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We are not alone in our somewhat strange hobby. Here are collected links to some websites about exploring the underground and other interesting places. This collection does not tend to be comprehensive, here presented only those links which we visit sometimes ourselves.

By default (if nothing is explicitly noticed) the contents of the websites is in Russian. All we could do — translate their brief description into English. In Russian urban exploration community there is its own slang, so I need to explain some terms, since they do not have strait counterparts in English. Usually those explorers who are interested in the artificial underground objects like subway, subterranean rivers, sewers and shelters called "diggers". But sometimes people visiting abandoned coal and stone pit mines, underground monasteries and other old places located mostly in the country are called "spelestologists" (speleology + aesthetic, that is created by men, artificial). And those who visit abandoned buildings, plants, military objects — everything located above the ground level are called "stalkers".

Time passed, and not only the objects are decaying, but some websites too. So we implemented a kind of the time-machine. The picture of a back-spinning decatron opens the web archive for the corresponding link.

If you like us to place link to your website, just place a link to our site at yours with some of the pictures below (it is better to copy the picture to your site since the hot link may not work) and mail us.

Plutonia 88 x 19 image Pu-239 42 x 31 image
Plutonia 170 x 37 image Pu-239 51 x 37 image
Plutonia 250 x 54 image Pu-239 75 x 54 image

Russia

Ex USSR

Other countries

Blogs at LJ

Other stuff

St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Pskov

svartheim.nwd.ru

Svartheim — the underground of Petersburg Archive link

The website of the explorer RummaGE and his friends, the best one about the underground of Saint-Petersburg. Must-read for newbies! Alas, the last updates are from 2006...

seenandheard.narod.ru

SeeN and HearD Archive link

The very active team of explorers from Petersburg (wherein the one of the oldest), now they are exploring mostly the subway. The site contains much of the useful information.

darkz.ru

DarkZone — yet another team from Petersburg Archive link

Before they were called "Rambling in the darkness".

saintdiver.narod.ru

Saint Diver Team Diggers — the website of Jabber & fiends Archive link

The very funny website. Jabber has a great sense of humor and can create a funny story even from a visit to a dull place.

hiddenside.ru

Hidden side — website of Div Archive link

The website of one of the tireless explorers from Petersburg — Div; it has a strict design but a plenty of materials.

diggspb.narod.ru/index.html

Diggspb — website of Megavolt Archive link

Shelters. Utilidors of heating mains. Subterranean rivers. Mines. Sewages. Subway.

uec.ucoz.ru

Urban Exploration Club Archive link

The website of an active explorers' team from Saint-Petersburg. By the way, this team is a contemporary of Plutonia.

spbdiggers.my1.ru

Diggers (underground explorers) of Petersburg Archive link

The website of underground explorers' team from Petersburg.

lspb.spb.ru

Leningrad Spelestological Party Archive link

The website of spelestologists (explorers of artificial underground caves) and regional study man from Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region.

Step Aside

Steps to the Darkness Archive link

Alas, the dead website (use the archive link), where many references about different places are collected, from the well-known ones to the fantastic assumptions.

fortpskov.org

XX Century fortification in Pskov region Archive link

The website about WWI and WWII objects in Pskov and suburban as well as later shelters.

etopiter.ru/photogallery/abandoned

Abandoned Petersburg Archive link

Many places, but it is not a reason for sadness.

www.diggsite.narod.ru

Leonid's site Archive link

The website of Leonid (also known as the Death of Rats), an explorer from Petersburg.

Abandoned World

Dzatensa's site Archive link

The website of one of the most prominent explorers from Petersburg, alas, died by stupidity at the roof of an electric train. The navigation there is partly broken, but using brain one can access many of the contents. Especially the photo album is recommended.

uzm.spb.ru

Underreality — virtual cave Archive link

This is a website for those who is interested in not only this world, but also in that... Many things to read there: news, reports about voyages, comments to the pictures, different materials about Leningrad region, archive about the underground... The mission of the website is to show what happens under the ground and what we do there sometimes.

galey.su

Galey's site Archive link

The website of Petersburg Galey devoted mostly to stone-pit mines and caves of Leningrad region and Karelia.

www.nortfort.ru

Northern fortresses Archive link

Descriptions of the outstanding fortresses of North-West Russia and neighboring countries with maps, plans and photos of places.

rosi-spelesto.narod.ru/skdr/ip_lenobl.html

Artifical caves of Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region Archive link

Project at the website of Russian Society of Artificial Cave Studies.

anavigator.su

Anavigator Archive link

The website of people who likes to visit the lost places of Leningrad region.

