Abandoned hospital in Khovrino. Khovrin Hospital: myths and legends

“The hospital is a land of miracles, I went into it and disappeared there.”
Inscription on the object

Part one, historical.
Yesterday I saw on map.google.com a map of mysterious places in Moscow dedicated to Halloween, clicked on the icon in the northern district and fell out of life for the whole day. Khovrinskaya hospital! It turns out that many specialized sites, communities and forums are dedicated to it. In terms of the number of legends, even... even... no one can compare with her. And what is even more surprising is that all this is in Moscow, and not somewhere out there, who knows where, where the hell you can get. And this is with the price of land in the capital! For almost 30 years it has been scaring Muscovites with its existence.

"When you see this place, you want to rush there headlong. Having been there, you want to go back and at the same time forget the day you appeared there. A gloomy eleven-story abandoned hospital in the Khovrino district. Hundreds of people come here from all over Moscow, thousands have visited this place, dozens of corpses are found every year in the walls of the abode of evil. And how many people have disappeared there, how many have not yet been found in the dark walls, how many have been killed. There are many legends and mysteries around the building. It has a bad, criminal, one might say, devilish reputation. to connect all the facts and speculations found and circulating on the Internet about this place, which is what I will try to do." - Katya writes from the mailrush blog I will quote her further, especially since this is a kind of compilation from various sites.

Below is an abbreviated text by Katya.
History of origin. Construction of the Khovrinskaya hospital began in 1981 on the site of an old cemetery. It was designed for 1,300 beds for patients from all over the USSR. It was planned to create one of the best medical institutions in our country. Later, the nature of its application changed to a more modest one, that is, a regional nature (in Khovrino in those years there were no medical institutions at all). In 1985, construction was completed under unclear circumstances. By that time, some equipment had already been delivered to the hospital and furniture had been installed. All this was endured with a clear conscience by the local residents.
The reasons why construction was stopped are as follows:
1. Lack of funds to complete the work and maintain the hospital (the most plausible)
2. The foundation of the building was made unsatisfactorily. (The shape of the building played a cruel joke). The project was banned because it could collapse.
Well, the story with the great Khovrinsky hospital did not end at the end of construction work. It was not destined to become a place that helps people save lives. It became the place where these lives were taken. They were taken away because of faith, unrequited love, because of chance and fate to disappear there.
Location. About the building itself. The hospital is located near the Khovrino station, near the park. Easily accessible from the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station.
In the building: 2 buildings. The main building is shaped like a star. 6 wings extend from it, which are connected by 3 floor passages.
In the main building: 3 roof levels. A large and scary flooded basement that goes approximately 4 floors deep. There is a version that between the buildings there is a flooded tunnel through which a truck could pass. But more on this a little later.
The second building was ophthalmological. It housed a morgue and crematorium.
I think that when you read the title of the article, you thought, what is Umbrella?
Umbrella is the name of a secret laboratory from the computer game Resident Evil. A famous film with Milla Jovovich was made based on it. Indeed, the shape of the Khovrinskaya hospital is very reminiscent of it. It is made in the shape of the sign of this laboratory. And the sign itself denotes biohazard.

The hospital is popularly called not only Umbrella. It is also called Khovrinka, Khovrinsky Unfinished Construction, Nemostor (the fun begins). Nemostor. A sect of Satanists. After the sudden cessation of construction work, the building began to be guarded by the military. The object was listed as strategically important. But then they left too.
The building was empty for long. It was founded by the satanic sect Nemostor. Different sources attribute this to different years. Some say that this happened in the late 80s, others in the early 90s. But the date is not the main thing in this case. The main thing is the 100% fact about their existence there during this period and about their activities inside Umbrella. The sect, as they say, made its own church there in the basement, where there are no windows and where sunlight does not reach. They have done a good job in the basement. There were even homemade stairs they made there. Satanists have committed a huge number of attacks on people. All the curious people who went there ended badly. They were either simply killed or sacrificed to Satan.
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All these rituals were carried out in Umbrella. And this is a well-known fact. Including law enforcement agencies. The actions of a dangerous sect within the walls of the building and constant ritual murders did not go unnoticed. The authorities soon found out about this.
The apartments of the Satanists with furniture and electricity, where the base of Nemostor lived, were located in an underground tunnel between the main and ophthalmological buildings. Satanists gathered there and many lived there. During the next meeting of Nemostor, the authorities staged a special operation to destroy the sect. Riot police arrived at the hospital.
Armed detachments surrounded the sectarians, opened fire and drove them into this tunnel, and then blew up both entrances there, thereby closing their path to retreat. The explosion flooded the tunnel, and the remaining Satanists drowned. Their corpses are still there. The tunnel is flooded, and now no one knows the entrance to it, except for some people. The man who showed the operas the entrance there before the operation disappeared.
This is the most famous Umbrella story. The most common. Now no one can say whether everything was as I described above.
But there are two facts. Nemostor acted there and the organs got rid of it.
To confirm this version, you need to explore the lower levels. But you can’t do this without special equipment and scuba gear. And who will do this if not some daredevils. All that remains of them are poems on the walls and the eternal memory of the shed blood.
Satanists in Umbrella today. Despite the sad fate of their predecessors, Satanists still gather in the hospital after sunset and perform rituals.
But they do this no longer in the basement, but on the 5th floor of the main building. They have a special room there in the very center. The room has no windows or doors. They get there by moving the wall. No one bothers there, not even the police, although there is a chance that they don’t know about its existence.
This is not the end. The existence of the sect has left a dark mark on this place.
But the destruction of Nemostor was not the end of Umbrella's story. People are still disappearing and dying in the building. The series of bodies found there does not stop. The local police department has about 1,500 applications for the hospital. According to the data I excavated, 6 bodies were found in Umbrella in 2004. During the summer of 2006 13 tel. And this is only two years. If we had access to police archives, then I think we would have learned a lot more interesting information, but alas.
The hospital is surrounded by a huge number of mysteries and unexplained phenomena. There are rumors of ghosts, of children crying and screaming in the empty and dark corridors. No one knows if ghosts really exist there.
In the hospital they find both people and dogs and cats.
You can often find animals that have died either naturally or killed, lying in outlined circles and with the same traces of satanic rituals.
Here is another selection of interesting photos from the life of the hospital.
From me: no photos were posted for unknown reasons. Apparently they are not for the faint of heart. But take my word for it!
By the way, regarding the death of animals, there is one story about a hospital.
In a house near Umbrella lived a compassionate old woman. Somehow she lost her mongrel and decided to look for him inside the building. In one of the rooms she came across a dead dog, which she hardly recognized as her pet. His paws were tied with rope. Nearby, the grandmother found another pair of severed and tied dog paws, with which she went to the police. Law enforcement officers conducted raids for several days, but failed to detain anyone. And a week later, a pensioner who decided to track down the killers, under mysterious circumstances, fell into a trap in a bad house and died there for several days with broken legs.
Umbrella has a lot of traps. The most important thing when you are there is to look at your feet. The floor underneath you may collapse. There are a huge number of holes and gaps leading down to the floor or into the water. Traps covered with metal sheets are also often found. If you step on one, you will fall down onto metal bars specially prepared for this occasion. During our tour of the hospital, I also noticed areas on the ceiling with rods protruding vertically downwards.
Suicides in the hospital.
Umbrella didn't just kill people. There were also cases of suicide. The most famous is the suicide of a guy, the memorial to which you can see when you enter the hospital from the park.
The guy whose nickname was Krai jumped down from the 8th floor into an elevator shaft because of unrequited love. He was very young. Now there are a lot of flowers, cigarettes and poems on the wall. One of them, “The hospital is a land of miracles, you entered it and disappeared there,” became a prophecy for all of Umbrella. For all the people who lost their lives there.
Directly from the memorial is the dark room in which Kray's body was found.
There are inscriptions written above the entrance that his soul rests here and entry is prohibited.

