In the Middle Urals, on the southern peak of the 19-kilometer Rudyansky Spoi ridge, in the Gremyachinsky urban district, not far from the villages of Shumikhinsky and Usva, there is Kamenny Gorod. The name was coined by tourists. The locals do not use this name. Residents of the nearby villages of Shumikhinsky and Yubileiny call this place differently. They call it Turtles - for the amazing resemblance of the two tallest cliffs with turtles. The old residents of the village of Usva, the most ancient settlement of these places, knew another name for this place - the Devil's Settlement.
The name "Devil's Settlement" is very widespread not only in the Urals. In Russia, this was the name for the pile-up of rocks and stones, which only the devil could create. But tourists called this place "Stone City", although the purpose of this place could be anything. They also divided it into the Big City, where the stone turtles are located, and the Small, identified avenues and streets there, and found the central square. Turtles were also dubbed Big and Small, and the latter looks more like a bird, for which it received a second name from tourists - the Feathered Guardian.
According to scientists, Kamenny Gorod is the mouth of a river that flowed into the Perm Sea millions of years ago, this explains beautifully and evenly, at right angles, the cut stones, their neat laying and perpendicular to each other “channels” “mouths”, as well as “plasticine laying.
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People, as for any beautiful corner of nature, have come up with their own legend. It says that there was a beautiful city in these places and exceptionally beautiful people lived in it in beautiful houses. The head of the settlement had a blind daughter, and so that the girl could see the beauty, the father turned to the sorcerer. He returned his sight, but for the service he turned the beautiful city to stone. And now only the wind is walking among the stone houses.
We hardly ever know the purpose of these tunnels of clearly artificial origin. Perhaps they were just the internal elements of some truly huge structure, the purpose of which can only be guessed at. Or maybe it was a giant bomb shelter or ark. Perhaps our ancestors were preparing for a nuclear war. Alas, we cannot say anything about this. In terms of our contemporary reality, we simply cannot even imagine not only how they did it, but why they did it, and also why they did it this way and not otherwise.