Connor's adventures in Assassin's Creed 3 take place in two major cities in America, in Boston and New York, as well as outside them, in the Frontier and the Davenport estate. Assassins help to overcome huge distances fast travel points, which replaced the "travel stations" from the previous parts of the game. Now you do not need to pay for their use, but another problem has appeared - finding and activating. Initially, all fast travel points are hidden from the global map of cities and surrounding lands, which prompts the exploration of unfamiliar territories. Of course, you can do without them, but then, in order to cross the territory, you will have to use the transitions between locations, which are usually located at the edges of the map, and this can be extremely inconvenient when you need to quickly get to a certain area.
Everything fast travel points in Assassin's Creed 3, they open after visiting dungeons, that is, they cannot be activated outside. Each dungeon has several exits to different areas locations: in Boston - 10, in New York - 11, in the Frontier - 4, in the Davenport estate - 1. Some of the exits are closed to the locks that are to come, others are protected by more advanced mechanisms - magic lanterns(Freemasons' puzzle) and iron doors. Flashlights are hacked by choosing the right combination of four lenses. Books (collections of Masonic texts) with descriptions of the device and the rules of organization, which lie on tables or on the floor in the same rooms where the mechanism is installed, protecting the exit from the dungeon, are used as clues when hacking the magic lanterns. When correct lens combination will be picked up, the door will become available for interaction.
When exploring dungeons, you need to pay attention to rats, walls, manholes, elevators, levers, barrels of gunpowder (to clear passages to inaccessible places); all these tips will help you find the right path and activate fast travel point... The barrels of gunpowder are hidden in secluded places, to blow them up and clear the way, you need to aim at the barrel (key [F]), and shoot (key [Q]). Do not forget that eagle vision can help you see marks in the form of arrows on the walls. Also remember to light the lights on the walls of the dungeons along the way for easier orientation in the narrow corridors. For the first time, it will be possible to get into the underground part of cities during the development of the main plot of Assassin's Creed 3.
Boston dungeon map with fast travel points in Assassin's Creed 3:
Solving magical lantern puzzles in Boston's dungeons in Assassin's Creed 3:
- : north - globe; east - steering wheel; south - scales; west - cross.
- : north - crown; east - Vitruvian man; south - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; west - a branch of a fern.
- : north - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; east is a masculine symbol; south - scales; west is a female symbol.
New York City dungeon map with fast travel points in Assassin's Creed 3:
Solving magical lantern puzzles in New York City dungeons in Assassin's Creed 3:
- : north - a pyramid with an eye; east - crown; south - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; west - eagle.
- : north - sun; east - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; south - scales; west is a masculine symbol.
- : north - a pyramid with an eye; east - scales; south - jester; west - cross.
REPTILOID BASE IN UNDERGROUND LABYRINTHS UNDER AKSAI
Not far from the large city of Rostov-on-Don, or rather even in its suburbs, from time immemorial, people have discovered strange underground structures: Deep underground tunnels, grottoes, caves of clearly artificial origin.
Underground passages lead to no one knows where for many kilometers. According to enthusiasts, the length of the underground passages exceeds a hundred kilometers !!! It is no coincidence that I mentioned the enthusiasts. It is only enthusiasts who are engaged in such anomalies - after all, as always, official science and archeology stubbornly refuses to notice such zones. So, according to the estimates of all the same independent experts, these dungeons are at least several thousand years old. Everyone who has ever been there points to their artificial origin. The purpose of creating such a giant underground structure is still unclear. At least a little to reveal the secret of this miracle, I think that the latest knowledge that was described in the book "The Way Home" will help us.
Locals, when it comes to dungeons, strongly advise against going there, even on pain of death. Locals experience panic at the very thought of trying to enter the underground labyrinth. Many people talk about multiple strange deaths of people trying to explore the caves. Cattle and other domestic animals have repeatedly disappeared at the entrance to the caves. Often only gnawed bones were found !!!
Several years ago, the military tried to use the underground labyrinths for their own purposes. The command of the North Caucasus Military District planned to build a fortified secret control bunker in the catacombs in case of a nuclear war. We rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Measurements were carried out, soil samples were taken, the terrain was carefully studied. Several groups were organized to study the length of the underground passages. Two soldiers with a walkie-talkie and a lantern in their hands in each of the groups passed cave after cave, labyrinth after labyrinth. Their path was tracked on the surface by radio.
Everything went as well as possible, however, the fortified underground bunker of the North Caucasian Military District near Aksai, as it was, never happened. All work was suddenly and unexpectedly stopped. The military retreated from this cursed place in panic. The entrance to the dungeon was sealed with a thick layer of reinforced concrete. We did our best - we spent hundreds of tons of selected concrete on it!
An emergency order to stop the work came from Moscow after radio communication with one of the groups exploring the dungeons suddenly stopped, and the group did not come to the surface. Rescuers were equipped to search. After some time, the rescuers managed to find two soldiers, or rather what was left of them - only the lower half of the body of each of them !!! From the waist down and below the legs in boots - the rest vanished. The walkie-talkie was surprisingly cut in two. Moreover, further research showed that the cut was so delicate that not even a single small crack remained on the electronic boards. Real jewelry work !!! By the way, there was no blood either - the tissues of the soldiers' bodies were slightly melted at the site of the incision. There is work - a laser.
The case was immediately reported to Moscow. An urgent order came from the Ministry of Defense: All work should be stopped immediately! Remove people and equipment! The entrance to the dungeon is securely repaired with reinforced concrete! Why and why the order did not explain. 
Each of you, if you want to explore the dungeon, and now can easily find this reinforced concrete wall with easily distinguishable traces of formwork. The question remains: What so scared our gallant military with their missiles and nuclear power? And why fill up the entrance to an ancient dungeon with tons of concrete?
