Lena River – the longest river in Siberia, the tenth in the world’s eighth-length and full-flowing. It originates in the Baikal ridge, just a few streams that flow into a small lake. Source Lena is just 8 km from the lake. The Lena River, flowing into the Laptev Sea, forms a delta twice in area than the Volga delta. The name comes from the Evenki “Yeh-lii-Yone,” which means “big river”. The press service of the Ministry of Environment Yakutia offers you a selection of seven unique locations of the Lena River.
Toyon-Arin rock drawings
Figure is the eponymous locality, on a rock near the former yamschitskoy station where drawn elk, moose and calf. The aborigines of the elk is a sacred animal and played an enormous role in the life of the Neolithic tribes of Yakutia. Rock paintings of moose made closeup assigned academician Okladnikov to the Neolithic era. Deposits characterized toyonskogo tier rich complex organic residues (trilobites, brachiopods, etc.), but their distribution is uneven in the section.
Sacred place “Bachyk”
Rich banks of the river Lena monuments of nature and culture. One of them is the section of the Lower Cambrian “Bachyk” according to local ethnographers name associated with the word “Bichik”, what does the word “letter”. The incision is located on the left bank of the Lena River, 3.8 km below the mouth of the River Lounge, in the riverbed Bachyk. Section is represented by limestones that form an amphitheater, falls from the top of 80 – meter-high waterfall amazing beauty. Upstairs are cave paintings, one of them in the form of an eye. This place is the rituals of the ancient inhabitants Khangalassky region.
Oh-Murano reef
Sinskaya above the village at the mouth of the river comes to the surface Living Reef, named for the area Oh – Murano. This reef was held on the Siberian platform, there was spreading warm Cambrian sea. Reef formed from representatives of the fauna of the time, which are typical representative archeocyathids. Archeocyathid prints can be seen on the shore. In its value this reef can be compared with the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Here you can see a waterfall and a small chapel, delivered coachmen descendants who lived in the village of Oy-Muran. Oh-Murano reef is of great scientific value – as witness the appearance of the era of the early evolution of skeletal organisms on Earth. This phenomenon is called “Cambrian explosion”.
Lena Pillars
Lena Pillars are 220 km above Yakutsk on the right bank of the Lena River. Ambitious education as pillars, spiers, arches stretch along the coast for 40 km. The pillars consist of limestones of the Lower Cambrian, here 530 million years ago there was biodiversity, and by this criterion pillars included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Lena Pillars are the hallmark of the republic. Summer thousands of tourists come to admire their beauty. Below there is a “boss” Pillars of a stone giant, at the foot welcome tourists and here comes a national rite of purification and blessing.
Ancient human settlement Deering Yuriakh
Location Deering Yuriakh is on the eponymous river, here under the leadership of A. Mochanov was opened, an ancient human. According to the academician, parking Deering ancient oldovanskoy parking Olduvai Gorge in Africa, which vozvrast 1.9-1.7 million years. Parking Deering Yuriakh is the ancestral rights. At an altitude of 180 meters, there are excavations in the center of which is the anvil on which our ancestors produced their tools: choppers and cores, with careful examination of the territory can find them now. Up to the observation deck is equipped ladder resting places on the shore is a visitor center.
“Sphinxes north”
Among the endless Yakut taiga meet sand dunes impressive size, called “sphinxes north”. In the park there are two tukulans, translated from the Evenki “Tukul” means sand. In endemic tukulans grow cereals Yakutia, such as Scriabin and Tonkonog Karavayeva. In the summer heat on the sand surface temperature reaches 40 °C. At night on top tukulans appear to escape the midges, the inhabitants of the park, such as red deer, brown bear. Tukulans “Kyyl – Eleһin”, translated as “Red Beach” is a favorite tourist destination, which is located at the foot of the beautiful sandy beach, where the fish are biting.
Farm buffalo “Ust-Buotama”
The estuary is Buotama Canadian Kennel wood bison. Bison in the amount of 30 individuals were imported from Canada in 2006. Bisons went well acclimatized and the age of three females brought the first offspring. Currently there are 130 bison heads were produced two further importation. Kennel wood bison is the place of tourists. Tourists are invited to a viewing platform from where you can watch and photograph bison. The tour guides will tell all about Bison River Buotama good fishing in the shallows and nice beaches. At the kennel there Yakut manor.
Source: YSIA
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