The secret of the Tomsk dungeons

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Underground cities are known in Asia Minor, Georgia, Kerch, Crimea, Odessa, Kiev and other places. The underground passages near Tomsk have been legendary for a long time. The fact that mysterious undergrounds under the city exist was known to Tomsk citizens at least in the middle of the 18th century.

Cities, like people, having their own traditions and their own character, keep “secrets covered with darkness” in their storerooms. This is especially true of historical cities (not only in status, but also in essence), the age of which is more than one hundred years old. Take my word for it, old Tomsk in this matter could give odds to Moscow with its terrible secrets of Khitrovka or the disappeared library of Ivan the Terrible, Odessa with the labyrinths of catacombs and even London with medieval castles inhabited by ghosts …

The unique atmosphere of our city can be given not only by wooden architecture, but also by what is hidden under the ground. And because there is no metro in Siberian Athens, it becomes clear that we are talking about the Tomsk slums …

From time immemorial, among Tomsk citizens, there has been either a legend or a true story about mysterious dungeons that permeate the historical part of our city far and wide. According to some versions, this is the work of wealthy Tomsk merchants, who acquired their own bunkers for safety. According to others, the dashing robbers tried to cover up their dark deeds - "bomb" shops and banks, then hide from the police. In the 18th-19th centuries, there was gold in the Tomsk province, and our city was the largest transport hub on the way from Russia to the Celestial Empire.

SIBERIAN PRARODINE?

Nikolai Novgorodov, one of the main explorers of the Tomsk dungeons, says that back in the early 70s, when he arrived in Tomsk, he immediately encountered curious stories about the city's catacombs. Old-timers said that they stretched for tens of kilometers, the walls were reinforced with bricks, and that there was even a tunnel under the Tom's bed, through which three horses could pass. In those years, Novgorodov himself witnessed an emergency: a trolleybus fell underground near the building of the TSU Scientific Library. When the vehicle was removed, a huge gap gaped in the ground. Much later I heard the stories of people who were building the Great Concert Hall on Lenin Square. After the eight-meter piles were driven into the ground, they literally "flew" down five or six meters.

A couple of years ago, he published the monograph "Siberian ancestral home", where he devoted an entire chapter to the mysterious Tomsk catacombs. He gave an overview of the local press of the XIX-XX centuries. Over a period of more than a century, newspapers have recorded many cases of the discovery of dungeons. For example, in May 1898, on Pochtamtskaya Street, near the bishop's house, two young ladies fell into an underground passage. In 2 Belozersky Lane, in 1900, two underground passages were discovered on two sides. It was argued that with the help of underground passages, thieves escaped the pursuit, robbed shops, organized prison escapes (on the current street of Arkady Ivanov). In the estate at 1 Shishkova Street, an underground passage to the river was discovered, closed with a wrought iron door. Near the exit to Ushayka, a tarry patch was even found.

Even 120 years ago, the famous Tomsk archaeologist Kuznetsov discovered a stone underground passage from the Alekseevsky Monastery on Yurtochnaya Gora, along Orlovsky Lane to the Igumenka River. Apparently, he performed the fortification functions of "leaving", that is, salvation in the event of a siege of the monastery. The Dungeon Discoverer was trying to knock out money for further research. Alas, unsuccessfully … In a word, a great many eyewitness accounts have accumulated about the Tomsk subway.

ARMED WITH A GEORADAR

Today, slum researchers are using special equipment developed at the Radar Design Bureau at TUSUR. These are the so-called georadars, which "shine through" the earth's thickness with electromagnetic waves. One of the practical applications of these devices is the search for underground passages and hidden rooms.

… During the repair work in the building of the former stock exchange on Lenin Square, next to the Epiphany Cathedral, the builders' scrap fell through. The employees of "Radar" went to the site. It was found that there are two rooms underground, from which three narrow passages run in different directions. One underground gallery leads in the direction of the Tom River, another - along Lenin Avenue, the third - to Voskresenskaya Hill.

In the city House of Scientists, enthusiasts hold seminars "Tomsk Catacombs - Myth or Reality?" Local historian Gennady Skvortsov made an interesting presentation at one of the events. He said that the archaeological excavations of Voskresenskaya Mountain had opened an underground tunnel that stretches to the White Lake. With wooden walls covered with silt from antiquity. Without a doubt, this is also "leaving."