Space of Peresburg

Lost places in Petersburg Archive link

The website devoted to the inventory of the city environment objects. The category "Lost places" is what we need =)


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Other Russia

gugno.diggers.ru

GUGNO Diggers — Moscow team of underground explorers Archive link

The good website about the Moscow underground; but no news since 2005...

urbex.ru/main.htm

Urban Exploration Archive link

The very comprehensive, full of information and being updated regularly website about the underground and industrial lost places.

underground.su

UNDERGROUND.SU Archive link

The main website of the Nizhny Novgorod explorers.

oren2.ru/blog/digger

Underground explorers from Orenburg Archive link

The blog of underground explorers from Orenburg. Alas, no updates since 2009...

prodigger.ru

Website of Ural explorers and roofers Archive link

The main community of the Ural underground explorers and roofers: reports, blogs.

nuclearvault.narod.ru

Hidden world Archive link

The website of the Moscow underground explorers. Many interesting pictures but almost no comments. Not updated since 2009.

urban64.3dn.ru

Everything about Saratov unusual places Archive link

The live and interesting website (blog-like) of the Saratov underground explorers.

dig-saratov.ru

Forum of Saratov explorers Archive link

The main website of Saratov explorers of the underground and lost places.

www.duskzone.ru

Mysteries of the underground Moscow Archive link

The world of the Russian capital, hidden from stranger eyes, the place where no strangers allowed!

diggers.su

Diggers (underground explorers) of Moscow. Enigmas of the city underground Archive link

One more live website of the Moscow underground explorers.

stalk-dv.clan.su

Far East club of explorers Archive link

This is an Internet resource aiming to unite the explorers of the underground and lost places and just people who are attracted by abandoned buildings, military bases, ghost towns, underground, shelters, artificial and natural caves at the Russian Far East.

www.shmurzik.net

The united network of Shmurzik Archive link

The website devoted to the underground exploration, subway construction, abandoned military objects and expeditions to the far corners of Russia!

unwd.narod.ru

Incorrect World Archive link

The website of the funs of the alternative regional studies: fortification, monasteries, villas,, places of battles and more.

deepdig.ru

The club of the deep grounding funs "Deepdig" Archive link

Underground explorers and cavers of the lower Volga.

www.snowcave.ru

Snow (Snezhnaya) Cave Archive link

The website about the one of the deepest caves in the world.

diggers51.ru

Murmansk underground explorers Archive link

The website of the underground explorers of Murmansk and suburban.

Koenigsberg Underground

History of Koenigsberg and East Prussia Archive link

It is a forum. Despite its name, there are no so much underground there, but the site is nevertheless interesting.

www.radhaz.ru

Radiation Hazard Archive link

Explorers of the Caucasian mineral waters and Ulyanovsk region.

Labyrinth

Interregional group for studying the mysteries and enigmas of the Earth and Space Archive link

Labyrinth is a non-formal community of dynamic and curious enthusiasts, convinced that the Epoch of Great Discoveries at our planet has not been finished yet. They find fun in what they're calling "Trip for Mysteries", "Stalking", or stricter speaking, "Field quest and study of unknown, forgotten, not considered by science objects and phenomena".

Underground Rostov

Underground Rostov Archive link

One of the oldest websites about the exploration of underground Rostov.

www.stalkersworld.ru

The stalkers world Archive link

Lost places of Novosibirsk, shelters, abandoned military bases.

hsdk.ucoz.ru

Explorers (Digg and Stalk) Club "Fernir" Archive link

This website is created for the underground and urban explorers as well as other funs of industrial tourism, caving, archeology and history of Khabarovsk and Russian Far East and not only.. Here you find a lot of various objects, interesting posts, blogs and photos.

dv-destroy.at.ua

Far East Destroy Archive link

The website of underground urban explorers, cavers, explorers of artificial caves, and other funs of industrial tourism in Khabarovsk and Russian Far East.

9andvodka.com

9 and vodka Archive link

The first website completely in English devoted to the underground exploration in Russia, mostly in Moscow.

Catacombs in Oryol

Catacombes in Oryol — the underground town Archive link

The discussion of the underground Oryol at the regional studies website.

Perm underground

Perm underground Archive link

The discussion of the underground objects at the Perm city forum.


