Cherny Potok (Kaluga Region) Lyudinovsky District, located in the south-west of Kaluga Region, has long been the object of close attention of local ufologists and researchers of anomalous zones. UFOs are constantly observed near Lyudinovo, hovering for a long time over various

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Anomalous zone Nikitskoe Nikitskoe is a small village not far from 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 is a goblin wandering ..."

Volgograd Region On the territory of the Volgograd Region, there is a whole complex of anomalous zones. Among them are the famous Medveditskaya ridge, the Staropoltavskaya geoactive zone, the village of Lebyazhya polyanau, where manifestations have been observed for a long time.

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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 by

Irkutsk Region Irkutsk - a city on bones There are twelve burial places within the boundaries of Irkutsk, some of which lie under urban development. For example, the old German cemetery of the 18th – 19th centuries is now covered with asphalt. It is approached by Lenin Street, which

Kursk region In the Kursk region, phenomena of an ufological nature are quite often manifested. These are silver balls in Medvenka, circles in the field under Timam, as well as the so-called Fatezh funnels. The latter were formed as a result of incomprehensible explosions in the area

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 \u200b\u200bno more than a few square meters under

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 graves. Every now and then, human bones are found in different places. For example, when laying a foundation

18.3. Research area 1. Kabbalah does not touch on such concepts as the essence and abstract form in the ten Sefirot, but deals only with the matter in them and its forms, since the form is the bearer of matter. The essence of a person, as such, without material embodiment, is not perceived ,

As a boy, I heard numerous stories about underground catacombs and manholes under the streets of our city, where countless treasures are kept.

They said that the most extensive cellars were under.

A steep vaulted tunnel behind a rusty iron door overgrown with grass led along an underground passage directly across the river to the Romodanovskaya Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. True, he was overwhelmed. Later, in the late 1980s, the manhole was concreted from the guys.

Demidov treasures

The underwater tunnel, apparently, was located just below the modern Gagarinsky bridge across the Oka. Many residents of Kaluga have heard the story of how the bottom of the river suddenly dropped by almost two meters with a dredger. According to an eyewitness - foreman Vasily Ignatov, the shell threw bricks, human bones, shards and even silver coins from the time of Boris Godunov onto the shore along with sand. But the most valuable find was a golden cross with nine large pearls. Now it is in the private collection of the Moscow collector Sergei Kochubanov.

This secret manhole under the Oka was also used by the rebellious working people of the Demidov factories in the Romodanov volost in 1752. The archival documents mention that they made sorties from the right bank to Kaluga, bypassing the guard regiments. At the same time, Demidov's jewelry disappeared, which have not been found so far. It is quite possible that Kaluga residents walk every day on the sidewalks of Kaluga over the gold and pearls of industrialist Demidov hidden in the underground.

Golden fever

At the end of the 19th century, it covered Kaluga. It began with the fact that, as a result of weekly downpours on the slope, a strong landslide exposed the ancient vault leading to the dungeons. In its labyrinths, over 10 residents of Kaluga disappeared without a trace, including high school students. In September 1886, at the urgent requests of the merchants and the bourgeoisie, the Kaluga governor Artsimovich by his decree walled up the entrance to the dungeon.

The historical fact was repeatedly described that even at the beginning of the 17th century, the rebels of Ivan Bolotnikov were in Kaluga, who for almost six months fortified the Kaluga fortress and built underground manholes in order to strike from the rear the tsarist troops besieging the city.

Apparently, one of these underground passages was discovered by builders in the mid-1960s. While laying trolleybus lines near the former Pioner cinema (now -), they came across a large well with branches in four directions. In the same place, they found the remains of a Polish nobleman in medieval knightly armor. The workers were in a hurry, so the hole was quickly buried and the remains were reburied.