The military classified information on these events so as not to raise panic, but the information surfaced as a result of the death of the catacomb researcher Oleg Burlakov. He also died, he was cut in half, but the lower part remained intact, but only the bones remained from the upper part.
Local historians have mystified the Aksai catacombs from time immemorial. A couple of hundred years ago, a strange-looking overseas merchant came to Aksai - as it turned out later, a member of the secret Masonic order of the Jesuits. He spent several years in Aksai. During his stay, he spent a lot of money looking for something. What he was looking for, no one could understand. Constantly equipping large groups of excavators, carefully studying the area. It became clear to everyone that the foreigner was not looking for a treasure or treasure. The money he spent during this time on diggers and on all the work would have been more than enough for several treasures.
After all, none of the locals wanted to work near those dungeons for any money. The merchant had to recruit and bring new people all the time - after a while people fled for unknown reasons.
Whether the merchant managed to find what he was looking for remained a mystery behind seven seals. It is only known that according to the ancient books of Jesuit Masons, which, according to some sources, are at the origin of the birth of the Roman catholic church, it is written that the area under Aksai is a holy land, somehow connected with their deity, whose cult they worship - namely, the reptile Lucifer. For them - God, and for us - Satan !!!
This information interested visiting diggers who decided to walk through the dungeon, taking a dog just in case. However, they fell into a trap: after walking several hundred meters into the depths, the diggers noticed that behind them in a couple of steps the walls converged, and after a few seconds they parted again. Apparently the mechanism was so ancient that it did not have time to work in time, allowing the diggers to avoid danger. The dog accompanying the Diggers whined and, having broken off the leash, rushed back through the maze ... way back the diggers decided to bypass the ill-fated place, but this time they fell into a trap, a hole formed behind them, and then the floor returned to its original position. What secrets do the Aksai dungeons hide? After all, people had to pay with their lives for them, and no one had to get out of this labyrinth, falling into a trap!
Residents of Aksai say that their ancestors, living in the Kobyakovsky settlement, brought human sacrifices to a certain Dragon, which crawled out of the ground and ate people. This image can often be found in chronicles, folk legends, among the monuments of architecture, archeology. However, the legend of the dragon lives on to this day, since only a few decades ago, during the collapse of the floor of the local cannery, workers witnessed a terrifying picture: they noticed below the body of a seemingly huge snake, which quickly appeared and disappeared in the hole, a devilish roar was heard, dogs , those present during the search of the manhole - jumped off their seats and ran off headlong with their tails between their legs, while the workers looked dumbfounded, could not come to their senses. This passage was walled up, but the dogs decided to return to this place after only a week.
These eyewitness testimonies became the basis for the theory that this dragon did not crawl out of the ground, but out of the water. Indeed, according to the testimony of geological exploration, there is a lake at a depth of 40 meters near Aksai, and a sea at a depth of 250 meters. The underground waters of the Don form another river, in the Don there is a funnel that sucks in any objects caught in the strong current of the river. Until now, they cannot find trailers and cars that entered the Don from the old Aksai bridge. Divers who examined the bottom of the lake stated that this funnel pulls in objects with tremendous force, even steel safety cables are stretched to the limit.
According to eyewitnesses, UFOs appear over the city quite often, they seem to emerge from the ground, hang in the air and dive underground again. Once a translucent UFO swam over the city and humanoid figures were visible. One UFO blinded the sleeping Aksai with rays of light, when these rays reached the warships on the banks of the Don, the military attempted to attack the night visitor and fired at him with guns, but this did not bring any visible result. The UFO disappeared and dived somewhere underground. Another case was described by many eyewitnesses: three spherical UFOs whirled in the sky of the old Aksai bridge. The outgoing light was so bright that it began to interfere with traffic on the freeway, dozens of drivers were fascinated by this spectacle. The arriving police squad could not move the drivers; they had to call for help from Aksai.
An underground network of tunnels that pierce the Earth
There are many interconnected caves and artificial underground cavities in the Middle East, India, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Europe, USA, Russia and many countries.
120 km from Saratov, in the area of the Medveditskaya ridge, the Kosmopoisk expedition under the leadership of Candidate of Technical Sciences Vadim Chernobrov in 1997 discovered and in subsequent years mapped a branched system of tunnels surveyed for tens of kilometers. The tunnels have a circular or oval cross-section with a diameter of 7 to 20 m and are located at a depth of 6 to 30 m from the surface. As they approach the Medveditskaya ridge, their diameter increases from 20 to 35 m, then 80 m, and already at the very elevation the diameter of the cavities reaches 120 m, turning into a huge hall under the mountain.
Judging by the numerous publications in newspapers, magazines and the Internet, in the area of the Medveditskaya ridge, ball lightning is often observed (in terms of the number of observed ball lightning, it ranks second in the world) and UFOs, which sometimes disappear underground, which has long attracted the attention of ufologists. The members of the Kosmopoisk expedition put forward a hypothesis that the ridge is a “crossroads” where underground roads of many directions converge. They can even reach Novaya Zemlya and the North American continent.
In the article "Tunnels of Lost Civilizations" E. Vorobyov said that the Marble Cave in the Chatyr-Dag mountain range, located at an altitude of 900 m above sea level, was formed on the site of a tunnel with a diameter of about 20 m with perfectly flat walls, going deep mountain range with a slope towards the sea. The walls of this tunnel are well preserved in places and do not have traces of erosional activity from flowing waters - karst caverns. The author believes that the tunnel existed before the beginning of the Oligocene, that is, its age is at least 34 million years!
