Ecology of knowledge: The Kola Peninsula has long attracted the attention of researchers, travelers and tourists. According to legend, the famous Hyperborea was once located in these parts ...
The Kola Peninsula has long attracted the attention of researchers, travelers and tourists. According to legend, the famous Hyperborea was once located in these parts ...
In the early 1920s a scientific expedition led by the famous researcher and science fiction writer Alexander Barchenko headed here.
The "sponsor" of the campaign, unusual for its time, was the OGPU, so it is not surprising that the developments were classified.
According to Barchenko's hypothesis, humanity originated in the North during the era of the so-called Golden Age, that is, approximately 10-12 thousand years ago. The Flood forced the Aryan tribes living there to leave the region of the present Kola Peninsula and move to the South.
Barchenko was convinced that the Hyperboreans were a fairly highly developed civilization - they knew the secret of atomic energy, they knew how to build and control aircraft ... The researcher gathered information about this from the Masonic literature available to him. He also believed that the Sami shamans who lived on the Kola Peninsula were the bearers of ancient knowledge about Hyperborea.
Local residents said that at the foot of Mount Ninchurt there are manholes leading to the dungeon. But those who try to penetrate deep into the depths, "enough foolishness." Members of the Barchenko detachment found one of these manholes, even took pictures at the entrance, but did not check the possibility of "stupefaction". Although they say that Barchenko himself, trying to penetrate the mysterious dungeon, experienced strange sensations ...
He came to the conclusion that this place is under the influence of unknown mystical forces ... It was possible to make all sorts of assumptions - about underground tunnels, about soil movements, about traces of the same Hyperborea existing here ... Geologists discovered rare earth and uranium-bearing ores in these places. And in 1922 they found in the taiga near the famous Seydozero, at the intersection of water flows, hills resembling pyramids! The Saami, who used these structures for ritual purposes, said that they were built a very long time ago, in ancient times ... According to the scientist, all this could serve as evidence of the existence of the legendary Hyperborea.
In these parts, there were shamanic seids (high columns made of stones). Those present near these structures noticed weakness, dizziness, and some experienced hallucinations, they recorded a decrease or increase in body weight. Here, the so-called "meaning" was also observed, in which people repeated each other's movements, spoke in incomprehensible languages, prophesied ...
It is difficult to find anything similar to this "devilry", which perplexes modern psychologists, who tend to compare the state of "merechenie" with the state of a zombie. Local residents often explained this disease by the intrigues of a mysterious tribe of dwarf sorcerers who once lived on the territory of the Kola Peninsula, who were angry at people who disturbed the peace of their graves.
Did some forces of this unique occult place influence the psyche of people? After all, shamans were able to turn mere mortals into obedient puppets...
The scientific records of the expeditions of the discoverer of the "Russian Hyperborea" on the Kola Peninsula, Alexander Barchenko, were subsequently classified by the Cheka, and then disappeared without a trace.
In 1998 another expedition visited the Kola Peninsula. It included geologists, historians, archaeologists, ethnographers, philosophers and even ufologists. The search detachment was called "Hyperborea-98".
On one of the slopes of Ninchurt, archaeologist Alexander Prokhorov discovered a poorly preserved but powerful wall masonry. On the isthmus between Lovozero and Seydozero, in one of the most inaccessible places, we came across a very ancient seid. A kind of cavity was placed at the top of this large stone of a very regular geometric shape, and in it, at the very bottom, there were coals. Are these traces of a fire-related ritual?
But, perhaps, one of the most exciting local finds is the remains of an ancient observatory, a structure in the form of a 15-meter trough with two sights. In terms of structure, design and possible functions, the structure resembled a large sextant sunk into the ground - an instrument of the famous Ulugbek observatory near Samarkand ...
The head of the expedition, Professor V.N. Demin will later write in his book: “All these facts confirm the concept of a number of Russian and foreign scientists about the northern origin of the entire world civilization and the fact that ethnic groups in the distant past - several tens of thousands of years ago - left the North, and natural forces forced them to this migration. catastrophe. And our Kola Peninsula is one of the centers of Hyperborean culture.”
The last attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Russian North was made in 2007 by a Russian expedition. 18 people took part in the new “journey after history”, among them Sergey Smirnov, press secretary of the Pulkovo Observatory, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Valery Chudinov, professor of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and Dmitry Subetto, doctor of geological and geographical sciences.
