People were so carried away by foreign resorts that they forgot that our country is much larger than the whole of Europe. For example, the territory of Gorny Altai, which area is 92 thousand km2, can accommodate ten Great Britain. And only 200 thousand people live on its territory. So it turns out that this is the best place for secrets and mysteries.
Valley of the Dead
History and a large amount of free space have allowed for the preservation of amazing monuments. For example, in the Chemal region there is a whole "valley of the dead". The banks of the Katun River and its tributaries are dotted with thousands of Scythian mounds, most of which have not yet been excavated. This is an amazing sight.
But modernity interferes even in seemingly inviolable places. In the near future, it is planned to resume the construction of the Katunskaya HPP. The resulting reservoir threatens to flood a significant number of kurgans, so now Russian and Altai archaeologists are trying to speed up their work.
The oversaturation with graves gives rise to numerous guesses as to why there were so many of them in Altai. According to one of them, this land was the ancestral home of all mankind. More modest scientists agree that Altai is the ancestral home of the Indo-European race.
There is a version that this was the center of a powerful Scythian state, whose borders reached the Danube. There are indeed many artifacts of the famous Scythian "animal style" dating back to the 13th century BC. - III century AD They say that the sacred land of Altai magically did not let go of its sons, and they, subject to its charms, brought the dead (wherever death overtook them) exactly here, to their historical homeland.
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Chudi
There are mountain ghost people. Miracles. They lived a long time ago and came from the Emond steppe. They were the masters of Altai. Their disappearance has something to do with white. One theory is somehow tying the white birch. Roerich's theory says that the disappearance of this people is associated with the appearance of white people. Allegedly, the Chudi refused to obey. Nevertheless, the Chudi disappeared and disappeared in a very interesting way - they buried themselves: Chudi dug large holes, made a flooring of the earth, supported by wooden posts, entered there by the whole tribe and brought down the "roof" on themselves. In place of these self-burials, over time, conical pits form, into which people sometimes fall. There is a hypothesis that in this way the Chudi tried to move to another, parallel world. And they succeeded. There are people (climbers, rock climbers) who claim to have seen certain creatureslike people who came out of the rocks and went back there. Although, these visions could be the result of altitude sickness.