, but since such elements transport infrastructure nothing is known, then it should not be referred to this option as a way to solve the transport issue.

So what is true purpose and the purpose of the object near Yamantau? Of course, we will not know the exact answer, but it is obvious that the President of Russia should hardly hide here. However, there are also enough alternative versions, for example, there is an assumption that this facility is used as one of the operational control centers for the automatic launch of nuclear missiles, as part of a retaliatory strike project - "Perimeter" ("Dead Hand"). The fact that this object could be part of a secret program is evidenced by the fact that until 1994 there was a military unit located near the mountain, apparently belonging to the Strategic Missile Forces, since curious tourists were able to find several flooded missile silos on its territory! Now only a few buildings remain from the military unit. In addition to messages from tourists on the Internet in various forums and groups social networks sometimes there are messages from the faces of soldiers who once served near the secret mountain. In their messages, former servicemen share information about their participation in the construction of certain objects, which, in their opinion, looked like launch mines.

According to another version, under the mountain there is a secret research institute or a site for long-term storage of something explosive. At the same time, the mountain in this case is a kind of protective screen, and in the event of an emergency, the massive Yamantau will extinguish the shock wave.

Answering the question indicated in the title of this material, it can be assumed that all the stories about the "Putin's bunker" inside Mount Yamantau are nothing more than a myth. The mountain itself, most likely, is part of the defense complex, and since this territory is still burdened with the status of a sensitive object, then the exact purpose of the " mysterious mountain"We are unlikely to recognize the Southern Urals in the near future.

There are many similar objects on the territory of our Motherland, most of which we, the inhabitants, simply do not know anything about. With the help of secret enterprises and elements of the country's defense system, the state ensures our security. So the control over such objects is very serious, and any attempt to penetrate the existing secret and sensitive enterprises for the sake of curiosity can entail not only administrative responsibility, but also cause the tragic death of a curious stalker, because, as you know, the charter of the guard service allows the use of firearms against violators of the admission regime to a protected facility.

LYUBUSHKIN Andrey || "Mysterious Ural"
from here

Continuation of the theme of the secrets of Mount Yamatau.

As the analysis shows, construction in Russia private underground shelters long-term use is only at an early stage.

At the same time, one can mention the Russian experience in creating entire underground cities to shelter government organizations, their employees and families- http://cianet.ru/index.php?topic=45.0 or http://slavs.org.ua/secret-city.

The President of Russia knows a lot and acts correctly.

The results of the investigation of the pathfinders "URA.Ru"

The relevant article dated October 15, 2008 is titled "SECRET UNDERGROUND CITY IN THE SOUTHERN URALS" and is given below without any edits (search the Internet and you will find a number of forum discussions):

"Secret base Russian government was discovered in the mountains of the Southern Urals, not far from the Abzakovo ski center, where Russian President Vladimir Putin frequented. There are a lot of rumors around the mountain bunker, and even the residents of nearby settlements do not really know what kind of objects have been built in the mountains since the Cold War.

"URA.Ru" decided to find out what kind of secret complex is located on Southern Urals. What do the builders of the underground city say? Where it is located? How is it protected? What communications are provided? All the secrets are in the material of our agency.

At the beginning of the new, 21st century, the President of Russia became a frequent visitor to the South Ural ski resort Abzakovo, located about 60 km from Magnitogorsk. Neither Putin nor his aides could explain to the public why the head of state chose this place. Officially, Putin liked skiing there. But there is also an unofficial version. So, the president came to control completion of construction of a secret underground city located in the very high mountain South Ural massif - Yamantau(translated from Bashkir - "bad head", height 1640 m).

Hello from America

The Americans were the first to tell the whole world about the existence of a secret mountain facility in the South Urals. On April 16, 1996, The New York Times published an article reporting on a mysterious military base being built in Russia. “In a secret project reminiscent of the terrible periods of the Cold War, Russia is building a giant military complex underground in the area Ural mountains, according to officials in the West and witnesses in Russia. To hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region (today - the city of Mezhgorye - ed.) in the South Urals huge complex fits Railway and motorway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work,” the newspaper wrote.