“For many of these people, the expedition was a great opportunity to become pioneers in their field,” the author of the project emphasized. “For example, for Valery Chudinov, an amazing specialist in Old Slavic writing, this was a chance to see the writings for the first time, to read them not from photographs, but from the original source.”
However, the path of the group's expedition members turned out to be more dangerous than they expected.
Firstly, the group had no luck with the guides. “The locals, the Lapps, were reluctant to show the way. The first guide said that after our "excursion" he would have problems with his ancestors, and then he suddenly disappeared without a trace. In the end, we had to look for a new tracker.”
The conductor in this area is very important. The place where the pyramids are located is almost deserted, for 150 km there is not a soul or a path around. You can’t find the buildings themselves without a guide: they are overgrown with moss, lichen and small shrubs.
“We flew to the pyramids by helicopter, but you can’t see them at all from above, thanks to the vegetation they merge with the general landscape,” Volkov shared.
The second difficulty was connected with the helicopter, inexplicable things often happen in these places. So, the participants of the second expedition led by Demin almost crashed during landing and survived only thanks to the skill of the pilots.
“The military landed our helicopter much earlier: it turned out that Air Force planes were supposed to fly over the pyramids at a low altitude,” Volkov said. “It was only by a miracle that we managed to slip through the air corridor when it was finally opened for a short time.”
But the wait was worth it. The miracle that the researchers happened to see exceeded their expectations.
In the hills, overgrown with moss and dwarf trees, one can hardly guess the ancient structures that are familiar to many from the images of the pyramids of Egypt or South America, but these are still pyramids.
Our Kola pyramids are two buildings about 50 meters high, connected by a bridge and oriented to the cardinal points.
“We took a special device on the expedition, the most modern geophysical equipment - the Oko georadar,” Volkov said. – It “sees through” the interior space of any objects, like an x-ray. The conclusion of geologists was unequivocal: the elevations are anthropogenic, therefore, these are not natural hills, but pyramids - the creation of human hands.
But why they were built is not exactly known. Scientists so far only make assumptions and nothing more.
The pyramids stand clearly in the East-West direction. Inside the pyramids, voids or chambers of an unknown destination have been found. Moreover, they were rebuilt three times: the ancient people constantly built them up in height.
According to the functional purpose, the pyramids are an accurate observatory that allows you to monitor the starry sky. Using fairly simple methods, a system was created with the help of which our ancestors recorded galactic changes and studied the Cosmos. In addition, the shape of the pyramids resembles the legendary Mount Meru, the "axis of the world", which is mentioned under various names in various mythologies and world religions.
The oldest pyramid in the world is the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, which dates back to around 2630-2612. BC, but the pyramids of the Kola Peninsula are two times older than the Egyptian ones. Geophysicists conducted research and found that our northern pyramids were built at least 9000 years ago, that is, approximately 5000 years ago. BC. So, we can say with confidence that Egypt is not the cradle of civilization and knowledge did come from the North.
Who built the pyramids? Maybe if you clean all the moss that has grown over the millennia from the walls, the secret of the Golden Key will be revealed and it will turn out that these are the same legendary Hyperboreans that Pliny the Elder wrote about in his Natural History. Or the very Biarmians about whom the ancient Icelanders wrote in their sagas. Or maybe aliens from the depths of space.
Or maybe our distant ancestors from the constellation Ursa Major. published
I will consider only a certain area - this is the upper reaches, the coast and the mouth of the Western Litsa River, the system of lakes of the Andreeva Bay and the system of lakes, which is called the Dragon. I must say right away that I will not stumble into mysticism, which is enough there even without my observations.
Part one. General information, unanswered questions
It's no secret that the Kola Peninsula is still one of the most unexplored places on Earth, and here I have a question - why? What do official sources say? They say that the Kola Peninsula is the richest deposit of minerals (in addition to this, there is an almost one hundred percent supply of rare earth elements), and in general this place is full of valuable natural resources, but at the same time it has not been explored. What is it like? Where is the logic? Official sources refer to the inaccessibility and obstruction ... what?
In general, everything here is clearly somehow, to put it mildly, strange. Moreover, these oddities begin from the time of Nicholas II. After all, it was under him that the railway was built in record time, and not at all political prisoners during the Stalinist repressions, as a common myth says. Even without me, it is known that even during the civil war, strange expeditions led by A. Barchenko and others were sent there.
