Stone river Taganay origin. “Stone Rivers” of the Southern Urals

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Big stone river in winter

Last week I threw firewood into a heated argument about which is cooler - Nikon or Canon. Together with the film crew of the My Planet TV channel, he participated in the filming of a film about how I take pictures with Nikon. To do this, we went to the Chelyabinsk region. Until a new round of holivar begins, I want to tell you about Taganay - the place where our shooting took place.

Taganay is a national park in the northern part of the mountain ranges of the Southern Urals. For the first time I was there last summer as part of the Rossiya expedition. The pearl of the park, the Big Stone River, made a great impression on me. This is a uniform pile of huge rocky debris that stretches for hundreds of meters and looks very much like a river. A formation similar in size and beauty of stones is known only in India and nowhere else on the globe.

locals they said that the most beautiful time on Taganay is winter, so as soon as I had a free week, I agreed with My Planet and took a ticket to Chelyabinsk. More about everything under the cut ...

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My top on Taganay

Traveling is always a look at yourself from the outside. Maybe they exist not so much in order to get to know foreign countries, but in order to look at themselves and their lives with different eyes. Trips outside cities and civilizations, moreover, are very good for reloading and giving new strength.

The other day I took another step towards myself on a trip to the South Urals, to the Taganay National Park as part of a large IzhSplav team. There were more than 50 of us, the youngest participant was only five years old!

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Far Taganay in July

In early July, we decided to go for three days and two nights to the Metostation in Taganay and back. In the very national This is not my first time in Taganay Park, but nevertheless I have not been everywhere yet. During these 3 days we visited Kruglitsa, Itsyle and distant camps along the route, walked along the lower path.

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Single bike tour in the Middle and Southern Urals. 2009

The summer of 2009 turned out to be extremely boring, full of monotony and despondency. I lacked new vivid impressions, an emotional explosion and adrenaline in my blood. When the lack of all this, combined with the ongoing depression, reached its climax, I still ripened to go on a solo bike tour in the Middle and Southern Urals. I thought that I would not decide on my own in our inadequate country soon, because it is quite dangerous, but the circumstances made their own adjustments. It is a pity that there were no volunteers, because in a group it is both more fun and safer.

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Winter Taganay

Summer Taganay, of course, is very different from winter. If in winter it is beautiful even at the bottom, then in summer you definitely need to go upstairs. At the end of November, we decided to once again explore Taganay and found ourselves in a winter fairy tale.

Taganay in translation from the Bashkir language means "moon stand". At night, the moon, as it were, stands on a support, which is Mount Taganay. Its length is more than 20 km and it consists of large, medium and small ranges.

The history of the creation of the Taganay park

The natural national park is located near the city of Zlatoust, which is located in Chelyabinsk region. Intensified deforestation in the Urals has been carried out since the late sixties of the last century. A barbaric felling technique was used, when lumberjacks on powerful equipment completely felled the entire forest over a large area. After such work, only thistles grew in this area for more than 10 years. The country needed building material and few people thought about the consequences that could 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 Taganay trees for felling. forest land. 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 workers from 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 leadership decides to create a national park on the territory of the Zlatoust timber processing plant. And in early March 1991, the Taganay State Natural National Park was formed.

general information

Taganay is a huge stone chain with a length of more than 20 kilometers and consisting of ridges called the Big, Small and Middle Taganay Mountains.

The height of one of the ridges is represented by: Responsive Ridge, Dvuglavaya Sopka, Far Taganay and Kruglitsa. The other is the Sabbat and Mont Blanc. The average ridge is only 960 meters high. The closest to the city of Zlatoust is the Small Range, about 8 kilometers long.

There are many delightful places in the park that attract visitors from different parts of the country. Here are unusual stone statues, large mountain ranges, stone rivers, ancient mines, mountain tundra, kurumniks, relict forests, many mountain rivers, huge mountain ranges. At the entrance to the park, you can see the peaks of Baranyi foreheads and Feathers of the two-headed hill, the height of which is more than a kilometer.

At the foot of the hill there is a spring called the White Key. Surprisingly clear and soft-tasting water remains 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 holy.

The next attraction of the park is the peak with the name Otkliknoy ridge, the height of which is more than 1000 meters. With loud sounds, a many-voiced deafening echo is heard next to him. If you look at it from a certain side, it looks like an ancient foot-and-mouth disease, an elongated crest or a flying sea ​​wave.

