Taganay is a mountain range located in the west of the Chelyabinsk region. It takes part national park"Taganay". This is a magnificent creation of nature, beauty embodied in stone.
History of the name
Translated from Bashkir Taganay means "Moon Stand". And this is very similar to the truth - on a clear night one can observe how the Moon seems to "sit" on one of the peaks. Locals know many beautiful legends about their land. They are happy to tell them to tourists.
For example, about the battle between the Svarog brothers and Diva, after which the Divya people were hidden under the Ural Mountains. The Diva kingdom sank underground and is still in captivity to this day. Almost all the legends of the local population are based on the fact that in the depths of the mountain there is a people who have been hiding from people for thousands of years.
Mount Taganay - characteristics
Taganay - mountains that surprisingly combine mountain outcrops on the tops with granite rocks, located in the middle of a century-old forest, and picturesque river channels. Mount Taganay is the common name for the three ranges. Their total length is over 20 kilometers. Local residents call them Small, Medium and Big Taganai.
Bolshoi Taganay consists of several peaks. These are Responsive Comb, Two-headed Sopka, Kruglitsa and Dalny. The highest of them is Mount Kruglitsa (Taganay). She rose to 1178 m above sea level. Kruglitsa has a round shape, probably from which the name originated. The indigenous people call it the "Bashkir cap". It really resembles a cone-shaped Turkic headdress in outlines. According to the height of Kruglitsa, it is considered that the height of Mount Taganay is 1178 meters.
The upper sections of Taganai are formed by quartzites. The peculiarity of these places is considered to be a unique mica with interspersed sparkles that sparkle in the sun. This is taganaite, better known as aventurine. It looks great in souvenirs and jewelry.
Almost all Taganai ridges are distinguished by the steepness of slopes of 10-15 ° at the base, 15-25 ° in the middle and 25-35 ° at the top. As a rule, the peaks are inaccessible. They impress everyone who comes to see Taganay. The mountains are striking in their grandeur and beauty. Especially noteworthy is the luxurious responsive comb.
The rivers
In this mountain range, rivers originate, which then feed the great Caspian. First of all, this is the Kusa river with its tributaries Shumga, Bolshaya and Malaya Tiesma.
Natural features
On this land, two climatic zones are distinguished: one of them is located on the peaks. It is made up of subalpine forests and meadows, and the second - in the valleys and on the lower slopes of the mountains.
Various natural zones that connect on Taganay give this region a special originality. The northern part of the ranges is covered with spruce and fir forests of the middle taiga. On the eastern slopes, there are taiga forests, in which larch, birch, and larch trees grow. In addition, there are areas covered by the most beautiful
Mount Taganay (Zlatoust) in the highlands is covered with mountain tundra and subalpine meadows. These places are unique in that plants of Central European, Western, Eastern species, and Central Siberian flora coexist here. Arctic plants descend in the highlands far to the south, and steppe vegetation tends to the north along the foothills of the east.
Mount Taganay is an old Ural massif. Manifestations of seismic activity have been registered here. In 2002, the last earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 was recorded.
Riddles of Taganay
On sunny and hot days, many tourists, as well as locals, observe an interesting effect - Mount Taganay seems to sway. Experts explain this phenomenon by the proximity of groundwater. Under the influence of sunlight, moisture begins to actively evaporate, and the effect of mobility of the mountain mass is created in the air ascending currents.
Mount Taganay is part of the Ural zone, which is considered anomalous. Here you can often meet expeditions of ufologists, locals manage to see traces of the "Bigfoot", tourists talk about encounters with ghosts.
Weather conditions in Taganay are amazing. In a matter of minutes, they can change dramatically. During the day, temperatures often hover around ten degrees. Local residents will not be surprised by the snow that fell in June. Tourists can experience all seasons in one day - from sultry summers to harsh and windy winters. Another feature is strong winds, their speed sometimes reaches 50 m per second.
An amazing picture of the South Urals opens from the Taganai mountains. The beauty and features of the natural complex are mesmerizing and surprising. Even in bad weather the peaks of Taganay, shrouded in a veil of fog, amaze with their grandeur. Tourists from different regions of the country tend to these places. Traditional tourist trails run here.
National park
This unique park was created in March 1991. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that in a relatively small area, a variety of animals live and plants from different geographic zones grow.
Taganay National Park is full of secrets and mysteries. The mountain range is surrounded by dense forest - the best place for the habitation of various evil spirits. Locals say that the caves of the ridge are inhabited by amazing creatures, and Mount Kruglitsa is the point of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence - Roerich himself wrote about this.
Nature has generously endowed the Taganay Park with its amazing creations. In the relict forest, among the extraordinary, stone rivers flow, petrified live, and the water from the springs is considered alive. All this splendor bewitches even the experienced traveler.
The Taganay Mountains will conquer even an unprepared tourist. When going on a hike, wear comfortable shoes and keep tick and mosquito repellent. In the rainy season, travelers are unlikely to be able to do without rubber boots.
Stone river
Unique sights can be seen in this array. Taganay became famous all over the world for its amazing natural formation, which is a uniform pile of huge rocky debris. The Taganai stone river is more than six kilometers long, and its width reaches 200 meters.
