Khakassia is the southern region of Siberia, primarily popular as a tourist route due to its natural features. Traveling around the republic with a good company and a camera is a guarantee of vivid impressions for a long time. The ecological component also does not fail, so that guests will receive a powerful boost of energy and breathe fresh air.
However, the trip will not be limited to just inspecting reserves, dens, lakes and caves. Lovers of other destinations will not be bored either. There are ancient fortresses in Khakassia, iconic cathedrals, modern bridges. They allow locals and visitors to feel involved in the history of the entire country: in almost any subject of the Russian Federation you can find a similar set of attractions.
The most interesting and beautiful places. Photos with names and descriptions of the main attractions
Guide - what to see and where to go? Excursions and routes. List of the best objects of tourism and active recreation!
Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP
Construction began in 1963 and lasted until the 2000s. In 2014, a major accident occurred at the hydroelectric power station, the consequences of which have already been eliminated. Stands on the Yenisei. The height of the dam is more than two hundred and forty meters, its length is about a thousand and a half. The dam forms the reservoir of the same name. It offers an incredibly breathtaking view of the surroundings.
Ulug Khurtuyakh Tas
Initially, a stone statue, three meters high, was discovered next to the Ankhak Hall. However, in 1954 he was forced to be taken to the local museum of local lore, as there was a danger of being destroyed by vandals. The statue carved out of stone dates from the end of the 3rd - the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. The pagans worshiped this female figure, and the people developed many legends associated with her.
Khakassky reserve
Opened in 1999. Covers an area of \u200b\u200bmore than two hundred and sixty thousand hectares. It is divided into nine clusters according to the type of terrain and according to the historical component: "Underwater bogs", "Zaimka Lykovs", Oglakhty ", Lake Itkul", "Lake Shira", "Kamyzyakskaya steppe", "Small Abakan", "Lake Belyo", " Hol-Bogaz ". Thirty-five species of local flora and fauna are rare and are under special protection.
Shirinsky lakes
Several lakes located in the same area form resort area... Tourists from their own countries come here. Local silt mud is used for cosmetic purposes, as it is saturated with useful components. Lakes vary in size, water salinity and other factors. Other natural attractions are nearby - the Chests Mountains and the Tuimskiy Proval.
Big Salbyk Kurgan
Built around the 7th century BC. There is a thematic museum nearby. For the first time, full-scale excavations were carried out here in the middle of the last century. Later, the research continued and many artifacts were found: knives, clay utensils, inscriptions, millstones, etc. The height of the mound is over eleven meters. On its territory there are traces of earlier unscientific and careless excavations.
Chests
It is a natural monument spread over an area of \u200b\u200bmore than two thousand hectares. A museum-type nature reserve opened here in 2011. Some hills of the mountain range have their own names. Some areas have preserved the memory of the stay of ancient people here. This also applies to rock paintings and burial mounds, and the remains of household items found during excavations nearby.
Tuimsky failure
It was formed on the site of a mine that was closed in the 50s of the last century. There were problems with collapses even during the operation of the mine. The collapse at the top resulted in a depression. Now there is a lake with a diameter of two hundred meters. Its waters are bright blue and it is not yet clear what caused this. Equipped observation deck... The area attracts amateurs extreme species sports.
Kurgan Barsuchiy Log
Located near Abakan. Excavations were carried out in the early 2000s. It was possible to establish the time of its creation - the middle of the 1st millennium BC. Long before the appearance of the researchers, the mound was plundered, so it was not possible to find especially valuable artifacts either from a historical point of view, or from a material point of view. The building is made of stones, clay, earth and larch.
Kashkulak cave
It is located in the Shirinsky region in the Koshkulak mountain. Refers to karst. It has three tiers and three entrances. In some periods, the bottom of the cave is partially or completely flooded with water. The total length is about eight hundred meters. Scientific expeditions continue to be sent here. However, to a greater extent, this is a tourist site, and not a place of research. Tours are conducted by experienced guides on an ongoing basis.
Ancestor Trail (Shaman Trail)
It passes through Togyz-Az, a rocky massif, the name of which is translated as "Nine mouths". The beginning is a bridge over the White Yuis River. The path lies past steep cliffs, picturesque grottoes of overgrown slopes, natural arches, and bizarre mountains (for example, "Camel Mountains"). Some areas are difficult to pass, you have to try to get on your feet. The views from any point are picturesque.
Pandora's box cave
Opened in the early 70s of the last century. It is located in the Kuznetsk Alatau Upland on the left bank of the White Ius. The length is eleven kilometers. Although a rough map of the cave has been compiled, work is still underway to clarify details. There are many grottoes, landslides, small bodies of water and galleries inside. There are bats. The temperature varies, the average is within +5 ° С.
Ivanovskie lakes and glaciers
Amazing place that can be reached both independently and as part of excursion group... Several lakes with clear water vary in depth and diameter. They have only one thing in common - coverage near the coast. Here layers of ice lie even in hot weather. The unique spectacle forces tourists to travel impressive distances to see this incongruous combination.
Boyarskaya scribble
Opened in 1904. A monument of the Tagar culture, consisting of the Small and Large groups of hieroglyphs. Located on the left bank of the Yenisei. The researchers determined the time of the appearance of the scribble very conditionally: VII-III BC. At the same time, scientists note that there are later inscriptions here. As for the drawings, they depict everyday life, leisure, fictional paintings and more.
Museum-reserve "Kazanovka"
Created in 1996. It is located on the territory of the Askiz district. The total area exceeds eighteen thousand hectares. The place was chosen for a reason: the beauty of Khakassia and archaeological finds are part of the history of the region. The relief is changeable, the flora is diverse, and the fauna is very inferior to it in this respect. Natural monuments coexist with man-made antiquities throughout the territory.
Borodino cave
It has been a local natural monument since 1977. Located in the Bogradsky district. Belongs to the karst class. Its length exceeds one and a half thousand kilometers. Within the family of impressive-sized grottoes, there are bats. The study continues, as does the detailed mapping. You need to find a qualified guide for inspection.
Lake Marankul
Located in the Western Sayan. The height above sea level is more than one and a half kilometers. The water is very clean and its temperature never exceeds + 16 ° C. There is abundant vegetation around: from dwarf birches to fir trees. There are a lot of fish in the lake, and rare species... The area is inhabited by predators, for example, snow leopards, but they are few in number and rarely show up, mutually avoiding people.
Poltakovskiy open-air rock art museum
It was founded in 2003 and was independent until 2016, when it became a branch of Khurtuyakh tas. Located within the village of Poltakov. Museum exhibits - stone slabs exhibited under open air... They depict drawings from different periods, mostly very ancient without an exact date of application. They were found not far from here during excavations in the 80s of the last century.
Tuzuksu cave
They are found on the banks of the river of the same name. The entrance to the cave is not difficult to find, but in winter it is covered with snow. The total length is one and a half kilometers. There are several spacious halls connected by narrow passages. There are also small reservoirs, the water level in which changes depending on the season. Insect formations of value to researchers have been destroyed by tourists.
Fortress Chebaki
It is located on the top of Mount Sve-Takh on the right bank of the Black Iyus. It is one of the forty-five monuments of a similar type built in the district. It has two lines of defense - versatile walls. Their height decreases over time due to destruction and other reasons. Now it is one and a half meters. The location was not chosen by chance - the relief and natural features were used in the construction.
Safronovsky burial ground
Belongs to the Tagar culture. The age of the burial ground is about two and a half thousand years. It is located near the banks of the Es River. Consists of several mounds of different sizes. The position of the buried person in society during his lifetime determined the height and diameter of the burial place assigned to him after death. The stones placed side by side are distributed in the same way. They are carved with drawings.
Uytak mountain range
It is located in the Askiz district, nearby there is the Razdolnaya station. A feature of the area is the remains of fossilized plants, including trees. In the past, the county was considered a good place for rituals. The peoples inhabiting the territory worshiped the spirit of the mountains and arranged ceremonies for it. The relief here is multi-layered, which is why both near and from a distance the mountains seem indistinct and from this even more beautiful and unusual.
Lake Ulug-Kol
It is located in the Uybat steppe. Its area is over seven hundred hectares. The name translates as "Big Lake". Three rivers flow into it. Due to the complex of minerals that saturate the water, it tastes bitter and salty. On the northern coast, the area becomes swampy. The lake is covered with ice for several months a year. Particularly protected for its unique flora and fauna, especially for the breeding of the sandpiper.
Landscape park "Gardens of Dreams" in Abakan
Opened in 2007. All thirty gardens, forming a single system, have different themes and other features. The park is a symbiosis of man-made beauties (bridges, fountains, benches, etc.) and natural splendor ( cherry blossoms, sprawling juniper, bright flower beds, and so on). There are also corners with fauna representatives: from the smallest snails, to poultry or cats.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of Abakan
It was illuminated in 2005, at the same time it began to fully receive parishioners. It has seven domes of a deep dark color due to an alloy of nitrite-titanium and a five-tiered iconostasis. An imposing bell tower of twelve bells. Inside there are relics that are important for all Orthodox: a part of the Holy Cross, a stone from Mount Tabor, several icons painted by masters of different schools and different ages.
Bratsk bridge
Start of construction - 1999. Traffic on it was opened already in 2003. Crosses the Yenisei. It connects Khakassia, located on the left bank, and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, respectively, on the right. Became part of the federal highway. There are two lanes in each direction. Stops on the bridge are prohibited. The length exceeds three hundred and fifty meters.
Khakassia is called “the enchanted country”. The sights of the republic, located in the center of Asia, amaze with their diversity - these are national customs and cuisine, petroglyphs, stone statues, fortresses. Khakassia is also extraordinary beautiful nature - lakes, rivers, mountains, forests.
It is believed that people settled in this part of Asia 300 thousand years ago. Burial mounds and menhirs are an integral part of the steppe landscapes, archaeologists have discovered about 30 thousand pieces. Petroglyphs have been preserved on the rocks - drawings of spirits, animals, and magical objects.
The culture of the Khakas took shape under the influence of trade exchanges and wars with numerous neighbors.
300-400 years BC, the state of the Dinlins was formed in the region, then they were conquered by the Huns, who were replaced by the Kyrgyz Kaganate by the 6th century AD. Caravan routes connected Khakassia with Tibet, China, India, Mongolia, runic writing appeared already in the 7th century.
The kaganate fell under the pressure of the Mongol tribes in 1293, and new feudal possessions - uluses appeared on the lands of Khakassia only 400 years later. The entry of the region into Russia began with the construction of a prison in 1707. Khakassia officially became Russian land in 1727. Already 100 years later, 90 Russian settlements were created in Khakassia.
The abundance of minerals has led to economic development: mines are being opened, processing plants are being built. In the middle of the XIX century. the "gold rush" began, gold was mined at 127 mines. Local residents were engaged in cattle breeding, first of all, bred horses, and fur trade.
With the advent of Soviet power, schools appeared in the region, and industrialization was intensified. Khakass deposits of minerals are unique in their diversity and richness. Molybdenum, barite, coal, bentonite, facing stones, jade, gypsum, lead and zinc are mined from the bowels of the republic.
Cedar forests are another Khakass value. Reserves occupy almost 8% of the entire republican area. The tourist complex has great potential, because the region has a variety of climatic and natural zones: glacier-covered highlands, tundra, forest-steppe and steppe. Khakassia is a distinctive region with a peculiar culture that has absorbed and preserved the heritage of ancestors.
Capital
The history of the city of Abakan, located on the banks of the river of the same name, goes back centuries. The origin of the name "Abakan" is not exactly established, the legend connects the name of the river with the victory of the hero over the terrible bear, "Abakhan" is translated as "bear blood".
Khakassia - subject Russian Federation... Its capital is Abakan. The place near the river, surrounded by mountains, attracted the attention of the Iranian, Mongol, Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples who lived here 100-150 thousand years ago. Under Mount Samokhval, near the mouth of the Abakan River, archaeologists have found the remains of a Hun fortress. In the 1st century BC. e. the area was controlled by the Chinese Han dynasty, and a palace was erected for the general Li Ping on the river bank.