The newspaper "Astrakhan Izvestia" *** reported the existence in Krasnodar Territory under Gelendzhik, a straight, arrow-like vertical shaft with a diameter of about 1.5 m and a depth of more than 100 m with smooth, as if melted, walls - stronger than cast-iron tubing in the metro. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergei Polyakov from Moscow State University found that the microstructure of the soil in the cut of the shaft wall is disturbed as a result of physical impact by only 1-1.5 mm. On the basis of his conclusion and direct observations, it was concluded that the high bonding properties of the walls are most likely the result of simultaneous thermal and mechanical action using some kind of high technology unknown to us.
According to all the same E. Vorobyov, in 1950, by a secret decree of the USSR Council of Ministers, it was decided to build a tunnel through the Tatar Strait in order to connect the mainland with Sakhalin by rail. Over time, the secrecy was lifted and the doctor of physical and mechanical sciences L.S. Berman, who worked there at that time, told in 1991 in her memoirs addressed to the Voronezh branch of Memorial that the builders were not so much rebuilding the existing tunnel, but rather restoring it. built in ancient times, extremely competently, taking into account the geological features of the bottom of the strait.
The same ancient tunnels, judging by publications, radio and television broadcasts of previous years, were found by the builders of modern metro tunnels and other underground communications in Moscow, Kiev and other cities. This suggests that along with metro tunnels, rivers hidden in concrete boxes, sewerage and drainage systems and the latest, state-of-the-art "autonomous underground cities" with power plants, there are also numerous underground communications of earlier eras under them *** ... They form a multi-level, intricately intertwined system of countless underground passages and chambers, and the oldest buildings are located deeper than the metro line and, probably, continue far beyond the cities. There is information that on the territory of Ancient Russia there were underground galleries hundreds of kilometers long, connecting Largest cities country. Entering them, for example, in Kiev, it was possible to get off in Chernigov (120 km), Lyubech (130 km) and even Smolensk (over 450 km).
And not a word is said about all these grandiose underground structures in any reference book. There are no published maps or publications dedicated to them. And this is because in all countries the location of underground utilities is a state secret, and information about them can be obtained mainly only from diggers who study them unofficially.
Of the underground communications found in other countries, it should be noted the tunnel found on the Babia mountain (height 1725 m) in the Tatra-Beskydy mountain range, located on the border of Poland and Slovakia. UFO encounters also occurred quite frequently in this place. The Polish ufologist Robert Lesnyakevich, who is studying this anomalous zone, in search of information about the events that took place here in earlier times, contacted another Polish expert on this kind of problems, Dr. Jan Pajonk, a professor at the University in the New Zealand city of Dunedin.
Professor Payonk wrote to Lesnyakevich that in the mid-1960s, when he was a teenager and high school student, he heard the following story from an elderly man named Vincent:
« Many years ago, my father said that the time had come for me to find out the secret that the inhabitants of our places have long passed from father to son. And this secret is the hidden entrance to the dungeon. And he also told me to remember the road well, because he would show me it only once.
After that we went on in silence. When we approached the foot of Babia Gora from the Slovak side, my father stopped again and pointed out to me a small rock protruding from the mountain slope at an altitude of about 600 meters ...
When we leaned on the rock together, she suddenly trembled and unexpectedly easily shifted to the side. An opening was opened into which a cart could freely enter, together with a horse harnessed to it ...
A tunnel opened in front of us, going down rather steeply. Father moved forward, I followed him, stunned by what had happened. The tunnel, similar in cross-section to a slightly flattened circle, was as straight as an arrow, and so wide and high that an entire train could easily fit in it. The smooth and shiny surface of the walls and floor seemed to be covered with glass, but when we walked, our feet did not slip, and there were almost no footsteps to be heard. Looking closely, I noticed deep scratches on the floor and walls in many places. It was completely dry inside.
Our long journey along the inclined tunnel continued until we came to a spacious hall that looked like the inside of a huge barrel. Several more tunnels converged in it, some of them were triangular in cross section, others were round.
... the father spoke again:
- Through the tunnels that diverge from here, you can get into different countries and to different continents. The one on the left leads to Germany, then to England, and then to the American continent. The right tunnel stretches to Russia, to the Caucasus, then to China and Japan, and from there to America, where it connects with the left one. You can get to America through other tunnels laid under the Earth's poles - the North and South. On the way of each tunnel there are "junction stations" similar to the one in which we are now. So, without knowing the exact route, it is easy to get lost in them ...
Father's story was interrupted by a distant sound that sounded like a low hum and a metallic clang at the same time. Such a sound is emitted by a heavily laden train when it starts to move or brakes sharply ...
- The tunnels that you saw, - the father continued his story, - were not built by people, butpowerful creatures living underground... These are their roads to travel from one end of the underworld to the other. And they move onflying fire cars... If we were in the path of such a machine, we would be burned alive. Fortunately, the sound in the tunnel can be heard from a great distance, and we had enough time to avoid such a meeting. Well, and besides, these creatures live in another part of their world, and rarely appear in our area ... ".
Another mysterious place, similar to the Medveditskaya ridge, Mount Babu, Nevado de Cachi, and, perhaps, Shambhala is Mount Shasta, 4317 m high in the Cascade Mountains in northern California. UFOs are quite often observed in the area of Shasta ...
English traveler and explorer Percy Fawcett, who worked for many years in South America and who has visited North America many times, mentioned the extensive tunnels located near the Popocatepetl and Inlacuatl volcanoes in Mexico ... and in the region of Mount Shasta. From local residents he had heard stories of tall, golden-haired people supposedly inhabiting the dungeons. The Indians believed that these were the descendants of people who in ancient times descended from heaven, who could not adapt to life on the surface and went into underground caves ...
Some people even managed to see the mysterious underground empire.
Andrew Thomas in his book "Shambhala - an oasis of light" also wrote that in the mountains of California there are straight, like arrows, underground passages leading to the state of New Mexico.
