Palkin stone tents. Yekaterinburg

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Stone tents ... Wikipedia

Outcrops of Paleozoic granites of the Shabrovsky massif on the surface near the village. B. Sedelnikovo. Memory nature within the territory, adm. subordinate Ekat. Rocks similar to the Shartashsky kams. tents stretch from south to north on both sides of the river. Aramilki, right. inflow r ... Yekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

Memory nature, natural exposure of granites of the Shartash granite massif near the south. h. shores of the lake Shartash B. Outcrops of granites on the surface form kam. wall in the form of mattress-like pieces stacked on top of each other. The rocks are elongated in ... ... Yekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

Memory nature, are located on the west. shore of the lake Shartash M. and represent exits to the surface of granite rocks in the form of slabs of the Shartash granite massif. High 8 10 m, sq. up to 200 sq. m, h. above sea level 276 m. Epiphany ... Yekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

Tents I, II- places of ancient production, settlement, sanctuary. Ekat., Zheleznodorozhny district, lev. bank of the river Iset. Memory located on the island of Kamennye Palatki, surrounded by swamps, 2 km to the N. S. Z. from the village. Palkino. Research app. h. the island is two ... ... Ural Historical Encyclopedia

Coordinates: 42°33′45″ s. sh. 77°07′27″ W  / 42.5625° N sh. 77.124167° W etc. ... Wikipedia

On the territory of Greater Ekat. and its environs. known to St. 190 archaeol. mem. Their discovery of the first was of a random nature: during the railway. at st. Gat, the Kalmatsky Ford burial ground was discovered, near the station. Palkino destroyed the Right-Bank Palkinsky sites, ... ... Yekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

First trip

In April 2007, we went to another very interesting place, which can be easily reached by bus.
This place is called Shartash Stone Tents.
Next to them, there is Shartashsky Park, a favorite vacation spot for the townspeople.
It was very noticeable, because the scale of vandalism struck me with its scope and plunged me into despondency...

According to modern archaeological data on the shores of Lake Shartash
there were up to 10 settlements and sites of ancient man, the earliest of which date back to the 3rd millennium BC and even earlier periods. Moreover, these settlements possessed elements of an ancient religious cult and commodity production.

The conditional center, sacrificial place and "metallurgical base" of these ancient settlements was a ridge of huge granite boulders, which today is called the Shartash stone tents.

Animal bones, iron slags, pieces of sheet copper, fragments of clay coating of furnaces, bronze figurines, shards of dishes were found here in large quantities ... And it is no coincidence that a special commission at the UN listed this place, along with Lake Baikal, Niagara Falls, in the list of the most remarkable objects of the planet.
Back in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, local historians from the Urals believed that the remnants called "Stone tents" were the creation of human hands. Alexander Filimonov, the author of the collection of articles “Russian Gates”, dedicated to the iconic places of Yekaterinburg, tells the legend that the heap of stones on the shores of the Shartash Lake is nothing more than “a sanctuary built hundreds of years ago by the Atlantean giants.” At the heart of this legend, according to him, lies the spatial arrangement of the rocky remnants. They are "stretched" exactly along the west-east axis. This is how all Christian churches are oriented today, a clear orientation to the cardinal points also characterizes the sanctuaries of our people. Rocks Stone tents, by analogy with the temple complex, are a composition of three clusters of stone slabs: a vestibule (the place where the incoming one prepares to meet the deity), the place where believers indulge in prayers and meditations, and the place where the deity himself resides.
Climbing the westernmost mountain of Stone Tents is possible only through a deep crevice.

Such a structure of the westernmost tip of the Stone Tents, as if on purpose, is intended to designate the entrance to the sanctuary as a kind of special space - leaving the crevice upward, you seem to cross an invisible line.
Finally, from the east, the complex is closed by a small hill, which is crowned with a flat stone three meters long.

The space between it and the central part of the complex is considered by Yekaterinburg esotericists to be a platform on which the ancients performed ritual actions. According to them, the stone crowning the eastern heap of plates is one of the most powerful energy places in the area. The flows of invisible energy attracted by the stone can be felt even by a person with the most ordinary extrasensory abilities...

Despite all the historical value, the place looks just creepy. I won’t even talk about modern rock art, it can be found even in very remote places, let alone a city park.
Garbage on your feet everywhere, when you look at all this, you start to hate people ...

I was struck, of course, by the presence of such a monument right in the city. Amazing building. As for its origin, I personally consider it to be an artificially constructed structure, most likely ritual. In appearance, it is somewhat similar to the same Devil's Settlement, only smaller.

As for energy, I can say for sure that there is something. But it seems to affect people differently. I had an irresistible desire to get away from this place, it inspired fear and anxiety in me. With Julia and Max, everything was exactly the opposite. They smeared this stone like honey. They all wanted to climb it, as if something was drawing them to this sacrificial stone.
Mystic, and only.

Too bad this stone can't protect itself from vandals painting on it...