Warehouses for merchants

In the 1990s, a group of enthusiasts set up a search expedition "Underground-90" in Kaluga. The guys even made a map of the "catacomb Kaluga". According to a member of the expedition, Viktor Fedotov, the passages under the ground, which they managed to visit, served as a communication between the estates and churches. So, a two-kilometer passage dug at a depth of 5 meters: from to with an exit to the Oka, was, in fact, a warehouse. Here the Kaluga merchants kept the goods brought along the Oka to the pier at the Vorobievskaya ferry. They found grain in chests and chests - in case of hunger times. Wine cellars were also found.

According to the stories of the search engines, underground manholes connected the Lavrentievsky Monastery with the fortress. Suffice it to recall the legend of how the Kaluga Saint Lawrence unexpectedly appeared on the Oka River and helped the Kaluga prince Simeon to repel the Hagarian raid on plows.

There was an underground passage under the former Fischer brewery - up to the Voronin square, overlooking the New Torg, where the drama theater is now located.

July 2007. During the construction of a road junction on Smolenka, unknown buildings were discovered.

It is likely that these are merchant cellars.

Or maybe not...

Imposter's treasure

An underground passage also connected the building of the public offices, where the Kaluga branch of the M.V. Bauman. Georgy Malakhov, who worked in this building after the war, said that in a huge basement, towards the central entrance, an iron door was discovered, behind which an underground passage began. He himself went down the stairs. True, after the war, only a small section of the vaulted tunnel up to 2 meters high, lined with limestone, remained. Further the passage was closed due to the collapse of the vault. According to researchers, he led through the Berezuisky ravine to the Chambers of the merchant Korobov, mistakenly called the house of the first foreign woman crowned to the Russian throne - Marina Mnishek. Here, by the way, Kaluga residents also unsuccessfully searched for gold treasures, plundered during the time of the Kaluga Tsar False Dmitry II, who was killed in the pine forest in 1610. The impostor allegedly buried the military treasury, which consisted of a huge amount of gold coins, in Tushino near Moscow. However, after his escape to Kaluga, part of the treasury ended up in our city and, probably, was safely hidden in the Kaluga catacombs. Until now, the legendary treasure of False Dmitry II has not been found. So underground Kaluga still keeps many secrets and finds.

When they were building the foundation under the house on Voskresenka, they came across an underground passage. Human bones lay on the steps, overgrown with moss ...

You need to search under the monastery

Another place steeped in legends about undergrounds is the territory of the Kazan Convent. Now the Regional Archives are here.

There were legends that secret passages from the monastery lead, almost to Saltykovka. But, apparently, these are only legends. However, there is no smoke without fire.

In the early 40s, after the occupation, in the abandoned monastery, or rather, in its basements, raids were carried out more than once against all kinds of declassed elements - deserters, fugitive criminals and others who gathered in gangs and kept the entire local people in fear.

Old-timers recall that it began with the murder of two policemen on the street Cooperative settlement.

Then three trucks with soldiers arrived at the monastery. A skirmish ensued. Some of the bandits were caught, some were killed, and some hid in the basements of the monastery, the old residents recalled. “The soldiers of the fugitives were looking for, but they did not find anyone. According to them, some of the passages were filled with explosions, and some were flooded with water. Leaving the sentries, the military left. But nobody else came out of the cellars.

Then local boys began to disappear in the basements - they left and did not return. What happened to them is still a mystery. But the locals claim that they could have been sprinkled in the distant corridors of the dungeon, or they got lost ...

It was only in the early 50s that the entrances to the cellars were decided to be walled up. They entrusted this to military builders. Before starting work, the surviving cellars were carefully examined. One of the participants in those events, Konstantin Aleksandrovich Ivanov, recalled that they were, indeed, large and ramified. Some of the branches were blocked up, some were flooded. But, what is most characteristic, all the branches had a downward slope! Which once again confirms the opinion that these are underground passages. Nobody's remains were found in the basements, however, as well as treasures. The only thing is that a lot of copper 1-kopeck coins of the royal minting were scattered on the floor in one of the aisles. The builders have almost collected a bucket. Maybe it was someone's treasure? The basements were concreted, but the locals still believed that the dungeons of the monastery remained intact.

