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Abandoned cemeteries always evoke melancholy and leave an unpleasant aftertaste. It is tragic to realize that human life is forgotten and, it turns out, that a person was not needed during his lifetime. Photos of abandoned cemeteries should serve as a reproach to the living, while for the most part photos of abandoned cemeteries evoke dry, dry responses of weak indignation or even leave many indifferent. Over time, abandoned cemeteries acquire the status of “useless” and, as a result, disappeared cemeteries. The fact that cemeteries are disappearing is, I think, even to the benefit of some, although this, of course, can be recognized as a natural process: life is not eternal, and neither is death. The abandoned cemeteries of Moscow are a whole layer of culture that should be protected as historical monument, however, there is also an ambiguous attitude towards monuments in our country. The history of churchyards in Rus' is long. They were buried at monasteries and in the Kremlin itself, and in Moscow in the 17th century there were about three hundred necropolises. Of course, if they had survived, many of the living would not have had a place. In 1771, the taboo on burials of plague victims in the city was lifted, and at the same time Danilovskoye, Kalitnikovskoye, Pyatnitskoye, Rogozhskoye and many others were opened, including those that would disappear later: Dorogomilovskoye, Semenovskoye, etc. In the time that followed the Revolution there was a powerful push to the renewal of Moscow, in connection with which the need arose for the improvement of the city territory. The liquidation of the cemetery then began with the monastic necropolises of Alekseevsky, Danilov, Perervinsky, Simonov and a number of others, and Vorontsovsky, Butyrskoye, Vladykinskoye, Deguninskoye and other subsequently destroyed and abandoned cemeteries were also partially damaged. Remains famous people were transferred to Novodevichye, Vostryakovskoye, Vagankovskoye, the graves of ordinary people were compared to the ground. In the 60s, the Khovrinskoye, Zyuzinskoye, and Yurlovskoye cemeteries were destroyed, and in their place are now residential areas. Nowadays, the situation with the destruction of cemeteries is better: this is prohibited by current legislation, although this rule does not apply to abandoned cemeteries in Moscow; such cemeteries appear to be isolated from the city, and their fate can be anything. Among the most famous abandoned and destroyed cemeteries are Filevskoye, Semenovskoye, Lazarevskoye and some others. Filevskoe cemetery. Burials there stopped back in 1956, and relatives were given the opportunity to rebury the remains of their loved ones. The deadline for this was short - a year, and as a result, only one of the five graves was moved. The project to build a tunnel, which was planned to be done at this site, was rejected. They returned to this place in 1970, when the State Storage Facility was being built. The remaining graves were then taken to a landfill in the Brateev area. Rows of abandoned graves lay parallel to the Moscow River. Among the graves there were different people social status, obviously of different incomes and positions. Entire centuries of Russian history were opened up by excavators, and then covered with crushed stone and leveled to the ground. There were also skeletons on which military uniforms had survived, presumably from the time Patriotic War 1812. However, the status of defenders of the homeland did not affect these ashes in any way when pronouncing a verdict.

Semenovskoe cemetery. Semenovskoye is not an abandoned cemetery, however, its destruction was not clearly necessary, as was the case with the planned tunnel under the metro and Filevsky churchyard. The location of the cemetery is Izmailovskoye Highway, 2. Initially, the cemetery church was converted into an office, and by 1935 they announced the cessation of burials. In 1966, the cemetery no longer existed at all. For a long time, the church building housed production compartments, and a park was laid out on the site of the cemetery. Part of the territory was given to the Salyut plant. Brotherly Cemetery. In the area of ​​the current Sokol metro station there were lands that in 1915 were given away for the burial of defenders of the fatherland who fell at the fronts or died in hospitals. Fifteen years later, the territory was reduced, and after another twenty, the cemetery was completely eliminated, establishing a park in its place. The cemetery is reminiscent of the surviving monument to student Schlichter and the memorial signs erected in honor of the victims. Lazarevskoe cemetery. Lazarevskoye was the largest and first city cemetery in Moscow since 1658. The story of the death begins in 1917. In 1932, the authorities announced the liquidation of the church and confiscation of property, and already in 1936 the cemetery was completely closed. The park on the site of the cemetery was opened in 1938 for the Spring and Labor Day, where Soviet teenagers, according to eyewitnesses, played football with human skulls. In 1991, the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit was restored.

