Taganay is a mountain range located in the west of the Chelyabinsk region. It occupies part of the Taganay National Park. This is a magnificent creation of nature, beauty embodied in stone.
Name history
Translated from the Bashkir Taganay means "Stand of the Moon." And this is very similar to the truth - on a clear night you can watch the moon as if “sitting” on one of the peaks. Locals know many beautiful legends about their land. They are happy to tell their tourists.
For example, about the battle of the Svarog brothers with Diva, after which the "divine people" were hidden under the Ural Mountains. The kingdom of Diva has sunk underground and is still in captivity to this day. Almost all the legends of the local population are based on the fact that in the depths of the mountain lives a people who have been hiding from people for millennia.
Mount Taganay - specifications
Taganay - mountains that wonderfully combine charred outliers on the peaks with granite rocks located in the middle of a century-old forest, and picturesque river channels. Mount Taganay is the common name for the three ranges. Their total length is more than 20 kilometers. Locals call them Small, Medium and Large Taganay.
Big Taganay consists of several peaks. These are the Responsive Comb, the Two-Headed Sopka, Kruglitsa and Dalny. The highest of them is Mount Kruglitsa (Taganay). She rose 1178 m above sea level. Kruglitsa has a round shape, probably the name came from it. Indigenous people call it the “Bashkir cap”. It really outlines resembles a Turkic headdress of a conical shape. According to the height of Kruglitsa, it is considered that the height of Taganay Mountain is 1178 meters.
The upper sections of Taganay are formed by quartzites. A feature of these places is a unique mica with interspersed sparkles that sparkle in the sun. This is taganaite, better known as aventurine. It looks great in souvenirs and jewelry.
Almost all Taganay ranges are characterized by steepness of slopes of 10-15 ° at the base, 15-25 ° in the middle and 25-35 ° at the top. As a rule, peaks are inaccessible. They impress everyone who comes to see Taganay. The mountains are striking in their grandeur and beauty. Of particular note is the luxurious Response Comb.
Rivers
In this mountain range originate the rivers that later feed the great Caspian. First of all, it is the Kusa river with its tributaries Shumga, Big and Small Braid.
Natural features
On this earth, two climatic zones are distinguished: one of them is located on the peaks. It consists of subalpine forests and meadows, and the second - in the valleys and on the lower slopes of the mountains.
Various natural zones that connect on Taganai give this region a special originality. The northern part of the ranges is covered with spruce-fir forests of the middle taiga. On the eastern slopes there are taiga forests in which larch, birch, and larch grow. In addition, there are areas covered by beautiful birch-pine forests.
Mount Taganay (Zlatoust) on the highlands is covered with mountain tundra and subalpine meadows. These places are unique in that plants of the Central European, Western, Eastern species, and Central Siberian flora coexist here. Arctic plants descend along the high mountains far to the south, and steppe vegetation tends to the north along the foothills of the east.
Mount Taganay is an old Ural massif. Seismic activity is recorded here. In 2002, the last earthquake with a power of 3.5 points was recorded.
Riddles of Taganay
On sunny and hot days, many tourists, as well as the locals, observe an interesting effect - Mount Taganay seems to sway. Experts explain this phenomenon by the proximity of groundwater. Under the influence of sunlight, moisture begins to evaporate actively, and the effect of the mobility of the rock mass is created in the ascending air currents.
Mount Taganay - part of the Ural zone, which is considered anomalous. Here you can often find expeditions of ufologists, locals manage to see traces of the “bigfoot”, tourists talk about meetings with ghosts.
The weather conditions on Taganai are amazing. In a matter of minutes, they can dramatically change. During the day, the temperature often fluctuates within ten degrees. Locals will not be surprised by the snow that fell in June. Tourists can survive in one day all the seasons - from sultry summers to harsh and windy winters. Another feature is strong winds, their speed sometimes reaches 50 m per second.
An amazing picture of the Southern Urals opens from the Taganay mountains. The beauty and features of the natural complex are fascinating and surprising. Even in bad weather, the peaks of Taganay, shrouded in a veil of fog, amaze with grandeur. Tourists from different regions of the country seek these places. Here are traditional routes for tourists.
National park
This unique park was created in March 1991. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that in a relatively small area various animals live and plants from different geographical zones grow.
