Abandoned villages of the Chelyabinsk region with a tractor. Abandoned villages of the Chelyabinsk region: list

There is no point in hiding that abandoned villages and other populated areas are the object of research for many people who are passionate about treasure hunting (and not only). There is a place for those who like attic searching to roam, to “ring through” the basements of abandoned houses, to explore wells, and much more. etc. Of course, the likelihood that your colleagues or local residents very high, but, nevertheless, there are no “knocked out places”.

Reasons that lead to the desertion of villages

Before starting to list the reasons, I would like to dwell on the terminology in more detail. There are two concepts - abandoned settlements and disappeared settlements.

Disappeared settlements are geographical objects that today have completely ceased to exist as a result of military actions, man-made and natural disasters, time. In place of such points one can now see a forest, a field, a pond, anything, but not standing abandoned houses. This category of objects is also of interest to treasure hunters, but we are not talking about them now.

Abandoned villages precisely belong to the category of abandoned settlements, i.e. towns, villages, hamlets, etc., abandoned by residents. Unlike the disappeared settlements, the abandoned ones for the most part retain their architectural appearance, buildings and infrastructure, i.e. are in a state close to the time when the settlement was abandoned. So people left, why? A decline in economic activity, which we can see now, as people from villages tend to move to the city; wars; disasters of various types (Chernobyl and its environs); other conditions that make living in a given region inconvenient and unprofitable.

How to find abandoned villages?

Naturally, before heading headlong to the search site, it is necessary to prepare a theoretical basis, saying in simple words, calculate these most likely places. A number of specific sources and tools will help us with this.

Today, one of the most accessible and fairly informative sources is Internet:

The second quite popular and accessible source- these are ordinary topographic maps. It would seem, how can they be useful? Yes, very simple. Firstly, both tracts and uninhabited villages are already marked on fairly well-known maps of the Gentstab. It is important to understand one thing here: a tract is not only an abandoned settlement, but simply any part of the area that is different from other areas of the surrounding area. And yet, on the site of the tract there may not be any village for a long time, but that’s okay, walk around with a metal detector among the holes, collect metal garbage, and then you’ll get lucky. Not everything is simple with non-residential villages either. They may not be completely uninhabited, but may be used, say, as summer cottages, or may be occupied illegally. In this case, I don’t see any point in doing anything, no one needs problems with the law, and the local population can be quite aggressive.

If you compare the same map of the General Staff and a more modern atlas, you can notice some differences. For example, there was a village in the forest on the General Staff, a road led to it, and suddenly the road disappeared on a more modern map; most likely, the residents left the village and began to bother with road repairs, etc.

The third source is local newspapers, local people, local museums. Communicate more with the natives, interesting topics there will always be someone to talk to, and in between you can ask about the historical past of this region. What can locals tell you about? Yes, a lot of things, the location of the estate, the manor’s pond, where there are abandoned houses or even abandoned villages, etc.

Local media is also a fairly informative source. Moreover, now even the most provincial newspapers are trying to acquire their own website, where they diligently post individual notes or even entire archives. Journalists travel a lot on their business and interview, including old-timers, who like to mention various interesting facts during their stories.

Don't hesitate to go to provincial local history museums. Not only are their exhibitions often interesting, but a museum employee or guide can also tell you a lot of interesting things.

Studying maps of the Chelyabinsk region, winding on my two-wheeled vehicle along the roads around Chelyabinsk, I suddenly discovered that the village of Shcherbaki had disappeared very close to the city limits.

On the spot former village There are three mighty ancient poplars that are difficult to grasp even with a small company. There is another poplar tree standing to the side.

Having gone on a short journey through Shagol, the stopping point "226 km" and Zavarukhino, I crossed the Sorochiy Log stream,

arrived at the proposed settlement site. On the site of the village, built back in the 18th century, only four poplars and barely noticeable hills remained, overgrown with quinoa and nettles. From the hill where the clay quarry is located, Bukharino to the West and Zavarukhino to the North are clearly visible. The Zyuzelga in this place flows in small loops, is very picturesque and quite rich in small fish.