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Ex USSR

www.acis.org.ua

ACIS — website of Kiev underground explorers Archive link

The main website of Kiev (and not only) underground explorers, also contains forum.

traida.org.ua

Kiev team of underground explorers "Triada" Archive link

The nice, interesting, and what is the most important, live website.

caves.by/phpBB3/index.php

antiCAVES.BY Archive link

The forum of Belorussian urban, industrial and underground explorers, funs of history and fortification and other interested people.

sevdig.sevastopol.ws

Underground Sevastopol Archive link

The club of the fortification funs "Fort" and travel agency "Comandor" present the website "Underground Sevastopol".

dnepr-parus.at.ua

Traces of explorer Archive link

The website about the Dniepropetrovsk lost places.

evillab.org

Laboratory of evil genius Archive link

The website of the Minsk explorers of the underground, industrial and military places.

www.zalaza.net

No manhole Archive link

Trips, underground explorations, urban studies of Minsk and Belarus.

Another Reality

Another Reality Archive link

The website of Alexander Zaitsev devoted to the lost places.

www.abandoned-legacy.net

Abandoned Legacy Archive link

The website about the lost places of Belarus. Live.

Tunnels under Dniepr

Tales for the night — Tunnels under Dniepr Archive link

Detailed and exciting history of the unfinished building of the tunnels under Dniepr at the middle of 30th, XX century.

lostworld-od.ucoz.ua

Lost World Archive link

The website of Odessa underground explorers.

forum.dig-donbass.org.ua

Underground Donbass Archive link

The forum of the Donetsk underground explorers.

speleo.lt/index.php?id=182

Speleoclub "Aenigma" Archive link

The Lithuanian caving club (in English).

urbex.ee

Urban Exploration (Estonia) Archive link

The website of Estonian funs of the lost places, devoted mostly to Tartu town. In Russian.

www.spelestology.km.ua

Spelesto-recoinassance team of Sevastopol Archive link

Spelestology, caving and underground exploration in Sevastopol. Useful information, photos, news from the underground.

Tallinn shore batteries

Tallinn shore batteries Archive link

Estonian website (n Russian) about the historical military objects at the Baltic shore.

explorer.lviv.ua

Lvov explorers Archive link

The website and forum of the Lvov underground and urban explorers.

iznanka.kz

Back Side of Kazakhstan Archive link

The forum of Kazakhstan explorers.


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Other countries

sleepycity.net

The website of international group of subterranean explorers Archive link

A website of the group of underground objects' explorers travelling worldwide (in English).

www.uer.ca

Urban Exploration Resource Archive link

The website of Canadian (according to domain) subterranean explorers (in English).

www.abandonedstations.org.uk

Abandoned tube stations Archive link

Abandoned stations of London subway (in English).

www.28dayslater.co.uk

28 Days Later Archive link

The forum of British explorers. Very wide range of objects is presented: subterranean, industrial, military (in English).

www.subbrit.org.uk

SUBTERRANEA BRITANNICA Archive link

Yet another British site devoted to various underground objects (in English).

The Winchester

The Winchester Archive link

British site devoted to the lost places (in English).

desitka.cz

DESITKA.CZ / Powercaching Archive link

The website of geocashers from Prague. Many underground objects are presented there (in English).

Undercity

Guerrilla History & Urban Exploration Archive link

The site of American subterranean team, exploring both in USA and abroad (in English).

www.nautilus.cz

Earth Exploration Agency. Archive link

The website of more-less legal Czech subterranean explorers. Many objects, descriptions in Czech. Enjoy! ;-)

Abandonedography

Abandonedography Archive link

The photo site of American explorers of lost places (in English).

www.vanishingpoint.ca

The Vanishing Point Archive link

Imaging and Imagining Water Underground. The Vanishing Point website is a resource that has emerged from a decade of underground research and photographic practice by Michael Cook. Related mostly to subterranean rivers and sewers in Canada (in English).

www.actionsquad.org

Minneapolis Urban Adventures Archive link

American website about the underground and lost places. Not so fresh, alas!..

Abandoned buildings in Halle and Leipzig

Historical abandoned buildings in Halle and Leipzig Archive link

By the way this website is for looking for the appropriate building for the commercial use, but as a matter of fact it's a perfect list of lost places! (in German)

Abandoned East German Buildings

Abandoned East German Buildings Archive link

the good set of photos of East German objects.

marodes.de

The beauty of decay Archive link

The very good website about the lost places in Halle and Leipzig (in German).

www.nickoftime.eu

Historical ruins in words and pictures Archive link

Yet another website about lost places in Halle and Leipzig (in German).

www.schrottrobber.de

Website of Mattias Hellebrandt Archive link

The website devoted to the East German lost places. Not updated since 2011 (in German).

photoblog.dralzheimer.stylesyndication.de

Explorations of Beauty and Decay Archive link

A photoblog of Dr. Alzheimer related to lost places in Germany and France (in German).

www.bunkernetzwerk.de/invboard/index.php

DDR Bunkerforum Archive link

As it follows from its name, it's a forum for discussions of shelters and military bunkers of former DDR. German only, requires registration, but read-only access is possible without it.

www.glueck-auf-tour.de

Mines in Saxony-Anhalt Archive link

The website about mining in Saxony-Anhalt (in German)

www.irishberliner.com/search/label/abandoned%20buildings

Irish Berliner Archive link

The very good website (in English!) of an Irish guy living in Berlin who likes to explore lost places.

digitalcosmonaut.com

Digital Cosmonaut Archive link

One more sit in English about the lost places in Berlin.

