The most terrible places in Kaluga. Urban legends of Kaluga: Underground Kaluga exists. Pagan temple in Krasotynka

It should immediately be noted that, according to geophysicists, in this place a powerful tectonic fault runs along the river, and the anomalous territory itself is stably located on the edge of an underground ring, or formed as a result of activity ancient volcano, or resulting from a long-standing meteorite crater.

In this zone, they are often recorded various forms and unidentified flying objects of various sizes, which can not only be seen, but even photographed... In addition, cases of teleportation (instant transfer of people from one place to another over a distance of several kilometers) are sometimes noted here.

However, this zone does not manifest itself constantly, but only during periods of its activity. Usually its boundaries are determined by special devices that measure energy fields. But at the same time, the unusual behavior of animals and the presence of more stunted vegetation compared to the surrounding area are also taken into account.

In addition to the forest itself, anomalous researchers discovered three more “unclean zones” in the east of the same region - in the vicinity of the small villages of Shchigry, Ogarkovo and Nikitskoye. People living here from time to time observe UFOs of various configurations: disc-shaped, triangular, spherical, and even in the form of cigars and pyramids.

There is also a place near Ogarkovo, once in which people (including local residents) immediately begin to get lost, although there is a very good landmark here - a road near which there are tall oak trees.

In addition, a few kilometers from Nikitsky there is a forest, which the villagers definitely consider “enchanted” and therefore never go into it. Indeed, the tree trunks here are bent and twisted in the most unnatural way. Grass doesn't grow here. You can't hear the birds chirping. In a word, a dead and terrifying forest. There have been cases when vaguely discernible entities (but not at all like people) blocked the path to the depths of the forest for a mushroom picker-city dweller who accidentally wandered here. He, naturally, did not resist and quickly returned to where he had just come from. When it became known about this eerie and mysterious forest, many not only thrill-seekers, but also researchers visited it.

The latter, using the devices, always noted that when entering the forest, especially sensitive people certainly feel inexplicable anxiety and a sense of fear. In addition, they immediately begin to experience noticeable weakness, they begin to have a severe headache, and in some, severe shortness of breath. It turns out that the zone itself does not want to accept physically weakened people on its territory.

And in 2002, one of the expeditions of specialists in anomalous phenomena managed to clarify something about this.

As soon as the researchers arrived in Nikitskoye, they were immediately approached by a very inquisitive and very thin 18-year-old city youth from among the summer residents named Victor. He tearfully persuaded the group leader to take him with him to the “enchanted” forest. With the appearance of the young man as part of the expedition, miracles immediately began. On the very first day of their work, all the “paranormalists” walked completely unhindered through the dead forest and made the necessary measurements using instruments, and Victor began to constantly bump into some invisible walls that he could not overcome in any way, and every time he called for help . Of course, they constantly helped him out. At the same time, each time Victor told his “saviors” that before their arrival he kept hitting his forehead against some hard wall, and there was a strong buzzing in his ears. In the end, on the orders of the expedition leader, the “anomalous people” measured the young man’s biofield using a frame and were truly horrified, because it was “perforated” in many places. It turns out that the “enchanted” forest itself warned Victor that it was extremely dangerous for him to enter it. The young man was immediately taken out of the forest and sent to the village to his grandmother, to whom he had come to rest. Outside the zone of the “cursed” forest, a few moments later he felt like a completely normal and healthy person.

The researchers who remained in the forest for 10 days suffered a lot of fear, but they saw something that can be seen perhaps only once in a lifetime, and even then not for everyone, but only for those who seek and are brave.

Every day, not far from the fire, strange whitish creatures suddenly appeared - something like ghosts. But as soon as you tried to look closely at them, they instantly disappeared. Therefore, photographing this mysterious phenomenon was out of the question. In the middle of the night, many of the “paranormalists,” while in tents, saw black shadows of some strange creatures with large heads and frail bodies on their ceilings, and heard heavy footsteps that first seemed to approach and then certainly moved away. But most of all, the “tent campers” were frightened by the shadow that hung over the tents throughout their stay, and from somewhere, from time to time, a chilling noise that arose in the dead forest.

Kaluga anomalous zones, apparently, something special, and besides, they are very close to Moscow, but, unfortunately, today’s Russia does not have the means to unravel this mystery of nature.

Posted Mon, 02/05/2016 - 08:44 by Cap

Kaluga region has many unusual and interesting places, which belong to anomalous zones.
One of the most mysterious places is the Koltsovsky caves, located within the Kaluga-Aleksinsky canyon. Their length is more than one kilometer. People call the long labyrinths of rubble in these caves “Gases”. It is noteworthy that it is here that many speleologists can hear the voices of their friends who are far from these places, and sometimes children’s or women’s laughter is heard. Scientists suggest that the mysterious phenomena are caused by a hallucinogenic gas penetrating through the cracks of caves, which causes mental changes in people.

To anomalous zones Kaluga region The town of Kurgan, located in the Ferzikovsky district, also applies. In this place, many could observe the phenomena of teleportation - instant transfer from one place to another. Local residents claim that very often they mysteriously slipped over the asphalt road, ending up three kilometers from the village. Here, most often, local mushroom pickers noticed all sorts of unidentified flying objects and light pillars. Similar appearances of flying luminous balls were noticed by residents of the Kaluga region at the Zikeevo station. In addition, active mutation of vegetation occurs in this place.

It should be noted that many anomalous zones of the Kaluga region are known for the fact that all their solutions are accompanied by legends about their appearance told by local old-timers. This is how the anomalous zone of the Devil's Settlement, located near Kozelsk, appeared. Frequent unusual atmospheric phenomena were also observed here, which could not be explained. According to the existing legend, the devil himself wooed a peasant daughter living in these places, who promised her father to build a castle on a hill in one night. The evil spirits had to work all night, dragging huge boulders, but they didn’t have time and threw stones in the place where the castle should have been. Tradition says that it was on this spot that the Devil's Settlement arose.

No less interesting is the legend associated with the appearance of unusual phenomena on Kanishchensky Pond. They say that here in ancient times stood the house of a real witch, in which a bewitched guy lived. It is the image of this guy that many see on the shore of a reservoir, which to some he appears in the form of a nesting doll, and to others in human form. A similar legend is associated with the history of the medical school building on Kutuzov Street. They say that two centuries ago, the former owner of the building killed his wife and walled up her body in the wall. Many students may have seen the ghost of a woman in a brown dress. In addition, in the building of the medical school, nails came out of their own accord.

Mysterious and inexplicable phenomena occur in the town of Verevka, Zhizdrinsky district, Kaluga region. Many years ago, two women walking through the forest in the middle of summer discovered that it suddenly became colder, and the leaves on the trees instantly turned yellow, as if in deep autumn. After walking a little, they discovered that everything had returned to its place and the trees were again covered with green foliage. Similar phenomena were observed by a group of researchers who, having walked twelve kilometers through the forest, discovered that it took only forty-five minutes to complete the path. But such a distance can only be covered in two and a half hours. Where two hours of their time “disappeared” remains a mystery.

Nikitskoye

Nikitskoye is a small village near Vereya in the Medynsky district in the north of the region, nearby there is a large anomalous zone. There are many healers, sorcerers and witches living in the village. 4-5 km behind the village and the swamp there is a dark, mossy forest that is cursed and never visited by locals, in which many trees are bent, grass does not grow, and birds and animals are not found.
Mushroom pickers who accidentally wander here talk about the appearance of red balls “landing” in the forest; once they saw a white fluffy ball sitting on a tree and then rolling along the ground.
There were three researchers here in the early 1990s. One of them, Inna Bazulina, says that “at the same time everyone felt the approach of something invisible and terrible.” The woman screamed in horror and, as if in response, a powerful roar was heard from the forest, reminiscent of the sound jet plane. At the same time, it began to hail and all the moss in the forest was instantly covered with ice. The scream filled their ears and people ran away. In the village they were told that there was no thunderstorm or hail.

Ogarkovo is a village in the Ferzikovsky district, nearby there is an anomalous place. It is located on the rise of the well-worn road leading towards Dugna, next to the oak trees. This is where most people lose their bearings experienced tourists. Travel: by train "Kaluga-Tula" to Ferzikovo, then by bus 26 km to Dugna and on foot to the north-west. Or by water bus(if it still runs) from Kaluga or Aleksin to the Dugna pier and then walk due west.

Oztorozhnoe is a village in the north of the region, next to a possible anomalous zone. Fireballs are observed flying here at low altitudes, including over the lake. Local researchers from Kaluga conducted research here, but could not confirm the stories of the aborigines about the balls. Directions: from Kaluga by regular bus, then on foot with a guide from the Kaluga group for the study of anomalous phenomena.