In some places you can simply step over it, in others it spreads up to 3 meters with clearly visible swirls.
IN old maps Shcherbaki were already marked on the general survey plan of 1800-05.

On the map of the gold mines of the early 20th century, Shcherbaki is also there

When did this village disappear, located just a few kilometers from the high-rise buildings of the North-West, located by the way in a beautiful place, with a relatively clean Zyuzelga. After all, Bukharino has not disappeared; moreover, it is now being built up with cottages for Chelyabinsk residents. Maybe someone knows, please share the information. Favorite source of information, encyclopedia " Chelyabinsk region", says absolutely nothing.

The two-story factory administration building of the Ust-Katavsky plant near the city dam was built in the last decade of the nineteenth century and is an architectural monument of regional significance. Later, the building housed a junior high school. The building is now abandoned and reconstruction is planned.

The temple was built in 1835. The church was closed in 1930. It was used as a granary and then as a garage. The building has perfectly preserved frescoes. The vault of this church, according to an eyewitness, collapsed in the early 2000s. Metal assemblers arrived, cut off the metal overhead connections of the vault by welding, loaded them into the car and drove off. And the next morning, a powerful cylindrical vault collapsed, which with cords could have stood for another hundred years. Therefore, the main four...

The church was founded in 1838. In the 1930s it was closed and served as a workshop for tractors. The entrance is widened for cars. The frescoes inside have not survived. There are no plans to restore the temple.

The stone church was founded in 1843. Construction was completed in 1848. The warm chapel was consecrated in 1850 in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Cold, the main church was consecrated in 1863 in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The temple was closed in the 30s of the 20th century. Served as a warehouse. Currently the temple is abandoned. Cracks began to spread along the walls, and part of the dome and light drum collapsed. In some places the floor caved in, allowing access to a vast...

The Yubileiny cultural and entertainment center was built in 1970. At that time it belonged to the Plastics plant. About ten years ago it was abandoned due to the transfer of ownership to the city of Kopeysk. During Soviet times, all sorts of events were held there, such as clubs for children, concerts, and film screenings. On the territory there was a fountain with a metal monument to the pioneers (the latter has now been sawed out). Apparently, attempts were made to reconstruct the palace...

The Urukul church is small, it was built in 1910. At the same time, a parochial school and a house for the priest were erected. The priest's house today houses a gingerbread shop, and the parochial school building has been turned into a residential building. There was once a club in the church. Now it is in a ruined state - there is no roof, floor, doors. Even 2 years ago there was talk about its restoration, but it never came to fruition. About the name of the church given today...

Single-altar stone church in honor of Michael the Archangel. Located in the village of Feklino, which stands next to the lake of the same name. Year of construction: 1866. The temple is of the neo-Byzantine type, cross-domed, without a light drum. On the walls of the temple part, in contrast to the bell tower and the refectory, remains of plaster have been preserved. And the nature of the brickwork is different. The bell tower and refectory are finished with red facing bricks. Emergency condition....

The Church in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Kirdy, built in the 19th century. It was not possible to find out the exact date of construction. In Soviet times it was closed, and the building was successively occupied by a horse yard, then a machine and tractor station. The thickness of the walls of the Pokrovsk Church is amazing. Literally a few meters from the church, a village cultural center was built, which is now also abandoned.

It all started with one photo, taken while I was fishing and looking at a village on the opposite shore of the lake. Zoom pulled up and the outlines of an old church appeared...
Of course, the next weekend we went fishing through the village. And when I returned, I sat down to look.

The first photo is across the lake.

