Stone tents archaeological site how to get there. Ekaterinburg: Stone tents. © Pavel Raspopov

Just two kilometers from the center of Yekaterinburg there is a unique natural monument, beloved by all citizens and tourists - Shartashskie stone tents. The structure has historical and cultural value and is a granite rock outcrop located near Lake Shartash; it is to this that they owe their name. The cliffs face an east-west direction and have a flat top that is easy to climb. Three buildings stand in a row, but have no connection with each other. The most monumental is in the center. The place is connected to the Shartashsky forest park, and in the middle of the two existing green areas there is beautiful lake Shartash.

The monumental and picturesque monument has a mattress-like shape, which was formed under the influence of weather conditions. The height of the rocks is 12 m, and the total height, including the earthen hill, is 25 m. At the foot of the formation on its northern part there is a granite amphitheater.

The main entrance to the park is shaped like a sphere cut in half. Having passed through it, travelers find themselves in front of a staircase leading directly to the tents.

Previously, visitors entering the rocks from the city side could see a memorial plaque installed here, a reminder that before the Great October Revolution this site became the site of illegal workers' meetings, May Days and gatherings of the Bolsheviks in 1905-1917, at which the leader often spoke Ural Bolsheviks Ya. M. Sverdlov. This memorial plaque has now been demolished.

Currently, stone tents belong to the Kirov district of Yekaterinburg and are considered one of the favorite vacation spots of citizens. Hiking, cycling or skiing take place here regularly, local residents have picnics and relax with children in the fresh air. Not long ago, stone tents were located in the forest outside the city, but since Yekaterinburg began to grow in the 1980s, they have entered it.

Story

The Urals are rich in rocks called stone tents. They all have a common slab shape, which was formed due to the weathering of granites. The most famous are Shartashsky. They consist of several rocky outcrops stretching from west to east for approximately 80 m.

Modern archaeological data report that the shores of Lake Shartash were home to ten settlements, and there were also sites of ancient people here, the earliest of which date back to the 3rd century BC. e. Their conditional center, sacrificial place and so-called “metallurgical base” was a ridge of impressive granite boulders, today called the Shartash stone tents. On the top of the western side of one of the rocks is a round stone bowl, which was presumably used for sacrifice.

For a long time, Ural local historians had a version that the place served as a sanctuary, built more than a hundred thousand years ago by the Atlantean giants.

The place has attracted scientists and amateur enthusiasts throughout its history, but only in 1889 N. A. Ryzhnikov became the organizer of the first archaeological research. A year later, his work was continued by S.I. Sergeev, A.F. Comes and other interested people. As a result of excavations it was found great amount fragments of ceramics and stone arrowheads, also found here were iron knives and bronze figurines, pieces of sheet copper, stone tools and burnt bones. Some of the finds were obtained between rock slabs, which prompted scientists late XIX century on the idea of the artificial origin of the monument.

Even 100 years ago, getting to the stone tents was quite difficult. They were in an inaccessible place and were surrounded by forests and swamps. At that time they were called “Talatka Tract”.

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the stone tents were under threat of destruction: the granite layers of the monument could be used as slabs for foundations and sidewalks, and they also wanted to build another quarry on this site. The rocks were saved through the efforts of the Ural Society of Natural History Lovers.

In the summer of 1914, Princess Elizaveta Fedorovna, who was visiting the holy places of the Urals, became familiar with the Shartash granite tents, which at that time had already become a regular gathering place for workers. Photographer N. N. Vvedensky captured a group photo of this event.

In the 1970-1980s, the area next to the stone tents, where the Clean Swamp had previously been located, began to be built up. After being formed new area, The Shartashsky monument entered the city limits.

Now

Currently, the stone tents have been given the status of a natural monument. Sverdlovsk region, they are also an object cultural heritage because of the archaeological finds made here.

Next to the newly installed entrance portal is a talisman stone dedicated to natural formation. Wishes are written on it for everyone entering the park through the portal; the amulet sign also contains several symbols that communicate the origin of the world from chaos and the foundations of the perfection of all existence - love, knowledge and justice.

At any time of the year, life is in full swing here; The city has long loved the place, which is explained by its convenient transport links: a public transport stop is located a few tens of meters from the monument. Just below the stone tents you can find a granite amphitheater; pioneers used to gather at this place. It has nothing to do with antiquity, however, it fits very organically into the overall landscape. Some of the destroyed elements of the amphitheater were restored not so long ago, as evidenced by the relatively fresh concrete inserts.

Walking near the natural monument, you can stumble upon a no longer functioning triangulation tower, which rises 14 meters above the ground. At its top there is a small platform, a staircase leads to it.

Clean fresh air, an abundance of pines and ferns, as if transporting you to a fabulous past, gigantic slabs of rocks - all this becomes another reason to look into a wonderful place.

