Anomalous zones and places of power in the Murmansk region. Little-known facts, events, versions: Mysteries of the Kola Peninsula
Diary of a participant in a hike across the Arctic - Lovozero tundra of the Kola Peninsula in August 2014.
I sit on the edge of the starry sky I look And cold stars glow Returns the reflection of the Sent once words. The veil falls from the world. Soft reindeer carpets Guest I.
We fly through the kilometers in the Moscow-Murmansk train. Stuffiness, endless clatter of wheels, intellectual conversations and a mountain of pies with fish :) With every kilometer, landing on the planet Tundra seems more and more desirable ... But so far there is no awareness at all, where we go.
Our group consists of eight people. We got acquainted with all the participants, except for a woman from St. Petersburg - we should meet with her at the Olenegorsk train station.
Path to a fairy tale
Our journey begins from the Karnasurt mine. Smoothly, the limits of the mine, with its small gray stones and Soviet-urban rails with trolleys standing, flowed into something surprisingly soft underfoot - soft green carpets endlessly stretching into the distance.
The tundras started immediately. Here is the border number of times - a wooden bridge over the stream, and immediately - the same, number two. I raise my head - the whole space is flooded with some kind of infernal glow. The air is deliciously delicious. And the ringing silence stands.
It goes quickly and easily. Soon enough, we settle for a snack under a large rock. How delicious everything is, we crush on both cheeks!
A strange thought came to me: there seems to be no one here to wait for us, but the feeling that they are glad to see us seems to be experienced by everyone.
Some emaciated happy, we are moving up to the plateau. At the second halt, they managed to feel like deer, chewing dry and sour lichen. I agree to eat like this, if that :)
And so, finally, we found ourselves here.
Our site and its surroundings are delicately illuminated by the golden sun. A sea of stone unfurled in front of us, slightly touched by the intricate pattern of lichen, with a stunning view of the deep Podenoway Gorge.
In search of freshness, we go down to the river. Here, rumbling with waterfalls, water runs, collecting in transparent baths. Yellow flowers grow between the shiny stones - water lilies or something ...
Intoxicated by the incredible luck of being in this unimaginable place, we hasten to swim (or rather, to be more precise, to cleanse) in the icy water. I plunged headlong. Wow, refreshICE !!!
I look at the guys: they all turned into someone. Who turned into a gnome, who became a nymph :) Others appear faces... Faces of a fabulous reality.
Having risen, we set off on a radial journey through the world of stones. Andrey said that somewhere here there is a small rift in the rocks, which means: cave!
We are looking in different places, and finally the Valar shouts that we go down to him.
A small underground space plays with silver reflections. It is on the damp walls that thousands of transparent droplets are hanging, flickering in the light of our lanterns.
Admiring ...
And on the plateau everything was already lit up with the amber of the dusk sun. We wander through the stone hills, spellbound. It is amazing to be able to walk on stones, which are sometimes twice the size of yourself ...
Suddenly we hear: hooted owl. This is Andrei calling to the camp. The supper is ready.
The sun went down behind the mountains. The outlines of the tundra shone softly with azure shades, but the sky is still not darkening. It seems that you don't need to go to bed either ...
So we sit in the Arctic Circle, right up to sunrise, singing songs with a guitar and contemplating the light breath of the night tundra.
Hyperborea in the mirror of the Bright Lakes
Despite the active night vigils and only a few hours of sleep, we look pretty fresh :) While brewing tea (this action was supplemented by holding a screening plate protecting from the wind near the burner flame), I suddenly saw how clean, renewed and amazingly beautiful everything around ... And I saw myself in the image of a certain ... Monk, or something. And thoughts about the Eternal flowed. And they flowed while we assembled the camp, while we went to the place of the base camp in the region of Mount Salsurt ...
On the way, we had stunning views of the Podenoway Gorge and the Karnasurta Plateau, from where we had just left.
We sailed among the stones. Clouds are huge flying saucers. The stone desert opened up in front of us. Gigantic blocks-rejects gazed into the deep blue sky, but we do not see the end and edge of this endlessly creeping thick gray rocky surface.