Maxim Yablokov in the book "Aliens" They are already here !!! " talked about one interesting fact... The underground nuclear tests carried out at the test site in the state of Nevada (USA) led to very curious consequences. Two hours later, at one of the military bases in Canada, located at a distance of 2000 km from the test site, a radiation level 20 times higher than the norm was recorded. It turned out that next to the Canadian base there was a huge cave, which is part of a huge system of caves and tunnels of the continent ...
UNDERGROUND REPTOID CIVILIZATION
We have already written about reptoids - a race of intelligent lizards that arose simultaneously, and most likely before humans. The publication wrote that the lizards left the stage, making way for a man. We are correcting ourselves: there are good reasons to believe that the lizards, leaving the surface of the planet for man, went deep into the Earth.
Earth unknown to us
Despite all technical advances a person still cannot say that he knows the planet as his apartment. There are still places where the scientist's foot has not yet gone. In other corners, if he appeared, it was only to write on the rock "I was here" and leave this area in pristine purity for another 200-300 years.
Studying the World Ocean, a person sank to a depth of 11.000 m, however, he is in absolute ignorance of what is deeper than 200-300 m. (To visit does not mean to study) As for the natural voids of the Earth, here a person has gone no further than the "hallway" and even has no idea how many rooms there are in the underground "apartment" and what size they are. He only knows “a lot” and “very large”.
Endless underground labyrinths
There are caves in absolutely all parts of the world, on all continents, up to Antarctica. Underground corridors are woven into endless labyrinth tunnels. Walking and crawling along these galleries 40-50 km, without reaching the end of the tunnel, is quite common for speleologists, not worth mentioning. There are caves 100, 200, 300 km long! Mamontova - 627 km. And none of the caves is considered fully explored.
The scientist Andrei Timoshevsky (better known as Andrew Thomas), who studied Tibet and the Himalayas for a long time, wrote that the monks took him through endless tunnels, through which, according to them, it was possible to walk to the center of the Earth.
After underground nuclear explosion at the test site in Nevada in the caves of Canada, located at a distance of more than 2,000 km, the radiation level jumped 20 times. American cavers are confident that all the caves of the North American continent are in communication with each other.
Russian researcher Pavel Miroshnichenko believes that there is a network of global underground voids stretching from the Crimea through the Caucasus to the Volgograd region.
In fact, we have one more continent - underground. Is it really not inhabited by anyone?
Masters of the underworld
Our ancestors did not think so. They were simply convinced of the exact opposite. Legends and legends about intelligent lizards living in underground labyrinths are among the peoples of Australia, among the North American Indians, among the same Tibetan monks, Indians, residents of the Urals and the Rostov region of the Southern Federal District. Is it really an accident?
Most likely as a result climate change life for the lizards on the surface of the Earth has become impossible. If the unreasonable creatures remained on the surface and died, the reptoids went underground, where there is water, there are no deadly temperature changes, and the deeper, the higher it is due to volcanic activity.
Leaving the surface of the planet to man, they took possession of its underground part. Undoubtedly, someday the long-awaited meeting will take place. And most likely it will happen in South America. It was here that the wall separating the two civilizations thinned to a thin partition.
Chinkanas
Even Jesuit priests wrote about the presence in South America of a huge number of underground caves connected together. The Indians called them "Chinkanas". The Spaniards believed that the Chinkanas created the Incas for military purposes: for a quick retreat or a covert attack. The Indians assured that they had nothing to do with the dungeons, they were created by people-snakes who live there and do not really like outsiders.
The Europeans did not believe, according to their reflections, these "horror stories" were intended to prevent the valiant settlers from getting to the gold hidden by the Incas in underground caches. Therefore, there were a lot of attempts to explore the Chinkanas of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador.
Expeditions do not return
Most adventurers who embarked on a perilous journey through underground labyrinths never returned. The few lucky ones came without gold and talked about their meetings with people covered with scales and huge eyes, but no one believed them. The authorities, which absolutely did not need an emergency with the missing "tourists", filled up and filled up all known entrances and exits.
The Chinkanas and scientists investigated. In the 1920s, several Peruvian expeditions disappeared in the Peruvian Chinkanas. In 1952, a joint American-French group went underground. The scientists planned to return in 5 days. The only surviving member of the expedition, Philippe Lamontiere, came to the surface 15 days later, slightly damaged in his mind.
What in his incoherent stories about endless labyrinths and lizards walking on two legs, who killed everyone else, was the former truth, and what was the fruit of a sick imagination, it was not possible to establish. The Frenchman died a few days later from the bubonic plague. Where did he find the plague in the dungeon?
Reptoids, on the way out?
Who lives there in the dungeon? Exploration of the caves, including the mysterious cankanas, continues. Returning members of the expeditions are sure that creatures with intelligence live in the depths of the caves. The stairs and steps they found in the dungeons, the halls, the floors of which are paved with slabs, the kilometer-long gutters carved into the walls, leave no other options. And the deeper and farther the researchers go, the more often they come across all sorts of "surprises".
Scientists from France, England, the USA and Russia have repeatedly recorded powerful streams of electromagnetic waves, the source of which is located in the depths of the Earth. Their nature is unclear.
EXTRACT FROM "INTERVIEW WITH REPTYLOID LACERTA"
Lacerta: When I talk about our underground home, I talk about large systems caves. The caves you find close to the surface are tiny compared to real caves and huge caves deep in the earth (2,000 to 8,000 of your meters, but connected by many hidden tunnels to the surface or to the surfaces around the caves). And we live in big and developed cities and colonies inside such caves.
The main areas of our caves are Antarctica, Inner Asia, North America and Australia. When I talk about artificial sunlight in our cities, I do not mean the real sun, but various technological light sources that illuminate caves and tunnels.
