Hovrinskaya Hospital

Hovrinskaya abandoned hospital (Russian: Ховринская заброшенная больница; HZB, Hovrinka, Umbrella, Unfinished) is a building in the Hovrino District of Moscow in Hovrino area, near the railway station of the same name. Building Address: Moscow, street Klinskaya, 2, housing 1.

Map of Khovrinskaya Zabroshennaya Bolnitsa, Moskva, Russia, 125414

Construction of the hospital began in 1980 and suspended in 1985. Since then, the building remains unfinished and dilapidated (as of the beginning of May 2016).

Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital 1300 beds was built on the project Yadrov architects Saukke, Kosnikova, Knyazev, Moiseenko, Protection and designers Tsfas, Antonov, Paykov, Krylyshkin. The building is built in the style of brutalism.

Disposition of the building is original for similar buildings of the Soviet period. Hospital trёhluchevoy designed as a star with branchings at the ends. The three wings of the building come together in the middle, the side parts form three courtyards, porches employed. Next to the main building is an annex - building pathology department.

Due to the unfinished construction in some places there are no fragments of the walls and floor decks. Basements flooded building. Construction according to one version stop was caused by a lack of funding, on the other - the shortcomings of the project (or exploration) - it goes slowly into the ground. In addition, if you look at an old map of Moscow in 1952, it is clearly seen that in place of the unfinished hospital were then stream (river Likhoborka) and wetlands, as well as the settled sewage resort facilities located nearby.

Since the mid-1980s, the hospital became a frequent subject of stalking, it is often visited by tourists, extreme. There were carried out training of rescuers MOE and industrial climbers. In the winter in one of the cellars organized a night extreme roller. There is also information about the appearance in the hospital sectarians, satanists, the homeless and other criminal elements. In 1990, she was killed in the hospital building. At the end of March 2011 there was committed an armed assault on a photographer. [9] Place is considered unsafe.

Abandoned building well known among fans of urban legends as one of the mystical places in Moscow. In the environment of "stalkers" object has the nickname of "Umbrella" for its shape, similar to the Umbrella Corporation logo from the video game series Resident Evil and the film "Resident Evil" and biohazard symbol.

On the second floor there is a memorial to Alexey Krayushkin. 16-year-old boy was killed in 2005 by throwing himself from the roof because of unrequited love. On the walls of the unfinished building there is a large amount of graffiti. One of the most famous labels: "This hospital - the land of miracles, has gone into it and it was gone".

In July 2012 it was decided to demolish the buildings and the construction of two new buildings, but nonetheless, in October of the same year the building with the land was put up for auction (auction held in December 2012) for an initial value of nearly 1.8 billion rubles . Some experts believe that this amount is significantly overestimated.

November 15, 2014 Deputy Mayor for urban policy and the construction of Marat Khusnullin stated that the building will be put up for auction in 2015 for later demolition and construction on the site of a new health care facility.

At the end of March 2015 it became known that again considered the possibility of demolition Hovrinskaya Hospital, but now for the budget bill (estimated cost of the works - 0,8-1 billion rubles) and then exposed on an empty section of bids for the construction of modern medical facilities. In April 2016 it became known that in the late summer of 2016 the city authorities plan to begin dismantling the object due to the city budget and then setting a liberated land at auction to attract investors.

In the second half of 2015, plans were made to start filming a Blair Witch-style horror documentary called "Hovrino" about the abandoned hospital.