In loss reports 42nd Rifle Corps of the Red Army , which held back the offensive in 1941 Wehrmacht to the city of Kandalaksha, there are indications of the burial places of Soviet soldiers “in the Alakurtti area”, “at the Alakurtti railway station”, “in Alakurtti”, “on the bank of Tuntsajoki”. Today, in the immediate vicinity of the village of Alakurtti, only one municipal and one military memorial cemetery is known. All of them are located on the right bank of the Tuntsajoki River. At the same time, the military memorial on the right bank of the river. Tuntsajoki was opened May 9, 1961 on the site of the reburials of the remains of Soviet soldiers carried out here.

This article will focus on a little-known abandoned cemetery located on the eastern outskirts of the village of Alakurtti.

NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN!

Military memorial in the village. Alakurtti has undergone reconstruction several times. With each change to the memorial, there was a loss of historical information about the soldiers buried here and the place of their original burial. As a result, it became impossible to establish the number of soldiers buried at the memorial. The modern appearance of the memorial cemetery is shown in the photo below.

The document from 1960 indicates that Shumilova V.V. together with ten soldiers of the 2/273rd regiment, they were buried “in a mass grave” in the village. Alakurtti. From this fact we can conclude that on the right bank of the river. By 1960, reburials of the remains of Soviet soldiers were already taking place in Tuntsajoki. It is possible that the remains of soldiers were transferred here from other military graves located along the Alakurtti-Kairala road. Hero's Tomb Soviet Union, deputy political instructor N.F. Danilov was moved from the Nenepalo tract. How it was possible to discover his grave, located far from the roads, among the swamps, remains a mystery to me.
In fairness, it can be noted that the graves of the Heroes of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov A.K. and Gryaznova A.M. not on any of the memorials. At the memorial there are slabs perpetuating the memory of them. Although for most village residents, installed memorial stones are a sign of burial.
The bodies of both Major Kuznetsov (chief of staff of the 273rd regiment) and Corporal Gryaznov (commander of the T-37 tank) were left on the battlefield, in territory captured by the enemy. It is possible that the grave of N.F. Danilov They were looking for veterans’ testimonies specifically for a significant burial at the memorial being opened in Alakurtti.
The memorial plaques on the modern Alakurtta memorial are located without any chronological sequence. True, in the first row of the memorial, in front of the grave of N.F. Danilov. a plate indicating 24 unknown warriors was installed. The date of their burial is not specified. I can assume that the remains of those soldiers who were reburied at the memorial before 1961 rest here. There is no information about this slab, which means the memory of the soldiers buried under it is forever forgotten.

After the end of the war, in the territory of the present municipalities JV Alakurtti and JV Zarechensk, as well as in the Republic of Karelia, near Kestenga and Sofporog, several memorial military cemeteries were created. To these cemeteries, it is not clear on what basis, the remains of Soviet soldiers found in the Alakurtti region during logging and exhumed from the surrounding wartime graves were brought.
From the Verman Frontier to Kuolajärvi, such memorials are located at km 88 and 102 of the old road, as well as in Kairala, Alakurtti and near the Kuolajärvi checkpoint. Currently, the remains of Soviet soldiers exhumed by search teams are buried only in Alakurtti. There is no reliable information about all these burials. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the authorities and society as a whole are indifferent to such facts. And this is a key sign of the absence of Culture in Russia.

ALAKURTI RAILWAY STATION

Just before the start of the war, the 1st Tank Division of the Red Army (1TD) was sent to Kandalaksha from near Pskov. After unloading at the station. Alakurtti, the main parts of this division were stationed on the right bank of the river. Tuntsajoki. In the same area, only on the left bank of the river, downstream, the headquarters of the 42nd Rifle Corps was located.
June 22, 1941 Germany, without declaring war, launched a military invasion of the territory of the USSR. In the Arctic, in the Kandalaksha direction, the enemy continued to concentrate units 36th Mountain Infantry Corps close to the Soviet border. Finland did not declare war on the USSR, but provided its territory to the German Army "Norway" (since 1942 - Army "Lapland") for the invasion of the Soviet Arctic.

Before July 1st The Germans limited themselves to sending sabotage groups to the rear of the Soviet rifle corps and attacking border outposts. Enemy aircraft freely bombed our outposts and railway stations in Kuolajärvi, Kairala and Alakurtti, where personnel and equipment of the units were unloaded 42nd Rifle Corps of the 14th Army of the Northern Front .