The topic was picked up by other foreign media. The Washington Times published an article on April 1, 1997, "Moscow is building bunkers in case of a nuclear attack", which stated that "while the United States has closed most of these facilities, Russia is rapidly pursuing a costly program to build underground shelters, tunnels and command posts inherited from the Cold War. In particular, work continues on the creation of an underground command post for strategic forces in the Urals near the city of Beloretsk.”

Foreign publications tried to take comments from Russian officials. But, of course, no clear explanation followed. Russian journalists did not pick up the sensation about the secret facility in Mount Yamantau: several materials followed, in which there were suggestions about the extraction of uranium ore in the South Ural mountain, and about the repository of state valuables, and about the reserve food products. Among the others, the version of building a bunker for the Russian government in case of a nuclear war was put forward. But slowly the topic of the special facility in Yamantau faded away.

At the top of the mountain there is a heliport, at any time it can receive a government helicopter with passenger number 1.

tourist spies

Meanwhile, unlike the general public, Yamantau has not been forgotten by tourists who climb this mountain every year. They say that just since the beginning of the 2000s, measures to protect the environs of Yamantau have become tougher. On the one hand, the mountain is located on the territory of the South Ural State Reserve (they say that the reserve was established there not by chance). But the Yamantau neighborhood is patrolled not only by rangers, but also by the military.

“In the area of ​​the Yamantau special facility, it is necessary to be careful, not to make noise, not to make smoky fires and not to betray your presence in any other bad way. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting acquainted with the life and traditions of the special forces, giving them the film footage (money, knife, cigarettes), hoarse, proving that you are not a spy from Alabama, and if in the end you are nevertheless released or handed over to the rangers (and not shot), you will still be sincerely grateful to them, ”tourists share their advice.

Those who have reached the top of Yamantau say that it is a huge rocky plateau, with a small pile of rocky outcrops in the center. “At the top until the early 90s. there was a military unit serving a concrete helipad and military special equipment. After the military, ruins of former buildings, puddles of fuel oil and piles of rusted iron remained on the top of the mountain,” eyewitnesses say.

We saw tourists and mines leading deep into the mountains. But most of the people who have visited Yamantau claim that uranium mines are most likely located there. “We found pool sections there, separated by concrete partitions. Most likely, they were intended for pre-transportation storage of uranium ore,” says one of the tourists. “However, even the inhabitants of Mezhgorye, located at the foot of the mountain, do not fully know about what is hidden in the bowels of Mount Yamantau. The Yamantau facility has the status of increased secrecy - this is a fact, everything else is just speculation and assumptions, ”says another.

The underground city is provided with all communications, including electricity.

secret city

But the observers were wrong in their assumptions. In Mount Yamantau, not mines were built, but a real underground city. Our agency was able to contact several builders who took part in its construction. All persons related to Yamantau signed a non-disclosure agreement, so their names are not disclosed.

So, as one of the participants in the events said, the construction of an underground base in Mount Yamantau, indeed, was started in the Soviet years, during the Cold War. The facility was designed and built by the Department of Construction-30, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The administration is based in ZATO Mezhgorye (formerly Belorets-16, also called the city of Solnechny). Construction Department-30 specializes in the construction of facilities and facilities for underground and surface accommodation, conducts large-scale underground construction: in this area, US-30 is one of the largest construction organizations.

Work on the construction of the underground city was completed around 2002 (just at the time of Putin's frequent visits to Abzakovo). Since then, constant work has been carried out to maintain the complex (hence the enhanced protection of the territory). A branch of the railway has been brought to Mount Yamantau. Launched from Magnitogorsk highway.

The city in the mountain is designed for the simultaneous residence of 300 thousand people (for example, 400 thousand people live in Magnitogorsk, 1.5 million in Yekaterinburg).

“In the underground complex, which is divided into so-called “houses”, all the necessary infrastructure has been created: communications have been connected, life support systems have been established. All conditions have been created so that people can stay in this underground city for at least six months without leaving the surface, ”says an eyewitness. According to another witness, the complex consists of a system of shafts with a diameter of 30 meters and a total length of about 500 km.

An official explanation of the purpose for which a secret underground facility was built and is still being maintained in Mount Yamantau, for which such unprecedented security measures are being taken, has not been obtained. President Vladimir Putin said nothing about whether Russia is in danger in today's annual message.