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Further fate After getting rid of the Satanists, everyone and everything began to hang out in the building. From the numerous influx of homeless people, to goths, punks, skins, emo and other representatives of subcultures.
Everyone has been here...
From comrades of the RNU and National Socialists
Before supporters of left communist ideas and Limonov's NBP people
The Berseki detachment of the NSO organization trains in the hospital, the dogs of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were trained, as well as trainings in various shooting sports.

Here are more excerpts from other sites.
Wikipedia:
The layout of the building is original and atypical for administrative buildings of the Soviet period. The hospital is designed in the form of a triangular cross with branches at the ends. The three wings of the building converge in the middle, the side parts form three courtyards occupied by extensions. Next to the main building there is an extension - the building of an ophthalmology clinic.
Due to the incompleteness of construction, fragments of walls and interfloor ceilings are missing in some places. The building, especially its upper floors, is completely covered in graffiti. The basements are flooded.
Among stalkers, the object is nicknamed "Umbrella" for its shape, similar to the logo of a secret corporation from the game Resident Evil.
Since the mid-1980s, the hospital has become a frequent target of stalking and is often visited by extreme tourists. Training was carried out here for rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and industrial climbers. There is also information about the appearance of sectarians, Satanists, homeless people and other criminal elements in the hospital. The place is considered unsafe, despite police protection. There have been at least two recorded deaths from falling into elevator shafts (one of which was probably a suicide).

An ordinary residential area in the vicinity of Klinskaya Street (Khovrino). “Did you take your clothes and a flashlight?” - asked Lech - in the world he is a policeman, but today he is my guide. We changed clothes in the car. I watched in amazement as my friend took out a powerful flashlight, a flask of water and an impressive cleaver from his bag. “Let’s go, you fucking ranger,” said Lekha, throwing his backpack behind his back.
The well-groomed park abruptly gave way to thickets of thistles the size of a man. The bulk of the building loomed above us, gaping with the eye sockets of empty windows. An inconspicuous path.

“The military built a clinic here,” the guide enlightened. - When the USSR collapsed, the hospital was almost ready. There was plumbing, windows, furniture. There were even signs on the doors. Then soldiers guarded her. When they left, citizens flocked here from all over Moscow. They took everything out - toilets, tiles, pipes, glass. How do you feel about religion?
- Baptized. And what?
- Yes, the place is bad - it’s not that homeless people don’t come here, there aren’t even stray dogs.
Dark labyrinths
Entering the house, I immediately felt like I was in a cemetery at night. Lehi's powerful flashlight was shining far away. Mine had difficulty dispelling the darkness about two meters away. The rays picked out from the darkness traces of destruction and protruding reinforcement. The ends of the rods turned out to be suspiciously sharp.
- What's this?
- What, what, traps. Strangers don't come here.