When the 1st mechanized regiment of the 1TD arrived from Kandalaksha and unloaded at the station. Alakurtti, the air raids did not stop all day. Regimental telephone operator Hadegadli died when a bomb from a Junkers hit the wooden station building of the station. Alakurtti. The telephone operator who worked there PetrenkoO.S. was wounded, but continued to work until a replacement arrived. And yet the unloading went well - not a single tank or armored vehicle was damaged.
July 8, 1941 in one of the next raids by enemy aircraft, fragments of an air bomb near the switch Zharkova Anna Petrovna Both legs were wounded. To remove loaded trains from fire, it was necessary to move the switches to local dead-end branches. Despite the pain and explosions of air bombs, Anna Petrovna continued to fulfill her duties. For his feat Zharkov A.P. was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". In 2015, on the building of the station. Alakurtti a memorial plaque was unveiled in her honor.

On the same day, when a train with ammunition arrived in Alakurtti, an enemy air raid began. The station was filled with trains, and the station with wounded Red Army soldiers. The roar of anti-aircraft guns, bomb explosions, machine gun fire. Many wounded people died at the station from a direct hit, and special tracks were disabled. The dead were buried somewhere near the station.

As a result of the air raid, 10 carriages were smashed and 4 tracks were destroyed.

July 21, 1941 during the next enemy air raid on the station. Alakurtti and the Head Artillery Depot, the Red Army guard Ignatiev V.E. remained at his post and was killed by an explosion of an aerial bomb. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Courage.

August 24, 1941, with the threat of encirclement created, the headquarters of the 42nd Rifle Corps gave its units the order to retreat from the “Kairal line” to Alakurtti and to Voita station. At the Alakurtti railway station, cargo was continuously loaded into trains and sent out.

August 28, 1941 In 1960, German-Finnish units approached bridgehead positions near the Tuntsajoki River, defended by units of the 42nd Rifle Corps of the Red Army. The command of the Soviet corps did not hope to push the enemy back from Alakurtti and had already August 29 platoon of sappers 6 ovzhb It was ordered to mine and blow up all the infrastructure of the railway station. Under the leadership of Sergeant F. G. Kiselyov, the water pumping station and water tower were blown up and the station building was burned.

MILITARY GRAVES IN ALAKURTI

As the front line moved east (at the end of August 1941), the fallen Soviet soldiers who died from wounds were buried along the road to Alakurtti and Kandalaksha.
During the period of fighting at the bridgehead positions near Alakurtti itself (August 28-30, 1941), loss reports already indicate burial places located on the eastern bank of the river. Tuntsajoki and Alakurtti station. Obviously, they were buried somewhere east of the station.

In the rearguard battle (in the evening of August 30), covering the retreat of the 1st battalion of the 273rd rifle regiment Art. Lieutenant Geraskin, the border guards of the 101st Infantry Regiment of the NKVD were pressed against the Tuntsajoki River, and under machine-gun and mortar fire from the Germans they swam to the opposite bank. According to the recollections of veterans, no one covered the withdrawal of the border guards. In that battle near the railway bridge, about 100 border guards died and drowned while crossing. To this day, no monument or memorial sign has been erected in this place.
From the memoirs of the political instructor of the 2nd battalion of the 101st border regiment Areshin, it is known that only he and a small group of border guards managed to cross to the left bank of the river. Tuntsajoki. An explosion was heard behind him and the bridge structures collapsed into the river. When the bridges exploded, two sappers of the 1st Motorized Infantry Regiment went missing.

In the early 90s, the Head of the Village Council S.M. Olenich invited divers to Alakurtti to search the local lakes for planes that had fallen during the war. Then, at the bottom of Tuntsajoki, a truss from a railway bridge was mistaken for a fragment of an airplane. Having examined the bottom of the river in the area of ​​the bridge, the divers picked up a lot of weapons that could only belong to Soviet border guards. No one deigned to publish the results of this event and make a report. I know this fact from letter of thanks CM. Olenich written at the request of the divers themselves.

In 1941-44, the Alakurtti region was under German occupation, and probably memorial signs (stars) on the graves Soviet soldiers were dumped or destroyed.

