In the first article about Orenburg, I tried to interest the reader in the history of the city, which is closely related to the key event in Russian history - the Pugachev uprising.
For a person who, so to speak, "not in the subject" my puppy delight is difficult to understand, but I will try to explain what is the matter.
What can be seen in the photo is a dry mortarless masonry made of sawn "white stone". The adjustment of the blocks is so accurate that, as they say, you can't put a dollar in the seam.
Secondly - holes … this element is present in almost all buildings that we refer to as "antiquity". For example, Roman aqueducts in France.
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Two types of holes are clearly visible - small round and more rectangular …
Now I want to go back to the houses and foundations themselves. In the old part of the city there are houses that date back to the second half of the 19th century, they are made of bricks and there is nothing surprising in them. Many are built in the "Roman style" a kind of classicism.
I began to walk around to inspect the foundations. It turned out that these were not just foundations, but partially restored fragments of buildings, and somewhere the first floor (well, or the basement) was preserved entirely somewhere it turned out to be partially destroyed, and partially intact, in some houses stone blocks were used, but stacked on mortar. It seems that the city was badly destroyed, and then they began to rebuild it, brick houses were erected on the surviving foundations, in some places fragments of the surviving walls were used by attaching brick to them.
I want to draw your attention to the "entrance" to the basement floor … it was obviously made later and for the niga stones were used that were taken from the ruins of the neighboring ones or the same house! The walls of the stairs are lined with blocks but laid on a mortar, next to them are pieces of other blocks and even semicircular bases, probably for columns. These photos show that the blocks were processed on the outer and mating surfaces! On the inside, it's just a rough-cut stone.
I naturally ran through the neighboring houses and saw a similar picture.
For comparison, I want to show a fragment of the wall of the Sevastopol Fort, a photograph of which my reader sent me.
The same building technology, the stone is processed on the mating sides, and the inner space is clogged! There is no binder solution yet !!! And this is the 18th century !!!
But the most interesting thing is that this "white stone" is a shell rock!
Well, what do you say, shell rock is a well-known building stone and is still widely used, so what's wrong with that?
There is no shell in the ORENBURG REGION !!! IT IS BROUGHT AS IT DELIVERED TO THE CONSTRUCTION IN A HUGE QUANTITY !!! AS???
What the hell is the logistics ???
Here is about the shell rock: "Shell rock, properties and characteristics of the material."
Who has not noticed this interesting phrase, I will quote it again … Shell rock is a one-of-a-kind strong protective barrier against radiation. The level of natural background radiation of the stone itself is 13 μg / hour. Such a low figure is considered to be neutral.
The bulk of the star fortresses are faced with either granite or shell rock !!! But it didn't help much!
Large mining quarries of shell rock are located on the Crimean peninsula, there is also a stone on the territory of Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine. Just where there are "cave cities" "traces of runners" and other wonders of the stone cutting industry !!!
Therefore, the most important question that I see is not even the construction technology or the dating of antiquity, but how was shell rock delivered to Orenburg and why it was necessary, why it was impossible to use local cobblestones … and what kind of state formation was it that could afford to build on all over the planet the same type of star fortress without bothering with logistics!