The village of Sugoyak is located one hundred kilometers northeast of Chelyabinsk. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village belonged to the Shadrinsky district of the Perm province, in different periods of Soviet times it was part of the Miass, Brodokolmaksky and Krasnoarmeysky districts.
The exact etymology of the word "Sugoyak" is unknown. “Su” in Bashkir means “water”, “Ayak” means “leg”. According to various versions, the name of the lake can be translated as “wet foot”, “cold foot”, “stopping water”.
The exact date of the founding of the village has not been established, but there is interesting evidence of the antiquity of this settlement. In “Essays on the disasters of the Dalmatovsky monastery and part of the region from 1644 to 1742” by Archpriest Grigory Plotnikov, published in the “Perm Diocesan Gazette” for 1869, the village of Sugoyak is already mentioned when describing the Bashkir uprising of 1736. Meanwhile, the village of Miasskaya (now the village of Miasskoye), as well as the city of Chelyabinsk, were founded precisely in 1736. Consequently, the village of Sugoyak is older than these settlements.
The neighboring village of Russkaya Techa, located just 10 km away, was founded by the peasant Ivan Sinitsyn under the name Beloyarskaya Sloboda in 1682, then it became known as Techenskaya Sloboda. Russian Techa is the oldest Russian settlement throughout the Chelyabinsk region.

One of the old Sugoyak houses

Perhaps Sugoyak also originated in late XVII V. This could have been facilitated by the proximity of the Russian Techa, which played an important role in the formation of the Chelyabinsk region (the former Iset province), the first administrative center of which was the Russian Techa in the first half of the 18th century.
About the church. Sugoyak Elijah Church built and consecrated in 1868. The decision to build a stone church was made at a lay meeting. They were built using classical Russian technology, using chicken eggs to prepare the cement mortar. The church was closed in 1932; according to the recollections of old-timers, the authorities tried to destroy it and even brought a battering machine for this purpose.

Photo from 1992

However, all they could do was knock off the plaster in places and tear off the crosses from the domes; The cross on the bell tower remains to this day the highest point in the vicinity. What the battering machine failed to do, inexorable time is slowly doing - the church is gradually being destroyed. Local residents removed the iron sheets from the domes and tore out some of the openwork grilles from the windows to sell them for scrap; One of the marble cemetery slabs lying next to the church disappeared somewhere - perhaps it was also useful to someone on the farm. During the years of Soviet power, the Ilyinskaya Church was used as a vegetable warehouse and a garage. Due to the fact that the garage was quite dry, back in the 80s of the 20th century, the remains of frescoes and memorial inscriptions could be seen there.

Elias Church today (my photos):

They say that the Soviet government was unable to requisition church property in full - some of the utensils and frames made of precious metals were either taken out or hidden by clergy. According to one version, the treasure is hidden somewhere under the church building, where there were basements and an underground passage, possibly leading to the priest's house, which still stands opposite. The beginning of the collapsed underground passage could be seen at the end of the 20th century.

The priest's house (seemed strange, more like a merchant's shop). We did not find the beginning of the collapsed underground passage.

Historical facts quoted from an article by Irina PASHNINA, Sugoyak Village (“Ural Pathfinder”, No. 12, 2006)

Elias Church in the village of Sugoyak (consecrated in 1868)

The Chelyabinsk region is one of the richest in anomalous phenomena in our country, and it’s probably not without reason that the famous meteorite fell on its territory in 2013. Let's try to put together the main Chelyabinsk mysticism from urban legends to evidence of UFO and Bigfoot sightings.

Almost every city has its own symbol representing mysticism, secrets and urban legends. As a rule, this is an abandoned building with a rich history and extremely atypical architecture. There is a similar object in Chelyabinsk - a dilapidated building that was once a grain elevator for a state bank.

The building, which is almost a century old, is located in the most inconspicuous corner of the city center, far from the “fashionable new buildings” and mirrored business centers, a forgotten giant, involuntarily attracting the gaze of passers-by and tourists.

Lovers of mysticism, paranormal phenomena, “roofers”, “diggers” and other adventurers are trying to get inside an abandoned building, sometimes risking their own lives, in order to find a mythical treasure guarded by a ghost.

They say that the Tsar Rat, a huge rodent, lives in the elevator’s dungeons. Eyewitnesses also claim that there is an inscription on the wall in Latin associated with something diabolical.

Monument to Lenin on Revolution Square

In the center of Chelyabinsk there is a monument to Lenin, but no one thought about what was under it. The fact is that under the city there is a whole network of underground tunnels and bunkers.

