The Volkov Enigma

In 1957, Soviet cartographer Dmitri Volkov vanished from a remote Ural Mountains station.

He left behind a journal of impossible coordinates and a desk covered in ash.

The logbook showed Volkov requesting seismographs and radiation detectors. Tools for geologists, not mapmakers,

raising questions about his true mission. Local villagers whispered of strange lights, pulsing from the

mountains on the night he vanished, unnatural and deliberate. KGB files hinted at unauthorized excavations

near his last location, their reports ending abruptly. Decades later,

his journal surfaced in a Moscow flea market. Its final entry, dated the day

before his disappearance, read: 'The coordinates were correct. They were waiting.'