Popov Bridge is an anomalous place across the Pesochnya River in the southwest of the region. According to the stories of old-timers, engines often stall on the bridge; horses and dogs do not want to enter here. One day, an old man allegedly got into a passing car, and the driver recognized with horror his already deceased fellow countryman. The translucent old man disappeared from the car before reaching the village. A local librarian talked about meeting an amazing dog with a huge bow on the bridge, which ran completely silently. Directions: by train "Moscow-Odessa" to Zikeevo station, then by bus to Zhizdra, by bus to Korenevo and on foot 5 km along the gravel road to the southwest past the cemetery. The bridge does not have clearly visible barriers and is therefore easy to miss in the dark or at high speed.

map of Kaluga region

Black Stream is a village in Lyudinovo district, a possible anomalous place. There are many sorcerers living in the village; cases of spontaneous combustion and other anomalous phenomena have been reported. Directions: from Moscow to Lyudinovo by bus (run daily from Kievsky railway station and metro station "Yugo-Zapadnaya"), then from Lyudinovo from the bus station by local bus.

Devil's Settlement - located near Kozelsk in the south of the region. Little understood atmospheric phenomena and incidents on the ground were observed. No studies of the zone have been carried out. Travel: by bus or train from Kaluga to Kozelsk, then with a guide.

Shchigry is an anomalous zone 7 km southwest of the Zikeevo railway station. Light phenomena in the atmosphere and anomalous objects of various shapes are observed. Directions: by train "Moscow-Odessa" to Zikeevo and then walk 7 km southwest from the station.

IN KREMENKI - on the border with Moscow, not far from the city of PROTVINO, there were cases of UFO sightings.

Medical School.
With this beautiful building There is an unusual legend associated with Kutuzov Street. They say that two hundred years ago the owner of this house killed his wife and walled her up in the wall. In the 90s, watchmen saw the ghost of a woman in a brown dress here, and sometimes nails come out of the walls in the school.

In a special way it had an inextricable connection with Russian culture of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Great amount pilgrims of different ages, ranks and education flocked to Optina. Meanwhile, before 1917, in the Russian Empire there were more than 1000 monasteries, about 100 thousand churches, that is, churches and monasteries were everywhere. But a huge stream of pilgrims, bypassing “their” churches, rushed to distant Optina, sometimes experiencing considerable difficulties of a long journey.
Optina is located approximately 300 km from Moscow (na), and much further from St. Petersburg and Kyiv. The railway to Kozelsk appeared only at the beginning of the 20th century, and there is still no direct railway connection between Kozelsk and Moscow, which is why the road to Optina still has considerable difficulties. But the flow of pilgrims does not dry out.

To understand Optina means to understand eldership. From now on, the experience of eldership is an integral element of the spiritual tradition of Russian culture.

The main shrine of the monastery were its famous God-loving elders, the radiance of whose lives continues to illuminate the life path of so many. The righteous connect the past and the future, the living and the dead, earthly and heavenly. Look at the rainbow and glorify the One who created it. She is beautiful in her radiance (Sir. 43:12). Yes, truly, God is wonderful in His saints.

Since the appearance of eldership in Optina Hermitage (1829), the grace of the Holy Spirit and at the same time the “quiet light” of the purest flame of Holy Rus' has been abundantly poured onto it. “Sarov and Optina are the two hottest fires around which all of Russia warmed itself” (G. Fedotov).

“Every soul seeks warmth, affection, consolation, sinlessness. In the soul of a Russian person lives an endless thirst for righteousness, purity, a desire to touch sinlessness at least once in his life. The very essence of Russianness includes the dream of perfection, the thirst to get closer to it, the thought of “saving the soul,” a sigh for God, the seeking of the City, the readiness to bow before the righteous, even if only before death” (I. Ilyin). And people went on pilgrimage to Optina. Everything here was imbued with a blessed healing light. And the soul of the lover of God was not deceived and saw with its own eyes those whom it longed to see. Here are N.V. Gogol’s impressions of Optina: “I have never seen such monks anywhere. It seemed to me that everything heavenly was talking to each of them. I didn’t ask who lived with them: their faces said it all. The servants themselves amazed with the bright tenderness of the angels, the radiant simplicity of their manner; the very workers in the monastery, the very peasants and residents of the surrounding area. Several miles away, approaching the monastery, you can already hear its fragrance; everything becomes friendlier, bows are lower and there is more sympathy for the person” (Letter to A.P. Tolstoy, July 10, 1850).

Great Elder St. Gabriel (Zyryanov; September 24/October 7, 1915), who initiated the asceticism in Optina Pustyn (for 10 years), later recalled: “Yes, we felt as if we were among the saints, and we walked with fear, as if holy land... I looked closely at everyone and saw: although there were different degrees, they were all equal in spirit: no one was more or less, but they were all one: one soul and one will - in God.” . Indeed, all this God-gathered brotherhood represented one like-minded family. And “if you could open the doors of their hearts and see their soul and all the inner beauty, you would fall to the ground, you would not be able to bear the radiance of beauty, the light and brilliance of their conscience” (St. John Chrysostom).

But there is another glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another of the stars; and star differs from star in glory (1 Cor. 15:41). Just as the heavenly bodies have different luminous intensities, so saints come in different sizes. The holy elders in Optina Hermitage were suns.

“Holy people of God in their inner work seem to be attentive to their inner Visitor and Doer - the Lord, reverent before Him, smiling from inner sweetness and tenderness and inspiring heavenly peace”; “...in general, saints are sacred reservoirs, from which blessed water is communicated to other believers”; “...all holy light, all one fragrance, like the light of the sun, like the purest air” (St. John of Kronstadt (Dec. 20/Jan. 2, 1908). He had close spiritual ties with the Optina Monastery and the Shamordino Monastery) .

But “in Optina there were many completely unnoticeable monks, carrying out the most insignificant obediences all their lives and standing somewhere in a corner in the church, quietly fingering their rosaries. No one ever noticed any virtues in them, and yet the day of their death was revealed to many of them, which definitely came true” (pr. Spanish Georgy (Lavrov)).

Many pilgrims left the warmest memories of their stay in Optina. “To those who recognized this wonderful life in Optina, everything seems ugly in comparison” (one laywoman, 1918). “If anyone wants to hover between heaven and earth, he should live in Optina” (Archbishop Damascene (Rosov; July 31/Aug. 13, 1855) Tula).
St. Anthony of Optina (August 7/20, 1865), the monastery commander, at one time received a decree from the bishop to transfer him from the Optina Hermitage monastery to the position of abbot of the Nikolaevsky Black Island Monastery. The elder grieved inconsolably, not wanting to part with his beloved monastery. Then St. himself appears to him in a vision. Mitrofan of Voronezh with a host of saints in an indescribable radiance and says: “You were in paradise, and you know it, and now work, don’t be lazy and pray.” Here is the assessment given by the great saint, the heavenly, heavenly messenger: the monastery of Optina Hermitage is paradise.
It is difficult to say with certainty whether there has ever been a place in Russia in its entire history where, to such an extent, a society of people came so close to the ideal of Christian relations, to heavenly living, to the Kingdom of Heaven already here on earth. And this kingdom lasted exactly one hundred years. There were, of course, trials, sorrows, mistakes, not everything was so rosy, but society has never reached such a spiritual height anywhere in Russia. Nowhere did the holy brotherhood have such an extensive sanctifying influence on its people.