A park

The Shartash Forest Park is a specially protected natural area; it encircles Lake Shartash on the southern side like a huge horseshoe. Pine trees grow here, you can find planted poplars and wild apple trees. The forest area is inhabited by rodents, there are many birds, tourists and local residents often meet squirrels, which are not at all afraid of people and take food from their hands.

The areas of the park that are accessible to visit are equipped with a road and path network; the park has trail markings and information boards; guests of this place can relax on numerous benches.

The archaeological site “Palkinsky Stone Tents” is located two kilometers northeast of the village of Palkino and is an island on the Iset River surrounded on three sides by a swamp and only one side facing the river bed. From the parking lot on the EKAD there is a deck made of tree trunks across the swamp, which is called a road.

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

Archaeological work on the island has been going on for more than half a century. It is the base camp of the Iset archaeological expedition, as evidenced by a sign on a pine tree. Unfortunately, at present, work on studying the ancient human site has been stopped due to lack of funding.

Scientists believe that there was an ancient settlement in this place, in which in the 6th-5th millennium BC. lived people engaged in hunting and fishing, as evidenced by the finds of remains of dwellings, tools, spearheads, stone weights for nets and images of prey.

The dwellings of these people, slightly sunk into the ground, were frame-and-post structures with a log roof and floor. In the interior, natural stone strata and boulders were used to construct beds and “tables”. Workshops for the production of stone tools were discovered on the territory of the monument: grinding plates, accumulations of rock pieces, anvils, tool blanks. Residents of the village used over 50 different rocks and minerals to make tools, which were found within a radius of about 70 km. This fact speaks of the excellent knowledge of the population of the natural resources of the region.

The cultural layer is rich in artifacts and contains a large number of fragments of stone, blanks of stone tools and flakes, indicating that the tools were made on site, directly near the settlements.

Our excursion

Every year at the beginning of September our class goes outdoors to celebrate the class's birthday. At the holiday we play, organize competitions, congratulate summer birthday people, communicate, exchange impressions of summer holidays. This year we moved from primary school In middle school, we began subject education, and, at the suggestion of history teacher Zoya Vasilievna Rakultseva, we have now decided to combine our holiday with an interesting lesson visiting our ancestors.

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

From the parking lot along a path and along a road through a swamp, we walked directly to the base camp of the Iset archaeological expedition. It is located approximately five hundred meters from the car park. In a spacious clearing with a fire pit, tables and benches, you can sit comfortably, have a snack, or warm up by the fire. Here we met our peers from another school.

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

Then we were shown a smooth-cut pebble with a hole from the teacher’s collection, and we were asked to guess what function it served for an ancient person. Having listed all sorts of ways to use it, we eventually guessed that it served as a sinker for a fishing net.

Then, near another stone tent, we saw on a vertical stone a relief in the form of a flying seagull, but the teacher said that this was a symbolic image of the antlers of an elk - the main object of hunting for people of that time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Stone tents ... Wikipedia

Outcrops of Paleozoic granites of the Shabrovsky massif to the surface near the village. B. Sedelnikovo. Pam. nature within the territory, adm. subordinate Ekat. Rocks similar to the Shartash rocks. tents stretch from South to North on both sides of the river. Aramilki, right. inflow of river... Ekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

Pam. nature, natural outcrop of granites of the Shartash granite massif near the south. h. shores of the lake Shartash B. Outcrops of granites on the surface form stones. wall in the form of mattress-like sections stacked on top of each other. The rocks are elongated in... ... Ekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

Pam. nature, located on the west. shore of the lake Shartash M. and represent outcrops of granite rocks in the form of slabs of the Shartash granite massif. High 8 10 m, pl. up to 200 sq. m, height above sea level 276 m. L.S. Epiphany... Ekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

Tents I, II- places of ancient production, settlement, sanctuary. Ekat., Zheleznodorozhny district, left. river bank Iseti. Pam. located on the island of Kamennye Palatki, surrounded by swamps, 2 km north-northwest from the village. Palkino. Research zap. Part of the island consists of two... ... Ural Historical Encyclopedia

Coordinates: 42°33′45″ N. w. 77°07′27″ W d. / 42.5625° n. w. 77.124167° W d. ... Wikipedia

On the territory of Bolshoy Ekat. and its surroundings known to St. 190 archaeol. memory Their initial discovery was of a random nature: during the railway at the station The Kalmatsky Ford burial ground was discovered in Gat, near the station. Palkino, the Right Bank Palkino sites were destroyed,... ... Ekaterinburg (encyclopedia)

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The same feeling that helps some animals travel thousands of kilometers to return to where they were born and lived?
In this case, humanity, emerging from Africa, would have left the continents it inhabited and moved en masse to the hot part of the world...

