The Mount Yamantau Complex: Russia's Mysterious Underground Fortress

Uncover the secrets of Mount Yamantau, the massive underground complex hidden in the Russian mountains. Is it a survival bunker, a nuclear waste site, or something even more enigmatic? Find out now!
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[@Siddington_]

It's full of cannibals. I saw it in the documentary Metro Exodus XD

[@catsareamazing3616]

Same xd

[@dogukan127]

been looking for this comment

[@donaldbensen146]

That’s a video game.

[@Enishidono]

​@donaldbensen146 lol, wow, very good. 👏

[@timverbijtubes]

Exodus sells shoarma in my town

[@kennyhagan5781]

The fact that there's a KZbin video about this "secret "bunker complex just shows how far we've come since the end of the first Cold War. Man,I just love it.

[@aidanacebo9529]

it also features heavily in the 2019 game "Metro: Exodus". it's portrayed as a "Russian Cheyanne Mountain Complex", a command and control survival bunker for the soviet leadership, although it was never finished, and is inhabited by the workers who were constructing it, who've turned... cannibal.

[@walther2492]

I highly doubt this was some important doomsday bunker (of any sort) or military facility for a very simple reason: There is no and there never was a airfield anywhere near the site. And quick accessibility is the key to such remote facilities, because it in case of an event, it would be counterproductive to have to travel a day or so by train to get there.

[@aidanacebo9529]

@@walther2492 I seem to recall reading about an underground rail system that ran to and from nearby cities that had airfields. would be sensible, in a nuclear exchange the main entrance would effectively be cut off, so having multiple access points several miles away in multiple directions would ensure that at least one would be operational. couple that with a rail line hardened to survive a nuke going off nearby...

[@walther2492]

@@aidanacebo9529 The next city nearby that has an airfield is Beloretsk, around 40 km away. So I highly doubt the Soviets did a project of the century equal to the Gotthard Base Tunnel and all this 40yrs ago...

[@zach-EchoesForAges]

Yet it also begs the question what don't we know of

[@liamwinter4512]

Deep underground military bases are absolutely fascinating. I wonder how many and how elaborate some coupd be.

[@chriswhite3692]

It's weird they are called DUMBs. Took me a bit to get what they meant.

[@penskepc2374]

My grandfather used to tell me about this one underground base in Minnesota, he knew.a lot of weird shit and had some strange trinkets. I also didn't know he was in the CIA until after he died so it made thing make more sense.

[@realscience948]

It’s a map in Call Of Duty Black Ops!

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Absolutely. If I was filthy rich I would buy a few. GWonder how many actual secret ones there are. Underground air bases are however a joke. At least Irans... All that effort to basically create a way for your enemy to literally cave you in. Might not destroy the aircraft if protected well but its like "Oh good... Now you can't leave either." Unless there are some awesome Hollywood secret super elevator lifts!

[@808bigisland]

I served in one during the cold war. It was a small city on 7 stories with hospital, swimming pool, 2 gyms, internal and external huge kitchens, command center, full ABC compliment, drive in parking and massive generators and huge stores and a flaktower. All of it at a control point in the alps.

[@novemberalpha6023]

Visited it twice. Once with my friend Hudson & Weaver. And again with Woods and Mason. Absolutely beautiful place. We had a Blast.

[@jmjedi923]

I've been there too! I was with my wife, Anna and her father. Really weird family trip.

[@happygnome4620]

@@jmjedi923 Yeah i think i heard of it too! Really weird folks inside apparently, have a taste for flesh...

[@DimBeam1]

Keep your head down Whistler.

[@michaelreimer1111]

10/10 comment 😂

[@bradleymcwilliams2629]

Don’t go near any high rise windows!

[@mackenziemoore5088]

Only brew your own tea in your own thuroughly checked kettles

[@lorenzo.1977]

Ahhhh yes. Russias infamous weakness. Gravity. Who knew windows and stairs could be so deadly.

[@JordyValentine]

If a Simon dies, several more take his place, thus the many channels and constant uploads.

[@gaius_enceladus]

I always thought that it was the center of Russia's so-called "Dead-Hand" system - the system that could automatically give the go-ahead for nukes to be launched if its remote sensors detected that Moscow had been "taken out" by a nuke. Simon - if you haven't done so yet, maybe you could do a video on "Dead-Hand".