But the city of Abakan traces its history from the village of Ust-Abakanskoye, which arose in the 80s of the 18th century. for the management of foreigners - the Khakass.
After the revolution, in 1925, a railway was built between Minusinsk and Achinsk to transport mined coal and other minerals, and the Abakan station was opened on it. The number of residential buildings built between the station and the village of Ust-Abakanskoye became more and more, the number of residents increased, and in April 1931 the array received the status of a city and the name - Abakan.
Since May 1992 Abakan is the capital of the Republic of Khakassia. As of 2018, the city is home to 184 thousand people. Industry is developed in Abakan, electricity is supplied from the Abakan CHP and a solar power plant (SPP).
The most famous cities
There are 4 cities and a capital in the republic. 75 thousand people live in Chernogorsk. The city was created on the site of coal mines, 86% of the production capacity in the city - coal enterprises. The third largest in the region (47 thousand people) is Sayanogorsk, which is located on the left bank of the Yenisei.
The city is famous for the nearby Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, as well as for the enterprises producing aluminum and its alloys. Ski tourism is developing. 15 thousand people live in Abaza. 11 thousand - in Sorsk... There are 20 settlements in the republic, where more than 3 thousand people live.
Dimensions
61.5 thousand sq. km of Khakassia is 0.3 of the territory of Russia. This area is occupied by impassable taiga, mountains, steppes. There are many large turbulent rivers in the region, such as the Abakan, the Yenisei, as well as the White and Black Iyus included in the Ob basin.
The area of \u200b\u200bthe lakes of Khakassia exceeds 10 hectares, there are about 500 of them, 100 of which are saline. Lake Itkul is the largest, its size is 6.5 by 5.5 km. 2/3 of the territory of the republic is occupied by mountain ranges, on the highest (up to 3000 m) there is snow even in summer. The vastness of Khakassia is given by the steppes, on which rare hills and mounds rise.
Population
As of 2019, more than half a million people live in the republic, with almost 70% being urban residents. Although Khakassia is considered a multinational region, residents predominantly consider themselves Russian (80%). About 12% are Khakass.
Where is Khakassia
Khakassia is easy to find on the map of Russia; it occupies the left bank of the Yenisei, a significant part of the Sayano-Altai highlands and the Minusinsk depression.
Khakassia is part of the Siberian Federal District, it is surrounded by Altai, the Republic of Tuva, Kemerovo region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Coordinates 53 ° 30 ′ s. sh. 90 ° 00 ′ east etc.
How to get there
Khakassia, which sights and natural monuments are of interest to everyone more tourists, is located in Siberia, so it is easier for travelers from the European part of Russia to get from Moscow.
Air traffic
Khakass airport of international importance is located on the outskirts of the capital at 59, Druzhby Narodov Avenue.
With which cities the air traffic is established:
| City | Number of flights | Flight cost |
| Moscow | 4 times a week daily 3 flights, 3 days a week, 2 flights a day. | RUB 4500-27000 |
| Novosibirsk | 4 times a week | From 3700 rub. |
| Irkutsk | 3 times a week | From 4500 rub. |
| Tomsk | 3 times a week | From 5500 rub. |
| Norilsk | Two times per week | From 15,000 rubles. |
| Krasnoyarsk | Once a week | From 1800 rub. |
The flight from Moscow takes 4 hours. You can get from the airport to the center by bus, trolleybus or taxi.
Trains
The railway station is located in the center of Abakan on the street. Vokzalnaya, 17.
The schedule changes depending on the season, but there are always flights connecting Khakassia with cities such as:
- Moscow;
- Barnaul;
- Novosibirsk;
- Krasnoyarsk.
Long-distance trains from Moscow are on the way for 3-4 days, passing through Omsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen (a total of 80 stops). Ticket price from 7500 rubles. The train leaves Krasnoyarsk for 12 hours, making 30 stops. The train to Barnaul is on the way for 16 hours. In winter, a train to Novosibirsk is added to the schedule.
Car traffic
The Yenisei R-257 highway connects the capital of Khakassia with Krasnoyarsk and leads to the border with Mongolia. The road trip from Moscow to Abakan takes at least 50 hours, because the distance is over 4400 km.
Bus transportation
There is a bus station in Abakan (T. Shevchenko St., 62), the most popular destination is Krasnoyarsk. You will have to spend 7.5 hours on the way. The ticket price is 960-1100 rubles. Bus routes depart to Minusinskoe, Sayanogorskoe, Askizskoe directions.
Weather and best time to travel
A sharply continental climate prevails throughout the republic. This means that winters are cold and temperatures often drop below -400. During the winter, no less than a meter layer of snow falls. From April to early May, the snow melts. In spring, the air temperature is characterized by sharp drops between night and day values. Air currents from the southwest bring multi-day dust storms.
Summer is hot, the swimming season starts in early June and lasts until mid-August. Day average +190. Summer weather is unpredictable: clear days alternate with rain and wind. In August, the largest amount of precipitation falls in a year, the annual rate is 300-600 mm.
September is characterized by a gradual decrease in air temperature: from +160 at the beginning of the month to frosts at the end. The foliage completely flies around by October, then the first snow falls.
sights
Khakassia, whose attractions are like a bridge between the past and the present, attracts about half a million tourists a year.
Religious buildings
Miraculously preserved megalith of Okunev culture (IIII millennium BC) can be seen in the open-air museum "Ulug-Khurtuyag-Tas". It is assumed that the 3-meter stone was dug into the ground at the site of a geological fault and a powerful flow of energy, it is the object of a female cult.
The stone has a name - Mother of Khakassia, it is believed that a pilgrimage to it heals women from infertility. Shamanic rituals are held around it. Ulug-Khurtuyag-Tas is located 50 km from Abakan, coordinates 53`00.867 E 90`19.012. Most of the Khakass profess Orthodoxy, but for a long time there was no cathedral in the capital that could accommodate all parishioners.
Only in 1994 the construction of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral began. Now the cathedral is 49.2 m high, visible from afar thanks to the domes covered with a shiny titanium nitrite alloy. In the temple you can worship the holy relics and the stone from Mount Tabor. A cathedral mosque was built for Muslims in Abakan (Torosova st., 1).
Museums
In Abakan on the street. Pushkin, 28a, is the Khakass Museum of Local Lore. There are more than 20 thousand archaeological items in its funds. Among them, petroglyphs, carved 5 thousand years ago, are especially interesting; stone steles called "Idols of the Yenisei" - they are covered with images of fantastic animals and figures.
Ethnographic collections are well represented: Khakass household items, resettlement and old-time collections. The geological hall displays gems and samples of minerals.
The general collection of the museum is 147 thousand items. The museum is open 6 permanent exhibitions and 2 exhibitions, there is a Children's Museum Center.
Monday is a day off. Tickets cost 50-150 rubles. Worth visiting in Abakan picture gallery (Shchetinkina st., 65), because this is the only art museum in the republic. Presented 2500 graphic, painting, sculptural works. Tickets cost 50-100 rubles.
In the picturesque valley located in the foothills of the Abakan ridge, there is the Kazanovka Museum-Reserve. Natural landscapes and about 2 thousand archaeological sites have been preserved on 18 thousand hectares.
The museum offers 7 thematic and 2 sightseeing tours. While traveling through the expanses of Kazanovka, guests can see almost a thousand petroglyphs of 6 thousand years old, burial grounds and burial mounds, irrigation canals, the remains of ancient settlements and ancient smelting furnaces.
Visitors are attracted by the opportunity to touch the real Khakass life. An ethnographic complex "Khakass aal" was formed near the Kyug stream, where wooden yurts and huts, in which the Khakass lived, were reproduced. Here you can see ritual and shamanic dances, taste national dishes.
Place of attraction for many guests of "Kazanovka" - White Stone. Many legends and traditions are connected with a block of white granite called Ah Tas, people come to him to ask for health and well-being. The reserve is located 140 km from Abakan in the village of Kazanovka, st. New, 18.
In Abakan (Tsukanova str., 164), the museum of the Khakassky reserve was opened (tickets cost 60-100 rubles) Protected clusters are scattered throughout Khakassia, so visiting them takes a lot of time. But you can briefly familiarize yourself with the museum exposition, while it is worth paying attention to the exhibition "Zaimka Lykovs", which represents the place where the family of Old Believers lived.
In the city of Abaza, there is an open-air landscape exposition, hiking trails have been laid on the territory, a museum of Siberian crafts has been opened. The complex in Abaza is open on weekdays.
What other interesting museums can be visited in Khakassia:
- hoya Hoos Rock Art Museum;
- Shirinsky Archaeological Park;
- nature reserves "Chests" and "Sulek";
- open-air museums "Ust-Sos", "Arby" and "Boyars".
Architectural structures and monuments
In 2007 the Museum “Ancient burial mounds of the Salbyk steppe”, or Valley of the Kings, was created. Located 15 km from the village. Vershino-Bijatel. Tourists come to see 56 unique ancient burials of the nobility of the Tagar kingdom.
Main objects:
In the Valley of the Kings, you can see ancient sites for astronomical observations, quarries, petroglyphs. The museum is open from May 15 to September 15, Monday and Tuesday days off.
Not far from the village. Troitskoe (Bogradsky district) is an architectural monument of the II-I centuries. BC. - "Boyarskaya Pisanitsa". Plots from ancient life carved on the rocks have been preserved here: drawings of yurts and huts, people, dishes, animals. There are many such writings in Khakassia.
Although Abakan is a relatively young city, it already has its own face, formed, among other things, by city monuments. The symbol of Abakan is the Laura monument - a sculpture of a woman welcoming guests. The monument was erected in 1980 near the airport and is visible to everyone entering.
In 1996, near the Cultural Center of Khakassia, a sculpture of the folk storyteller - khaiji with a musical instrument - chatkhan in his hands - appeared. The monument has become a symbol of the continuity of the spiritual life of the people.
Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP is one of the top 10 most powerful hydropower plants in the world. The length of the dam is more than 1 km, the height of the concrete arc connecting the banks of the Yenisei is 245 m.Here you can see the museum of the hydroelectric power station, admire the view of the river, taiga forests on the slopes of the Sayan Mountains, the marble rock of Kibik and the sacred mountain of the Khakass Borus from the observation deck.
Natural attractions
The Gardens of Dreams park of topiary art in Abakan was the only one in Russia for a long time.
Bizarre shapes are given to boxwood, laurel, privet, cypress. The park is conventionally divided into 13 parts, each with its own style and name. The park has a wonderful collection of exotic plants. Animators work with children, a cafe, a library work, board games or a bicycle can be rented. The ticket price is 100-160 rubles. Entrance from st. Katya Perekreschenko.
Mountains-remnants "Chests" stand out on the plain, covered with bright grass. The mountains are the remnants of ancient volcanoes, in ancient times the Khakass used them for rituals and solar observations. Sheer cliffs are decorated with ancient drawings and writings.
Park "Ergaki" in the Western Sayan Mountains is one of the most visited places in Khakassia. From the top of the Dragon's Tooth, Mirror, Zvezdny mountains, beautiful views open from the Artists Pass. Lovers of relaxation are attracted by the Left Taigish Valley, the Mountain Spirits Lake and the Artists' Lake.
Another pearl of the region is the Ivanovskie Lakes, located in the Sayan highlands. The lakes are located in 4 cascades in the course of the Izbass, Sarala, and Black Ius rivers. The lakes attract lovers of skiing, because in the vicinity, the snow does not melt even in summer, as well as the fishermen who catch grayling.
Rest in Khakassia
Active and curious tourists go to Khakassia to get new impressions, relax and gain strength.
Shopping
From a trip to Khakassia, you must definitely bring original souvenirs and gifts.
