Perhaps everyone at least once in their life dreamed of finding a treasure and instantly getting rich. There are people in Russia who not only cherish this dream, but also hunt for treasures. Recently, information appeared on the Internet that treasure hunters from St. Petersburg found billion Soviet rubles in an abandoned missile silo, only none of the lucky ones really got rich.
A group of abandoned site enthusiasts began searching for money in May that was rumored to be buried in a missile silo in the Vladimir region. Local residents did not answer questions dryly, they warned against searches, emphasizing that the level of radiation is high in the mine, since it was built for a ballistic missile.
Going to the mine, the researchers took measurements of the radiation background, but all indicators were normal, the Geiger counter did not record the danger. Then search work began, it was possible to find banknotes quickly, it really seemed that the Soviet government deliberately buried a billion rubles in the mine.
Treasure hunters found banknotes of all denominations that were printed between 1961 and 1991. Now this money is of no value, since it has long been withdrawn from circulation. The money was hidden in 1991, at that time it was worth about $33.3 million, but now it would be about $18 million.
The research team posted a video of their find on YouTube. After that, many media interviewed Sergei Volkov and Anton Aleksev, members of the expedition. Channel One journalists even conducted their own investigation and stated that there were supposedly at least three more mines in the region where Soviet banknotes were buried.
Researcher Olga Bogdanova said that the find caused her mixed feelings: this money could meet the needs of many people, because at that time even a salary of 100 rubles was considered a very good income. However, this billion printed banknotes did not serve the benefit of the Russians.
Interestingly, many banknotes are bundled, and some bundles are completely sealed. This can only indicate that, most likely, the money fell into the swamp directly from the bank. For the amount that was buried in the missile silo, one could easily buy at least 22 apartments in Moscow!
A billion Soviet rubles is one of the largest, but by no means the only monetary find. So, in 2013 in California, a couple was walking a dog and found 1427 rare coins in the backyard of their house, which were in circulation from 1847 to 1894. Numismatists valued the collection at $11 million. Some of the coins were sold on Amazon and some were donated to charity.
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Published on 23.05.17 23:04A group of enthusiastic historians have discovered billions of Soviet rubles in abandoned mines in the Moscow region.
A group of historians from St. Petersburg have unearthed a Soviet-era cache in an abandoned missile silo near Moscow, where at least several trucks of Soviet banknotes were brought, according to the searchers. Their total amount is about a billion rubles.
vid_roll_width="300px" vid_roll_height="150px">The discovery was made by a group of historians from St. Petersburg “On roads and forests. Abandoned Country" together with the YouTube channel "Russian Secrets". Details of the expedition leads portal.
According to one version, this is gold intkbbee party, but it is hard to believe that someone would hide money in this way. One of the group members believes that there may be at least three such caches in Russia.
The published photos and videos of the researchers show that billions of Soviet rubles were literally scattered under their feet. These once treasures of a great country are drowned in a swamp near a village in the Moscow region. Here, wherever you step, you will hit a banknote: Soviet chervonets, fifty dollars, hundreds, which in those days were very rare to even see, are scattered across a forest clearing.
As noted, during the Soviet era, this place was classified, as there was a launch silo for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Before touching the banknotes, they were checked for radiation levels. However, the dosimeter reading showed that there was no excess of the norm.
After the collapse of the Union and the signing of an agreement on the reduction of nuclear forces, the weapons were taken out, and mines about twenty meters deep were mothballed. Dumping old money here began in the nineties. The circulation included new, Russian banknotes.
Part of the financial reserve of the former union was then sent for recycling. Burning money, which at the moment turned into unnecessary colored papers, was supposed to be in Ukraine. But the volume was so huge that it was impossible to take out and dispose of everything at once. It was also impossible to burn anywhere.
However, apart from the impressive sight of money scattered on the ground, the find has no value. These are just pieces of paper, of no interest even to the Bonists.
According to the author of the YouTube channel “On roads and forests. Abandoned country ”by Anton Alekseev, the amount of money found in the swamp is gigantic. He stressed that there were packs of hundred-ruble bills tied with a rope and sealed with a bank lead seal, reports. As of 1991, this money could buy several cars, apartments - "the only question was the availability of this" product "".
The head of the expedition noted that it is no longer possible to raise the money to the surface - they literally crumble in their hands. Alekseev also said that another mine with money is better known to local residents.
“Here there is information that bills flew through the air, and children played with them, and that groundwater got into the mine, and they began to emerge from people in wells,” said the author of the expedition.
As the members of the expedition believe, this find is definitely not the last one. Around Moscow, in the forests of the Kostroma, Ivanovo, Vladimir regions, there are dozens of such once-secret Soviet mines. Historians say that up to five hundred tons of Soviet rubles can rot in them all these years. It is difficult to say how much this is in terms of the exact amount, but judging by the volumes, more than a dozen former billions are stored underground.
“After what I saw, I want to go in search of a time machine.”
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Some banknotes are still well preserved. Photo by Olga Bogdanova
The project of a group of historians from St. Petersburg "" together with the YouTube channel "Russian Secrets" discovered more than a billion Soviet rubles in an abandoned missile silo in the Moscow region. TJ talked to Olga Bogdanova, a participant in the trip, about how the information about the cache appeared and how many more similar treasures can be found in Russia.