The stone river "flows" between the Dvuhglavaya Sopka mountain and the Middle Taganay ridge. Its origin has not yet been determined. There is a version that the stone river was formed by a glacier that descended from the Taganai mountains.
Anomalous zone
In the Taganai forestry, which was built at the foot of the mountain, V.N. Efimova, an employee of the environmental department, confirmed rumors about the anomalousness of these places.
As it turned out, in the mountains - on the Urenga ridge - fireballs quite often appear, more often than in other places. Not uncommon in the village of Veselovka. These objects behave rather strangely - they hit the same places, as if they deliberately loop while moving. According to experts, there is a "nest of lightning" in the classic form, with reduced soil resistance. This indicates either large deposits of metal or underground water sources.
Mysterious swamp
Abnormal Taganay is represented even more mysterious place- Bolshoy It is located between the tip of Maly Taganai in the north and the southern foothills of Itsyl. The swamp covers an area of 36 sq. kilometers and is located in a giant depression of tectonic origin. It resembles an oval bowl with a long axis.
In this territory, the human psyche is changing - orientation is disturbed, because of this, even experienced foresters can get lost here. Travelers see all sorts of amazing things here that seem so real that they are taken at face value.
This is most likely due to a mixture of underground gases, which contains carbon dioxide and methane. They come out of a large deep fault and have a toxicomatic and psychotropic effect on humans.
Those who wish to wander through the marsh swamps expose themselves to intoxication and sometimes serious poisoning. This state facilitates encounters with "flying saucers", humanoids, translucent substances, kikimora.
Sound mirages also happen here. Various forest noises can be heard - rustling of foliage, as if approaching, close footsteps. In fact, no one will be around.
Tourists often stop at the Responsive Ridge. It received this name for its ridge-like outlines and a loud, multiplying echo that occurs due to the reflection of sound from each vertical rock. If you look at the crest from afar, it resembles a stegosaurus lizard, a sea wave, and an elongated crest.
In the northeast of the ridge, there is a tectonic fault. In 2002, tourists noticed several swirls of air in the form of dark pillars over Taganai. Later, the meteorological services confirmed this information. The tornado appeared when the cold front passed through Taganai. It consisted of three independent vortices, which merged together.
Sand slides
If you walk along the path leading to Kruglitsa, you can get to the "Valley of Fairy Tales" - Sand hills. This is an area of extraordinary beauty - the saddle of a stunted one. Here you can see glades with numerous original outliers.
The valley is located in a zone of intense tectonic movements of the past. Walking fog often appears between the rocks. Moreover, he also "sings" when he falls into stone cracks and rubs against grains of different strength. There are a lot of topped spruces here - they have suffered from autumn and winter windblows.
In the clearing, the batteries run out very quickly, as a result - all electronic devices (video cameras, clocks, cameras) refuse to work. Photos, as a rule, are blown out, and people see, for example, flying glowing balls.
The northern part of Kruglitsa is very attractive for ufologists. This is an ideally flat area measuring 0.2x0.4 kilometers. Particularly fanatical ufologists are sure that this is the place where energy exchange with the Cosmos takes place. There are some symbolic letters and signs made of stones. Here, like a magnet, esotericists, occultists, psychics are drawn. Judging by the ribbons hung in this place, which symbolize the made wishes, and the sacred signs inscribed on the stones, the Roerichites regularly visit here. Pilgrims are sure that such attention is paid to the summit because of the presence of a special positive energy.
Weather station
Meteorological station "Taganai Gora" is located on the top of Dalniy Taganay. The meteorological site is located at an altitude of 1108 meters.
The station was opened in August 1932. Here, observations were made of wind speed, air temperature and atmospheric pressure, cloudiness, precipitation. All information was transmitted by radio to the Office of the Ural Hydrometeorological Service (Sverdlovsk).
During its operation, the station was rebuilt twice (in 1965 and 1982). In May 1992, it was closed, and the premises were later transferred to the ownership of the city. Today the meteorological post of the Taganay Park and the rescue service are based there.
The Taganay National Park, famous for its beauty, is one of the most popular in the Urals among tourists.
There are many interesting places on the territory of the national park. Tourists can see here huge mountain ranges and bizarre stone outliers, placers of kurumniks and an amazing stone river stretching for several kilometers, relict forests, subalpine woodlands and mountain tundra, ancient mineral mines and mountain rivers flowing both to Europe and Asia ( there is a watershed on the territory of the park). National Park "Taganay" is one of the most comfortable and hospitable parks in the Urals.
The first mountain peak that meets a tourist about 7 km from the entrance to the park is Two-headed hill... The two-headed hill is the southernmost peak of the Bolshoi Taganai ridge. The two-headed hill is divided into two peaks - "Feathers"(1034 m) and "Lamb's foreheads"(1041 m).
At the foot of the Sopka flows White key- the most famous water source of Taganay. Its water is unusually clear and tasty. Its softness is higher than that of melted snow. And the water temperature, even in hot summers, is no more than 3-4 degrees. The White Key got its name from white quartzite, which covers the bottom of the spring. The feeling is created as if soft light is emanating from the bottom, this gives the key a special charm. It is not surprising that in ancient times this key was called a Saint, and there was a wooden cross next to it.