The Ural diggers have already tried to examine them, but every time something stopped them. Some suspect that these are spirits or demons that for some reason do not allow them to pass on.

It was installed in 1959 and immediately became the hero of a local legend. It says that the monument was erected a month before the expected opening date so that city residents would get used to the new look of the square. A few days after the installation of the monument, the local department received a statement from the South Ural Hotel, located not far from the monument: in one of its luxury rooms, several guests died in a row, and one went crazy.

The case was transferred to the KGB, because at that time in elite rooms simple people didn't stop. To find the cause of the strange deaths, secret service officers were ordered to be on duty in the mysterious room.

And one night they saw a hand reaching out of the darkness. The vision looked very realistic, but then it turned out that it was just a shadow from the hand of the monument standing outside the window. So that the bronze Lenin would not scare anyone else, the monument was hastily redone, but there were some incidents - the new monument ended up with two caps at once: on the head and in the hand. The mistake was soon corrected.

Opera and Ballet Theatre

The Opera and Ballet Theater in Chelyabinsk, according to legend, was built on bones. There is an opinion that the historical building was erected on the site of an old cemetery. Residents were buried there when Chelyabinsk was still a fortress city.

Some of the remains were reburied, but some were left lying in the ground. And now the disturbed dead do not give rest to the living. The builders themselves said that at night or early in the morning they noticed silhouettes or heard voices.

When the theater was completely rebuilt, employees of the institution allegedly began to complain about voices, visions and strange sounds. However, archaeologists claim that the theater building was not built on the cemetery itself, but hundreds of meters from it, closer to the tram tracks at the intersection of Zwilling and Truda streets.

– In 1996, workers were laying a fire water pipeline to Art gallery across the square in front of the Opera House,” shared historian Gayaz Samigulov, who took part in the excavations of the cemetery. - When they were driving a trench from Truda Street, the excavator caught the coffin. This is how a cemetery was found, probably founded about three years after the appearance of the fortress.

This mass grave was located near the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which stood at the current intersection of Truda and Zwilling streets near the Opera House. This incident had a wide resonance at one time - quite a lot of publications in the press, a lively discussion of the question of the possible date of the emergence of the necropolis. Then more than 100 burials of children and adults were found. The bones were reburied at the Mitrofanovskoye cemetery.

Park of Culture and Leisure named after Gagarin

On the territory of the Gagarin Culture and Recreation Park in Chelyabinsk, according to one legend, it is quite possible to meet the ghost of a cat, dog or even a turtle. They say that ghost animals roam the park alleys because this is where their owners once buried them.

Regional Legislative Assembly building

On the site where the ZSO building is now located, before the revolution there was a transit prison. Over time, the dark aura of the underworld did not dissipate. They say that at night near the parliament you can hear the sound of shackles, hoarse laughter and muffled swearing.

The house on Tswillinga Street, where the registry office of the Sovetsky district is now located, was built on the site of the destroyed Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. There is a legend in Chelyabinsk that those who get married in this registry office will live happily ever after.

The Ghost of Samuel Zwilling

In 1917, the leader of the revolutionary movement, Samuil Moiseevich Tswilling, lived in the old mansion at 20 Zwillinga (now there is the Balkan Grill restaurant). According to legend, the famous communist personally hacked to death with an ax the local police chief in this house.

Local old-timers say that they have seen the ghost of a chopped-up police chief more than once. Eyewitnesses claim that he silently walked near the house, and then disappeared into the fog. Now he is doomed to wander forever for raising his hand against comrade Zwilling.

Residents of a new microdistrict at ChTZ are frightened by ghosts from the cemetery

On the site of new buildings in the ChTZ area there used to be a cemetery, which for half a century frightened the residents of the harsh area. When construction began, the graves were dug up, and the ashes of the dead prisoners of war and Red Army soldiers were reburied at the Pokrovskoye cemetery.

However, local residents still had a “bad taste” in their mouth. They say that after the reburial they see glowing silhouettes in the darkness of the night.

