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

[kennyhagan]

The fact that there's a YouTube 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.

[liamwinter]

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

[novemberalpha]

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

[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".

[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.

[heraissilly]

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

[aidanacebo]

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.

[abccomando]

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

[Jayjay-qeum]

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.

[praveenksarathi]

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

[finscreenname]

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

[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

[Sphinx]

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

[rr]

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.

[MikoyanGurevichMiG]

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.

[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....

[genericscottishchannel]

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

[JoeDiGiovanniIV]

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

[r.b.ratieta]

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.