The next peak of Bolshoy Taganai is Responsive comb(1155 m). It gets its name from its ridge-like shape and loud, multiple echoes from the sound bouncing off an almost vertical rocky wall. From a distance, depending on the angle of view, it resembles either a prehistoric lizard, or a sea wave frozen on takeoff, or an elongated scallop. In the northeastern part of the Otklikny Ridge (in the place of traditional tourist camps), there is a large tectonic fault, which is the object of discharge of underground fractured waters. There are also three springs of the ascending type. True, in the summer they often dry up. ,
On December 30, 1947, an airplane, en route from Chelyabinsk to Moscow, crashed against the rock wall of the Otklikny Ridge. All five people on board were killed. The body of one of them, found only a few months later, was buried right there.
The trail from the Otklikny ridge to the next peak of the Bolshoi Taganay ridge - Kruglitsa - passes through the so-called Valley of Fairy Tales... This place is a section of a low-growing coniferous forest under the alpine, surrounded by bizarre outliers of sugar-like quartzites. Each outlier here has its own name, depending on who or what it resembles. The rocks that make up this section of the mountains easily crumble under the feet of tourists and the paths here are covered with coarse-grained quartz sand.
Mount Kruglitsa(1178 m) - the highest point of the entire Taganay mountain range, which got its name for its characteristic rounded shape. The northern part of the Kruglitsa peak is very interesting, which is an ideal flat area.
Observing the top of Kruglitsa on a clear sunny day, you can notice the curious effect of the mountain swaying, as if it was about to break away from its foot. This phenomenon is explained by the streamlined shape of the summit and the close position of the pressurized groundwater (the foot of Kruglitsa is a continuous swamp). The sun, heating the stones, carries away moisture from the cracks with its warmth, the air becomes free-moving, creating such an illusion.
Round face, like a magnet, attracts esotericists, occultists, psychics. Various sacred signs are painted here and there on the stones. The most common is the Roerich sign. There are also many small seids made of stones. According to the beliefs of numerous tourists, wishes made on Kruglitsa will certainly come true.
To get to the next peak of the Bolshoi Taganai ridge - Dalny Taganai - you need to go down and go through the Taganai tourist shelter. The ascent to Dalniy Taganai is very long. Already on the way to the top, you will see a well and a sign nearby "Botanical Monument Podgoltsovye sparse forests".
Dalny Taganay(1146 m) - the northernmost and most extensive peak of the Bolshoi Taganai ridge. It is divided by several low but beautiful ridges. An excellent view of the neighboring ridges and mountains opens up.
Here is the real tundra with its characteristic vegetation. In autumn, there are berries inherent in the north. Dal'netaganayskaya mountain tundra is unique and is a natural monument.
There are houses at the top meteorological station "Taganai Gora"- the highest mountain in the entire Urals. It was opened in 1932.
Further, to the north, from Dalniy Taganai is Yurma ridge... And to the east, across the Bolshoi Kialim River, - Itsyl ridge... In the same direction - east of Bolshoy Taganai - but closer to Zlatoust stretches Maly Taganay ridge... Between it and the Dvukhlava Sopka is the most beautiful, 6 kilometers long stone river.
In the 18th-19th centuries, the Taganai forests were very popular among the Old Believers. Persecuted by the authorities, the adherents of the split found refuge here. The schismatic sketes were built underground, skillfully disguising themselves from the outside with granite boulders, moss, upturned tree roots. It was almost impossible for the uninitiated to find them. In addition, the hermits were very careful in their contacts with the world.
Among them were people who were reputed to be saints. So in the 50s of the XIX century, Elder Zosima, who was incredibly popular, died, to whom people came thousands of miles away for a blessing. After his death, there was a popular rumor that prayer at the elder's grave (located somewhere in Taganai) heals diseases and works miracles. And in 1910, on Taganai, another Elder Ambrose departed to the world, whose relics were declared incorruptible by the schismatics.
The favorite place of the Old Believers was the district rocky outcrops Three Brothers... These are three high stone outliers, up to 40-50 meters high. They stand in the middle of the forest in the valley between Kruglitsa and Dalniy Taganai. From Kruglitsa in good weather they can be clearly seen. Here the schismatics performed their secret rituals.
In addition to visiting Taganay, I recommend visiting the old the city of Zlatoust- the homeland of damask steel and unique engraving on steel. The city is very beautiful, surrounded on all sides by high, picturesque mountains. There are many interesting sights here. There is a very good local history museum in Zlatoust.
Not far from Zlatoust there are many other attractions: Aleksandrovskaya Sopka, Urenga ridge, Ilmensky Mineralogical Reserve, Lake Turgoyak, etc.
How to get to Taganay?
Taganay National Park is located northeast of the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region.