[@stefanschleps8758]

That's a western myth, and an eastern dream. The Russian let corruption seep into every crack in their military-industrial complex. They couldn't even be bothered to rotate their trucks tires or change the oil. Even before Putin theft was endemic, but after Putin it's been epidemic. Everybody from the lowliest general to the lowest private stealing anything they could sell on the black market. You really think they could pull off something so sophisticated as the "dead-hand"?! It's all bluff!

[@bikechainmic]

Like trip-wire an unrelaibale and costly system best consigned to history.

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@bikechainmic How do you know its unreliable and costly? It obviously has fail-safes, and cost isn't much when (to the soviets) it was getting revenge for atomic annihilation

[@enverse244]

I thought dead hand was when you sit on your hand til it falls asleep then use it

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@enverse244 nah that's just asleep

[@aidanacebo9529]

I'm surprised you didn't mention it's inclusion in the 2019 game "Metro: Exodus". it's described as "The Ark", where the soviet government would rebuild it's self in the event of a nuclear exchange... which is the plot of the Metro series.

[@anikdey2100]

When I played metro exodus I didn't know this place is a real thing.

[@everythingsalright1121]

The games follow a different plot than the books; i believe yamantau isnt even mentioned in the books. In exodus you go to yamantau, only to find out that the people inside turned to luring people in by impersonating a surviving government and cannibalizing them. They did so because yamantau wasnt properly stocked with food before the nukes (likely government corruption and lack of actually believing thered be a nuclear war)

[@imawsomeandyournot6108]

​@anikdey2100 yeah every place you visit in metro exodus is a real place. Even the ending of the game takes place in Lake Baikal.

[@roger5555ful]

​@@markaspen Propaganda for what?😂 The books and the game consistently portray the Nazis, Communists, Hanza and the Watchers as being absolute cunts

[@v4skunk739]

@@markaspen Everything you see on tv is too.

[@heraissilly]

So, it seems like it might be a more elaborate norad/Cheyenne mountain complex. That is actually really fascinating

[@bobbythomas6520]

Yeah it’s 7 miles south of Area 51 or deep in a mountain complex. The US probably has a few

[@TheFlatlander440]

@@bobbythomas6520 Area 51 and Groome Lake home of the Skunkworks facility. If there were other underground facilites I'm quite sure they would have been leaked by now. You can only keep secrets for so long and with so many people "in-the-know" I'm quite sure someone would eventually leaked it to a media source sooner or later.

[@vonfaustien3957]

@@bobbythomas6520 the USA definitely had a few. Raven Rock and NORAD are the big ones. Greenbrier bunker is smaller and open for public tours since its location got leaked. It's also never been confirmed but the Gloom Lake Airfield base was built on an old gold mine so Area 51 likely has a sizable underground portion from repurposed and expanded mining tunnels

[@bobbythomas6520]

@@vonfaustien3957 obviously we don’t know but from Area 51 there’s tunnels under it stretching probably miles south to another secret base. US is so large they need multiple

[@embersaffron5522]

@@vonfaustien3957 Yeah thats where geff goldbloom and will smith flew an alien ship

[@curiosity_seeker]

Interestingly, this mountain was disliked by the locals even before the Soviet times. Cattle died there and people disappeared. The name itself means "evil mountain" from the Bashkir language. According to Bashkir folk legends, this place is a portal to the world of the dead.

[@fermannermaner3385]

Please expand on this for me could you explain further this thing for me please I'm very much interested

[@curiosity_seeker]

@@fermannermaner3385 In all folk beliefs and legends preserved since ancient times, Yamantau Mountain is associated with characters of Bashkir mythology. According to legends, in ancient times there lived two brothers - Shulgan and Ural. There was rivalry between them from childhood. Ural honored his ancestors, was brave and strong. And Shulgan broke the ancestors' prohibitions and envied his brother. One day the brothers went in search of the spring Yanshishma, the water of which would make man and nature immortal. On the way to get the living water, the conflict between the brothers escalated. Shulgan colluded with the lord of the underground kingdom Azraki and sided with Evil and Darkness, while Ural became the protector of the world of Light and Good. According to one version of the legends, there is a cave on the Yamantau mountain, through which Shulgan passed to the kingdom of darkness, where he later became the lord of the underworld. According to another version, the bogatyr Ural fought on the site of the future mountain with thousands of demons, and then defeated their leader demon-giant Azraki. Ural chopped his body with a diamond sword, and his remains turned into the Yamantau mountain. Regardless of the interpretation, the Bashkirs have always considered this place cursed.

