Shalobolinskaya Pisanitsa is located 35 km from the village of Kuragino, on a steep rock mass. Stone Age art is presented right on the banks of the Tuba. The drawings are several thousand years older than the Egyptian pyramids. The oldest images, like a time machine, take us to another era.
The unique object is literally replete with paintings from different eras and techniques. Some drawings in the rock are carved, others seem to be vysharkans, there are also stone panels, applied with ocher. These are mainly ancient mythological subjects or objects of worship. Scientists say, most likely, there was not just an art gallery here, but a whole temple in the open air. But now the monument of ancient art is practically in disrepair.
To save the ancient subjects, the object needs to be preserved and restoration started. Now experts are finding out the scale of the destruction. Students of the Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University are helping scientists. With the help of ordinary polyethylene and a pen, third-year student Maxim Kolobov removes sketches from rock paintings, says such images are rarely seen anywhere.
The expedition took place thanks to a presidential grant. Only after assessing the destruction will archaeologists be able to start restoration, but for this the object will need to be taken under 24-hour security. Now this place is available to anyone.
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Shalobolinskaya scribble is known all over the world. Scientists from France are working here now. Katrin Great came to Siberia to touch the art of her ancestors, she says she has never seen such images anywhere.
The scientific expedition will last about two months. Archaeologists must draw up a detailed plan for the preservation of the unique site. And after the Shalabolinskaya scribble is taken under protection, it will become a real open-air museum.
Olga Maksyushina