A friend promised to show a real “underground city” and did not deceive (34 photos)
- “You come to visit us, we will show you a bunch of bomb shelters and a real “underground city”. You have never been to such objects and you will be delighted!”
With these words a good friend lured us to visit him. “Underground city” sounded somehow exaggerated and stupid. 
We have been studying abandoned underground objects for a long time and are sure that such cities do not exist. For an ordinary person, this phrase usually evokes other ideas: for example, that mythical underground cities have a developed transport system and there are residential buildings in case of a nuclear apocalypse. In their understanding, such places are classified and a mere mortal can never visit them. The forums of diggers and stalkers are teeming with similar rumors, but photographs from such places have never surfaced in the entire history of the urban exploration movement.
That is why we decided that our friend was simply embellishing some cable collector with the definition of “underground city”.
We found some free time and visited. We went to the “underground city” on the first night after arriving in one of the capitals of our vast land.
Having caught the train before the metro closed, we went to the city center, where there is a large ventilation kiosk leading underground.
My friend started to go down first. He commented that the descent was very dangerous. Following all safety rules, we went downstairs. The depth of the ventilation kiosk is about 10 meters. This is very deep when compared to the depth of conventional bomb shelters. 
Descent to the ventilation kiosk.
There are dozens of tunnels underground; according to a friend, they connect absolutely all the factories in the city. Both abandoned and active ones. From here, supposedly, you can walk to any enterprise, rise to the surface and enter the territory. Of course, there is no access to operating factories. All doors are securely closed and protected by alarm devices. Therefore, we were only able to see the abandoned part. 
Long tunnels of the same type have rooms with life support systems. Ventilation chambers, heating units, pumping rooms, etc. All equipment was decommissioned at the beginning of the 2000s and sent for lifelong storage. And once upon a time it was needed in case of wartime, if the city was subjected to massive bombardment and it would be dangerous to move on the surface. 
Premises with life support systems.
It took more than two hours of walking through endless underground communications. We've reached a dead end. We heard strange sounds and we froze in place. The sound came from one of the pipes of the air intake system. When we got there, it became clear that music was playing loudly somewhere. It so happened that we were under some kind of entertainment club where the concert was taking place. 
There is a hole in the air intake.
We decided to bypass the obstacle in the form of a thick wall through a pipe and cable manifold. It contains electricity and water supply facilities. It was questionable - are there any exposed cables and voltage? Therefore, we walked through small flooded areas in a “straight-up” position or placed bricks under our feet. The collector is very long. As we walked forward, we passed many branches that led into the unknown. It is very easy to get lost in this place if you go on your own and without someone who knows this place. 
Premises with life support systems.
So we got to the abandoned factory and moved to the ground floor. 
Walk through underground communications.
On the ground floor there was an entrance to the civil defense shelter, where we went to warm up a little, because after a 4-hour walk through the tunnels with cold drafts it became very cold. 
Entrance to the facility.
Despite the fact that the plant has long been closed and half sold to private owners, the shelter here is in good condition. But there were a lot of mistakes in his project. The biggest mistake is tiling. Shelters should never be tiled, since after a massive bombardment, the earth's shaking will simply cause them to fall off and cause serious injury to people inside the shelter. 
Civil defense facility.
And absolutely all the rooms here are tiled, even a row of columns in the main hall, where the beds and the main part of the shelter should be located.
It turns out that this is not the only shelter that can be reached through the underground system.
- “There are more than 12 of them here, but if we visit each one, we will need to go here another time and for several days with food supplies and sleeping bags!” - said the comrade.
Oddly enough, we believed him. This place deserves the name "underground city". Even if there is no developed infrastructure here and there is no what people fantasize about on the forums - a place of unrealistic proportions! Communications pass under the entire city. 
The main hall of the civil defense facility.
At the diesel power station, to warm up, we decided to drink warming drinks and move on. 
Diesel power station.
Having completed our inspection of the shelter, we entered the main communications system. 
Living space.
This is a huge tunnel that a truck can easily pass through. Perhaps this is what it was built for. 
We walked through the tunnel for about another hour and were very tired. And we had no idea how we would get back. But, as it turned out, here you can also rise to the surface through a similar ventilation kiosk.
According to a friend, we saw only 1% of the entire system, if we take into account the 5-hour walk through the tunnels with entry into the bomb shelter.
The clock says half past five in the morning. This means that the metro is already open and it’s time to go home and drink some hot tea.
After this walk, a couple of days later we returned to this place again and again filmed material that will be released on our channel a little later. And know, dear readers: if you hear rumors about underground cities, they look something like this :) Thank you for your attention! 