Not so long ago, journalists from one of the Kaluga news sites called me: “You are studying anomalous zones. Our readers are interested in anomalous zones of the Kaluga region, we are preparing a publication about them. There are many materials on the Internet about the anomalous zone in the village of Nikitskoye - could you tell us about it? "

In that anomalous zone in the late 1990s, members of our informal research group "Labyrinth" spent many nights. And we saw something interesting.

This is what I told the interlocutors: anomalous phenomena in some places do occur more often than usual, but still not every day. And to the "zone" from "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatskys (or the film "Stalker", filmed based on the story), real anomalous zones, to put it mildly, are far away.

What happened in the end? From my stories, as well as from the reports found on the Internet, the journalists chose the most impressive "horror stories", "in health", so to speak. Everything that was said "for peace" - that miracles and in anomalous zones are not found at every step and do not happen every hour, that most stories wandering on the world wide web are simply invented - "forgotten."

However, such an approach in modern Russian journalism, alas, is common ("Vest", by the way, is one of the few media outlets that do not allow such "exaggerations"), and I was not even very upset. To some extent, I was even delighted, especially after reading the comments: interest in the topic of anomalous zones after a long break again increased. What is especially pleasant - there were many young readers who were not burdened with mysticism and excessive skepticism, who sincerely want to objectively understand the issue and personally hunt for miracles.

This is understandable - a new generation has grown up, which did not find the "plate-anomalous boom" of the late 1980s - early 1990s. But, unfortunately, from my personal point of view, it is more difficult to satisfy this interest even qualitatively today than twenty years ago: there have been many publications and TV programs, but almost all of them are created according to the method described above. Therefore, I will try to tell a little about one of the types of anomalous zones (and at the same time - and their "stalkers") with the utmost objectivity.

Let's agree on the terminology. An "abnormal zone" can be called any area in which there are constant or more often than average things that go beyond the usual framework, and are difficult to explain.

For example, it can be called so incomprehensibly as a desert that has arisen in the taiga or a grove of birches in the tundra. The mass reader, of course, is interested in abnormal zones abruptly, with flying saucers or ghosts. There are some - but there are several types of them. For example, it is enough to talk to the old-timers of any five or ten villages, and in one of them they will tell, for example, about the place “where it scares”, “where it starts”, “where the screams of French soldiers are heard at night”. Stories about such places have been passed down for generations, and we have repeatedly seen that strange things do happen in such places.

But we are interested in anomalous zones of a different type, "with flying saucers." There are some. Back in the 1950s, when UFO sightings first attracted widespread attention, it was noticed that in some places the likelihood of seeing them is much higher. In the USSR, in the 1980s, the "M's Triangle" in the Perm Territory attracted everyone's attention: even books were published about meetings with "aliens" there. At first, such anomalous zones were explained simply: "the aliens built, they say, 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 kinds 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 also found in the Kaluga region.

In the newspaper "Znamya", for example, in 1989 there was a note (one of many in those years) about the observation of a "red ball" that fell into the forest, seen by residents of the village of Starki, Dzerzhinsky district.

It was mentioned that observation is not the only one. 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, a hum was heard from the mysterious objects, that is, they were really close to the observers. Since the mid-1980s, UFOs have appeared there at least three times a year, and mainly of the same type (fireballs), but after ten years the observations stopped ...

A little later, "Vest" and the regional television reported about the observation of a UFO in the form of an ellipse glowing in different colors by residents of the Oktyabrsky village of the Ferzikovsky district. Field visits and surveys of villagers showed that observation here is far from being isolated: various anomalous phenomena in the atmosphere ("glowing balls", "foggy cigars", flashes of light) were seen by about 90 percent of permanent residents. Even ghosts or humanoids were observed. Moreover, in the location of villages with a large number of eyewitnesses, a clear system was guessed - they were located in a strip from north to south twenty kilometers long, crossing the Oka. Here we were also told about the many "small" anomalous zones such as "prodigal places where it scares."