Note. The following is information from a forum on the topic - "Excerpt from an article in the Washington Post:

“In a House Armed Services Committee hearing last Thursday, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Maryland, called for caution. He drew attention to a huge underground facility deep under the Yamantau mountain in the Urals, which still employs some 20,000 workers to this day. Here is what Mr. Barlett, one of the few legislators who is a real scientist, said: “In recent years (the Russians) have been increasing their activity (there) - building football fields and other cultural and entertainment facilities that they do not provide to anyone else in their society . This is more important to them than paying $200 million for the service module of the International Space Station (ISS). This is more important for them than the payment of salaries to military personnel. This is such a large object (underground) as the inner territory, which is surrounded by the ring road of our capital. And the only reasonable use of this kind of object is during or after a nuclear war. There is no other reason for a country as financially constrained as Russia to continue pumping massive resources into an enterprise like Mount Yamantau.”

This Ural topic periodically gets into the media and is discussed.

VERSION for "KONT"

Whatever the technical details of this major Russian project, it should receive our positive assessment.

The creation of such strategic underground protective shelters is useful and not only in Russia. At the same time, we are talking not about objects of "military purpose" (in the event of a nuclear war), but also in the event of possible global catastrophes.

This is "something" for which you should not save money from the state budget even in the difficult crisis years of 2016-2020!

What should a person who is going to visit the “terrible and terrible, shrouded in secrets and secrets” mountain Yamantau 1640 m., concurrently the highest point of the Southern Urals, need to know.

In my opinion there are two main points:

1. The mountain is in the heart South Ural Nature Reserve and going on a journey, you will, without any doubt, violate Art. 9, part 5 of the Federal Law of March 14, 1995 N 33-FZ “On Specially Protected natural areas”.

Article 9. The regime of special protection of the territories of state natural reserves

part 5. Stay in the territories of state natural reserves individuals who are not employees of the federal state budgetary institutions managing state nature reserves, officials of the federal executive body in charge of state nature reserves, is allowed only with the permission of the federal state budgetary institutions managing state nature reserves, or the federal executive body authorities in charge of state natural reserves.

As soon as you violate the boundaries of the reserve, you will commit an administrative offense falling under the article:

8.39. Violation of the rules of protection and use natural resources in specially protected natural areas of the codec Russian Federation on administrative offenses” dated December 30, 2001 N 195-FZ

Violation of the established regime or other rules for the protection and use of the environment and natural resources in the territories of state nature reserves, national parks, natural parks, state natural reserves, as well as in territories where natural monuments are located, in other specially protected natural territories or in their protected zones, shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of three thousand to four thousand rubles with confiscation of the instruments administrative offense and products of illegal nature management or without it; for officials - from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand rubles with or without confiscation of instruments for committing an administrative offense and products of illegal use of natural resources; for legal entities - from three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand rubles with or without confiscation of instruments for committing an administrative offense and products of illegal nature management.

2. Mount Yamantau due to being in the reserve is relatively difficult to access. Surrounded by high ridges, kurum rivers, forests inhabited by wild animals. The weather on its summit can be very harsh. One summer, in June, I caught a terrible hypothermia on its slopes and could not reach the top. Therefore, it is necessary to have some experience of walking "into the forest" and the mountains of the Southern Urals, to approach this route with all seriousness.

And do not be confused by the apparent ease of describing the route. Even I had a hard time sometimes.

Now for our fun trip.

For a long time we wanted to go Rais Gabitov in the mountains, and finally everything turned out as well as possible.

A window in the weather, golden autumn, the availability of time.

It is criminal to miss such an opportunity, and we, as law-abiding (almost) citizens, did not miss it.

Like any media personality, blogger Rais Gabitov is attracted by everything big, special and brilliant, so Mount Yamantau became our main goal.

Considering the options for the path, I chose a linear route along the line of the village of Tirlyan - ur. Misela - hr. Inzerskiye Zubchatki - Mt. Kumardak (city of Kolokolnaya 1354.1) - Mt. Mashak (peak 1383.2) - Karaulnaya - Yamantau (1640.4), - Bykovskiye Polyany - Karatash (1103.2) - Ufa-Beloretsk highway.

Why I chose it, because it is very beautiful, logical, and can be completed without strain in 3 days, the approximate length of the route is 90-100 km.

