Megaliths, huge structures made of massive boulders, are also found in our country. There are a lot of such structures in Russia, only they are not known as well as the famous Stonehenge in Great Britain or Ollantaytambo in Peru. We will get acquainted with the ancient megalithic structures found on the territory of Russia later.
The first thing to start the journey with is Mount Vottovaara - the highest point of the West Karelian Upland - 417.3 m above sea level. The area of the mountain is 6 sq. km.
The place is just full of strange artifacts, after which you start to think about the ancient highly developed technologies for stone processing, let's better take a look at the photo.
Mount Vottovaara
Megalithic blocks are scattered around.
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The middle block was cut at an angle of 90 degrees or a game of nature?
As if a laser was carried out:) geologists believe that cracks and faults were formed as a result of a strong earthquake about 9 thousand years ago. The flat planes of the stones are the result of the properties of the local rock - quartzite, the structure of which sets such flat planes when split.
So is it still nature or man-made? Let's take a closer look.
More like perfectly sawed blocks tightly fitted to each other. It is difficult to imagine an ancient ancestor with a copper chisel who, somewhere on the mountain, grinds out such even blocks.
Good foreshortening, perfectly flat wall.
Who lost the ball?)
Here, obviously, it has not done without high technologies in stone processing, or is it a game of nature?:)
Mount Pidan
At first glance, it looks like an unremarkable heap of stones of cracked rock.
But coming closer it becomes more like a megalithic masonry.
Looking between the blocks, where the stones were less susceptible to the influence of erosion from wind and rain, you can see the hand-made and how the smooth edges were preserved.
In the place where the joint of the blocks parted, an even cut is visible and the technology of laying these blocks opens up in front of us.
Stone town in the Perm region
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 carved stones, their neat laying and perpendicular to each other "channels" "mouths".
Stone city.
See how flat the sides of the megaliths seem to have been cut down.
Again the old method is to look between the blocks inside the masonry, look at the far block in the center, an even cut along the entire length of the block.
They say somewhere on the Kola Peninsula there is this pool carved right into the rock.
In the south of Western Siberia, in the mountainous Shoria in the Mezhdurechensky region, there is a small geological settlement called Kameshki.
Several educated and talented geologists live in this village. These are Alexander Bespalov, Vyacheslav Pochetkin and others. These people have been engaged in researching the mountain systems of Western Siberia all their lives. Once they came across strange megalithic structures in the mountains, which they could not explain for themselves. These were walls made of giant stone blocks and strange structures with vertically set stone obelisks. On the Internet, they contacted Georgy Sidorov, so the first expedition was assembled.
Mountain Shoria
Some of the granite blocks at the bottom were built of red granite, crowned with blocks of gray granite, and above there was a polygonal masonry of various blocks, both red granite and gray.
Granite in some places melted from the impact of extreme temperatures and flowed under the weight of the upper rows. Kungurov would say about this that these are traces of reflow from a thermonuclear explosion:)
The wall is made of polygonal masonry of colored blocks.
The sizes of the blocks are impressive, according to one version, the find is a man-made structure over 100 thousand years old.
In the photo, Georgy Sidorov, in his opinion, all this megalithic structure may be the ruins of an ancient power plant or energy center, which translated seismic energy into some others.
Looking again inside the masonry, where the blocks were less susceptible to erosion, you can see even straight edges, look how the two blocks lie tightly, here you can see the hand-made better.
Polygonal masonry.
Mountain Shoria. Huge blocks
at the Department of Radiophysics at Tomsk State University, they showed photographs on the screen, talked about various types of masonry, about stone castles that hold giant granite blocks together, and not a single scientist physicist said that all this was of natural origin. Most of all they were surprised how the ancients could lift giant stone blocks to a height of more than 1000 meters and install them there on a special platform.
Then in the Tomsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society the photographs were studied by scientists geologists and geographers. Both those and others came to the conclusion that the presented artifacts are man-made.
Sklyarov was asked to comment on the find. And what did he say? That all the artifacts found are nothing more than rocks cracked at right angles. That there is nothing man-made here. Just a play of nature, nothing more.
After these words, I am not surprised why LAI does not study Russian megaliths.
Between blocks.
For comparison, on the left is a megalith in Baalbek, on the right is a megalith in mountain Shoria, it seems the author is one:)
Mount Shaman near the village. Nizhnetambovskoe, Khabarovsk Territory.
Ancient megalithic masonry.
Again, between the blocks, hand-made and straight lines are better visible.
Large block of megalith.
A large block of megalith on small stones, this is done for better seismic resistance.
The megalithic masonry resembles Gornaya Shoria.
Kabardino-Balkaria, a cave in the Baksan gorge
First, you need to squeeze into a 40 x 120 cm hole, then descend on a rope along a narrow vertical shaft. It is formed by two parallel stone slabs. After 9 meters - the first "knee": the hole goes to the side and immediately breaks down again. Already here you will be covered with absolute silence - not a sound penetrates from the outside. Another 23 meters deep - and a new "knee". To reach the bottom of the cave, you need to overcome more than 80 meters, and it will take an hour. But, having passed the "bottleneck", you will find yourself in a huge room, which the researchers called the "flask". Inside we will see treated walls made of tuff and granite, made of polished megaliths of different sizes, tightly fitted to each other.
Descent into the cave.
The edges of the blocks and the seams between them are clearly visible.
The smooth masonry is striking and the seams are precisely fitted to each other.
The triangular blocks are slightly parted.
Barely noticeable block seams on the left half-moon wall and on the wall behind it.
How do you like the stitches?
"Flask".
Rotate the cave at an angle of 90 degrees. Two large megalithic blocks stand on top of each other.
The stone processing technologies are amazing, and even more striking is the comment of the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian geological exploration expedition Vera Davidenko, but she is a realist and believes that nature can do everything and made the conclusion: “Tuff is an accumulation of volcanic ejection products - ash, pieces of lava, volcanic glass and, to a small extent, the debris that composes the crater walls. The material of the ejection was hot during accumulation, and therefore, during solidification, cracks formed separately - that is, the entire tuff massif turned out to be, as it were, broken into blocks. The depression discovered in the area of the village of Zayukovo is one of such cracks of gravitational separation, which is characterized by flat contact surfaces,”but this is the head of the geological exploration expedition, she probably knows better.
Structure diagram.
A bit of fantasy for the finale) Arakul Shihan, a strange structure in the middle of the forest. I'm done, kick it:)