[@tinamunich3107]

@@curiosity_seeker so its a ufo crash site which made the mountain? nice

[@curiosity_seeker]

@@tinamunich3107 Why do you think that? I guess if something falls to us from space, it usually forms craters, but not mountains)

[@Kageross]

Another bit of a baulderdash. This region became Russian province back in 1552, before Soviet times indeed. In bashkirian language name of this mountain is "yamani taw" that means "bad" = "useless" mountain, cause steep mountainsides were covered with bushes that could not been used by cattle, so it has been useless to the locals. Sorry, no portals.

[@finscreenname]

Everyone knows its where the Russians keep their Stargate. And of course, they have visited ours in Cheyenne Mountain also.

[@Shadw-ym5wb]

Indeed.

[@KonradTheWizzard]

If you know your Stargate history you would know it is just a ruse. The actual Russian Stargate centr(e) was deep in Siberia (many kilometers east of the Ural) and their Stargate is at Stargate command now - "on loan" to help out poor American colleagues in exchange for star ship called "Korolev" which served to single handedly save Earth (Tau'ri) under brave command of Colonel Chekov.

[@susieferenzi3805]

Now you know that was just a ruse that the Russians published until they got their own deep space ship. Which they proceeded to get destroyed thru their own incompetence because they didn't know how to properly transport nukes.

[@susieferenzi3805]

But Col. Chekhov was a brave soldier who deserved the order of Lenin.

[@abccomando9329]

always love a megaprojects, sideprojects, and on occasion decoding the unknown

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Same. Brain Blaze though... Ehhh... Honestly he rambles so much instead of getting to the information. Quite honestly they should have a guest on it like a podcast if they are going to do that! Since it is just Simon talking to himself haha. Crazy bastard. Makes me believe there are in fact no editors or writers and it is just Simon in a basement making videos.

[@qadirtimerghazin]

Interestingly, one can hike up the Little Yamantaw mountain which is about two kilometers from Yamantaw Mountain itself and have a peek at the town of Mezhgorye. My friends took me and my American wife for a hike there few years ago, although they suggested not to use any English just in case

[@ParameterGrenze]

What do the locals think is happening there?

[@qadirtimerghazin]

@@ParameterGrenze didn’t speak to the local locals, but growing up in Ufa (a couple of hours west) back in the 1980s we knew that something was going on there, most likely a bunker or something

[@LoisoPondohva]

​@@ParameterGrenze the main idea is it's a nuclear bunker. Mostly abandoned one though. There's something going on in a part of the complex, but the majority of the buildings have no activity and are mostly fallen apart. Sneaking in is a local past time. Not into the active parts, ofc. But like 80+% have no real security, a patrol here and there, but just in a car.

[@happygnome4620]

When you mean this are you talking about outside operations or actually inside the mountain? Im doubtful a project of this size and specualtion is as you say. @@LoisoPondohva

[@praveenksarathi]

I'm pretty sure Artyom and the rest of the Spartan Order killed most of the occupants there..

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Mount Yamantau is featured in the video game Metro Exodus where it has been taken over by cannibals. Mount Yamantau also feature in the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 where it houses a base for a fictional chemical weapon - the Nova 6.

[@ramblinglowe7363]

I played that mission in Exodus at night in a dark room. Worst decision ever.😅

[@TheRealWilliamWhite]

​@ramblinglowe7363 now do it in Russian, with subtitles turned off, without knowing Russian. It's an experience.

[@maxmustardman298]

I knew that name sounded familiar

[@therexbellator]

Yamantau also made a re-appearance in Black Ops: Cold War.

[@alpharomeo786]

I am only watching this video because of Yamantau and cannibals in metro exodus wish they could make a vr version of it

[@rr85]

The location itself is not much, the massive underground rail network it connects to is the real secret. Connects several major cities and military locations each having their own underground stations. That's why there's no obvious nearby transportation facilities nearby above ground. It's all contained below ground. There are storage facilities and govt bunkers but this is just one of the access points to a massive system.