We arrived in the village of Tirlyan by 8 in the morning, the sun bathing in the morning fog flooded the world with gold, as if saying: “Go guys, dive into the red autumn with your head!”, Which we hurried to do.

The first part of the route to the famous rocky circus of the Inzerskiye gear ridge was the most vile.

Jeepers who were sober and did not swear.

Having become a victim of popularity and the availability of a road, the rock circus turned into an ordinary circus. Crowds of people, the roar of chainsaws, drunken companies at the wheel of prepared SUVs, diligently kneading a thick layer of dirt on the road.

Having had a quick lunch on one of the remnants, we moved on to the clean and quiet autumn forests of the Inzer Valley.

ATTENTION: There are cellular and the Internet is sufficient for the publication of photos.

We walked and enjoyed, the forest with drooping autumn grass is perfectly passable, small riding bolts in the sources of the Terzhenka and Bolshoi Inzer rivers do not present obstacles, dry and warm kurum fields perfectly diversify the monotony of movement through the forest and perfectly hold the foot.

Two hours before sunset, we started climbing the Kumardak ridge under the top of Mount Kolokolnaya (1354.1), we managed on time, half an hour before sunset.

Throwing away backpacks, we took up the pressing issues of the evening, photography and climbing to the top.

A surprise for me was the destruction and mobility of the kurum on the mountain, I don’t remember such a rocky peak in the Southern Urals. KEEP IN MIND!

Frozen stone waves on the slopes of the Kumardak ridge

Having climbed all the top and the rocks surrounding it, put up a tent with a sense of accomplishment and went to sleep.

ATTENTION: On the Kumardak ridge, in the area of ​​Mount Kolokolnaya, there is a cellular connection and the Internet is sufficient for publishing a photo.

ATTENTION: The slopes of Mount Kolokolnaya (Kumardak ridge) have a dangerous “live” kurum. Climb with care

During the day, 33 km were covered, of which 17 were on the way to Inzerskie Zubchatki.

Route of the first day. the village of Tirlyan - the Izersky gears - Mt. Kumardak

The morning of the second day was amazing!

I got up an hour before sunrise, quickly cooked pasta, drank tea, and in 30 minutes I was at the top of Kolokolnaya. Quietly and gently, drowning in shades of red and pink, the sun rose.

At 8.20 we continued our way to the top of the Urals. Along the steep kurum slope we descended into the Yuryuzan valley, small upland swamps,

kurum rivers, the sources of the Yuryuzan river flew by unnoticed during an interesting conversation,

By noon, we began to climb the Mashak ridge, a majestic panorama of the path we had traveled unfolded behind us, in the distance we could see Mount Kolokolnaya and our campsite.

We crossed the watershed of the Mashak ridge, left the labyrinth of dwarf fir trees and rocks on the western slope and fell into an ecstatic silence.

Before us, spread out a view of the most high mountain South Urals, Yamantau.

It was as if we were in the front row, in the VIP seats of a huge auditorium, and the whole grandiose performance unfolded only for us.

At that moment it was decided that better place not available for lunch...

We descended from the Mashak ridge, crossed the power lines,

a place where you need to be most attentive and careful in order to avoid an unwanted meeting with the workers of the reserve. And further along the beautiful park forest with a slight climb, they crossed the last vertical barrier on the way to the goal of Mount Karaulnaya (1235.8)

Behind Karaulnaya there is a small descent and extensive raised bogs overgrown with rare, broken dwarf birches.

Surprisingly, there was little water, not above the ankle, we quickly passed the swamp and began to climb the saddle between Mount Yamantau and Kuyantau (Small Yamantau).

From highest point saddles, a man-made gutter goes up to the top, cleared in the kurum during the active development of the mountain. Apparently it was used to supply water to the summit, in some places you can find the remains of pipes, on the other side of the saddle there is a lake, to which pipes lead.

The chute is easy to climb and can serve as an excellent guide in bad weather.

In our case, the weather is ideal, with the exception of an incomprehensible haze that has come running and enveloped all the mountains around, but they don’t look for good, good.

Climbing up to the summit plateau, we find the remains of structures, a lot of technical rubbish, spare parts from a drill, some kind of bathtub carved right in the mountain, and, most valuable for us, a staircase.