There are special cave areas and tunnels with strong UV light in every city, and we use them to warm our blood. In addition, we also have some areas of sunshine on the surface in remote areas, especially in America and Australia.
Question: Where can we find such surfaces - near the entrance to your world?
Answer: Do you really think that I will give you their exact location? If you want to find such an entrance, you must look for it (but I would advise you not to.) When I arrived at the surface four days ago, I used an entrance about 300 kilometers north of here, close to big lake but I doubt you could find it (there are only a few occurrences in this part of the world - more - much more in the north and east.)
As a little tip: if you are in a narrow cave or tunnel or even in something that looks like an artificial shaft, and the deeper you go, the smoother the walls become; and if you feel unusual warm air flowing from the depths, or if you hear the sound of flowing air in the ventilation or lift shaft, and find a special kind of artificial things;
also - if you see a wall with a door made of gray metal somewhere in a cave - you could try to open that door (but I doubt it); or, you find yourself underground in an ordinary-looking technical room with ventilation systems and lifts to the depth, - then this is probably the entrance to our world;
if you have reached this place, you should know that we have now located you and are aware of your presence, you are already in big trouble. If you have entered a circular room, then you must look for one of the two reptilian symbols on the walls. If there are no symbols or there are other symbols, then you are probably in even more trouble than you think, because not every underground structure belongs to our species.
Several new tunnel systems are used by alien races (including hostile races). My general advice if you find yourself in a strange underground structure for you: run as fast as you can.
On Sunday we went with the guys to Diyevka - a remote residential area of Dnepropetrovsk, built up with private houses.
This village has been known since the Cossack times. Among the locals, there are even legends about underground passages, in which ancient treasures are hidden.
Here we went to the Dieva dungeons on Sunday. True, we were not looking for treasures, but an ice cave, discovered there during one of the night car quests a couple of winters ago.
The entrance to the dungeons is located near the railway embankment, among the trees and bushes that grow on the sides of a large wasteland, used in the warmer months as a football field.
A small hole in the ground, lined with granite stones on the sides.
Right next to the entrance, there is a pile of rubbish lying at the bottom - traces of the life activity of the population of Diya. But, as soon as this barricade is overcome, you find yourself in an underground passage.
It is also lined with granite stones and slopes downward.
Back view
Its length is about a hundred meters, and it goes into a large underground room, part of the city's hydraulic communications.
Here is the ice cave with a waterfall!
True, despite the fierce winter weather that has been in Dnepropetrovsk for the last month, the ice there is very thin, fragile, you cannot stand on it. There, of course, it is shallow, but all the same it would not be pleasant to have wet knee-deep legs in mid-February.
So I had to admire the frozen artificial waterfall only from a distance.
However, our friend, who lives not far from these places, offered to approach him from the other side. He-de knew the approaches there. So we moved to the other side railroad and ended up on the edge of the beam.
View of Diyevka
We went down and found ourselves at the entrance to the tunnel.
The ice on this side was thick enough.
But we managed to walk along it just under a hundred meters. Only a little bit remained to the waterfall, but it was impossible to go further - the ice became thin again.
We returned to the air, got up, got into the car and went to warm up at McDonald's.
We will return to Diyevka in the spring. There is something to see and something to show!
E.V. Kovrizhnykh
CAVE SEARCH METHODOLOGY
(work experience of Leningrad cavers)
Of the 20 expeditions conducted in the Arkhangelsk region by the Leningrad section of speleology (LSS) from 1966 to 1974, 12 expeditions were exploratory, i.e. such, the main task of which was to search for previously unknown cavities and apply on topographic map discovered entrances to the caves.
Summarizing the experience of the LSS search expeditions in the Pinega Territory, a number of useful conclusions can be drawn about the features of these expeditions, about the most probable locations of the entrances to the Pinega caves, about signs indicating the possibility of the presence of this place entrance to the underground cavity.
The main karst rocks of the Pinega region are gypsum and anhydrite, they contain all the caves found in this area. Therefore, it is natural that the first condition for planning an active search for underground cavities in a particular area of the surface was the presence in this place of a more or less thick gypsum-anhydrite strata. The greatest probability to penetrate into underground cavities is in those places where the mass of karst rocks is exposed, comes to the surface, opening underground passages.
Outcrops of gypsum-anhydrite strata can be found along the banks of the Pinega River and its tributaries (Sotka, Belaya, Sia, Letniy Gbach, Portyuga). Outcrops of 43% of the caves known in Pinega were found in the coastal outcrops. These include the caves of the Pinega rivers (B. Golubinskaya, M. Golubinskaya, 23 caves of the Bereznikovsky region), Sotki (S-1-S-15), the Pinega-Kuloi canal (K-1-K-10), etc.
Very often, Karst rocks are exposed in the sides of the ravines that go out to the river and interrupt the line of coastal cliffs (Tarakaniy, Pershkovsky, Karjala, etc.) or in the sides of blind ravines that do not have direct access to the river, located in the interfluve of the Pinega and its tributaries (Gorodische ravine , Iron Gate, Dry, Holy Stream, etc.), in which 54% of the caves were found.
The coastal cliffs of lakes, which are scattered in large numbers around the edge, can also give a number of outcrops and be the location of the entrances to the caves. So, in the southwestern part of Lake Shchelennoye, at the base of a 20-meter plaster outcrop, an almost completely covered entrance to a cave was found, in which a stream flowing from the lake disappears. Sometimes gypsum outcrops are observed in the sides or at the bottom of numerous karst funnels, which in some cases open underground cavities (Leningradskaya, Pinezhskaya named after A. Tereshchenko, GB-2, etc.).