[@hippiesaboteur2556]

Very interesting and compelling

[@picklestv9653]

Alot of countries have the same infrastructure, it's just not public

[@haikalhadzik7744]

There's also a massive underground network connected right below the kremlin even with its own railyard

[@zakvadin]

finally someone who gets the main jist of Yamantau. You can't hide such a big project. And little will survive several consecutive high yield thermonuclear strikes into one spot. However, the interconnected network of deep underground bunkers will.

[@fermannermaner3385]

​@@haikalhadzik7744could you please explain this further

[@theduckcompany]

Its a money pit. A huge legacy project that no ones knows enough about to hold anyone accountable for, perfect to skim off of.

[@AL-lh2ht]

It also would employ a massive amount of people. Which ironically is good during a recession even if the project is nonesense.

[@cxzact9204]

@@AL-lh2ht Many national governments have massive amounts of employees (relative to their population).

[@youmager]

Simon make video about former yugoslavian president bunker in bosnia....hell you can visit the bunker itself....second most expensive military object in former yugoslavia.... Heck you can do series of ex yugoslav military object like president bunker, bunker for planes in željava air base... Bunkers for submarines....

[@longboardfella5306]

And then there’s Albania

[@christophervandenberg4830]

Well done Simon. Keep digging!

[@Sphinx0514]

" The Russians dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Yamantau"

[@hippiesaboteur2556]

Ah hahaha. Funny guy

[@James3653]

If you only knew the truth...

[@MrBendylaw]

Maybe a horde of pissed-off Ukrainians..."a demon of the medieval world"?

[@DamjanYuriev]

Btw in bashkir language "Yaman tau" mean evil mountain.

[@JoeDiGiovanniIV]

Must be where all those T-14 armada tanks loom beside the apparent fleet of su-57 felons 😂

[@darrengreen7906]

hahaha

[@goran8965]

Why not it could be massive secret manufacturing and storage facility if it is so big 1000km2 you could hide thousands of tanks and aircrafts but it's most likely Russian area51

[@samuelbucher5189]

3:05 Sure does sound familiar.

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

I can't remember who it was, but there was a defector from Russia in the 70s who told U.S. Intelligence that one of Russia's greatest secrets is they had already constructed massive underground cities that could survive for years built by the gulag system. Not sure how true or false it is, but if that were the case, it would lend creedence to Yamantau being one of those.

[@churblefurbles]

Vast tunnel systems under cities are why some of the battles in ukraine have lasted so long.

[@everythingsalright1121]

Even if they exist, it doesnt mean theyd be any good, if you ask me. Slave labor almost never tends to be good quality especially when the workers are starving and live in awful conditions

[@sir_vix]

​the Odessa catacombs haven't yet become a site of combat in this war, but they are quite massive and served as bomb shelters during WW2. The Azovstal steel works in Mariupol had a huge tunnel and bunker network underneath that was apparently created as a military redoubt capable of withstanding nuclear attack.

[@matchesburn]

@@churblefurbles "Vast tunnel systems under cities are why some of the battles in ukraine have lasted so long." Uh, no.

[@TWhite-uw5dl]

@@matchesburnMariupol is the only example I can think of, but he’s not wrong. Same with the commie blocks. Each one serves as a veritable fortress and makes urban combat very difficult for both sides

[@maksphoto78]

Well, we get to visit it in the game Metro: Exodus.

[@genericscottishchannel1603]

damn, hope it ain't full of cannibals in 10 years time

[@elamentri]

Fresh meeeeaaaat!

[@PripyatTourist]

I don't know, I just followed this emergency radio signal

[@ThanatosXVI]

Metro fans rejoice

[@christophersnyder4851]

Great soundtrack for this captivating video.

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

Damn I remember this complex. Some bald CIA agent called Hudson did a lot of damage to it back in the day and James Woods would say he's a goddamn onion around here to Mason.

[@nebula1863]

Was looking for this comment 😂

[@paulkelk5142]

@@nebula1863 me too lol i played that mission so many times

[@montevallomustang]

It's the numbers Mason 😂

[@SaltyMeatHook]

Simon is exaggerating a bit about Lake Karachay. It's since been backfilled, several layers of concrete and dirt are covering it. It's really fricking bad still. And it's not something anyone wants to spend time around, but you won't die if you stand on what had been the shore now.