After a topographic survey was carried out in these places in 1953, a map at a scale of 1:50000 appeared. On this map, on the outskirts of the village of Alakurtti you can see a rural cemetery, a mass grave and two memorial signs.

Rural municipal cemetery, located on the right bank of the river. I have known Tuntsajoki, which is on the first kilometer of the Alakurtti-Kuolajärvi road, since 1969. Judging by the map, this cemetery existed until 1953, and may have been organized back in 1945 when the Alakurtta military garrison was stationed here.
One of my acquaintances, a resident of Alakurtti, told me that once, during the funeral of his relative in this cemetery, the grave of a serviceman was accidentally opened. There was a red pillow under the head of the deceased, which indicates a post-war burial.

In the lower right corner of this map there is a mass grave. The very indication that this grave is a mass grave suggests that the burial dates back to the autumn offensive of 1944 by the 19th Army of the Karelian Front. Today this burial no longer exists.

In the "Burial Book" of the Military Medical Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR there is an indication of this burial, located 4 km of the Tuntsajoki River southeast of the village. Alakurtti. This is the site of a sand and gravel quarry.

In November 1944, two officers were buried in this sand pit:

2). On November 19, 1944, St. was buried in a nearby grave. Lieutenant of the reserve officers of the 19th Army Yakovlev Viktor Fedorovich (born 1922). Died as a result of murder. Was picked up on the road.

According to information from BD Memorial, Tretyak Y.I. and Yakovlev V.F. are listed as reburied at the military memorial cemetery at the 14th km of the road in the village of Zarechensk.

Once, in conversations with the residents of Alakurtti, one of them told me a story.

No one remembers what year it was, but while digging a pit near the road, human bones fell from the excavator bucket. In order not to delay the work, the pit was quietly filled in, and a new hole was dug somewhere nearby. Where exactly this happened was not specified, but it was pointed towards the entrance to the village from Kandalaksha.

On the above topographic map of 1953, at the entrance to the village along the Alakurtti-Kandalaksha road, a memorial sign is indicated. Since the topographers did not provide any additional information, we can conclude that this place is associated with the fighting of 1941. The memorial sign was apparently erected after the war at the request of the veterans who fought in these places.

Today, on the site of this memorial sign there is a gas station, with fuel containers buried in the sand nearby. By analogy with other military burials that were organized in the rear of our troops along the main roads with sandy soil on the side, this place was suitable for burial by all criteria. Apparently, there was no exhumation from this burial, otherwise there would have been a second slab with the missing date of reburial on the war memorial on the right bank of Tuntsajoki. However, we can have anything...

At the entrance to the village of Alakurtti, where the gas station is located today, a memorial sign was once installed. Perhaps this is where the burial place of Soviet soldiers who died in July-August 1941 was located. An unknown cemetery behind the railway may be the burial place of employees and military personnel who died during air raids on the station. Alakurtti.

One day, from the Head of the MoS SP Alakurtti, I heard about a little-known abandoned cemetery located somewhere behind the railway crossing in front of Alakurtti. A.O. Vladimirov also said that, according to local residents, there was once a farmstead next to this cemetery and the cemetery allegedly belonged specifically to it. I saw destroyed shacks, either left over from the Germans or built in the first post-war years, near the airfield back in the early 70s. But it is unlikely that the authorities would allow the establishment of any kind of cemetery next to the railway, at the entrance to a closed military town. Moreover, on the first kilometer of the Alakurtti-Kuolajärvi road there was already a rural cemetery. At that time, the main transport connection between Alakurtti and Kandalaksha was the railway.
But during the hostilities of August 1941, on the eastern outskirts of the station. Alakurtti could well have created burial points. A divisional or regimental burial point was usually organized next to the main communication line several kilometers from the front line. Those killed during air raids on a railway station or airfield could be buried in a separate cemetery, also somewhere on the eastern outskirts near the railway and highway.

If you look again at the 1953 map, there is another memorial sign above the gas station, behind the railroad. At the beginning of the war, a railway and a highway passed near the indicated place.
Due to the obvious coincidence of location, we can conclude that the second memorial on the 1953 map indicates exactly the indicated A.O. Vladimirov abandoned cemetery. Topographers were confident of the military origin of the burial, otherwise they would have marked it as a civilian cemetery.

Three years later, I accidentally came across this cemetery.