This is how these stones lie here, lie ... Hundreds of thousands of years. How did they get here? …Mystery. And what we are doing here is an even greater mystery ...
The songs of O. Medvedev about Hyperborea are inspired by thoughts about snow leopards. We ourselves, like leopards - we jump on stones, and it turns out so surprisingly easy ...
We go down to the stone “room”. We are resting. Here someone has built a hearth, in the center of which a flower has grown :) A very pleasant "natural" interior with a view of the valley of the Bright Lakes. Maybe we can stay?
The descent into the valley is filled with magic. Slanting yellow rays illuminate a wide, cozy valley, in the depths of which the saucers of lakes turn blue.
On the way, we come across pink-tinted snow - the remnants of a glacier.
Between the ghostly rocks, Bright lakes shine with glare. Their mirror-like surface is broken by the wind, catching up with ripples. And the water vibrates, rings. Nessie lives here. Except for her, it feels like no one lives here. The space is unstable, unreal, but filled to the brim with light.
God! Hyperborea is located right here! ..
We meet a partridge with partridge. They mew like cats. And they are not at all afraid of us.
We set up camp and start preparing food.
For dinner there was macaroni with nuclear garlic. We ate and cried! And then the dukhan stood in the tent all night :)
It was hot, and it seemed like they slept for a long time. I dreamed about a phenomenal non-fire pan, which must be patented upon arrival.
On a visit to the Trolls
How wonderful it is to wake up here! ..
After breakfast, we go for a walk to the eternal glacier. He's very close. We hear a noise: a waterfall runs between large boulders, flowing into a tempting bath for bathing. And from above hangs a whole mountain of snow ... It still melts, ringing like a drop.
Splashing naked in a deep couloir of icy water. The boys were driven away for some reason :)
Streams of bubbles rise from the bottom of the reservoirs. Probably underground gases ... The places are picturesque and adorable, sit right down and contemplate.
After the walk, we had a bite to eat and the five of us went deep into the valley, to the distant lakes. The views are awesome.
Rocks, moss, stones. Deserted landscape ... Like another galaxy. Everything is very reminiscent of the scenery, behind which, in fact, something is hidden that we, unfortunately, cannot yet see. But we feel it.
Driven by some fascinating deep into streams, we pass one by one turquoise-blue lakes, not allowing ourselves to stop near them for swimming. Melted streams run from the mountains, sparkling with bells in waterfalls, and gather in sapphire lakes. The water in them seems to be alive. At some point, we stopped at the deepest lake, enchanted by the movement of the waves. The waves run according to their unknown laws, play with each other, and it seems that they are doing it quite consciously. We swim and smoke a pipe. The water is scalding cold here too.
Hundreds of colorful stones later we see a massive stone “building”. The Valar claim that Trolls live here. Indeed, even Masha felt something otherworldly here ... Therefore, we do not linger for a long time :)
Soon, between the diverging walls of the gorge, we got a view of the wooded valley of Lovozero. We sit on a large stone slab and admire ...
On the way back, it hit us that Andrei and Nastya were already tired of waiting for travelers to other dimensions, and we rushed straight to the camp. This time we walked along the other side of the lakes, in the shadow of a cliff. Everything seemed gloomy, and the feeling that someone was watching us did not leave. For me personally, this was a serious internal test.
In the camp, slyly funny Andrey and Nastya were waiting for us. It turned out that we were not late at all. To celebrate, Vova and I once again took a dip in the bath by the glacier, and then the whole group sat for a long time in the transparent light twilight.
The path to the Bright Lake, where pink clouds are reflected in the water
Good morning wonderful, virgin world!
After a light breakfast we set out on the road to the Svetloye lake. I really don't want to leave the fairy-tale valley ...
The path seems to be difficult. We cross the Svetlaya ford several times.
We make a halt at the wonderful turquoise couloir with a waterfall.
Soon the walls of the gorge part, and we find ourselves in a valley covered with dense thickets of bushes.
We settled down to dine on a cozy green edge, where we managed to take a nap and recuperate, which suddenly disappeared somewhere. A herbal drink called "sagan-daila", carefully prepared by Volodya, helped us a lot.