… So who is the creator of the underground Siberian Athens? There is a hypothesis that the age of the Tomsk catacombs is several thousand years. Consequently, they could not only be dug by monks, merchants or robbers. As Nikolai Novgorodov suggests, the only option is the underground communications of the ancient city that stood on the site of today's Tomsk. According to the scientist, it was even marked on ancient maps. His name is Graciona, or Sadina.

The question of who is the author of the mysterious dungeons remains open. For the simple reason that the slums are tightly closed from prying eyes. The main problem in studying the Tomsk subway is an unspoken taboo on all kinds of research. Since the 1970s, the doors to the dungeons "comrades in civilian clothes" began to fill up and walled up.

Alas, the mystery is still a mystery. Although it would not hurt to really take it seriously and figure out where is the truth, where is fiction, and where is just a joke or speculation.

Elizaveta KARYPOVA

Who and why built the catacomb cities?

Underground cities are known in Asia Minor, Georgia, Kerch, Crimea, Odessa, Kiev, Sary-Kamysh, Tibet and other places. The dimensions of these underground structures are sometimes striking.

So, the underground city opened 40 years ago in the town of Gluboky Kolodets in Asia Minor had more than eight underground floors and was designed for at least 20 thousand people. In that city, there were many ventilation wells up to 180 meters deep, as well as about 600 granite swing doors that blocked the aisles between the city's compartments. Penetrating through one of these doors, the researchers discovered an underground tunnel, six kilometers long, abutting the same granite valve.

The construction of this city is attributed to the Hittite tribe of the Mushki. Why did the Hittites build their underground cities? After all, in order to invest such a super colossal amount of labor, the same super colossal idea was required. It has been suggested that they built underground cities to hide from the raids of external enemies.

But, firstly, the Hittites fought successfully with Egypt, Assyria, Mittani for almost 500 years, did not lose a single war and only at the end ceded part of their territory to Assyria. However, before the wave of immigrants from the Balkans, they were powerless, and around 1200 BC. the Hittite kingdom was destroyed, hardly having time to build their underground cities, since the Hittites were confident in their military strength.

Secondly, humanity, which calls itself reasonable, fought always and everywhere. Following the idea of salvation from external enemies, it would be logical to expect the ubiquity of underground cities, but this is not.

One of the most consistent modern researchers of the Hyperborean problem, Doctor of Philosophy V. N. Demin, in our opinion, rightly asserts that the idea of building underground cities could have been born only under the threat of freezing. We are talking about the northern Arctic ancestral home of civilized humanity, which bears different names in the cultures of different peoples: Hyperborea, Scandia, Aryana-Veijo, Meru, Belovodye, etc. south more and more tribes and peoples. The cooling came, most likely, gradually, over several centuries. Many proton peoples managed to leave the Ancestral Homeland before the living conditions in it became completely unbearable. This process could end either with the final extinction, or with a rapid flight to the south. However, the technology of building underground cities during this flight was carried away with them and was applied in new living conditions, which caused the tracing of the path from Hyperborea to the Greeks by underground cities.

Another scenario of a climatic catastrophe - not gradual, but sudden, can be found in the ancient Chinese treatise Huaynanzi.

The firmament broke, the earthly weights broke. The sky tilted northwest. The sun and moon and stars have moved. The land in the southeast turned out to be incomplete, and therefore water and silt rushed there … In those distant times, four poles collapsed, nine continents split, the sky could not cover everything, the earth could not support everything, the fire blazed without ceasing, the waters raged without running out.

This cooling scenario may have been due to the sudden tilt of the Earth's axis due to the fall of the asteroid. Russian legends show that in the depths of the people's memory there are memories of just such a sudden climatic catastrophe:

Unlit darkness has befallen us, The sun is extinguished bright, Your light does not appear On the faces of the earth; Before evenings in the daytime hours, the night was extremely dark. Beam, change your nature, The bright moon breaks into darkness. Stars in Heaven Extinguish your light … Change your nature to the sea … Come winter, very fierce, Kill the green grapes …

The Belarusians also have no less expressive memories of this event, who talk about the great cold that ruined their distant ancestors, that they, not knowing fire, tried to collect sunlight in their palms and brought it to their homes, but from this they it did not get warmer, and they turned into stones, that is, they froze.