Most of these products are presented in Abakan. There are several souvenir shops on Lenin Avenue. In house 73 there is a shop "Eco Khakassia", where a variety of natural cosmetics, taiga sweets, herbal preparations and teas are presented. The most popular product is a hydrolat for skin rejuvenation, which contains sagan-daila. Cost from 250 rubles.
In the Ethnostyle salon (61a Lenin Ave.), silver jewelry attracts attention, their patterns have a sacred meaning. Such jewelry is a talisman and amulet. A set of pendants and earrings will cost 2,700-6,000 rubles. The store has a lot of interesting pendants made in the style of traditional Khakass beads-pogo.
Siberian furs are a great gift, but you shouldn't expect a cheap purchase. The store "Altyn Chir" (Telman St., 83) presents original fur products. For 3500 rubles. you can buy mittens from a fox, for 4000 rubles. - fox clutch. A sable bag costs 5,000 rubles, a squirrel bag costs about 4,000 rubles.
You can buy stuffed animals and skins, as well as shaman amulets - claws of a lynx, bear, muskrat or kite. Here you can also find original ceramic products of the author's work.
T-shirts with ethnic prints can be purchased at the Call of the Ancestors store (126 Pushkin St.).
Tourists are interested in musical instruments of the peoples of Khakassia - khomys and chatkhan, dolls in folk costumes.
Interesting places for families with children
The Abakan Zoo (Pushkin str., 200) is the largest in Eastern Siberia, inhabited by over 600 animals, reptiles and birds. The zoo features such rare animals as Pallas' cat and leopard, Bengal and Amur tigers, ocelot, cougar, Cape lion, falcons, Saker falcon, goose and others. 40 species of animals are included in the Red Book.
The zoo is open seven days a week, in the spring-summer period it opens at 9 am, in winter at 10 o'clock. Ticket prices are 100-250 rubles. Quests are held on the territory. Fascinating museum "ExperimentUm" on st. Vyatkina, 63, invites children and adults to reveal the world of science to them. The ticket price is 170 rubles.
Children will like a trip to the "Fairy Tale" puppet theater (K. Marx St., 5). The repertoire includes fairy tales of different peoples, including folk tales of Khakass.
Leisure
Khakassia, the sights of which are studied by fans of antiquity, also attracts fans of outdoor activities. Here you can try almost any type of tourism. In 1954, an underground mine was blown up near the village of Tuim, in which iron, copper, and gold were mined. A lake more than 200 m deep was formed at the site of the workings.
Nowadays, the place is chosen by rope jumpers, speleo-excursions around the mine are held. People come to Lake Shira to rest and gain strength. The healing power of mineral water and silt mud is recognized by official medicine, therefore there are sanatoriums on the banks of the Shira, which offer physiotherapy, hydromassage, visits to swimming pools with healthy water.
In summer, the villages around Lake Shira turn into resort ones, life becomes more fun: cafes and restaurants, night discos and bars work.
In Khakassia, there are several bases for skiing. The tracks are prepared for alpine skiing, snowboarding, tubing, and are divided into professional skiing and beginner skiing. There is equipment rental. A one-day ticket for 1-5 climbs will cost an average of 700 rubles.
Sports bases with equipped slopes are located near Sayanogorsk:
- "Smooth". The length of the slopes is 10,000 m, the vertical drop is 930 m, 4 lifts. There are snow cannons.
- "Mine". Vertical drop of 400 m, suitable for freeriding.
- Ergaki... Lifts, slopes 1200-1400 m. Height difference 350 m.
- "White crown" length 1200 m. Lift.
In Khakassia, you can ride snowmobiles and dog sleds, descend into caves and paraglide into the sky, raft along rivers, fish, go on hikes of varying difficulty, travel on bicycles.
Tours
Local travel agencies organize interesting programs with visits to popular tourist destinations.
Khakassia, the attractions of which are far enough from each other, can be better recognized on a multi-day tour. The program “ gold ring»With a visit to caves, mountain lakes, shamanistic rituals, river rafting and evening bonfires. Cost from 42,000 rubles.
The Sayan Voyage passes for 6 days, during this time tourists get to know the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia, visit Abakan, Shushenskoye, Ergaki. Price - 28,000 rubles. 3 days in the program "Lakes of Khakassia" you can admire Itkul, Shira, Tus and Bele. The cost is 3400 rubles.
Of interest are boat trips along the Yenisei, visits to maral farms with the opportunity to take antler baths and trout farms. Excursions in Khakassia are carried out in walking, bus and combined formats.
Specialized programs are also offered:
- speleological;
- equestrian;
- alloys;
- fishing and hunting.
The route for exploring Khakassia on your own
It will take more than one day to see all the sights that are in Khakassia.
Option 1:
Option 2:
- Arrival in Abakan, acquaintance with the city, visiting the park of topiary art, the local history museum.
- Moving to Shirinsky district, on the way, visiting the Salbyk mound.
- Hike along the Path of the Ancestors along the Togyz-Az ridge along the White Ius River.
- Excursion to Tuimskiy failure and the complex "Chests".
- Climbing Mount Svetag, museum "Khurtuyakh Tass". Transfer to Kyug valley.
- Tour of the Kazanovka Museum.
- Return to Abakan.
Hotels
There is a sufficient number of hotels in Abakan for every taste and budget:
| Hotel name | The address | Rooms | Services | The cost |
| "Abakan" | st. Lenin, 59 | 60 rooms. Different categories. The rooms have a bathroom, TV, refrigerator. | Buffet, gym, summer terrace, parking, restaurant, | From 3500 rub. standard, from 6800 rub. apartments. |
| "Asia" 4 * | st. Kirov, 114, bldg. 1. | 116 rooms ranging from standard to 2 bedroom apartments. The rooms have a bathroom, TV, mini-bar, safe, air conditioning. | Wi-Fi, lobby bar, Food & Bar, parking. | Standard 3100 rubles, apartments from 13000 rubles. |
| Anzas 3 * | st. Vokzalnaya, 7a | 34 rooms of categories standard, studio. Equipped with TV, refrigerator, safe, air conditioning, shower in the bathroom. | Wi-Fi, saunas with pools, banquet hall, cafe-bar. | Breakfast included. Standard from 4200 rubles, studio from 3950 rubles. |
| "Friendship" 3 * | druzhby Narodov Ave., 2a | 32 rooms. Equipped with refrigerator, shower, TV. | Cafe, sauna, tanning studio, shops, coffee shops, Wi-Fi. | Cost from 1000 rubles. |
| "Aerohotel" | druzhby Narodov avenue, 57 | 30 rooms for 1-2 persons, superior, suite. There is a bathroom, TV, air conditioner, kettle, in some rooms - refrigerator. | Billiard room, lift, Wi-fi. | From 1500 rub. |
| Hostel "Zaezzhy dvor" | st. Torosova, 15 | 6 rooms, there are common for men and women, family, 2-bed. The toilet is shared, the family has a separate bathroom, the rooms have refrigerators, a microwave oven. | Wi-Fi, shared kitchen, parking. | From 500 rubles. |
Renting a one-room apartment in Abakan will cost from 1500 rubles. IN resort villages the price depends on the season, you can rent an apartment, cottage or trailer. The price varies from 1000 rubles.
How to get around Khakassia
You can navigate the Khakass cities using public transport... Buses run on schedule, the fare is 22 rubles. From the bus station, you can go to another city by intercity bus. Another option for fast and comfortable travel is a taxi service. There are many companies operating in Khakassia, such as Maxim, Almaz, Yandex, the fare starts from 50 rubles.
An inveterate car enthusiast can rent a car in the firms Abakan limousines, Riocar, Verossa, Abakanprokat. Khakassia is amazing and diverse. Such sights have not survived anywhere else in the world, only here you can touch the real antiquity, admire the powerful beauty of the Sayan mountains and endless steppes.
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Khakassia is an interesting and mysterious land located in the Western Sayan Mountains, slightly east of Altai. The junction of Altai and Sayan - makes this place mysterious and attractive!
Remnants of ancient beliefs, practiced shamanism, pathogenic places, mysterious caves in the deep taiga, habitats of spirits - all this and much more is found in Khakassia.
As for the anomalous zones, there are three of them in Khakassia. There is also a Valley of Death, in which the curvature of the space-time continuum (time bag) takes place. Let's just say not the most pleasant place. Located in the north of Khakassia. The second place is located 33 kilometers upstream of the Abakan River from our city of Abakan. Quite often, people who spent the night in that valley went crazy or died under strange circumstances.
The third is located in the area of \u200b\u200bLake Fyrkal in the direction of Kommunar to the north, but you cannot get there by car, only on foot. A lost place, even the beast bypasses it. Ufologists say that it is part of one of the twelve anomalous triangles on the planet, such as the Bermuda Triangle.
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"Chests" in Khakassia
Imagine a valley with a diameter of 12-15 km, surrounded by mountains. In fact, in the center of this valley there are stone pyramids - among the people they are called "Chests" because of the unusually regular shape of the peaks in the form of squares.
The length of these pyramids is about 300 m, the height is 60-70 m. They are, in general, a complete copy of the pyramids of the Aztecs and Mayans. When I first saw them, I was simply confused,
I couldn’t believe my eyes. By profession, I am a historian, an archeologist, and to see this at my side is something unimaginable. There are three villages next to these pyramids.
At first, naturally, I began to ask local residents about these constructions. Fortunately, one of my classmates lived in such a village, and through him I managed to get to know many. Everyone was unanimous - the place is dark, spirits constantly "fly" there, in no case should you go there. My desire to spend the night on the top of the most preserved of all pyramids (and there are about 12 of them), a reaction like a plague patient. They curl their fingers at their temples and try to get away as quickly as possible.
Finally, with two comrades, I stayed on the Chest. The night passed relatively calmly, except for all mystical things, such as - exactly at twelve o'clock the constantly blowing wind ended and an extraordinary silence came. One could hear the sound of bells near the cows in a distant village, about ten kilometers away. Then a thick fog filled the unexpectedly small hollow. And then, in the complete absence of any movement of the wind, I suddenly heard the rustle of branches and the rustle of foliage (larch was growing in the hollow). This, excuse me, could not be. However, we digress from the topic.
So that's it. The wind blew out again exactly at 3 o'clock in the morning. (Later I checked, sleeping several times, all the miracles exactly according to the schedule!). After a few hours, the sun began to come out, and since it was a full moon, I looked to the west, the moon was setting there - but what happened to it! The dark red disk began to rotate unlikely around its axis, change its shape, more and more striving towards the ellipse. And all these metamorphoses took place in a matter of minutes, not just seconds! Until the sun rose almost completely, my friend and I (the second slept in a tent) stared at the bloody disc, unable to tear ourselves away.
A lot of time has passed (this was 1991), but until now, although not so clearly, I remember this disc of the Moon, morphing by its whim. He did not promise anything good.
When we arrived in the village and had a good sleep, I began to ask the locals, and found out that all kinds of UFOs of all sizes, from balls and to plates, and all kinds of colors, and are looking for the valley of the "Chests". When their accuracy was especially high, no one knew, they just celebrated the days of their appearance. By the way, I was told that near one of the "Chests", back in Soviet times, a stone was dug (they plowed the field and opened the shaman's grave with a tractor), which depicted the constellations of the other hemisphere, and some stars visible almost through a telescope ...
Honestly, I was not able to verify this information, some say that everything they found was taken to some St. Petersburg institute, others do not really remember anything at all, so I can’t confirm, let alone refute it. But! For more than 20 years, the world-famous scientist, professor, writer, archeologist Vitaly Epifanovich Larychev has been going to this valley to dig. He even has a book on Chests. I was very interested in this strange connection between Chests and UFO. In general, there are many legends and stories about this valley. It is reliably known that a powerful people lived in it for a long time, for they built stone houses, fortresses, skillfully used natural structures. And when the Mongols in the 12th century passed here - they cut out the entire population and tried to destroy all the inclinations! There was no such thing behind them. To everything and everyone !!! Now NOBODY knows what was there and who lived there !!!
