Arpad’s line. The bunker in the village of V. Hrabivnytsa. Part One.

Actually the bunker is over the village of V. Hrabivnytsa at a distance of little more than a mile from the shelter at the pass Uklyn. Apparently, this is the most preserved and most valuable, in the historical sense, object of the fortifications of Arpad’s line in the territory of present-day Transcarpathia



Breath is taken already at the entrance, when a huge concrete hulk, buried in a mountain, is seen from the turning.



Here is an enlarged entrance to the bunker. The door is of the postwar era. Whitewashing was done by modern restorers who tried to elevate the bunker to be used in tourism purposes. Boards, lying on the grass, are the remains of their activities.



The part of the front bunker wall is overgrown with grass, bushes and trees. But if you walk to the left a little, the continuation of the bunker wall would be seen.



The first thing, you notice entering the bunker, is a lot of reinforcement of thickness in the thumb, protruding from the wall.



The destruction of concrete is particularly noticeable in areas wetted with ground water; there is a lot of water in the bunker particularly after rain.



Several moves in the neighboring rooms of the object are walled. Small holes are punched through the wall. Those, who were interested, peeped in an adjacent room, did not find anything interesting, and did not go on punching. The interest is understandable. According to the words of locals, after the war, the NKVD undermined most of the objects under the slogan "in order benderivtsi do not wind up”, and in those facilities that were difficult or impossible to undermine, the strategically important passages and rooms were filled with several machines of concrete. There is a talk that tunnels to the other reinforcement areas began in this bunker, for example, uzhokskyy. It is hard to believe, but you never know.



It is a tending up through the concrete shaft ventilation.



"Entourage” of the first premise is a sad sight. The mountains of debris, an old bed, empty bottles, broken glass. By the way, during whole our travel to the bunker we were faced with a mass of broken bottles and other debris, graciously left by "the connoisseurs of antiquities with Transcarpathian mentality" in the corridors.



And here is how the entrance to the side room from the first one looks. "Repair" with a portrayal of the artificial gems on whitewashed is clearly visible.



Here is an illustration of how the object was reinforced. Besides, reinforcement in the walls is as thick as a finger, so even the plaster of the moves contains the rod inside which is a few millimeters thick.



Well, have moved. Here is how the majority of moves between rooms of the bunker look. It is contraindicated for people with claustrophobia to go on the object. Boards are stacked over old, long-decayed by "restorers". There is a drainage channel for water under the boards, as I’ve said there has been a lot of water after the rains.



The first rooms...



...on both sides of the main corridor ... The plotted inscription in Hungarian is seen in the background. Incidentally, it is worth to say a separate word. Wherever you move on Arpad’s line in Transcarpathia, everywhere you can find traces of someone's "painting”. It is either the crossed inscription "Arpad’s Line" on a poster in the reserve and «Arpad Vonal» (phrase "Arpad’s line" translated into Hungarian) will be written, or the questioning the forces of nature on the topic "Why did it so happen…”, or something else patriotic Hungarian. I take it very negatively when I see any graffiti or any other attributes on the objects of antiquity. Regardless of in what language and nation they were written.



And here are the first guests. A bat appeared from the darkness of a long corridor as a big dark flying spot, formed with a shadow of the cross beams of several flashlights. This is a mystical and frightening scene. But the expedition members were brave men and nobody got scared.



The first signs of incomplete restoration appeared in the middle of an underground path. We began to pace slower and more cautious.



And this is the remnants of the “door frame”, if to be more precisely, it was its similarity, of round form. Apparently there was once a wooden wall with a door separating the rooms inside the facility.



Fixtures for the lamps with the remnants of seatings of that time are everywhere on the walls.



It became very hard to go toward the far end of the bunker. The set of dips, water everywhere, especially in the drainage channel, reinforcement protruding from the wall...



Side rooms were of very different forms, and manholes-branches became narrow, and were going up at an angle of 45 degrees. We tried to climb on some of them. Sometimes we managed, sometimes did not. It was very wet and slippery. In addition, there was broken glass everywhere. Someone amused throwing empty beer bottles from the top of trenches.



Entrances to some of the rooms were once closed with metal doors.



Remains of fossilized rubber seal and vent near one of the outputs in one of three bunkers on the surface.



Here is a tube from the wall from what cold spring water flows. It's hard to say when it was installed.



And here is one more demonstration of how discourtesy of our nation has no borders. It is sad.



A side branch is filled. Judging from the chipped stones – they have “gouged” in our time. Perhaps, there has been one of the immured passes.



There are rusty fittings and much damaged concrete everywhere...



The ceiling is in deep cracks. It is a very frightening scene from a security standpoint.

Continuation: Arpad’s line. The bunker in the village of V. Hrabivnytsa. Part Two.

29.11.2011. 15:59

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