Haunted house on Krasnoarmeyskaya street 100

According to legend, another ancient mansion in Chelyabinsk is inhabited by a ghost. The house, which is also called “Larintsev’s Mansion,” is located on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, 100. Many tried to settle there: business companies, the bailiff service, communal apartments and even the military registration and enlistment office.

But no one could stay there for long. Everyone was disturbed by the constant howls and rustling noises; supposedly the merchant Larintsev himself walked here at night. There is a version that the owner of the house was killed by his servant.

It is known that the fleeing military registration and enlistment office employees even forgot the safe with the files of conscripts, so this ghost was very helpful to someone.

Woman in white

In America there is a legend about a woman in white. A ghost who causes fatal accidents. Similar cases were recorded in Chelyabinsk.

Fatal accidents have repeatedly occurred at the intersection of Shaumyan and Dovator streets. It is known that there used to be an ancient cemetery there. But despite this, developers built residential buildings and built roads over the burial sites.

People believe that this area is full of negative energy, and this is what causes terrible accidents at the intersection of these streets. Let us remember that terrible accidents have happened here more than once. The traffic police called this intersection one of the most dangerous in the city.

Loch Ness monster in Lake Smolino

Lake Smolino is a fragment of an ancient sea; it even has sea-type water. Among many fishermen there is a legend that a certain giant carp, nicknamed “Karp Karpych,” lives in the lake.

There is also a second legend that the lake has a “double bottom”. Another body of water in the city also has its own legend. Allegedly, monsters live in the city river; there are even rumors that these are baby mermaids.

Fishermen began to catch strange creatures of quite large sizes more often. The shield whale, one of the most ancient animals on the planet, was captured on videotape. Usually it does not exceed 7 centimeters, but in the area of ​​the village of Churilov a 60-centimeter “monster” was caught. Most likely, the animal underwent a mutation, but as a result of what happened, the transformation remains a mystery.

Witch's hole on Pushkin Street

This is the name given to one of the houses located near the Pushkin cinema. According to legend, this is where the door to the other world is located. One of the reasons for this belief is that one of the entrances is uninhabited.

People either move out after a while or start getting sick. Of course, all this may be a coincidence, however, it is known that the Kazansko-Bogoroditsky cemetery used to be there. Some claim that they hear voices in the apartment and see shadows of people.

Bigfoot in the Satka region

Residents of the village of Suleya in the Satka region admit that they often see Bigfoot near the swamp. This place is notorious: strange creatures have been seen there more than once. It is believed that getting caught by them is a bad sign.

On July 29, 1990, N. Avdeev’s expedition arrived in Satka to look for Bigfoot. The researchers went to the Satka forests and mountains. That same evening, upon arrival in one of the indicated areas, they met a small “leson” whose legs were like stilts. Then the meetings with the “goblin” were repeated. V. B. Sapunov writes about this in his book “Bigfoot: is the solution to the mystery close?”

It also describes that one day Bigfoot threw stones at researchers. We saw him at close range. It is noticed that the face is clean, dark, the nostrils are large, the eyes are large, the ears are not visible - they are overgrown with thick hair. His height was at least three meters.

Quite often, members of the expedition found beds where goblin rested, large prints of bare feet, wool, even droppings, unusually curved birch trees, which, according to N. Avdeev, were used by the goblin to mark their territory.

Lake Shaitanka

Lake Shaitanka, located in the Ashinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, is overgrown with a huge number of legends. First of all, this is a common idea among local residents about the extremely great depth of the lake, reaching 200 meters, and its connection with groundwater.

There are also stories of a coastal village that was flooded when the lake overflowed its banks. In addition, in the nineties, one of the local newspapers published evidence that fishermen allegedly observed an underwater monster (ichthyosaur) emerging from the depths of the lake.

There are also reports of increased paranormal activity in the vicinity of the lake. The media reported that from the village of Uk, located next to the lake, evidence of UFO sightings comes more often than from many other places. settlements. There is evidence of the appearance of certain “ghosts” near or above the lake, as well as “mermaids”.