One way or another, the author never manages to leave the Urals and fly in his virtual travel in Russia and the World somewhere on Far East, or to Argentina.
After leaving Chelyabinsk region, he didn’t travel very far from his native region, and found himself in Kurgan region, and then returned and again thought about his future routes.
Here Oksana Devi, a Ural girl living in Bangalore, came to the rescue.
In this regard, the author did not fly far, did not travel, but moved north from Chelyabinsk, and even then only 200 kilometers.

Below is Oksana’s story about the wonders of “Stone Tents” in the park of her native Yekaterinburg.
Eburg Park "Stone Tents"
One of the favorite vacation spots of Yekaterinburg residents is the forest park area of the Kirovsky district, the main attraction of which is the Stone Tents.
Stone tents are granite rocks of unusual shape, as if someone had built them from “stone mattresses”.

The rocks are located on a natural hill and that makes them look even more impressive, because... reach together with her, in their very high point, 25 meters high. By the way, it’s not so easy to climb them! As a child, I knew all the ways to climb, but now, without keeping an eye on the nimble kids, I definitely won’t be able to climb there.

The history of the emergence of Stone Tents still causes a lot of controversy. Scientists claim that these are the remains of mountains, and wind, water and temperature changes created such a bizarre shape, although, more recently, at the beginning of the 20th century, they believed that this was the creation of human hands. Lovers of mysticism look for traces of primitive giants, and even extraterrestrial creatures, on these boulders. Indeed, many questions arise regarding the structure and location of these rocks; they fit too harmoniously into the theory of the construction of ancient temple complexes..

Be that as it may, but also more modern history The Stone Tents are quite interesting.
Near the rocks, literally a kilometer away, there is ancient lake Shartash, (it is more than 1 million years old), next to which traces of sites of ancient people who lived there before our era were found.

So, there are assumptions that the Stone Tents were their sanctuary, which supporters of this statement find confirmation in the form of a “sacrificial stone”, the purpose of the recess in which seems to them quite obvious.

There are other assumptions; in this depression, ancient people could easily make a regular fire and cook food on it.

But in the troubled pre-revolutionary times of 1917, Bolsheviks secretly gathered at Kamenny Palatki, which were then far outside the city limits, organizing workers’ meetings and May meetings there. In the 60s, on the side of the forest, lower under the rocks, an amphitheater was built, where completely legal pioneer and Komsomol gatherings were held, and in the 80s, I already remember this myself, the then popular Zarnitsa for schoolchildren began near the boulders.

Now this natural monument has been located within the city for a long time. There are buses and trams across the road from it, and there are high-rise buildings, one of which my family still lives in.

Residents of the area love to spend their weekends in the park, but it is also crowded on weekdays. Young mothers like to walk here, schoolchildren come here for herbariums or for physical education lessons, athletes go jogging along the “health path” still preserved from Soviet times, cyclists are attracted to cross-country runs around the lake, and couples seek solitude on the benches. The lake is popular only in two seasons: in summer - among amateurs beach holiday, and in winter - among fishermen and “Ural walruses” swimming in the ice hole.

There are many rocks called “stone tents” in the Urals. As a rule, they are united by the mattress-like shape of the slabs, formed as a result of weathering of granites. The most famous stone tents are the Shartash ones. They are located right within the city of Yekaterinburg.

These stone tents got their name from Lake Shartash, 800 meters southwest of which they are located.

The Shartash stone tents consist of several rocky outcrops, stretching from west to east for about 80 meters. The height of the rock outcrops is from 5 to 18 meters. The height above sea level is 299 meters, and above the level of Lake Shartash - 24 meters. They belong to the Shartash granite massif, which is 300 million years old.

In the distant past, our ancestors had an altar in this place. At the top of the rock (on the western side) you can see a round stone bowl, presumably used for sacrifices.

The first archaeological research was carried out on the Shartash stone tents in 1889 by N.A. Ryzhnikov. The following year, the study was continued by S.I. Sergeev, A.F. Comes et al.

Numerous fragments of ceramics, stone tools, arrowheads made of stone, bones and metal, crystal beads with traces of drilling, bronze figurines, an iron knife, small burnt bones, metallurgical slag, pieces of sheet copper, etc. were discovered here.

We also came across finds between rock slabs. This prompted researchers at the end of the 19th century to assume that the stone tents were of artificial origin.

Just a century ago, getting to the stone tents was not so easy. They were located in a remote place, surrounded by forests and swamps. In those days they were called “Talatki Tract”.

Painting depicting Shartash tents, author I.K. Slyusarev, 1931

There are also Small stone tents located on the shore of Lake Maly Shartash.

How to get to the Shartash stone tents in Yekaterinburg

Stone tents are located at the entrance to the Shartash Forest Park, in the ZhBI microdistrict. You can reach them at public transport Yekaterinburg. For example, on one of the trams going to “40 years of the Komsomol” (No. 8, 13,15, 23, 32, “A”). The stop you need is called “Stone Tents”. To get to the rocks, you just need to cross the road. GPS coordinates of the Shartash stone tents: N 56° 50.578, E 60° 40.720.