For example, I strongly suspect that there was not a simple people there, professing their own not shamanistic religion at all. There is a suspicion that there are hollow places in the piled-up tops of the chests, and there something is waiting for its time. By the way, I forgot to say. If scientists cannot give an exact date, how long ago people lived in the valley, what they call the time of existence of the pyramids - 35-40,000 years ago they arose, and since then they have remained almost unchanged!
It is located in Kuznetsk Alatau (Khakassia), four kilometers from the village of Malaya Syya, on the left bank of the Bely Iyus River. The length of the cave passages is about 11,000 meters and a depth of 195 meters.
The cave was discovered in the 1970s. The name of the cave was suggested by a Novosibirsk biologist and was chosen by lot from a number of other names.
The cave contains numerous wells, large halls, galleries on several levels, cave lakes, and dripstone formations.
One of the most dangerous caves in Russia.
There have been three fatal accidents in the "Pandora's Box" cave since its opening to the present.
PANDORA'S BOX. GENERAL INFORMATION.
Pandora's Box is a cave on the left bank of the Bely Iyus River, in Kuznetsk Alatau, Republic (Khakassia).
The length of the mapped passages of the cave is about 11 km, the depth is more than 180 m. At the present time, at the initiative of the Krasnoyarsk cavers, work is underway on a new topographic survey of the cave, including previously undiscovered passages. A labyrinth-type cave, in limestone, has one entrance.
There are numerous wells, large halls, galleries on several levels, cave lakes, drip formations. The average temperature is +5 ° С.
There are bats.
The cave was discovered in the early 1970s by employees of the Syiskiy Glaciological Station. At that time, the cave was the only entrance light grotto Shirokiy. Since 1976, speleologists Osinnikov, led by V. Vlasenko, have attempted to penetrate the underground system through neighboring shallow caves.
In 1981, purposeful excavations in Shirokoye by speleologists in Osinnikov and Tomsk uncovered a passage to the upper floors of the cave. Later, speleologists from Novokuznetsk were also engaged in the study of the cave. The name of the cave was suggested by the Novosibirsk biologist N.P. Mironycheva-Tokareva, and was chosen by lot from a number of other options.
Cave incidents
Three people died in Pandora's Box.
12/03/1989 Andrei Ageev from Novosibirsk crashed to death.
In the summer of 2003, the Novosibirsk archaeologist Stanislav Shubin died in the upper part of the cave.
02/02/2005 while trying to dig a course in continuation at the bottom of the cave, the Novosibirsk speleologist Pavel Galkin died under the rubble.
There are also reports of tourists missing in the cave.
Anomalous phenomena took place in the cave.
Pandora's Box, Emerald Lake 
Hurtuyakh-Tas statue
Khurtuyakh-Tas is translated as "Stone Old Woman". People believe that she helps and fulfills desires. Childless women go to her to beg for children, men ask for the fertility of the land and cattle. They bring her gifts and leave her at the foot. It is located in the steppe of the Askiz region.
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Seismic zone
Abnormal zones with increased energy are common. The old burial mounds with lying stone slabs are popular with the residents. You stand on the stove, raise your hands up - and you are in a stream of power. Yesterday 10.02 in 170 km to the south of Abakan in the Tashtyp region there was another earthquake of 6 points. Even 20 years ago, there was no such thing in these places. Maybe seismic activity started in response to our visits?
"Askiz poltergeist",
involuntary miracles in Askiz, from which three people died. A book has been written on research material, which is being printed now, to the amount of 5000 copies. in the publishing house "Science". There is a huge video footage - three cassettes, three hours each. Filming of the place, memories and stories of eyewitnesses, special filming using scientifically developed methods.
Research "Mercury Man".
Krasnoyarets Zhigachev / I don’t remember his name /, visited the flying tray. After that, mercury began to be synthesized in his body! At first it was just bumps on his legs, the doctors prescribed heating for him, the bumps enlarged, he was cut open and the doctor was horrified, mercury poured from the cuts! He was urgently sent to Krasnoyarsk. I will not repeat much. I am under the impression of video footage / also about nine hours of video /, - professors and academicians in the hospital open his tumors - and mercury is pouring from them on the operating table! SUCH I CANNOT IMPROVE EVEN! Academics and professors raise their hands in front of the camera. Its organism is really synthesized with mercury! Clots of mercury were found in the muscles, skin of the legs, in the scrotum, and in the lungs. During a special scan in the clinic, mercury was found in the bones of the legs !!! All This is filmed !!! EVERYTHING is seriously documented !!!
Suicide zone
Last week in Khakassia, five people committed suicide over two days. In this regard, I recall one Indian film. The plot is as follows. The guy and the girl love each other, but the girl's evil father does not allow them to get married, and the young, instead of sending him to hell, decide to jump into the abyss together. When the girl falls, she breaks to death, and the guy clings with his shirt to some snag, from which he cannot unhook himself, and thus remains alive.
In Russia, for a failed suicide, you can get off with a week in a mental hospital, but in India (as well as in some other countries) it is quite possible to get a real term for this. In general, the guy gets a year in prison. When he leaves, he finds another girl, marries her. But the evil dad of his first lover arranges a car accident for the newlyweds, as a result of which both die.
Several years ago, one of the Abakan psychiatrists told me in an interview that in some areas of Khakassia there is some kind of abnormal "suicidal" zone. It was then about the Tashtyp region. This area, for some inexplicable reason, had the highest suicide rate in the region. Today, such zones may have "moved" to other territories.
Just like a couple of years ago, so today, people who decide to commit suicide mostly hang themselves and shoot themselves. They shoot more often from hunting weapons. The free circulation of combat, as you know, has been prohibited in our country since the time of Lenin (although in the former socialist camp of Eastern Europe, as well as in the Baltic states, this ban has long been lifted). This is probably correct. We are not the kind of people to buy military weapons and lock them with seven locks. In the hands of our person, it will certainly shoot, and if not in others, then at himself. Anyone on our streets will say that the number of murders and suicides in Russia will only increase from the lifting of the ban on the free possession of military weapons. And this does not play into our power at all. Was it in vain that, for the sake of improving the demographic situation, the so-called "maternity capital" was invented?
Stone old woman INEY-TAS
Location: the picturesque rock Iney-tas (Stone old woman) is located a kilometer northeast of the village of Kazanovka, in the Askiz region of the Republic of Khakassia, on the left bank of the Askiz river
Iney-tas has been patronizing cattle breeding since ancient times and “helped” people up to the 50s of the last century. At Iney-tas, tag taig was performed - rituals of sacrifice to the mountain spirit, the patron of the clan, and asked for help in various matters. At the very foot of Iney-tas, an area was cleared and sprinkled with river sand, on which 14 sculptures of domestic animals were installed. Bulls, horses, sheep were made from river pebbles and red sandstone. Only three figures have survived from this collection. And the Frost Tas itself was blown up at the very beginning of the 60s of the last century.
During the war and in the post-war years, people began to come to Hoarfrost Tas again and conduct ceremonies here. The then ideologists did not think of anything better than to destroy the iconic monument. The amazing open-air temple was destroyed. They say that after this, cattle in Khakassia began to reproduce worse. They also say that none of the participants in this sacrilege ended their lives safely. And Iney-tas even after “death” enjoys special reverence.
Now the mountain where the stone stood is called Rime-paary (the foot of the Rime). Here again rituals are held, passing by all means "sec-sec", on the branches of birches, the grove of which surrounded the place where the Stone Old Woman used to stand, a turban is tied. Those who have been here can fully experience the beauty and power of this unusual place, where grandmother Frost, even having lost her former appearance, again helps her people.
How to get there: from Abakan to the village of Askiz (92 km.). Further to the village Kazanovka about 30 km
Geographic coordinates: 53.22589 90.071927
The address:
Askiz district, with. Casanovka
Mainsail DOUBLE EYE
Grotto Two-Eyes
Location: the grotto is located 50 km west of Abakan in the Bogradsky district of the Republic of Khakassia, on the river. Hustle 1.5 km west of the village of the same name
Two-eye (Grotto "Two-eye", "Looks") is a multi-layered natural monument of the Stone Age in Khakassia. This name is due to the fact that in its vaulted ceiling there are two light holes of natural origin - two "eyes".
This is the earliest known site of ancient people in the Minusinsk Basin (100 - 35 thousand years ago), investigated by Z.A. Abramova in the 1970s. The entrance to the grotto is located at an altitude of about 50 m from the water's edge. The grotto is very comfortable to inhabit. It is spacious (15 m deep and 7-10 m wide), is oriented with its entrance to the south and is well warmed by the sun.
During the excavations, several cultural layers were revealed, the lower of which belong to the Mousterian era. This is the time of the Rhys-Wurm interglacial (100 - 80 thousand years ago) and the Wurm glaciation (80 - 12 thousand years ago). Geologists believe that the climate was relatively warm and dry back then. Steppe vegetation predominated near the grotto. In the valley of the Yenisei dark coniferous forests grew: spruce, cedar. There was a lot of birch. Stone tools and many animal bones (food waste) were found in the grotto; bones belonged to a kulan, horse, rhino, bison, argali, saiga, and reindeer. Of the predators - bones of a hyena, lion, bear, wolf, fox. From 40 thousand years ago, the layers belonged to the Late Paleolithic, and from 12 thousand years ago (upper 2 layers, 50 cm) to the Mesolithic.
How to get there: along the M-54 highway from Abakan to the village of Krasny Kamen (about 47.5 km). Further to the village of Borodino 10 km. The grotto "Dvuglazka" is located 2.5 km from the village of Borodino and 1.5 km from the village of Tolcheya
Geographic coordinates: 54.084856 91.064752
The address:
Bogradsky district, village Tolcheya
Mount CHALPAN
Location: the mountain is located on the territory of the State Nature Reserve "Khakassky", on the site "Lake Bele" in the Shirinsky region of the Republic of Khakassia.
The height of the mountain is 586.3 above sea level. Mount Chalpan is a mountain rise on the northwestern shore of Lake Belyo. On the southern steep slope, there are stony steppes with outcrops of rocks, on gentle slopes, various variants of steppe phytocenoses. A birch-larch forest stretches along the coastal strip. On the southern slope of Mount Chalpan, there is a unique scribble, which is a graphic chronicle of history. Archaeologists have found that some of the rock carvings of Mount Chalpan date back to the second millennium BC.
Mount Chalpan has environmental, scientific, aesthetic, educational, aesthetic, and recreational significance. Here in the old days the Khakass mined donkeys for the point of knives. An ancient fortress is located on the top of Mount Chalpan.
How to get there: from Abakan along the M-54 highway to Znamenka village 80 km, then turn left and drive 55 km to Borets village. Further about 32 km to the village of Shira. Lake Bele is located about 25 km from Shira.
Geographic coordinates: 54.703889 90.154167
The address:
Shirinsky district, Lake Bele
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Ancient Temple complex ZENKHIR
Location: The ancient temple complex Zenkhyr (Uzynkhyr) is located in the Ust-Abakan region of Khakassia, near the village of Prigorsk
Translated from the Khakass language, Uzynkhyr means "long ridge". The city with all its buildings has practically sunk into the ground. Only the thick, not less than 2.5-3 m, stone walls of the temple are clearly visible, which is 15-20 m from the site proper. The material for the construction, obviously, was delivered from the ancient quarries and the rocky bank of the Yenisei. According to scientists, Zenkhyr was built by Afanasyevites. Until now, it was believed that they did not build cities, but lived in small villages and settlements scattered along the banks of rivers. However, Zenkhyr refutes this point of view.
How to get there: from Abakan to Prigorsk about 30 km. The Zenkhyr temple complex is located about 3 km from the village of Prigorsk
Geographic coordinates: 53.931111 91.286389
The address:
Ust - Abakansky district, Prigorsk settlement
Mount KYUN TAG (KUNYA)
Mount Kunya
Location: the left bank of the Krasnoyarsk reservoir, not far from the village of Ust-Abakan, Ust-Abakan district of Khakassia
The ancient mountain Kun Tag or Kunya, translated from Khakass means "Mountain of the Sun" and is a cult and sacred mountain for the Khakass, for worshiping the Sun deity. The height of the mountain is over 400 meters. At the top of Mount Kunya there is an ancient fortress, from where a stunning view of the Yenisei valley opens.