Much has been written and told about this, but as always - a lot of water and nothing in essence. I would like to focus on a certain period of time. This is the period of hostilities, from 1941 to 1945. Exploring the northwestern part of the Kola Peninsula, I constantly asked myself questions, or rather, they climbed into my head. The first question is why? Second - how? And the third - when? Why did the Germans really invade the Kola Peninsula, or rather, a certain part of it? What was their true purpose? The reader will certainly smile or exclaim indignantly, well, they say, how! Their goal was to capture the city of Murmansk, an ice-free port, part of the northern sea route, etc. But does the reader know that at the end of 1940 (starting from April of the same year) all of Norway belonged to the Germans, with all non-freezing ports and fjords, which made it possible to control the northern sea route almost completely even without Murmansk.
In addition to this, it is enough to look at the Petsamo region (Pechenga, Luostari, etc.) to understand the scale and be puzzled: something is wrong here. It is enough to look at the German airfield in Korzunov, which was used until recently, and at the mouth of the Western Litsa River, where the notorious Nord base was located, around which legends still circulate and which is still being sought ... By the way, I will probably disappoint the seekers and romantics. Everything has long been found and used up to the present moment. Enough with the myths already. On the site of the same “super-secret”, legendary base, there are the bases of the Navy - Nerpichya and Lopatkin. Some of the German structures are still in use today.
Moreover, this place (according to various sources it was 1936-1939) was leased to the Germans by the government of the USSR. In order to be convinced of this personally, it is enough just to come and see for yourself, just walking around the neighborhood.
Again, official historical science cannot answer a simple question - why, when advancing and capturing something, build capital defensive structures on an area of three hundred square kilometers, and this is only an approximate area, perhaps more!
Faced with such facts, I came to the conclusion that the Germans needed exactly the territory that they occupied and carefully guarded, and everything else was nothing more than a masquerade. I must say right away that my conclusions are based only on what I saw personally, and I do not pretend to be the truth. And here two other questions immediately arise - how and when.
For what (in fact) period was built what was built there, starting from strongholds and ending with man-made caves and adits. I'm not talking about roads. There are a lot of roads in that area.
All you have to do is open Google Maps and take a look. Many roads are still (in segments) perfect. I'm not saying that it was in those parts that there was also the longest cable car at that time.
Let me give you a very simple example. In Soviet times, they decided to build an adit in the Nerpichy Bay. It was in peacetime with the use of unlimited labor and modern technology at that time. Construction (essentially a large through hole in the rock) took about ten years. But do I need to say that throughout the entire coast of the north-west of the Kola Peninsula there are such “holes”, of various sizes, of course, if not hundreds, then several dozen for sure?
The question is who and when actually built them? Regarding other structures and especially roads. It is worth taking into account the peculiarities of the northern climate in order to roughly understand that year-round construction is impossible in principle, and even more so in war conditions. I can hardly imagine how this can be done during snowstorms and especially during the polar night, when any such building is like a Christmas tree sparkling with garlands on a moonless night - any Soviet bomber will blow this idea to shreds without even straining (I'm not talking about elementary reconnaissance and naval artillery), but nevertheless the fact is obvious.
There are a lot of roads, there are even more defensive midfielders, and it's all at the dominant heights and everywhere - at a glance. Again, from official sources, we know that active attempts at offensives by the German armies were carried out only at the very beginning of the war. They were accompanied by huge losses on both sides, but stopped almost immediately, after which the Germans went on the defensive, apparently having achieved what they wanted. After that, the land war turned mainly into Soviet landing attacks (in small groups), mostly reconnaissance in nature, as there is a lot of documentary evidence. What follows from this? The true purpose of the Germans' presence in the territory occupied and carefully guarded by them is unknown to me for certain; of course, there are several versions, which I will acquaint readers with later, simply by comparing the facts. Looking ahead, I will say that in my opinion it was on this territory that there was something very important for the Germans, but still unknown to us.
Part two. Seydy
For those who do not know what seids are, I will explain. Seids are megalithic formations of stones of various shapes and sizes, having a certain design and shape. You can meet seids all over the globe, but they are most widespread in the northern regions of our planet. I cannot say for sure whether the seids are man-made, or whether they are a creation of nature. My personal opinion is mixed. As I said, seids come in completely different shapes and sizes. But there are patterns that are very difficult to call random.