Abandoned Berlin

Abandoned places of Berlin Archive link

Yet another website about Berlin, not so smart, but stuffed with boring ads and whistles. But contains some materials about places which do not present anywhere else (in German).

www.modernruins.de

Modern Ruins Archive link

The perfect site (although in German) about lost places in Berlin and suburban.

tchorski.morkitu.org

The portal of industrial, religious and cultural heritage Archive link

The website in French devoted among all to the lost places.

Belgian Underground

Photos of Belgian underground Archive link

The Belgian photosite. Mostly sewers and subterranean rivers are presented here.

www.aotu.ca

Angels of the Underground Archive link

Angels Of The Underground is nothing more then a group of daft lads who like to explore the bowels of the city, and to see a side of the metropolis in which we live in a new light (or lack there of) that many do not (in English).

lostamerica.com

Lost America Archive link

Night Photography of the Abandoned West (in English).

www.fabrixart.de

Pictures and more Archive link

The website with mostly artistic pictures from the German abandoned industrial objects (in German).

teamdelta.team-delta.info

Underground and more Archive link

German website about the abandoned WWII underground objects in Europe (in German).

www.vergesseneprojekte.de

Lost projects Archive link

The site of a German guy who for more than 15 years have been exploring underground, industrial areas and other lost places (in German).

Bunkerfreunde

Bunker Friends Archive link

The website and the forum devoted to German bunkers and Belgian fortification (in German).

naw-blaulicht.npage.de/galerie57116.html

Toeppi's website Archive link

The website of the Berliner fireman, whose hobby is exploring the subterranean places (in German).

GSFG Objects

GSFG Objects Archive link

Czech website about objects of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (in Czech).

www.heimatgalerie.de

Gallery of Motherland Archive link

This website is devoted to the history of GSFG, German National Army and WWII. Here there are many descriptions of lost places.

Bunkers and more

Bunkers and more... Archive link

As it's clear from the website's name, it is devoted to various German lost places (in German).

hidden-places.de

Hidden places of Germany Archive link

It is a most known German forum for discussing the lost places (in German).

sperrgebiet.eu

Bunkers and military objects are documented Archive link

One more German website about the abandoned military objects.

industriezerfall.de

Industrial decay Archive link

This website contains photos of industrial buildings and areas which have become abandoned and are slowly destroying.

nazadvgsvg.ru

Back to GSFG Archive link

The forum of ex-GSFG warriors. It contains descriptions of numerous military objects, often even with coordinates (in Russian).


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Blogs at LJ

Painted by light

Paratozor's blog Archive link

The blog of a Moscow digger, many nice pictures of subterranean rivers.

Photo-sketches of roofs' fan

Yet another blog Archive link

Here is the blog of a guy from Petersburg, who likes to visit roofs and lost places.

History of our lost places

Alexander's blog Archive link

Interesting sites of Voronezh region. The blog of an explorer Alexander.

Ru_Digger

Ru_Digger Archive link

Collecting place, where many Russian-speaking explorers of the underground (in Russian called"diggers") write.

Technolirik

Technolirik's blog Archive link

The blog of a guy living in Germany who likes to explore lost places.

Map of SPb

Map of SPb Archive link

One more common blog, devoted to the regional studies of Saint-Petersburg. Amongst all lost places occurred.

Airhead from the capital

Moscowhite's blog Archive link

The blog of a Moscow explorer of the underground. A bit specific, as follows from its name ;-)

diggers-saratov.livejournal.com

Underground explorers of Saratov Archive link

The blog about the underground, industrial and military objects of Saratov.

The hood watch

The Hood Watch Archive link

American blog about the urban exploration. Almost no text, just pictures.

Digger Alisa

Look, the star, from the deep of earth! Archive link

The blog of a yet another Moscow underground explorer (BTW, a guy).

Iigen

IIgen's blog Archive link

The blog of a former underground explorer from Petersburg, who has probably moved to Izhevsk. Here there are many interesting military objects.

tim_original

Tim Original's blog Archive link

The blog of an explorer from Petersburg, who visits mostly subway, sewers and subterranean rivers.