You can get here by car - first to Chelyabinsk, about 140 km from it to the city of Zlatoust. If you are coming from Yekaterinburg, you can significantly reduce the distance if, in the village of Tyubuk, turn off the Chelyabinsk highway onto the Tyubuk-Miass road through Kasli. You can park your car in the car park in the city or at the entrance to the national park.
Another option is by bus or train to Zlatoust. Then by bus No. 6 or by route taxis No. 21, 28, 29, 39, going to the Pushkin village, to the final stop. From the stop further along the road to the village. Magnitka 800 meters to the entrance to the national park (fixed-route taxis № 31, 44 go only to the stop "Zh-d polyclinic" - to the final stop 900 m up).
In order to get to know Taganai well, you need to go here on a hike for at least a few days. Please note that there is a charge to enter the National Park. You will even have to pay for an overnight stay with your own tent. If you do not have a tent, you can spend the night in houses located in the park (price 1500-2000 rubles / house per day). We have a lot of materials about Taganay on our portal, we have already given some of them in the article, you can also see:,
The Taganay National Park near the town of Zlatoust attracts thousands of tourists from all over the country. They come here in order to enjoy the unique beauty of the mountain peaks, to feel the harsh virgin nature with mesmerizing landscapes, to get acquainted with the variety of flora and fauna, and also to touch interesting story and still unsolved mysteries. The word "taganai" itself is translated from Bashkir as "a support for the moon".
There are many songs and legends about these places. And in the last 15 years, the properties of the anomalous zone have been attributed to the Taganay ridge massif. The press repeatedly mentioned the adventures of the "Bigfoot" in this area, frequent flights of UFOs and even their landing, contacts with the Higher Intelligence, local chronomirages, the appearance of ghosts, changes in the physical course of time and much more unusual. The participants of the Monitoring Station of the Ural Anomalistics "URAN" became interested in the strangeness of nature described in the publications and began to organize expeditions to Taganai. The author of these lines, being the head of the aforementioned public organization, repeatedly walked the mountains for reconnaissance purposes, visited the museums and libraries of Zlatoust, communicated with numerous tourists of the park and its employees. Got new information for thought, generalized and analyzed the already available data. In the Taganai forestry, built at the foot of the mountain, an employee of the environmental department V.N. Efimova confirmed the presence of rumors about the abnormality of these places. It turned out that fireballs often appear in the mountains, especially on the Urenga ridge, which is located near Taganai. And in the village of Veselovka, plasma balls are by no means a rarity. Moreover, they behave "somehow strangely": they hit the same places, reasonably zigzag when moving, live for a relatively long time. There are classic "lightning nests" where the soil resistance is low. This indicates either metal deposits or underground water sources.
A more mysterious place is the Big Moss bog, located between the northern end of the Maly Taganai ridge and the southern foothills of the Itsyl ridge.
At the very beginning of climbing the mountain, I was lucky enough to witness a real sound mirage. When I stopped for a moment and froze to listen to the sounds of the forest, several times the approach of a man was clearly heard - the rustling of feet on the grass, the rubbing of trousers when walking, close footsteps. Although there was no one nearby ...
Tourists most often choose the Otkliknoy Ridge as a place for traditional parking.
In its northeastern part, there is a steeply dipping tectonic fault. A young tourist Eugene from Miass regularly stops here for the night. In 2002, from the side of his city, he happened to see several thrombus-like eddies in the form of dark cloud pillars over Taganai. Subsequently, meteorological data confirmed his words. The tornado was formed when the cold front passed through Taganai. It consisted of three independent well-developed vortices, which then merged together.On December 30, 1947, a transport plane crashed into the rocky wall of the ridge, en route from Chelyabinsk to Moscow and crashed on the southeastern slope.
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From the top of the Otklikny ridge, a very beautiful view of the panorama of the western side opens. Kruglitsa is clearly visible. Late in the evening on cloudless days from here you can watch the numerous satellites, the side lights of flying planes, falling stars, as well as the pale red Moon rising on the horizon in the form of a smoky dome. The impressions are doubly strengthened by the distant flashes of lightning and the luminous blue of the sky, which has not yet been covered by continuous darkness with a grid of stars. Night is the most favorable time for mysterious phenomena. Mysterious only at first glance. Once my comrades and I were lucky to be at the right moment under the Responsive Crest, when silent lightning-like flashes began to illuminate the perfectly clear night sky. Subsequently, having supported my knowledge base with the study of geophysical processes, I found an explanation for these bright and pale flares. They were the result of lithospheric-atmospheric interaction. With the deformation and destruction of almost all rocks, be it granite, basalt or limestone, enormous electric field strengths can form in the atmosphere, giving rise to electrical phenomena comparable to thunderstorms. Moreover, these phenomena do not always unambiguously precede an earthquake. They are most often observed only when the earthquake source is located shallow. It happens that the resulting deformations "dissolve" even without seismic shocks.
Despite the fact that the entire Taganai district consists of old Ural mountains, it is still seismically active. In August 2002, there was an earthquake of 3.5 points - Chrysostom jumped so that cabinets fell in some areas, dishes broke. Even in neighboring cities, seismologists recorded a shock.