For example, seids are never covered with snow. This is easy to check. It is enough just to walk along the hills on any winter day. Ordinary stones can be completely covered, but not seids, the space around them is always clear of snow. This may be due either to the temperature difference, or to some unknown field that they generate. By the way, I read somewhere that the seids radiate something, but I have not yet had the opportunity to test this in practice. But the fact remains that there is no snow around the seids.
Sea seids are huge polygons (rhombuses, quadrangles and hexagons) weighing several tens of tons, standing at dominant heights. These seids are clearly oriented towards the sea. Simply put, if one such seid points in some direction, then if you mentally draw a straight line in the direction of its pointer, you can see where the next one is. Since these giants are located near the sea, the sea itself, guided by the signs, can be found without difficulty.
Seyd landmarks or guides. Such seids are usually egg-shaped, or in the form of pronounced guides, but not as large as marine ones. Again, if you draw a visual line in the direction of the pointer, you can see the next seid, and so on. This pattern is very convenient for walking on rough terrain, as it eliminates surprises in the form of canyons and water. If the direction of the seids coincides with your route, then this is the ideal path. However, try it yourself. Such seids usually indicate the direction either to the "main" seid, or to a group of seids, made in the form of various "stonehenges", stone gardens, "sundial", "mazes" and other bizarre architectural groups.
“Main” seids are usually cubic in shape, which, as if contrary to the laws of physics, stand on small stones, surrounded by stone stools. What is typical for many seids, if the main stone has a dark color, then the pebbles under it are necessarily light or multi-colored. And vice versa.
It is generally accepted that such seids were cult objects for the local population. There are also Seids made in the form of animal heads (bears, wolves, wolverines), in the form of reptiles (crocodiles, dragons).
Tired of the noise of the city? Tired of the hustle and bustle? Looking for a breath of fresh air? - Then let's go to the Northern Weekend!
Russian Lapland- so called the Kola Peninsula. This is an amazing, interesting, mysterious land in the north of the European part of Russia. Perhaps an ideal corner of virgin nature, for those who are looking for new experiences or just want to take a break from the hustle and bustle of people.
We invite you to spend an unforgettable weekend at the tourist base. located in the very center of the Kola Peninsula on the shores of the most beautiful lake Lovozero, far from people and civilization. It combines wild untouched nature and sufficient comfort in the unique style of the original northern settlements.
We will spend three days in the most beautiful northern nature, making radial motor boat trips to interesting natural places, visit the sacred lake - Seydozero, listen to stories about the anomalous zone located here, learn about the traditional life of the Kola Sami, appreciate the delights of home cooking from local natural products in. We are waiting for a bath, fishing, rest by the fire.
The base is located in the forest-tundra on the shore of Lake Lovozero, 25 km from the nearest settlement. There is a warm house at the base, a Sami tent with an open hearth, a Russian bathhouse with 4 rustic-style living rooms, and a kitchen. Toilets are outside but equipped with heaters. There is no water supply, drinking water is taken directly from the lake. The houses are supplied with electricity from a generator. Mobile communication works. Sleeping places - single beds. Please bring your own bathroom amenities, including towels. Exotic lovers can spend the night in a plague on plank beds covered with deer skins, as was customary among the natives. In this case, the fire in the hearth is maintained all night.
Type of travel: rest at the base with radial trips
Duration: 3 days
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Ghost village Dalnie Zelentsy
The village of Dalnie Zelentsy is the extreme point on the Kola Peninsula.
Previously, the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute was located there.
The Murmansk Marine Biological Institute was one of the best institutes in the country.
259 of the 450 inhabitants of the village worked there.
But changes broke out, the institute moved to Murmansk and Dalnie Zelentsy became a ghost village, in which about 20 people live.
I suggest you take a look at the photo essay.
Rybachy Peninsula
Rybachy Peninsula
Middle Peninsula
On the way to Cape German
Kola Peninsula
The unique beauty of northern nature
Dawn on the Barents Sea
Far Zelentsy
corruption
The Noids are shamans who once inhabited the Kola Peninsula, who helped the peoples living there, instructing them on the path of truth. All the inhabitants of the peninsula implicitly obeyed them and practically did not know the troubles. But all good things come to an end.