Lech shined the light into the corner. There was a briefcase lying on the ground, obviously not a cheap one. There are some papers nearby. Trying to see what was written on them, I came closer. "Stand!" - the guide shouted. Lekha walked around me and poked me with his boot into the ground. The earth responded with a metallic hum. Shining the light downwards, I saw that a piece of tin was lying on the ground right in front of me.
- So what? - I asked. - Is it bad luck to step on metal here?
Lekha pushed the thin sheet aside. Underneath there was a black hole, at the bottom of which pieces of reinforcement were sticking out of the water.
“There are a lot of such deceptions here,” said the companion. - Try not to move aside.
Having gone around the pit, we approached the briefcase. The papers turned out to be contract forms. Something flashed below. A fountain pen, under a layer of dirt you can see the name - “Parker”.
- Where did this come from?
- Who knows? They hit someone in the head on the street, took their briefcase, and here they gutted them. Or maybe not.
- What's wrong?
- You'll see now.
Abode of Fear
The light of the lantern picked out the inscriptions on the walls: “666”, something to the glory of Satan... I remembered the story of the neighboring grandmothers. A compassionate old woman lived in a neighboring house. Somehow she lost her mongrel and decided to look for him inside the building. In one of the rooms she came across a dead dog, which she hardly recognized as her pet. His paws were tied with rope. Nearby, the grandmother found another pair of severed and tied dog paws, with which she went to the police. Law enforcement officers conducted raids for several days, but failed to detain anyone. And a week later, a pensioner who decided to track down the killers, under mysterious circumstances, fell into a trap in a bad house and died there for several days with broken legs.

We turned to the side.
- Does this remind you of anything? - Lekha asked, shining a light into some hole. The shape of a freshly dug hole could only resemble a grave. - So I’m thinking, aren’t the owners of expensive briefcases lying in such pits?
Strangers don't come here
- Lech, aren’t you scared?
- Anything can happen. From here, a man was recently taken to intensive care. When he came to his senses, he kept repeating that he was beaten by people in black hoods. But he was still lucky. Six corpses were found here last year. How much more is left?
Lekha threw a cigarette butt at the bottom of the grave and led me into the lair of the Satanists. Along the way we discovered about a dozen more suspicious holes. The cone of light reveals the dog's corpse - a grinning mouth, empty eye sockets and a wound in the side. The front legs are tied. A little further on there are several more dog corpses. There are poems about Satan on the walls.
“This is where they gather,” I heard Lekha’s voice. - Scary? Let's go back.
I agreed with relief.
“A week is not enough to get around everything here,” the guide began to talk. “Even if you drive a battalion of terrorists here, no one will notice.” There is also a second building, and between them there is an underground passage so wide that a truck can pass through. But only a select few know the way there. They say that the apartments of Satanist leaders are equipped there. With electricity, furniture. The man who showed one of the operators the entrance was never seen again. And when the riot police arrived, the entrance had already been blocked.
Finally, sunlight flashed ahead. Another twenty meters through the bushes, and we are among people. Mothers with strollers, pensioners... Several meters of bushes separate this world from the one hidden from the uninitiated. Suddenly, from somewhere above, breaking branches, a brick fell to the ground next to us. Coincidence or warning?

And here are three videos:



Part two is revealing.
Now do you understand why I lost my life for a day studying all this? Do you understand? I'll tell you more: I grew up in it! In 1981, while I was walking at the dog park with my one-year-old Great Dane, an excavator arrived. This is how the history of the Khovrinsk hospital began. From the first ditch dug, in which we mined clay for modeling, marking “our” places with a “stamp” with a cork from some bourgeois bottle, we, the yard boys, participated in its construction. I was 11. And I grew up with her. There was never an old cemetery, there was a swamp, wells with newts, a piece of the city garbage dump and a dog playground. By the way, the entire Zeleneogradskaya street was built on this landfill. Yes! There were also ditches from the former vegetable storehouse. There were no military personnel guarding the hospital, nor was there any imported furniture or signs on the doors. I hung out there until I was 16, that is, until construction stopped. And at 16, girls and other interests had already started, and my beloved dog died, and without her it somehow wasn’t very good. I knew all the moves and exits by heart. There is no tunnel between the buildings. And the “ophthalmological” building itself was built later. The phrase “The second building was an ophthalmological building is striking. It contained a morgue and a crematorium.” There was nothing there, it was unfinished :) And why do the “eye-seekers” need a morgue? And the basements began to flood almost immediately, there really were lakes, in them we exploded our first homemade bombs from saltpeter and activated carbon using an empty pen rod and sulfur from a block of matchboxes. Such homemade “bickford cords” burned even in water.
And here are my “hospital” photos from that time, how does it look like?

Do you recognize? This is me in the legendary Soviet blue Adidas, which painted not only my socks, but also my legs.

Part three, realistic.
Well, after everything I’ve read, how could I not go to the places of my childhood? I buy a flashlight, clear out the cards, check the batteries, take a Bobby and, fighting the flood of memories, go there.
Surprisingly, the fence around the complex was only built almost 30 years later, in 2008. The hospital has been accessible to absolutely anyone all these decades. 30 minutes later I’m inside, in the building where “the morgue was.” I don't know it, it was built later. There were no problems getting into the territory myself; it was difficult to arrange entry inside for my Dober.

I decide to go to the main, huge building, and I hear approaching dogs barking. I was spotted. First, two mongrels in collars come running, then a guard with a bat.

