This grandiose structure has survived to this day in the form of an earthen embankment, along which there is a moat. Remnants of these fortifications of grandiose proportions stretch across the entire Trans-Volga region - starting in the Astrakhan region and ending in the region of Tatarstan. Then the rampart turns to the east and is lost somewhere in the foothills of the Urals.
The total length of all fortifications of the Great Trans-Volga Wall is about 2000 kilometers, which cannot but amaze.
In our time, in some places the height of this embankment reaches 5 meters and a width of up to 70 meters. Depth from 1 to 3 meters. One can only guess how impressive the size of this structure was hundreds of years ago. Now this embankment is called the Zavolzhsky Historical Wall.
Some legends say that these lands are the last stronghold of some kind of race that lived on the Russian Plain thousands of years ago. Fighting off the raids of the nomads, these people took refuge in caves. And later they founded entire underground cities.
Perhaps this story prompted some researchers to look for traces of anomalous zones and phenomena in these places.
Most of the fragments of this grandiose structure have already been entered on the maps of the Middle Volga and the foothills of the Southern Urals. In the Samara region, the Zavolzhskaya wall is located on the left bank. Further, the shaft passes through the Pestravsky and Krasnoarmeisky districts, then crosses the Volzhsky district.
Basically, only its fragments have survived here. But south of Krasny Yar, the Zavolzhsky Historical Wall can be traced most clearly.
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Who built this Great Zavolzhskaya wall?
Scientists call this embankment the Novo-Zakamsk defensive line. Official science believes that these fortifications were built in the 17th century to defend against the Naga and Bashkirs. Later this rampart was fortified and expanded by Peter I. Fortresses and redoubts were erected every 10-12 km. In 1734-36 there were about 4,000 soldiers along the Novo-Zakamskaya line.
But the total length of the fortifications of the Novo-Zakamsky defensive line is 230 km, while the remains of the rampart can be traced much further. Some archaeologists believe that the strengthening of this line is the reconstruction of the Trans-Volga wall, which existed long before that.