Several stone cliffs, about 40 meters high, located at a short distance from each other, are called the Three Brothers. This stone statue is located between Kruglitsa and Far Taganay. If you look at them from a distance, you get the feeling that these mighty brothers are descending together from the top.

Along the trail covered with quartz sand, from the Otkliknoy ridge through the Valley of Fairy Tales, you can get to Mount Kruglitsa. The Valley of Fairy Tales is a small area where a stunted undergrowth forest grows, surrounded by intricate quartzite sculptures. Each stone looks like wondrous animals or characters from fairy tales.

Far Taganay

This mountain is the most severe. The winds are constantly blowing here, there is nowhere to hide from the burning rays scorching sun, but nevertheless the area looks quite hospitable. In the early morning, when thick fog descends into the valleys, it is sunny on this hill, golden rays brown the already bright lingonberries and gild the tops of the rocky mountains. Thirty-degree heat at the foot of Mount Taganay can abruptly change when climbing up with freezing cold. Strong gusts of wind sometimes exceed the speed of 40 meters per second.

When you go up and down the mountain in June or August, you can see four seasons at once for an hour. The nature on Taganay during the August winter is very beautiful. Trees, grass and rocks are adorned with frosted lace. Thick wires are covered with a crust of ice and sag, almost touching the ground. A strong wind tears off pieces of ice from them and scatters them across the snow-white tundra. Going down half a kilometer, you can see the 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 on Dalniy Taganai in 1932, which lasted 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 eight kilometers from Zlatoust. Here is located Big Taganay, consisting of three peaks: Dvuhklavaya Sopka, Otkliknogo Ridge and Kruglitsa.

Middle Taganay

Eight kilometers from the border of the Taganay Park between the Small and the Big is the Middle Taganay. Its length is approximately two and a half kilometers, it has three slightly prominent hills and consists of quartzite minerals. On the tops there are remnants having different shapes. The slopes of the hills of Mount Taganay are covered with placers of kurumnik, juniper, larch, low spruce, birch, and fir.

Small Taganay

mountain range Taganaya with east side called Small Taganay. It is located just three kilometers from the cordon of the Taganay Park and stretches for as much as eleven kilometers from the southwest to the northeast. Rocky ridges are located on the northern and southern parts ridge, the western slopes are covered with kurumniks. In the central part there is an alpine plateau, on which spruces and birches grow. The upper third of the ridge is occupied by mountain meadows covered with dense vegetation. The entire mountainous Taganay massif is visible from the peaks of the Small Taganay.

Mount Kruglitsa

This is the most high point 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 an immaculate flat surface. On a cloudless day, when the sun shines 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 explained by the rounded shape of the stones, as well as closely spaced underground waters (the foot of the mountain is located in a swamp). The stones, heated by the sun's rays, lose moisture, which is stored in crevasses, 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 surely come true.

Unusual Taganay rivers

Stone rivers are an amazing natural formation, which is a heap of elongated rocky fragments of enormous size, stretching for hundreds of kilometers. Placers are called by the inhabitants of those places.

One of the legends of the formation of these rivers says that the cause was a glacier that came down from the Taganay mountains and contributed to the destruction of rocks. Large blocks under the influence of gravity due to the collapse of the mountain top gradually shifted along the slopes of the ridges, forming rivers of stone. Between the ridges of the Sredny and Bolshoi Taganay is the largest of them. The Bolshaya Kamennaya River is about six kilometers wide, and in some places its width ranges from 20 to 700 m. Blocks of rounded stone and weighing about 10 tons are located along its entire length. These blocks lie about five meters deep, and there are about 300 pieces per 100 square meters. From the vegetation in this place there is a lichen and rare spruce, whose age is several hundred years. As part of the blocks, aventurine is one of the varieties of quartzite.

Placers of stone blocks from colored aventurine, which are located near Itzyl and Dalny Taganay, are called the Kurumnaya River. Pine trees of a bizarre shape, growing near the placers, beautifully frame multi-colored stones.

