Chelyabinsk regional village which is not on the map. We calculate the abandoned villages. "Sorcerers are to blame for everything!"
The Sverdlovsk village of Rastess has been terrifying the people of the Urals for fifty years. According to legend, the village disappeared in one moment. The neighbors had not seen anyone from Rastess for a long time and sent several strong men there to check if everything was in order. The villagers returned pale and frightened. “There is not a single inhabitant left in the village,” they said. - At the same time, all things lie in their places. The furniture and icons were intact, there were dishes on the tables, and on one porch there was a book at all, open as if its owner had departed and would soon return.
Another shock awaited the neighboring peasants at the village cemetery: the graves were excavated ... Half a century later, KP journalists conducted their own investigation and found out what really happened in the mysterious village ...
"THE WIZARDS ARE TO BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING!"
Sorcerers have always lived near Rastess. They are said to have settled there in the 15th century, even before they laid the Babinovsky tract, which led from central Russia to Siberia. It was on this road that the village of Rastess arose. But sorcerers have always disliked alien people who settled on their territory ...
We are sitting in the cozy kitchen of Vladimir Ilyichenko, a resident of the village of Pavda. From the ruins of Rastess to Pavda, 25 kilometers. We stopped here to find out from the locals how best to get to the ruins.
“We want to unravel the mystery of the disappearance,” we chattered amiably to the natives. But they only waved them off and twisted their fingers at their temples. Like, I'm tired of living. Only Vladimir Petrovich showed hospitality. He invited me to warm up at his house. But as soon as we took a sip of hot tea with fragrant raspberry jam, the old man began to use "tales from the crypt."
Some resident of Rastess will go into the forest, come across this witch tribe, those thoughts will powder his thoughts. The person will return to his house, but he cannot go inside, he walks around, but he does not seem to see the door. Apparently hypnotized. Grandma told me this! It seems to me that the sorcerers stole all of Rastess for their rites.
We thank you for the afternoon snack and hurriedly get ready to go. Well, what kind of sorcerers? 21st century in the yard. And we continue to rush after us "Unpublished fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm":
If you suddenly hear mournful singing, close your ears. This mermaids can sing from the river. Sometimes they sing for several days, calling trouble ...
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So why are we sitting? We take backpacks and go on foot. We will definitely not go further, - our driver smiles gloomily when our Skoda is bogged down in a mud mess.
We are 500 kilometers from Yekaterinburg. The very outskirts of the Sverdlovsk region. There is an unfriendly forest around, underfoot there is a snowy swamp, through which it is difficult to move, and not a soul around. Here you involuntarily begin to believe in the tales of the old man from Pavda. We listen and shudder. Nearby someone sings ... Swept by! It was our driver who pulled the "Birches" of the "Lube" group.
Shuddering from every rustle, we still managed to cover the necessary kilometers. It looks like we should be in the abandoned Rastess by now. But we are standing in the middle of the field! And no sorcerers, no mermaids around. Although at minus five the latter, perhaps, are incapacitated.
Or maybe grandfather Vladimir spoke the truth, - the driver crosses himself in fear. “Maybe it was the sorcerers who made us get lost?!
Suddenly, a loud voice is heard from behind: "Hey you." “It’s like the sorcerers found it!”, We look at each other in horror.
Guys, what are you doing here? a man approaches us, dressed from head to toe in camouflage. - I'm Sergei. Forester.
When we share our editorial task with a new acquaintance, he smiles sympathetically:
Here is your Rustess. We are right now standing in the place of the village. For half a century, no stone was left unturned. Although what are the stones here. All buildings were wooden.
Well, what do you think - where did all the locals go? Did they really disappear? we are interested.
And who told you that everyone disappeared? I personally know one woman from Rustess. Alive and well. Lives in the town of Kytlym. It's close here. Kilometers 20. Visit her!
"GRAVES HAVE BEEN DIGGED BY Fugitive Prisoners"
Guys, you can’t even imagine how sorry I am for Rustess, - 65-year-old Lyudmila Polovnikova meets us. “Oh, those tales of tourists. No one in our village disappeared.
