A healing cave, a children's park, frightening at night, a predictor-scientist who saw the future in a century and a half, mysterious phenomena - on excursions to the mystical places of Pavlodar region
"Business card" of the city - a phantom girl
The ghost of the deceased girl is sometimes seen at night by the inhabitants of Pavlodar in the city park of culture and recreation, popularly called the Gorsad. The fact is that a resting place with children's attractions has been rebuilt in the cemetery. So there is a rumor about the spirits of people buried here, who did not find rest and remind of themselves in the dark.
The rumor about a phantom girl began to spread in Pavlodar since the 1940s. Like, she, dressed in a white long dress up to the feet, flies at night among the trees, frightening people who accidentally found themselves in the City Garden. All who pass this story as eyewitnesses claim that the ghost seems to hover above the ground and disappears after a few seconds. At the same time, a mysterious girl leaves behind a kind of cloud of cold. Gorsad's ghost appears before impressionable citizens, as a rule, in the spring.
Local historian Ernest SOKOLKIN does not believe in mysticism, but shares with "Caravan" the history of the cemetery. It existed from the beginning of the 19th century until 1935. The city garden was opened in 1938, and then the authorities certainly knew about the existence of the churchyard. Our interlocutor says that in those days not only Pavlodar was built up at the burial sites, but also other cities of the republic. Similar stories can be heard in Almaty, Semey.
- At the cemetery in Semey, where my grandfather is buried, the place was cleared and a stadium was built, - Ernest Dmitrievich complains.
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Pavlodar old-timers said that during the construction of the City Garden, bones and skulls were found in the ground, but the construction continued. The local historian explains that it was nevertheless decided to leave one of the burials - the mass grave of 27 people who were shot for attempting to establish Soviet power. Legends say that the builders of the park allegedly died soon, and the equipment that passed through the bones was permanently out of order. Later, in 1944, a summer cinema was opened in the City Garden, and in 1945 - a drama theater. But both buildings burned to the ground! The townspeople consider the chain of deaths, breakdowns and fires to be the revenge of the spirits of the dead. But Ernest Sokolkin believes that there is no need to speculate about tricks from the next world:
- I think it was deliberate arson, which was staged by fierce opponents of the construction of the park.
The current authorities announced at the beginning of this year about a cardinal reconstruction of the park, which will cost about two billion tenge. The number of attractions is planned to be increased. Instead of the old 25-meter Ferris wheel, the officials decided to install a modern 38-meter one. There are also plans to build a musical fountain and, again, a theater, or rather an amphitheater, for 315 seats.
Roof ghosts
A more modern mystical case was recorded about two decades ago. A striking story with a considerable number of witnesses happened on the outskirts of Pavlodar in the mid-1990s. A large fireball flew over house No. 6 along Toraigyrov Street, popularly called the "Chinese Wall" because of the large number of entrances.
A sphere several meters in diameter smoothly flew over the roof of the ten-story building. None of the experts gave any intelligible explanations for this phenomenon, despite the interest of journalists.
Also, the townspeople allegedly sometimes see a strange person walking at night on the roof of the regional historical and local history museum named after Grigory POTANIN. A hundred years ago, this building was the trading house of a local merchant Artemiy DEROV. A business man erected it near the Irtysh River in order to immediately meet ships with cargo. At the very top of the warehouse, Derov built an observation tower to monitor the unloading of barges. This observation point has recently been recreated with maximum historical accuracy. Here, probably, a businessman at night comes here to remember his successes, people who believe in the other world believe.
UFO melted?
A big commotion happened in the village of Shygan, Maisky district in 2008, when a huge luminous ball collapsed into a small river Belaya. The villagers amicably assured that after the appearance of a huge glow in the sky, a spherical body began to approach the earth.
It sank into the water at high speed. But first, the 50-centimeter (!) Ice sheet of the river broke through, because the mysterious fall took place in winter. The ball was really huge, as a hole with a diameter of about 30 meters was formed, and some pieces of ice were thrown ashore.
A rumor spread throughout the region about the fall of an unidentified flying object. Dozens of specialists from law enforcement agencies left for the site. It was later announced that the divers did not find wreckage of any apparatus. Samples in the water and on the shore did not reveal any radiation or other harmful substances.