Mount Pencil

In the South Urals of the Kusinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, on the territory of the Arshinsky reserve, 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 black rock of which the Pencil is made is called israndite. This is one of the rarest and very ancient stones of our planet. Its composition is similar to the composition of the earth's mantle and does not contain organic matter. Many residents of the Urals do not even suspect that they live near an amazing natural monument, although scientists have published data about it in the press for a long time.

Mount Mont Blanc

The middle and small mountains Taganay in the Urals are connected by a watershed isthmus, on which the top of Mont Blanc is located. From the city of Zlatoust to it fifteen kilometers. The height of the mountain is 1025 meters. It got its name in honor of the highest mountain clusters Western Europe located in the Western Alps. A wonderful view of the Taganay Mountains opens from the top of Mont Blanc, it is from here that the main peaks of Taganay are available for viewing.

Deep into history

This area has ancient history and many interesting facts. For example,

1. Information about the oldest ranges in the world varies, but many official sources confirm that this is Ural mountains.
2. Since the 11th century, the Ural Mountains in Russia have been called the Earth Belt or the Big Stone. In the Middle Ages, they began to be called the Urals on maps.
3. The modern lands of the Southern Urals were originally called, in a word, the Urals.
4. Among the Old Believers, the Taganay forests in the eighteenth - nineteenth century were very popular. There also lived the elder Zosimus, who was known as a saint. Popular rumor says that a prayer read at his grave, located on Taganay, works unprecedented miracles and heals from ailments.
5. The schismatics performed their secret rites in the area of ​​stone remains, called the Three Brothers. It was one of the favorite places of the Old Believers.
6. The Urals began to "sink" about five hundred million years ago. As a result, there was a decrease in the level of elevations.
7. Mount Taganay finally took shape twenty-five million years ago.

• It turns out that in Canada there are Mountain peaks, which are approximately the same age as Mount Pencil.
• The water at the top of Mount Kruglitsa 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 Key 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. And others even came into contact with them and fell into another time. True or fiction, everyone decides for himself. But, of course, Taganay is shrouded in mysticism.

Tourist routes

The Ural Mountains Taganay attract a huge number of tourists and are part of the anomalous Ural zone. In the territory national park There are several roads:

• from the south-western side: Zlatoust - Magnitka - Aleksandrovka;
• from the south - Zlatoust - Miass.

Tourist trails are laid in the intermountain valleys and mountains by the travelers themselves. One of the most famous goes along the eastern slope of the Big Taganay. It is in these places that valuable natural complexes have been preserved that have not yet been touched by man:

• Three stone cliffs called the Three Brothers.
• Nicholas Maximilian mine.
• Responsive comb.
• The remains of the Devil's Gate on the top of Yurma Mountain.
• river Bolshaya Tesma and Bolshoi Kialim.
• Akhmatovsky mine.
• Sopka Three Sisters, Mica Hill and several remains without a name, located near the Two-headed Sopka, together forming the so-called Mitkiny Rocks.

Snow cover in the Southern Urals lasts from 160 to 190 days. The maximum air temperature is +38 degrees, and the minimum is -50.

The Taganay mountain range is one of the unique corners of nature, located on the territory of the Southern Urals.

Taganay is a mountain range located in the west of the Chelyabinsk region. It occupies part of the Taganay National Park. This is a magnificent creation of nature, beauty embodied in stone.

Name history

Translated from the Bashkir Taganay means "Moon Stand". And this is very similar to the truth - on a clear night, you can observe how the Moon seems to “sit” on one of the peaks. The locals know a lot beautiful legends about your land. They are happy to tell them to tourists.

For example, about the battle between the Svarog brothers and the Div, after which the "divy 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 a people lives in the bowels of the mountain, which has been hiding from people for thousands of years.

Mount Taganay - characteristics

Taganay - mountains that surprisingly combine bald remnants on the peaks with granite rocks located in the middle of a centuries-old forest, and picturesque river channels. Mount Taganay is the common name for three ranges. Their total length is more than 20 kilometers. Locals call them Small, Medium and Big Taganay.

Big Taganay consists of several peaks. These are the Responsive Ridge, Dvuhlovaya Sopka, Kruglitsa and Dalniy. The highest of them is Mount Kruglitsa (Taganai). She rose to 1178 m above sea level. Kruglitsa has a round shape, probably from it the name came. Indigenous people call it the "Bashkir hat". It really resembles a cone-shaped Turkic headdress in outline. According to the height of Kruglitsa, it is considered that the height of Mount Taganay is 1178 meters.