The highest point of the entire Taganay mountain range is Kruglitsa (1178 meters above sea level). Earlier, the people called it the "Bashkir cap" because of the similarity to the Türkic headdress of a conical shape. Although the clouds were gradually enveloping Taganai, the day remained hot and sunny, and the air hovered strongly. That is why I was lucky to observe the interesting effect of the mountain swaying created by the streamlined shape of the summit and the close position of the pressurized groundwater. The sun, heating the stones, carries away moisture from the cracks with its warmth, the ascending air currents become transparent, easily mobile, and then it seems that the mountain is about to break away from its foot.
The path to Kruglitsa runs through the "Valley of Fairy Tales" - Sand hills. This is a uniquely beautiful site-saddle of a low-growing coniferous forest with glades and numerous bizarre outliers. The valley is located in the zone of past intense tectonic movements. Among the lonely rocks, a "walking" fog often appears, which also "sings" when it gets stuck in stone cracks and rubs against grains of various strengths. At every step there are spruces without tops, affected by winter and autumn windblows, or even dry trunks. Numerous trees branch out dichotomously as they grow. Such features to one degree or another are found on almost all peaks and slopes of Taganai.
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By the way, the former rescuer of the national park (now a pensioner) witnessed how several small glowing balls flew out from under his feet when he was walking along the Sand Hills at dusk. It is possible that the plasma triggering effect described above also took place here. Moreover, quartz crystals that make up stones and sand have special piezoelectric properties. The northern part of Kruglitsa is very attractive, which is an almost ideal flat area approximately 0.2 x 0.4 kilometers.
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The next stage of my journey was Dalniy Taganai - the northernmost and most extensive peak in the entire Taganai. The trail goes there through the Shelter-Service tourist base, whose employees have also heard a lot about the oddities taking place in the area. We should say a big thank you to the employees of the forest inspection - they monitor not only the state of the Taganai forest, but also, if possible, protect the tourists themselves. In June 1996, two watchmen on duty at the Taganai shelter witnessed how a white luminous pole 3-4 meters high and 30 cm in diameter "grew" in the center of the volleyball court of the orphanage. “The post was material, shiny and cool,” they recall. “Without waiting for his disappearance, we went to bed, and in the morning the column of light was gone.” Interestingly, when the author of these lines spent the night a few meters from this place, the wristwatch with batteries for nine hours of sleep fell behind by 5-6 minutes. Although before that they walked very accurately and subsequently also did not lose their rhythm. Most likely, the tent was located in the area of overlap and intersection of various radiation fields, which influenced the movement of the arrows. Or, less likely, physical time itself has changed. Similar anomalies with clocks are possible at many local points scattered throughout Taganay. For example, from the words of the gamekeepers it is known that they were seen on the White Key - a water source of the southeastern slope of the Dvukhlavaya Volya.
The glowing translucent pillar and other light phenomena on Taganai (fireballs, ghostly flashes in the atmosphere, etc.) are explained by the presence of external and internal geo-faults, from where powerful energy flows erupt. Background deviations are due to the intense generation of electric and electromagnetic fields in space, and in some cases even radiation. Strong ionization of air at high humidity can contribute to the formation of plasma clots. Such emissions of energy from the bowels occur spontaneously. It is they, in conjunction with fluctuations in geophysical fields, that are capable of influencing any devices that tourists carry with them.
At Dalniy Taganai there is the only meteorological station of the Chelyabinsk region "Taganai-Gora", where there are 2 houses, towers, weather vane. Helicopters have not arrived here for 15 years, the equipment of the 70s has long been outdated, they are on duty here almost out of sheer enthusiasm, but the spirit of socialism still hovers on this heel. The beauty of the territory where the station is located is simply mesmerizing. The alpine tundra is cut by stones, which in the form of rocks go steeply downward. A free view of the horizon and the forest below makes the picture grand and majestic, as if you are not on the top of a mountain, but on the peak of the World.
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Away from Dalniy Taganai, in the valley of Maly Kialim, the Three Brothers rise - magmatic statues 20-50 meters high. The giants owe their bizarre shape to the forces of physical and chemical weathering. Somewhere in this area there used to be a graveyard of schismatics, where the Zlatoust Old Believers used to go to worship mass graves. On one of the outliers, at a height of about 5 meters, there is a recess carved right into the rock. From its shape, it is easy to guess that a candle and the image of a holy martyr were placed there for carrying out Old Believer rituals.
Birds do not fly near the Three Brothers, their singing is heard only from afar. Yes, and other living creatures are not noticed here. The dowsing pendulum behaves restlessly: in one place it spins clockwise, in another - against it, and very actively. And it happens that it just freezes rooted to the spot. The tract is covered with legends. Sometimes travelers here are seized with an unreasonable chilling horror. The researcher of Taganai mysteries Marina Sereda also experienced wild fear when she went here alone. Then I realized that such visions arise due to inert gases - helium and radon, coming out due to tectonic disturbances through deep faults and surface cracks. Due to the exchange of soil air with atmospheric gases, gases are carried over long distances. Radon within reasonable limits has a therapeutic effect, but exceeding the permissible concentration causes dizziness, weakness, and hallucinations. Moreover, when radioactive radon comes into contact with the air above the ground, a local disturbance of the earth's electromagnetic field occurs, due to which various luminescence can be observed.