The sorcerers, famous for their close connection with nature, the special technique of hypnosis and the ability to turn into animals, at one time interested both the Soviet NKVD and the Nazi occult organization Ahnenerbe. Both sides wanted to master the secret knowledge of the shamans and use them for military purposes, but even under the threat of death, the captured Noids did not tell the strangers their secrets.
The mysterious measurement was sent with the help of spirits with which the Noids communicated during certain rituals. They forced the lazy to work with meryachiniya, reconciled enemies and punished criminals, turning them into obedient puppets. The shamans said that it was impossible to hypnotize someone against the will of good - the spirits would not allow it. For refusing to cooperate, almost all the Noids were exterminated, and the survivors disappeared without a trace, but to this day traces of their former existence can be found on the Kola Peninsula.
On some rocky peaks, huge stones are placed in a strange way, which is called seids. The largest ones reach 10 meters in height and weigh about 30 tons. It was the seids that were used by the Noids to obtain their supernatural abilities.
As the instruments showed, the stones emit a radioactive background, which, for unknown reasons, can change over time. Psychics claim that seids have a unique energy that can be enhanced by sacrifices. Moreover, all these mystical boulders form a kind of mental network.
The Lapp Saami living now on the Kola Peninsula have many legends on this topic. They tell about the spirits and creatures of the underworld, which, at the request of mortals, created seids to worship higher powers and conduct rituals. The very word "seid" from the Sami language is translated as "sacred".
One may recall Blavatsky's expression "Stone is crystallized Time". Taking into account the statement of the brilliant Russian scientist Nikolai Kozyrev that time is the most powerful energy in the Universe, it is quite logical to assume that seids were created for beings capable of contacting the Energy of time or the so-called stone force. Without a doubt, the Noids could also use the power of the seids.
Nowadays, huge boulders, surprisingly balancing on mountain ledges, and ancient legends are all that remains of these mysterious shamans.
You may be interested: Rollright Stones - the mystical stones of England, Kummakivi boulder - a miracle of natural balance.
Noids of the Kola Peninsula
The Kola Peninsula is known for legends about the mysterious Noid shamans who once lived in these lands and helped the local peoples. The inhabitants of the peninsula completely trusted and obeyed the Noids.
Rumors about the shamans of the Kola Peninsula, about the ability to communicate with nature and high hypnotic abilities, reached the Soviet secret services of the NKVD and the secret German society Ahnenerbe. Both the one and the second dreamed of capturing the knowledge of the Noids, but none of the captured shamans ever told about the ancient secrets.
Hypnosis, which was possessed by the Noids, called measuring, was induced on large crowds of people with the help of spirits with which the shamans came into contact. With the help of measurement, it was possible to force those who did not want to work, punish the criminal or put the enemy to flight. According to the Noids themselves, the measurement could not be induced with malicious intent, it was possible to hypnotize by this method only with good intentions. The secret services considered this explanation of the noids as a refusal to cooperate and exterminated almost all the sorcerers, and those who managed to stay alive disappeared without a trace.
Even after so many years, traces of Noid rituals can be found on the Kola Peninsula. On high peaks, one can find giant boulders arranged in a certain way, which are called seids. Seids reach a height of up to 10 meters and weigh more than 30 tons. According to legend, it was these stones that gave strength to the Noids. Instrumental examinations conducted by scientists showed that the radiation background of stones can change over time, which contradicts modern knowledge about radiation. Psychics talk about the amazing energy of seids, which is greatly enhanced during sacrifices.
Throughout the peninsula, seids are found, which together form a kind of mental network. The legends of local peoples say that in ancient times, seids were established by the inhabitants of the underworld at the request of the noids, so that people could worship higher powers and perform rituals.
Did you miss the sun? This article is for everyone who is tired of rain and dullness. A week ago I rode more than 300 km on a quad bike in the north of the Kola Peninsula and received such a dose of the beauty of autumn landscapes and colorful colors that I am already ready for winter. Even for two winters in a row.
Friends say that I was very lucky with the weather, and that such an autumn on Kola is a rarity. In any case, next year I will definitely return to the Rybachy Peninsula and will again be charged with the energy and strength of this magical place.
On the way from Murmansk, I sat in the front seat of the minibus and constantly took pictures from the window. And the driver told me - wait, it's all garbage, it will only get better.