[@Christiane069]

You can bet that the CIA has a pretty good knowledge on the site. It is almost impossible to have thousands of people working, and not knowing something.

[@Sanchuniathon384]

That's why Russia has closed cities. Nobody goes in, or out. You need permission to leave. The workers and their children etc. are there in perpetuity.

[@mnemonicpie]

Ha ha you simply never lived in a top-secret closed Soviet city. Even the director of this site didn't know what he was doing.

[@Christiane069]

@@mnemonicpie Remember that the location of the underground bunker for the US president was found by a journalist that looks at expenses by the government that were suspicious. There are always ways to find something some were.

[@tomhenry897]

In a closed society it is

[@rimmerblues1586]

Simon, it could be all the things you mentioned - a complex that large underground could be large enough to try to be a self-sustaining city with food & factories where the "elite" with their families, a chosen few and some slaves to do the work could hide-out in the event of a catastrophe. But at the same time it'd be a great place to store weapons of mass destruction and facilitates to come-up with more of them, as well as a cache of cultural items & money. And when digging-out the place they find minerals & items of value i'm sure they could sell the stuff. The problem is when regimes believe they have indestructible mountain refuges they probably feel more emboldened to make war than peace. Anyway, when they come-up out the ground after 100+ years of hiding from the catastrophe (they probably caused) because the leaky Soviet-era atomic power-plants have failed which has caused them to mutate, even their mutant psychic powers wont save them form the apes that now control the planet.

[@user-oh3cm8vo9d]

stop smoking crack. thanks.

[@____________________________.x]

Apes already control the planet, it’s called equity apparently 🤷‍♂️

[@RobaMostarRoba]

great research

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

Ideal site for several number stations on SW bands, and these are still used till this day, and the number station changed their messages while invading Ukraine. So there is a connection between the war and these station, recently they changed another time their messages when they summon everybodyto leave in the Zaporizhia region before July 5th.

[@novemberalpha6023]

Mason... What do those numbers mean??

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

@@novemberalpha6023 Nobody knows, that's why they are a mystery for decades, the speculation around these are that they are codes for foreign spy's or agents or maybe for emergency purpose?

[@toboterxp8155]

I mean, that amount of space actually makes sense if they're trying to be entirely self-sustained including food and industry and everything else.

[@scowler7200]

Along with material storage and recycling. They're likely mining as they excavate to pay for further development.

[@toboterxp8155]

@@markaspen ... no? It's just some pretty cool geology that has broken a massive slab of stone into giant block-like bits. It's a well-known phenomenon that happens if a slab of rock forms under high pressure.

[@karolisv89]

My father used to serve to soviet union army, was dispatched right next to it. He sayd some guys used to show up without any ID's take their trucks and bring back in few days. Tachometers showed up 500km's driven. While it was no roads or anything.

[@zakvadin]

Hello from the South Urals. The answer to the questions is yes. Although, main components of Perimeter system (Dead Hand) are believed to be located in Kosvinsky Kamen.

[@lilesmw]

Grata on 1 million subs!!!! 🎉

[@williamscottshelton945]

it's a 1) repository for "ALIEN ARTIFACTS" or 2) a doomsday survivable bunker or 3) location of GODZILLA EGGS! or 4) radiation waste depository! or 5) mine for precious metals or 6) insert anything here you wish! :)

[@fl00fydragon]

6) It's where the portal to hell from which they fished putin out of is.

[@bertoray5497]

We must not allow a mineshaft gap!

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

Dr. Strangelove agrees!

[@staticgrass]

It was more important to build that mountain than to actually maintain their nuclear submarine fleet.

[@roger5555ful]

Typical Russian Boyar mentality what do you expect 😂

[@01iverQueen]

Lol yeah admiral Kuznetsov is still running on coal and polluting everything around it when it's being towed by a tug boat 😂

[@kingsnakke6888]

​@@01iverQueenThen the proverbial cherry on top, that one time its own dock's crane fell on top of it

[@LoisoPondohva]

To be fair, it also cost A LOT less to build the bunker.

[@iplaygames8090]

@@LoisoPondohva perhaps a reasonably sized bunker but they have an entire closed city of 70k people there to build it.

[@empza848]

feel like I'm discovering a new Simon Whistler channel every day, not complaining!

