## Under Moscow and its suburb

Under Moscow suburb: Volodarka

Moscow and its suburb are famous by their underground places. I, Mutabor, had a dream to be there. And once my dream started fulfilling. I have visited Moscow and explored some underground places. The first was an old stone mine called Volodarka (pic 1–13).

Neglinka, Great and Beautiful

In Moscow there are many old brick sewers. There are almost no such places in Petersburg, so I had keen interest in visiting such places. I had mage arrangement with one explorer from Moscow that he would guide me in the well-known sewer of river Neglinka. This sewer has some old and new concrete fragments with different cross-sections and of course is very impressive (pic 14–23).

Sjany: smoke screen for myself

Sjany is probably the largest system of old stone mines in the suburb of Moscow. It's very popular; every day lots of people visit it, some of them stay there for some days. Together with a spelesthologists from Moscow we were planning to have a night in Sjany. (Some comments: in Russian underground community the word "spelesthologist" is often used. It is composed of the words "speleo" meaning "underground" and "aesthetic" meaning "artifical". This word is used to denote people who visit and explore underground artifical caves like mines, catacombs and so on.) at the first day of our stay in Sjany I had made some nice pictures (pic 24–30). Then I droped off in a tent leaving a lighting candle outside. When I'd woken up, the candle had burned out, and when I'd switched on the flashlight I had recognized that the tent is full of smoke. Outside there was even more smoke! (pic 31) It was looking like someone had made a smoke screen for us. But soon I'd found out the cause of this smoke: I'd placed the candle at an old accumulator left there before by somebody. When the candle had burned off, the accumulator caught fire and produces much smoke (pic 32). Hopefully soon the fire had gone out, otherwise there could be even more smoke! After this accident we stay in Sjany for another half of day and I had made more pictures (pic 33–51) At the same day we have visited another mine called "Silikaty" where the passages are low, but in some places old rails had remained (pic 52, 53).

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