Taganay National Park is full of secrets and mysteries. The mountain range is surrounded by a dense forest - the best place to live for various evil spirits. Locals say that the caves of the ridge are inhabited by amazing creatures, and Mount Kruglitsa is a point of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence - Roerich himself wrote about this.
Nature generously endowed Taganay Park with its amazing creations. In a relict forest, among unusual mountain ranges, stone rivers flow, petrified heroes of fairy tales live, and they consider the water from the springs to be living. All this splendor fascinates even an experienced traveler.
Taganay mountains will be conquered even by an unprepared tourist. When going camping, wear comfortable shoes and do not forget the remedies for ticks and mosquitoes. In the rainy season, travelers are unlikely to get along without rubber boots.
Stone river
In this array you can see unique attractions. Taganay became famous throughout the world for its amazing natural formation, which is a uniform pile of huge rocky fragments. The length of the stone Taganay River exceeds six kilometers, and its width reaches 200 meters.
The stone river "flows" between the mountain Two-headed hill and the Sredny Taganay ridge. Its origin to date is not defined. There is a version that the stone river is formed by a glacier that descended from the Taganay mountains.
Anomalous zone
In the Taganay forestry, which was built at the foot of the mountain, V.N. Efimova, an employee of the environmental department, confirmed rumors about the abnormality of these places.
As it turned out, in the mountains - on the ridge Urenga - quite often appear ball lightning, more often than other places. Plasma balls are also frequent in the village of Veselovka. These objects behave quite strangely - they hit in the same places, as if consciously looping during movement. According to experts, there is a "nesting of lightning" in a classic form, with reduced soil resistance. This indicates either large deposits of metal, or sources of water that are underground.
Mysterious swamp
The anomalous Taganay is represented by an even more mysterious place - the Great Moss Swamp. It is located between the tip of Small Taganay in the north and the southern foothills of Itzil. The swamp occupies an area of 36 square meters. kilometers and is located in a giant hollow of tectonic origin. It resembles an oval bowl with a long axis.
On this territory, the human psyche changes - orientation is disturbed, because of this even experienced foresters can get lost here. Travelers here seem all sorts of amazing things that seem so real that they are taken at face value.
Most likely, this is due to a mixture of underground gases, which contain carbon dioxide and methane. They come out of a large deep fault and have toxicological and psychotropic effects on humans.
Those who want to wander through the swamp swamps expose themselves to intoxication and sometimes serious poisoning. This condition contributes to meetings with "flying saucers", humanoids, translucent substances, kikimors.
There are also sound mirages. Various forest noises can be heard - rustling of foliage, as when approaching, close steps. In fact, nobody will be around.
Tourists often stop at the Response ridge. This name he received for the ridge-shaped shape and a loud, repeatedly amplified echo, which occurs due to the reflection of sound from each vertical rock. If you look at the crest from afar, it resembles a stegosaurus lizard, and a wave of the sea, and an elongated crest.
A tectonic fault passes in the northeast of the ridge. In 2002, tourists noted several turbulences of air in the form of dark pillars over Taganay. Later, meteorological services confirmed this information. The tornado appeared when a cold front passed through Taganay. It consisted of three independent vortices, which joined together.
Sand slides
If you go along the path leading to Kruglitsa, you can get into the "Valley of Fairy Tales" - Sand Slides. This is an area of extraordinary beauty - the saddle of a undersized coniferous forest. Here you can see glades with numerous original outliers.
The valley is in the zone of intense tectonic movements of the past. Between the rocks quite often there is a “walking” fog. Moreover, he also “sings” when he falls into stone cracks and rubs against grains of different strengths. There are a lot of spruce trees without tops - they suffered from autumn and winter windfalls.
In the clearing, the batteries run out very quickly, as a result, all electronic devices (video cameras, watches, cameras) refuse to work. Photographs are usually illuminated, and people see abnormal phenomena, for example, flying luminous balls.
The northern part of Kruglitsa is very attractive for ufologists. This is a perfectly flat area measuring 0.2x0.4 kilometers. Particularly fanatical ufologists are sure that this is the place where the energy exchange with the Cosmos takes place. Some symbolic letters and signs are laid out of stones there. Esotericists, occultists, psychics draws here like a magnet. Judging by the ribbons hung in this place, which symbolize the wishes made, and the sacred signs inscribed on the stones, Roerich people regularly come here. Pilgrims are sure that such a peak is given such attention due to the presence of a special positive energy.