[@clarkkent7973]

Are there any airport runways in the satellite images? Any type of bunker would have to include a way to get there quickly.

[@mushymarlin]

Helicopter, that way you dont give your location away by having a giant visible runway

[@patjcoan]

nothing like the soothing audible chocolate that is Simon's voice

[@pamelamays4186]

"Wicked Mountain" sounds like the name of a super villain's lair.

[@DuxSupremus]

Nice Captain Haddock cosplay, Simon.

[@xot80]

Try to explain buildings on surface. This is the Key to that what is underground.

[@greggweber9967]

9:35 Does a secret underground facility have to be directly under a mine shaft? How long can a tunnel be to keep the facility safe from a nuclear blast over there at the shaft?

[@amosbackstrom5366]

Generally when you make something like that the main entrance tunnel will obviously have a large door but more importantly it would have a series of 90° turns, and protruding ledges to act as baffles and flame/blast diverters. You could literally design it in the shape of a Tesla Valve so even if a nuke was placed inside the tunnel entrance very little blast force would make it inside. Trapped inside perhaps but not roasted.

[@matchesburn]

@@amosbackstrom5366 Any turns and deflecting angles also help mitigate the propagation of x-rays, gamma rays, etc. Any radiation will have a harder time going further into the entrance because of the added material and non-line of sight. It's not a magic cure, but it drastically lessens any potential radiation rather than not doing anything.

[@Zanderb20]

Could be the control center for perimiter/dead hand?

[@strategistj.baguilat9996]

This place is fascinating for me. I wondered if the Russian are trying to make a bunker city there in order to restart civilization in case an apocalypse occurs. I did think that the mountain could be useful as a setting for stories involving the building of civilization. In particular, there is the dinosauroid world building project made by Koseman and Roy where a stone age intelligent feathered dinosaur species live across most of Eurasia.

[@davidbugler4597]

The problem with that scenario is putting 'Russian' and 'restart civilization' in the sdame sentence. Given what thr Russians have been up to over the last hundrred years or so , I wouldn't really want to see the world restarted on that basis

[@SarcasticDragonGaming]

This is very unlikely. First of all, if there ever is a nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO countries, the targets would all be NATO countries or Russia/Russian allies. It’s very likely that most of the Southern half of the globe would come out of the initial exchange mostly unscathed, they’d just have to deal with the aftermath. Either way there’s not much need for a secret underground bunker to restart civilization, at least not in this specific context.

[@user-tf4lh8oq8u]

@@davidbugler4597 yes, if you forget that you use the periodic system of chemical elements of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev)) You probably don't even know how disproportionately much has been done in Russia in the field of culture, art and science ... But first I would like to know where you are so good man from ...

[@infinus5]

its been theorized to be a sanctuary city, a place where a large number of elderly people, given babies would be placed to safeguard the Russian culture against a cataclysm scale event. The idea is the elders would live long enough to raise the children to adulthood, the new adults would not be told about the outside world, or what happened before, or even where they were. They would go about their lives, safe from what ever happened outside, for centuries until automatic setups, or a set time in a cultural log would signal the population to leave.

[@susieferenzi3805]

I'm sure Dr Evil has some insight into these underground 'Secret' bunkers, need to interview him.

[@fredyellowsnow7492]

I'm not at all surprised at the notion the USSR built an equivalent of Cheyenne Mountain (with extras).

[@ridethecurve55]

Mmmmm... Simon, you are the James Bond of the KZbin. So wow us with James' Best.

[@ferrariscuderia4290]

The first thing that came to my mind when I read the title of this video was: "The numbers Mason! What do they mean?"

[@stevesloan7132]

"We must not allow a mine shaft gap!"

[@Itz-toca-Mia]

Watching this video because it was on the random video suggested feed. Anyway, im here because I played Metro Exodus, and there was a mission called Yamantau.

[@AstrayGS]

i knew about this place due to Metro Exodus

[@Tini_Scrapitti]

Fascinating soviet secret! Frustrating remaining questions...

[@NarbsTheGreat]

I have a strange urge to boot up Minecraft now and look for a mountain biome...

[@johno1544]

400 sq miles is ridiculous huge for a under ground structure. That's a city could be all the suggested uses in this video with plenty of room to spare.