A stupid idea is born by itself, I grab a ladder and carry it to the top.

There will be good photos.

Here it is probably necessary to deviate from the narrative and say in more detail why I allowed myself to do this, foreseeing indignant exclamations.

I unconditionally and consistently condemn all people who litter the mountains, and never allow myself to leave something on the mountain. But in this situation, I did not bring anything to the mountain, the stairs have been on the mountain for many years, as well as tons of other technical, construction, military debris. And their main deposits are located exactly at the top.

And, it turned out to be very conceptual and fun, a staircase going into the sky on top of a mountain. Something like this…

There is a strong wind at the top, but this is not a reason to deny yourself an overnight stay.

I like to spend the night iconic places to enjoy your stay there without haste. Rais has some doubts, but I convince him and we set up a tent under the cover of a small stone tour.

on this night, within a radius of more than 1000 kilometers, no one will sleep above us 🙂

We walk along the plateau, the scale of littering which is amazing.

Foundations and remains of log cabins, mountains of metal rubbish, artificial depressions filled with water, skeletons of armored beds…

A separate action photo session of Rais in his "signature" red shorts.

In the hellish penetrating wind, Rais, like a mountain goat, jumps from stone to stone, trying to catch one single angle, only known to him.

The whitish haze that has covered everything around devours the sunset, and we go to bed.

ATTENTION: On Mount Yamantau there is a cellular connection and the Internet is sufficient for posting a photo.

We covered 22 kilometers in a day.

Route of the second day. Kumardak - Mashak - Yamantau

The night was cold and windy.

1 C combined with a strong wind did not add motivation to leave a warm sleeping bag.

But knowing that this is the only way beautiful photographs are born, I perform my daily morning “prayer”. Fast food, tea, and 30 minutes after waking up, I am jumping along the kurums, trying to keep up with the disappearing and dissolving Iremel.

Dawn, this morning is beautiful, and the shooting point is excellent. The entire high South Ural is at a glance. What I love!

40 minutes to shoot, and kick Rais back to get ready faster.

Today is a long and hard day.

We go down to the saddle, we decide to take a walk to the lake.

Transparent clear waters, and there is no reason not to freshen up. The water is icy, what a man who has not washed for 3 days needs.

After swimming, we begin the descent, cut the southern slope of Mount Kuyantau (Small Yamantau) and go out through the beautiful park forest to the area of ​​ur. Bykovsky Polyany.

From here there is a stunning view of the summit we left behind.

Rais again has an involuntary need to run around the field in red shorts.

A little higher than the meadows, we come out onto a good country road, it can be seen that cars are driving along it. The speed increases, but you need to be careful. A few kilometers later, a new surprise, an abandoned barracks.

As is often the case with military installations, everything is abandoned and gradually destroyed. Nothing, no one needs.

A little more along a good road and at a crossroads to a ford across the right tributary of the Malaya Kuzelga River, and then another crossroads and already along a completely overgrown road towards Mount Kuseymatau.

And the rest of the way along the heavily overgrown and unused road to the Yusha ridge. On the one hand, it is harder to walk, sometimes the road gets lost in the fields, but basically it is quite easy to pass, and what is very important, the risk of meeting someone is minimized, it is clear that only bears and moose walk along the road.

The last snack and a halt on the top of Mount Tornaya. With a beautiful sunset view of the peaks of Dunansungan and Kaintube.

Immediately after the rest, we turn off the road and try to find a path perpendicular to the ridge that goes down into the valley. It is shown on the navigators good road almost asphalt. We do not find the downhill path and already in pitch darkness we climb the windbreaks, in the area where a good road is marked, it is also a disappointment. There is nothing at all.

I'm going along the river. Big Kureuz and yet we go out onto a country road, a few kilometers before the highway we get on a concrete road.

A car picks us up on the highway and takes us to Ufa.

Goodbye high Southern Urals, until we meet again.

While walking, I noticed several interesting peaks that are mandatory to visit 😉

We covered 41 kilometers in a day.

Total total mileage of the route was: 96 kilometers.

p.s. and lastly, it was not in vain that I wrote at the beginning about the legal consequences of visiting the reserve.