Inhabitants of villages, located even two kilometers to the west or east, practically did not see UFOs (although, I will note to those who consider all the "anomalousness" to be the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption - men drink there no less). We ourselves have traveled to that area many times and ourselves observed anomalous phenomena, although not particularly impressive (once - light columns in the field, several more times - lights moving along complex loops). From the very beginning, I was interested in the question - how long have such phenomena been observed here? It turned out that legends about "unclean places" exist "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, sat down on the ground and shrouded in fog” - this was the oldest observation that we happened to hear here.

After 2000, observations almost stopped here as well. When I visit those places, I always ask the passengers-fellow travelers and just the oncoming villagers: "How is it with the UFO?" - "Ten years ago they saw and talked 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 failure of romantic stalkers who make lists of anomalous zones from books like the Encyclopedia of Wonders and travel around them in search of adrenaline.

But if the "zones" disappear, then perhaps they appear? As with any "anomalous" question, there is no sure answer, but there are hints of a positive answer.

In the spring of last year, an elderly Muscovite called me: “I found your articles on the Internet, I bought a house for a summer residence in the Zhukovsky district and I myself have already seen UFOs twice, and the neighbors are talking. Maybe there is an anomalous zone and you need to leave? I have already turned to a psychic, he said that there is negative energy. "

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 not even in the very outback, we often leave much to be desired), but I learned something interesting already on distant approaches.

“It's been a couple of years now that I bought a dacha here, but I don't seem to remember anything like that ... Although one day, in November, I was driving in the dark on a country road - I saw there was light from the side road. I stopped, thinking: "I'll miss it." But no one entered the road. I even turned around, shone there - no one. And he could not get away - there was a field in the same place, everything was perfectly visible, ”said an elderly man digging in the courtyard of a rural house.

The next interlocutor turned out to be a native of a small village that had almost turned into a dacha: “Maybe four years ago I spent the summer in a collective farm garage. At about four o'clock in the morning I suddenly woke up, I looked: from behind the river it was as if ... I don't know how to say, UFO is not UFO, a ray of light, or something. Moved across the sky, touched the transformer booth, the transformer hummed, and - burned out! And we saw balloons in the sky in our village in winter. Even some of the Muscovites, they said, filmed 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? My answer to this question will be very skeptical.

The study of anomalous zones usually boils down to sitting in them for weekend enthusiasts with cameras, at best - to interviews of local residents. In a similar way, our group studied the Kaluga "zones" in the mid-90s. Soon, however, enthusiasm disappears - amateur researchers begin to get bored with repeating the same "program". And if at first it is difficult to convince the "enthusiast" that the bright object in the sky is just Venus, then often by the morning of the first night it becomes difficult to wake him up when a "real" UFO appears ... Nowadays, under the influence of popular "research" programs and in general are reduced to "telepathic meditations", and the disappointment from high expectations comes even faster.

And yet (hope dies last) it would be good among serious and literate young readers to find those who want to pick up the baton of at least some scientific study of anomalous zones. The author can be contacted by calling 8-953-315-09-25.

Andrey Perepelitsyn

The famous scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, as you know, comes from Kaluga. In this one can see a kind of mystical sign, since the place where the father of cosmonautics lived and was engaged in his research is now attracting the closest attention of ufologists and other “anomalous” ” .

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

There are anomalous zones with stunted vegetation in the Kaluga region, where unusual animal behavior is noted. Devices of researchers from time to time record there an increased electromagnetic background. And in the east of the region there are as many as three unfavorable zones - in the vicinity of the villages of Shchigry, Ogarkovo and Nikitskoye.In the Ogarkovo area, for some reason, people often stray (not excluding local residents). And near Nikitsky there is an “enchanted” forest, where the locals are afraid to go. The trunks of forest trees are bent there in a bizarre way. The grass does not grow in the forest, no bird song is heard. But, according to mushroom pickers who inadvertently crossed the border of the protected territory, their way into the thicket was sometimes blocked by vague silhouettes that did not resemble human ones ...