Мегавольт

Megavolt's blog Archive link

His website has not been updated for a long time, but Megavolt sometimes posts new materials in his blog.

Rave of a person with a flashlight

Korbi's blog Archive link

The blog of a girl from Moscow, who explores sewers and subterranean rivers.


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Other stuff

caves.ru

caves.ru — Caves and more Archive link

The biggest forum of Russian explorers of the underground and lost places, as well as cavers. Some parts are accessible only after the registration.

diggfm.org

DiggFm — yet another forum Archive link

It's like a clone of caves.ru, but even more closed.

spelesto.nn.ru/lib.php

Liberea — the underground library Archive link

Some times ago here were collected numerous books about the underground. Now they are not available for the download; only names and covers are presented. But the site can be used as a list when looking for the appropriate book.

urban3p.ru

Urban Trip Archive link

Rather young (found in 2008), but very popular website where the Russian-speaking explorers communicate with each other. The registration is required for most of the features.

d21.chat.ru/speleo.htm

speleo Archive link

The funny speleology web page.

miningwiki.ru

MiningWiki — free mining encyclopedia Archive link

MiningWiki — the encyclopedia about mines and miners, being created by joint efforts of the mining community.

steelratsite.ucoz.ru

Website of Steel Rat Archive link

The unusual website of survivers. It is prominent by deep elaboration of the topic.

Tunnels

Enigmas of underground tunnels Archive link

Funny reading about the tunnels created by unknown civilizations. It's recommended for good mood ;-)

Z.E.F.I.R.

Project Z.E.F.I.R. Archive link

Yet another forum of the underground and urban explorers.

forum.rhbz.org

The website about loot (explorers' trophies) and inventories of civil defense Archive link

The forum of urban explorers and funs of electronics (main topics are electronic devices, computer hardware, gas masks and toxic substances, radiometers, military equipment).

www.kleoclub.org

Club of Funs of Extreme Archive link

Probably this link does not relate to the topics of our website, but who's said that the urban exploration is not extreme?

Surviving

Habits of surviving in extremal conditions Archive link

Attempt to develop habits and technologies, which will allow the groups of people, relying only upon their knowledges and means to survive.

www.urbantrip.org

Abandoned and dark worlds Archive link

Aesthetics of rust, stelas of factory chimneys, silence of machines stopped forever, dust under feet, decayed nameplates "No entrance" and "Warning, radioactivity" — industrial culture, abandoned buildings, plants and power stations, industrial areas...

twentyyearsafter.su

20 years without USSR Archive link

In one day, August 27, 2011, people from different parts of the former USSR — more than 3000 members of the club &mdash took the photo-cameras in their hands. 3000 amateur photographers wanted to make something like a single momentary picture of the USSR after the 20 years of its disappearance. They made shots of changes, loses and gains of the last years. More than 40000 pictures has been appeared as a result.

Moscow Diggers

Diggers (underground explorers) from the Underground Planet Archive link

Maybe funny, maybe serious web-page of Vadim Mikhailov (the famous Russian underground explorer).

www.awesta.sibirjak.ru/page-id-99-pg-1.html

Mirages above Zhiguli: mystery of the Volga underground Archive link

Yet another website for good mood: tunnels under Volga built by aliens and so on and on the forth...

ifun.ru/category/36

Lost places Archive link

Lost places at the website iFun.ru.

www.rgo-speleo.ru

Speleological and karst studies commission Archive link

Speleological and karst studies commission of the Moscow center of the Russian Geographical Society.

speleo.ru

Speleo/spelesto wiki Archive link

Wikipedia-like website and forum devoted to the speleology and spelestology (studies of the artificial underground caves).

www.podzemlya.ru

Underground.ru Archive link

Underground creativity. Interesting website, but without updates for the long time.

Digger-rock

Digger-rock Archive link

The music of the rock-band about the underground.

relax.ru/tag/6040/peschera.html

About caves Archive link

Some infos about the famous caves at the website "Relax!"

History of Sewers

Tracking down the roots of our sanitary sewers Archive link

The website in English about the history of sewers. Many historical drawings and descriptions.

vimudeap.info/en

Virtual Museum of Dead Places Archive link

The buildings of the last 250 years which are no longer used which stand at the centre of the VIMUDEAP project. As a research project in the Communications Design course at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in Berlin, it was aimed at collating dead places globally, presenting them from different angles and to provide cause to reflect. It also demonstrated a method of depicting the reasons and grounds for their lack of use. Shortly speaking, the website provide a suitable navigation on the lost places mostly in West Europe (in English).




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