I'M READY TO PAY THE FINE

If you are an employee of the South Ural nature reserve, and you want to impose a fine on me, write to me and I will send you my details.

Some state secrets have long ceased to be a secret for ordinary citizens. The existence of a secret shelter in Mount Yamantau is known not only in Russia, but also on the other side of the ocean. The fact that Mount Yamantau is an underground city has been heard by many, despite the fact that there is no official confirmation of this information.

The main secret of the Southern Urals

Why Yamantau:

secret residence

The first information that the “bad mountain” is being used to create a bunker for the government appeared in the press in the 90s of the last century. The Americans showed particular interest in the underground construction. Even today, most of the information about the secret object can be found in the English part of the Internet. In April 1996, the well-known American newspaper The New York Times published an article telling that an object of unknown purpose was being built in the Urals. Officials offered versions of what exactly Mount Yamantau could serve. The need to build an underground city arose because Russia needs a new reliable storage. There was also a version that there was no secret locality will not be in grief. It's just mining.

Despite assurances from the Russian government that the secret facility was out of order, being built for peaceful purposes, and not threatening the United States in any way, the Americans continued to worry about the construction work. The US government suspected that the facility was being built using loans that Russia took on the other side of the ocean. The country was in a difficult economic situation. There were no funds even for the issuance of salaries. Consequently, there would be no money for an expensive construction site in Russia.

Preparations for construction began in the late 1970s. At this time, there was a ban on visiting the area around the mysterious mountain. The reason for the ban was explained to the general public by the need to create a reserve. There is an opinion that the reserve was supposed to become a kind of screen behind which a secret object would be hidden. For the construction of the bunker, a special enterprise was created, which has survived to this day.

The fact that Yamantau is an underground city, a bunker, is evidenced by the increased attention of the Russian president to the local resort. At the beginning of the new century, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who had already taken his post, became a frequent guest at the Abzakovo ski center. This resort is located a few dozen kilometers from Magnitogorsk. Nothing strange about a visit by a head of state ski resort No. Vladimir Vladimirovich loves skiing. However, there are other, more comfortable complexes in Russia. According to the unofficial version, the president came here only to supervise the construction and constant modernization of the secret facility.

The guess that Yamantau is a secret underground city, a bunker, is confirmed by the fact that the area is guarded not only by rangers, but also by the military. A person in this area should not betray his presence in any way. Campfires and photography are prohibited here. Trying to capture the scenic beauty of nature can lead to serious conflict with the special forces if they notice your actions. The desire to take a picture will be perceived as an act of espionage. Mount Yamantau is an underground city. It is not worth taking photos in its vicinity.

The construction work of the secret facility was completed in the early 2000s (approximately in 2002). However, technological progress is constantly moving forward, and in this regard, the underground city needs timely modernization. A giant building requires protection and maintenance. A railway line was built to the mountain, as well as a road from Magnitogorsk. The uninitiated can only guess what secrets Mount Yamantau hides. The underground city was built in anticipation of war. One can only hope that it will never be necessary to use it.

For 30 years, under the highest mountain range of the Southern Urals in Mount Yamantau, a grandiose construction of an underground city has been going on and to this day remains classified as “top secret”.

Work on the construction of a secret facility was started even under the USSR. According to one of the many versions, a headquarters was built at ZATO Mezhgorye, primarily to shelter the highest ranks of the CPSU Central Committee and scientists in the event of a nuclear war.

But soon the "cold war" with the United States ended, the nuclear arms race was stopped. Most ZATOs (closed administrative-territorial entities) are gone. Many scientists hastily left for the West, and those who remained began to eke out a miserable existence. The construction of a secret facility was mothballed.
However, with the coming to power of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the construction of the underground city resumed and the cutting of the rock began with renewed vigor. In the very first year (2000 AD) of Putin's presidency, only official injections into the budget of ZATO Mezhgorye increased significantly.

According to people who were involved in the construction and were directly at the site, it was found that the underground city under construction can be compared with a beehive, which is a system of mines with a diameter of up to 30 meters and total length up to 500 kilometers. The mines are divided into so-called "houses", which have all the usual infrastructure, communications, and life support systems. The grandiose scale of the underground city is illustrated by the fact that a crushing and screening plant was specially erected here to utilize the gigantic amount of stone extracted when cutting down the rock.

