In the urban settlement of Vershino-Darasunsky in the Trans-Baikal Territory, gold has been mined for a century and a half. In Soviet times prisoners and prisoners of war worked at local mines here, and after the collapse of the USSR Vershino-Darasunsky suffered the fate of most Russian single-industry towns: almost all the mines were closed, their workers were fired, and people began to leave. Many of those who stayed, including teenagers and state employees, now earn by illegally entering the closed mines and spending days and weeks there trying to extract gold. Some of the diggers are getting richer, some are dying in the mines, some are jailed or fined.
In the urban settlement of Vershino-Darasunsky in the Trans-Baikal Territory...
Joseph Gomez
Jaxon Butler
Some russians are very kind, Im sorry you gotta deal with this shit. Its funny how people think theyre from the ghetto when they come from certain slums here, yet russia has entire citys and towns that are devestated. Quite saddening. Not like your people went trough enough shit.
Joshua Bennett
Your point?
Nolan Evans
Every day about one hundred inhabitants of the village descend to the mines near Vershino-Darasunsky. Having united in brigades for four or five people, they "leave" for a couple of weeks; many spend under the ground even more. With them they carry heavy backpacks in order to equip themselves at the depth of their habitation - to knock down bunks from the tree, to put TV sets with DVD-players, to equip the kitchen with a kettle and an electric plate.
Go out diggers from the mines usually in the early morning. In different parts of the village, you can see men crawling out of small manholes in helmets, with backpacks and lanterns. On the surface, they often dress the same way as in the depths - they walk around the village in camouflage, with gloves sticking out of their pockets. Some of them have homemade mills in their gardens - to grind the found ore.
Different diggers have different strategies. Some go down with homemade "crushers" to look for new veins. Others, like a teacher and a school principal, are collecting bags with "second jobs" - gold-containing sand from previous works. Still others go to the most inaccessible climbing lairs on the rope, beat the crowbar or "crusher" ore, collect it and almost immediately get out.
Successful brigades enclose "fish" areas under the ground: they put lattices, doors, hang locks. "Sometimes, you go where you usually got the material, but in the tunnel suddenly the door," says one of the diggers. - You knock on it. They ask: who? You call yourself. They reply that they will ask the chief now. Well, they do not return. Hence - it is impossible. "
Connor Ward
Its a living. We have ore hounds too ruskibro
Angel Sullivan
this is some metro 2033 tier shit m8
James Clark
Every resident of Vershino-Darasunsky knows (and dreams of repeating) the story of two years ago. Then four twenty-year-olds climbed underground for a week and found gold for 22 million rubles. Those who are lucky, like them, invest in apartments in Chita and expensive cars; build mansions on the Communist street in the village itself - and continue either to mine gold, or to supervise brigades. Almost no one, even getting rich, leaves Vershino-Darasunsky.
Despite the devastation and external poverty, jeeps Lexus GX 460 (from 3.5 million rubles), Infinity GX70 (from 2.5 million rubles), Hummer H2 (from 2 million rubles) sometimes pass through the roads of the village. Recently, when more and more people began to leave for the mines, prices have also skyrocketed: the simplest can cost one million rubles, others - five times more. As they say in the village, you see a wooden fence - "a man is plowing," a brick one - "digging."
Evan Stewart
Comfy shithole thread.
Brody Brooks
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Eli Myers
>Metro:Exodus will actually be the most authentic Russia Simulator ever made
I don't know if that would be depressing, or very interesting.
Aaron Kelly
god u sound like a fucking reta....oh you are russian. ill just call u a russian instead of retarded. means the same, just politcally correct
Lincoln Williams
In the regional press Vershino-Darasunsky is called a "settlement of termites". On its territory dozens of self-made lasers and entrances to the mines are really scattered; One of them is located right in the garden on one of the private plots. Some galleries are more than a hundred years old.
In the 2000s, when about two thousand people were left without work due to the closure of mines (half the population of Vershino-Darasunsky), people began to extract gold independently to return to what their great-grandfathers did 150 years ago. "For darasuns to walk underground for gold - this is commonplace, well, I do not know what to compare, it's like a flower in a flowerbed in the city," explains one of the diggers. - Here and the children know how to produce gold. Gold-containing sand is sifted with water, you collect grains of sand with an aluminum cup, you burn it with "nitrogen". "
"People who were usually drunk, untidy, without everything, now, when they started walking, bought nice clothes, they make repairs in houses, buy cars," says local resident Maxim Arsentiev. - It's great. But if the authorities cease to close their eyes to it, then the last hope disappears from people. "
The company, which protects the mines in Vershino-Darasun, estimated losses from the activities of diggers in half a ton of gold per year - this is approximately 750 million rubles in today's prices.
Levi Jones
Why did they shut down the mines if the gold is profitable? Also, don't the villages have any mineral rights?
Carter Reyes
>Why did they shut down the mines if the gold is profitable?
>staterun
:)
>Also, don't the villages have any mineral rights?
Zero, but law enforcement is not working or corrupt, hey asked Putin in 2003, Putin refused to sign the law on local self-extraction.
Hudson Hill
Feels bad. But great picts user, thanks for posting.
Isaac Fisher
You should hoard. Metalls will moon after 2025. Thank me later in your thoughts
Tyler Brown
God what a dump, you people are literally nigger tier
Thomas Allen
"Everything happened in 2013," the man recalled. - I just started walking [under the ground]. And in one of the first times I was crushed by the hand. I could not move, was helped by other diggers, pulled out. In the hospital, my arm was amputated. Now I can not walk to the depths and I have to dig in this dirt [damn]. " Now he wants to collect money on the camera to try to make pictures of the village and his friends.
Jayden Barnes
In another camp in Vershino-Darasunsky, former soldiers of the Kwantung Army-Japanese prisoners of war-were kept (there were more than 60,000 prisoners in the Chita region). In the village, as one of the residents of Vershino-Darasunsky wrote, whose memories are kept in the local museum, they were brought on foot. They also worked at local factories and mines. "I remember that three Japanese worked in the smithy, four in the electrical installation shop, four in the foundry," the man wrote. - Brigades from the Japanese worked in the mine. One of them sewed belts for machine tools. The locals pitied and fed them. I carried them potatoes, bread and milk. I worked in a building where there was a stove, the Japanese came to me to get warm. Communicating with them, I learned two songs in Japanese. 125 of them died. At first the corpses were burned, then they began to bury. They took everyone away from here in 1950. " "The Japanese from the mines were dying," another resident recalled. "And they were burned!" The children gathered around the campfires to see. But when the corpses started to burn muscles - they moved. After watching children screamed at night. After that, apparently, they decided not to burn, but to bury. "
Nicholas White
Bump. Do you have a video of the place, OP?
Tyler Carter
one kike trying to make proxy op kike look legit...
you merchants need to up your game... adapt