It’s a rare opportunity to see mining operations from the inside. This is a place where work is supposed to never stop.

A small depot for electric locomotive repairs.

Walls are covered with coarse black roots.

An abandoned underground elevator.

“Control station”.

In the elevator winch room.

The elevator hoistway is over 100 m deep.

An ort.

No flashlight can light up this space because it’s too big.

By the way, it is rather dangerous to be here – you can hear stones falling everywhere.

Another elevator.

Lit worksites.

A rock gangway.

An alternative route to the elevator.

A mobile pneumatic platform.

A 33-meters-per-hour UBSh-207 drilling rig.

Lumber.

An NKR-100 boring machine.

Boring bars.

The workplace of a borer.

A dining box.

A ventilation pipe.

Another drilling rig.

This electric locomotive depot is under construction.

An old face turned into a restroom.