Two dogs rush at the doberas, I calm the guards, making sure that the dogs don’t tear each other. There are three of them. The one who was first, I called in my mind a “brat”, the second one who came running also with a bat was a “hog”, the third “cunning” was approaching from the rear, all the time saying something into the walkie-talkie. Damn, I'm surrounded. I explain that I was just walking the dog, and it’s unclear how I found myself behind barbed wire. It pisses them off. My camera and the Dober rushing at their mongrels are infuriating. I take a photo of the brat’s face, so that he understands that I don’t care about him. Scribe, after threats to uninstall the camera and me, I seem to delete the photo: under their supervision, I click on “delete”, but instead of confirming, I click to turn off the screen. They are happy, call the cops and say that they still need to rub all my photos and check the contents of the backpack. I go to their office, the dudes are on edge, just like their dogs, I can barely hold on. I'm ahead. They're behind. Suddenly, the hog hits Garik with a bat in the place where, in his opinion, the dog’s kidneys should be. But Garik doesn’t notice this! He doesn't even turn his head, he's busy controlling the mongrels. It blows my mind. What the fuck? From behind, with a mean bat? And what did we do?! Now there will be meat. But there are three of them with bats and two dogs, and I am alone and without a weapon, although with a dog. And at the same time, I am on their territory and the law is on their side. And it is still unknown how many there are. I yell that he’s a scribe, I’m setting up a dog for him. They don't beat us, we just go to their lair. Hog went nuts because his blow had no effect, I listened to a lecture about how everyone with knife-pistols was stopped a lot, but I am the most sophisticated offender and that I specially took a killer dog that is stronger than any weapon. The only thing I’m holding back is that if I lose my temper, they’ll just shoot Garik, but do I need that? I quietly pull the card out of the camera, hide it, and insert a previously prepared empty one. We reach the main entrance with the gates open. “To the left,” they order me. “Yeah, of course,” I answer and go out the gate. Why are they all so sure that I will obey them and wait for the police, a search and problems? "Stop! Where?" - I'm just running down the street. They're behind me. Two. The brat and the hog. But the street is no longer their territory and they are not confident in themselves. I feel like I’m being bitten on the leg of my trousers, but underneath it is a high top of a grinder. Mongrel! I stop abruptly, and from a U-turn, with the thought “sorry, it’s nothing personal, but you’re in the service, say thank you to your master,” I hit him in the face with a heavy sole. Bobik flies off onto the lawn. The second mongrel turns around. The hog howled as if I had deprived him of descendants. "A-ah! I'll tear you apart for a dog!" “This is for the bat,” I think, running around the corner of the house. A bottle flies past my ear and breaks about three meters in front of me. They are falling behind.
UPD: A security structure that uses bats and bottles in its work is called not a private security company, but a gopota.

The main attraction of the Moscow city district of Khovrino is an abandoned hospital building built in the 1980s. Today this place, like a magnet, attracts informal people of all stripes and is surrounded by a huge number of mystical legends.

They say there are ghosts there, and people and animals disappear. Some of them are later found dead.

According to one version, the hospital was built on the site of the cemetery at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign,” which was liquidated in 1960. Another version says that construction was carried out on the site of a drained swamp. First, it was as if a bomb shelter was built there, and then they began to build a hospital on top of it - a pompous medical complex with several access roads for ambulances and its own morgue, crematorium and helipad.

Construction went according to plan, all that remained was to complete the interior decoration, but in 1985 the work was stopped. The fact is that the building began to go underground. Some blamed the swamp for this, some blamed the Likhoborka River flowing underground, and some blamed the “quicksand”.

One way or another, settlement and cracks arose, and construction was frozen. Although some believe that there simply were not enough funds to complete the work... At first, the site was guarded by the military, but a year later it remained abandoned. After this, construction was attempted to be resumed several times, but the attempts were unsuccessful.

The unfinished building is a 10-story structure, with a three-level roof and four-level basements (the lower levels are partially flooded). The ground part has the shape of a triangular cross with branches at the ends.

They say that the once abandoned, unfinished building was chosen by the Satanist sect Nemostor as its residence. Satanists allegedly practiced human sacrifice. One way or another, there was a time when people began to disappear in Khovrin, especially children and local homeless people, as well as dogs... And as if all the missing were sacrificed by sectarians who chose for their rituals either the basement of the main building, or the tunnel between two buildings - first and second.

Once, the police and riot police staged a raid on the Nemostor Satanists, who were suspected of murder. They refused to give up. According to one of the versions, the sectarians were driven into the basement and shot there, and the basement was then flooded. According to the second version, no one shot anyone, the non-Mostorovites were simply squeezed in a tunnel between two buildings and they blew it up at both ends, which again caused the tunnel to flood... The corpses are probably still there to this day. And the man who showed the authorities how to get into the tunnel disappeared somewhere.

For some time, only homeless people lived in the building, then Satanists appeared again, but another sect - the “Black Cross”... They say that Satanists gather in Khovrinka to this day. They chose a room for themselves on the fifth floor in the very center of the main building. There are no windows or doors, and you can get there by moving the wall... After sunset, sectarians hold black masses. But without human casualties...

In one of the semi-basement rooms, the walls are covered with satanic and gothic texts and symbols. It's like there's a ghost there. Or maybe even more than one... Eyewitnesses have repeatedly reported that with the onset of darkness, strange cone-shaped silhouettes begin to move around the building, mysterious sounds are heard, similar to children's screams and crying...

The fact is that, according to stories, many people died here. And not only victims of satanic rituals. There are a huge number of sinkholes and holes in the building... And there are people who specifically set up “traps” for strangers. The gaps are covered with iron sheets, and below there is a forest of metal rods...

In general, there are many dangerous places in the building. Experienced “stalkers” know about them, but accidents often happen to inexperienced daredevils. Suicides also occurred here. Once, 16-year-old Alexey Krayushkin, nicknamed Kray, voluntarily jumped into an elevator shaft from the eighth floor because of unhappy love. In memory of him, flowers and cigarettes are brought here... It is believed that his spirit lives in Khovrinka.

Now representatives of other informal organizations hang out in Khovrinka - goths, punks, emo, skinheads, national socialists... According to unverified data, training of the NSO, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and industrial climbers, as well as shooting training, took place here. Although the building is surrounded by a fence and is guarded, informals still continue to enter there. Even groups of extreme tourists are organized who want to experience thrills under the guidance of stalkers for money...