Most often, entrances to underground cavities are located at the base of gypsum outcrops. For watered caves, the inlet is usually the place where the water flow directly goes underground or appears on the surface. Cave entrances found at the base of gypsum outcrops along river banks and ravine sides are usually covered with talus and rubble. In such cases, the entrances to the caves (their number is 58%) are located at the contact of the talus and the bedrock wall, as a result of which the entrance to the caves has a slit-like shape and is hidden behind the talus ridge. In such cases, the boundary between the talus and the main wall of the outcrop was examined in the most careful way, since most often it was there that a passage into the cavity could be found. In the case of a powerful stream flowing out of the underground cavity or undermining of the main bank by the river, the gypsum talus is washed out by water and the entrances open directly at the base of the outcrop. The same arrangement of inlets is found in caves formed by flood waters coming from the river (an example of such caves can serve as 23 underground cavities of the Berezniki outcrop) or when the log is flooded with spring waters (Gorodishche log).
The streams flowing in the logs, as shown by a large number of observations (the logs of the Holy Brook, Gorodishche, Tarakaniy, Golubinsky, etc.), repeatedly change the direction of the current, moving from one wall of the log to another, going deep under the outcrop wall and leaving the previous channel, shifting to the side by 10-50 m. Therefore, observing the channel of the stream passing in the center of the ravine, one must always take into account that in the past the stream could flow at the sides and form underground passages at the base of the outcrops. An example of underground cavities, worked out by a stream, which later left these passages and moved to another place, are the caves found in the logs listed above.
A number of caves were discovered while trying to trace the path of a stream flowing along the bottom of a log and then appearing on the surface, then disappearing underground. A section of a dry channel on the surface leading to the side of a valley or ravine is evidence of an underground channel developed by water. Caves, which are underground sections of streams or rivers flowing on the surface, were found on Pinega about 60 (caves of the Karjala logs, the Iron Gate, the Holy Stream, etc.). It was possible to penetrate into them directly at the place where the stream left the ground or when the watercourse exits from the ground, as well as through the holes in the ceiling of the underground channel.
If the entrances to the caves were blocked up, covered with sand and clay and it was difficult to notice them even close, then a number of additional factors could serve as indirect signs indicating the possible presence of an entrance to the underground cavity.
A large number of entrances to the caves (35%) were found in outcrops that looked like a semicircular fresh "circus" formed as a result of the collapse of the arches of the large entrance halls of the cave and interrupting the older and overgrown with grass and forest coastal cliffs or ravine sides. The lower part of such outcrops is usually covered with talus of collapsed boulders of various shapes and sizes, from the smallest to significant, reaching 10 m in diameter. At the bases of such circus outcrops, there are the entrances of the Bolshaya Golubinskaya caves, GB-2, GB-1, Refrigerator, etc.
The outcrops with streams flowing out from under them or disappearing at the base, always leaving the hope of penetrating the underground passage along which the stream flows, deserve special attention of the search groups. By the size of the stream and the flow rate of water in it, one can indirectly, although very approximately, judge the scale of the cavity in which the given stream flows. So, a stream with a flow rate of 0.12 m 3 / sec. (summer 1967) flows from the largest cave Pinezhia Leningradskaya (3400 m), the flow rates of the brooks of the Gb-1 and Gb-2 caves, each about 500 m long, is 0.04 m from under the outcrop on the Portuga River, although it indicated the presence of an underground passage, the size of the entrance hole did not allow a person to enter it.
In the warm season, when approaching the location of the entrance to the cave, zones of sharp cooling and a strong current of cold air from the caves were almost always observed. By the size of such a zone and the force of the air flow, it was possible to judge the size of the cavity. For example, in the Mal cave. Golubinskaya, the total length of the passages of which reaches 800 m, a wind blows from the inlet at a speed of 2 m / s in summer. and temperature - 2 ° С; its influence is felt at a distance of up to 50 m. Similar conditions were recorded at the entrances of many large caves (Leningradskaya, GB-2, Winter's tale, Severyanka, etc.). Often, near the inlet and even at some distance from the entrance to the cavity, negative temperatures remain in summer, as evidenced by the presence of ice (Severyanka, Mal. Golubinskaya caves, etc.). Very often, in summer and winter, a slight haze (fog) can be observed in the area of the cave entrance. In addition, the presence of an entrance to the cave in winter is indicated by a frost-covered group of trees and bushes located nearby, characterized by an abundance of frost.
The karst nature of the streams and the presence of an underground channel is evidenced by the low, even in the hottest season, water temperature in the streams flowing from under the outcrops. For example, the water temperature in the stream of the Leningradskaya cave in summer time is 2-3 ° С, while in the Sotka River, where the stream flows, the water temperature is 10-12 ° С. The karst feeding of small rivers of the region is evidenced by low temperature water in them. So, in the summer, at an air temperature of 20-28 ° C, the water temperature in the river was measured. White - 6 ° C, Si - 10 ° C, Sotke - 12 ° C. For comparison, you can indicate that for p. Pinega is characterized by a water temperature of 16-20 ° C. Similar data, linking them with the arctic nature of the relict flora of the Pinega region, are cited by florists Al. and Andr. Fedorovs (1929).
In winter, the air flows of underground cavities have a temperature that is much (20-40 ° C) higher than the outside air temperature. Therefore, coastal openings and non-freezing areas of rivers (near the caves of Leningradskaya, Bol. Golubinskaya, Pekhorovskaya and many others), which do not freeze even in the most severe frosts, clearly indicate the location of the entrances to the caves, through which powerful underground streams flow.
Cavers have always and not without reason paid attention to places with names that indirectly indicate the presence of gypsum outcrops on the surface or mention caves ("cracks"). In particular, on the river. White (with white gypsum outcrops along the banks) was found Severyanka cave, in the village. Shchelya is a small landslide cave on the lake. Shchelenny - the entrance to the cave, to the Gorodische ravine - six underground cavities and a large number of grottoes.