Having examined the stone tents, we went to the park, in the direction of the lake.
The park did not impress me, it was dirty and unkempt.
But despite this, we managed to take some interesting photos.

We reached Lake Shartash, it was very windy there, but beautiful.
A bit chilled, we turned back.

trip two

Since I was not very satisfied with the quality of the photos I took last time, we decided to go to Kamennye Palatki again today and did not regret it.

This is a view of Palatki from the street.
The weather was sunny, although very cold.
The mood, this time, was much better, probably because we knew where we were going :)

And this is the entrance to the sanctuary

This is the view from the park
In addition to taking pictures, we really wanted to find a place for sacrifices (an altar), which, according to Yulia, she had seen there before.
At first we thought that the altar was on a flat stone located on the easternmost side of the complex.

Then Julia and Max climbed to the top of one of the rocks to check. There was also nothing there.

And finally, just before leaving, we accidentally discovered a sacrificial stone, with a bowl for sacrifices.

They say it's a place of power. Everything is possible, because after that Max ran like clockwork for 30 minutes :)

There we saw rock inscriptions that did not belong to our generation.

Despite health problems, I still went to Nizhny Tagil. There will be a separate story about this trip, and now I will show you a no less beautiful and remarkable place - the natural rock complex "Stone tents" in the Shartash forest park of the city of Yekaterinburg.
The Shartash forest park itself is huge. It borders Lake Shartash from south to northeast and is interrupted by the village of Shartashsky. In summer, crowds of vacationers flock here to swim in the lake or have a picnic in the fresh air. In winter, the forest park is a favorite place for skiers.

Well, I was primarily interested in "Stone tents" - a beautiful example of the Ural nature, an interesting geological monument. I got to the "tents" on the 15th tram from the city center. There are many other ways to get to these places, but so far I have not studied the route transport of Yekaterinburg very well, so I can’t suggest anything else.

The rocks amazed me with their beauty. Of course, I remembered, but "Tents" are not so large-scale and epic. In fact, these are several small bizarre rocks near the tram stop. They are very easy to spot from Vysotsky Street and adjacent Syromolotva Street. The entrance to the forest park is marked with a kind of portal "Amulet", symbolizing the "Stone tents".

1. The place of disembarkation from the tram is the stop "Stone tents" in the residential area of ​​reinforced concrete products, named after the local factory of reinforced concrete products.
In the foreground is the Rossiya sports and recreation complex.

2. Entrance portal to the Shartash forest park.

4. You can go around the rocks along walking paths, but there is also a straight path with steps.

5. Of course, the first thing I wanted to do was get closer to the stone beauty.

6. There was something to admire here.

7. An elegant combination of snow-covered stone, green-orange pines and, of course, the blue sky. A place where it is beautiful also in winter.

8. Two birch trees somehow clung to the rock.

9. Frames from such angles are even more reminiscent of Pillars.

10. The same desperate birches.

12. Climbing up, I photograph the rocks from the back. You can see the rock art of tourists.

13. I go down from the hill towards the lake.

15. Summer cottages are visible.

16. I got to the garden plots under the power line.

17. Near the plots there is a slope from which it is convenient to ski or snowscooter.

The archaeological monument "Palkinskie stone tents" is located two kilometers northeast of the village of Palkino and is an island on the Iset River, surrounded on three sides by a swamp and only on one side overlooking the riverbed. From the parking lot on ECADA, a flooring of tree trunks was made along the swamp, which is called a gat.

According to archaeologists, during the Neolithic and early Bronze Ages, it was a full-fledged island on the Iset River, surrounded on all sides by water. In those days, Iset was wider and more full-flowing. Apparently, primitive people chose it for housing, because it was convenient to defend themselves from enemies, build dwellings, fish and make tools on it.

Archaeological work on the island has been going on for more than half a century. It houses the base camp of the Iset archaeological expedition, as evidenced by a tablet on a pine tree. Unfortunately, at present, work on the study of the site of an ancient man has been discontinued due to lack of funding.

Scientists believe that there was an ancient settlement in this place, in which in the VI-V millennium BC. there lived people engaged in hunting and fishing, as evidenced by the finds of the remains of dwellings, tools, spearheads, stone weights for nets and images of prey.

The dwellings of these people, slightly recessed into the ground, were frame-pillar structures with a log roof and floor. In the interior, natural stone layers and boulders were used for the construction of beds and "tables". Workshops for the manufacture of stone tools were found on the territory of the monument: grinding plates, accumulations of pieces of rock, anvils, blanks of tools. The inhabitants of the village used over 50 different rocks and minerals to make tools, which were found within a radius of about 70 km. This fact speaks of the excellent knowledge of the region's natural resources by the population.

The cultural layer is richly saturated with artifacts and contains a large number of stone fragments, blanks of stone tools and flakes, indicating that the tools were made on the spot, directly near the settlements.