Back in the Bronze Age, more than 4000 years ago, people used this mountain in order to hide from an enemy raid. It stretched along the ridge separating the gentle slopes of the mountain from its interior, where not only women and children, but also livestock could take refuge in the decays. And male warriors could successfully defend the wall from enemies. It was unrealistic for the enemy to get inside the fortress along the steep slopes - even weak women and children could easily throw the attackers down, dropping fragments of limestone on their heads. There is a lot of limestone in these places, which made it possible to fold the wall without much labor. The ancient fortress has been used for thousands of years.
Mount Kunya is a grandiose monument of rock art. A small, only a few tens of meters long, a section of the wall cuts off a cape with a flat ritual platform. The famous Podkuninskaya Pisanitsa is located on the rocky cliffs of this cape. The ancient drawings of the scribble depict 323 figures: people, deer, goats, horses, camels, birds, bears. The drawings are dated back to the 2nd millennium BC.
How to get there: from Abakan to Prigorsk about 30 km. Further 12 km to the village of Mokhova. Mount Kunya is located 3 km along a dirt road from the village of Mokhova
Geographic coordinates: 53.889803 91.418744
The address:
Ust-Abakansky district, town. Ust - Abakan, aal Mokhov
Tuim ring
Tuim ring
Location: the ancient monument is located on 8 km of the road from Shira village to Tuim village, in the Shrinsky district of the Republic of Khakassia
Tuim-Koltso is a funeral and cult monument of Okunev culture. It is one of the most interesting objects in Khakassia. A large square is laid out on a flat area between the road and a rock of stones, the diagonals of the square are also lined with stones. A cromlech (a circle of dug menhir stones) with a diameter of more than 80 m was built around the square.
In the center of the monument are the slab graves of a woman priestess and two children. There are 4 large stones around the circle, marking the four cardinal points. From the female burial to the east, a symbolic path is laid out, bordered by several small stones. In its way, the monument is unique and is comparable in value to the English Stonehenge, although it is inferior to it in size.
There is an opinion that the Tuim-ring was not only a cult place, but was also used as an ancient observatory - the stones at the corners of the Tuim-ring are oriented to the cardinal points.
Unfortunately, during the construction of the road, the old cromlech was destroyed, and now you can see only its modern restored version. But the spirit and energy of the old place remained.
How to get there: from Abakan along the M-54 highway to the Znamenka village 80 km, then turn left and go 55 km to the Borets village. Further about 32 km to the village of Shira. The distance from the village of Shira to the village of Tuim is 18 km. The ancient monument "Tuim ring" is located on the 8th km of the road from Shira village to Tuim village
Geographic coordinates: 54.393869 89.948518
The address:
Shirinsky district
Gravity anomaly
The Abakan-Sorsk road, not far from the turn to Lake Ulukh-gol, in a place called Kuten-Buluk - a gravitational anomaly - cars themselves go uphill, and the water runs uphill.
Possibly large ore deposits.
Julia mine
Bogradsky district Mine Julia. True, it is impossible to call it a uranium mine. since uranium was not specifically mined there, but there are uranium deposits ...
but for 30-40 years it has not worked and the village has been abandoned. UFOs have been observed.
Abnormal zones in the taiga
In the taiga regions of Khakassia, small areas of terrain with ugly trees are often observed, lightning often strikes these places, sometimes ball lightning is observed. Mechanical clocks in such places are in a hurry or lagging behind, by 2-3 minutes per day. When being in such a place, a person feels some kind of insecurity, fear. The zone is usually well-defined, outside of the zone everything is fine. Such zones are well identified by biolocation, the frame deflection angle reaches 180 degrees.
MYSTERIOUS FOREST
Nature is fragrant with luscious green herbs and the scent of flowers, the quiet whisper of leaves under a gentle breeze and the singing of birds creates a unique peace and comfort in the soul. In the shade, under the cool crown of a spreading spruce, it is good to rest lying on the grass, where life is also boiling, hard workers ants scurry about, a beetle crawls busily somewhere, a grasshopper chirps somewhere, but a chipmunk with swollen cheeks or a squirrel slipped through the branches of a pine tree - such an understandable and the usual life of the taiga.
Slowly I climb the slope to the hill and suddenly before my eyes an unusual picture violating the taiga harmony: not far off there is a large dark spot of a dead forest, the green grass suddenly breaks off, under my feet there is a thin layer of gray dry moss, the mighty trunks of ugly trees are completely naked, without bark, branches of a bizarre shape, now they are almost twisted into a spiral, now they are spread out in some completely unnatural way and not a single leaf, not even the wind shakes them, as if in some long-forgotten old tale about Baba Yaga. Windbreak, there are no old rotten trees either, a flat place overgrown with moss.
And the further I delve into this dead kingdom, the more anxious my soul becomes, some kind of unaccountable anxiety, a feeling of uncertainty grows. Birds are not seen or heard, even mosquitoes, these eternal companions of the taiga have disappeared somewhere and no longer ring in their ears, and there are no signs of life on the ground in the moss either, only huge curved roots under the trees protrude from the ground, as if they are also going to run somewhere ... I involuntarily accelerate my pace and in ten minutes I go out to the edge of this lost place.
Curiously, the border of the dead zone is clearly marked by dense green thickets filled with ordinary taiga life. How this mysterious forest arose, what and when ruined it, I do not know, but uncertainty passes, and curiosity takes its course, I go back to inspect everything more closely, at the same time I cut down several flakes from trees, the tree is clean, there are no traces of pests, the soil is ordinary loamy, only humus almost not, and where does it come from in the dead forest. It will be necessary to visit here in winter, to look at the traces of animals, do they really bypass it too? I heard many different legends about such places, but I saw it myself for the first time.
Anomalous zone on the road
Again in Khakassia there was an accident on the Yenisei highway. 405 km of the road became fatal for a resident of the village of Ust-Abakan, who, driving a Honda ACCORD car, lost control, hit a metal fence and allowed an exit into a ditch. As reported by the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for RH, as a result of an accident, the driver received craniocerebral injury, multiple bruises and abrasions of the body, was hospitalized.
SACRED PLACES OF THE KHAKASIA
At the XII Congress of the Khakass people held on March 18, its participants approved a list of sacred places in Khakassia. The director of the Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History, Doctor of Historical Sciences Valentina Tuguzhekova, told the Abakan correspondent why this list is needed and what objects were included in it.
The need to create a list of sacred places is caused by socio-economic changes recent years... Today, it is possible for individuals to rent huge territories (taiga, fields, etc.) on which objects sacred to the Khakass people can be located. And it is necessary to do everything possible so that these sacred places remain accessible for ritual practice. At the congress, we approved a list of 96 sacred places of the Khakass people, then we will transfer it to the Supreme Soviet of the republic. We hope that in the future, within the framework of the law on historical and cultural heritage, the sacred places of the Khakass people will be taken by the state under its protection.
What is considered a sacred place?
In Khakassia, a list of sacred places has been approved. The meaning of the word "sacred" (from the Latin "sacer" - sacred) - cult, ritual, secret. Sacred monuments of Khakassia are part of the ethnic culture of the Khakass.
Sacred, sacred place - a place with sacred status; a spatial object isolated from the realm of everyday life and intended to perform regular cult activities aimed at interacting with sacred entities and forces. It differs from mundane and religious spatial objects by a set of ideal (spiritual) and material (physical) characteristics. Ideally, in the religious consciousness, a sacred place is a value of a high order, the earthly abode of spirits and gods, a concentration of magical powers that evokes a sense of reverence and requires an extraordinary respectful attitude. The presence of such characteristics in historical documents or ethnographic data makes it possible to identify a spatial object as a sanctuary, a sacred place.
A specific study of ancient sanctuaries shows that in most cases the places for their arrangement were not chosen arbitrarily. A person singled out places in the surrounding earthly world that cause strong emotional reactions, awaken the imagination and stimulate intellectual activity; these loci of space corresponded to religious ideas about the habitats of spirits, gods and other "forces" marked by the quality of holiness.
In the early stages of history, objects of the natural landscape (mountains, water sources, etc.) were marked strictly by genus. As a result, “clan territories” were formed, which had pronounced natural boundaries. During the development of the territory, the most important was the landscape object (valley, mountain, lake, etc.), that is, the place where people gathered for public events. This is how the ancestral places of worship took shape.
Among the peoples of Southern Siberia, natural places where national holidays, cult rites, and shamans' rituals were held were considered sacred, i.e. sacred places... As a rule, sacred sites are associated with the traditional worldview of the indigenous peoples of southern Siberia. As before, most of the indigenous peoples of Southern Siberia (Khakass, Tuvans, Altai, Shors) deify nature, natural elements, in the national memory and in ritual practice, worship of various natural elements, spirits is preserved: the spirit of fire, the spirit of water, the spirit of the mountains, etc. .d.
What was included in the list
In Khakassia, as in other regions of Southern Siberia, sacred places include not only sacred mountains, certain areas, but also archaeological sites: ancient burial mounds, stone statues, etc. According to ethnographer Viktor Butanaev, there are about 200 places of worship in Khakassia, according to according to the Council of Elders of the Republic of Khakassia, there are more than 300 of them.
The most revered sacred mountains among the Khakass population are Borus, Izykhskie, Uytag, Samokhval, and Sunduki. The mountains formed the Khakass idea of \u200b\u200btheir territory as a mountain-steppe country located in the center of the Sayano-Altai Highlands and surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges.
For example, Kuznetsky Alatau in the poetics of Khakass folklore is called “Ulgennig son” (Divine ridge), and Sayan is called “Khan Tigir son” (Celestial ridge).
The great mountain peaks Khan-Purgus (Borus), Khan-Praday, Kol-Taiga, Khan-Chalban and others are ancestral mountains from which the Khakass seoks originate in life. To venerate mountain spirits, shamans performed rituals every three years.
The revered mountains and areas, which have their own patron spirits, were called "eelig chir" - literally "land that has its owner." Usually there are anomalous phenomena associated with the tricks of mountain spirits. Khakass people respect such places and, passing by, they must sprinkle with wine or tobacco.
On the mountain passes in honor of the host spirits, sacred stone heaps - "oba" were poured. Each passing person is obliged to bow to them and make their contribution here. As a rule, men threw stones taken during the ascent, and women stuck branches from birches from the east.
If a person passed through the pass for the first time, then he must have tied the sacred “turban” ribbon on the poles stuck in the “oba” piles, otherwise his life would be shortened. You cannot laugh or sing songs around both. In the presence of wine, those present three times in the sun walked around the sacred heap of stones and sprinkled both with alcohol. It was forbidden to climb the passes at night.
A list of sacred places has been approved in Khakassia sacred mountains, mountain passes Khakass from ancient times revered the cult of water.
Every year, at the beginning of summer, on the new moon, they prayed for water (sug taiyi) at the sources of revered streams or on the banks of large rivers - Abakan, Bely and Black Iyusov, Chulym and Yenisei. IN
In the lake edge of northern Khakassia, water sacrifice was carried out on the shores of the lakes. Prayers were held on such lakes as Haara-Kol (Black Lake), Os-Kol (Osinovoe), Ayran-Kol (Ayran Lake), Tigir-Kol (Heavenly Lake), etc.
In the valleys of the Abakan, Iyusov, Chulym and Yenisei rivers, the Khakases annually held Heavenly prayers. In Khakassia, more than a hundred mountains are noted, where prayers to the Great Sky were held on the dominant peaks, and 20 of them are called "Tigir taiychan tag" - the mountain of Heavenly sacrifice.