Taganay National Park

Taganay National Park is also famous for its fantastic phenomena. And in the last 15 years, the properties of an anomalous zone have been attributed to the Taganay ridge massif.

There are constant mentions of encounters with Bigfoot in this area, frequent flights and landings of UFOs, contacts with Supreme Mind, local chronomirages, the appearance of ghosts, changes in the physical passage of time, and also inexplicable feelings of fear and anxiety.

Some say that in some places the usual passage of time disappears, others claim that they personally met the “Kialim Grandma”.

For example, one winter in Dalny Taganay, even the director of the weather station saw her near the bottom well. Seeing the director, the “grandmother” rushed headlong into the depths of the taiga. She was barefoot and lightly dressed, although the frost was fierce.

Vera Island

An island on Lake Turgoyak, located near its western shore. It is notable for the megalithic structures located on it. The area of ​​the island is 6.5 hectares. The small island - only 800 meters at its widest point - holds an incredible number of secrets.

After a thorough examination, many discoveries were made that amazed archaeologists. The oldest historical monument on the island is the Neanderthal site, it is about 60 thousand years old! But the main finds were megaliths. Megaliths are prehistoric structures made of large stone blocks joined together without the use of cement or lime mortar.

The megaliths found on Vera Island are classified as dolmens. Dolmens are called megaliths, which in ancient times were funerary and religious buildings. The megaliths located on the island, according to scientists, were presumably built about 6000 years ago, in the 4th millennium BC. e. It is assumed that approximately 5–8 thousand years ago an earthquake occurred on the island and sharply rising water flooded the ancient dwelling and then left.

The megaliths of Vera Island are a mysterious, unique complex of megaliths discovered by archaeologists in 2004. The megaliths were allegedly built about 6,000 years ago, in the 4th millennium BC. uh

The largest structure on the island is megalith No. 1 - a stone structure measuring 19×6 m, cut into the rocky ground and covered with massive stone slabs.

The walls of the structure are made using dry masonry from massive stone blocks. The megalith consists of three chambers and corridors connecting them. In two chambers of the megalith, rectangular pits were found carved into the rock. The connection between the building and the main astronomical directions has been recorded. Two sculptures were discovered inside the megalith - a bull and a wolf. The building is tentatively interpreted as a temple complex.

Cross on the Island of Faith - According to esotericists, the Island of Faith is an energy source of strength. The cult site “Island of Faith 9” is an artificially leveled site with a system of menhirs (menhirs are vertically placed oblong stone slabs). The central object on the site is a menhir surrounded by several large stones.

The height of the menhir is about 1 m, a natural quartz vein gives its upper part a beak-like shape, and an image of a fish is carved into the base of the menhir.

At some distance to the west of this central menhir, another stood in ancient times. Their center line sets the direction "west-east", at sunrise on the day of the equinox. The system of landmarks in ancient times consisted of another menhir, which, together with the central one, formed the direction “northwest - southeast”, for sunrise on the day of the winter solstice.

St. Simeon Monastery

The abandoned St. Simeon Monastery, located in the Kasli region, is considered a real anomalous zone.

They say that 6 evil spirits live there: nuns who were shot for their faith. Near this place, tourists assure, the compass and other instruments do not work.

Geophysicists with their instruments, together with dowsers with their frames, walked around the contours of the cathedral and received signals about the presence of underground galleries. Detailed studies were carried out on the site in front of the apse.

It turned out that two underground passages emerge from under the altar hall of the temple at an angle to each other. Their general direction is deep into the once densely built-up monastic territory. This direction is consistent with the location of some dry wells, as if they, these wells, are either ventilation devices or exits from underground areas.

Damn town

One of the most mysterious places in the Chelyabinsk region is Devil’s Settlement – ​​rocky ridges up to 20 meters high. Almost all of them remind impressionable tourists of either human figures or bizarre animals turned into stone.

There are legends among local residents that sacrifices and mysterious rituals were once performed there. When approaching the Devil's Settlement, tourists' watches stop and their camera batteries run out.

