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Nedra Moscow for nine centuries of its existence have been many times pitted at great depth. From the well-known Moscow dungeons, except semi-legendary Metro-2, and a library of Ivan the Terrible, you can call chained to stone Neglinka River system and basement apartment house Solianke. At the last inspection, and I invite you today. Start the story, definitely worth a short excursion into history.

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• 1 In the XVI century on the corner "of the street from the gate to the Barbarian Ivanovo Monastery" and "a great street to Yauzskaya goal" rich merchant Nikitnikova was arranged Salt fish yard. Here were stored and traded salt and its special variety - potash (potassium carbonate) and salt fish. The ensemble had a vast courtyard obstroenny Warehouse (barns) and shops. Main gate of the celebrated high tower with guard, and a number were still alone, a small gate. Street windows on the first floor was not - for protection against thieves. Retail shops have separate entrances. Barns for storage of salt have been arranged with vaults, supported by strong pillars. Perhaps they had a basement, is not inferior to the area overground.

  
• 2 Years later found nearby streets names - Salt and Big Ivanovo lane (in 1961 renamed the street Zabelina). In 1912, considerably dilapidated barns and stalls of the former Salt yard began to dismantle for the construction of the apartment building. When they began to excavate, find the treasure. In the jars were hidden 13 pounds (about 200 kg, almost half a million pieces) coins since the reign of Ivan the Terrible, Fyodor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov. Coins, apparently, is the gain of the Salt yard for some time, hidden and forgotten in the Time of Troubles. In the process of greedy sharing this wealth was injured construction contractor. He appeared on the noise policeman seized only 13 pounds (7 kg, 9,000 coins), but also those subsequently returned finder, after an inspection of the Archaeological Commission.

  
• 3 for the construction of houses Moscow merchant company bought out different owners of land of irregular shape and has announced a competition for the best design. The winning team of architects: VV Sherwood, IA Herman and AE Sergeev. They did what was required to developers: the most densely used intricate shape of the plot, built up building up as well and in depth.The house was decorated in neoclassical style moldings, incongruous coming out in courtyards, located within a luxury apartment windows to the same.

  
• 4 But the most interesting feature of the house is hidden from prying eyes. It's incredible size basement with high arches, wide corridors, where easily could leave two cars, and a lot of the interior. Group "Modellmiks" was made a great model of one of the buildings of the house along with all the vault on a scale of 1: 100. For whom was made this layout and where he is today - is unknown, but the pictures give an idea of ​​the enormity of the underground part of the house.

  
• 5 And the basement looks in comparison with the surrounding landscape. It occupies the entire space under the house buildings, courtyards and a wide internal drive.

  
• 6 Car entry is located in the eastern part of the basement. Inside laid wide tunnels fronted doorways Uncounted halls, rooms and closets. Deep in the basement hiding various mazes stairs to the upper floors of the house.

  
• 7 After the revolution, the house was transferred to the People's Commissariat of Railways. In 1970-1980's basement of the house was used as a garage for the police cars, but because of the high humidity they quickly fell into disrepair. In Perestroika garages gave inhabitants of the house, and in the 1990s, then settled huckster, interrupt numbers and disassemble stolen cars.In 2002, two digger made a rough plan of the basement. If we compare it with the above scheme, it is seen as a bit of space they were able to describe, but the efforts of the guys certainly deserve praise.

  
• There are 8 photos Soljanki visit in 2002. Then the system was flooded ankle-deep everywhere were broken machine, and climb was through a broken grid road entrance. Inside you can get without any problems, and use than many diggers Igrunov, bums and all sorts of alcoholics.

  
• 9 And the car looks to enter in 2014. After another arson in one of the squats patience of local public utilities overflowed and they stirred up the metal sheets notorious bars. Since then logon much difficult.

  
• 10 Inside probrosheno temporary lighting. Wide ramp descends gently on the basement level.

  
• 11 At the end of the ramp is the first fork in the road where several tunnels converge.

  
• 12 Code of the vast hall supports massive column. Brick walls, floors made of steel beams and concrete - construction technology early XX century.

  
• 13 Walk along the wide corridors will leave at the end of the story, and now delve into the maze of basements.

  
• 14 basement walls have a thickness of about one meter, but in many places built thin brick walls, crushing facilities for small closets and cubbyholes, littered with decades of garbage.

  
• 15 Often in the ceiling caught walled openings. Some of them are used for natural daylight basement, part - for the delivery of goods.

  
• 16 Although long Solianke not found huckster, here and there preserved skeletons rotting crumpled cars.

  
• 17 Most garages are filled with thrown together with their property.

  
• 18 There is no light here, of course, did not survive.

  
• 19 Clear the basement was divided into two tiers of lesser height, housed warehouses and workshops.

  
• Often there are 20 stairs to the upper floors, is now largely overlapped.
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• 22 An interesting part of the system - a few rooms, recently renovated and rented a certain company.
• 23 This brought all utilities, office furniture set. Of course, to work in this crypt without sunlight was extremely uncomfortable, and soon the room emptied. Last time there were people here in the New Year's Eve.

  
• 24 To the room did not disappear, as well as to avoid coordination with the architectural firm established a commission here external power their air conditioners.
• 25 However, there is a "dark" side Soljanki. Here, as in any other basement converge multiple communications at home. The sewer system is in disrepair, so the system is flooded by sewage. In one of the rooms was discovered the following picture: the top of someone taking a shower, and the water pours into the room fun out of the socket rusty pipe. Smells like soap and shampoo, almost like in the bathroom, if you do not take into account the persistent "flavor" of feces, with deliveries to the basement before.

  
• 26 Here are numerous communications with hot and cold water. Because of the constant leaking pipes worn in places the floor is flooded ankle-deep, we can only move through the mountains of garbage.
• 27 Pipes extend through the entire system.

  
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• 29 In the center of the communication system linked to a huge heat uzlel.

  
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• 31 Hovering about trash from the basement is almost taken out, and only a bulldozer raked in distant space.

  
• 32 As a result, in the corridors of relatively clean, while the passage in the side room is covered by mountains of bricks mixed with bottles.
• 33 Kind of long tunnels with arched openings, is a magnificent sight.

  
• 34 Hanging here and there light bulbs create an atmosphere of mystery.
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• 37 In concrete vault were provided skylights, the cells were equipped with special prism disperses sunlight.

  
• 38 The windows looked out on the roadway, they are now paved, prisms broken and lost.
• 39 From the dripping water from the ceiling to the floor formed ice stalagmite, "icicles vice versa."

  
• 40 main corridor ends an aperture huge, crammed with steel cabinets.
• 41 Behind them lies a vast hall with an inspection pit. Judging by the garland, once it was the perfect time to celebrate the New Year. Now the frame can get a well-known Petersburg researcher abandoned facilities.

  
• 42 Close to the street Zabelina corridor turns at a right angle toward the Solianke.
• From this point 43 can be seen through almost half of the system.

  
• 44 Cellars Soljanki - unique engineering to its time and historical monument. Of it could happen, for example, a great exhibition space: a gallery of modern art or historical museum. However, this will require huge investments: decades cellars were abandoned, most of the side rooms littered with debris and flooded with water. Need a major overhaul, but who will do it and at whose expense - is not yet clear.
• 45 A time for us to stay in this wondrous place has come to an end. Making the last frame, we jumped in the legal space, disappearing into the evening crowd weary citizens.

  

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