The formation of energy anomalies can be associated not only with the zones of cracking of sedimentary strata. The powerful forces of the earth are concentrated in places above the hills. Itsyl, Kruglitsa and rocky outliers serve as condensers of underground (telluric) energy flows.
For more than a decade, there have been stories and legends about meetings with "Taganayskaya Babka" among tourists. Every now and then, the athletes who returned from the campaign say that in the mountains they dreamed of a certain hunched over old woman, with a knapsack behind her back, barefoot and toothless. In the valley of the Bolshoi Kialim River, she is often met by a lost traveler. There were times when people, spotting her in the distance, followed her and got out of the wilderness. But usually, when "Fenya Kialimskaya" comes very close, people can not stand the growing fear and give dyoru. Even seasoned hunters are intimidated.
The former director of the meteorological station, in the past - a climber, at the end of the 70s went down with his comrades along the trail from Three Brothers to the Magnitskaya verge. It was in October when the first snow fell. Suddenly he came across the tracks of bare feet. Looking up, he saw a small, crooked old woman with gray tufts of hair in front of him. She looked at people and smiled. The guys kicked off in earnest and ran headlong through the windbreak. What was it? A materialized ghost or a real person? It's hard to say. However, in 1994, geologist and local historian Marina Sereda in the same area came across prints of bare feet, about 35 sizes. And there are dozens of such testimonies ...
The so-called geopathogenic zones present in many places of the Taganay National Park. Signs of the GPZ are obvious: ubiquitous faults in the earth's crust, which were mentioned above, channels of underground water flows, accumulations of minerals, large anthills, dry tops of coniferous trees, dichotomous mutagenesis, unnatural curvature of trunks and disturbances in their development (which is not associated with the action of landslide structures) , cancerous growths on the bark, inert gas pollution in lowlands and on slopes (indicator - ferns and other gas-loving plants) ... In such pathogenic areas, physiological and biochemical parameters change quite noticeably, unpleasant sensations arise, the likelihood of exacerbation of various chronic diseases increases. However, thousands of people do not complain about their health, they come here again and again, share their pleasant impressions after outdoor recreation. The explanation is simple: zones affect not all people very selectively, but only those whose bodies are weakened, or those who are too susceptible to new environmental conditions. On the mountains, however, go mainly healthy people, with strong organisms. In order to feel any ailments, you need to get either to an active tectonic area with the greatest fluctuations in physical fields, or to live without a break in an energetically unstable zone for at least one day. And such unfavorable places in public parking are rare, and if there are, they are very weakly expressed. Before getting up for the night, it is recommended to carry out biolocation to identify possible negative energy.
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In the early 1990s, there was a peak in UFO visits to anomalous zones in the South Urals. And Taganay was no exception. Residents of Zlatoust and its suburbs witnessed the flights of unidentified objects both over the mountain range itself and over the city and its environs. Particularly lucky were the expeditions of the Chelyabinsk biologist Nikolai Avdeev, who, in hot pursuit, tried to look for "Bigfoot" in the Taganai forests. But instead of the Yettie, the researchers saw numerous UFOs, as well as landing prints in the ground of the one that landed. Pieces of an incomprehensible material, similar to molten glass, were found. Geologists, according to Avdeev, could not determine the belonging of these stones to any rocks.
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“The first, legendary“ battles for faith ”with Chudyu are described in the“ Book of Kolyada ”. Dy / Div did not fall in the heart of his brother Svarog (the god of the spiritual sky). And then the heavenly army, led by Svarog, fought with the army of Dyya - "divine people" and Chudyu. Svarog won the victory, imprisoning "divine people" under the Ural Mountains. Dy himself was turned into the Great Snake, the lord of the gold of the Ural Mountains. Since then, the kingdom of Dyya has gone, along with all the palaces and temples under the ground. And only sometimes you can hear their bells ringing underground. This captivity has been going on for 27 thousand years already ”.
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In B.Samoilov's story "The Fourth Tagannaya Peak" we read: "The ancient Aryan priests of the legendary fossil city of Arkaim went to conduct special ceremonies and offer prayers to a certain place in Taganai, where there are supposedly some sacred Gates that open the entrance to parallel worlds every three millennia."
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Taganay in translation from the Bashkir language means "support of the moon". At night, the moon, as it were, stands on the support that Mount Taganay serves. Its length is more than 20 km and it consists of large, medium and small ridges.
The history of the creation of the park "Taganay"
The natural national park is located near the town of Zlatoust, which is located in the Chelyabinsk region. Intensive deforestation in the Urals has been carried out since the end of the sixties of the last century. A barbaric felling technique was used, when lumberjacks on powerful machinery completely fell down the entire forest over a large area. After such work, only thistle grew in this area for more than 10 years. The country needed building material and few people thought about the consequences that might arise after the destruction of the forest. And only in 1985, articles on environmental topics began to appear in the press, in which the question of thoughtless deforestation was raised.