[@camarov8power319]

I only knew about this place from playing Metro Exodus. "Artyom...."

[@richbowman8442]

Watch the beginning of Dr. Strangelove. That narration reminded me of this story.

[@kiwee4577]

i see that you haven't covered the dassault rafale. would love to see a video of that from you

[@Macgyver46]

I doubt the US hasn't had at least one asset in that mountain.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

We better know what's going on...

[@andersjjensen]

In Russia everything is for sale. You just need to find the person who knows they're about to become the next scapegoat. Ever notice how in Russia there's quite often "public scandal about corruption"? Welp, the political game of musical chairs ends each round with someone being convicted of corruption because they did something that upset all the other corrupt ones. This goes on in every public branch. Keeping tabs on what is brewing, and offer the soon-to-be-excommunicated a green card and state mandated money laundering of their stolen assets, and presto, you have yourself an informant from the highest ranks.

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

Would be interesting to know how deep a nuclear bunker buster could go. Maybe even a nuclear shape charge.

[@johno1544]

Anything deeper than a 1000ft even nuclear bunker busters wont work unless you project plowshare your way down with several hits one after another and then they become a nuclear weapon sink. Remember both sides limited themselves to how many nukes each side can have.

[@supermumuaa99]

2 miles max. With soft soil and no rocks, mountaingranite only 200m or half a mile max

[@____________________________.x]

@@supermumuaa992 miles? Dream on 😂

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

@supermumuaa99 They already have technology to penitrate rock. 200 meters is nothing. Been doing it since the late 90s.

[@LoisoPondohva]

​@@tireballastserviceofflorid7771 well, not with a nuclear shaped charge, obviously.

[@Teh_Monk]

The map of this place’s name in CoD Black Ops Cold War will never play the same again. I’ll here Simon’s voice from now on as I play it, you might even hear me quoting his this very presentation as we slug it out.

[@peterrobbins2862]

So a underground base and system just like every other major power has

[@user-kv3es9jv6m]

I have a different theory, Mount Yamantau is in fact a decoy bunker meant to draw prying eyes away from the real bunker! Remember Halsey’s folly, if you put up a decoy that is enticing enough your enemy will take the bait and thus be distracted away from the real thing!

[@DeLaCruzer11]

Is that where they are doing the Kozyrev Mirror expiriment?

[@Megan-sf5vf]

Interesting

[@championknife]

I saw a video about the warehouses of the State Reserve of Russia, now I haven't found it....... they showed a warehouse at a depth of 126 meters, it stored hundreds of thousands of tons of flour, many millions of canned goods, cars, electric blankets., and hundreds of types of equipment. Also in the video it was reported that Russia has 150 such warehouses, where there is food and equipment that allows the country to exist for 3 months...... for 145 million people......... I will also remind you that when Wagner's group captured the city of Soledar, they discovered a tunnel 8 km long, at a depth of 100 meters. There were 2 million weapons of the 2nd World War, machine guns, rifles, submachine guns. Everything is packed and oiled.

[@michiel6634]

Can you do a video on Las Vegas sphere next

[@Techstriker1]

This sounds like a great premise for a Sci-fi or supernatural horror game.

[@pamelamays4186]

The Blazement is Simon's super secret fortress.🤫

[@iowa_don]

It is interesting that you can "see" Mezhgor'e on Google Earth - but no street view. There is street view around the area and even one individual 3-D picture dot you can view inside the city that shows some cars in a parking lot and a rather run down apartment building with a guy sitting outside the front door. The translation of the caption (бигбой слайм - Bulgarian apparently) according to Google Translate is "bigboy slime". What the heck is that all about? And a 3-D picture dot in the forest nearby with the caption Владимир Корнилин, also Bulgarian, meaning Vladimir Kornilin.

[@KonradTheWizzard]

The "Bulgarian" bit is just the algorithm at Google Translate trying its best guess - which is pretty bad. Cyrillic letters are used by several European languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and more. The first one is the direct transliteration of "bigboi slaim" using Cyrillic letters - so just someone having fun with captions, no translation happening here. It's like a punk in the US scribbling "Nje govoryoo Ruskij" (I not speak Russian) on a street in Minnesota using the normal latin alphabet. The last one seems to be a relatively common name - probably the person who did the photographing. Do I get a lollypop for solving your mystery? 😁

[@iowa_don]

@@KonradTheWizzard You bet! Thanks for the info.