We go almost all day. The eye rejoices at the fragrant herbs. Nature is generous, and at the halts we are actively reinforced with ripe berries.
Mosquitoes start in the forest zone. They really wanted to eat us! With myself, thank God, there are remedies that we, having thrown away any sense of disgust for chemistry, hastened to apply.
The last river crossing was successfully overcome. And soon we find ourselves in a clearing near the long-awaited Bright Lake.
Views - like in a resort! On both sides, to the left and right of the lake, there are mountains.
In the center of the reservoir there is a lonely island, densely overgrown with trees. There are a lot of berries (crowberry, blueberry, blueberry), as well as midges and mosquitoes. We decide to have a snack. But it is not known who got to whom for lunch :)
Swimming in huge lake... The water is warm compared to glacial water.
I look at the evening mountain. And I feel a kind of painfully familiar, calling space ...
We sit by the fire, watching the pink clouds reflecting in the water mirror. And we watch a heavenly show. In the sky today - films about pirates, Baba Yaga, and many more about whom.
An unusual thought appeared: there are emptiness under the tundra. Cavities blown by the winds of the Universe.
House with a mountain view
Woke up from the hellish heat! I immediately flopped into the cool water.
We sit by the hearth for a long time, we don't want to go anywhere ... We are in a crystal clear space. Thoughts are simultaneously voiced by each of the participants. Full zen :)
Nevertheless, we decide to warm up and set off the four of us (me, two Masha and the Valar) on the radial along the shore of the lake, to look at the house of the ethnographer who once lived in it. The path is narrow, overgrown on the sides with willow tea and berries ... Underfoot are thick intertwining roots. Just a fairy tale! In the bushes, on the shore, Ilya is sitting, trying to fish. But we are in a hurry further.
Soon we discovered a hut with a cute sloped chimney and a window from which a view of the pine-covered shore of the Bright Lake and Mount Kemespakhkchorr opens up. Lost among the thickets of flowers and herbs, the house was especially beautiful. And if it didn’t stink of the dried-up remnants of food, which were dragged inside by the idiot tourists, it would be very good.
We reached a plateau. Stones are scattered everywhere on the moss, and, as it seems to me, in the form of symbols. I wander slowly over a flat surface. I was covered with some strange feeling that we can be seen to all... I fell into deep thought. I was able to get out of it only the lake, in this part of which the water was colder than near the camp.
On the way, one of the Mashes suddenly thought about it and also stayed for swimming at one of the many nice parking lots. And then the thoughtfulness happened to another Masha, but together we somehow coped with the feelings that had rolled over and returned safely to the camp.
Andrey, Nastya and Ilya were waiting for us on the shore of the lake.
For some time we sit and contemplate the waves running through the water. Sunset is approaching, exploding the sky with bright colors ...
Emerald Hills and Lovozero Panorama
The sunny day started again with a swim!
After breakfast we set off on a radial ride to the top of Wavnbed Mountain. We systematically walked around it in a circle, eating up all kinds of berries along the way.
I tasted cloudberries for the first time in my life. This is a sumptuous treat!
We met several partridges again. They are perfectly disguised in stones, so it's pointless to look for them in the photo :)
We went out to the emerald hills. They shimmer with green, like on Scottish postcards. The wind blows waves of ripples over the grasses, and their stems sway, shaking inflorescences. Are looking for appropriate place for a snack and go out to the rocky terrace at the edge of the cliff.
We have a stunning view of Lovozero. Black islands have grown here and there on the mirror of the almost endless deep blue waters. Together they form an asymmetrical beautiful pattern. We are at the top of the world. The wind gently ruffles the hair and blows from all sides ...
We walk along the slope. We stumbled upon a mysterious reservoir, where weightless shining white balls grow among the cobblestones - as it turned out later, this plant is called "cotton grass".
The weather is frowning ... By the time we got to the camp, it started to rain. We put on an awning and together we treat ourselves to bacon.
In the evening we are shown a unique blueberry sunset. The whole sky lit up with crimson, pink and purple hues ... While drinking pu-erh, we observe how the surface of the lake turned crimson.
We stood on the shore for a long time and admired the unearthly beauty. True, according to popular beliefs, after bright sunsets the next day there is bad weather.
