I decided to turn into a stylish rigger of the Kiev metro
but being dressed in St. Petersburg's rigger uniform
Hello everyone, my name is Msh
Behind my back is Sench and cameramen Serafim, let's thank them
And today we and you are going to visit abandoned tunnels of the Kiev metro
Locals call them "Konserva"
We are inside and in a couple of seconds we'll start exploring them
In order you understand how it happened, I would like to show you a small information unit
just as i like to do it
Let's go
Abandoned metro tunnels have always caught my attention
Because underground construction is very costly
and there have to be good reasons to abandon even a 100 meter tunnel
Nevertheless, there is a number of similar cases mentioned in post-Soviet and foreign chronicles
To the beginning of 2018, I've shot videos about abandoned stations and tunnels in Kiev,
St. Petersburg and Paris
Hopefully, I'll manage to extend my list
so let's focus on exploring the Kiev metro
I've already told you about the unfinished Lvov Brama metro station
Today we are going for a walk in the abandoned tunnels, which, as I said before locals call "Konserva"
"Konserva" is a slang abbreviation for Russian word canned
Officially, these "canned" type of tunnels are called waste tunnels
Although, "Konserva" can be applied to any abandoned place
In the digger's community it stands for a particular place in a particular city
In Kiev it is a former metro tunnel between "Universitet" and "Kreshchatyk"
How was it built? Let's turn to two things you like most: history and technology
When people design the metro lines, they look to the future and leave a reserve
for building interchanges to other lines, second exits to the surface and so on
Roughly speaking, a reserve is a complex of constructions or engineering solutions,
which is connected to a working tunnel
A reserve can greatly ease the construction of new tunnels and platforms,
which should be connected to the working tunnel
As an example, you see a photo of a reserve for constructing a second exit on "Mezhdunarodnaya" station in St. Petersburg
When the construction begins, there is no need in closing half of the station to connect the a part,
that is being constructed and the working one
And this is how a reserve for constructing a new platform in a working tunnel looks
A straight tunnel, without any turns
The second tunnel runs in parallel and is located far enough from the first one to embed a platform,
central hall, a bunch of service rooms and an inclined course
As for Kiev, in the 40-s, during the design of the future metro lines, it was planned
that the 3-rd line would intersect with the 1-st line at "Universitet" station
Where the transfer was planned to be built
But when it was time to really plan the 3-rd line in the late 70-s
It's original path was changed and the line ran pretty far from "Universitet" station,
that there would have been done a big loop to get closer
"Kreshchatik" station didn't fit as well, because it was already overcrowded
And connecting the 3-rd wouldn't ease the situation
Then an interesting decision was made
They decided to build a station between "Kreshchatik" and "Universitet"
and make it a transfer station to the constructing 3-rd line
Now about how they've accomplished it
To the South of the tunnel was built "Teatralnaya" station
and the tunnel, which was dug all the way to the working tunnel, but wasn't connected to it
It's like another line with one station
In 1987 tunnel between "Universitet" and "Kreshchatik" was closed
later, the second tunnel was connected to the old one
The tunnel was closed for 6 months
After the tunnel was connected and all the systems were checked, on November 6 1987 "Teatralnaya" was opened
After 2 years from the opening of the 3-rd metro line, on "Teatralnaya" was opened a transfer to "Zolotie Vorota" station
But there is one more interesting fact related to "Zolotie Vorota" station. It is about the old tunnel
The fact is that in the plans the station crosses the waste tunnels
and is almost at the same height
More precisely, it is a little lower
But it's central hall is bigger than the side tunnels and cuts off a little part of the upper old tunnel
To maintain the rigidity of the structures,
there was made a reinforced concrete reinforcement of a site
which was cut off during the construction of the station
We'll see it later in the video
As I said, the old tunnel between the 2 stations was abandoned
They weren't abandoned, and were used as a ventilation unit for the working tunnels
Over time, some of the unnecessary equipment was dismantled, but the tunnels remained
That's important
After all, you can visit them and see them with your own eyes, which I suggest you doing with me in this video
Let's go
Just behind these bars run metro trains
And we are standing in one of the waste tunnels
But we need to go to the other one and then go for a walk
Yeah guys?