Morning fog and federal highway P-21 "Kola" to Norway:
Memorial to the defenders of the Soviet Arctic in the Valley of Glory. In July 1941, fierce battles were going on in the river valley on the right bank of the Zapadnaya Litsa River.
As far as I am calm about all modern memorials, but this place gives me goosebumps:
Suicide notes of Soviet soldiers:
In Titovka we changed to ATVs. That's where the beauty began.
Panorama. Clickable, 4000×857 px:
On some tourist routes, when shooting nature, it was necessary to crop the views in a special way. Otherwise.
It turned out like this. Unfortunately, the road to Rybachy looks like a pig track. We brought all our garbage back to Murmansk:
Vitaly Furman, our captain:
Rocks "Two Brothers" near Cape Zemlyanoy:
Around the rocks, everything is ridden by jeeps and shift workers:
The coast at the red stones:
By the way, an ATV is the most harmless way of transportation. Almost no trace remains of him.
Barents Sea and Norway on the horizon. Clickable, 1920×1200 px:
We spent two nights at the camp site right on Rybachy Island. In the first it was cloudy and with radiance, in the second - a clear night sky with zero solar activity.
Watch and read the continuation of the story in the next series.
Sources: www.geocels.ru, www.liveinternet.ru, darkbook.ru, paranormal.org.ru, loveopium.ru
Many scientific and industrial works are connected with drilling of underground wells. The total number of such facilities in Russia alone is hardly calculable. But the legendary Kola super-deep since the 1990s has remained unsurpassed, going into the thickness of the Earth for more than 12 kilometers! It was drilled not for economic benefit, but out of purely scientific interest - to find out what processes are taking place inside the planet.
The most amazing well in the world is located in the Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the city of Zapolyarny. Its depth is 12,262 meters, the diameter of the upper part is 92 centimeters, and the diameter of the lower part is 21.5 centimeters.
The well was laid in 1970 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. The choice of place was not accidental - it is here, on the territory of the Baltic Shield, that the most ancient rocks, whose age is three billion years old, come to the surface.
Since the end of the 19th century, the theory has been known that our planet consists of a crust, mantle and core. But where exactly one layer ends and the next begins, scientists could only guess. According to the most common version, granites go down to three kilometers, then basalts, and at a depth of 15-18 kilometers the mantle begins. All this had to be tested in practice.
Underground research in the 1960s was like a space race - the leading countries tried to get ahead of each other. The opinion was expressed that the richest deposits of minerals, including gold, are located at great depths.
The Americans were the first to drill super-deep wells. In the early 1960s, their scientists figured out that the Earth's crust is much thinner under the oceans. Therefore, the area near the island of Maui (one of the Hawaiian Islands) was chosen as the most promising place for work, where the earth's mantle is located at a depth of about five kilometers (plus a 4-kilometer water column). But both attempts by researchers from the United States ended in failure.
The Soviet Union had to adequately respond. Our researchers proposed to create a well on the continent - despite the fact that it took longer to drill, the result promised to be successful.
The project became one of the largest in the USSR. 16 research laboratories worked at the well. Getting a job here was no less difficult than getting into the cosmonaut corps. Ordinary employees received a triple salary and an apartment in Moscow or Leningrad. Not surprisingly, there was no staff turnover at all, and at least 50 candidates applied for each position.
Down to a depth of 7263 meters, the drilling was carried out using a conventional serial installation, which at that time was used in the extraction of oil or gas. This phase took four years. Then there was a one-year break for the construction of a new tower and the installation of a more powerful Uralmash-15000 installation, created in Sverdlovsk and called Severyanka. In her work, the turbine principle was used - when not the entire string rotates, but only the drill head.
With each meter passed, it became more difficult to drive. Previously, it was believed that the temperature of the rock, even at a depth of 15 kilometers, would not exceed 150 °C. But it turned out that at a depth of eight kilometers it reached 169 ° C, and at a depth of 12 kilometers it was 220 ° C at all!
The equipment quickly broke down. But the work continued without stopping. The task of being the first in the world to reach the 12-kilometer mark was politically important. It was solved in 1983, just in time for the beginning of the International Geological Congress in Moscow.
Congress delegates were shown soil samples taken from a record depth of 12 kilometers, and a trip to the well was organized for them. Photos and articles about the Kola Superdeep were published in all the world's leading newspapers and magazines, and postage stamps were issued in several countries in her honor.