Fogs on Kuivchorr Mountain
Waking up, we find that all the colors are turned off. The sky is covered with gray clouds. We collect the camp and move up the mountain.
On the way, we make several stops for fortification and eat up on blueberries / blueberries. I look back: fog is hanging over our lake. Soon the air around us became humid and heavy. Rain is coming.
At the top of the Kuivchorr mountain, it became completely impossible to see anything: a dense damp fog descended on the plateau, enveloping our already frozen bodies in a chilly shiver. Stuffed with wet clothes, we walked and walked along the endless slippery stones through gusts of chilly wind and cold streams of rain. After some discussion, we decided to return to our beautiful Bright Lakes. There was a glimmer of hope in us that in the lowland the wind was kinder and would not blow like that by the collar ...
The Milky Way spreads along the valley floor. We set up tents. We make coffee on the burner, but no one is eager to get out of the tents anymore :) I bravely acted as a distributor of coffee to the rooms :) We all have supper in our houses ... It rains all night.
Rain on the planet Tundra
In the morning - rare glimpses in the sky. Coffee, packing, and off the road. We go to our first parking lot - Voronova Gora.
About half a day on the road, and now we find ourselves on the site, strewn with the remains of the houses of geologists - that is, with boards. We really need firewood!
We fill our backpacks with pieces of wood. We collect water from a pretty nearby spring, and soon we find ourselves on the Karnasurta plateau, our first camp.
We set up camp and charge the rain. Until the evening we are in his arms. It was dark all around, the tundra had curtains. We are alone in this world ...
Shouting out from the tents - conducting an audit of products. Stocks are running out. Tomorrow you need to go down the mountains and shop for food in the village of Revda.
Tribute to the Moon Crow
It's a cloudy morning, but you shouldn't hesitate - you need to get to the store before the moment when bread disappears from the shelves. The four of us (Andrei, Valar, Ilyusha and I) get together and move forward into civilization.
It turned out to be not only just as gray, but also disgusting ... Volodya bought a kilogram of pickled herring, which for some reason really wanted. After lengthy purchases (we always try to leave these places of the world as quickly as possible, but it does not always work out) we return to the mine, from which our path led us to a large stone, near which we stopped for a snack at the beginning of the hike.
Resting ... I breathe in the clean mountain air again, and it seems as if the tundra are breathing in with me. I hear the song of the spirits - the sound of the wind somewhere high in the gorges ... The spirits rejoice.
We return, and there is the Moon! Huge, it loomed over the blue-green hills and flooded everything with its silver light. A fire blazes in the hearth. We open the herring, and it turns out that it is rotten :)
We decided to give the herring to the local crows.
The nights became completely dark. We sit by the fire for a long time, play the guitar ...
Sacred Sámi Valley
Having got out of the tents, we see how soft sunlight is spreading over the entire plateau.
The stone on which the herring was left is empty. Offering Accepted!
We go to the sacred Sami valley. When descending, we see how our yok (river :)) snakes and shines in the sun
According to some reports, the Elmorayok gorge is located in the place of a tectonic fault, which means we are in the gap between the worlds! Below, the sensations are completely different - fabulous-elven :)
All around is green and everything is dotted with ink beads of berries, dwarf birches grow, and our path, meandering, runs among them. We ride on giant whitewashed stones - a dried-up river bed. By the way, in the old Sami times only a shaman could go down to the valley.
Halt by the seething river. We get drunk and collect water.
A swampy area begins. We go along the edge of the quagmire. The swamp exudes some absolutely inconceivable pleasant aromas ... From here you can see the mountain of the giant Kuyva - Kuivchorr, at the top of which we were taken by surprise by the fog. According to legend, Kuiva is immured in this mountain range.
Indeed: we see in the distance a huge black silhouette on a rock ... So Kuiva is the master of this place. Internally I greet him.
In turn, we cross an interesting bridge over a wide turquoise stream: a long log with only one railing, and then located at an angle of 45 degrees.
There is an inscription on the walkway: "Awesome" :)
People meet along the way. They camp in the forest area. We are moving on, to a lonely cape, washed by the waters of Seydozero.