And sorcerers did not live in the forests? We sigh in disappointment.
I beg you, - the old woman laughs. - Although the "devils" sometimes dropped in on us. That's what we called runaway convicts. A colony was built next to the village after the communists came to power. And, it happened, all sorts of bandits escaped from there. And we had gold mined in Rastess. So the fugitives first of all came to us - they robbed themselves for a new life.
Many families just left because of the prisoners. For some reason, there was a rumor among the prisoners: there is so much gold in Rastess that the locals, when they bury people, even put gold in the coffin. These scumbags in hiding once ransacked the entire cemetery. Of course, this scared the locals, and they left.
Of the former residents of Rastes, Lyudmila Anatolyevna maintains relations only with her childhood friend Vera Popova. We meet with her in her current small homeland, in Krasnoturinsk.
I remember the times when there were more than thirty houses in Rastess, - Vera Mikhailovna sighs. - They lived with large families, everything was always lively, fun. Problems began to arise gradually. The school, which used to teach until the seventh grade, switched to elementary mode. This, of course, did not suit the parents, and they began to take their children to the neighboring village of Tylai. When the children began to be taken away to study in other villages, the village became noticeably empty. And then troubles rained down: the school was closed completely, then the club and the first-aid post disappeared ... The boiling point for the Rastessians was the closure of a single store. It took everything you need: sugar, flour, sometimes sweets. When the store closed, everyone began to leave en masse. What to do there? Judge for yourself: no hospital, no store, no school, only prisoners roam like their homes.
- Why did the inhabitants of Rastess not take their belongings with them during the resettlement? - we are perplexed.
Think for yourself, and who will drag furniture with them off-road? - Vera Mikhailovna chuckles. - Here are the icons, yes, it's a pity: someone had a lot of images, and it was not possible to take everything.
- And who could come up with a legend about the disappeared Rastess?
Yes, anyone! The men from the neighboring village could very well be real: for example, they saw the village still blooming, and then they came and stumbled upon empty houses. If there was among them a connoisseur of local folklore, he could easily imagine that all the inhabitants had disappeared. Rumors in the villages spread instantly. And then, probably, some tourists came in. And the notoriety of the village in Russia rushed. Rastess was named by our ancestors in honor of the Babinovsky tract. People then said that they were “cleaving the forests”, that is, they were paving the way. So this legend has paved its way for many years to come.
An almost extinct rural-type settlement in the Chelyabinsk region. Selki - used to be the name of small settlements. There are three streets in the village, and the population of the village is 3 people. The main part of the village is located a little further from the road. Part of the village near the road is the ruins of wooden huts.
Another abandoned village after the release at the Lighthouse. Like most towns and villages, it was resettled and razed to the ground. Only the church survived - the Church in the name of Simeon Verkhotursky the Righteous. The Bulzinskoye Compound - the settlement of the Novo-Tikhvinsky Monastery - was founded in the 60s of the 19th century. According to the inventory of 1910, there were 52 buildings in it, including the stone cathedral In the Name of Simeon of Verkhoturye the Righteous with a chapel of St. Magdalene. After the barbaric...
The village was born in the early forties along with a calibration plant that arose from scratch on the basis of equipment of hardware enterprises evacuated from the western regions of the country. The workers' settlement was specially created next to the plant: in wartime and in the post-war years, this was very important. But in subsequent years, such a neighborhood became extremely undesirable. The proximity of the sulfuric acid pickling baths of the calibration plant has become far from...
The history of the Muslyumovo village (on the Techa River, 50 kilometers from Chelyabinsk) resembles the Chernobyl accident, stretched over half a century. Unlike the Chernobyl disaster in Muslyumovo, nothing has been done to save people who, apparently, are part of a medical experiment on the effects of radiation on humans.
The two-storey building of the plant management of the Ust-Katavsky plant near the city dam was built in the last decade of the nineteenth century, it is an architectural monument of regional significance. Later, the building housed a junior high school. Now the building is abandoned, reconstruction is planned.