NIKITSKAYA ANOMAL ZONE (A. Perepelitsyn)
Members of our informal research group “Labyrinth” spent many nights in that anomalous zone in the late 1990s. And we saw something interesting. We heard even more interesting things from local residents, and not only about anomalous phenomena, but also about Moscow adventurers, many of whom came here in search of ghosts.
And, as a rule, those who left were very disappointed. I told my interlocutors about this: anomalous phenomena in some places do indeed occur more often than usual, but still not every day. And to put it mildly, real anomalous zones are a long way from the “zone” from the Strugatskys’ “Roadside Picnic” (or the film “Stalker”, based on the story). What happened in the end? From my stories, as well as from reports found on the Internet, journalists chose the most impressive “horror stories”, “for good measure,” so to speak. Everything that was said “for repose” - that miracles in anomalous zones are not found at every step and do not happen every hour, that most of the stories roaming the World Wide Web are simply made up - have been “forgotten”. However, such an approach in modern Russian journalism, alas, is common (Vest, by the way, is one of the few media outlets that does not allow such “exaggerations”), and I was not even very upset.
To some extent, I was even happy, especially after reading the comments: interest in the topic of anomalous zones has increased again after a long break. What is especially pleasant is that there were many young readers who were not burdened by mysticism and excessive skepticism, who sincerely wanted to objectively understand the issue and personally hunt for miracles. This is understandable - a new generation has grown up that did not experience the “abnormal saucer boom” of the late 1980s - early 1990s.
But, unfortunately, from my personal point of view, it is even more difficult to satisfy this interest qualitatively today than it was twenty years ago: many publications and television programs have appeared, but almost all of them are created according to the methodology given above. Therefore, I will try to tell you a little about one of the types of anomalous zones (and at the same time their “stalkers”) while maintaining maximum objectivity. Let's agree on terminology. An “anomalous zone” can be called any area in which things constantly exist or occur more often than average that go beyond the usual framework and are difficult to explain. For example, this can be called an incomprehensible name for a desert that has arisen in the taiga or a grove of birches in the tundra.
The general reader, of course, is interested in cooler anomalous zones, with flying saucers or ghosts. There are some, but there are several types. For example, it’s enough to talk to the old-timers of any five to ten villages, and in one of them they will tell you, for example, about the place “where it’s scary,” “where it’s exciting,” “where the screams of French soldiers can be heard at night.”
Stories about such places have been passed down for generations, and we have repeatedly seen that strange things really happen in such places. But we are interested in anomalous zones of a different type, “with flying saucers.” There are others like that. Back in the 1950s, when UFO sightings first attracted widespread attention, it was noted that in some places the likelihood of seeing them was much higher. In the USSR in the 1980s everyone's attention attracted the "M-triangle" to Perm region: Even books were published about meetings with “aliens” there. At first, such anomalous zones were explained simply: “the aliens allegedly built research bases with underground garages on Earth.”
However, it soon turned out that, according to the most conservative estimates, there are several hundred such “bases” in the former USSR alone, and they are usually seen not as alien ships, but as all sorts of balls and flashes of light, similar to ball lightning. So most likely. aliens have nothing to do with it, the phenomena are of natural origin. Similar “UFO bases” were found in the Kaluga region. In the Znamya newspaper, for example, in 1989, a note appeared (one of many in those years) about the observation of a “red ball” that descended into the forest, seen by residents of the village of Starki, Dzerzhinsky district. It was mentioned that the observation is not unique.
Five years later, when our amateur group for the study of anomalous phenomena was organized in Kaluga, we visited the village and talked with the residents. It turned out that in fact there were many more observations of luminous balls there, at least a dozen. In some cases from mysterious objects a hum was heard, that is, they were really close to the observers. Since the mid-1980s, UFOs have appeared there at least three times a year, mostly of one type (fireballs), but after ten years the sightings stopped...
A little later, “Vest” and regional television reported on the observation of a UFO in the form of an ellipse glowing in different colors by residents of the village of Oktyabrsky, Ferzikovsky district. Field visits and surveys of villagers showed that the observation here is far from isolated: about 90 percent of permanent residents saw various anomalous phenomena in the atmosphere (“glowing balls,” “foggy cigars,” flashes of light). They even observed either ghosts or humanoids. Moreover, a clear system was discernible in the location of villages with a large number of eyewitnesses - they were located in a strip from north to south, about twenty kilometers long, crossing the Oka.
Here we were also told about many “small” anomalous zones of the “prodigal places where it’s scary” type. The inhabitants of villages located even two kilometers to the west or east practically did not see a UFO (although, I note to those who consider all the “anomalies” to be the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption, the men there drink no less). We ourselves traveled to that area many times and observed anomalous phenomena ourselves, although not particularly impressive (once - light pillars in a field, several more times - lights moving in complex loops).
From the very beginning I was interested in the question: how long have similar phenomena been observed here? It turned out that legends about “unclean places” have existed “from time immemorial,” but UFOs in the classical sense began to be noticed relatively recently. “In 1975, somewhere we were walking, well, I saw a ball descend from the sky, sit on the ground and be enveloped in fog” - this was the oldest observation that we heard here. After 2000, observations almost stopped here too. When I visit those places, I always ask fellow passengers and villagers I meet: “What’s up with the UFOs?” “Ten years ago they saw and said a lot, but then they somehow stopped appearing.” Yes, apparently, anomalous zones are limited not only in space, but also in time. Or at least they can fall asleep for a long time. This is another reason for the failures of romantic stalkers who compile lists of anomalous zones from books like the “Encyclopedia of Miracles” and travel around them in search of adrenaline. But if the “zones” disappear, then perhaps they appear?
As with any “abnormal” question, there is no sure answer, but there are hints of a positive answer. Last spring, an elderly Muscovite called me: “I found your articles on the Internet, so I bought a house for a summer residence in the Zhukovsky district and I myself have already seen a UFO twice, and the neighbors are talking about it. Maybe there is an anomalous zone and we need to leave?
I have already contacted a psychic, he said that there is negative energy there.” I don’t know what about “negative energy” (and what it is), but the message interested me, and I decided to visit the place. Alas, it was not possible to get to the indicated village (transport links even in the outback often leave much to be desired), but I learned something interesting already on distant approaches. “It’s been a couple of years since I bought a dacha here, but I don’t seem to remember anything like that...
Although once, in November, I was driving along a country road in the dark - I saw light coming from the side road. I stopped and thought: “I’ll let it pass.” But no one entered the road. I even turned around and shined a light there - no one. And he couldn’t get away - there’s a field there, everything is clearly visible,” said an elderly man digging in the courtyard of a rural house. The next interlocutor turned out to be a native resident of a small village that had almost turned into a summer cottage: “Maybe four years ago I spent the night in the collective farm garage in the summer. Around four o'clock in the morning I suddenly woke up and looked: from across the river, as if... I don’t know how to say it, a UFO is not a UFO, a ray of light or something.
He moved across the sky, touched the transformer booth, the transformer hummed, and burned out! And we saw balloons in the sky in winter in our village. Even one of the Muscovites, they said, took them on video.” Can we say that a new anomalous zone of the “UFO base” type has appeared in the Zhukovsky region? At least there are hints of this. Will it be studied at least by amateur methods?

JOURNEY TO KOLTSOVO CAVES
Koltsovo Caves

We offer you a fascinating story about our journey to the Koltsovo Caves. Our school organized a boat trip on the Oka River before amazing place. On the way, we stopped in the village of Koltsovo, the former estate of General Carr. Having become familiar with the local attractions, the group continued their journey, moving further by boat upstream, until a stream with a wide rocky bed flows into the river. It was here, on the right side of the stream, that there was a vast, flat clearing where we decided to make a halt.
To get to the Koltsovsky caves, we had to walk through the huge Lyubovets ravine, which contains the largest waterfall in the Kaluga region, four meters high. And finally, the Koltsovsky Caves! Seeing a small crevice in the stones, we had a question: “What are the Koltsovsky caves? How and when were they formed? Koltsovsky caves are catacombs-workings that remained on the site of quarries that existed here since time immemorial. These are limestone outcrops with open grottoes.
Previously, blocks of marble-like limestone were cut down here, which were used for the construction of white stone walls and temples of Russian cities. The guide divided us into two groups, and we went into the dungeon. Once there, we saw long corridors leading to the former slaughterhouses. On the “floor” lie the remains of wooden supports - thick logs. The ceilings have sagged and rest on stone ledges. The droplets of water dotting the vaults, forming a “starry sky” and curtains of roots hanging from cracks growing on the surface of the trees look impressive. Underground, it is possible to meet the inhabitants of these caves: bats and foxes. Of course, we didn’t see any foxes, but we did meet some bats!

The caves are very dirty and dusty. There you have to walk bent over, and more often crawl on your bellies. The guide told us several stories related to the caves. It turns out that soldiers lived there during the war. This suggests that the caves are suitable for habitation. The Passage of General Pleasure (PPU) begins with a small hole - having successfully overcome it, we felt like real speleologists: due to an aquifer passing somewhere nearby, there are always puddles of liquid and extremely sticky clay in the PPU, through which we have to crawl, and along -plastunski - the low “ceiling” prevents you from rising... A small grotto called Pivbar is a good place to set up a camp. Here the temperature is constant all year round: + 6 degrees. Beijing Skyscrapers is a narrow vertical crack that has torn apart the limestone massif. You can only move along it sideways. The crack can be seen about five meters upward. There were some adventures here! One person from our group got stuck in this crack, and we had to help him get out of there. As we exhale, we crawl onto the huge mound of clay that blocked the corridor.
Having caught our breath, we saw above us the domed vault of the most spectacular Koltsovsky grotto, the Cathedral. Apparently, for some geological reasons, a cavity filled with clay formed in the limestone. The adit passed right under it, and when the support decayed, the clay fell down. This is how the Cathedral was formed, the walls of which, covered with colored clay, go up to five meters in height. The Koltsovsky caves also have their own Hell, or rather, its gates: this is the name given to a semicircular niche in the wall, clogged with a clay plug.
But, unfortunately, we were not able to visit there; tourists are not allowed there due to frequent landslides. This place is considered mystical. According to the guide's story, stone mining is not at all the main reason for the formation of this system. It was built either by a count or by Prince Vorontsov, one of the associates of Peter I, a great sorcerer and warlock. Here he set up his underground magical laboratory, where he tried to gain power over the world. The system has six (according to another version, seven) ring tiers, with the lower ones passing under the Oka. Somewhere there, in the Octagonal Room, the famous Black Book is walled up, and the entrance there is blocked by an Underground Lake with color-changing water. Speleologists call one of the parts of the quarries “Gases”. People entering here hear strange voices, as well as the voices of their friends and loved ones. According to speleologists, a hallucinogenic gas seeps through the cracks in the vaults and walls of the cave, causing mental changes in people. We really enjoyed the trip to the Koltsovsky Caves, and we advise everyone who loves extreme sensations to visit these stunning places.