We set up tents, and again the storm falls on us. As if nature makes it clear that she sees and feels us. We are at the mercy of the northern element! There is nowhere to run away, nowhere to hide from the dashing wind and raging waves ...
We pulled up an awning. It rains all evening and all night ... There are already puddles under the tents. And we sit until dawn and sing songs with a guitar, warming ourselves from the inside. That is how we named our island: Buyan.
Shaman Lake
I slept sweetly and sweetly! ..
The weather improved :) At breakfast, Masha told us her dream, in which she was shown our place without decorations: as if a spaceship was hidden under the Seydozero, and the entrance to it was guarded by a friendly Hyperborean snake. It's amazing how places like this react to sincere, open-hearted people.
We go to the radial to the Shaman Lake. Mystical, mysteriously absorbing, it requires silence from the traveler. The borders of the lake are framed by age-old stones overgrown with jade moss, and the sun is reflected on its surface like the moon.
We saw that beyond the edge of transparent waters, whitish-bluish stones rest at the bottom. At some point, I really wanted to dive into the water and touch them: it seemed that they were created from some non-existent breed ... But something is holding back the impulse.
We sit for a long time on the shore, listening to the lake. And the lake is listening to us.
We follow to the camp. We encounter a giant seid, broken into two halves. Volodya somehow climbed to its top, and then it was scary to watch him go down the birch ...
Our men swam on the "Shocking", taking turns diving with a fish from the bridge into the stream. A squirrel was sighted at this time. They could not resist and left her cheese as a treat, although she is probably already well fed :)
In the evening, the whole group was in a lyrical mood. A huge white Moon swam out, covering the dark waters of our lake with shimmering reflections of the moon road. Nastya built a sand castle on the shore. We remembered a lot of beautiful old songs and read the poems of our favorite poets until late at night.
UFO station
From the very morning, the sky frowned, and by the time the camp was assembled, it had sent a huge gray cloud to us. But we have already stayed here. It's time.
Soon the weather cleared up, and we walked through the picturesque jungle, ate red currants and observed rainbow stripes in the sky.
The fast track led us to the UFO parking lot.
The place here is kind of ... Collapsing. Rare pines, by mysterious reason, yellow-red shades.
Nearby there is a foundation pit, in the place of which there was a lake ten years ago. Now, at its bottom, messages from tourists are lined with stones.
After setting up the tents, they began to prepare food, and then a black cloud reached us, apparently still wandering somewhere in the vicinity. A little rain passed, but I had to cook under its cold drops.
We went mushroom hunting - they grew right before our eyes. Wandering in search of these in the sparkling green thicket, I went towards the camp and suddenly found myself in a mysterious lake hollow. How - I don’t know ... The place confused me!
The candlelight was on. Unknown animals swam across the sky, and the first stars lit up overhead ...
At night, everyone woke up at the same time in their tents from a loud, heartbreaking howl. Volodya immediately determined that it was Chupacabra who went for a walk.
Visiting Chupacabra
All morning we discussed the sounds of the night.
After breakfast, the guys went to the radial in the gorge.
I decided to stay in the camp on duty.
I wanted to meditate in this sucking place, saturated with mysticism. Volodya was left with me so that I would not be afraid of Chupacabra.
Mushroom platter with bacon was prepared for dinner :)
At dusk they drank pu-erh around the fire and were silent. Zen evening ... Volodya went to check Chupacabra and found a pheasant.
I can't believe that this is our last night ...
Farewell to Tundra
Get up early. The sky is covered with lilac clouds.
We leave, and a rainbow flashes in the sky. A huge mushroom has grown on the ground. Seeing off ...
We move along the valley and see several groups scurrying from tundra-to-tundra.
During the ascent to Voronova Mountain, rain fell. I don't wear a raincoat, I get wet. Tundra hugs goodbye, and I am pleased to be cold.
Fogs are creeping across the plateau. The world is erased, closes the doors behind us. Already below, at the foot of the mountains, I turn around - and I see only a dense white wall ...
Ahead of us is a gray Revda, gloomy, rainy Olenegorsk and long hours of waiting for the train at the station. Well, now each of us is in his own world.