[@raclark2730]

Big boy Slime is the King.

[@colebriantaylor]

Please please please do a video on the Martin Mars float planes

[@user-vf8ch7dm1g]

Mount Kosvinsky is allegedly the Russians main command and control bunker. Yamantau mountain is said to be a giant nuclear weapon and missile factory and storage underground. In fact Yamantau mountain is near Russia's main nuclear weapons lab chelyabinsk 70.

[@zagrepcanin82]

And Chelyabinsk meteor was shot by ufo upon it exploded. Interesting thing is that Dyatlov pass is also in Ural...and i have a buddy in game i am playing who lives there near Ural and he says he sees ufos every day

[@zagrepcanin82]

So either way Kosvinsky or Yamantau both are in Ural

[@johno1544]

400 square miles more than enough room to hide anything. That scale is mind boggling

[@keithmoore5306]

nah it's going to be a present to Simon!! a place to keep his writing staff!!!

[@jlm3744]

The Ark!! Any Metro Exodus fans here?

[@hockeyking30]

THOSE CANNIBALS WERE CREEPY AS FUCK!! It also has a dev level on it with ALL THE WEAPONS and attachments lined up!!

[@Lyndonberg_Gaming]

Seems like the original plan was like that of the us mountain, and then it’s been expanded like the us, being that big it’s a full fall back bunker for secret projects and complete military fall back

[@keithmoore5306]

the only way to know for sure is for someone to go there and go through it!!!

[@wasimshaikh1665]

1:06: Brezhnev flaunting eye brows of mass destruction.

[@mrpicky1868]

strange we do not know more after so many years

[@alexanderc9462]

I’m sure this was in one of the metro games or books

[@freddiecarr7602]

Im on the list for one of those timeshares.

[@SFxTAGG3]

Ah, this place is in Metro Exodus. There's cannibals there.

[@GrievousReborn]

Call of Duty is the only reason I've heard of this mountain

[@williamdrijver4141]

For any area 51 like activity you need runways and all airport necessities. Those weren't visible on the satellite images?

[@njzeigler4370]

Perfect target for a kinetic weapon like Project Thor.

[@stevesloan7132]

There is no human problem that can't be boiled away by a long enough series of H-bomb strikes. And that includes Mount Yamanteau.

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

1x full power Tsar Bomba should do the trick

[@krisstopher8259]

I really wonder how vast the underground network is (i love underground stuff). It could even be several levels and miles of tunnels. I guess we will never know. What if you use like ten 20 megaton bombs all at once? That should do some serious damage, lol. I bet someone somewhere is sitting in a small dimmed room right now trying out simulations of a potential strike (more like they've done it for decades but imagine the simulations we got today)

[@Alan-gx8gf]

I have looked at this Mountan on Google earth a few times , what are they up to ? 🤔

[@424dsfdsfdsfs]

Shakiorov is an ultra popular Bashkir/Tatar last name, there were lots of M Z Shakiorovs

[@thefisherking78]

Whoa

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:55 - Chapter 1 - Mysterious past 5:50 - Chapter 2 - Doomsday prep

[@dave7830]

Whatever it was, it appears to be abandoned now. Current satellite photos show no activity, and vegetation growing up between in cracks in the typical Soviet concrete paving blocks - no traffic.

[@robinsonmitchell9995]

Next, you should do a clip on Vladimir Putin's new and more modern underground complex near the Altai village of Ongudai just north of where the Russian, Kazakhstani, and Chinese borders come together. Алтайское Подворье (Altaiskoye Podvor'ye) is the name of the complex, with the residence above the bunker complex located at 50.788604, 86.487847.

[@boyzinthewood1]

It has to be this big because its where the nation hides its shame

[@DarrenNugent-md4kd]

Pesky russians always got something on the go another good one from the bearded british fact meister 😊

[@V1G0N]

Wow this was really interesting, it was in metro exodus)

[@jmanj3917]

9:30 Oopsy Poopsy! Check your numbers, Brain Boy.

[@Pr0digyZRX]

Why does it sound like Simon keeps saying yuh-man-toe? Never thought yamantau could be so difficult lol

[@CatsMeowOwO]

*General Miller of the Aurora has entered the chat* ^^;