At one time there were rumors about the demolition of the KhZB. However, according to the latest information, the building along with the land was put up for auction.

On October 17, the city authorities must select a contractor for the demolition of the most famous long-term construction in Moscow - the Khovrinskaya Hospital. Over the course of half a century (construction of the clinic began in 1980), the building has turned into one of the darkest urban legends. The capital’s “stalkers” even nicknamed Khovrinka “Umbrella.” This nickname is a direct reference to the name of the corporation that developed the “zombie virus” from the cult action movie “Resident Evil.”

Already on October 18, the history of the unfinished Khovrinskaya hospital may end. On this day, a contractor will be determined who will demolish the building. And by February 2019, the megaproject will disappear completely. The city authorities will allocate 919 million rubles for the work.

For forty years this dull and gray object towered over the area. Forty years is a long time. The hospital was popularly nicknamed KhZB, or “Khovrinka”. Naturally, such a giant could not help but acquire legends and secrets, its own myths and heroes. VM correspondents decided to find out why the object is famous.

Background

In 1980, on the site of the former bed of the Likhoborka River, builders laid the foundation of the Khovrinskaya hospital. It was supposed to become one of the best medical centers in the Soviet Union, but... It didn’t work out. Construction proceeded at a rapid pace, so much so that already in 1985, furniture and medical equipment began to be imported into the finished hospital buildings. For reasons that have not been precisely established to this day, construction was suspended that same year, and in 1992 it was completely frozen.

For its time, the hospital building, made in the style of brutalism, a popular modernist style in architecture in those years, looked more than original: three long wings of the hospital with branches at the ends, diverging from the center in different directions, forming a three-rayed star. For many, this shape is reminiscent of the biohazard sign that formed the basis for the logo of the evil corporation Umbrella in the famous Resident Evil series of computer games. Its name became another unofficial name for the building.

“The architecture is completely determined by the functions of the building,” says Moscow historian Filipp Smirnov. — The fan-shaped divergence of the buildings was created in order to distribute patients entering the emergency room. In the courtyards, patients could calmly walk and gain health.

Today, there are many versions of why the potentially largest metropolitan medical center was not destined to accept a single patient: from those that seem quite plausible to absolutely mystical.

Financial issue

Construction stopped suddenly when furniture was already standing in some medical buildings and signs were hanging on office doors, which inevitably raised a lot of questions about the reason for this decision. The most plausible version is banal and, as always, comes down to funding.

“The hospital project was calculated very adequately and was one of the most breakthrough at that time,” says Smirnov. “There just wasn’t enough money to complete it.” Perhaps they didn’t calculate the strength.

Today this is the most possible option. Many experts are confident that changes were repeatedly made to the project, which required additional cash injections. Unfortunately, the Soviet state, busy with perestroika, did not have any extra money at that time. A similar fate befell many projects not only in Moscow and Russia, but also abroad. For example, the new Berlin Schönefeld Airport.

“The whole airport has been empty for several years, with information boards and runways,” says Moscow City Duma deputy Valery Telichenko. — The money ran out, the company went bankrupt, there was a crisis. Such projects are always based on financial issues.

Design errors

There is another, unofficial, version, even less intelligible than the previous one. It lies in the fact that the building designers made critical mistakes at the very beginning of construction. The fact is that the Khovrinka basements have been under water for a long time. Allegedly, during geological exploration and writing design estimates, they did not take into account the underground river - the same Likhoborka, which at one time was released into the collector.

The structure, erected in a wetland, is slowly but surely sinking under water. However, according to many construction experts, this version has the cause-and-effect relationships mixed up.

“I don’t think that in the case of the Khovrinskaya hospital there was a mistake by the designers,” says Nikolai Shumakov, president of the Union of Moscow Architects. — The project begins with geology, it was probably done correctly, otherwise the project would not have passed the examination.

Damn place

Not a single unfinished building can do without mysticism. So “Khovrinka” was no exception.

- Damn place! - say lovers of hoaxes and simply dreamers when it comes to the Khovrinsky hospital. What arguments are not given in defense of the theory of otherworldly intervention in the fate of the ill-fated hospital: the old cemetery at the base of the building, the dark rituals of Satanists, who have chosen this place since ancient times and do not want to give it up for a hospital.

- Naturally, there is nothing terrible in this place. The village of Khovrino has always been a wonderful place,” says Philip Smirnov. Be that as it may, no one was going to complete the building, and since then it has stood there, gloomy and abandoned, surrounded by dense forest and a fence with barbed wire. But not alone. Places like this always attract different people: rebellious teenagers, extreme sports enthusiasts and just urban tourists. But Khovrinka has become a kind of Mecca, largely because of the aura of mystery that surrounds it.

Myths and legends

A really considerable touch of mysticism has accumulated over the years. The most popular legend about the hospital is the satanic sect “Nemostor”, which allegedly lived in the basements of the building.

When construction stopped, the hospital was guarded by the military for some time, because the facility was considered strategic. However, this did not last long, and soon the military left the building. Then the homeless unfinished building was first chosen by the homeless and other marginalized sections of the population, and then, according to legend, by Satanists. It is believed that the sect arose back in 1984 in Moscow. It was founded by young townspeople who called themselves the Nemostor Interest Club, says Alexander Sitnikov, a programmer and collector of urban legends.

— There were rumors that members of the sect were fond of black magic, for which they killed animals and people! - says Alexander.

At first they operated somewhere in the Bitsevsky forest, where supposedly the symbols of the sect can still be found carved on tree trunks.

