Wow! There is a metro in Sevastopol and the secret services carefully hide it from all residents! Sensation! Many fell for this nonsense, which was told by some child on the Informer website (Sevastopol).
I quote Informer: Tell us about the “Sevastopol Metro” object, around which there was a decent amount of hype on social networks.
Kirill: Yes, the other day we managed to penetrate the so-called “Sevastopol metro”. Everything turned out thanks to my digger friend Alexander Numberny, who knows a huge number of similar places and regularly goes there himself. I can’t tell you anything specific, since few people know about this place and the dissemination of information will turn into a “disaster” - just anyone will get in there, and the “metro” will be closed forever.
In fact, there is no metro. This is a simple tunnel with an escalator. It goes from Dokovaya Beam to the docks of the Sevastopol Marine Plant. And this “digger” with his nonsense about the “metro” simply made people’s interest in this object even greater. Therefore, I advise Sevmorzavod to install new doors and an alarm system on this “metro”.
This building has not been used for many years, so it is not surprising that many Sevastopol residents know practically nothing about it.
From the memories From the memories of SMZ workers (from the Sevastopol Transport website):
The plant had two entrances: one on Rabochaya Street and the second with an entrance from the street. Heroes of Sevastopol. The central one was considered to be the one on Heroes of Sevastopol, it overlooks the territory near the Lazarevsky barracks. At Rabochaya the checkpoint was small, and most importantly, to get to the plant, you had to cross the ONLY railway to Sevastopol! But the fact is that a lot of factory workers lived on the Korabelnaya side (in Soviet times, the number of factory workers was something like 15-20 thousand people including all branches). Now imagine: a train is coming, and at this time a crowd is pouring out of the factory or into the factory - hemorrhoids for both the railway and the SMZ! There were cases when people got hit by a train... That’s when they decided to make the checkpoint underground. Probably, it was possible to do without an escalator - like steps and that’s all, but as always - gigantomania and huge plans... Yes, the escalator there is at most 100 meters uphill, or maybe less, not - exactly less, 50 meters, probably ...
The new entrance was inaugurated at the beginning of Rabochaya Street in the second half of the 1970s. To the left of it is the plant's pass office, and behind it, to the right and down the steps, is a storage room. The workers called this entrance “metro” or “escalator”. Previously, there was a dance floor on the site of the second entrance. The dance floor was closed in the late 60s, construction took a very long time - about 12-15 years. Construction was carried out using a combined method - a deep pit was dug at the site of the entrance gate, but under the railway that runs along the fence of the plant, they worked in a closed way so as not to interrupt the railway communication. If memory serves, there were two escalators: one for ascent, the other for descent. The escalators broke down very often, and they only worked during rush hour - in the morning and evening. The rest of the time, if you need to leave the factory, or vice versa, enter, then walk along the steps of a stationary escalator...
Thus, Sevastopol became the first of the Crimean cities to have not only a tram and trolleybus, but also a “self-propelled staircase”. Alas, with the onset of the 90s, the enterprise found itself under the influence of well-known economic processes. The number of workers at the plant began to rapidly decline; the second entrance, along with its miracle staircase, turned out to be unnecessary and simply unnecessary. The current appearance of this place also does not yet inspire optimism.
And what he was like before. Photo taken from the website "Transport of Sevastopol".