Lake Itkul

Lake Itkul is translated from Bashkir as “meat”. The so-called “Shaitan Stone” rises there. There is a legend that in ancient times human sacrifices were made on this stone for the sake of harvest and good weather.

It is noteworthy that centuries later, people’s lives continue to end here. A lot of swimmers drowned, and those who survived describe their unpleasant sensations, as if an energy cord was passing through them.

Damn swamp

A small lake overgrown with grass and bushes. Local residents often talk about anomalies in the swamp area. Distance from Miass – 50 km.

Although the lake is small, it is impossible to approach it. No matter who tries, everyone is overcome by some inexplicable fear. Residents of nearby villages tell visiting ufologists that they often see barely visible balls in the sky, hovering over this swamp. Only a few days pass after such “reconnaissance”, and at night a mysterious glow appears here.

And at least once every six months, the sky above the reservoir seems to be illuminated by a huge, powerful spotlight. On such nights, the village dogs hide in their kennels with their tails between their legs. Horses, pigs, cows, on the contrary, rush about in the barns and try to break free. Such mystical nights affect not only animals, but also modern electronic equipment.

Televisions in the homes of surrounding residents usually work poorly: they only receive two or three channels, and even then the image is like sand in a kinescope. But as soon as the light comes on over the swamp, the televisions in the houses are transformed, and then it seems that the Ostankino tower is in the middle of the village.

Someone even saw ghostly silhouettes rolling luminous balls across the field. The old people say that this is an evil spirit. Even the atmosphere near and on the field itself was sharply different from the usual state. People were seized with inexplicable fear, and the horses stopped listening and always wanted to turn in the direction opposite to the field. They say that animals sense danger.

Until now, the swamp has been characterized as something strange, incomprehensible and inexplicable. But it is impossible to deny the fact that these “damn” places have high energy. Perhaps this affects the surrounding nature, the appearance of glare, lights and glows, the strange behavior of animals, the feelings of people, their condition and the time that flows, sometimes faster, sometimes slower... changing our lives.

Ignatievskaya Cave

Ghost hunters love to visit Ignatievskaya Cave. It is located in the Katav-Ivanovsky district, near the village of Serpievka, on the right bank of the mountain river Sim.

According to legend, the spirit of St. Ignatius comes out to the edge of the cave at night and looks at the Moon.

As tourists note, strange voices and footsteps are heard here at night. In the cave itself and near it, batteries quickly run out, flashlights burn out, camera flashes refuse to work, and people seem to sense someone’s invisible presence.

And in one of the halls it is very difficult to get high-quality photographs - a “white transparent veil” always appears on them.

Sikiyaz-Tamak

This ancient underground complex on the banks of the Ai River was discovered in 1995 by speleologists. The complex includes 43 karst cavities: caves and grottoes, rock overhangs, karst arches and bridges, buried and half-buried caves.

This unique monument covers an area of ​​425 square meters. Traces of human habitation from all historical eras were found in the caves. Also, according to legend, Bigfoot lives here, whom locals call “shurale” (“goblin”).

Sikiyaz-Tamak is in second place after Arkaim as a natural-historical monument of the Chelyabinsk region.

The city is a mystery Arkaim

Perhaps the most anomalous zone in the Southern Urals is Arkaim. This is an ancient settlement located in the south of the region in a foothill valley on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains. In legends, this place is called the main spiritual center of ancient Siberia and the Urals.

Following the scientists, psychics, prophets, members of various religious sects, and simply people thirsting for healing and enlightenment flocked to Arkaim. They all unanimously declare the power of the local energy. In Arkaim, in fact, various energy phenomena are not uncommon.

By the way, they have not only a fantastic, but also a completely scientific geophysical explanation: Arkaim stands on the site of a once active paleovolcano. The ancient city has a ring structure and is clearly oriented according to the stars. It is curious that many legends associated with Arkaim talk about mental disorders of the people who ended up there.

One of them tells about a girl, a student, who came here for excavations. In the midst of work, she heard a voice that called her to the center ancient city. When she returned, the girl said that she had met ghosts. The frightened student ended up needing the help of a psychiatrist.