Compasses fail. Here the mountain is literally bursting at the seams. The faults on the outskirts of the village of Magnitka, Kusinsky District, stretch for several kilometers and are visible even from space. Will old mines become a new tourist Mecca? Igor Bolonin, the correspondent of the State TV and Radio Company "South Ural", dealt with the issue.
Tourists called this unnamed ridge the Ural “Grand Canyon”. Four parallel deep faults. Each is at least two and a half kilometers long.
The best titanium ore in the country was mined here. In 1957, it was from it that the world's first space satellite was melted. For half a century, miners have drilled more than a kilometer into the ground.
Here, the earth is slipping away from under your feet, not just from the dizzying views. The ground moves year after year, centimeter by centimeter. This can be understood by the young trees on the slope of the sinkhole. And the depth is such that you can't see the bottom from the edge of the cliff.
Compasses fail. The faults in the Urals mountains are already visible from space
Fantastic faults, at the bottom of the mountain - permafrost, around - an anomalous zone.
Locals bypass this "attraction" side. But tourists just rush here. And caution is usually forgotten. At the end of September, a tourist from Izhevsk crashed here.
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These ventilation ducts are all that remain from the long-closed and collapsed mines. Nevertheless, every year reckless extremists, risking their lives, try to go down and find some underground labyrinths they know only.
The authorities acknowledge that the route is very popular and are already thinking about making it official and safe.
Specialists of the Taganay National Park were involved in the work. On its territory there is a landmark. From the faults to the famous peaks, Kruglitsa and Otklitsy ridge, less than ten kilometers.
Magnitsky dips are just one of the five hand-made and natural wonders of the Chelyabinsk region that are visible from space.
So, just ten kilometers southeast of the Kusinskiy faults there is the Taganai stone river. Its length is 6 kilometers. These are 9 million huge blocks - a volume equal to 4 disassembled pyramids of Cheops.
The Zyuratkul elk is also impressive in size. The size of the man-made geoglyph on the ridge of the same name is 250 x 250 meters.
Another inexplicable miracle is the Kasli anomaly. Forest in the form of huge circles of regular shape with a diameter of 150 meters.
Not in size, but in the bright blue color of the water, the artificial reservoir near Kyshtym surprises. For this he was nicknamed the Ural Bali.
Compasses are still needed by scientists. Today it became known that unusual faults were discovered by geophysicists at the site of the earthquake in Katav-Ivanovsk.