When examining the karst funnels, special attention was paid to funnels, on the sides of which traces of water and mud flows are clearly visible. This indicates that the funnel served as an absorbing ponor through which one can penetrate into the underground cavity (this is how the GB-5 cave was discovered).
An important exploratory feature in many cases was the discovery of “shallopnyak” (blocky karst) zones, fields of karst sinkholes, confined to the sides of ravines and coastal outcrops. Chains of karst sinkholes on the surface indicate, as a rule, the probable existence of a large underground cavity, which corresponds to these surface karst forms... In particular, many caves of the Golubinsky cave region, Leningradskaya cave and others are very clearly traced along the chains of craters above the passages of the caves.
A number of cavities found in the Pinega region were laid along the cracks of the onboard resistance (for example, many caves in the Kulogorsky and Golubinsky regions). Therefore, when examining coastal outcrops, such cracks and the entire zone along the edge of the outcrops were carefully examined.
The experience of search expeditions shows that the expedient number of a separately working detachment should not exceed 6 people when conducting route trips in groups of 2-3 people. The trip to the expedition is preceded by an acquaintance with the literature, maps, aerial photographs of the future search area in order to clarify its geological features, the most probable locations of the caves and ways of approaching the area under study.
It is very important to determine the correct tactics for the group's actions, depending on the characteristics of the task assigned to it. When examining coastal outcrops along rivers, first of all, the most convenient and shortest route for the group to a distant point of the route (the upper reaches of the river) is outlined. The transfer is carried out on foot or by helicopter, then the group goes down the river to inspect the outcrops and search for caves. River banks are usually difficult to pass, you have to walk along steep scree or through dense thickets and windbreaks, so a search with a backpack on your shoulders is practically impossible. As they move along the river, the group arranges 2-3 base camps with radial exits for searching in small groups.
A similar scheme prospecting works It is also used in the survey of vast blind logs located in the interfluve of the main rivers of the region and having no access to these rivers (Karjala logs, Zheleznye Vorota).
If the length of the route along the river is long enough, and the nature of the river allows it, then the most convenient rafting is with a visual inspection and a thorough examination of the coastal outcrops in the presence of the indicated search signs. The rivers of the Pinego-Kuloi region are often shallow, with a large number of rifts, shoals, rubble, therefore, rafting along them can be carried out only on small rafts designed for 2-3 people with a load. Often this method of organizing the search fully justifies itself, since the presence of coastal silkworm zones and the sheer nature of coastal outcrops with steep talus falling right into the water make the search option on foot unacceptable. With the help of rafting from the headwaters, all the caves on the Sotka and Siya rivers were discovered.
In some cases, boats with an outboard motor turned out to be an indispensable means of transport. They significantly speed up the travel time, but, unfortunately, where the boats could pass, there were not always outcrops, and where there were outcrops, most often boats could not pass. Undoubtedly, the use of motor boats is most effective during the work of an expedition of significant numbers in a vast area with a single main river, since it allows for the coordination of work and for the operational transfer of small groups as work is completed in certain areas.
When examining the fields of karst sinkholes, first of all, it is necessary to limit the area under study to find out the full scope of work, and then, if possible, carefully comb the limited area, trying to identify patterns in the location of the sinkholes. Particular attention should be paid to the elongated funnel chains extending from the outcrops into the depths of the massif.
Local residents who know the area well can be of great help in finding the caves. The information of hunters, foresters, fish protection workers, who are well aware of the largest outcrops, disappearing rivers and streams, is especially valuable. large caves... The locals, who had actively assisted the cavers in the search for caves, indicated the entrances to such cavities as the Golubinsky Proval, Mal. Golubinskaya, Pinezhskaya them. A. Tereshchenko, Ozerkovskaya, Sompolskaya, caves on the Holy Stream, etc.
Of the 12 search expeditions organized by Leningrad speleologists, 6 were carried out in the summer, since it is summer that is the most favorable time of the year for searching for caves due to the presence convenient ways movement, the most suitable conditions for the survey of outcrops and highly rugged karst terrain.
Despite the harsh field conditions in winter and the presence of deep snow cover hiding the inlets of a number of cavities, in winter, the possibilities of penetrating into caves significantly increase due to a decrease in the water level and freezing of stagnant bodies of water. In addition, in winter it becomes possible to use skis and horse-drawn vehicles when moving along rivers and roads, as well as winter roads that operate only in the cold season.
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Film: "Underground Silence". Search for treasure in the cave. What can be found in the cave. Search with a metal detector in the Hunting Cave, near the village of Goloustnoye, Irkutsk region. What finds were made in the cave. Written by Rudolf Kavchik.
In the study of underground labyrinths, traces of human presence were found. At the beginning of the last century, the shores of Lake Baikal were densely populated. Buryat uluses and letniki were adjacent to Russian fishing villages. Now from many of them only the lower rims and the remains of the cellars remain. The study of these areas of metal detectors, as a rule, did not lead to significant finds.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages vied with each other about the exceptional wealth of those who once lived in this territory. Where has the wealth disappeared? On this score, the local population has its own version.
The dashing times of dispossession of hardworking men have come to distant Siberian corners on the shores of Lake Baikal. Without waiting for people in leather jackets and with Mauser to take away the good they had acquired, the peasant loaded two carts early in the morning and set off into the forest. He returned in the evening with empty carts. The neighbors whispered, but they could only guess what the neighbor could take and where. The further fate of the man is unknown. Where he went is now a legend.
Where can you hide two carts, so much so that the good does not disappear in the damp earth? One logical answer suggests itself: in a cave. There are enough of them along the shores of Lake Baikal. One of these caves is located in the village of Maly Goloustnoye. According to the stories of local residents, the children periodically climbed into it and brought either a sword or a rifle. When they brought a combat grenade, they decided to blow up the cave.