The upper sections of Taganay are formed by quartzites. A feature 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 Taganay ridges are distinguished by slope steepness of 10-15° at the base, 15-25° in the middle and 25-35° at the top. As a rule, peaks are inaccessible. They impress everyone who comes to see Taganay. The mountains amaze with their grandeur and beauty. Of particular note is the luxurious Responsive Comb.

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 Tesma.

natural features

On this earth, two climatic zones are distinguished: one of them is located on the peaks. It consists of subalpine forests and meadows, and the second - in the valleys and on the lower slopes of the mountains.

Various natural zones that are connected in Taganay give this region a special identity. The northern part of the ranges is covered with spruce-fir forests of the middle taiga. On the eastern slopes there are taiga forests, in which larches, birches, and larches grow. In addition, there are areas covered with 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, oriental species, Central Siberian flora. Arctic plants descend along the highlands far to the south, and steppe vegetation tends 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 3.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded.

Mysteries of Taganay

On sunny and hot days, many tourists, as well as local residents, 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 in the air ascending currents, the effect of the mobility of the mountain range is created.

Mount Taganay is part of the Ural zone, which is considered anomalous. Here you can often meet expeditions of ufologists, local residents manage to see traces of the Bigfoot, tourists talk about encounters with ghosts.

The weather conditions on Taganay are amazing. In a matter of minutes, they can change drastically. During the day, the temperature often fluctuates within ten degrees. Local residents will not be surprised by the snow that fell in June. Tourists can experience all seasons in one day - from hot summer to harsh and windy winter. Another feature is strong winds, their speed sometimes reaches 50 m per second.

An amazing picture of the Southern Urals opens up from the Taganay mountains. Beauty and features natural complex captivate and surprise. Even in bad weather, the peaks of Taganay, shrouded in a veil of fog, amaze with grandeur. Tourists from different regions of the country seek these places. Here are traditional routes for tourists.

national park

This unique park was established in March 1991. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that a variety of animals live in a relatively small area and plants grow from different geographical zones.

national park Taganay is full of secrets and mysteries. The mountain range is surrounded by dense forest - the best place for the dwelling of various evil spirits. Locals say that the caves of the ridge are inhabited by amazing creatures, and Mount Kruglitsa is a point of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence - Roerich himself wrote about this.

Nature has generously endowed Taganay Park with its amazing creations. In the relict forest, among the extraordinary, stone rivers flow, petrified people live, and the water from the springs is considered alive. All this splendor fascinates even an experienced traveler.

The mountains of Taganay will submit even unprepared tourist. When going hiking, wear comfortable shoes and do not forget tick and mosquito repellent. During the rainy season, travelers are unlikely to be able to do without rubber boots.

stone river

In this array you can see unique sights. Taganay became famous throughout the world for its amazing natural formation, which is a uniform heap of huge rocky debris. The length of the stone river Taganay exceeds six kilometers, and its width reaches 200 meters.

The stone river "flows" between the mountain Dvuhklavaya sopka and the Sredny Taganay ridge. Its origin has not yet been determined. There is a version that the stone river was formed by a glacier that came down from the Taganay mountains.

Anomalous zone

In the Taganay forestry, which was built at the foot of the mountain, V.N. Efimova, an employee of the environmental department, confirmed the rumors about the anomalous nature of these places.

As it turned out, in the mountains - on the Urenga Ridge - ball lightning appears quite often, more often than other places. Not uncommon in the village of Veselovka. These objects behave rather strangely - they hit the same places, as if consciously winding while moving. According to experts, there are “lightning nests” in their classic form, with reduced soil resistance. This indicates either large deposits of metal, or sources of water located underground.

mysterious swamp

Anomalous Taganay is represented even more mysterious place- Big It is located between the tip of Small Taganay in the north and the southern foothills of Itsyl. The swamp occupies an area of ​​36 sq. kilometers and is located in a giant depression tectonic origin. It resembles an oval bowl with a long axis.

In this area, the human psyche changes - orientation is disturbed, because of this even experienced foresters can get lost here. Travelers here see all sorts of amazing things that seem so real that they are taken at face value.

Most likely, this is 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 a person.