In some places, such as, for example, in the valleys of the Ulen, Kamyshta and Ninya rivers, every year heavenly prayers were held on different mountains, but after three years they returned to their original position. For example, the Kirbizhekov family spent the first year on the Bytag mountain, then on the Khaibytag city, in the third summer on the Huyulyg-tag city, then everything was repeated again. In the first year, the inhabitants of the aal Ust-Byur made a heavenly sacrifice on the town of Kolergit, in the second - on the town of Chan-sory, in the third - on the town of Izykh-tag in the upper reaches of the river. Uybat, and then again to Kolergit.
The Abakan Kachins (aal Troyakov and others) held a prayer to Heaven on Mount Saksor, on the right bank of the Uybat (a tributary of the Abakan). It was attended by residents of various seoks.
In addition to the veneration of the sacred mountains, water and sky, the Khakases from ancient times worshiped burial places (the cult of worship of ancestors), heavenly bodies, sacred menhirs, ancestral places, ancient sanctuaries. Of the most revered stone statues, it should be noted Akh-tas (white stone) and Ulug Khurtuyakh-tas (Big stone old woman). A kilometer to the north-east of the village of Kazanovka, on the left bank of the Askiz River until the sixties of the twentieth century, the picturesque Iney-tas (Stone Old Woman) rock towered. This place has two more names: Hoarfrost-haya (Rock-old woman) and Hoar-couple (the foot of Hoarfrost). This monument had two meanings: it was the ancestral mountain of the Mainagashevs and the patron saint of cattle breeding for the entire local population.
This is not a complete list of sacred, sacred places in Khakassia, which have been revered and revered since ancient times by modern Khakass, where traditionally shamans conduct rituals of sacrifice and worship of spirits and ancestors. In total, as we have already noted, the congress approved 96 sacred places of the Khakass people.
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MENHIRS
The secret of the menhirs of Khakassia
The study of the locations of menhirs by the methods of geophysics and biolocation in Khakassia began at the end of the 20th century. The research was attended by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Ya.I. Sunchugashev and I, a geophysical engineer. Such work was carried out during 1977 - 1999 under the program of the Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History. In total, 25 sites of ancient statues were studied.
Menhirs are free-standing stone statues, near which sacrifices, cult rites and other mysterious ceremonial actions were performed five to four thousand years ago. Menhirs still contain many unsolved secrets and are fraught with amazing discoveries.
Man has created the most complex technical systems, he can fly in spacecraft and study the depths of the oceans, “catch” fractions of a second and split atoms. Apparently, it is no coincidence that in ancient times man was called the microcosm - the earthly embodiment of the mind of the Universe.Many scientists have proved that our capabilities are far from being fully disclosed, they expand not only due to scientific and technological progress, but are also replenished with unconventional ways of knowing the world.
One of them is dowsing, or in the modern concept - dowsing. The human body is constantly experiencing the complex effect of various geophysical fields - electromagnetic, gravitational, radioactive, and so on. It was the active reaction of the frame in the hands of the biolocator near the menhirs that made us look for the reasons for this phenomenon. Dowsing anomalies near menhirs are quite impressive, and the effect observed here is very unexpected, yet unknown to science. This anomalous effect indicates that the menhirs are located on the energy regions of the earth's surface.
Menhirs have attracted and continue to attract the attention of storytellers, experts and performers of folklore. In the course of the narration of the outstanding heroes of the epic, the storytellers skillfully introduced into poetic compositions the power of the influence of menhirs on the world around them. So, in the legend "Ai Khuchin" it is said: "Having climbed a high stone ridge from the foot of the crooked menhir, he looked into the distance, but when he saw, he found that the copper menhir is the umbilical cord of the earth."
Apparently, the Khakass considered the places where menhirs were placed sacred and unusual. In the legend "Khan Kichigei" it is said that at the source of the light-stone river there is a white stone (ah tas), which must be lifted by the heroes passing here; many of them, unable to lift the white stone, perished. However, the hero, before lifting it, on horseback circled this stone three times. The legend of three ceremonial circles around the white stone is consistent with the reports of the first scientist-traveler who visited Khakassia and Siberia, DG Messerschmidt. He noted in his diary on August 18, 1722 that “after an hour's drive, not far from these graves, I finally got to the statue widely known among these peoples ... Khurtuykh, located in the hilly steppe.
I immediately sketched it and later attached the drawing to these notes. Khurtuyakh is carved out of gray sandstone and dug into the ground obliquely. Behind, one could see thick braids, suspended from hair, in the form worn by Kalmyk and Tatar women ... The pagan Tatars from Es Beltyr, who provided me with horses, showed great respect to this old woman; each of them circled around her three times ... put food in the grass closer to the pedestal so that she could use the food in accordance with her appetite. Further, he notes that the statue is revered among the indigenous population, a river pebble is brought to it as a gift, its mouth is smeared with oil, fat, milk and asked for health. Young women are being treated for infertility.
We are not alone in conducting such pagan rites. For example, in Belarus the stone "Grandfather" (an exhibit of the museum of boulders in Minsk) once played an important role in the spiritual life of the people, for a century and a half ago people came to it, seeking help in trouble. The stone "Grandfather" was presented with honey, milk, wine - poured onto the top of the boulder. When a woman was seriously ill, she put an apron on a boulder for 33 days. Another example is the famous boulders "Demyan" and "Marya", located on the outskirts of the village of Perezhir, Minsk region. It was believed that they possess miraculous powers capable of healing the paralytic, the lame, and the deaf. The boulders were carried rich donations: flax, wool, bread, pigs, calves, sheep, money. It was believed that the result would be favorable if you make a pilgrimage to the stones at a certain time. This one-to-one ritual is similar to the ritual performed by the Khakass at the menhir Khurtuyakh.
The church was for the most part tolerant of the customs of the inhabitants. Moreover, crosses, chapels, and temples were erected near the most famous boulders. People prayed, asked for a stone to get rid of trouble and disease. They went to the stone both on the pagan holiday of Ivan Kupala, and on the Christian Trinity and Easter.
In the European part of Russia, experienced biological locators have identified a number of energy areas, the so-called places of power: Solovki, Valaam, Kizhi, the pagan temple of Uksa on the right bank of Ladoga, Trinity-Sergius Lavra, where the cell of Sergius of Radonezh is located. So, the famous "place of power" Solovki - on the Bolshoy Zayatsky island, where the famous "northern labyrinths", erected by an unknown people, are located. The people who entered these structures showed a kind of "alignment" of the body's functions: for example, in 10 - 15 minutes high blood pressure returned to normal and at the same time a surge of vitality could occur.
Within Khakassia, we studied the sites of the menhirs only in the territories of the Ust-Abakan, Askiz and Bogradsky districts. All studied menhirs are located in geopathogenic zones that are associated with fault zones of the earth's crust. Geopathogenic zones are areas of the earth's surface that emit a stream of energy unknown to science. As a rule, the width of these zones is insignificant and varies from 10 to 50 meters, and the length is many hundreds of meters, and in some cases - kilometers. According to the shape and strength of the impact of these fields on the biolocator, we divided geopathogenic zones into two types: high-frequency (negative), when the vector of the measured field is directed "fan-shaped" (in these places there is an "imbalance" of the human biofield, which ultimately leads to pathology), and low-frequency (positive) ones, where the sinusoidal shape of the dowsing effect curves is manifested, while the direction of the measured field vector in one part of the anomaly is fixed strictly vertically downward, in the other - upward. In these places, the human biofield is leveled, which contributes to its recovery.
For simplicity, we will call geopathogenic zones of the second type “places of power.” So far, three such places have been identified on the territory of Khakassia: the site of the stone statue Ulug Khurtuyakh tas, which is located on the 134th kilometer of the Abakan - Abaza highway in the Askiz district, where a museum Here it was determined by biolocation that the stone statue was established by ancient people within the low-frequency geopathogenic zone in its positive epicentral part. here is about 450 conventional units... As already noted, Khurtuys were treated with various ailments, and were treated for infertility. And at present this "place of power" is not empty, tens of thousands of people visit it every year.
The second is the parking place of two menhirs - Bolshoy Vorota, which are located in the Ust-Abakan region, two kilometers north-east of Bolshoy Salbyk mound. Dowsing studies revealed that these monoliths were installed in a low-frequency geopathogenic zone, which was 23 meters wide. The dowsing anomaly in this place is sinusoidal with an intensity of 450 conventional units. The menhirs are set on the “bend” line of the curve. The stone on the right side (when looking at it from the south) has a depression in the shape of a human body. This depression was formed by the “friction” of people against the stone who came here for millennia for treatment or to perform some kind of ceremonial rites. On the end part of the monolith there is a tamga in the form of a contour of a human body with three rays emanating from the head. Everything indicates that this "place of power" was used by ancient people to eliminate certain ailments.
The third place is the territory of the Small Palace of the ancient Khakass state: on the 34th kilometer of the Abakan - Askiz highway, 50 meters east of the highway. Here, literally five meters from the southeastern corner of the "palace" excavation, a linear low-frequency geopathogenic zone with a width of 18 meters in the northeastern direction was revealed.The anomaly has a sinusoidal shape with an intensity of up to 800 conventional units. Apparently, this place was revered by ancient people, and earlier it was fixed by a menhir, but with the passage of time the stone was lost, most likely, “reused” in the construction of burial grounds, as was often the case in the Tagar and later eras. Many researchers believe that there was a hospital here. Whether it is true or not, but one thing is clear: the dowsing anomaly in this place is identical in shape, structure and intensity with the anomalies found at the cult places of Ulug Khurtuy tas and the Big Gate, which were used for medicinal purposes. Therefore, today it became necessary to fix this anomalous zone by placing a corresponding stone statue here. This work was carried out by the republican council of elders of the Khakass people and its chairman Vladislav Torosov, who installed a granite menhir called Abchah tas (stone grandfather).
For prophylactic and therapeutic purposes, I recommend that newspaper readers, if possible, visit "places of power" and stay there for at least 15 - 20 minutes. I advise you to bring containers with water with you and put them in the anomalous zone, because under the influence force field the water molecules will be arranged in a certain order - that is, the water will become structured, the use of which will further contribute to the healing process.
The mention of the Koshkulak cave in an interview with the "white" shaman Tatyana Kobezhikova interested many readers who live outside Khakassia, but have already heard about the mysterious underground. Their request is to tell you more about it. The freelance correspondent for "AiF on the Yenisei" Viktor Melnikov has long been collecting curious observations of visitors to the mysterious cave.
This place is known all over the world. It is officially included in the top five "scariest" places in the world. Anomalous scientists call this mysterious void in the mountain range somewhat pompously: the cave of the black devil. Its geographical name does not sound so formidable - Koshkulak cave. The name was given to her by one of the peaks of the spurs of the Kuznetsk Alatau - Koshkulak. From the village of Shira to it - a little more than 20 kilometers.
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Young "old woman"
For the first time I heard about this cave 15 years ago from my acquaintances speleologists, brothers Nikolai and Vladimir Savchenko. Returning from another trip to the caves of the Kuznetsk Alatau, they told me terrible stories about the half-rotted human bones found in the cave, about the shadows and sounds of the shaman's tambourine, about the causeless horror they experienced while passing a certain section of this cave. The brothers also told the story, which they, in turn, heard during the campaign:
"In the 1960s, a group of 20 students climbed into this damn hole. Only two students came out of it. And then one girl in a violent deranged state was picked up by hunters not far from the cave. She bit and shouted something incoherent. She was immediately hidden away. The second student went “quietly.” At night she was found by a police squad from the village of Shira. Gray-haired, with a deathly face, her lips bitten in blood, she walked along the dark streets of the village. In her hands, the girl was clutching some kind of stone figurine She did not want to give up for anything. Without stopping for a second, she whispered something very quickly and fervently. And this girl was assigned to the house of sorrow, where she "burned out" within a month from some mysterious disease.