UGRA RIVER
ANOMAL PIT
Near the village of Voloe, Kirov region, a hole with a diameter and depth of 6 meters mysteriously formed in the middle of a field. Perhaps this is a natural anomaly, or perhaps the land was confiscated mechanically, Vladimir Bertrand, head of the civil defense and emergency department of the administration of the Municipal Municipality "City of Kirov and Kirovsky District", told KP-Kaluga. “We went to the site and inspected the recess.
The diameter of the pit is six meters, and so is the depth.
The shape is an even circle, the bottom is flat. To be honest, I don't think this is a natural anomaly. If another such hole suddenly appears, then I will definitely be inclined to believe that this is due to natural processes.
Director of the Kirov-TV MP Nadezhda Lutseva also agrees with Vladimir Anatolyevich:
- Having examined the place where the anomaly appeared, along the edges of the pit we found traces of a mechanical fence of earth. At the same time, we did not find a single sign of land removal in the field. Grass grows just like everywhere else. The fact that the water did not go underground speaks in favor of the anomalous version, and not a blade of grass has been crushed anywhere, and there are no traces of tires. At the same time, 180 tons of land disappeared without a trace! “On May 30, I was grazing cows,” says shepherd Semyon Volchkov, who discovered the anomalous pit. - I see they are butting heads in this place.
They also refuse to eat grass. The field is located five kilometers from the village of Volovoe, and, according to the villagers, they are already accustomed to such inexplicable phenomena. Thus, the chairman of the Lenin SPK Nikolai Zemchenkov three years ago saw a red ball hovering in the air, which then changed its color to orange. He hung there for about 15 minutes and disappeared.
The chairman of the Volovsky village council, Valentina Semkina, and her fellow villagers saw fireballs floating in the air several years ago. And it was very close to the place where the six-meter hole appeared. All residents of the village know the legend associated with the appearance of the “Angry Well”. A couple of generations ago (as one of the old-timers said: “My mother told me”) the village church went underground, and in its place a key filled up. Now the villagers consider this place holy. Children are baptized with well water, they hang icons and go to the source to pray.
Over the weekend, Andrei Perepelitsyn, chairman of the public group for studying the secrets and mysteries of the Earth “Labyrinth,” went to the site of the anomaly’s appearance and shared his conclusions: “There are two versions of the appearance of this pit. First: an anomalous phenomenon, second: the failure of some cavity. At the moment we are more inclined to the second version.
But many questions still remain. For example, if it was a failure of the earth, then why did the water not go away, but accumulate? We examined the area for chronal anomalies and electrostatic norms.
No deviations were found. At the same time, we cannot speak with absolute certainty in favor of one version or another. Meanwhile, according to the Kirov-TV MP, the village of Voloye is located 20 kilometers from the regional center - Kirov. Population - 700 people. Every second yard has a car. Old Believers live in the village. Recently, a church was rebuilt using donations. Volovians live by carpentry work in the construction of dachas. In the summer they collect and dry mushrooms for the winter.
A quarter of a century ago, the village of Voloye was considered a unique settlement in the USSR. And the reason for this is the amazing birth rate. One family had five children. There were 27 heroine mothers living in the village, who raised ten or more children. Meanwhile, the newspaper also talks about other anomalous zones and mystical places in the Kaluga region. The Korenevsky meteorite is a cosmic body that exploded during its fall on October 7, 1996 at 22:42.
It was observed on the section of the Moscow-Bryansk highway from kilometers 230 to 138. Drivers driving from Moscow, looking at the fireball, were blinded for several minutes. Thousands of people witnessed the fall. The meteorite itself and the place of its fall have not yet been found. And on one of the forest roads near Zhizdra, jokers hung up the only road sign in the world: “Caution, low-flying meteorites!”

“Back in the spring, I promised to tell about the legends and traditions associated with the famous Devil’s Settlement, but I didn’t have time...
But readers remember. And they remind: “Actually mystical place Kaluga region - of course, you’ve been to the Devil’s settlement near Kozelsk? Are there many anomalies there?”
First, let us recall that the residents of the Kozelsky district (county) have long called the Devil's Settlement (or Devil's City) a forest tract seven kilometers from the current village of Sosensky - a high hill with picturesque piles of stones. Rare plants grow here, which, according to one version, survived from pre-glacial times, and on the upper platform there is a settlement in the archaeological sense - an ancient fortified settlement protected by a sunken rampart and moat. Its history has at least two stages - at the beginning of our era the Balts lived here, and the Slavs settled several centuries later. Quite rightly, this place has been declared a natural monument since the 1970s, and is now part of the Ugra National Park. There were many local legends here.
A classic line about a wedding castle... Long, long ago, there lived a girl in the world. She was about thirty years old, and no one had ever matched her. Meanwhile, the girl was dying to get married. Then one day she says: “If only the devil could woo me.” And he’s right there. “Come,” he says, “marry me and I’ll make you rich.” “Well,” she replies, “I’m not averse to it, just let me consult with my parents and reasonable people.” He promised to wait. After some time, the devil again appears to her and asks for an answer. “I agree,” says the girl, but I don’t have an okruta (an elegant dress). “Everything will be ready,” the devil answers, when will the wedding be?”
The girl set the time. From that time on, the devil began to wear gold, silver, diamonds and all sorts of clothes for her, some more beautiful than others, and at the same time build a house for the bride. By the appointed time, both the district and the house were ready. On the wedding day, the girl asked her parents and the priest for a blessing, took all the okruta, and, on the priest’s advice, put a rooster under her arm and went into the forest. Soon she found a house in the forest, as beautiful as a palace. A dressed-up and joyful devil stood on the porch, coming out to meet the bride. With fear, the girl went up to the porch. At this time, the rooster released his head and sang “crow!”
Suddenly thunder roared, a crash was heard, the earth opened up, and Satan fell into the underworld with a curse. From that time on, this house has stood in the Bryn Forest, and no one dares to live there or enter it. This legend was published in late XIX century in several versions at once, I present here one of the most little-known, recorded from the words of the peasant Pimen Nazarov and published by M. Sinozerov in the magazine “Living Antiquity” in 1896.
And then some of our local historians agreed that, they say, the story about the devil’s castle did not exist among the people at all, but was invented by “intelligent people” who visited the settlement (I was surprised to find this version in the recently published book by A. Vedenin, dedicated to Likhvin). Such statements only indicate that our “armchair researchers” for the most part do not try to independently collect legends in the villages. In the records of the famous researchers E. Markov and T. Rozhdestvensky, who worked at that time, the name of the devil’s bride is named - Lyubusha, and it is said that she was the daughter of the robber Kudeyar, who sold his soul to the unclean... Having deceived the devil, Lyubusha brought upon herself the curse of her father.
She moans and cries at night, terrifying everyone who happens to come close to this damned place. Currently they are already reaching last years, on which a spell was cast, and Lyubusha began to appear outside at night. “Our forest watchman, said one old man, saw her twice: she will go out onto the mountain, sit on the stones and cry... It’s hard for me, he says, give me a cross.
The Optina monks put up a cross here twice - yes, you see, it couldn’t resist.” (Proceedings of the Voronezh Scientific Archival Commission, issue 1 1902). Back in the 1930s, local residents were afraid to visit the Devil's Settlement. They stopped being afraid before the war, when, as we now know from eyewitnesses, stone was taken here for construction railway to Tula...
Stories and entire legends related to the Devil's Settlement continue to be told today. The famous “Encyclopedia of the Unknown” by V. Chernobrov says: “A wide variety of anomalous phenomena in the sky have been noted more than once in this area.” Elsewhere it talks about “balls of fire.” Having studied UFOs for many years, I can say: the frequency of their appearance in the Devil's Settlement area is not higher than average. But the invasion here of all kinds of mystics and contactees has intensified in recent years.
This summer, NTV journalists stubbornly did not want to believe me that in an “anomalous” respect the tract does not represent anything outstanding. And a little later, a specially arrived Oryol journalist called about the “mystical tract”...
But what about the anomalous phenomena really here? One day we ourselves saw a real ghost at the Devil’s Settlement. In the early 1990s, having arrived here in the evening (at that time we were still naively hoping to find surviving stones with ancient signs), we saw a barefoot girl of about twenty, dressed in white, silently wandering among the stones... Despite the twilight and magical fog, we came closer and called out. It turned out that before us was not Lyubusha, who had emerged from underground confinement, but a resident of Moscow, Snezhana, a very living person, “for the purpose of spiritual development,” visiting mystical places alone...
It is quite possible here in the summer to come across emeralds turning into clay in caves and crevices between stones: in the light of a lantern, some stones shimmer with an amazingly bright greenish-blue light, and if you touch it with your hand, it’s a wet stone!
And this phenomenon can be explained in a trivial way: on the stones there are almost microscopic seedlings of relict schistostega moss, which reflects light. This plant is extremely vulnerable, and therefore you shouldn’t poke too hard at the luminous spot: you won’t catch anything anyway! Is there really nothing mysterious going on at the Devil's Settlement? Personally, I am sure that there is no smoke without fire and the legends that have existed for centuries must be fueled by something. There can hardly be any doubt that in pre-Christian times there was a cult center here, a temple of gods unknown to us.
But I do not exclude that anomalous phenomena occur here from time to time. Not a UFO. There are many stories about strange wanderings in the area of ​​​​the Devil's Settlement, inexplicable gaps in time (“I walked away from the tent for 15 minutes - and they were looking for me for several hours”).
A huntsman recently told us a strange story national park: “I’m walking along a forest road, I look - there’s a birch tree across it ahead. I think I should remove it, but I came closer and there was nothing! At the same time, it was day.” However, nothing like this has ever happened here to me or to the members of our research group, and in the 90s we spent a total of several weeks at the site.
But if the Devil’s Settlement is of no interest as an anomalous zone, from an archaeological point of view, I am sure it will present many more surprises. Stories about stones with signs, about robber caves, of which there are many in the south of the region, should be treated very carefully.