Later, they settled in the KhZB, where it was convenient to lure unsuspecting passers-by and sacrifice them. Legend has it that the authorities did not tolerate the fanaticism at hand and decided to liquidate the sect. A special operation was carried out, during which all members of the satanic organization were driven into the basement and all possible entrances were collapsed.

“Because of the explosions, groundwater quickly began to flood the basements and buried all the Satanists forever,” says Sitnikov.

Today, the only reminders of the sect are the gloomy graffiti on the wall at the entrance to the basement. According to rumors, the huge Nemostor logo was painted by its participants, but most likely by local street artists prone to hoaxes.

In general, you should not believe in this legend - there is no documentary or historical information confirming the existence of any sects operating in the Khovrinskaya hospital.

Only one death at the facility is reliably known. In 2015, 16-year-old Muscovite Alexey Krayushkin fell into an elevator shaft. From unrequited love or by accident - it is not established. To this day, near this mine you can see a small memorial with memorial candles and photographs of the deceased. It was built by the boy’s friends, who regularly come here to take care of the makeshift monument.

There is another legend according to which the medical complex was built as a cover for a secret laboratory located deep underground. It is believed that scientists there create and test viruses. As confirmation of this theory, various conspiracy theorists cite the fact that hot water is still supplied to the building. By the way, the legendary unfinished building was once chosen by the Ministry of Emergency Situations and industrial climbers. Here they regularly held their exercises. And in one of the partially flooded basements, frozen water created a kind of skating rink in winter, which was loved by many extreme sports enthusiasts and ordinary teenagers.

Muscovite Mikhail Bashkurov often visited the Khovrinsk hospital in his youth.

— Like many young people at that time, I was attracted to the topics of stalking, roofing, and visiting unfinished and abandoned buildings. Khovrinka has undoubtedly always been the most attractive abandoned place in Moscow. I went there alone or with friends, sometimes I even gave excursions for beginners,” says Mikhail. According to him, despite the status of a “haunted house,” most of the dark stories about the building are fiction.

— I am sure that there were no sects, black masses or other satanic rituals with sacrifices in the hospital. And there were no maniacs operating in the hospital. However, there were accidents. You shouldn’t think that it’s safe here and you can come here for a walk, like in some park. This is an old building that no one looks after. There are also holes in the floor, the elevator shafts are open, and something could collapse at any moment,” says Mikhail Bashkurov.

Scary surroundings

By 2017, part of the buildings of the Khovrinskaya abandoned hospital went under water several meters. In some places, the building's subsidence into the ground reaches 12 meters or more. Moreover, in the hospital itself there are gaping holes on the sides of the aisles, there are no railings on the stairs between floors, and the steps crumble at the slightest touch. Shards of bricks are scattered everywhere, and reinforcement pins protrude from the floor and walls. The same fittings swing under the gradually collapsing ceiling and at any moment threaten to fall on the heads of the few visitors. Illegal visitors.

To this day, new frightening messages are found on the walls in Khovrinka. The most famous graffiti that adorns its walls reads: “This hospital is a land of miracles, you entered it and disappeared.”

All this gave the object a truly frightening image. So much so that bloggers and journalists around the world often include it in their collections of the most terrible places on the planet.

Present and future

The city authorities have long wanted to put an end to the history of what seemed like an eternal unfinished project. However, they were hampered by the fact that the object was in federal ownership. After lengthy litigation, in 2009 the building was transferred to the city’s balance sheet. As is the case with other famous long-term construction projects, different options were offered: complete construction, rebuild or demolish.

At the end of 2016, the capital’s authorities decided to demolish the building and build housing in its place. The fact is that a building that is gradually going underground cannot be restored. Mosgosstroynadzor included the hospital in the list of facilities the construction of which is inappropriate. The examination showed that the overall readiness of the facility was 42 percent, and its wear and tear was 65 percent.

Dismantling will begin this year. According to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Policy and Construction Marat Khusnullin, demolition will not be an easy task; after all, the building and the territory on which it is located are specific.

— These are hundreds of thousands of square meters of emergency real estate. After examining the building, we realized that we would have to use special demolition methods and equipment, and additional design and estimate documentation was required. There will be various dismantling systems with further disposal of materials from demolition,” Marat Khusnullin emphasized.

By 2020, it is planned to build a residential area on this site.

“This is a very interesting site, taking into account the fact that the transport problem in this area has actually been solved. Firstly, the Khovrino metro station of the same name opened, and secondly, a section of the North-Eastern Expressway will pass there,” explained Marat Khusnullin.

Today, opinions are emerging in the information space that with the demolition of Khovrinka, an entire era of tens of years will pass. There are also people who, in a fit of nostalgia, are categorically against this demolition. However, this is the natural end of this story, and soon the place that was originally intended to serve people will finally begin to be useful. This is eagerly awaited not only by city authorities, ambulance workers and police officers, but also by local residents who have been tired for many years of the dubious proximity to the frightening “ghost hospital”.

DIRECT SPEECH

Andrey Bochkarev, head of the Moscow Construction Department:

— In fact, the demolition of the Khovrinskaya hospital is a rather complex process that can take about six months. The whole difficulty lies in the height of the building, as well as its configuration and existing utility networks located nearby. At the same time, the hospital dismantling project has already passed an examination. The building will begin to be dismantled soon. It is planned to use 26 units of special equipment and 45 specialists during the demolition of the main building of the hospital and all its annexes. The demolition of the hospital structures will be carried out using a powerful excavator with a 54-meter boom and hydraulic shears. In total, 417.2 million rubles were allocated from the city budget for hydrogeological and geodetic research, as well as the development of the project.