"See you soon" - sings Tundra. "See you soon" - I answer with my heart ...
Anything that cannot be explained scientifically raises a lot of questions in a person. Among the objects that have puzzled many researchers, Seydozero is also listed. Located on the Kola Peninsula, it magnetically attracts tourists and lovers of the unknown. That, in the end result, gives rise to even more speculation and legends.
The lake is a place with a special climate
Seidozero is one of the components of Seyyavvr (Seydyavr), that is, a state natural complex reserve of regional significance in the Murmansk region, on the Kola Peninsula. The lake itself is small, its length is about 8 km, the width in different places reaches from 1.5 to 2.5 km. Height above sea level - 189 km.
Places belong to the tundra zone, but the lake itself and the surrounding areas have a special microclimate due to the adjoining mountains. Thanks to this, rare species of animals preserve their population here, and there are conditions for the survival of plants that are not characteristic of polar latitudes. Also Seidozero has a very high level stocking.
Beautiful photo collage about the lake
Legends surrounding the lake
Legend of Kuiva
Kuiva is a mythological giant from the legends of the Sami, depicted on a rock relief that resembles a human figure in motion. Its height is about 75 m, so Kuiva's outlines are clearly visible from afar, especially in winter.
The legend of Kuiva is being told by the local Sami people. It tells about the giant Kuiva, who tried to kill the ancestors of the Sami in the Seydozero valley. Kuiva prevailed in the struggle and then the Sami called on their gods to protect them. The gods were angry with the giant and turned into an image on the rock.
Today Kuivu is considered one of the main seids in Sámi culture as the place where the giant rested. Local residents are afraid of Kuivu and try not to walk close unnecessarily, especially to women, so that nothing turns to stone inside.
Modern research has shown that Kuiva may have a natural origin associated with the colonization of mosses and lichens characteristic of the tundra. But science does not undertake to completely refute the legendary origin of Kuiva.
Legends of the seids
The name of Seydozero comes from the Sami "seid", which means sacred. The Saami call Seids stones, stumps, lakes and other remarkable places, which mean "inaccessible paradise beyond the grave."
The most common seids are pointed pyramids or rocky boulders on "stone legs". On the territory of Russia, they can be found on the Kola Peninsula or in Karelia. Some of them have been proven to be of modern origin and created local residents in order to attract tourists. The same cannot be said about the seids with a thousand-year history near Seydozero.
It is believed that each of them had their own legend. In general, the Saami seids were divided into 2 types: personal and public. The first tried to hide from prying eyes, others were placed on elevations so that they could be seen from afar.
The Saami visited public seids at regular intervals and almost always made sacrifices to them. As evidenced by the remains of deer skulls and antlers.
Legend of the underground city
The existence of the underground city on Seydozero is associated with the Hyperborean civilization. Many believe that it has not disappeared anywhere, but continues to exist off the coast of Seydozero or at its bottom. According to another hypothesis, in the ancient underground city Sami shamans live.
As a result of many scientific expeditions, it was possible to collect some facts that indirectly indicate the possible existence of underground cities near Seydozero. So, in the 90s of the last century, scientists found rock paintings, ruins of structures made of stones and rectangular slabs with even holes.
Also near the lake, researchers found fragments of a wall that could be protective structure and a well with a foundation. All of these land finds are unlikely to be of natural origin.
Underground cities of Hyperborea
Scientists did not give up hope of finding evidence of the existence of the city at the bottom of the lake. As a result of his examination in the early 2000s, it was possible to find some wells 70 cm wide, which went downhill. A deeper investigation was prevented by a large amount of silt.
As a result of examining the valley near the lake, the instruments recorded a certain void, which began after 9 m of soil. The sonars and echo sounders did not record the lower limit of the conditional cave.
From a scientific point of view, there cannot be such objects in a given area, but nevertheless, the evidence found is not enough to confirm the hypothesis of the existence of underground cities.
Mysterious cave Barchenko
Alexander Barchenko is considered a great explorer of Seydozero. It was he who first organized a scientific expedition to this area. In his memoirs, he shared that the locals discouraged them from going along the planned route. But Barchenko was a fanatical explorer, and continued his work on the search for traces of Hyperborea.
