«I'm in you forever, like tea spilled into a favorite book.»

«Я в тебе навсегда, как чай пролитый в любимую книгу.»

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Russia, 2016. Among young people, the urge for unusual leisure "on the edge of the law" is gaining momentum — zatseping, roofing, stalking and digging. This is the heyday of commercial underground tours. Diggers operate in conditions where legendary sites like the Khovrinskaya Hospital still stand, but demolition is already approaching. The police are tense over high-profile emergencies in this sphere and are ready to react harshly to the appearance of members of the "movement," and commercial tours to such places create competition and attract the attention of the authorities. For experienced diggers, this is a time of ideological schism — while some make money on tours, veterans of the movement try to preserve the "philosophy of digging" and steer the youth away from crime.

This is the year when the underground world still keeps its secrets, but storm clouds are already gathering over it and changes are coming.

- Vlad started his faceless YouTube channel right at the moment when the movement began to gain momentum. Initially it was just a hobby, which, to his surprise, struck a chord — and now he has about 720k subscribers. On the whole, he leads a fairly reclusive lifestyle at 24: he works as a tutor remotely, reads books, science journals, watches TV series and documentaries, collecting comics and manga, retro gaming and vinyl records. He adores physics, astronomy, history and urbanism with cartography. And he leaves the house only to go to the gym, to the store or to a new "site."

And he also has a cool vintage car from 2001 :)

The stories awaiting you are nine very different places, each with its own history and interesting tales:

1. **Khovrinskaya Hospital** (Moscow, Klinskaya St.). 1980–1985, unfinished, project frozen: no funding, unstable soil. A huge labyrinth with empty windows; a place of pilgrimage for stalkers and Satanists. Legends about the "Khovrinsky ghost" and corridors with no way out.

2. **Pioneer Camp "Skazka"** (Moscow region, forest). 1960s, abandoned in the 1990s after the closure of the "Detskaya Kniga" publishing house. Barracks with Soviet symbols, a stage with murals, rusty swings. The atmosphere of "the last summer."

3. **Novgorod-17** (Novgorod region, coordinates classified). 1950s, a closed military town, fully abandoned in the 1990s. A former tactical nuclear weapons storage base: empty five-storey blocks, garages, barbed wire. It fonit (фонит — it radiates) — entry is forbidden without a dosimeter.

4. **Pripyat** (Kyiv region, Ukraine). 1970, a dead city after the Chernobyl NPP disaster in 1986. A rusty Ferris wheel, schools with textbooks, flats with belongings. Time stopped on 26 April 1986.

5. **Verkhnyaya (Staraya) Gubakha** (Perm Krai). 1930s–1940s, an abandoned settlement after an ecological disaster (coke chemistry). The houses are empty, the earth is soaked in chemicals. Legends about the "glow" of reagents at night.

6. **Green Theater and Askoldova DShS** (Kyiv, Pechersk). Theater — 1970s, tunnels — 17th–19th c. Half-flooded ruins due to landslides and destroyed drainage. Water knee-deep, you can fall through into voids.

7. **Psychiatric Hospital in Noginsk** (Moscow region). Early 20th century, suddenly abandoned; cause unknown (fire or a life-support failure). Chaos inside: medical files, belongings, beds. A very "loud" place.

8. **The 1920 Morgue** (Saint Petersburg, Building No. 16 of the Botkin Hospital). Abandoned due to the building's obsolescence. Panoramic windows, dissecting tables, old documentation. Eerie sterility; they say forgotten instruments and "unrecorded" autopsy notes are still found here.

9. **Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium** (Sochi, Kurortny Prospekt). 1930s, architect Ivan Kuznetsov; partly abandoned after a fire in the 1990s and landslides. Stalinist Empire style, mosaics, columns, ruin. A legend about a secret bomb shelter beneath the administration building.

I apologize in advance — Russian is my native language. But I'm trying my best with the translation for English-speaking users. Feel free to point out mistakes in the comments — life itself is a reason to keep improving. Thank you!

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