Fortress, standard, bu / 44 ° 54'19.40 ″ 53 ° 48'36.39 ″ / I did not find any information about it at all. Link on the map.
As you can see, this is a star fortress. And in this place! This is the Caspian lowland. Look more closely - the fortress (or rather, its surviving part) stands on the edge of a cliff. And it seems that this cliff was created by the sea or flood waters that washed away the shores.
West. Giant ravines or canyons from streams of water.
The place is to the south. Huge cliffs.
Promotional video:
This is the picture over a long stretch of the eastern coast of the Caspian.
Here, the descending masses are especially clearly visible, it is quite possible that mudflows. They look like "rushes" into the valley below. Link on the map.
This object has a historical name. This is Novoaleksandrovsky-Fort:
This is what is left of it … If this is an outer contour (visible on satellite images), then this is probably protection from nomadic cavalry.
Extremely authentic place. The outlines of the fortress are lined with stones. Ditches and ramparts, embankments for cannons, etc. have been preserved. Below, under the fortress, on the slope of the chink, there are many stone buildings, many in good condition. 1-2 km strictly to the east along the Ustyurt cliff, there is a well on the slope of the cliff. The well is decorated with a stone building because of this it is noticeable. The water smells slightly rotten, but you can drink after boiling. We camped for one night.
Official information on this fort:
Fort Novo-Aleksandrovsky 1834 - 1846 the buildings. To protect the Russian population from the raids of nomads in 1834 a fortress was built on the Bay of Dead Kultuk - Novo-Aleksandrovsk. Considering it inexpedient to find this fortification in this place, in 1846 the Novo-Aleksandrovsk Fort was moved to the Mangyshlak Peninsula to the Tyuk-Karagai Bay. And it was renamed into Novo-Petrovskoe, and after a while into Fort Alexandrovsky, and then into Fort Shevchenko.
… In 1834, at the Bay of Kaidak, or Dead Kultuk, by order of General Perovsky, who then governed the Orenburg region, a fortification was erected, called Novo-Aleksandrovsky. It was intended to eliminate robberies at sea and prevent the withdrawal of our fishermen into captivity. At the same time, it was believed that the presence of our garrison in this fort would give us the opportunity to keep the Kirghiz in subjection on the mainland as well. Finally, they hoped that Novo-Aleksandrovsk would serve to establish our trade relations with the khanates of Central Asia, but none of these assumptions came true. To all this, the climate of Novo Aleksandrovsk turned out to be extremely harmful, and therefore this fortification was subsequently abolished … Markozov Vasily Ivanovich “Krasnovodsk detachment. His life and service from the day of disembarkation on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea to 1873, inclusive"
And this is the view from the cliff down. Structures are visible, which are visible on images from space.
The landscape is like on Mars. The similarity is enormous. Or maybe it is in the processes that took place here and there?
View of buildings up close.
And the Caspian lowland itself is as smooth as glass.
Let's take a look at how this area looks in the photographs.
Mangistau district, Kazakhstan. This is how these places look.
Stone-sand masses.
Caspian Sea, Kaidak Bay. A little further north.
Landscape of the Caspian Lowland:
Water erosion is visible, it is here without powerful streams that change the landscape.
This is a view from the other side, bottom view, from the level of the ancient bottom.
Here once stood the water of the Caspian Sea or streams of water.
The road descending into the Caspian lowland. Link to the map.
Photo for comparison of scales and height differences
The bottom of the former sea with the shores on the horizon.
View from the plane of these places.
Terraces. Apparently, the water was leaving slowly.
Plateau in the Mangystau region. Everything below was washed with water.
Bayganinsky district, Kazakhstan.
Chink of Western Ustyurt.
ur Boszhira.
Only powerful streams of water could "dig" this into the ground. And by the scale of the event, the American Grand Canyon is resting.
This is a very revealing photograph. The water level practically hid this land island, which was turned from all sides, but the water partially covered (maybe occasionally) from above and rivers flowed along the surface of the island, cutting through channels for themselves.
Mangistau district, Kazakhstan.
View from the Golbonshe hill.
You can imagine how much rock (soil) from such a vast territory was washed away, leaving such islets!
It's north. Beineu district, Kazakhstan. Traces of huge streams.
Further north. Ustyurt plateau.
Many who have recently read my posts will have questions about the flood that I am describing here. This can be found in the posts under the "Flood" tag. And in particular about the Caspian Sea There are no unequivocal versions of what caused such a powerful cataclysm. There are opinions about the fall of the asteroid, pole shifts, and repeated and regularly repeated, the breakthrough of a huge glacial lake in the north. Perhaps a similar cataclysm has occurred in our history more than once. This is evidenced by the following. Here is an ancient map of the Caspian Sea:
On early maps, it has an oval shape, slightly elongated in latitude, in contrast to its modern form, where the waters of the Caspian Sea stretch from north to south.
Something happened:
They say that these are thoughts, considerations of cartographers of that time and this map has nothing to do with reality. But what should these conclusions be based on?