MYSTERIOUS GRAVE
And then, on one of the warm August days, while carrying out regular work, an interesting find was made, which opens another page of Kaluga local history. At one of the historical sites, among modern graves, in the thickets of bushes, our attention was drawn to a monument made of black marble, already adapted for someone’s burial in the 1940s. A rare case: those who used the tombstone a second time did not knock down the original inscription.

Unfortunately, most of the pre-revolutionary tombstones in our ancient city cemetery can no longer say anything about those in whose honor they were erected and whose names they kept. In Soviet times, most pre-revolutionary monuments were reused, and the names of famous townspeople were simply erased, or, at best, covered on top with a marble plaque with a new name.

I wonder if the “grateful” descendants realized that they were erasing the name of a famous Kaluga merchant or doctor not only from granite, but also from the pages of our local history? At least the “monitoring” of the cemetery of the 18th - 21st centuries was carried out. showed that in the Pyatnitsky necropolis it is now almost impossible to find the graves of our fellow countrymen of the 18th and 19th centuries: there are only a few of them left.

But the Pyatnitskoye cemetery over the past centuries was the main resting place of Kaluga residents, not counting small cemeteries for honorary citizens and their families in the Laurentian and Krestovsky monasteries of Kaluga. Until now, it was there, as previously stated by one of the young local historians who compiled the martyrology of the Krestovsky Monastery, that the surname was listed, which we suddenly discovered on a monument in the Pyatnitsky necropolis!

UFO IN KALUGA REGION
for a conversation with the chairman of the public group for studying the secrets and mysteries of the Earth “Labyrinth” Andrey PEREPELITSIN.

Andrey, tell me, how many UFOs have been spotted in the Kaluga region?

I am not ready to give an exact number, in any case, it is several hundred messages. When we analyze incoming messages, most of the objects people see are easily identified. These are helicopters and satellites. Venus is often mistaken for a UFO. But still, a fairly large percentage of objects seen by people remain unidentified by us. This is about 20 percent of all messages.

How can an ignorant person identify a UFO in front of him, or creation? human hands, an object known to man?

Let me remind you that a UFO is an unidentified flying object. That is, it is not necessarily an alien starship; UFOs can be phenomena of a completely different nature. What unites them is that no one knows: what it is. One of the main criteria for “unidentification” is behavior that is “impossible” from the point of view of the known laws of nature and the parameters of earthly technology. For example, a satellite can only fly in a straight line, but a UFO is capable of maneuvering. At the same time, satellites fly only from west to east.

We can talk for a long time on this topic and give a lot of examples, so I will only say that every year, due to scientific and technological progress, it becomes more and more difficult to identify true UFOs. One cannot help but recall the UFO landing sites. There are several signs by which you can determine whether there was a landing in a given place or not.

For example, under the influence of a UFO, the passage of time almost always changes; the clock goes either faster or slower. At planting sites, protozoan microorganisms die and plant roots become charred.

Are there places in our region that are favored by “plates”?

There are always places where the number of UFO sightings reported is higher than average. In the Kaluga region, this is the following route: just west of Obninsk - Maloyaroslavets - eastern outskirts of Kaluga - Przemysl - Kozelsk - Ulyanovsk region. The route cannot be traced further, since the south of the region is sparsely populated and communications from there are rare.

What should a person do if he does see an object behaving strangely?

The first thing to do is record the time. Observe and remember as many details as possible, the direction of movement, when and where he disappeared. Let us know: even ordinary observations help to look for patterns in the distribution of UFOs in space and time. Address: [email protected] or: 248030 Kaluga-30 PO Box 613

How is Ufologist Day celebrated?

I have a special opinion about him. I am a big skeptic about such holidays. More precisely, in relation to ufology, in which there is stagnation - so there is nothing to celebrate. I haven’t gone to conferences and conventions of ufologists for a long time. I used to visit regularly, but I realized that the level of “scientific research” of most ufologists is quite low. There was no understanding of the nature of UFOs before, and there is none now. In my opinion, ufologists themselves do not know how to study UFOs. And there are objective and subjective reasons.

For example, what can you tell about the engine from the track of a tractor? Never mind. The same situation applies to UFOs. What can you say about the object itself, seeing only its trace? Only that there was an anomalous influence in this place. That's all. That's why we know as much about UFOs as we did 50 years ago. So classical ufology is a rather passive and unpromising direction. And I’m not even talking about contactees who, with the help of telepathic abilities, communicate with the Supreme Cosmic Mind... Judging by their messages, it seems that they communicate with not the Cosmic Mind, but rather the comic one. Alas, there is no single ufological organization in Russia. There are only a number of parties, each of which considers itself the main and only one. They are not always on friendly terms with each other.

Does this mean that ufology is a useless and unnecessary science?

I remember a fantastic story. According to its plot, intelligence agencies call talented engineers and show them top-secret film. On this film, an unknown self-taught man invented an anti-gravity aircraft. He floated in the air as he pleased. But during one of the tests, the self-taught man died. Service workers gave the engineers the debris and asked them to restore the device. In two years, the engineers managed to create something similar to what the self-taught man did, but much less perfect. And they were surprised that how could they, the luminaries of science, fail to repeat the invention of a common man. And a secret was revealed to them - there was no self-taught person, the video was a fake, made to make the imagination of the designers work harder, to set a goal for them.

Here are UFOs, anomalous phenomena - that tool that awakens the imagination, shows that not all laws of nature are familiar to us. However, not everything is so sad - you can still study them. For example, in anomalous zones where direct instrumental observations can be made.

KALUGA TREASURES
Here is a letter received by the Kaluga Society of History and Antiquities, which existed in the 1920s, and is stored in the archive (GAKO: R-324, op. 1 item 6):

... I hereby bring to your attention that I have obtained information, confirmed by many people, that in the Maloyaroslavets district of the Abramovskaya volost there is an area called Lantsovka, and one of the citizens of the village has in his hands an old letter written on some kind of paper that came into greatly decayed disrepair. It was written in an ancient language that is poorly understood by us, but still some people could translate it into a more understandable tariff. This document indicates that there was once a city near this area of ​​Lantsovka, and during the Lithuanian invasion, all the jewelry from this city was taken to this Lantsovka, where they were immersed in a deep stone basement, which was covered with earth. This document was copied from a stone slab, passed through the hands of grandfathers seasoned by antiquity for many years and finally ended up in storage in the church, from where it again fell into the hands of one grandfather at the end of the 19th century, who, having understood it, gathered people from four villages and began to dig this treasure Then they dug up to the huge slabs and abandoned them. This summer, citizens have begun digging again and are again encountering the same objects that should be encountered along the way, as indicated in this letter. Citizens, treasure hunters, they dig in secret and stopped their work due to the fact that they were intimidated by arrest. And so I ask you to send me a representative from the Society to investigate this matter and have the right to demand from that citizen an inventory of this huge Kurgan. If I do not receive any notifications from you, I will report to Leningrad, to the Main Academy of Sciences. I will expect a response within 10 days.

The signature is illegible.

The answer came late, and was not at all what the rural activist expected:

Dear comrade!