Those who wish to wander through the swampy swamps expose themselves to intoxication and sometimes serious poisoning. This state contributes to meetings with "flying saucers", humanoids, translucent substances, kikimors.

There are also sound mirages. Various forest noises can be heard - the rustling of leaves, as if approaching, close steps. In fact, no one will be around.

Tourists often stop at Otkliknoe ridge. It received this name for its comb-shaped outlines and the loud, multiply amplifying echo that occurs due to the reflection of sound from each vertical rock. If you look at the crest from afar, then it resembles a stegosaurus lizard, a sea wave, and an elongated crest.

A tectonic fault passes in the northeast of the ridge. In 2002, tourists noted several air turbulences over Taganay in the form of dark pillars. Later meteorological services confirmed this information. The tornado appeared when a cold front passed through Taganay. It consisted of three independent whirlwinds, which joined together.

sand slides

If you walk along the path leading to Kruglitsa, you can get into the "Valley of Fairy Tales" - Sand Hills. This is an unusually beautiful area - a saddle of a stunted one. Here you can see glades with numerous original remnants.

The valley is located in a zone of intense tectonic movements of the past. Between the rocks quite often there is a "walking" fog. Moreover, he also “sings” when he gets into stone cracks and rubs against grains of various strengths. There are a lot of spruces without tops here - they suffered from autumn and winter windfalls.

Batteries run out very quickly in the clearing, as a result, all electronic devices (video cameras, watches, cameras) refuse to work. Photographs, as a rule, are illuminated, and people see, for example, flying luminous balls.

The northern part of Kruglitsa is very attractive for ufologists. This is a perfectly 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. Some symbolic letters and signs are laid out of stones there. Esotericists, occultists, psychics are drawn here, like a magnet. Judging by the ribbons hung in this place, which symbolize the wishes made, and the sacred signs inscribed on the stones, the Roerichs regularly visit here. Pilgrims are sure that such attention is paid to the peak because of the presence of a special positive energy.

weather station

The Taganay Gora weather station 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, and precipitation. All information was transmitted by radio to the Administration 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 a rescue service team are based in it.

“Stone rivers of immeasurable depth flow, of which solid drops form huge blocks” - this is how P. P. Anosov poetically described this natural phenomenon. Stone rivers (locally called placers) are not uncommon in Taganay, Urenga, and other ranges of the Southern Urals. They are linearly elongated accumulations of stone blocks and rubble that have moved from the mountain slopes to intermountain valleys. From the top of the mountains, placers really resemble real rivers. Their formation dates back to the last glaciation. At that time, glaciers in the Southern Urals covered only the tops of the ridges, the height of which was close to the heights of the modern Alps (up to 4800 m). In this zone, due to physical weathering, intensive destruction of rocks took place. The peaks broke up into large blocks, which, under the influence of gravity, slowly shifted along the slopes of the ridges, forming by the present day large placers, the largest of which on Taganay - BIG STONE RIVER - stretches for 5-6 km., reaching a width of 20 to 250 and even up to 700 meters.
Imagine that this entire area is occupied by large rounded blocks of quartzites, including aventurine, with a volume of 0.2-30 cubic meters (on average 3-4 cubic meters) and a weight of 9-10 tons. For 100 sq. meters of placers there are up to 300 separate blocks, and in depth they lie no less than 4-6 meters, i.e., in 3-4 layers. Unlike kurumniks, which to this day are slowly moving along the slopes of the mountains, the Bolshaya Kamennaya River is practically motionless today, because it lies on the surface with a slope of only 2.5 °.
Numerous mountain springs are often hidden under the "channel" of ancient stone streams, the muffled murmur of which can be heard in different places large scatterings.
As the well-known local historian of the city of Zlatoust, Alexander Veniaminovich Kozlov, writes, he climbed the entire Stone River up and down: The total area of ​​the Bolshaya Stone River is about 90 hectares. In this territory, only on the surface there are more than 2.5 million boulders with a volume of 1-2 cubic meters. m each, and in total there can be up to 8-9 million, given that in placers they lie in three to four layers. For comparison: the construction of the famous Egyptian pyramid Cheops went 2.3 million blocks of limestone with a volume of about a cubic meter each. From this it turns out that only in one Big Stone River in a "disassembled" form are 3-4 pyramids of Cheops. These are wonderful places we decided to visit. To see for yourself, well, to show you.
1.Welcome to the fairy tale.