In 1988, the Chelyabinsk industrial logging association planned to allocate 20 thousand cubic meters of Taganai forest land for felling. At this time (January 1988), representatives of the local community wrote an open letter to the Zlatoust newspaper about the barbaric destruction of forests, containing about 30 signatures of employees of various enterprises in the city. January is considered the month of the creation of the public committee for the protection of the forest. Under pressure from the public, the city administration decides to create a national park on the territory of the Zlatoust forestry plant. And at the beginning of March 1991, the Taganay State Natural National Park was formed.
general information
Taganai is a huge stone chain with a length of more than 20 kilometers and consisting of ridges called the Bolshoi, Malaya and Srednyaya Taganai mountains.
The height of one of the ridges is represented by: Responsive Ridge, Two-headed Sopka, Dalniy Taganai and Kruglitsa. The other is the Sabbat and Mont Blanc. The middle ridge is only 960 meters high. The closest to the city of Zlatoust is the Small Ridge with a length of about 8 kilometers.
There are many delightful places in the park that attract visitors from different parts of the country. There are unusual stone sculptures, large mountain ranges, stone rivers, ancient mines, mountain tundra, kurumniki, relict forests, many mountain rivers, huge mountain ranges. At the entrance to the park, you can see the peaks of the Sheep Foreheads and the Feathers of the two-headed hill, which are more than a kilometer high.
At the foot of the hill there is a spring called the White Key. Surprisingly clear and soft in taste, the water stays cool even on the hottest day. Its temperature does not exceed 4 degrees. White quartzite covers the bottom of the source and emits a pleasant light, which is why this place is considered sacred.
The next attraction of the park is the peak called Otkliknoy Ridge, which is over 1000 meters high. With loud sounds, a polyphonic deafening echo is heard next to him. If you look at it from a certain angle, it looks like an ancient foot and mouth disease, an elongated crest or a sea wave taking off.
Several stone rocks, about 40 meters high, which are located at a short distance from each other, are called Three Brothers. It is located stone statue between Kruglitsa and Dalniy Taganai. If you look at them from a distance, you get the feeling that these mighty brothers are coming down together from the top.
Along the trail covered with quartz sand, from the Otklikny Ridge through the Valley of Fairy Tales, you can reach Mount Kruglitsa. The Valley of Fairy Tales is a small area where a low-growing subalpine forest grows, surrounded by intricate quartzite sculptures. Each stone looks like wondrous animals or characters from fairy tales.
Dalny Taganay
This mountain is the most severe. The winds are constantly blowing here, there is nowhere to hide from the scorching rays of the scorching sun, but nevertheless the area looks quite hospitable. In the early morning, when a thick fog descends into the valleys, it is sunny on this hill, golden rays brown the already bright lingonberries and golden the tops of rocky mountains. The thirty-degree heat at the foot of Mount Taganay can change abruptly when you rise upward with freezing cold. Strong gusts of wind sometimes exceed 40 meters per second.
During the ascent and descent from the mountain in June or August, four seasons can be seen at once within an hour. The nature on Taganay is very beautiful during the August winter. Trees, grass and rocks are adorned with snow frost lace. Thick wires are covered with ice and sag almost touching the ground. A strong wind tears off pieces of ice from them and scatters them over the snow-white tundra. Going down half a kilometer down, you can find beautiful colors of autumn. The leaves of the trees are yellowish-green in color, and the bright clusters of mountain ash are covered with small whitish lumps of snow. A little lower, in the valley, the rays of the hot summer sun sparkle.
A meteorological station was opened in Dalniy Taganai in 1932, which existed until the beginning of 2005. Meteorologists not only predicted the weather, but also always provided assistance to tourists in trouble.
Big Taganay
Mount Taganay is located eight kilometers from Zlatoust. Bolshoi Taganai is located here, consisting of three peaks: the Two-headed Sopka, the Responsive Ridge and Kruglitsa.
Middle Taganay
Sredny Taganay is located eight kilometers from the border of the Taganaysky Park between Small and Bolshoi. Its length is approximately two and a half kilometers, it has three weakly distinguished hills and consists of quartzite minerals. Outliers with different shapes are located on the tops. The slopes of the Taganai mountain heights are covered with placers of burgers, junipers, larch trees, low spruces, birches, and firs.
Small Taganay
The Taganai mountain range on the eastern side is called Maly Taganai. It is located just three kilometers from the Taganay Park cordon and stretches for as many as eleven kilometers from the southwest to the northeast. Rocky ridges are located on the northern and southern parts of the ridge, the western slopes are covered with kurumniks. In the central part there is an alpine plateau with spruce and birch trees. The upper third of the ridge is occupied by mountain meadows covered with dense vegetation. The entire Taganai mountain range is visible from the peaks of Maly Taganai.
Mount Kruglitsa
This is the highest point of Taganay, which rises at a level of 1 km 178 m. The name of the mountain is associated with its inherent rounded shape, although part of the peak on the north side has a flawless flat surface. On a cloudless day, when the sun is shining brightly, watching Kruglitsa, you can see how it sways - it seems that the mountain seems to be ready to break away from the foot. This effect is due to the rounded shape of the stones, as well as closely located groundwater (the foot of the mountain is in a swamp). The stones, heated by the sun's rays, lose moisture, which is stored in the crevices, the air becomes mobile and the illusion described above is created. Mount Kruglitsa in Taganay, like a huge powerful magnet, attracts people who are interested in mysterious and paranormal phenomena. There is also a belief that all wishes made on a hill will certainly come true.
