{"id":50964,"date":"2023-03-26T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50964"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:59:47","slug":"a-fascinating-exploration-of-the-dark-underground-rivers-of-the-ukrainian-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/26\/a-fascinating-exploration-of-the-dark-underground-rivers-of-the-ukrainian-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"A fascinating exploration of the dark underground rivers of the Ukrainian capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Ukraine is at war, in areas where there is no fighting there are still people who are engaged in urban exploration.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/31\/exploring-in-a-war-zone-the-landscape-after-a-battle-in-a-forest-in-ukraine\/\">Exploring in a war zone: the landscape after a battle in a forest in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/07\/lychakiv-a-beautiful-place-in-ukraine-where-no-one-can-harm-its-inhabitants-anymore\/\">Lychakiv: a beautiful place in Ukraine where no one can harm its inhabitants anymore<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday, the Ukrainian YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@STEPANETS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stepanets<\/a> (which we already saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/31\/exploring-in-a-war-zone-the-landscape-after-a-battle-in-a-forest-in-ukraine\/\">exploring the Chernobyl area<\/a> in May 2022, after the fighting that took place there) <strong>has published a new video touring some of the underground rivers of Kiev<\/strong>, some rivers that the neighbors themselves do not know of that city. Going through all of them would be very difficult and dangerous. As published by the Ukrainian website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbextour.com\/en\/kyiv-underground\/underground-rivers-of-kiev-by-the-eyes-of-urban-explorers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UrbexTour.com<\/a> as of January 2018, <strong>there are 80 underground rivers under Kiev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this case, we see urban explorers walking through <strong>Kiev's two main underground rivers: the Klov and the Khreshchatyk<\/strong>, through the vaulted tunnels and water collectors through which their currents flow today. channels. The video is in Ukrainian, you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the lower bar of the player:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u041f\u0406\u0414\u0417\u0415\u041c\u041d\u0410 \u0420\u0406\u0427\u041a\u0410 \u041a\u041b\u041e\u0412 \u0422\u0410 \u0425\u0420\u0415\u0429\u0410\u0422\u0418\u041a\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7czhUsoc-Mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The exploration begins in this open access to the Klov River<\/strong>, on a sunny day when there is very little water in its course.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773122106_f7826830d5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video shows how this access is installed when it rains.<\/strong> These underground rivers are often the cause of flooding in Kiev when heavy rains arrive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773122121_10538218fe_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the vaulted tunnels of the Klov River.<\/strong> Kiev's rivers began to be channeled underground. Unlike what happens in other cities, in the Ukrainian capital domestic sewage and storm drains have separate systems.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773603728_b8034e6834_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the collectors of the Klov River.<\/strong> As the author of the video warns, flash floods have already caused deaths in these tunnels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773603798_8bf7a0d949_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a point on the route where three rivers meet:<\/strong> the Klov, the Khreshchatyk and the Klovsky stream. Here we see the tunnel of the Klovsky stream.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773537285_1d5459eeda_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Khreshchatyk River Tunnel<\/strong>, built with bricks in the 19th century. This tunnel withstood the bombings of World War II.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773537335_544ec3d04d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another part of the Khreshchatyk tunnel<\/strong>, in this case with the walls covered with cement. I encourage you to watch the video until the end, you will see where the explorers end up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52773122241_46155d4984_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Ukraine is at war, in areas where there is no fighting there are still people who are engaged in urban exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16883],"tags":[18834,13300,18833,18835,15307],"class_list":["post-50964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rivers-and-lakes","tag-khreshchatyk-river","tag-kiev","tag-klov-river","tag-klovsky-stream","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}