Khovrinsk Abandoned Hospital (KhZB) is a building located in the Northern District of Moscow, in the Khovrino area. Near the hospital there is a railway station located on the road leading to St. Petersburg.
History of creation
The first mention of the hospital appeared in 1979. However, construction began only in 1980. The authors of the project were I. Ya. Yadrov, I. Kosnikova, K. Knyazev, A. Saukke, A. Moiseenko and N. Pokrovskaya. Khovrin hospital was built under the strict guidance of I. A. Tsfas, E. Antonov, V. Paykov and L. Krylyshkin. Five years later, in 1985, the construction was stopped. For thirty years, the building has been unfinished and is considered abandoned.
According to some reports, the construction of the hospital was located on the site of an old cemetery. At the very beginning of construction work, the land was concreted. The unfinished hospital in Khovrino was closed even before the end of all work: the exterior of the building was completely ready, only the internal layout remained.
The true reasons for stopping construction are still classified as "secret." However, there are several versions:
- The Property Department of the city of Moscow did not have a title to this object.
- According to the mistakes of geologists, the building was built above the underground river, so it began to go underground.
- Design Errors. Due to unstable soils, the building goes down.
- Lack of funding.
What really influenced the closure of the hospital is unknown. At first, the object was guarded and considered “strategically important”, but after a while it became completely abandoned.
Structure and appearance
Khovrina Hospital has a very unusual layout and has two buildings. The main one is built in the form of a three-beam star with six branches at the ends. These three wings are connected in the middle. If you look at the object from above, the construction of the building resembles the Biohazard sign (“biohazard”). The main building has eleven floors and a three-level roof.
The second building was ophthalmic. It consists of three floors, where the morgue and crematorium were located.
The basement of the building is very large and goes four floors in depth. Today, it is partially flooded with water, which does not leave either in winter or in summer. Despite the temperature, the water is always covered with a thick layer of ice.
According to the project, Khovrina hospital contained several arrivals for ambulances and its own helipad. Due to the cessation of construction in the building, the floors were unfinished, there were no partitions and some fragments of walls. According to experts, by 2015 the hospital went underground by 12 meters. And the first floor, located at the level of the road, sank much lower. In addition, cracks began to form on the walls of the building.
Sect "Nemostor"
The unfinished hospital in Khovrino was guarded by the military for a whole year after freezing construction. When they left the area, the thrill-seekers became interested in the building. And the first of these were the Satanists. Their sect was called "Nemostor."
It is believed that the Satanists gathered in the hospital for black masses. They took place in the walls of the basement, where there were no windows and where sunlight did not penetrate. They set up their sanctuary and built a certain church where they offered human sacrifices. In addition, Satanists staged dark rituals and mass orgies.
In the late 80s - early 90s of the twentieth century, cases of missing people became more frequent in the Khovrino region. Not only citizens without a fixed place of residence disappeared, but also children, adolescents, and also animals. It was believed that all the missing were sacrificed to Satan, so they were sent to the furnace and burned. An abandoned hospital in Khovrino stores in its basement two such stoves and Satanic churches that were not flooded with water.
Sectarians did not work long. When local law enforcement agencies learned about the sect, an order was received to put the hospital building in order. Riot police stormed the site, but the Satanists were not about to give up. Further, there are two versions of events:
- Sectarians were caught. They were not taken to the department, but shot in the basement, after which they filled it with water.
- The sectarians resisted, but they were driven into a tunnel in the basement. Further, a riot police detonated a tunnel from two sides and flooded it with water. As a result, the Satanists drowned.
Such events, according to rumors, took place in the Khovrino area. The hospital (photo below) was empty for a while, taking the lives of Satanists in a terrible basement.
Black Masses of Satanists
Mass is the main Christian and Catholic ritual of worship. Black Mass is a ceremony against Christianity, or a satanic kind of ritual.
Satanists performing the black masses desecrated Christian symbols. For instance:
- Instead of white, they put black candles.
- The cross was turned upside down.
- Used a six-pointed star.
- Mushrooms that have a narcotic effect were burned on the altar in order to achieve a fogged state as quickly as possible.
- The sect leader preached and praised Satan.
- Read prayers in the reverse order.
- Cursed the Christian religion and Jesus.
The leader threw a cross with Jesus crucified to the ground, and the sectarians tried in every possible way to defile him. All this ended with a mass orgy, and the Satanists were in a "trance".
Name from stalkers
Stalkers - the English word, translated as "hunter". This term was coined by the Strugatsky brothers to mean professionals who take people to forbidden areas or to prohibited objects (the Strugatsky brothers are science fiction writers from the Soviet Union).
Since the hospital building is considered unsuitable, it is better not to appear there without experienced stalkers. They know all the dangerous places and will help to avoid an accident. Due to the fact that the abandoned hospital in Khovrino, or rather its structure, resembles the sign of "biochemical danger", stalkers called it Umbrella.