AN ABANDONED CEMETERY ON THE OUTSIDE OF ALAKURTI

In a small area fenced off by a fence that had collapsed in some places, I counted five monuments (there may be more graves). Here I saw an Orthodox cross installed not so long ago. Similar crosses were installed in places of battles and burials of Soviet soldiers throughout the territory of the Alakurtti Military District.

An inspection of the cemetery showed the following.

1. The three farthest graves are the oldest and most massive. It may very well be that they date back to 1939-41. There may be other graves between graves 3, 4, 5, since the monuments are not located in a row.

2. The two monuments in the foreground have best condition wood, possibly due to higher quality painting and later origin.

3. There are no inscriptions preserved on any of the monuments. There is no sign in the niche of the wooden wall of the right monument No. 5. It is obvious that the sign was made of metal. A star crowned a pointed pin.
4. On monument No. 3 there are traces of red paint, which corresponds to a military burial. A frame for a photograph or picture may indicate an individual grave (perhaps an officer).

6. Perhaps some fragments are missing from the monuments. Only monument No. 4, painted blue, looks intact. Judging by its shape and color, it can be assumed that a pilot was buried here.
During the time the MIG-15 fighters were based at the Alakurtti airfield, there was one accident. The pilot who died then could have been buried in this cemetery. As can be seen in the photograph, the monument has retained its fresh blue paint color, i.e. he was followed longer than the others.
7. All monuments are made in the form of pyramids, which is typical for military graves of the Soviet period. There is no cross on any of the graves. There are also no stars on the monuments.

It can be assumed that the stars from the monuments were removed by the Germans during the occupation, and the plaques from the monuments could have been removed, or the inscriptions on them could have been erased, on the instructions of a special department to hide information about our losses. Or maybe, with the beginning of the orgy of creating fraternal war memorials, the stars were removed from the monuments by a person who did not want the destruction of this cemetery. If an exhumation had been carried out here, then fragments from other monuments would have been scattered on the site and mossy earthen hills would have been observed.

8. The top photo shows that the fence of the nearest (oldest) grave has a different shape, different from the general fence of the cemetery. A fragment of a similar fence lies in the moss on a nearby grave. Consequently, initially, the three oldest graves were surrounded by a common high fence. The grave closest to us is furnished with fragments from this fence and therefore there is no entrance to the fence. Everything suggests that this grave was once treated with greater reverence than others.

It is possible that it was here that military personnel and employees who died during German air raids on the Alakurtti railway station and airfield were buried.

For comparison, I will give one example. Near the checkpoint in Kuolajärvi, next to the road there is a cemetery. On one of the monuments painted white, crowned with a star, I managed to find the date of death of the deceased - 1962 (father and son drowned in the river). The cemetery in Kuolajärvi looks like this.

And this is what the monuments looked like on the graves of Soviet soldiers on other fronts and areas of WWII combat operations.

Judging by the shape of the monuments on the graves of Soviet soldiers on different fronts of the Second World War, we can conclude that they all had a standard form and the abandoned burial site on the eastern outskirts of the village of Alakurtti may well be a war burial of July - August 1941.

LOCATION OF MILITARY GRAVES 1941-44

According to the author's idea, those that were once located near the village are shown. Alakurtti military burial grounds.

Above them you can often see a thick fog, which for unknown reasons does not extend beyond the cemetery, it becomes difficult to breathe in it and you feel as if you are being closely watched, and at any moment you can feel a cold touch...

Abandoned burial place of German soldiers

...This incident happened several years ago with Nikolai Bloshkov (Bryansk region). One autumn he went hunting on the lake and took his dog with him.
On the shore, where there was an abandoned burial place of German soldiers who died in these places during the Great Patriotic War, he discovered a small hole in the ground, deepened it a little, covered it with branches and planned to spend the night in it until dawn, when the ducks began to flock to feeding. The fact that he would spend the night in someone's grave did not frighten him.

In the middle of the night, Nikolai was awakened by the furious barking of a dog who spent the night with him in the old grave. The hunter turned on the flashlight, looked around and saw that someone’s legs were sticking out of one wall! The dog rushed at them, barking! The legs moved and gradually crawled out, then the torso appeared!

