And you did not think why the richest expanses of Siberia were empty? Let us recall those times when there was a large-scale development of Siberia, the Stolypin resettlement, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. When the settlers came to empty lands, where there was no indigenous population, there should have been a deep, untouched taiga with thick pines, but in the photographs we see a different picture.
The most important question here is: How can thick pines be absent in the deep, untouched taiga? Why is there such a young forest in Siberia?
If you can somehow find an explanation for other questions of historical oddities, for example, the cultural layer. There are no sensible arguments in this matter.
Another inexplicable oddity is that the taiga began to grow at the same time everywhere. The argument that pine lives for 100-200 years, so the forests are young is not an argument, because this cannot explain a forest of the same age. Approximately every 100-200 years, all trees cannot fall and rot at the same time. And then all together begin to grow together.
On the preserved pre-revolutionary photographs, there is liquid growth all around, now even more so, maybe there was no taiga? Let's take some photos of that resettlement and try to find impassable taiga on them.
The Siberian field, who developed it, cannot see the edges of the field. Not a single tree is visible.
Here is a photo with thin wood, the stock seems to be made from young trees.
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The forest is clearly quite young, at the same latitude as in Canada, the trees are thicker and mighty.
And why don't we have such trees, the climate is not suitable? Perhaps, but let's say Sequoias do not grow here, but if they have such mighty trees in America, then our cedar may well reach such sizes. So the example of a sequoia is certainly not very good, but to say that we have no trees by which it is impossible to understand what a forest should be in 200 years is not correct. And the pines are in 5 - 6 girths. We have forests as in fairy tales but in small areas.
Workers dug up very strange tree stumps
Here is such a pipe, stone, and the most interesting thing is that the masonry is very similar to the construction technology of antiquity. How they built and from what, what for to build such monolithic and stone tunnels in the forest, hundreds of kilometers from big cities.
There is a stone tunnel at the edges, a monolith in the middle, and here is the technology. In the photo we see the formwork.
Formwork or circles are built for the construction of arched structures made of bricks and stones. There is no clay, stones or water, only forest and earth. Bricks have nowhere to come from.
Again the meadows.
The scale of the resettlement was impressive, the question is how the settlers with their cattle, children, with their belongings got there, in those remote places, there you can barely walk on foot, and the cart will definitely not pass. How they walked, which road, what were they guided by when thinking about where to go.
But judging by the photographs, the forests were not dense and they were easily passed, but if they were dense then how long would it take to go through this wilderness. Still embarrassing - the wild taiga land 50-100-150 km from the railway was densely populated with villages that have now long been abandoned. Why did people with old people and children trudge into such wilderness through the taiga?
That is, at the beginning of the 20th century, there was not much forest in Siberia. It turns out that Siberia was completely devastated in a very recent period, if there were no disaster, then there would be impassable thickets, voluminous pines and constant taiga. A developed civilization on this territory was demolished either by a flood, or by something else. At the end of the 19th century, gradual settlement and development and excavation began. What we see from the photographs.