In Umbrella, not only sacrifices took place, but there were also cases of murders and even suicides. The hospital did not become a place to save lives, it became a place that takes these lives. She took her life because of faith, chance, or unrequited love.
Umbrella - Neuropsychiatric Hospital
Psychoneurology is a section of psychiatry and neuropathology that studies neurosis. Neurosis is a group of mental diseases.
The neuropsychiatric hospital in Khovrino was supposed to be the largest in the district. The building was designed for 1300 seats. Everything was ready: the plumbing was in place, the pipes were flawless, glass and frames were inserted, and signs hung on the doors. Huge work still lay ahead. In addition, furniture and equipment were imported into some rooms.
When the project was frozen, security was set up around the perimeter of the hospital. For a year the building was under strict control, and after that it became useless to anyone. It was then that the looting of the population began. They took plumbing, removed tiles and glass, handed over pipes for scrap.
The hospital was supposed to save lives, treat children. More than 1000 patients could change their lives and improve their health, but this was not given to come true. Thus, the Children's Psychoneurological Hospital in Khovrino could help the children, but now, on the contrary, it is taking their lives.
Myths and legends about Khovrinsky hospital
There are a large number of legends surrounding the building of the hospital. Here is some of them:
- The most famous is about the Satanists Nemostor. They sacrificed both humans and animals. However, none of the sectarians are already alive.
- It is believed that the Khovrin hospital takes away those who awakened the souls of the dead. There was an old woman with a missing dog. She found her remains in the basement of the hospital. In addition to her dog, there were corpses and other dogs. With the "evidence" she went to local authorities, a criminal case was opened. A few days later, my grandmother went to Khovrino and fell into a trap. Having broken both legs, she died long and painfully.
- It is believed that in the hospital you can see ghosts. They often appear at night and can drive a person crazy.
- They say that the hospital is very cold. Although there are no windows and doors, the temperature is much lower than outside the building.
- There were rumors that the structure is very quiet, even the birdsong is not heard. And in such deathly silence one can hear the cry or cry of a child, as well as the ominous quiet music coming from the basement.
Children's Hospital (Khovrino): today
Despite strict control, another Satanist sect settled in the hospital. They are not afraid of the terrible fate of their predecessors. They conduct their rituals in the very middle of the building - on the fifth floor, gather after sunset and do not use human sacrifices.
After numerous killings, observation points and security guards were set up on the perimeter of the territory in the hospital building. Around the facility is an iron fence with barbed wire. However, this does not stop stalkers or just curious. According to statistics, in 2004 about 10 people entered the hospital territory, 6 of them were found dead. During the summer of 2006, 13 bodies were found.
In the building, people still disappear and die. The local branch has over 1,500 applications for Umbrella. Therefore, the chain of bodies found there does not stop.
Abandoned building plans
For 24 years, a neurological hospital (Khovrino) stood and attracted extreme people. But in 2009, the entire complex of unfinished hospitals was transferred to the ownership of the city of Moscow. Property rights have been registered. In the same year, the question of demolition of the building was raised. Some investor agreed to demolish the hospital at his own expense, but in return demanded the land on which the hospital was located. The Property Department gave its consent, but the demolition of the property did not occur, as this investor disappeared in unclear circumstances.
Three years later, in 2012, the question again arises of the demolition of the hospital and the construction of two new buildings in its place. In autumn, a land plot with an object was auctioned for a very high price - 1 billion 800 million rubles. The building was not bought back.
In 2014, they decided to demolish the hospital building and build a new medical building on this site. Therefore, in 2015, the question was raised about the demolition of the Khovrinsky hospital at the expense of state funds. After this plot of land will go from auction to build a new medical center.
Interesting Facts
- In 2015, it is planned to make a horror film about an abandoned Khovrinsky hospital.
- In the story “The Kremlin 2222. Khovrino” by D. Sillov and S. Stepanov, the hospital is described as the place where the most ancient Evil is being reborn.
- Not only the form of the building structure, but also the film "Resident Evil" influenced the name of Umbrella.
- Informals infiltrate the territory: Goths, emo, punks. In this regard, all the walls are painted with graffiti.
- Umbrella has its own keeper - Raf. It is impossible to find, even if you search intensely. At times, he saves people trapped.
Hospital reviews
Locals are trying to get around the building. They believe that one can not return from the power of mysticism.
Those who dare to go into the hospital and walk along the floors unequivocally claim that all the stories about the hospital were invented to scare people away. And if you look, this is just an ordinary unfinished building.
An abandoned hospital in Khovrino, the photo of which can be viewed in our article, should scare people away with its gloomy walls, but curious people do not miss the opportunity to visit the most terrible and dangerous place in the Northern District of Moscow.