In response to your letter, I inform you that the Kaluga Society of History and Antiquities would be very interested in getting acquainted with the contents of the charter you are writing about. The Kaluga Society of History and Antiquities, not being able to send its representative to Maloyaroslavets district at the present time, asks you to contact the owner of the letter with a request to give you the above-mentioned letter against signature for a while, in order to forward it by registered mail to the Kaluga Society of History and Antiquities to read and determine its origin. Try to persuade the owner to lend this certificate for a while. If the letter is detained by us, then, having a receipt in hand, he will be able to demand the return of the letter in court. There are several such takers of treasure documents in the Kaluga province. The actual existence of the treasure is doubtful; the letter is therefore interesting from a historical perspective. The Company authorizes you to be its representative in this matter and sends you the appropriate identification. Just keep in mind that our society has no right to delegate any requisitions or forced seizures.

Chairman of the Society M. Sheremetyeva.

“They are terribly far from the people,” Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin once said about the Russian intelligentsia. The answer of the head of Kaluga historians and local historians once again confirms the validity of the maxim of the leader of the proletariat - in naivety he is not inferior to the villager’s letter... Which is proven by the fact that there was no continuation of the correspondence... However, Sheremetyeva was right: all kinds of “letters” “where and how to find the treasure” were circulated among the people a lot. The content of one of them was retold at one time in a letter to the editors of Vesti (10/13/1992) by a resident of the village of Dolina, Khvastovichi district, Vladimir Tolstikov:

“Even before the revolution, we had leaflets “How to find Kudeyar’s treasure.” A stream flows into the Ressetu River. The water is clean, but people call that stream Mogilney. Those leaflets said that the search should begin along the stream from the river, then up and further. The distance is four miles, and everything is in the forest, up the mountain. The advice was this: having reached the Rattles Well, you had to find a huge oak tree... There were people who liked to look for treasure. They looked for him three times, but unsuccessfully. And yet this treasure awaits the lucky ones, I believe in it.”

And the oral stories about Kudeyar’s treasures, robbers, the city treasury hidden before the arrival of the Poles (Lithuanians, Tatars) are countless! They are associated with almost any objects revered by the people, such as stones, springs, trees. Traditions give precise instructions on exactly where to dig. This is what the villagers vying with each other told us about the treasure near the Angry Spring (we talked about it in detail last time):

“Mom told me about Napoleon’s treasure.” 12 hay shafts must be measured from the hole in the field at sunset on the Christmas Sun.

“And my grandfather told me how he went there to dig.” I dug and dug, reached the slab and could not dig it up. We had drillers about 30 years ago, and he went to them: “Guys, dig this slab for me.” They told him: “Grandfather, only in the evening.” And in the evening the boss came and took them away...

- My grandmother told me. A woman lived in our village, she was tending sheep, she began to go down to the Angry Spring, and looked: a cauldron full of gold was sticking out in the hill. She abandoned the sheep, ran after her husband, the husband harnessed the horse... And they brought the treasure, then built three houses. This was definitely true: the grandmother named names. But this is not the whole treasure...

Despite the complete lack of logic (in fact, who would mark a treasure with a stone or, moreover, build a mound over it?) in our villages people still sincerely believe in legends about treasures, and not only believe them, but also actively search for them , using technologies of the twentieth century:

- We have a mound, I don’t know - Kudeyar or some other bandit... The youth tried to open it. They were digging, the excavator was being adjusted. We had a teacher, and he drilled this mound five or six times. After a few meters the drill rests - there’s some kind of piece of iron there. They never found anything. You have to dig there and know where. There was one old guy, and he said: “If you dug up this mound, then there would be enough for everyone in your village for five years. The gold is there, the robbers brought it in.”

This is a summary of stories from residents of one of the villages in the Ulyanovsk region.

Traces of many years of hard work by village treasure hunters sometimes make a strong impression. Near Zhizdra there is a patch where several archaeological monuments are grouped at once: two settlements, a burial mound, and nearby the Gremyachiy spring (“there Kudeyar’s golden boat is suspended on chains and rattles”). Everything here is dug up. The protective ramparts of the fortifications were especially hard hit - these earthen embankments, which are purely for defensive purposes, are firmly revered by the villagers as embankments over the mounds! And the fact that no one got the treasure doesn’t bother our people - that means we need to dig deeper! And, of course, treasures can be enchanted and not given to everyone - many such stories have been recorded, although we have not yet heard them live in the Kaluga region. And there are very few stories about discovered treasures, and the values ​​in them are relatively modest - although, apparently, sufficient to maintain enthusiasm:

— They built a mill in Vizici. Even before the Stolypin reform, under the master. They dug up a “measure,” as it was called then, to measure the grain. From a barrel. Iron. There is money there - gold, silver... And on it it is written: “whoever takes it will die.” Well, they want to take it, but they are afraid. Even though life was hard, who wants to die? Well, at first they didn’t want to talk, maybe, but then they told the master: “Nikolai Ivanovich, so and so.” He came, read, also thought, was afraid. And then his wife came and she took it. She was already sick. And she definitely died soon. Maybe it was a coincidence. And the master built a lot with this money...,” local old-timer Adelaida Arsentevna Sidorenkova told me recently.

There are many more beliefs that can be cited, but the question arises: do they have any scientific significance other than a purely ethnographic one? In our opinion, colossal. Such stories allow us to find the most interesting archaeological sites, including those unknown to specialists! But that's not all. The vast majority of objects to which treasures are attached - stones, springs, hills - probably had cult significance. That is, they were places of temples, and “ringing hills” and “terrible towns” were probably settlements of priest-magi. This is part of our history and culture, almost nothing is known about it, only guesses and assumptions. And with all the workload of archaeologists, they should probably pay more attention to this kind of information - especially since it quickly disappears. A concrete example is the story we started with.

As follows from the letter received by local historians, village treasure hunters were most likely digging the rampart of an ancient settlement. However, as you remember, they never got out to inspect it, limiting themselves to unsubscribing. Specialists did not come later either. Only at the beginning of the 21st century, after the discovery of correspondence in the archive, did members of our group do this, exclusively on public principles. Upon arrival, it turned out that the village was now inhabited by Moscow summer residents; the only native resident, born in 1940, had only heard about the “Lantsevskaya Road” and did not know exactly where it passed. And now you can search for a settlement (remember, unexplored) only by combing tens of square kilometers of forest...

THE SECRET OF THE CHURCH TREASURE
Residents of the Kaluga region found a pot with gold church utensils. After that, strange things began to happen to them.

Vyacheslav Agapov and Konstantin Chiliskin grew up and live near the Ugra River in the Kaluga region. Twice a week the guys go to Moscow to work as security guards in a store. And when they have free time, they look for... ancient coins.

“In 1480, the Great Stand took place on the Ugra - the Russian army and the army of the Golden Horde under the command of Khan Akhmat were located on different banks of the river,” says Vyacheslav. “There was never a big battle here, but when we swam in the Ugra as boys, we pulled out rusty swords and strange oriental coins from the water.

So Kaluga residents became interested in history. And when they grew up, they began to collect coin collections. We bought metal detectors and began to search the surrounding area.

“A friend, a fellow lover of antiquities, invited us to go to the Yukhnovsky district,” continues Vyacheslav. “We learned that in the village of Velino there was a rich estate, which means that coins should also be found...

The searchers made inquiries: once upon a time there was an estate of the Shirinsky-Shikhmatov princes here on the right bank of the Ugra. But now only the centuries-old linden trees remaining from the park and a barely noticeable foundation remind of the princely estate: the building was dismantled brick by brick. Nearby is the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign”.

The huckster offered 700,000 rubles for the find

Vyacheslav and Konstantin found the treasure behind the church, in a ravine.

The metal detector beeped. A few swings of the shovel - and the guys pulled out from under the ground a cast iron pot, covered with a gilded plate and covered in wax.

Inside were icons, fragments of the iconostasis, a cup and spoon for communion, and fragments of temple decor. The utensils sparkled with diamonds, emeralds, and shimmered with turquoise. On the plate, treasure hunters found the inscription: “Belongs to the Assumption Church, which was built in the village of Velino in 1722.”
Church utensils and icons were hidden in ordinary cast iron.

Vyacheslav and Kostya called their friend, Roman. He offered to sell the treasure and immediately dialed the buyer’s number on his mobile phone. Based on the description of the find, a local dealer offered the searchers 700,000 rubles.

“But we had no right to sell the find,” says Vyacheslav. - Still, things have an owner - the Assumption Church. And that day something strange began to happen to the guy who offered to drive in the treasure. Roman twice imagined that someone touched him on the shoulder. He looks around - no one... I thought it was my imagination from fatigue. But then it seemed to him as if someone’s quiet voice was calling his name, and suddenly - another blow on the shoulder. And again no one!

