In September 2003, a researcher of ancient civilizations Andrei Polyakov made an expedition to Mount Ararat, where, according to biblical legend, Noah's Ark rests. Photo and video of a giant ship-shaped formation then flew around the world.
Over the next ten years, Polyakov conducted several successful expeditions, which indirectly confirm his version of the existence of a parallel civilization of "giants" in antediluvian times. However, the clue to the solution to Noah's ark, according to the researcher, may be in the area of another Mount Ararat, which is located in Siberia …
- Andrey, for the last two years, only on your official website there have been scanty information about your life in the remote Siberian taiga. They say almost nothing about the sensational findings …
A. P.: In fact, we published several articles about our intermediate stages. When we arrived in the Old Believer village with the mysterious name of Tayaty, the locals explained to me and my family that they did not want increased interest from pilgrims and tourists. Even one small note provoked an amateur expedition to the object of our interest - the stone city, which we called the Tayatsky pillars. I had to explain that these people have nothing to do with me. Interestingly, their leader, posing as a great traveler, brought the group on a regular regular bus.
But time goes on. Today the Tayats are interested in the influx of civilized tourists. And we are ready to help with this.
- How did you come up with the idea to go to the taiga for such a long time?
AP: Several years ago, my longtime acquaintance Vladimir Yankovsky came to Moscow to change his political and administrative career to living in a cozy taiga village. He knew about my expeditions to Ararat, to Nakhichevan and to Baikal, and told that the Tayat mountains keep many legends in themselves. They struck me as interesting, although not indisputable. To be honest, my plans did not include going to the taiga.
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But one day Vladimir Mikhailovich laid out his last argument. “Do you know that the real Ararat is located near the village of Karatuzskoe?” He asked pointedly. As confirmation, Yankovsky showed me a map where a mountain with that name was indeed indicated. I had to change my plans. But I perfectly understood that one swoop would not be able to find anything. Then it was decided to go to Siberia for three years.
- Was it difficult to get used to life in the countryside?
AP: Only the climate was fundamentally new. We have a dacha in the Moscow region and a family estate near Kaluga. And there, and there they had to work on the ground. It was all, as it were, by the way. Of course, life was more comfortable at home. And in Tayaty we bought the Old Believer's cross house, which was 70 years old only according to documents. They put things in order, planted a vegetable garden. We began to communicate a lot with residents, and to shoot everything around. Tayats are located on the banks of the powerful Kazyr River, in a valley surrounded by mountains. It can be compared with the Alps, only much more beautiful.
Stone city. Photo courtesy of Svetlana Melnikova
- Are local residents somehow different from other people?
AP: About 200 years ago, the Tayats were founded by Old Believers who came here from the European part of Russia. According to the legends, the leaders led the pioneers to unique places that would become the basis of a new world. Until the 1990s, the Old Believers, as they should, lived apart as much as possible. But gradually civilization reached here, which in many respects violated the age-old way of life. In addition, Norilsk Nickel has laid eyes on the fertile lands, which has set up a huge subsidiary farm here.
But in 1993 it was curtailed. Those who got involved in monetary relations suddenly found themselves out of work. It was at this time that the first followers of Vissarion reached here, who were at first treated with caution, but then an interesting link took place between representatives of the old and new faith. Interestingly, both of them do not drink, smoke and do not use foul language. All this, coupled with hard work, made this village unique.
There is probably no such number of new houses in the entire Krasnoyarsk Territory. It is interesting that the third wave is the representatives of the wealthy strata of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia, who have found peace of mind here. Many people call the Tayats a new Rublyovka, but it seems to me that it would be more correct to call them Paradise on Earth. Moreover, six kilometers from the village is the Burundat tract, where the Old Believers' skete stood until the 1970s. I have been to many holy places on Earth, but this place is just amazing!
- Who founded the skete?
AP: According to legend, a hermit monk lived there. But during the Civil War, he was joined by the widows of white officers killed by the Reds. They lived entirely at their own hands. We prayed a lot. From time to time in the 1930s, they were visited by representatives from the NKVD, but they did not touch the hermits, who, according to stories, bought themselves off with small jewelry. The writer Alexei Cherkasov hunted for old books. One of the novices is still alive. But he lives in the village of Molinovka near Tayaty.
- Is there anything left of the monastery?
A. P.: No. Only crosses knocked down by time from the churchyard. When I saw them, something turned over in my soul. I did not sleep all night, and in the morning I decided to put a worship cross in memory of great women. We established it conciliarly. A year later, they made a tablet "To the Keepers of Holiness from grateful descendants."
- But let's get back to the purpose of your expedition …
A. P.: And we did not go far from her. The goal of all our expeditions, without exception, is to preserve the memory of our legendary ancestors - from Noah to the hermits of Burundat, whose monastery, by the way, was located at the foot of the mountains on which the stone city was spread.
Is this an artificial formation?
AP: When we got there for the first time, opinions were divided. Some believed that he did not appear without outside help. Others are convinced that this is a natural formation.
What point of view do you personally hold?
A. P.: Natural. But … There is something there that interested me greatly. If my guesses are confirmed, then we will get a clue to many mysteries of antiquity, around which there have been disputes for millennia. I think this year we will be able to achieve our goal.
At the beginning of the conversation, you mentioned Ararat. Is it connected in some way with the stone city? Who and when gave the name to this mountain?
A. P.: I think that all this is interconnected. Local historians have four versions of the origin of the name Ararat, but all of them, in my opinion, have no real basis. Back in the 1960s, a Krasnoyarsk journalist was conducting an investigation. He himself was almost confused in his conclusions, but he clearly traced the idea that the name existed before the arrival of immigrants here.
- What is your point of view on this?
AP: I think the name is very ancient. In the Old Testament, as you know, Noah moored to the Ararat mountains. The Armenians call Ararat Masis. Some Armenian scholars argue that their ethnos was formed as a result of the merger of the indigenous population, whose representatives were tall with white hair and blue eyes, and an alien Arabian tribe.
We are talking about a certain civilization, known under various names, whose representatives inhabited a conditional zone during the Bronze Age from modern Vladivostok to the Carpathians. Therefore, which Ararat was primary and which was secondary is an unanswered question. By the way, there is also a mountain of the same name in Khakassia. In addition, in these Siberian places there are many places with Sanskrit origin.
- Maybe Noah's Ark is worth looking for in Siberia, and not in Turkey?
AP: The fact is that the antediluvian civilization was very developed. She possessed a powerful fleet, gigantic ships of which sailed the seas and oceans. Noah hired a shipbuilder to build the ark, but it was built according to special drawings and special technology. Therefore, after the Flood, the legendary ship could easily survive in the vicinity of Turkish Ararat.
And in Siberia, some other ancient ship, built on the same principles, could well have remained. But the essence of Ararat is not in finding the ark on it, but in the symbol of the salvation of mankind. And if once around one Ararat first our civilization was born and then revived, then why a new, more perfect civilization will not arise in another Ararat?