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Alexey Khoroshilov, Andrey Belyak

Khovrinskaya Hospital is a place about which legends are already being made. A huge abandoned building is located in Moscow, in its Northern District. It is also called "Khovrinka". The building looks terrifying - you can safely shoot horror films on its territory and inside. However, first things first.

Story

Khovrinskaya hospital began construction in 1980. For several years, workers erected a multi-story high-rise building. But five years later, the construction of the Khovrinskaya hospital was suspended indefinitely. And from that moment on, the building is considered unfinished and abandoned. The Khovrinskaya Hospital, whose location is indicated in the Khovrino district (on Klinskaya Street, 2), was built according to the design of several architects. It was planned to build a building in a brutalist style and, I must say, the idea was realized - deliberate rudeness and sharp forms are clearly visible in the image of a tall, bulky and intimidating structure. Not only does the Khovrinskaya abandoned hospital already look creepy, these stylistic features only once again emphasize its wildness.

Building deformation

It’s interesting that the Khovrinskaya abandoned hospital looks like a three-pointed star from above, and even with branches at the ends. In the middle there are three wings, and due to the side parts, three courtyards were formed, which were immediately occupied by additional outbuildings. It is also worth noting that very close to the main building there is another small building - it was planned to be allocated for the pathology department.

Due to the fact that the Khovrinskaya Hospital in Moscow was not completed, in many places there are no ceilings and fragments of walls. What can we say about the basements - they were flooded a long time ago with water, which significantly wetted the concrete. Many people are interested in the question “why the Khovrinsky hospital was not completed.” The most popular version claims that there was simply not enough money for the work. Some people say that the project itself was a failure - it was not developed well enough, and the building began to slowly go underground. This was clarified by specially conducted geological exploration.

It is worth noting that in the place where the Khovrinskaya abandoned hospital is now located, a stream used to flow. More precisely, there was the Likhoborka River and a fairly extensive wetland. In addition, there were treatment facilities for the boarding house, which was located next to this territory. Well, even with such general data about the past of this place, we can say with confidence that the geological situation is absolutely not suitable for construction. For example, in 2014 it was discovered that the first floor of this building had practically “gone” underground.

Legends and scary stories

Khovrinskaya Hospital is practically a legendary building. It is incredibly popular among lovers of all kinds of scary stories. In addition, this building is one of the creepiest places in Moscow. Stalkers call this object “Umbrella” - it’s all because of its shape. Its appearance resembles the corporation logo from the film “Resident Evil”. And approximately the same symbol indicates places where there is a threat of biological hazard. There is another name that sounds like “Nemostor”. It is associated with a Moscow legend about a sect of Satanists who used to gather in a hospital building to hold black masses.

This mysterious place is the Khovrinskaya hospital. The story that happened here several years ago still amazes people hearing it for the first time. This is a story about a suicide. The guy, whom his friends nicknamed Krai, jumped from the eighth floor into an elevator shaft. The cause of suicide was unrequited love. It was a very young guy. Today, few people look into that place - they are afraid. The walls of the eighth floor are painted with memorial inscriptions such as “Edge, you are with us forever!”, “We will remember you, Edge!” etc. But the creepiest thing is the single word “Jump” with an arrow drawn from it towards that same ill-fated mine.

There are also a lot of flowers, poems on the walls and cigarettes. The most famous lines sound like this: “The hospital is a land of miracles... I went into it and disappeared there.” A couplet that chills your soul. It became a prophecy for all the people who lost their lives in Umbrella.

Continuation of a story

By the way, a memorial was erected to that guy, Krai. You can see it if you enter the clinic from the park. In the immediate vicinity of the memorial there is an eerie room - dark, abandoned, like the entire hospital... In it they found the body of a young man who fell from the eighth floor. Above the entrance to the room you can see many inscriptions warning that entry is strictly prohibited - after all, the soul of the Land rests there. Perhaps this is so - no one knows. And even if he does know, he’s unlikely to tell anyone...

The spectacle is not for the faint of heart

The Khovrinsk hospital claimed many lives. The legends about her are numerous, and many are not fiction at all, but real stories. If you want to get inside, then first you should think carefully: is it necessary at all? And first make sure that your nerves are strong. Dead animals, bones, skulls, garbage, red spots - all this is to be seen. By the way, there really are a lot of dead dogs inside. There are even several stories about this.

One of them says that in a house located not far from the clinic, there lived a little old woman who had a dog. One day, an elderly woman lost her and decided to go to the hospital to look for her. She found her in one room. More precisely, these were the remains of an unfortunate animal. Someone tied his paws with a rope, and several more of these poor fellows lay nearby. The grandmother went to the police and showed them evidence in the form of severed and bound dog paws. They tried to organize a raid, but nothing worked, and the operation, which lasted several days, did not bring any results. Therefore, the old woman decided to track down the rapists on her own. And she died. As you might guess, the circumstances were very vague and suspicious - she fell into a trap, broke her legs and slowly died over the course of several days, unable to call for help.

Mystic

The hospital building was erected on an old abandoned cemetery. This fact gives this place even more mystery and wildness. And the number of beds for which the hospital was supposed to be designed was 1300. The first two digits of the number also make you think - a damn dozen... of course, some may consider all this to be superstition, but if this were so, this hospital would be considered a place , where Evil is reborn, and would all these stories exist?

Modern Umbrella

Where the Khovrinskaya hospital is located is never empty. This place is haunted and ghostly, filled with the screams and cries of children and strange sounds occasionally coming from the depths of the rooms at night. Whether this is true or not - only those people who have seen and heard it with their own eyes know. However, there are so many mysteries about this place and so many inexplicable phenomena happened here that you can believe what is said.