2. Getting lost in the Taganay National Park is getting harder and harder, but people manage to do it.

3. transparent water of the Tesma river.


4. Chipmunks.


5. As in every fairy tale, ours has the same thing - a princess.

6. Knight and queen in search of mushrooms)))

7. now the princess has joined them.

8. Rejuvenating rose hips.


9. And here is the mountain ash at the first stone stream, a tributary of the Stone River.


10. his majesty fly agaric.

11. Together we strain our eyesight and see a mythical dragon that lies on the ground with its head towards us. This is the Responsive comb, there is even a legend about it: Many years ago, a fierce beast seemed to live in the cave of the Taganay ridge. He grabbed indiscriminately foot and horsemen and devoured them. Once a holy hermit, perhaps the same Zosimos, was walking, he saw a beast crawling out of a cave, and turned to God with a prayer for the destruction of the monster. The Lord heeded the prayer and killed the beast with a stone block, and left his voice in the mountains as a memento, “great and terrible,” add literate storytellers of some kind of schismatic sense.


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13. snack on the Stone River, stones heated in the sun, murmur of water and beauty around!!!


14. Responsive and Big Stone River

15. and here there is a place for a miracle

16.How???

17. here is the craving for life !!!

18. Well, here, a whole pine tree has grown, without a gram of soil on the stones. Isn't it a miracle!?

19. And the Stone River, know yourself "runs" further ......


20. framed by the Taganay mountains. View from the Stone River to the Middle Taganay.

21. A cloud ran up and we were going home.

22. Vooon to that tower, not far from it, are our mansions))))

23. on the road.

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25. And in parting, Taganay gave us amazing beauty - sunset !!!

26. Small Taganay (Shabash).


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28. Mind-blowing)))

Well, this cloud certainly flew to spend the night on Taganay ...... Do you remember how Lermontov's?

A golden cloud spent the night
On the chest of a giant cliff;
She left early in the morning,
Playing merrily across the azure;

But there was a wet mark in the wrinkle
Old cliff. Alone
He stands deep in thought
And he weeps softly in the desert.


See you in the South Urals.

There is such a miracle of nature in the Chelyabinsk region as the Stone River: an amazing and impressive natural formation. Big Stone River Taganay is a natural monument. A formation similar to it in size and beauty of stones is known only in India and nowhere else on the globe.

A stone river is a uniform heap of huge rocky debris that stretches for many hundreds of meters and looks very much like a river.

The Bolshaya Kamennaya River is located between the Bolshoy and Sredny Taganay ridges and stretches from northeast to southwest for about 6 km, reaching a width of 20 to 270 m. The Stone River consists of large blocks up to 30 m³ (but on average 3 -4 m³). For 100 sq. meters, there are up to 300 boulders, they lie no less than 4-6 m deep, i.e. in 3-4 layers. There is no vegetation, except for lichens, here. Nothing can grow through a stone heap.

Numerous mountain streams are often buried under the "channel" of ancient stone streams.

Stone rivers consist mainly of quartzites, and on Taganay - of their variety - aventurine.

The origin of stone rivers has not been fully studied, there are versions that the Bolshaya Kamennaya was formed by a glacier during the descent from the Taganay mountains.

Many mistakenly call the stone river kurumnik. Unlike the kurums, which continue to slowly slide down even today, the Bolshaya Kamennaya River is currently practically motionless, and the slope here does not exceed 2.5 °.

Coordinates the beginning of the stone river on the hiking trail:
55°14'44.58"C
59°46’24.27″E
Then the trail crosses a stone channel

Every tourist is obliged to visit this miracle of nature. The stone river on Taganay is also available for a family trip. Getting there is easy.
In the north of Zlatoust, find the village. Pushkinsky (the road to the village of Magnitogorsk begins from it.
After 300 m., there will be a bow cross on the left, and the sign "Taganay National Park" on the right. Here in the house with the inscription "Registration of tourists" you need to check in the magazine. There are information boards at the entrance to the park.
The “lower” path leads to the Stone River itself, the one that crosses the Big Band along the lower bridge. You can see the route in detail on the stands or ask the park employee.