Representatives of the Department of Emergency Situations explained the ice breaks by unprecedented frosts, which allegedly caused the expansion of frozen water, and the glow in the sky, they say, is nothing more than New Year's crackers and headlights of cars. In general, according to the DChS version, there was a natural phenomenon - no adventures of representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations, meteorite falls and spacecraft tests.
Critter in the waters of the Irtysh
The sensational news about piranha in the Irtysh River simply stirred up the entire Pavlodar region. This predator fish, a school of which can devour a bull in a few minutes, was found in the nets by a fisherman from the Serikbay Mutkenov village of Aktogay region.
The fisherman and his friends claimed that they had caught the so-called black piranha, weighing two kilograms. They say that the fish themselves did not bite, since they managed to muffle it with a shovel. The inhabitants of the region were worried if the predator had time to lay offspring in the water, but later it turned out that it was a joke that everyone easily believed in.
The magic of the grotto
The mysterious and, according to legend, healing cave Konyr-Aulie, which is located in the land of mountains and lakes - the village of Bayanaul, may become world famous. It was proposed to include it in the list of the main attractions of Kazakhstan to attract tourists to our country.
According to legend, the wanderers who have been inside this cave and have drunk water from the spring available here strengthen health. Even after trying to defeat ailments in doctors.
Local historian and guide Altynbek KURMANOV says that Konyr-Aulie is already one of the visiting cards of the Pavlodar region. According to him, from 200 to 600 people come here every day during the summer season. The cave has become practically a place of pilgrimage.
Altynbek Kurmanov warns that you need to come here only with bright thoughts, certainly in a sober state and not cause any harm to the surrounding nature - in the form of scattered garbage or damage to plants. Only in this case the wanderer will be helped by the magical, mysterious power of the grotto.
Pilgrims come here not only to get rid of ailments, but also with the hope of fulfilling their wishes. Many women strive with faith in victory over infertility in Konyr-Auliye. Some of them later, allegedly after several hours in a cold cave, find the joy of motherhood. There are also those who have already despaired of finding a life partner - they are freed from the so-called celibacy crown.
Legends say that every summer the cave is filled with the power of solar energy. They say that in August flashes shine over the mountain, giving the very charge that people believe in.
The power of the aruach
Perhaps the most mysterious personality of the Pavlodar region is the enlightener Mashkhur Zhusup KOPEEV, a native of the Bayanaul land, who lived a century and a half ago. The people believed in his holiness because of the talent of a predictor, and maybe that is why in Soviet times a ban was imposed on the study of Kopeev's works. Today people are striving for the mausoleum of a scientist and seer in the hope of grace and miraculous healing.
Researchers of the biography of Mashhur Zhusup say that his whole life (1858–1931) was accompanied by mystical events. The talent of the boy Zhusup, named after the biblical Joseph, was noticed by one of the most influential people in the Kazakh steppes of that time, Musa SHORMANOV. By the way, it was in childhood that Kopeev was also named Mashhur, which means "famous."
In his youth, he collected works of oral folk art. Later he was educated, learned several languages. By the way, he translated the works of Alexander Pushkin into Kazakh. Mashhur Zhusup created priceless shezhire - genealogies, was an akyn, poet, philosopher, preserved a lot of historical information. Subsequently, he led an active educational activity.
The other side of Kopeev's life is the prediction of events. He guessed the date of the end of the Soviet power at the end of the XX century, a lean year 2000 in Pavlodar region. He foresaw the famine of 1931 and the date of his own death in the same year to the nearest day. By the way, he spent a memorial service on his own a year before leaving for another world. Mashhur Zhusup built his own grave in the form of a small house in advance, also foreseeing that it would become a place of pilgrimage.
It is located in the Yeskeldy tract of the Zhanazhol village of the Bayanaul region and was rebuilt several years ago. However, for more than 80 years people have been going both to the old burial place of Kopeyev and to today's mausoleum. People suffering healing believe in the aruach living here - the spirit of Kopeev himself, who was called a holy man during his lifetime.