Doctors were never able to establish the cause of death - the rapidly growing thin patient was, although insane, but absolutely healthy. Under the mattress of the young "old woman" who had exhaled her last breath, the nurse discovered a small stone figure ... "
Fox hat with horns
I confess - I did not believe the storytellers then. He even mocked them, accompanying their story with, as it seemed to me, witty comments: how much, they say, the brothers drank before listening to such tales. However, about half a year passed, and my acquaintances again went on another trip to Koshkulak. The group of 30 people consisted mainly of schoolchildren - it was the November holidays. Our tourists spent about three days near the cave. The first two expeditions went underground.
Having heard about the horrors of Koshkulak and dreamed of thrills, the schoolchildren were disappointed. On the third day, before leaving the camp, they asked the adults for the last time to "run through the cave." After they walked around all the grottoes, including the Skeleton Grotto, where, according to eyewitnesses, the incredible usually happens, the guys were already going to go up.
At that moment, everyone suddenly felt a chilling attack of terror. Schoolchildren rushed to the exit, pushing aside equally frightened parents and teachers ...
Already in the light of the sun, when the fear let go, the pioneers and their guides began vying with each other to share what they fancied deep in the cave. Each, as it turned out, had its own "guise". Some saw a terrible monster with the body of a bear and a bloody human skull instead of a head, others saw huge crows sitting on a pile of bones, the third one "appeared" (including my familiar cavers) a disgusting old shaman in a filthy fox hat with horns, beating a tambourine and producing intricate body movements. With gestures, he seemed to call to him ...
Some time after the group returned home, one of the participants in the campaign, a sixth grader, was found hanged in the attic of his own house. He left a suicide note with a very strange content. The boy wrote about some kind of stone devil, about dark holes and madness. And at the end: "... die, but remember the stones." The parents of the deceased boy claimed that this phrase was written in a different handwriting. 
Burning gaze
Back in the 1980s, scientists from the Novosibirsk Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine became interested in the rumors of ghosts that lived in its depths in the Koshkulak Cave. Expeditions were set up to study the phenomenon of the cave.
Perhaps, then, for the first time, scientists recognized that visions are not just the fantasies of sightseers who were afraid of the darkness. In 1985, an employee of the institute, Konstantin Vakulin, with a group of cavers examined the grottoes. After several hours of work, people began to head for the exit. Konstantin was the last to go. I fastened the rope on a special belt, got ready for the climb. And suddenly he felt a gaze on himself. The scientist was bathed in heat. The first impulse is to run! But the legs did not obey. Seeing what was happening behind my back was insanely scary. And yet, as if in a state of hypnosis, obeying someone else's will, he turned his head and saw about five meters away ... an elderly shaman.
The same, from the stories of my friends-cavers: fluttering clothes; a furry hat with horns, glowing eyes and smooth, inviting movements with his hands - they say, go, follow me! .. Bakunin unconsciously took several steps inward and immediately, as if throwing off a dark spell, began desperately pulling the rope. Not succumbing to the "persuasion" of the cave shaman, he, quite possibly, escaped the fate of those who once perished or lost their minds.
Another member of the expedition, Nikolai Kamanov, witnessed almost the same visions.
Summarizing the evidence obtained, the scientists suggested that all these hallucinations, unaccountable, panic fear, of course, are not the machinations of dark forces, but the result of a completely material external influence. It is known, for example, that infrasound with a frequency of about 6 hertz can cause a feeling of indescribable horror.
In one of the grottoes of the black devil's cave, a special laboratory was deployed. Researchers performed experiments there, carried out various measurements. As a result, a geomagnetic anomaly was established. The electromagnetic field in the cave is constantly fluctuating. Even at the initial stage of the study, scientists noticed that, among other signals, a strictly defined impulse is steadily breaking through. Sometimes he was recorded as a single person, it happened that he walked in "bundles". And always with the same amplitude. It happened that the signal disappeared for two or three days, or even for a week, but then invariably returned.
Sacred stalagmite 
Mysterious lighthouse
Scientists have asked themselves: where do these strange impulses come from? After a series of experiments, it was found that they make their way from the depths of the cave. It was decided to check if these impulses were connected with the eerie visions that are those who find themselves in the cave. The time of fixation of impulses exactly coincided with the moment of appearance in people of nervousness, a suppressed state, turning into panic horror.
The impulses, as the scientists assumed, turned out to be low-frequency. The very ones that are not perceived by the human ear, but have an impact on all living things, including the human psyche. But where are they coming from? The employees of the institute have no doubts that only an artificial emitter can generate such a frequency pulses with a stable vibration amplitude. But where does it come from in the deep taiga, deep underground? Scientists examined the entire cave, descended into the most hidden corners - in vain. The search for an artificial emitter was unsuccessful. The mysterious lighthouse, if it only exists in nature, is even deeper.
As for hallucinations (and scientists consider creepy visions to be just harmless "glitches"), the participants of the study agreed on this version: the perception of non-existent objects as real can be caused by some unusual chemical mixture present in the air that fills the cave. However, what this mixture is and how much it has been studied is not yet known. The following question also remained open: why does a vision "come" to many in the guise of a shaman? It seems like it should not be like this with hallucinations - this, like dreams, is an "exclusive" phenomenon. However, one-time expeditions could not, probably, dispel all the myths. The perestroika that began at that time posed much more burning questions. So the solution to the mysteries of the cave of the black devil is probably ahead. In the meantime, in the absence of a materialistic justification for what is happening in the dungeon, from mouth to mouth, along with heartbreaking stories, ancient legends are transmitted. 
Shaman's Revenge
ONE of them in the previous issue of "AiF on the Yenisei" was shared by the "white" shaman Tatyana Kobezhikova. Once upon a time, a shaman was buried near this cave. People disturbed his peace, and he punishes them with what appears to them in a dream, or even in reality in the form of a man in strange clothes, dragging them along. If you believe the local rumor, the spirit of the ancient Khakass shaman lives in the grotto of the Ghosts, which is next to the grotto of the Skeletons.
According to another legend, the Koshkulak cave was a cult place among the ancient Khakass. Here, the pagans worshiped not only the phallus as a symbol of procreation - an ancient fireplace was preserved around the natural stalagmite in the form of a phallus. Here, according to legend, the ancestors of the Khakas worshiped the black devil, made sacrifices to their gods, including human ones. An ancient altar that has survived to this day speaks in favor of this legend. Those who believe in this legend believe that over the centuries the cave has absorbed the dark energy of ancient shamans, which, guarding its secrets, spills out from time to time on overly curious guests of the cave.
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Kolchak's gold
The myths associated with the Koshkulak cave not only do not die, but are born. In booklets for tourists, for example, they will share with you the assumptions that Kolchak's gold is hidden in one of the grottoes of the cave of the black devil, that the secret warehouse of weapons of the "father" Solovyov is lost here. The faithful Leninists cannot but be moved by such a version: the young commander of the Uzhur Chonites, Arkasha Golikov, just at the entrance to this cave received his legendary nickname Gaidar.
Road to hell
One of the most mysterious places in Khakassia is the Koshkulak cave. This mysterious place is located high in the mountains not far from the remote taiga village of Topanovo, Shirinsky district. It's dangerous to enter the cave without an experienced speleologist or local guide - no joke - an almost vertical descent of about three hundred meters. And getting to the cave is not so easy - not every car can handle an inferior gravel road. Then walk uphill through the taiga on foot. And in the places of those animals of all kinds - in bulk. Whether you meet the soul of a shaman or not is still a question, but a brown bear is easy.
I tried to persuade some of the local residents to take them to this cave - it was useless. No money needed. They say that if the black shaman drags on, he will not let go.
Koshkulak is considered a cult place. Some say that once people were sacrificed in this cave (children were killed there or young women - no one can say for sure), and now this place has a very bad reputation. They say that the souls ruined cannot find peace and take revenge on the living for their joyless existence.
More than one scientific expedition visited there, some even saw this very black shaman, about whom the locals speak. One researcher who did not want to be identified told the following story:
“Our group went down to Koshkulak to check. The cave is not the deepest, in the Shirinsky region there is both deeper and more beautiful. And this, indeed, some kind of black, human bones, we, however, did not find there, but there are a lot of animal bones there. Maybe they come here to die. The sensations in this cave are not pleasant, but we did not notice any obvious manifestations of something special. Almost all of our group went upstairs. I was the last in the chain and for some time remained alone in the cave. Suddenly I felt someone's eyes on me. He turned around and was stunned: a creature separated from the wall - either a man or an animal - a body like a human, on the face something like a black mask, and on its head twisted horns. This creature looks at me and beckons with a finger. As if spellbound, I reached for the rope to untie the knot. At this time, someone from above called me, I woke up and pulled the rope with all my might. Was it a dream or a reality? But under the impression I walked for a long time. Sometimes this shaman (this is how the locals describe the black shaman) I dreamed about later. No, I will not climb into this cave again. "
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Historical sights of Khakassia
The Chebaki Fortress is a structure that has come down to us from the Bronze Age (second millennium BC). In total, about 45 such historical fortresses have survived, but only 3 of them are the most explored, one of them is Chebaki.
Scientists and researchers became interested in such structures in this region as early as the 19th century, but full-scale archaeological excavations began only in the 90s. Thanks to them, a cultural layer was identified, in which scientists discovered numerous remnants of the life of people of that time. Most of all, fragments of ceramics of the Okunev culture were found. Despite careful study, it was not possible to determine the exact purpose of the construction and use of such a structure. Among the assumptions: a fortress, a refuge, a hunting settlement in the season, etc.
The Oglakhtinsky mountain range is a whole complex of historical and cultural heritage monuments, among which the Oglakhtinsky fortress of the same name is very famous.
In ancient times, in the VI-XII centuries, there was a state with a population of about 2 million inhabitants. A little later, closer to the 9th century, it was divided into separate principalities, which began to quarrel. Therefore, the purpose of the fortress is known for sure - defensive.
It is a stone wall that is lined with sandstone. Its width is 2 meters and its height is -1 meter. Stretching for 25 kilometers along a steep cliff, it is equipped with moats and bastions.
Note: the period of the construction of the Oglakhtinskaya fortress is considered to be the 10th century, but it was used only in the 11th - 12th centuries.
Now it does not look as impressive as it used to be, which can be seen from the photographs, because over time, part of the wall has sunk into the ground and overgrown with grass. But it should be borne in mind that this is only a small part of the defensive complex in these mountains.
The time of the construction of another Tarpig fortress, which is located on the mountain of the same name, is also attributed to the same time of internecine wars.
It is a massive structure with three lines of walls for defense.
A similar structure is crowned with Mount Chalpan, which rises almost 600 meters.
In addition to the fortification located at the top, 5 inscriptions were found here, which appeared here about 4000 years ago.
The Safronovsky burial ground is known primarily for its age - about 2.5 thousand years. In a relatively small area, there are dozens of burial mounds, which are fenced with stones with drawings.
The nobility and wealth of the deceased determine the size of his grave and the boulders around, the largest of which reach 7 meters.
The famous Valley of the Kings in Khakassia, which includes as many as 56 burial mounds, boasts a large number of burials.
The largest of them is the Big Salbyk burial mound, built in the 7th century BC.
All of them are located on an area of \u200b\u200babout 5 square kilometers in the Salbyk Valley.
It is called the Valley of the Kings, because the chiefs are buried here. All these burials are combined into one museum complex.
Churches and cathedrals of Khakassia
The Transfiguration Cathedral is the second largest after the main Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Russia. Its construction lasted almost 11 years and was completed only in 2005.
The idea of \u200b\u200bits construction was reconciliation in memory of the soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War in these places.
The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was founded in 1859, but the wooden building was rebuilt as early as 1862-1864. Then he imagined a small room in the form of a four, covered with a dome. Like most churches, during the years of Soviet power, in 1930, it was closed. But because of the war, in which there was a certain relaxation of the persecution of the church, in 1944, the temple was reopened, and it still works.