In the second scenario of a cold snap, salvation underground was the only way to protect oneself and survive, so that later in short dashes to go to the south. Those who remained were forced to flee from the fierce cold underground, building underground cities. It is no coincidence that in Indian legends northern Shambhala-Agarta is considered an underground city. The stories of Novgorodians and residents of Arkhangelsk about the white-eyed chud that went underground are not accidental.

Indicative in this regard is the story of Gyuryat Rogovich from Novgorod, recorded in the Primary Chronicle under the year 6604 (1096):

I sent my youth to Pechora, to the people who give tribute to Novgorod. And my boy came to them, and from there he went to the land of Yugorsk. Ugra is people, but their language is incomprehensible, and they coexist with samoyed in the northern countries. Yugra said to my youth: “We found a wonderful miracle, which we had not heard of before, but it began three years ago; talk, and they whip the mountain, trying to be carved out of it; and in that mountain there was a small window cut through, and from there they speak, but do not understand their language, but point to iron and wave their hands, asking for iron; and if anyone gives them a knife or an ax, they in exchange they give furs.”The path to those mountains is impassable because of precipices, snow and forests, and therefore we do not always reach them; it goes further north.

When these underground city builders were forced to migrate south too, they traced their way through underground cities. The ancestral home, in our opinion, was located on Taimyr ("thai, thawing" in Hittite "conceal", hence Taimyr is a secret world that has gone underground). The main migration route lay in the North Caucasus, the Black Sea region and Asia Minor. The Tomsk land lay along this path and, due to its outstanding landscape and geographical features, served as an intermediate accumulator in the migration corridor. The Tomsk region is the beginning of the forest-steppe.

The exit from the northern forests to the steppe required a sharp change in the way of life, so the wandering peoples had to stop here to rebuild the way of life. Here, on the Tomsk Paleozoic ledge, there was a transition from the West Siberian plate to the Tom-Kolyvan folded region. It was here, in a place remarkable for the abundance of springs so revered by the ancients, that one could go deep into the ground.

Apparently, it is no coincidence that the root coincidence in the vocalization of Tomsk Artania and the Arctic Shambhala-Agarta: it indicates the direction of migration. Further movement to the southeast of the migrating peoples led to the appearance of such place names as Artek in the Crimea, Arta in Greece. It is no coincidence that, one must think, the coincidence of such Spanish and Portuguese toponyms as Orta, Ortegal, Ortigueira, Ardila. The coincidence of these place names is due to the migration of the Visigoths to the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the fifth century. D'Artagnan, so dear to our hearts, also, one must think, got his name thanks to our Arta. Some courageous researchers are of the opinion that the words "horde" and "order" also come from "art". There are no questions about the horde of questions, so this relationship of terms is obvious. If the word "order" comes from "art", this could explain the more than close attention that the domestic special services paid to underground cities.

Following the indicated logic, the orders are secret organizations that privatized ancient and extremely deep knowledge born in the Ancestral Homeland. This knowledge concerned primarily psychophysical technologies. the possibility of the influence of the strength of the spirit on the matter of life. For a very long time, the world special services have become interested in all sorts of secret societies, Orders and the Masonic brotherhoods that have grown out of them. All the reigning persons were far from indifferent to the content of the secret knowledge underlying these semi-heretical organizations. This knowledge could pose a threat to faith, monarchy and fatherland. From the Russian secret police, interest in the Freemasons, Templars and other secret orders through the involved specialists of the department of the cloak and dagger was smoothly transferred to the first leaders of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD - KGB - FSB. And since rumors persistently circulated among secret societies and orders that secret knowledge belonging to Agartha was still stored in underground cities, the first Chekists spared no effort and money to study the latter.

It is known that Dzerzhinsky himself sent a consultant to the NKVD special department A. V. Barchenko in search of underground cities in the Crimea and on the Kola Peninsula, and Gleb Bokiy sent his super-agent to N. K. Roerich's expedition to Central Asia. Perhaps the Tomsk catacombs are supervised by the security service, which is why no one is allowed into them. Perhaps these modest guys in strict gray suits have known everything for a long time, but to us, this "amazing next" is forbidden.

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