Bogdanova said that she had heard about the buried money for a long time, but did not know the specific places. For the May holidays, her friend Sergei Volkov from the YouTube channel "Russian Secrets" offered to make a joint trip to one of these points.
Together with my husband Alexei Antonov, we are engaged in finding interesting abandoned places with things and artifacts from bygone eras left on them, visiting them and filming video reports.
About six months ago, my husband heard about the presence of an abandoned mine with Soviet banknotes of 1961 and 1991 buried in it. It seemed interesting to him, but he did not look for the exact coordinates.
And on the eve of the May holidays, the Russian Secrets channel, friendly to us, represented by its author and presenter Sergei Volkov, offered to make a joint trip to one of these places. We did not think for a long time - we hit the road.
An abandoned missile silo is located near an unnamed village in the Moscow region. Photo by Olga Bogdanova
In the early 1990s, tons of unnecessary banknotes were taken to the mines, as it was dangerous to burn them due to toxicity. One of these places was located not far from a remote village near Moscow, the name of which is kept secret for unknown reasons.
It's funny that the local residents of the village near which the money is buried do not have information that there is such a "treasure" just a few kilometers from them. Perhaps someone knows, but no one from the locals told us. I had to look for myself.
Olga Bogdanova, travel participant
The journey to the cache took several hours. Despite rumors about the radioactivity of banknotes, the dosimeter readings showed that there was no excess of the norm. Enthusiasts saw the money scattered over a large radius and even found bundles tied up.
The hike to the mine itself and the return to the car took about five hours. The road goes through a forest, a field and even a river, it was the most difficult to cross it, since the crossing was made only “formally”, there is no normal bridge, and it is impossible to “overcome” it without rubber boots.
Olga Bogdanova, travel participant
In addition to scattered banknotes, there were also bandaged bundles. Photo by Olga Bogdanova
Most travelers came across hundred-ruble and fifty-ruble bills of 1961 and 1991. However, there were also banknotes of a different denomination: twenty-fives, tens, fives and rubles.
According to Bogdanova, there may be at least three such caches in Russia.
I do not have exact information about the number of such mines in Russia, but I think that it is at least three.
Olga Bogdanova, travel participant
Young people took a few banknotes as a keepsake. Photo by Olga Bogdanova
On the May holidays, a group of tourists from Vladimir, who love to travel around their small homeland, went on another trip, which ended with an unexpected find.
In the forest near the village of Nebyloye, in the Yuryev-Polsky district, at the site of a former military training ground where an old missile silo was flooded, they saw neatly stacked bags of money from the Soviet era and the initial period of the new Russian state, which had long since gone out of circulation.
“We constantly go camping, have been in these places for a long time and knew that there was an abandoned missile silo- said one of the tourists Ekaterina. - Now it is flooded, and 20 years ago we threw stones there. This time, one of the locals told us that he saw money in the forest, and we decided to go there.”
The group went deeper into the dense forest and saw fresh tractor tracks, as well as pieces of money scattered here and there. When they approached the flooded mine and in this "puddle" they saw bags of money, tightly packed in piles, they were shocked.
The sacks are like those made from granulated sugar, which rot very quickly. But all of them were practically intact. “I don’t know how deep the bags lie, but the sediment from what I saw left some kind of bad”, - said Ekaterina.
Previously, this area was surrounded by a fence with barbed wire. A concrete road led to it. Now only pillars remain from the fence, and the "concrete" has evaporated. Travelers were surprised that the money is not buried in the ground and just lying around in the forest. They took photographs of the treasure they found in the open air from old Soviet money, incl. 25 rubles with the face of the leader of the proletariat, and went further along their route. Now show pictures to friends and acquaintances.
By the way, there have been rumors before that in this way money that has gone out of circulation is disposed of in old missile silos. But I didn't have to see it with my own eyes.
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Billions of rubles were found in the forests of the Vladimir region. Rocket silos are filled to overflowing with banknotes, and they are measured in tons here. There is a version that this is the gold of the party, but it is hard to believe that someone would hide money in this way.
Here, wherever you step, you will hit a banknote: Soviet chervonets, fifty dollars, hundreds, which in those days were very rare to even see, are scattered across a forest clearing, the TV channel reports. "Star" .
Billions of Soviet rubles were scattered under the feet of researchers from St. Petersburg. These once treasures of a great country are drowned in a swamp near Vladimir. In Soviet times, it was a secret place of strategic importance. There was a launch silo for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Before touching banknotes, check the level of radiation.
After the collapse of the Union and the signing of an agreement on the reduction of nuclear forces, the weapons were taken out, and mines about twenty meters deep were mothballed. Dumping old money here began in the nineties. The circulation included new, Russian banknotes.
Part of the financial reserve of the former union was then sent for recycling. Burning money, which at the moment turned into unnecessary colored papers, was supposed to be in Ukraine. But the volume was so huge that it was impossible to take out and dispose of everything at once. It was also impossible to burn anywhere.
However, apart from the impressive sight of money scattered on the ground, the find has no value. These are just pieces of paper, of no interest even to the Bonists.
This find is definitely not the last. Around Moscow, in the forests of the Kostroma, Ivanovo, Vladimir regions, there are dozens of such once-secret Soviet mines. Historians say that up to five hundred tons of Soviet rubles can rot in them all these years. It is difficult to say how much this is in terms of the exact amount, but judging by the volumes, more than a dozen former billions are stored underground.
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