The temple was built in 1835. The church was closed in 1930. It was used as a granary, and then as a garage. The frescoes are well preserved in the building. The vault of this church, according to an eyewitness, collapsed in the early 2000s. Metal assemblers drove up, cut off the metal air ties of the roof by welding, loaded them into a car and left. And in the morning, a powerful cylindrical vault collapsed, which, with strands, could stand for another hundred years. Therefore, the main quadruple ...
The church was founded in 1838. In the 1930s it was closed and served as a workshop for tractors. The entrance has been expanded for cars. The frescoes inside have not been preserved. There are no plans to restore the temple.
The stone church was founded in 1843. The construction was completed in 1848. The warm aisle was consecrated in 1850 in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The cold, main temple was consecrated in 1863 in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The temple was closed in the 30s of the 20th century. Served as a warehouse. The temple is currently abandoned. Cracks crept along the walls, part of the dome and light drum collapsed. In some places, the floor collapsed, allowing you to get into a vast ...
KZTs "Jubilee" was built in 1970. At that time belonged to the Plastics plant. About ten years ago it was abandoned in connection with the transfer to the ownership of the city of Kopeysk. In Soviet times, all sorts of events were held here, such as circles for children, concerts, film screenings. On the territory there was a fountain with a metal monument to the pioneers (the latter has now been sawn out). Apparently, attempts were made to reconstruct the palace, ...
Urukul church is small, it was built in 1910. At the same time, a parochial school and a house for a priest were erected. The priest's house today houses a gingerbread shop, the building of the parochial school has been given over to a residential building. The church once had a club. Now it is in a ruined state - there is no roof, floor, doors. Even 2 years ago they talked about its restoration, but it never came to the point. About the name of the data church today...
One-altar stone church, in honor of Michael the Archangel. Located in the village of Feklino, which stands next to the lake of the same name. Year of construction 1866. Temple of the new Byzantine type, cross-domed, without light drum. On the walls of the temple part, in contrast to the bell tower and the refectory, remains of plaster have been preserved. And the nature of the brickwork is different. The bell tower and the refectory are finished with red facing bricks. emergency condition...
Temple in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Kirdy, built in the 19th century. The exact date of construction was not known. In Soviet times, it was closed, and the building was successively housed - a horse yard, then a machine and tractor station. The thickness of the walls of the Church of the Intercession is amazing. Literally a few meters from the church, a village house of culture was built, which is also abandoned at the present time.
In almost every big trip, a segment of the route is obtained, passing in a place remote from civilization. Usually this stretch of another hundred kilometers takes a whole day, and if there is something to shoot there or not, it depends on luck.
A trip to the South Urals was no exception. All of today's photos were taken far from large settlements and roads. Coordinates (suddenly you are also going there) can be viewed in the properties of the photo.
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The entrances to Voznesenka gladdened the inhabitants with their political intuition. Who there said that the election results do not reflect reality?
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Voznesenka itself is famous for its large old church. The church is in good working order. Nearby there is a monument to the abolition of serfdom.
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Around the traces of a huge collective farm. There is no collective farm, the hangars are being destroyed, the canteen is closed. Everything is like everywhere else.
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The places are very beautiful, people live.
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Little Bashkir
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And these are the inhabitants of the village of Muldashevo. Somewhere here there should be abandoned buildings of the factory of tsarist times.
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Despite the remoteness, about a hundred people live in the village and there are not many abandoned houses.
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The village, by the way, is quite old and centuries-old houses and gates have been preserved in it.
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Hearing the sound of the ax went to the sound. The men are cutting down an extension to the house.
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The population here is mostly Bashkir, they speak a mixture of Russian with something. It's not always clear.
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I did not understand how to find the plant, there seems to be no road to the Chelyabinsk region either.
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Local cowboy. The boy practically did not speak Russian, but he really wanted to help. Yes, there is a factory, but there are only walls and you can’t get through there now. So what if it's summer, you won't pass. What else is interesting? Never mind. There is an abandoned village nearby. Yes, you can drive. But on horseback, you will not pass and wolves live there now.
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Brother. Cowboy junior.
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Summer holidays are in full swing. By the way, I saw the store, but I didn’t notice something about the school. Maybe he looked bad.