Until the late Soviet period, it was the only functioning Orthodox center in Abakan. In 1980, the building was completed entirely in stone, without changing the structure itself and its appearance. Its address: Abakan, st. Mostovaya, 9.
The modern church can be found in Chernogorsk, at st. Lenin 10A, where the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is located. At this place, the inhabitants of the town independently founded a prayer house in a private house, and after a while, in 1992, they rebuilt a whole church.
Monuments and statues of Khakassia
Abakan is considered the historical and cultural center of Khakassia. Here, monuments and sculptures begin to meet at the entrance to the city. For example, the stele "Laura", which is depicted as a Khakass woman.
She holds a bowl in her raised hands, which symbolizes the hospitality and generosity of the Khakass people.
An interesting sculpture called "Granite of Science", located on the territory of the Khakass Technical University in Abakan. It is made of black granite in the form of a cube, on which various mathematical formulas are applied.
A small part of the cube is missing, which gives teachers hope that students are still trying to "gnaw the granite of science."
The recently erected monument to Peter and Fevronia in Abakan symbolizes the solemn beginning of marital relations, since it is located not far from the place where the newlyweds close the locks and throw away the keys from them.
Other monuments and sculptures that attract tourists include a monument to the Umka white bear cub, a statue of a Scythian deer in the Khakass style, and a statue of the world famous Little Prince. All of them are located in the city of Abakan.
Natural attractions of Khakassia
Most of the most famous sights of the republic are natural. One of these is Mount Kunya, or "Mountain of the Sun", sacred to local residents. It is located near the town of Ust-Abakan.
This rock is a cult place where rituals and ceremonies dedicated to the sun god were held. In fact, there is no mountain as such in the usual sense. This is a height of about 400 meters, from which you can see the river valley. In the past, about 2 thousand years BC. BC, the locals used it as a natural fortress, where they hid from enemies.
The mountain range "Chests" remains well-known, which has the status of a natural-historical monument of nature, where in 2011 a museum-reserve of the same name was opened.
Note: the only hot spring in the district is called Goryachiy Klyuch or Abakan Arzhan. This is a thermal spring, the water temperature of which is 37-40 degrees. It is recommended for external use, but some people drink it. Locals use this place as a "wild" resort.
Given the large number mountain ranges and lakes, this area is also rich in caves.
The length of the mapped passages of the Pandora's Box cave is about 11 km, the depth is more than 180 m
The most interesting of them have no less interesting names: Pandora's Box, Kashkulakskaya or the Black Devil's cave, Borodinskaya.
In order to preserve the objects of historical and natural heritage, the Khakass Republican National Museum-Reserve "Kazanovka" was created, which collected more than 100 square kilometers of protected lands.
Special attention should be paid to the Topiary Art Park called "Gardens of Dreams" in Abakan, where there are many trees and shrubs that have acquired bizarre shapes after curly haircuts.
Lakes of Khakassia
Extreme tourism and travel takes a special place in the tourist destination of the Republic of Khakassia. These beautiful places are especially famous for their numerous clean lakes, which differ from each other in flow and salinity. Looking at the map of Khakassia, you can find that there are about 1000 of them in this region.
Freshwaters are often sewage, and from them originate the river. Salty ones usually do not have a drain. Most of them were filled in large pits. The largest of the unleavened ones is Itkul.
Its area is about 23 square kilometers and its depth reaches 17 meters.
Lake Balakul is interesting.
In ancient times, it was considered sacred by local peoples. Now there are a large number of recreation centers and children's camps nearby.
Some of them have healing water or mud. For example, Lake Shira, about the healing power of which there are descriptions even in ancient legends.
Back in the 19th century, a holiday resort was opened here. It is now open all year round.
Lake Tus is classified as bitter and salty. There are also sanatorium and resort establishments on the shore. The depth here is no more than 2 meters.
Lake Black got its name in ancient times, when it was believed that the reservoir has a "black temper". Only the bravest swam here. Now it is known how such superstitions were explained.
The lake water is saturated with radon, which has a relaxing effect on the human body. Previously, this was explained by the fact that the bowels of the reservoir take away strength from a person. Lake Dikoe is also saturated with radon deposits.
Ivanovskie lakes are striking in their beauty. It is a network of four lakes, which are connected with each other by small rivers and streams, surrounded by mountains.
The depth of the largest of them reaches 140 meters, and the water filling them is icy.
Among other well-known and not so well-known lakes, one can distinguish lakes Khankul and Marankul, Shunet and Fyrkal, Ulug-Kol and Matarak.
Architectural landmarks of Khakassia
Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP is the largest in Russia in terms of installed capacity and 9th in the world. It is located on the Yenisei River, in the place where Khakassia borders on the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Rising to a height of 242 meters, it remains the tallest dam in Russia and one of the highest in the world. Its construction began in 1963. It was officially completed only in 2000, when almost all the imperfections and problems that occurred during operation were eliminated.
Not far from here is an observation deck, which allows you to look a little at the hydroelectric power plant itself, since you cannot get close to it - it is a protected area.
Here in 2008, a monument was erected dedicated to the Conquerors of the Yenisei - the first builders of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP.
Due to the technogenic activity of man, the Tuimsky failure, known throughout Khakassia, was formed. In its place earlier, during the years of the USSR, underground mining of various ores was carried out. Gradually, the soil settled and later completely collapsed, forming a pit with water accumulated in it.
The height of the cliffs at the edges reaches 120 meters.
They can also offer ski resorts that meet guests as much as 9 months a year - this is ski resort "Smooth".
Its name comes from the mountain on which it is located. It is equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay, relaxation and, of course, skiing.
Unusual and mysterious places of Khakassia
There are unsolved mysteries not only in Egypt at the ancient pyramids. The lands of Khakassia keep similar secrets, because until now no one has been able to determine how huge plates weighing about 50 tons were lowered from the mountains. Researchers have been dealing with this issue here since the 18th century. They are called menhirs of Khakassia.
They come in various shapes, in the form of pillars or slabs. But they are united by one thing - they are all located in anomalous zones, in places where tectonic plates of the earth break, where colossal energy comes out. For a long time, ceremonies and ceremonies have been held here, and people come in the hope of being healed of diseases and ailments.
Menhirs Big Gate
Menhirs Big Gate and Ulus-Khurtuyakh-Tas (Stone old woman) remain one of the most visited.
From a historical and cultural point of view, writings are very interesting - mountains or rocks on which ancient drawings are applied. For example, the Sulek writings appeared in the second millennium BC during the Okunev culture.
It is located on the Pisannaya Mountain, which is one of three hills that are dotted with similar patterns.
The rocks depict ordinary everyday scenes from the life of the local population: horsemen, hunting, domestic animals.
Boyarskaya Pisanitsa, which is located on the Boyars ridge, is full of similar scenes from life. In addition, there are many pictures of dwellings here.
TO unusual places This region can be attributed to the capture of the Lykovs on the Erinat River.
This is a place where a family of 6 Old Believers lived for many years, who did not know modern civilization. They were discovered only in 1978, and since then only 1 woman has survived. All others died soon after their discovery, largely due to contact with previously unknown microbes.
What to bring from Khakassia as a gift
Most often, souvenirs from Khakassia are not particularly original, but, of course, they correspond to the local flavor and folk crafts. First of all, these are various printing products with local views and sights.
Also, local folk art produces birch bark tues and glass, earthenware and dolls. Local musical instruments are popular: chatkhan and khomys, as well as shaman tambourines. There are many proposals for keychains and crafts made from deer horns.
Food products will be no less desirable: pine nuts, lingonberries, blueberries or fish, as well as herbal teas.
As you can see, Khakassia is rich in a wide variety of attractions. Everyone can take a walk, learn something new, relax and enjoy nature.
We bring to your attention a video about the most interesting routes in Khakassia, this small presentation will allow you to see some of those beauties and sights that we described above:
A fertile land with little snowy winters lay on the way of migrations of peoples during the Great Migration, and many settlers chose Khakassia as their Home and left amazing monuments here ancient culture... In the steppes and caves of Khakassia, more than 30 thousand monuments of ancient times, most valuable for the history of many archaeological sites are unique and are not found anywhere else in the world. The most famous are the Big Salbyk Kurgan, Sulekskaya, Boyarsky and Podkunenskaya writings, archaeological monuments of the Chests mountain system, a fortress-sve Oglakhty, Chebaki, medieval burial grounds Kopensky and Uybatsky chaa-tasy.
Khakassia is one of the few regions in Russia where drawings on rocks and statues amaze with their powerful cosmogonic philosophy. Scientists are trying to unravel all the riddles left to us by the ancient peoples in the heritage, according to these monuments of the ancient visual arts... So if you come to Khakassia, you also have the opportunity to penetrate into the sacred world of the ancient Khakass culture!
So, tourism in Khakassia is interesting for its unique unspoiled sunny nature and the originality of this region. In this review you can read about some of the most interesting places in the archaeological mecca of Siberia! 
Many mounds in Khakassia are thousands of years old. One of the most famous Khak kurgans is the Salbyk kurgan. The construction dates back to the end of the 4th century BC, to the Tagar culture. Initially, the mound towered 25-30 meters above the steppe. Its basis was made up of multi-ton boulders, reaching a height of 6 meters. It is surprising that these blocks for the construction of the mound could be taken only on the banks of the Yenisei, seventy kilometers from the Kurgan, surrounded by bare steppes! At the cost of what effort were these plates dragged, if their weight reached fifty tons, and there were only bulls from transport at that time? And all this gigantic work was aimed at burying one person! Who was this deceased - the King? What was his power? By the monumentality of the building, the Salbyk mound can be equated in some way with the Egyptian pyramids. Unfortunately, the mound was excavated by scientists, and today only the boulders themselves, standing in a circle, remain from the Kurgan, but until now, despite the huge number of people who visited it, the Salbyk mound keeps a powerful energy that you will feel on your own. 
This energy has different charges. Positive energy at the "gates" of the Big Salbyk burial mound. But the northern, rounded slab of highly stratified sandstone has a negative charge. Shamans say that the energy emanating from the earth corrects the human biofield, disturbed by the disease.
Khakass National Museum-Reserve "Kazanovka"
On the territory of the Askiz district of Khakassia, where the living Khakass language still sounds and Khakass rituals are held, in 1996 the Khakass Republican National Museum-Reserve "Kazanovka" was created.
The area of \u200b\u200bthe museum-reserve is 18.4 thousand hectares, and here you can find all kinds of cultural and natural heritage of Khakassia: landscapes that have remained untouched for thousands of years and an interesting archaeological fund - petroglyphs, barrows, fortresses, ancient sanatoriums, ecological paths. You can live in Kazanovka for a week and every day go on a new interesting excursion!
Chests
There is a mountain range of Chests in the Shirinsky region - a unique monument of Tagar culture. The chests were named so because of the first mountain in the ridge, at the top of which there is a rock in the form of a cube, which he calls "the chest of the hero Khokho-Babai". According to popular beliefs, it contains all the treasures of the valley. Chests is the oldest astrological observatory, more than 13-14 thousand years old! In the ancient Khakask language this place is called "Onlo", which means "to see", "to observe". From here, ancient astrologers watched the sun and moon sunsets and rises. 
In Onlo there is a unique, the only such monument on Earth - the Temple of Time. If you climb the Temple of Time, then you understand why it was needed. In front of the mountain on which the Temple is built, there is a stonework. You stand on it facing the Temple, look to the right, and you will see the protruding top of the fourth "chest". This is the exact astronomical direction to the north. From this point, the priests determined the day of the winter solstice. Through a gap between the stone, similar to an eagle's head, and the mountain, the Sun sends the last ray to the Earth and sets below the horizon. 
In the Temple of Time, there is an image of a dragon divided into six equal parts. This is a solar, year-round clock - one of the first on earth! From sunrise to noon, the wall shadow slides from left to right, going one division in about an hour. At noon, the temple of time is fully illuminated, and in the afternoon, the shadow from the wall slides in the opposite direction, passing one division in just a few minutes.