Oh, they are a little bit shy
A tall interconnection leads to the other waste tunnel
We are passing through it
Some cables are hanging from the ceiling
and here is a door
Better not touch any doors on my way, but there seems to be nothing interesting in there
We come out and see the tracks
And some time ago metro trains used to run here
Lets go a little deeper
Down here we can see the remains of railroad-ties, and deeper in the tunnel is nothing
The reason is that during a hot summer, if I'm not mistaken it was 2012
Because of the heat railroad-ties on open areas of the line started to crack
And poor Kiev metro didn't think of anything better than taking of the railroad-ties from the waste tunnels
On open parts you can see these railroad-ties and in the tunnel you can see damaged tracks
a track tray
The remains of the cable system, which wasn't sold for scrap
To my mind, some "bad" people, which are called riggers, come down here and
sell the cables for scrap and earn money for a bottle of beer
Because copper and aluminum is always very valuable
Some braid and leftovers of the cable, what says that my theory is right
As you can see the tunnel goes far ahead
So it is going to be a long walk for me
And a little shortened variant in the video
This is the first door on our way
Behind the door is "ODP-2", as you can see on your screens
ODP-2 means general drainage pumping
It is located in the lowest part of the tunnel
Here we can see the pipes
Or it's better to say mortgages for pipes made in the drainage tray
All the water that leaks into the tunnel flows to the lowest point of the tunnel
And flows to the following room
I won't break the door, maybe there is something interesting back there
Below the pumps is a big pit
where all the water flows to
The pump turns on and starts to pump the water to the storm water drainage, but not always
That's not that important
The case is that there is a powerful pump that pumps the water to the surface from metro tunnels
Every tunnel has one drainage pumping unit for sure
Sometimes there is more than one unit in the tunnel, it depends on the purpose of the tunnel
Talking about pumps I'd like to mention about local under platform pumps, which are called "MDP"
As we can see, here was a contact rail. In front of me is a small staircase,
which was used by the riggers to safely climb over the contact rail
and go anywhere on this concrete path
catch a train or go for a walk in the tunnels, just as I'm doing now, very romantic
Though, the employees of the metro are sick of these tunnels
One of the abandoned bathrooms in the old tunnel
Frankly speaking, for me there is nothing interesting
But that's me and you may be interested in how the metro bathroom looks like
All bathrooms are pretty much the same, but I'll show you
There are 2 entrances to the bathroom, from both abandoned tunnels
The bathroom is divided into the men's and women's parts
Nothing very special in here
We squatt and do our business
It seems like somebody has done such a big business, that the pipe was clogged
Below the toilets is a small pit
and the contents are being pumped out to city sewers
Men and women entrances on both sides of the tunnel
Now we are going to climb up and walk above the "Zolotie Vorota" station
You can easily imagine the height that we need to reach. I use 2 guys as a ruler
The tunnel of "Zolotie Vorota" station "cuts" a half of the abandoned tunnel, where we are standing now
That's why it is poured in concrete, the tunnel is reinforced
This reinforcement looks more like a big beam
Now we climb up the stairs
Okay, my models, let's go
We try to stay quiet, because...
because I'll show you one interesting thing now
It's hard to imagine, that at this very moment I'm walking on the heads of the passengers of "Zolotie Vorota" station
Below my feet walk beautiful Kiev women, men, teenagers and elderly people
It's easier to say-citizens of Kiev, which use this station to get somewhere
A dozen of meters and we see the end. We can say, that we've crossed the platform perpendicularly
At the end of the reinforcement we see another staircase, that looks just the same as the first one
But on this side is an interesting thing, that can be slightly visible with the help of my flashlight
We approach it
If came here for a visit in a year, I probably wouldn't have visited this tunnel
Because they wanted to make a museum down here
Now the exit from "Zolotie Vorota" station to the old tunnel is being constructed
We can go there, but it's a bad idea, because there can be riggers, who can notice us
So we stay quiet and go deeper in the tunnel
Carefully and carefully going further and further
Trying to be as quiet as possible
Oh, by the way this is a contact rail support
After 100 meters we reach another grid
Behind it we see a ventilation interconnection
Ventilation interconnection is a place, where 2 tunnels are connected by a horizontal tunnel
and includes a ventilation unit in it
This is made for needs of civil defense for air circulation between 2 tunnels
In peactime, usually it is used by the workers of the metro to get from one tunnel to another
And just behind the ventilation interconnection is a hermetic gate
Hermetic gate, jammed for ages
or maybe not, I hope they'll fix it when they open a museum here
Maybe they would like to show visitors how it works, but very unlikely, because this is a special facility
A sliding hermetic gate
Nowadays they use a more modern technology, the gates open like doors
This gate has no chance of being opened again, because it is welded with a metal pipe
On the other side, they can unwed it, fix everything. I hope they'll do that
Lower we see the remains of the rails sealing system
Yeah, you need to seal the rails too, and there was a special system made for this purpose
This is how the gate looks on the back side
I'm standing the tray, from where the gate slides into the tunnel
In the photo the gate is open
the structure looks impressive
As a bonus, I'll show you a working hermetic gate of this type, located in St. Petersburg metro
It stands in the tunnel between "Frunzenskaya" and "Tekhnologicheskij institut" stations
From both sides of the gate we see entrances
It is a cable collector and at the same time a passage for people
which includes 2 hermetic doors
That gives you the opportunity for locking the tunnels from both sides with the closed hermetic gate
Also I noticed the remains of the traffic light, "MK" if I'm not mistaken
Yes, "MK-16", said that right, it only has 2 colors: red and yellow. It shows the operators of the reverse direction if the gate is open or closed
If it is yellow-it is opened, if it glows red-it is closed. Simple as that
And something is buzzing ahead
There is no secret, the ventilation interconnection is buzzing
Not really the interconnection, it is the fan
A very old and rusty fan
The bearings are dying
Everything looks very hardcore
The second fan is off, near are control panels
And all the way back, behind the fans is a ventilation shaft
And now we...
