Last of Russian doomsday cult leaves stronghold
They were the remnants of a group of 35 men, women and children who dug into a hillside near the Volga region town of Penza in November and threatened to blow themselves up with gas canisters if anyone tried to forcibly remove them.
The structure — complete with sleeping rooms, a makeshift kitchen and altars — suffered partial cave-ins earlier this year due to melting snows. The cave-ins prompted most of the group including self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov to leave.