Of course, having learned about the eerie features of the Nikitsky forest, researchers and just curious people began to come here. Some of them, entering the forest, felt inexplicable anxiety and irrational fear, sometimes - headache and shortness of breath.

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

The rest of the researchers spent 10 days in the forest. They have seen a lot of amazing things. So, every evening near the fire some ghostly whitish silhouettes arose. As soon as I began to look at them more closely, they disappeared without a trace, so that they were never photographed. And at night, strange shadows appeared on the ceilings of the tents - they resembled creatures with large heads and skinny bodies. Outside, near the tents, someone's heavy footsteps were heard, at first they seemed to come nearer, and then recede away. A mysterious shadow hung over the camp all the time, and from the forest every now and then an incomprehensible noise was heard ...

According to geophysical data, the territory 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 meteoric in origin.

Let's go back to the beginning of the last century. And here one surprising fact emerges. It turns out that K.E. Tsiolkovsky once studied the phenomenon that today would be called UFO! Late in the evening of May 14, 1934, the 17-year-old grandson of Tsiolkovsky, Vsevolod Kostin, sitting on the veranda of his grandfather's house in Kaluga, noticed a fireball in the distance over the town of Borovsky. About half a moon in size, it swiftly flew across the sky in a westerly direction, tilted towards the horizon, brightly illuminating the area around it. The young man noticed that a bluish-green core pulsed inside the object, which expanded and contracted again. A yellowish-red trail followed the ball, sparks fell. Before the eyes of an eyewitness, the spherical body suddenly seemed to crumble right in the air, and the glow went out.

Seva wanted to tell his grandfather about everything immediately, 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 with the fact that his grandson did not call him as soon as he saw the phenomenon. He passionately began to ask the smallest details of the incident, trying to find out exactly the trajectory along which the fireball flew - thus it was possible to determine the place of a possible fall of the body, most likely, in the opinion of a scientist, who had a meteorite or fireball nature.

Not having received all the necessary information from his grandson, Tsiolkovsky gave a notice to the Izvestia newspaper entitled “Who saw the car?”. In it, the researcher asked everyone who could observe the night flight of the balloon to contact him. He received over 200 letters. It turned out that the celestial body was seen by people thousands of kilometers from Kaluga - in Moscow, Ryazan, Tula, even in Ukraine. The glow of the sky was observed in Bessarabia (Moldavia). Some mistook the car for a shooting star. Many witnesses reported that the balloon shimmered in different colors and made rumbling sounds during flight. And associate professor of the Leningrad Astronomical Institute I.I. Putilin, who observed the phenomenon while in Moscow, told Tsiolkovsky that he clearly saw how the ball exploded and heard the sound of the explosion.

On the basis of the collected evidence, Konstantin Eduardovich wrote a voluminous article “On the 1934 car”. In the article, he noted that the old-timers of these places had never seen anything like it before.

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

Kulik's expedition tried to find traces of the car's fall. To no avail. The researchers even checked the rumor that one of the residents of the surrounding villages saw a huge ball in the swamp, bursting with fire. But the information was not confirmed.

In September 1935 K.E. Tsiolkovsky died before he could fully investigate the phenomenon. Kulik also stopped looking.

And again fast forward to our days. On May 30, 2004, a mysterious pit appeared in the middle of a field near the village of Voloye, Kirovsky District, Kaluga Region. The hole was perfectly round in shape, with a diameter and depth of about 6 meters. Researchers went to the scene. Traces of mechanical soil extraction 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, being near the pit, begin to behave aggressively and refuse to eat grass.

The residents of the village have more than once had the opportunity to observe glowing balls floating in the air, which changed their color from red to orange. This phenomenon is associated with the legend of the "Angry Well". Allegedly, fifty years ago, there was a church in the village, which in front of everyone's eyes went underground, and in its place a spring began to clog ... 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. The 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 the failure of the soil (after all, the church went underground!), Or as a result of some anomaly. But in the event of a failure, the water should have gone into the formed cavity, and meanwhile it continues to accumulate in the depression. True, no physical anomalies were recorded in this area.

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