And we'll move on
Before we reach the end of the tunnel, I'd like to show you one more ventilation interconnection
An interconnection for air circulation
Why one more? Because there are 2 of them here
One ventilation interconnection on one side of the hermetic gate
It is a regular air circulation ventilation unit between 2 tunnels
We've just seen it in the video
In 100 meters we see another ventilation interconnection behind the grid
The second ventilation interconnection is more special
As you can see on the map, a ventilation shaft heads to the interconnection
This means, when the ventilation unit works on the inflow, the air comes from the ventilation shaft
to the old tunnel
Later it passes the ventilation unit and reaches the 2-nd old tunnel
And at last, threw new ventilation shafts to new metro tunnels
Let's put the map aside and watch the video
But I'll leave the map for better understanding
There you can also see where the camera is looking
In front of you is the ventilation unit of the ventilation shaft
OMG, so noisy
Now I reach out the camera and turn in the direction we were heading
The camera turns left
It's obvious that we have come from there, because we can see the hermetic gate
I'm starting to back away in the interconnection
The old ventilation unit, which supplies the tunnels with air looks great from this point
It is needed in case of using the metro as a shelter
At peacetime it isn't involved in air circulation. The air from the ventilation shaft is being transported by fans,
similar to the noisy one
If you rotate the camera 180 degrees, you can see the steps - this is the exit to the second tunnel,
which is called "Konserva"
In the distance, to the left, goes a new ventilation shaft to the newly built tunnel
And here in the video, I climb the steps and find myself in the other old tunnel
We'll stop here again on the way back
I hope I didn't confuse you
And now let's move to the place where we aimed for from the very beginning
To the end of one of the old tunnels
100 meters after the ventilation unit we came to this grid, which usually is locked, but we are lucky
Here lie genuine wood railroad-ties and an ordinary track
On these tracks a dozen of years ago ran metro trains
Let's go to the end of the tunnel
touch the concrete stopper and go back using the other tunnel. And I'll show you something sweet, come on
How beautiful
Wonderful smell of creosote.
Creosote is something similar to a resin, creosote is used as a preservative of the railroad ties
That's all
Here is a water pump, that drains the water from the lowest part of the tunnel
By the way, this is how the lowest part looks like
Periodically the pump turns on by sensor and drains the water
Here hangs a scheme, which shows how everything works
And it is rather simple: a switch, a control panel and a pump
electromechanical service, abandoned tunnel
But we know, that it's called "STP-10"
Ladies and gentlemen, we have had a little walk in this tunnel and even went back a little
We want to change tunnels and we'll do it with the help of an interconnection
and we'll see if it is the same
And I'll show you one cool place, where the locals like to take pictures
Guys misunderstood me and went the other way
That's not a problem, because they'll follow me
And here we see the results of work of the local "workers" or maybe diggers, who wanted to make some money
I just can't understand these people. For me it's easier to earn money in the usual way
I'm only for legal business, I like tunnels for their atmosphere and historicity
The second concrete stopper is a little closer to the new tunnel
Here the tunnel used to continue far ahead
A new tunnel was built and the old one was reorganized
A reorganization of a tunnel is a moment when the path of a tunnel needs to be changed
In such cases when the working tunnel needs to be connected to the newly built tunnel
The newly built tunnel becomes the working one and the old one is being closed with a concrete stopper
And we can see one right now
Sorry for the tautology guys. We are walking in the other old tunnel
62-nd connector
Continuing our journey through the "Konserva"
Kiev metro, yeah!
By the way, the tunnel is made out of cast iron, dated 1956
In 1956 they were molded and installed here
Gentleman, we've just came from the end of the tunnel to the ventilation interconnection,
which connects this tunnel with the adjacent one, which we first explored today
And that whistling and buzzing fan, remember?
I've turned on the light, now it's more comfortable to move around
Now we head to the interconnection, where all the people take photos
Though here is no light at all
Let's turn on the lights in this interconnection
What does it say?
Turn of the lights when you are leaving
Let's make it shine
Nice, more comfort in here
Go, go!
And after the turn goes a long long connector
Here is one of the main places of interest in "Konserva"
The cables go up to the ceiling of the tunnel and the type of the tunnel changes from blocks to tubings
It seems, that they wanted to make a passage or a connector either on right or left sides of the tunnel
The tubings would be taken off and a block or some unit would be built
But something went wrong and the cables go up, but no passage remains
Let's reach the end of the ventilation shaft and I'll show what's there
At the end is a grid
which is closed on a key
And behind it, just in 7 meters runs a working metro tunnel
Soon the train will pass
I'd better walk back a little, so the driver won't see us and film, when the train will pass deeper in the tunnel
What can I say?
That's all what I managed to show you today
2 abandoned tunnels, a few interconnections between them
A couple of bathrooms
water pumps
4 concrete stoppers in both ends of the tunnels
And a ventilation shaft with unfinished constructions
We'll make some photos and then go up to the surface
The way out was calm and nobody has seen us, that's an achievement
I hope you liked the video and I'll see you in next videos
Subscribe to the channel
It was Msh with you
Until next time, bye bye
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