Nikolai felt his hair lifting the cap on his head, grabbed a backpack with a gun and flew out of the pit in horror, forgetting about the dog. Having run about a hundred meters from the terrible grave, he stopped and, still trembling slightly with fear, listened. In the grave, the dog, left by Nikolai to the mercy of fate, apparently grappled with a ghost or a dead man, or whoever was there, and it was heard that something terrible was happening between them. Without interruption, a terrible dog squeal and a chilling roar, little like a human roar, were heard. And after a couple of minutes the dog squealed strangely and... became silent. In the silence of the night some slurping was heard, but soon it stopped.

The hunter stood on the shore of the lake all night, smoking cigarettes one after another, and only when it began to get light he decided to approach the creepy grave. There was no dog in it! Only shreds of wool covered the entire bottom. The wall of the grave was intact, and there were no signs that anyone had crawled out of it at night.

Later, a psychic acquaintance told Nikolai that he had met a real dead man who was cursed during his lifetime. The earth does not accept such people, and they come out of their graves and attack living people. Well, the dead fascist tore the dog to pieces not because he needed it, but because it warned the hunter and gave him the opportunity to escape...

Don't disturb the kingdom of the dead

An even more incredible story involving a living dead man took place in one of the Volga region villages. This is what the only surviving eyewitness to the incident said:

“Our team of shepherd workers in the village was building a brick cowshed. Once they brought a man to the village to bury him. They said that after finishing school he went to study in the city, and so he stayed there and, apparently, rose to a high rank. For the sake of at least some variety, I trudged to the cemetery to watch the funeral. There I met my friend Victor. As the coffin was carried past us, I looked at the deceased. The gorgeous gold ring on his finger caught my eye. Another thought flashed through my mind: “Such goodness will be lost!”

For the rest of the day a wild thought haunted me, and in the evening I shared this thought with Victor. I suggested that he dig up the grave, open the coffin and steal the ring: the dead man doesn’t need it anyway, and we can make some good money with it. The friend immediately agreed.

At midnight, taking an ax and two shovels with us, we went to the cemetery. Having arrived at the place, we cheered ourselves up with vodka. While we were doing this we were caught by the headlights of a car emerging from behind a hill, sliding across the crosses. We involuntarily bent down to the ground.
“The car stopped at the cemetery gate, two people got out and headed towards us. One of the night visitors, in bright moonlight it was clearly visible, carrying a large bundle. At the grave of a soldier who died in Chechnya and was buried two weeks ago, strangers stopped and began to push and pile wreaths. Then they unwound the package.

It was then that something happened that still makes me shiver when I remember it to this day. Suddenly there was a strong smell of ozone. It felt like the smell was coming in waves, becoming thicker and thicker each time. And then we saw Him! He emerged from the thickets literally a few meters from us. For a moment he stood sideways to us, then turned and walked towards our “colleagues”. Judging by the crosses, his height was above average, it seemed that he had no neck at all, and his head sat directly on his shoulders. His arms hung below his knees, but were as thick as his legs, on which he walked, without bending them at the knees. Our “colleagues”, without noticing him, were diligently wielding shovels. And only when He came close to the soldier’s grave, they simultaneously turned in his direction and, stopping, froze.

This silent scene continued for quite a long time. Then He, taking a step towards them, grabbed one of them and with a flourish impaled him on the sharp bars of a metal fence along the entire length of the spine. At the same time, the victim did not make a sound, and the second one stood in the same position and silently watched what was happening. And suddenly, as if waking up, he staggered back and swung the shovel down on the monster’s head.

It seemed that this blow should have split him into two parts, but the shovel, not meeting any resistance along the way, cut through the air with a whistle and cut deeply into the ground, dragging the attacker along with it. The monster suddenly threw his hand forward and grabbed the bent man by the back of his head. There was a terrible crunch, accompanied by slurping sounds. The poor fellow somehow immediately went limp, fell to his knees and fell sideways right onto the grave. The monster stood in thought for some time, as if assessing the situation, then he picked the first one off the fence like a feather, with the same ease he lifted the second one from the ground and, taking them under the arms, slowly wandered into the depths of the cemetery.

First, Victor came to his senses. In a few leaps he reached the fence, flew over it and rushed towards the village, followed by me. In the morning I found out that my friend was found hanged in the yard of his own house. And on the same day I left for the city and never appeared in that village again.”