Analysts have calculated that currently 40-60 thousand people can live underground (with the official population of the city of Mezhgorye - 16.6 thousand), but if necessary, the underground city can simultaneously accommodate up to 300 thousand people.

Despite the economic crises, billions of dollars were allocated (and continue to be allocated) for the construction of an underground city, while the military, teachers, doctors, miners, workers, students, pensioners, large and low-income families for months did not receive their meager salaries, scholarships, pensions, not to mention about social subsidies.

Military units were disbanded, ships and submarines were sold, military bases abroad were closed, and so on. and so on.

But with all this, Vladimir Putin has always been sophisticated, is located next to a secret facility under construction and, with enviable regularity, not far from Yamantau, visited the Abzakovo ski base, which is unremarkable for a presidential level. In addition, later, in the same place at the confluence of the Katun and Ursul rivers, he “managed” to build another palace for himself, to which a guarded road of 20 kilometers was built, strengthened, having official name, as an adjunction to the M-52 highway. The real road is a serpentine, literally cut through the rocks. The cost of building this road with a length, as mentioned above, of 20 kilometers, according to unofficial data, amounted to 4 billion rubles. By the way, this palace-residence is not included in the official network of residences of top officials of the Russian Federation. All these circumstances can only point to the fact of the true stay of our President Vladimir Putin and his personal control over the progress of construction, probably the most dear to his heart, with whom he obviously shares hopes for saving his life and the lives of his owners. In this case, I dare to responsibly assert that V.V. Putin and his inner circle, as well as others standing above him, are deeply mistaken and, as you know, hope dies last!

On the instructions of Vladimir Putin, Infrastructure CJSC controlled by Roman Abromovich and the German company Herrenkneeht AG signed a contract in March 2008 for the construction of the world's largest mining shield capable of digging tunnels with a diameter of 19 meters, which will be able to lay 250-300 meters in a month a two-tier tunnel containing a six-lane highway, or four lanes of a highway and a metro line. The cost of such equipment is 100 million euros.

The former first secretary of the Bashkir regional committee of the CPSU, Midkhat Zakirovich Shakirov, was the first to open the veil of secrecy about the facility under construction in ZATO Mezhgorye, he said that a shelter was being built in the mountains in case of a nuclear war. But his words were immediately refuted: "The object is being built for other purposes and has nothing to do with military needs."

New York Times» of April 16, 2004.
“In a secret project reminiscent of the horrific Cold War periods, Russia is building a giant military complex underground in the Ural Mountains, according to Western officials and witnesses in Russia. Hidden inside Mount Yamantau in the Beloretsk region in the Southern Urals, a huge complex is connected by a railway and a highway. Thousands of workers are involved in the work."

From a speech by US Congressman Roscoe Barlett:
“... In recent years, the Russians have been increasing their activity there (at the facility in Mezhgorye) ... This is more important for them than giving 200 million US dollars for the service module of the International Space Station. This is more important for them than the payment of salaries to military personnel. This is such a large underground facility, like the inner territory, which is surrounded by the ring road of our capital. And the only reasonable use of such an object is during or after a nuclear war. There is no other reason for a country as financially constrained as Russia to continue pumping vast resources into an enterprise like Mount Yamantau…”

P.S.
Many people believe that the territory of the Altai Republic is the center of the Earth. From generation to generation, local residents tell their children from mouth to mouth the same legend about their special and magical land. Mount Yamantau, according to the beliefs of the ancestors, is the heart of the Earth, which supplies blood (life energy) to all blood vessels (life system) of the planet Earth. Now we all began to understand that Our Earth is not only a house in which we live and spiritually abide, but also a living organism endowed with consciousness and the ability to feel. From Us, and believe me, only from Us depends the favorable condition of the Earth and its lawful existence in the Universe.

There are many conflicting facts about the city under construction inside Mount Yamantau, but I am inclined to believe all of the above, and I know that this place is the “cradle of doomsday”.

WISH EVERYONE - PEACE AND GOOD!
RESPECT YOURSELF, SHOW YOURSELF PROUD, SAVE YOURSELF
AND WITH SINCERE LOVE TREAT OTHERS!
Svyatoslav the Righteous
Moscow November 19, 2012
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