Sunduki

Mountain peak in the shape of a chest

Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′  N , 89 ° 42 ′  E

Mount Sunduk​

Khakassia

As Sunduki ( Russian Сундуки , German: "chests") are eight chest-shaped sandstone formations in the Russian republic of Khakassia referred. They are located near the White Ijus some 150 km in a straight line to the northwest of the Republic capital of Abakan and about 25 km northwest of the Rajon administrative center Shira . Ice Age petroglyphs can be found there. The formation is listed as a natural monument in the World Database on Protected Areas .

The mountain on which the northernmost and, at a good 500  m, the highest of the rock formations is located, also bears the name Sunduk ("chest", in the singular).

history

According to an article in the Siberian Times , the Sunduki are called the " Siberian Stonehenge ". According to Professor Vitaly Larichev from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography at the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences , the oldest known observatory in human history was built here over 16,000 years ago. The residents of that time could have determined the position of the sun , the phase of the moon and the times of the equinox . The appropriate position for the observations was marked with a stone circle, which can still be seen today.

A large part of a rock had been removed to allow a clear view, and smaller holes had been drilled into the rock so that the sun could shine through them on the days that were known. A long channel carved into the rock would also have served to observe the stars.

gallery

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  A perspective created by people

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  View of the surrounding steppe

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  Sunduki

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  Petroglyphs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Gornaya gryada Sunduki nature monument (English)
2. ↑ Soviet General Staff Map 1: 200,000. Sheet N-45-XII. Edition 1984
3. ↑ The Siberian Times: Is this the oldest astronomical observatory in the world dating back 16,000 years?