Umbrella also has "permanent residents". These are, of course, homeless people. There are a lot of them. And they live there together with Raf. This is the god of Umbrella. There is not enough information about this character, but it did not appear out of nowhere. Raf guards Umbrella, and he is there all the time. It happened that he saved people who fell into traps or got into trouble. However, then he disappeared until an indefinite period.

Khovrinskaya Hospital is a place where the most unusual personalities flock, so to speak. These are skins, emo, goths, punks... In general, representatives of a wide variety of subcultures. They managed to drive out the Satanists, but these people came to replace them. But there are also normal “visitors” there. For example, the hospital trains emergency response dogs.

No entry allowed

Khovrinskaya Hospital in Moscow is a forbidden place. All the people mentioned above (with the exception of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and sniper training groups) must overcome obstacles in order to get inside. The hospital grounds are guarded by dogs and a private security agency. The fact is that this clinic is not just a mysterious legend. It is also a murder scene. There were simply an incredible number of them here. An unsafe place: a girl was killed here in 1990, and a photographer was attacked in 2011. This is in addition to numerous suicides. The hospital seems to attract disadvantaged people. That is why, so that no more misfortunes would happen here, the building was fenced with barbed wire and security was installed. However, some people, hypnotized by the desire to explore everything in the bowels of this mysterious building, still end up inside.

Dangers

Sagging concrete, protruding rusty reinforcement, collapsing walls, darkness, heights, open elevator shafts - all this poses both physical and psychological danger to people trapped inside. Of course, many still want to go to the hospital. Fans of arthouse photography, individuals who like such a oppressive atmosphere, fans of mysticism.

This building has become so popular that in mid-2015 it is planned to begin filming a documentary film based on real events, the title of which is “Khovrino”. The plot, naturally, is about the hospital and everything that happened and continues to happen in it. Many are looking forward to this film - who knows, what if we manage to learn something new?

Plans Fail

How many times they tried to demolish this unfinished complex - nothing worked. The hospital seems to be alive - as if it does not want to be demolished. In 2009, the complex was transferred to the ownership of the capital. At the same time, they drew up a regulation on the demolition of existing buildings and structures, but suddenly an investor appeared who promised to deal with this building and exchanged it for a new plot of land. But then this man mysteriously disappeared. Three years later, in 2012, a new regulation was made on the demolition of this building, however, this plan did not come true - a few months later the building was put up for auction, setting its price at 1,800,000,000 rubles. This is too cosmic an amount for such a structure.

In 2014, the capital's deputy mayor for construction assured that this building would be sold in 2015 so that it could be demolished and a new hospital built. In March of this year, this issue was considered again. Well, who knows how events will develop further. But for now, the building where Evil itself is reborn stands in its place.

It’s also “unfinished in Khovrino” – a huge hospital building. Over 20 years, 800 people disappeared there.

Over its long existence, the hospital has acquired many legends and rumors. Some talk about ghosts, others about the corpses of Satanists on the lower levels.

The layout of the hospital is very unusual. There are 2 buildings on the territory: the main building and the ophthalmology clinic. The main building is shaped like a star. 6 wings extend from it, which are connected by 3 floor passages. The building itself is a 10-story structure, with 3 roof levels and a 2-4 level basement. The first level of the basement is partially flooded, which significantly complicates the exploration of other levels. There is an opinion that the main building and the clinic are connected by an underground tunnel.

A little history of the Khovrinskaya hospital:

Construction began in 1981 (according to other sources - in the 70th or 80th) on the site of a cemetery adjacent to the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” (the cemetery was liquidated in 1960). According to the project, the building was designed for 1300 (according to other sources 1500) beds for patients from all over the country. Officials wanted to create one of the best medical institutions in the USSR; later it was decided to make Khovrinka a district hospital. In 1985, construction stopped (and resumed in the late nineties and 2003), here are several versions of why this happened:

1) funding stopped

2) violations were discovered during the laying of the foundation, there was a threat of the building collapsing

3) the soil under the building was unstable, the building could “float”

They say that at this moment the building was almost ready, interior decoration was being carried out. The building was guarded by the military for some time, then the guards were removed and the locals took everything they could steal from the hospital. The hospital was chosen by homeless people, informals and Satanists. It was because of the Satanists that Khovrinka earned its sinister reputation. Either in the late 80s or early 90s, the building was chosen by the Nemostor sect (Nemostor club).

They say that all the people who disappeared in Khovrinka are the work of their hands. Some say that the sect set up its church in the basement of the main building, others - in the tunnel between the main building and the second building, others - meetings were held in the main building, and the “headquarters” of the sect leaders were equipped in the tunnel. According to rumors, at this time, people (especially children) and dogs began to disappear in the Khovrinka area, which were then sacrificed to Satan or simply killed. Black masses were also held. Soon our valiant police became aware of this and a raid was organized on the Satanists with the participation of riot police, police dogs and other paraphernalia. Again, there are two versions of further events - according to one, the Satanists were driven into the basement of the main building and shot, and then the basement was flooded (a lake that does not dry up can still be seen today), according to the other, the Satanists were squeezed into a tunnel between two buildings and the tunnel was flooded. They also say that the man who showed the cops the passage to the tunnel disappeared. For a short time the hospital remained empty, except for homeless people. Then the Black Cross sect began hanging out in the hospital. What happened to her is unknown. To this day, there are corpses of dogs and homeless people in the hospital and surrounding areas. But even without Satanists and sacrifices, people die in Khovrinka - some cannot stand meeting with the scum/homeless, others fall into the mines. They say that a young guy, Krai, threw himself into an elevator shaft because of unrequited love (according to another version, he died of an overdose). According to rumors, the corpses of six people were found in Khovrinka in 2004, ten in 2006, and at least one in 2007.