Medium's grave

Lydia Platonova (Kukmor village, Volzhsky district, Mari El Republic), once went mushroom hunting: “When I bent down for another mushroom and raised my head, I saw a man in front of me who had appeared out of nowhere. He was wearing a black cloak and a black hat on his head. It was old man, with a dark beard. He greeted me and began to say: “Aren’t you afraid to wander through the forest alone?” Then he said that he came from the Petyala Church.

This was very strange, because I had never seen it in the church, and besides, the church itself was surrounded by mushroom forests - why was it brought to our area?
We talked for some time and went our separate ways. But after three steps I turned around and saw that the old man... had disappeared. He literally disappeared into thin air." In the village, the old women commented on what happened to me without much surprise. The fact is that a long time ago there was a cemetery on the site of this birch forest.

IN Lately Residents of Ulyanovsk are observing strange phenomena in the area of ​​the old Tatar cemetery. For several nights, columns of black smoke were seen above the cemetery, which, according to eyewitnesses, comes straight from the graves! And this despite the fact that there are no heating mains running under the cemetery. And one woman living not far from the cemetery saw two ugly, ugly dwarfs there. When they noticed the woman, they laughed with inhuman laughter, and then disappeared in a cloud of black smoke.

At the All Saints Cemetery (Krasnodar), there are many rumors about the grave of Marfa Turishcheva, who died on March 19, 1912. Above the grave there is a tall tombstone in the shape of a Greek column.
According to local journalists, during her lifetime Marfa Abramovna performed and was a medium. Perhaps this is precisely why they say that if at a certain time you stand next to the grave and make a wish, it will certainly come true. And on a new moon it is better not to approach the tombstone - you can see the ghost of the deceased standing over the grave.

A certain spot in one of the most abandoned areas of the cemetery is also considered “bad”. It is practically no different from the surrounding landscape, but those who accidentally wandered here almost immediately felt unwell and began to feel dizzy. And, if a person does not hurry to leave dangerous place, things could end quite badly. According to rumors, it was in this area of ​​the cemetery that at one time those who died from epidemics and contagious diseases were buried.

You should also wander with caution through an abandoned cemetery near the village of Vlasovka (Tula region). Last year, two eighth-graders were returning from school after the second shift. They walked through this cemetery and saw a small cross sticking out of the ground. Without realizing it, one of the schoolchildren kicked the cross. The very next day the boy lost both legs...

Get out of here

I was walking through the forest with three girlfriends. We didn’t notice how we came across an old abandoned cemetery, and then we became very interested. There was almost no fear, we began to look at everything with curiosity and saw a cross. On the cross, it’s unclear how, there was a preserved photograph of an old woman, the date could not be made out, and under the cross there was an open grave, and then I thought I heard a quiet whisper: “Get out of here,” this whisper was like a breath of wind. I was afraid to tell my friends, they would think that there was something wrong with my head or I simply decided to scare them, but one of my friends said: “You didn’t hear anything?”

I asked what exactly, she said the same thing that she heard and I, it turns out, everyone heard these words, then we looked at each other and rushed to run without noticing any obstacles... We ran for about five minutes, and our strength began to run out, we decided that it was from the old The cemeteries had already run far away, and we walked calmly, but fear had not yet left us, and then, out of nowhere, we saw an old woman in a headscarf, she was sitting in the middle of the road on a stone with her head bowed.

We came closer, the old woman sharply raised her head and... disappeared, and then it dawned on us that this was the same old woman from the photo (before this incident I did not believe in mysticism, but after that everything changed...). When we arrived in the village and started telling our friends, a grandmother from this village came up and said that there used to be a cemetery in the forest, but over time everyone forgot about it..

Any novice searcher, when first entering the field, faces the question: “Where to look for treasures and old villages?” Simply walking blindly in any field you like means depriving yourself of search success in advance. Therefore, in this article I want to tell novice searchers and treasure hunters how to find a decent place to search without having an old map. I will describe two main ways that will help a beginner achieve at least initial success in finding a suitable place for excavation.

You can safely carry out the first way to search for villages and places of possible treasures right now, using the Google program - Planet Earth, the free version of which can be downloaded on the official website. So, first, let's list those places that are potentially interesting to us. First of all, these are individual houses and farmsteads, as well as places of ancient settlements, plowed mounds, which are not state-protected objects. It would be very nice to walk along the places of former river beds, since there could be areas for swimming and fishing, floating on people on boats could also lose various items.

