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Subway Stations in Moscow (Part 1)

The Subway in Moscow deserves a special visit. You will have the opportunity to go thru these images and appreciate Moscow’s Subway Stations’ Architecture...

Work on the Subway started in 1930 – Its length is approx. 256 km (159Miles), actually the subway has 138 stations, and the most beautiful stations are located near the center of the capital.

Baumanskaya

A Special Visit is very impressive to the foreign tourists, who will think they’re in a museum or even a palace with very spacious hallways.

Baumanskaya

One is pleasantly surprised by the marvelous decorations, by the monumental richness of the marble decorations: medalions, columns, mosaics & sculptures that display the Great Events in Russian History

Belorusskaya

For example, in Revolution Square Station, The Bronze statues represent revolutionaries in 1917 "Red Octomber", in Komsomolskïa Station - Kutuzov maybe seen, who beat Napoleon, in Kievskaïa Station , Peter The Great at the Battle of Poltava, in Teatranlaïa Station there are ballerinas in national costumes and columns of flowers.

Belorusskaya

Durind World War II, The Moscow Subways, due to its depth, offered shelter for thousands of mosowites during the Aerial bombings.

Dobrininskaya

Each year the Subway Lines get longer and get deeper into the far away suburbs where new subway stations are built , where the architecture is sober.

Dynamo

Subway in Moscow houses 9 lines which are color coded on large signs helping passengers to go where they need to.

Electrozavodskaya

Subway hours are between 5:30 a.m. - 1:30a.m. trains come at 1 minute intervals, sometimes even less especially during the evening hours.

Kievskaya

Komsomolskaya

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Underground city of Derinkuyu

In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of Capadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), was demolishing a wall of his house-cave, and discovered astonished that behind the wall was a mysterious room that never had been seen; this room took to another one, and this one to another one and another one...

By chance the underground city of Derinkuyu was discovered, whose first level could be excavated by hititas around year 1400 a.c.

The archaeologists began to study this fascinating underground city. They were able to arrive at forty meters of depth, although guesses are that the bottom is as far down as 85 meters!

At present 20 underground levels have been discovered. Only eight levels can be visited however; the others are partially obstructed or reserved for the archaeologists and anthropologists, who study Derinkuyu.

The city was used for shelter by thousands of people who lived in the caves to protect themselves for the frequent invasions that Capadocia underwent, at the diverse times of their occupation, and also by the first Christians.

The enemies, conscious of the dangers that lie hidden inside the city, generally tried to flush the people to the surface by poisoning their wells.

The interior is amazing: the underground passages of Derinkuyu (in which there is space for at least 10,000 people) could be blocked in three strategically important points by moving circular stone doors.

These heavy rocks that closed the corridor prevented the entrance of the enemies. They were 1 to 1.5 meters in height, about 50 centimeters in width and a weight of up to 500 Kilos.

In the image it is shown how the circular stone door closed the corridor, having isolated the inhabitants solidly.

In addition, Derinkuyu has a tunnel of almost 8 kilometers in length that leads to another underground city of Capadocia, Kaymakli.

In the reclaimed levels stables have been located, dining rooms, a church (of 20 by 9 meters, with a ceiling of more than three meters of height), kitchens (still blackened by the soot of bonfires that ignited to cook), presses for the wine and the oil, warehouses, places of feeding, a school, numerous rooms and even a bar.

The city benefitted from the existence of an underground river; it had water wells and a magnificent exhaust fan (52 wells of ventilation were discovered) that astonishes engineers of the present time.

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Unusual Underground in Eastern Europe

Lebedyan town in Lipetsk region is known for the greatest juice producing plant in Eastern Europe, but very few people know that the most unique and weird underground station in the world is located there as well. It was constructed just 2 meters beneath the surface of the earth. The works began in 1984, and 166 people were eager to start as soon as possible, but when they learnt that the money would come only when the construction paid for itself, they all backtracked in a second. So, the whole project was to be implemented by the one who brought it up, Leonid Muliarchik.

A self-made concrete mixer for making mortar. The site is wired for electricity (for work - 12 volts and for common purposes – 220 volts). This underground has all required papers and licenses, and except for the transport function Muliarchik is going to lay on water supply and drains for the residents of the area.

Now we are heading to the main tunnel, the arch design can carry the load of 60-ton lorry doing over it outside (that’s according to the local expert report). The height of the main tunnel is nearly 150 cm.

Here is a hole in the wall in case the owners of the neighboring house would need to have a metro of their own, leading right into their dwelling.

On the average, Leonid spends one day one constructing one meter of the tunnel and three days more on concreting the walls and the ceiling. The project is financially supported by Leonid, who spends most of his retired pay on purchasing the building materials.

The concept is that when the tunnel is ready, there will be several small all-automated cars, which are meant to carry three or four people at a time. It’ll be like you push a button, and get to the other side of the tunnel (or to the station you want to get to).

We walk along the main tunnel, 100 meters are behind and now we turn left, to the first technical tunnel. Here we see a pumping facility, which gets water from a well 70 meters far from the spot. There is also a little boiler room a few meters from that place. This boiling room can heat only four houses, but the builder left some space on the right for a big boiler installation able to heat up to 20 houses.

These stairs lead from Leonid’s house to the underground.

This is the first tunnel dug by the builder. The first tunnel in the project. The ceiling here is very low, just a meter high or so.

Let’s get back to the main entrance in the parallel tunnel. Its walls and ceiling are plastered as required according to the fire safety standards. Leonid has a nice idea: he wants to rent it out for clubbing – some fantastic, psychedelic parties underground would help him make some money for the construction to be carried on. It has all things needed – space to make girls’ and boys’ rest-rooms and a bar.

Leonid plans to have everything ready in a few years and make it useful for local people. Maybe, the place will also attract bunches of tourists, and at last this project will turn to be a paying concern. As for now it just takes the money, and gives back nothing but trouble. Still, Leonid likes it.

Photo Credit: http://victorprofessor.livejournal.com/106201.html#cutid1

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The Luckiest Accident

The car owner have his bad day when his car run out the road in an car accident. He managed to escape which just inchs before drop into the...

Huge hole...!!

It should be the luckiest accident on earth!!
Imagine if the car dropped in the hole... God bless...

This is another hold on earth. Unfortunatelly, i did note note the location of this hole.
Picture was taken from the internet.

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The World Biggest Hole

The worlds biggest hole is located in Russia.

The giant hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna.It is 525 m deep, and 1,25 km.in the diameter.