Frightened Roman locked himself in the car and, without waiting for sunset, hurried to leave the village. He even turned to the grandmothers later. They say: they say, your name is from the other world... The guy was so scared that he gave up his hobby.

“We immediately decided to return the treasure to the church,” Vyacheslav continues the story. - True, they didn’t know where. After all, the Assumption Church has already been destroyed. We turned to the person from whom we bought the metal detectors - the treasure hunting office of Vladimir Poryvaev. He advised me to contact Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Journalists " Komsomolskaya Pravda» contacted the Chairman of the Public Chamber Commission for the Preservation of Spiritual and Cultural Heritage, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk Kliment. He met with Vyacheslav and Konstantin.

“The crisis is not a reason to indifferently contemplate the destruction of churches,” said the Metropolitan, “they were erected with donations in more difficult times for Russia.” This find at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” is a good sign for all of us. It's a miracle that she fell into honest hands. This is part of our history and will be kept as a shrine.

The Bishop proposed to solemnly hand over the relics during the annual Optina forum “Heritage of Russia: the spiritual choice of the Russian intelligentsia” in the Kaluga diocese.

Mysterious places in Russia Shnurovozova Tatyana Vladimirovna

Nikitskoye (Kaluga region)

Nikitskoye

(Kaluga region)

On the northern outskirts of the Kaluga region in the Medynsky district there is a small village of Nikitskoye, in the vicinity of which there is an anomalous zone that has a strange, depressing effect on people. The village itself has a reputation for witchcraft in the area, and residents of neighboring villages say that in almost every house in Nikitskoye lives, if not a healer, then a witch, or not a witch, then a sorcerer.

About 5 km from the village, behind a swamp, there is a dark forest with grass covered with thick moss, in which anomalous phenomena occur. Everyone who comes to this mysterious forest for the first time notices the twisted, strongly curved tree trunks, but what amazes people even more is the almost complete absence of animals and birds in the forest: no paw prints are visible, no noise or whistling is heard. However, someone’s invisible presence in the forest is constantly felt, especially since the strangeness does not end there.

One of the Moscow residents, having come to stay in the village, decided to go to the mysterious forest to pick mushrooms. She was struck by a strange atmosphere that seemed to lure her into the thicket. Walking deep into the forest, the woman suddenly saw a fluffy ball or ball rolling along the path - either an animal unknown to science, or a goblin, or some other unknown creature. However, it scared the Muscovite so much that she ran away from the forest as fast as she could. Then terrible visions tormented her at night for several more years.

Later, researchers who arrived from the capital tried to study the forest, but the group was driven away by a monstrous roar, more like the rumble of an airplane than the cry of an animal. At the same time, the entire sky was covered with a dense curtain of black thunderclouds and large hailstones fell to the ground. When the researchers returned to Nikitskoye, local residents unanimously confirmed that they had not seen any dark clouds, much less thunderstorms, either over the village or in the surrounding area.

There were other attempts to explore that forest, but usually people were overcome by the desire to leave that place as quickly as possible because of the danger in the air. The researchers noted that this feeling is quite difficult to convey in words, but the anxiety felt is comparable to as if standing under a large block of ice that could collapse down at any moment.

The leader in the number of anomalous zones in Russia remains the northwestern region of the country: Karelia, Vologda, Kaluga. One of the Vologda zones is located in the very north of the region near the village of Verkhovye. According to Vologda researcher Viktor Brunov, in this place the compass stops working and the clock stops or goes wrong.

Moreover, in the evenings, people heard footsteps, some dark shadows approached the tent, which then turned pale and dissolved in the air, strange lights were observed in the air, and sometimes, when trying to go deep into the forest, an invisible wall seemed to grow in front of the researchers, which was impossible to cross. After long stay in the forest, healthy people began to complain of headaches, attacks of numbness, weakness and the indifference that covered the whole body, which happens before freezing. Thus, being alone in this forest for a long time is dangerous - the anomalous zone seems to pull in those trying to pass into it and never let go. Nevertheless, the study of the Kaluga Forest continues, and who knows what other mysteries and surprises this fabulous enchanted forest has in store for new generations of scientists.

From the book A Textbook of Magic author Estrin Anatoly Mikhailovich

Amur region I would breathe in your winds with thirst, I would drink the streams to the gulp, I would go out every path, Yes, my side is great. As you see, even a month is not enough to go around and around it. Only in a song and in a fairy tale can my Amur region fit. P. Komarov Amur region

From the book Secrets of the Underworld author Voitsekhovsky Alim Ivanovich

Kaluga find 06 I first learned about this unusual find from the manager public organization"Cosmopoisk", a famous researcher of everything mysterious and enigmatic Vadim Aleksandrovich Chernobrov, who sent me for details and individual facts

From the book Mysterious Places of Russia author Shnurovozova Tatyana Vladimirovna

Optina Pustyn (Kaluga region) A selfless ascetic feat in the name of the Lord returned Optina Pustyn from oblivion in all its glory, and today this monastery is one of the centers of pilgrimage for Orthodox Christians from all over Russia. Completely forgotten in the 18th century, in

From the book Codes of a New Reality. Guide to places of power author Fad Roman Alekseevich

Ogarkovo (Kaluga region) In the east of the Kaluga region, near the village of Ogarkovo, there is a small anomalous zone. Tourists and summer residents have repeatedly noticed that as soon as they go towards the Dugna River, something happens to them on the way up

From the book Places of Power on the Map of Russia author Suprunenko Yuri Pavlovich

Popov Bridge (Kaluga Region) In the southwestern part of the Kaluga Region, near the villages of Korenevo and Uleml, a small bridge was built across the Pesochnya River, popularly nicknamed the Popov Bridge. This is not even a bridge, but rather an embankment dam over a river, the bed of which was laid in

From the book of Kabbalah. Upper world. The beginning of the way author Laitman Michael

Black Stream (Kaluga region) Lyudinovo district, located in the southwest of the Kaluga region, has long been the object of close attention of local ufologists and researchers of anomalous zones. Near Lyudinovo, UFOs are constantly observed, hovering for a long time over various

From the author's book

Devil's Settlement (Kozelsk, Kaluga region) Not far from the Kaluga city of Kozelsk on the territory of the national natural park Ugra is a beautiful tract, popularly called Devil's Settlement. A small river, Chertovskaya, flows not far from it.

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Anomalous zone Nikitskoye Nikitskoye is a small village near Vereya in the Medynsky district in the north of the Kaluga region, next to which there is a large anomalous zone. It seems that it was about such places that Pushkin wrote: “There are miracles there, there is a devil wandering there...” Although there is a devil there

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Volgograd Region There is a whole complex of anomalous zones on the territory of the Volgograd Region. Among them are the famous Medveditskaya ridge, the Staropoltava geoactive zone, the village of Lebyazhya Polyanau, where manifestations have been observed for a long time

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Vologda Region In terms of the frequency of phenomena of the appearance of UFOs and aliens in Russia, one of the first places belongs to the Vologda Region. Thus, the city of Cherepovets became famous primarily due to the so-called twin anomaly: the percentage of twins here is much higher

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Voronezh region On the outskirts of Voronezh there is the so-called Voronezh anomalous zone, famous for the fact that unidentified flying objects land there. The first landing took place in 1989 in front of many eyewitnesses. This case was investigated

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Irkutsk Region Irkutsk - a city of bones Within the boundaries of Irkutsk there are twelve burial sites, some of which lie under urban development. For example, the old German cemetery of the 18th–19th centuries is today covered with asphalt. Lenin Street approaches it, which

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Kursk region In the Kursk region, phenomena of a ufological nature often appear. These are silver balls in Medvenka, circles on the field near Timam, as well as the so-called Fatezh funnels. The latter were formed as a result of unknown explosions in the area

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Tula region On the territory of Tula and its environs there are many ufological and other anomalous phenomena, which researchers explain by the presence of many geoactive zones. Thus, within the city there is a place with an area of ​​no more than a few square meters under

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Yaroslavl region In Yaroslavl, according to statistics, mortality has increased significantly in recent years. It is known that the entire historical part of the city stands on old burial grounds. Every now and then human bones are found in different places. For example, when laying the foundation

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18.3. Area of ​​research 1. Kabbalah does not touch upon such concepts as the essence and abstract form of the ten Sefirot, but deals only with matter in them and its forms, since form is the carrier of matter. The essence of man, as such, without material embodiment, is not perceived ,

The famous scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, as you know, comes from Kaluga. One can see in this a certain mystical sign, since the place where the father of astronautics lived and carried out his research now attracts the closest attention of ufologists and other “anomalous people.” ” .

According to the latter, as well as local residents, on the territory of the modern Kaluga region, not only UFOs of various forms regularly appear, but there are also cases of teleportation, when an unknown force instantly transfers people over a distance of several kilometers!