Just like on Google Maps - Planet Earth, find an old farm or a separate house.

I answer this question using pre-prepared screenshots. Green circles highlight places where soil changes are visible. The lighter spots are the remains of destroyed and crushed adobe (clay brick) from which houses were previously built. To the left of the green circle you can notice a change in the soil towards a darker shade, this indicates that this place was properly fertilized before - apparently there was a vegetable garden.

How to find a place to search in a garden or vineyard?

Here the light spots are visible not in the bare plowed fields, but in the vineyard. In such areas, it is somewhat more difficult to find the exact place where the old house was. Therefore, navigate using trees, bushes and other objects. There are also cases when such spots turned out to be not houses, but simply washouts and erosion of black soil, but in our business we cannot do without reconnaissance, so feel free to go out into the fields and wave the reel.

How to find the site of an ancient settlement?

Places where there are ancient mounds demolished by archaeologists or local “aboriginals” can also become places of success. Agree that household items of ancient people could have been lost near the burials, and in the best case, you can count on finding an ancient settlement nearby. Do not dig up ancient mounds that are protected by law, as this is an article about the destruction of the country’s historical heritage. The photo shows what the mound demolished by archaeologists looks like:

Where else can you swing a metal detector coil?

In places where rivers or streams used to flow, you can try your luck, since people settled along the banks of the rivers, there was a constant flow of fresh water. Also, at any moment, a body of water can become a source of not only water, but also food, for this you just need to cast a fishing rod or net. Therefore, I show what the ancient river bed looks like on a Google map - Planet Earth:

As we have already found out, we need to pay attention to the places where people used to live. As a rule, artifacts of human activity are the remains of destroyed buildings: fragments of foundations, building bricks and tiles. If you see a place on a field where pieces of building stone, ceramics, dishes and glass are scattered, do not try to avoid such areas. Practice has proven that ancient coins and other antiques are found together with fragments of ancient ceramics.

Good luck to everyone on the mine, more fun swag and new positive impressions!

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This is the Nikolskoye cemetery in the city of Sergiev Posad, Moscow region. It's abandoned. Located at the very end of Vorobyovskaya Street. Right here:

This is the oldest cemetery in the Moscow region. Founded during the Time of Troubles, when the Poles besieged the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. They say that monks and defenders of the monastery were buried there. But this version is hard to believe. It is too far from the main monastery of Russia. It was apparently founded by the besiegers, and there many members of the international crowd that Tsarevich Vladislav IV Sigismundovich brought to Rus' found their eternal rest. But then Russian people began to be buried in abundance in the cemetery. And it has a good place: on a hill, you can see it from everywhere - a real Russian churchyard. In 1812, heroes of the Great Patriotic War who died of wounds were buried in abundance; in 1941-1945, those who died of wounds in the Great Patriotic War were abundantly buried. And in 1952, when Stalin was still alive, it was closed.

And eternity finally settled in the cemetery. Eternity is emptiness, non-existence. Death itself is not an eternity, as long as you are remembered, and your personality somehow participates in life. But when you are forgotten, eternity begins. It’s not for nothing that priests sing about eternal memory, insuring themselves in case there is no afterlife.

No, nothing is worse than abandoned cemeteries. But, there is nothing life-affirming for them. Is the construction of cemeteries blasphemous? Seriously? This is a controversial issue. In any case, half of the abandoned Nikolskoye has been built up.

But you can look at the one that is not completed below:

03. Surprisingly, I visited this cemetery for the first time only in March 2014, although it is located under the windows of my dear aunt’s apartment, and I’ve been walking around the bush for probably seven years.

04. Today, the abandoned cemetery serves as equal parts landfill and park.

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06. But someone is still remembered in this cemetery. In 2007, it seems, from the window of my aunt’s apartment I watched some grandmother bring flowers to the grave.

07. This is the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit. They restored it before my eyes. Before the revolution it was a cemetery church, but then it was destroyed. And it was built in memory of the soldiers of the Patriotic War of 1812 buried on Nikolskoye.

08. It is very important to understand that the burial mound disappears quite quickly. This is very important to understand.

09. Tombstones quickly break without proper care.

10. Pay attention to the old artificial flower. Not so long ago this man was still remembered.

11. These trees were planted by people who had already died. And underneath them lie people who have never seen them.

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