The entrance is now closed. In the same area there is a cave in which peasants dissatisfied with the Soviet regime were hiding. Only the exact place where it is located has already been forgotten - the last witnesses have died.
The cave, which we decided to visit, was opened quite recently, in 2006. Before that, only a limited circle of local hunters knew about it. We decided to explore this cave in search of a treasure.
The cave is located between Maly Goloustnoye and Bolshoy Goloustnoye, about 8 kilometers from the road, three of which must be walked along a well-trodden path (you cannot drive to the cave by car).
The entrance to the cave is impressive in size - even if you call in by car. Upon entering the cave, you immediately find yourself in a huge hall. There is not enough light from the headlamps to illuminate the vaults of the hall. Only the powerful lamp of the on-camera light from our movie camera illuminated the cave with an even, all-filling light. We were amazed at the beauty and grandiose scale of the hall. It is truly large, the size of a basketball court.
The bottom of the cave is covered with a thick layer of fragments of stones. It is difficult to follow them. What is the depth of the rocks and where is the bottom of the cave? It is not difficult to make a cache in such a pile of stones. You can quickly and without a trace hide anything under them. There is no trace left on the bare stones: sprinkled with pebbles - and the treasure will be completely hidden from strangers. You can pass over it without even guessing about its existence.
We examine the bottom of the cave with a metal detector, poking the coil into the most accessible places between the stones in the hope that if there is a large volume of metal, we will find it. In such conditions, it is impossible to find a small box or a handful of coins - the depth between the stones is too great, even for a modern metal detector. Two corridors lead from the first large hall into the depths of the cave. You feel like a head of cheese. Galleries and vertical fireplaces intersect at different levels, making it easy to get lost here. The moves are beautiful and tempting, but hardly anyone would hide their treasures in such a dangerous place. Here you yourself would not get stuck and not get lost.
The stone floor began to alternate with dense clay, on which the clear prints of our boots remained. Strikingly far from the entrance to the cave, a terrible hall opens - its floor is strewn with animal skeletons. Why did they get into this cave, into the dark hall of skeletons? Nobody killed these animals. They lie in the same positions in which death found them. The microorganisms of the cave destroyed the flesh alien to the underworld, leaving only bare bones.
Bats sleep peacefully on the high vault of the Skeleton Hall. All winter they will sleep upside down and wake up only with the appearance of the first insects. The temperature in the cave is constant all year round - about zero. So they are not afraid of severe Siberian frosts.
Moving through the cave, I tried to detect at least some kind of human presence: rock paintings, soot of torches on the arches of the corridors. The metal detector was silent. We did not find any rock carvings, except perhaps modern coins in one of the halls left by visitors to the cave (probably to return to this beauty, or this is an offering to the underground spirit of the cave).
According to the reports of archaeologists conducting excavations in caves, they find convincing evidence of human life in caves: stone tools of labor and life, animal bones. But there is a main difference between the work of archaeologists and treasure hunting. Treasure hunters with a metal detector are not interested in such small household finds, and it is impossible to find such small household items in the age-old layers of the cave bottom with a metal detector. And the metal detector does not react at all to the monuments of the Stone Age, and the treasure hunter will pass by them. This circumstance excludes the destruction of archaeological monuments, and if treasure hunters inform scientists about their accidental finds, science will be of great benefit.
A narrow manhole, through which we squeezed with difficulty, led into a small room, which was connected to a huge hall. We looked at this hall from the upper gallery. The headlamps were barely enough to illuminate him. Looking at all this splendor, we remembered the heroes of Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who, like us, explored a mysterious cave in search of treasure.
After some time, our path was blocked by a small, 5-meter ledge with a negative angle of inclination, which descended into the next hall. It was impossible to descend into it without a rope. After overcoming this obstacle and going into the next hall, we heard a lingering signal from the metal detector, which made everyone flinch with surprise. The signal is long and inconsistent. Looks like something long underground. A gun or a knife? I cannot find the object with the pinpointer. And I can't figure out why. There is not enough pinpointer sensitivity. But he can detect a target at a depth of 10-15 centimeters. What is this? I am lost in conjecture. I hope this is at least a flintlock left by the hunters. Unfortunately, we were disappointed: someone scattered a handful of aluminum rivets in this place, so the signal was unstable and over a large area.
Moving further along underworld, we ended up in a small room, which was given a tasty name - Condensed. Not otherwise, once upon a time there flowed rivers of milk with jelly banks. It is impossible to resist not to taste and make sure that this is really not condensed milk. After walking a little more along the high corridor, we found ourselves on the threshold of a huge hall, the size of a small football field. Even the powerful on-camera light could not illuminate this entire hall.
A small lake in the recess of the hall was filled with clear, transparent water. And the water is not icy at all, but quite normal, 25 degrees. So it seemed. Examining this room with a rocky floor, I did not even expect any finds - it was too far from the entrance, at least 40 minutes walk, if you know the way.
The loud signal of the metal detector echoed in this stately hall. Rather curiosity guided me than the hope of finding treasures. Rather, it is a bank or batteries left by cavers. But the find amazed not only my companions, but also me. It turned out to be a silver coin the size of a small coffee spoon, at the end of which was attached a silver dozen of the 19th century; it was not possible to make out exactly the year. How did she get here? Maybe these are the remains of that same man's treasure? Who knows…
Our expedition is coming to an end. What other secrets will the hunting cave reveal to future explorers? Perhaps someone will find the man's treasure in one of the well-disguised secret rooms or open another cave, hitherto hidden from human eyes.
Rudolf Kavchik,
Newspaper "Treasure hunter. Gold. Treasures. Treasures", November, 2013