There are anomalous zones in the Kaluga region with stunted vegetation, where unusual animal behavior is observed. From time to time, researchers' instruments record an increased electromagnetic background there. And in the east of the region there are three unfavorable zones - in the vicinity of the villages of Shchigry, Ogarkovo and Nikitskoye. For some reason, people often get lost in the Ogarkovo area (not excluding local residents). And near Nikitsky there is an “enchanted” forest, where locals are afraid to go. The trunks of forest trees there are curved in a bizarre way. Grass does not grow in the forest, birdsong is not heard. But, according to mushroom pickers who carelessly crossed the border of the protected area, their path into the thicket was sometimes blocked by vague silhouettes that bear little resemblance to humans...

Of course, having learned about the creepy features of the Nikitsky Forest, researchers and simply curious people began to come here. Some of them, upon entering the forest, felt inexplicable anxiety and irrational fear, sometimes headaches and shortness of breath.

In 2002, another expedition of “anomalies” arrived in Nikitskoye. One of the local summer residents, an 18-year-old boy named Victor, went into the forest with a group of researchers. It was with him that miracles began to happen. Every now and then he came across some invisible obstacles in the forest that he could not overcome. The guy claimed that he literally hit his forehead against a hard wall and at the same time there was a strong buzzing in his ears... Having measured Victor’s biofield, the researchers found that it was “torn” in many places. The young man apparently turned out to be particularly sensitive to the energy of the “enchanted” forest. He had to leave the expedition.

The remaining researchers spent 10 days in the forest. They had a chance to see a lot of amazing things. So, every evening some ghostly whitish silhouettes appeared near the fire. As soon as I started looking at them more closely, they disappeared without a trace, so I never managed to photograph them. And at night, strange shadows appeared along the ceilings of the tents - they resembled creatures with large heads and skinny bodies. Outside, near the tents, someone’s heavy footsteps could be heard, at first seemingly approaching and then moving away. A mysterious shadow hung over the tent camp all the time, and an incomprehensible noise was heard every now and then from the forest...

According to geophysical data, the area near Kaluga, where anomalous phenomena are observed, is located along the edge of an underground ring-shaped fault, which is either tectonic, or volcanic, or meteorite in origin.

Let's go back to the beginning of the last century. And here one pops up amazing fact. It turns out that K.E. himself Tsiolkovsky was once studying a phenomenon that today would be called a UFO! Late in the evening of May 14, 1934, Tsiolkovsky’s 17-year-old grandson Vsevolod Kostin, sitting on the veranda of his grandfather’s house in Kaluga, noticed a fireball in the distance above the city of Borovsky. About half the size of the Moon, it quickly flew across the sky in a western direction at an angle to the horizon, brightly illuminating the area around. The young man noticed that a bluish-green core was pulsating inside the object, which was expanding and then contracting again. A yellowish-red trail trailed behind the ball, sparks rained down. In front of the eyewitness, the spherical body suddenly seemed to disintegrate right in the air, and the glow went out.

Seva wanted to immediately tell his grandfather about everything, but did not dare to disturb him at such a late hour. He told about his observation only the next day.

Konstantin Eduardovich expressed dissatisfaction that his grandson did not call him immediately when he saw the phenomenon. He passionately began asking for the smallest details of the incident, trying to figure out exactly the trajectory along which the fireball was flying - in this way it was possible to determine the location of the possible fall of the body, most likely, in the opinion of the scientist, to be of a meteorite or fireball nature.

Having not received all the necessary information from his grandson, Tsiolkovsky gave a note-announcement to the Izvestia newspaper entitled “Who saw the car?” In it, the researcher asked everyone who could observe the night flight of the ball to contact him. He received more than 200 letters. It turned out that the celestial body was seen by people thousands of kilometers away from Kaluga - in Moscow, Ryazan, Tula, even in Ukraine. A glow in the sky was observed in Bessarabia (Moldova). Some mistook the fireball for a shooting star. Many witnesses reported that the ball shimmered in different colors and made rumbling sounds as it flew. And Associate Professor of the Leningrad Astronomical Institute I.I. Putilin, who observed the phenomenon while in Moscow, reported to Tsiolkovsky that he clearly saw the ball explode and heard the sound of the explosion.

Based on the collected evidence, Konstantin Eduardovich wrote a voluminous article “On the 1934 car.” In the article, he noted that the old residents of these places had never seen anything like this before.

Soon after the incident, an expedition of the Academy of Sciences led by L.A. arrived in the Borovsk area. Kulik, who took part in the investigation of the Tunguska explosion in 1908. Scientists began interviewing eyewitnesses. Having heard that Tsiolkovsky was also interested in the phenomenon, Leonid Alekseevich sent him a letter with a proposal for cooperation and exchange of information. He agreed and sent a number of materials with evidence of observations to the meteorite department of the Mineralogical Museum, headed by L.A. Kulik.

Kulik's expedition tried to find traces of the crash of the fireball. To no avail. Researchers even verified the rumor that one of the residents of the surrounding villages saw a huge ball blazing with fire in the swamp. But the information was not confirmed.

In September 1935, K.E. Tsiolkovsky died without having time to fully investigate the phenomenon. Kulik also stopped searching.

And let's fast forward again to our days. On May 30, 2004, near the village of Voloye, Kirov district, Kaluga region, a mysterious hole appeared in the middle of a field. The hole was perfectly round in shape, the diameter and depth were about 6 meters. Researchers went to the scene of the incident. Traces of mechanical soil sampling were found along the edges of the pit. According to experts, 180 tons of earth were extracted from here. However, it was clearly not taken out of the field - even the grass around the depression was not crushed!

Local shepherd Semyon Volchkov told ufologists that cows, when near the pit, begin to behave aggressively and refuse to eat grass.

Residents of the village have more than once seen luminous balls floating in the air, changing their color from red to orange. This phenomenon is associated with the legend of the “Angry Well”. Allegedly, about fifty years ago there was a church in the village, which, before everyone’s eyes, went underground, and in its place a spring began to flow... Later, the villagers built a well there, the water in which is considered holy. People go there to pray and baptize children. And all sorts of miracles happen there. Chairman of the public group for studying the secrets and mysteries of the Earth “Labyrinth” Andrei Perepelitsyn believes that the mysterious six-meter depression could have formed either as a result of a soil failure (after all, the church went underground!), or as a result of some anomaly. But in case of failure, the water had to go into the formed cavity, and meanwhile it continues to accumulate in the recess. True, no physical anomalies were recorded in this area.

Are these events connected with an unknown cosmic body, fragments of which may still rest somewhere in the forests near Kaluga? Alas, we will never know. How can you not find out the answer to the question: what kind of balloon flew over Borovsk in 1934? And was it really a car?

Educational building at the former airfield. It has several hangars, a two-story training building and household buildings. The educational building has many classrooms, departments, and a laboratory. As of September 2017, there are a lot of devices, models, and posters lying around. An AN-2 is being mothballed near one of the hangars. Almost all hangars are empty. Guarded by a man with a dog, he is located at the checkpoint. There is at least one observation tower...

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Kaluga Aviation Flight Technical School. Produced state aviation pilots. Abandoned in the second half of the 2000s. The territory is vast. There are several dormitories converted into various children's clubs. Not a small shelter under the parade ground, but alas, flooded above the knee and cluttered. Aviation sports parachute club and several buildings with mock-up engines, aircraft cockpits and classrooms. Everything is good enough...

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Deadlock with compounds that did not pass tests in Shcherbinka. Some are simply outdated. Electric trains available increased comfort, such as EM2I. Also simple ER2T. All trains are sawed into metal, but occasionally new ones are brought in. Fenced with a fence with barbed wire. The gate is closed with an iron hook from the inside and can be easily removed from the outside. There is no security, but Russian Railways employees may come to the noise or silently call the police.

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The shelter of the Kaluga electrode plant is a separate structure, two inclined entrances from the street. One of them is attached to the building. All hermetic doors are blocked. Climb only through a fairly deep ceiling and an approach distance of 20-30 meters. The VSh is flooded quite seriously. It's empty inside, no diesel could be found. Security is located somewhere on the territory of the plant.

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On the territory of the vehicle park there are car bays and several warehouses. Based on this unit, the 53rd Special Purpose Brigade (OSNAZ) was formed, which was later redeployed to another location. The car park is located on the territory of an active military unit. There are no personnel other than those on duty at the KTP. We stock various spare parts for equipment in our warehouses. The car boxes are empty, except for various...

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An abandoned part of a military camp. The abandoned part consists of 4 buildings. One of them looks like something educational: on the ground floor all the rooms are classrooms, the remaining floors are standard rooms of unknown purpose. The second building has a large hall on each floor, measuring about 70% of the entire floor. The third building is similar to the second, but on the roof you can find an incomprehensible device on wheels. Opens from the roof beautiful view to Kaluga....

 

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