But the main thing is that a real sensation was prepared especially for the congress. It turned out that rock samples taken at a 3-kilometer depth of the Kola well are completely identical to the lunar soil (it was first brought to Earth by the Soviet automatic space station Luna-16 in 1970).
Scientists have long assumed that the Moon was once part of the Earth and broke away from it as a result of a cosmic catastrophe. Now it was possible to say that the breakaway part of our planet billions of years ago was in contact with the region of the present Kola Peninsula.
The ultra-deep well became a real triumph for Soviet science. Researchers, designers, even ordinary workers were honored and awarded for almost a whole year.
At this time, work on the Kola Superdeep was suspended. They were resumed only in September 1984. And the first launch led to the biggest accident. Employees seem to have forgotten that changes are constantly taking place inside the underground passage. The well does not forgive stopping work - and forces you to start all over again.
As a result, the drill string broke, leaving five kilometers of pipes in the depth. They tried to get them, but after a few months it became clear that this would not be possible.
Drilling work began again from the 7-kilometer mark. The depth of 12 kilometers was reached for the second time only six years later. In 1990, the maximum was reached - 12,262 meters.
And then the work of the well was affected by both failures of a local scale and events taking place in the country. The possibilities of the available equipment were exhausted, state funding decreased sharply. After several serious accidents, drilling was stopped in 1992.
The scientific significance of the Kola Superdeep is difficult to overestimate. First of all, work on it confirmed the conjecture about the rich deposits of minerals at great depths. Of course, precious metals in their pure form were not found there. But at the mark of nine kilometers, layers were discovered with a gold content of 78 grams per ton (active industrial mining is carried out when this content is 34 grams per ton).
In addition, the analysis of ancient deep rocks made it possible to clarify the age of the Earth - it turned out that it is one and a half billion years older than it was commonly thought.
It was believed that there was no and could not be organic life at the superdeep, but 14 previously unknown types of petrified microorganisms were found in soil samples raised to the surface, whose age was three billion years.
Shortly before closing, in 1989, the Kola Superdeep was again in the center of international attention. The director of the well, Academician David Huberman, suddenly received calls and letters from all over the world. Scientists, journalists, just inquisitive citizens were interested in the question: is it true that the super-deep well has become a "well to hell"?
It turned out that representatives of the Finnish press were talking to some employees of the Kola Superdeep. And they admitted: when the drill crossed the mark of 12 kilometers, strange noises began to be heard from the depths of the well. Instead of a drill head, the workers lowered a heat-resistant microphone - and with its help recorded sounds reminiscent of human screams. Some of the employees put forward the version that these are the cries of sinners in hell.
How true are these stories? It is technically difficult to place a microphone instead of a drill, but it is possible. True, work on its descent can take several weeks. And it would hardly have been possible to carry it out at a sensitive facility instead of drilling. But, on the other hand, many employees of the well really heard strange sounds that regularly came from the depths. And what it could be, no one knew for sure.
At the suggestion of Finnish journalists, the world press published a number of articles claiming that the Kola Superdeep is a "road to hell." Mystical significance was also attributed to the fact that the USSR collapsed when the drillers were sinking the "unfortunate" thirteenth thousand meters.
In 1995, when the station had already been mothballed, an incomprehensible explosion occurred in the depths of the mine - if only for the reason that there was nothing to explode there. Foreign newspapers reported that a demon flew out of the bowels of the Earth through a man-made passage to the surface (the publications were full of headlines like "Satan escaped from hell").
The director of the well, David Huberman, honestly admitted in an interview: he does not believe in hell and demons, but an incomprehensible explosion did take place, as well as strange noises resembling voices. Moreover, a survey conducted after the explosion showed that all the equipment was in perfect order.
For a long time, the well was considered mothballed, about 20 employees worked on it (in the 1980s, their number exceeded 500). In 2008, the facility was completely closed and part of the equipment was dismantled. The ground part of the well is a building the size of a 12-storey building, now it is abandoned and is gradually being destroyed. Sometimes tourists come here, attracted by legends about voices from hell.
According to employees of the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which previously managed the well, its restoration would cost 100 million rubles.
But we are no longer talking about scientific work at depth: on the basis of this object, you can only open an institute or another enterprise for training offshore drilling specialists. Or create a museum - after all, the Kola well continues to be the deepest in the world.