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We left, almost digging in the clay, back in our footsteps and reached the stella on the local road. Purely theoretically, if you go further, you can drive straight to Leninsk. In practice, the road ends in the nearest village, and then there is a broken path. We were unlucky, it rained all day, the paths were washed away and we turned around in search of a more civilized passage.
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There is a memorial stone next to the stele. From this crossroads, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages escorted their men to two wars.
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This is Leninsk. The village is absolutely not interesting, there is not even a monument to Ilyich.
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A resident of another village on the next border of Bashkortostan and the Chelyabinsk region.
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Why do kids love to wear shoes in reverse so much?
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Approximately there. In Muratovka there is an old wooden church, but in very poor condition. In very.
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Despite the close civilization, the village makes a depressing impression. Old rickety houses, dirty cows, a bunch of dogs, a collapsed church and a clubhouse…
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Local farmer. He bought the land, two tractors, raises pigs with his wife, sows something. The house is good, strong, cheerful itself. For a photo, he planted a pig in a tractor without question
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For a snack, the lord of ducklings at the spontaneous poultry and livestock market near Ufa.
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That's all. On that day, we still wandered in search of roads, but nothing worthy of attention was found.
The village of Popovka is located in a picturesque corner of the Chebarkulsky district - in the middle of Varlamovsky pine forest, by the way, a difficult forest area, and a regional natural monument classified as a forest reserve. It was here that in the early 70s an industrial facility of national importance was built - shop No. 11 for the extraction and enrichment of uranium concentrate. The manufacturing enterprise was part of the mining association -...
The ruins of the Sinaro-Uralsky distillery The plant is an L-shaped building, consisting of a three-story administrative (in the corner part) and two-story production parts (in the wings). Before the revolution, he produced alcoholic products, including Yerofeich and Spotykach liqueurs. The drinks were of high quality, in beautiful bottles covered with a complex pattern, the stickers were of high printing quality. Snow lovers...
The facility is a huge warehouse for sorting and storing grain with many underground and aboveground conveyors. Everything is intact and in working order down to the usual light bulbs. A branch of railway tracks enters the territory, although, judging by the rails, it has not been used for a long time. Also on the territory there is a whole fleet of abandoned agricultural machinery, drilling rigs, etc. We did not encounter security, but traces of presence ...
Troitsk diesel plant is a huge complex of buildings. The aluminum alloy casting workshop is located in three separate buildings with a total area of 4500 sq. m. The plant is surrounded by a two-meter fence around the perimeter, which is very easy to climb, because metal bars stick out of it in places. Throughout the factory and inside the buildings there is a pile of iron. The fact that the so-called "throwers" have not yet reached him ...
The fat plant, located in the city of Troitsk, during its lifetime produced mayonnaise, vegetable food fats, glycerin soap, household soap, soap for laundries. Completely abandoned presumably in 2009. On the territory there are about ten buildings of different preservation. There are buildings built a very long time ago, for example, an electrical substation, and other workshops are modern. There are two small cooling towers. There are almost no “fillings” of shops left. Near...
Former cement plant thresher. Located outside the city. Approximately 1940s built. Previously, it was a whole district, there were houses - the workers of the plant lived in them. Now there are only ruins. Walls and some ceilings remained in all buildings. The threshing machine had 3 floors, but it will no longer be possible to get there. There were 2 workshops and a warehouse on the territory. There were also 2 bunkers for storing finished cement. There were 2 capital 2-storey apartment buildings and ...
The plant in Zlatoust, which is now called Bulat. On its territory, the dismantling of everything that is sold is actively underway. The territory of the plant is huge - there is a large boiler room, impressive workshops, warehouses. In the largest workshop, all the machines were taken out, only bare walls remained. In the boiler room, everything is in its place, but they will soon get to it. There is a warehouse across the river, the doors of which are sealed. From protection - only dogs.
An abandoned workshop near an operating enterprise in the city of Kyshtym. Small in area, consists of a production facility and several rooms. There was no equipment left inside, only some furniture in the administrative part. There are remnants of Soviet posters on the walls. It is located in close proximity to the fence of an operating enterprise, so there is a risk of being barked by dogs.