Our excursion

Every year at the beginning of September, our class goes out into nature to celebrate the class's birthday. At the holiday, we play, arrange contests, congratulate summer birthdays, communicate, exchange impressions of summer holidays. This year we moved from elementary school to secondary school, we began subject education, and, at the suggestion of the history teacher Zoya Vasilyevna Rakultseva, today we decided to combine our holiday with an interesting lesson visiting our ancestors.

Zoya Vasilievna suggested visiting the site of an ancient man near Palkino. My parents rented a bus, which, on the weekend of September 14, 2013, took us from the school to the parking lot on ECAD in about 40 minutes. The road distance was 30 km.

From the parking lot, along the path and along the gat through the swamp, we went directly to the base camp of the Iset archaeological expedition. It is located about five hundred meters from the car park. On a spacious glade with a fire pit, tables and benches, you can comfortably sit down, have a snack, warm yourself by the fire. Here we met our peers from another school.

After a short break, we went on an excursion led by Tatyana Vladimirovna Balasheva, a teacher of history at gymnasium No. 130. She knows this monument very well, so our teacher, having met her here on an excursion with her class, asked to conduct an excursion for us. First of all, we were taken to the rock painting "Running Hunter", which was made in ocher and notched on the wall of one of the stone tents. The drawing is difficult to see, but, according to the instructions of the teacher, we were able to see it.

Then we were shown a smooth-hewn pebble with a hole from the teacher's collection, we were asked to guess what function it performed in an ancient person. After listing all sorts of ways to use it, in the end we guessed that it served as a sinker for a fishing net.

Then, at another stone tent, we saw a relief in the form of a flying seagull on a vertical stone, but the teacher said that this was a symbolic image of the horns of an elk, the main object of hunting for the then man.

A little lower on a flat stone, a deep trace of an elk (hoof) is carved.

According to scientists, between these two images, the carcass of the animal was cut, and the notches acted as a spell to appease the soul of the killed animal. So that on the next hunt the hunters will again be lucky with their prey. This is how religion was born, that is, the mystical perception of real events. A little to the side, we were shown a stone statue of an elk's head.

Archaeologists suggest that initially the stone, surprisingly resembling the head of this animal, was crowned with stone horns. Then we saw a man-made depression in a flat stone - metal products were smelted here.

A little further we were shown a sawn and partly split boulder, from which stone tools were made. It was an ancient quarry.
Below the slope there was a burial ground, and if you go down even lower and walk about three hundred meters, you can reach the swampy bank of the Iset River. Scientists believe that in ancient times the river approached the very tents.

The exact coordinates of the place: latitude: 56°53’26.38″N (56.89066), longitude: 60°24’59.22″E (60.41645). The tour took about five hours, including the way there and back. Thus, we visited the site of a primitive man, saw many amazing things that we could even touch with our hands. We not only learned a lot of new things from the life of our ancestors, but also were able to touch it!

The accessibility of this monument and the impressive visibility of its exhibits makes it possible to use it for school excursions and makes it convenient for visiting organized groups of tourists and guests of our city.

In the vicinity of the village of Palkino, located almost within the city limits of the city of Yekaterinburg, there are many stone rocks - remnants that are excellent for weekend hikes both in summer and in winter.

At the same time, perhaps the most accessible for both autotourists and hikers were stone remains, stone tents located on the banks of the Iset River, not far from EKADA, practically at the intersection of EKADA and the road leading to the village of Palkino.

Due to their location, the stone remains are surrounded by a swamp from almost all sides; in a number of sources, stone tents are called a stone island. In the winter season, you can get to them without any problems - along the trodden path, in the summer, especially after the rains, rubber boots will be needed for the passage.

Stone remnants appear before us in the form of three small stone ridges, reaching no more than 40 meters in length (the longest). The height of the rock remains is also small - no more than four meters. The rocks are easily accessible, you can get to the top from almost any direction.

On a rocky ridge that looks like a stone wall, you can see a rock drawing of an ancient person, looking like a rhombus, with a segment going up - a tail. It is believed that this drawing was applied to the rock in the third millennium BC.

Archaeological excavations have been carried out on the territory of the stone island since 1977. Numerous devices for catching fish, stone tools (arrowheads, knives, axes), numerous household items were found.

How to get to Stone tents (stone island), GPS coordinates

To travel by car: we leave for the EKAD, it is possible from the side of the Moskovsky tract or from the side of the Serov tract. Then we drive towards the crossroads to Palkino station and turn to the Stone tents.

You can easily get to the rocks without a car. To do this, by train (Kuzinskoye or Druzhininskoye direction) you need to get to Palkino station. Walk about two kilometers along the forest road, focusing on the Montazhnik garden, walk along the garden, exit onto the bypass road of the Yekaterinburg Ring Road.

When crossing the EKAD, be careful - the route is loaded, there is a constant rather dense flow of cars on it in both directions. Not far from the intersection there are signs "Pedestrian crossing", it is better to walk to them and only there cross the EKAD.

The auto route is suitable for standard cars, the distance from the city center is no more than 30 km.