Unusual Taganay rivers
Stone rivers are an amazing natural formation, which is a heap of elongated rocky debris of enormous size, stretching for hundreds of kilometers. The inhabitants of those places call them placers.
One of the legends of the formation of these rivers says that the cause was a glacier that descended from the Taganai Mountains and contributed to the destruction of rocks. Large blocks under the influence of gravity as a result of the collapse of the top of the mountain gradually shifted along the slopes of the ridges, forming rivers of stone. The largest of them is located between the Sredny and Bolshoy Taganai ridges. Bolshaya Kamennaya River has a span of about six kilometers, and its width in some places ranges from 20 to 700 m. Lumps of stone of a round shape and weighing about 10 tons are located along the entire length. These blocks lie about five meters deep, and there are about 300 pieces on 100 square meters. The vegetation in this place contains lichen and rare spruces, which are several hundred years old. In the composition of blocks of aventurine, this is one of the varieties of quartzite.
Placers of stone blocks of colored aventurine, which are located near Itsyl and Dalniy Taganai, are called Kurumnaya River. Bizarre pines growing near the placers are beautifully framed by multi-colored stones.
Mountain Pencil
In the southern Urals of the Kusinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, on the territory of the Arshinsky reserve, there is one of the most ancient mountains of our planet called Pencil, which means "black stone". Its age is estimated at 4.2 billion years. Over time, under the influence of wind, air and water, the height of the mountain decreased to 600 meters.
The breed of black stone that makes up the Pencil is called izrandite. This is one of the rarest and very ancient stones on our planet. Its composition is similar to that of the earth's mantle and does not contain organic matter. Many residents of the Urals do not even suspect that they live next to an amazing natural monument, although data about it have been published by scientists in the press for a long time.
Mount Mont Blanc
The Middle and Small Mount Taganay in the Urals is connected by a watershed isthmus, on which the Mont Blanc peak is located. It is fifteen kilometers from the city of Zlatoust. The height of the mountain is 1025 meters. It got its name in honor of the highest mountain clusters in Western Europe, located in the Western Alps. A wonderful view opens up to the Taganay Mountains from the top of Mont Blanc, from here the main peaks of Taganay are accessible from here.
Deep in history
This area has an ancient history and many interesting facts... For instance,
- Information about the oldest ridges in the world varies, but many official sources confirm that these are the Ural Mountains.
- Since the 11th century, the Ural mountains in Russia have been called the Earth Belt or Big Stone. In the Middle Ages, they began to be called the Urals on the maps.
- The modern lands of the Southern Urals were initially called, in a word, the Urals.
- Among the Old Believers, the Taganai forests were very popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Elder Zosim, who was known as a saint, also lived there. Popular rumor says that the prayer read at his grave, located on Taganay, works unprecedented miracles and heals from ailments.
- The schismatics performed their secret rituals in the area of stone outliers called the Three Brothers. This was one of the favorite places of the Old Believers.
- The Urals began to "sink" about five hundred million years ago. As a result, there was a decrease in the level of hills.
- Mount Taganay was finally formed twenty-five million years ago.
- It turns out that there are mountain peaks in Canada that are roughly the same age as the Pencil Mountain.
- The water on the top of Mount Kruglitsy boils at a temperature of 96 degrees, since the atmospheric pressure on it is 100 mm lower than above sea level.
- The softness of water from the White Spring is higher than that of melted snow.
- Some local residents and numerous tourists who visited Taganay saw a UFO landing and found footprints of Bigfoot. Others even came into contact with them and ended up at other times. True or fiction, everyone decides for himself. But, undoubtedly, Taganay is shrouded in mysticism.
Tourist routes
The Ural Mountains Taganai attract a huge number of tourists and are part of the anomalous Ural zone. There are several roads on the territory of the national park:
- from the southwest: Zlatoust - Magnitka - Aleksandrovka;
- from the south - Zlatoust - Miass.
Hiking trails are laid in intermountain valleys and mountains by the travelers themselves. One of the most famous runs along the eastern slope of Bolshoi Taganai. It is in these places that valuable natural complexes have been preserved that have not yet been touched by man:
- Three stone rocks, called the Three Brothers.
- Nikolae-Maximilian mine.
- Responsive comb.
- Remains of the Devil's Gate on the top of Mount Yurma.
- the river Bolshaya Tiesma and Bolshoi Kialim.
- Akhmatovsky mine.
- Sopka Three sisters, Slyudyanaya gorka and several unnamed outliers, located near the Dvukhlava volcano, together forming the so-called Mitka rocks.
Snow cover in the South Urals lasts from 160 to 190 days. The maximum air temperature is +38 degrees, and the minimum is -50.
The Taganai mountain range is one of the unique corners of nature located in the South Urals.