As a result of the survey, the following were discovered: Kuiva rock, a stone paved road, cairns. The members of the expedition eventually made friends with the local Sami and they led them to the most mysterious place... In appearance it resembled a column in the form of a candle; a mysterious stone lay next to it. There was also a passage to the cave, but no one dared to get inside. All members of the expedition were seized by panic, and they simply took pictures near the manhole.
Some researchers believe that Barchenko was close to unraveling the existence ancient civilization, but the Soviet government sentenced him to death and most of his knowledge was lost.
Legend about the island of Grave and the Goddess of the waters
Mogilny Island is the largest on the territory of Seydozero. This place is considered forbidden for the Sami. Shamans performed rituals on it, so the island is full of traces of sacrifice.
Legend has it that at times the island begins to move and is ruled by the beautiful Goddess of the Waters. She seduces men and drowns Seydozero in the water.
The Legend of the Local Bigfoot
The Sami believe that a certain forest spirit, Möts-vuinas, lives in the area around Seydozero. He does not harm those who do not make noise and do not disturb sacred places. But troublemakers can be prevented from getting out of the territory.
One of the employees of the Tundra reindeer herding farm, Vasily Galkin, recalled how local residents forbade children to make noise in the evening so as not to disturb the forest spirit.
Other tourists recall how they suddenly lost their way and walked for hours in the same place. All these phenomena are associated precisely with the anger of Bigfoot.
There are suggestions that Kola Peninsula at one time inhabited by the Hyperboreans. It is with the activities of this mythical people that one of the main legends about Seydozero is associated.
Hyperborea - a northern country from ancient Greek mythology
Hyperborea in the works of antiquity is referred to as an outlying country near the Arctic Circle. Some authors believed that it is located in Greenland, others - in the territory of modern Karelia, but most of them localized it precisely on the Kola Peninsula near Seydozero.
Video story about the mysterious Hyperborea from ethnologist and candidate of historical sciences Svetlana Zharnikova
Hyperborea was sung as rich and beloved by the gods, and the inhabitants were considered close to Apollo himself. He, according to the legend of myths, often visited the country. Hyperboreans, like their patron, had high talents for art, sang well, danced and led a carefree, rich life. Death for the Hyperboreans was a relief from a satiety of pleasures.
The Greeks believed that the best helpers and patrons of Apollo - Abaris and Aristey - were from Hyperborea. They taught the ancient Greeks the cultural values of their people and possessed superpower.
The fact that Hyperborea, or rather some of its descriptions, is a creative fiction, can be found out from some of the mentions of the sages. So, in "Natural History" the ancient Roman scientist Pliny the Elder mentions the country as a place with sunny and friendly weather, rich vegetation and fertile soil.
The thinker Timagen in his works mentioned Hyperborea as a country where it rains in the form of copper drops. The locals collected them and used them as coins.
Lucian of Samosata, who became famous as a satirist and public figure, in his writings compared the way of Hyperborea and Ancient Greece... At the same time, he endowed the Hyperboreans with extra abilities, for example, the ability to fly or summon the spirits of the dead.
All of the above references to Hyperborea are viewed by modern historians as an attempt by ancient peoples to describe something unprecedented, which in this case is the outskirts of the continents.
Seidozero is a place where legends and scientific facts are exactly on the scales. A place where tourists go not just for new experiences, but for the search for life philosophy, which is stored in the waters of the lake and its surroundings. The depths of Seydozero cannot be immediately understood, but one can fall in love at first sight for the mystery and rich world of either the mythical Hyperboreans or the original Sami!
Where is and how to get from Moscow or St. Petersburg
The lake is located in the Murmansk region, on the Kola Peninsula.
- Plane or train. You can get to Murmansk by plane or by train to Olenegorsk. Next take a bus or ride.
- Bus. From Murmansk and Olenegorsk to the villages of Revda and Lovozero go Shuttle Buses 2 times a day. Also, there is a regular bus service between these two villages 3 times a day in both directions. Further only on foot or by boat.
- On foot or by boat. From the village of Lovozero by boat along the lake of the same name, then 1 km on foot along the tundra. You can walk from the village of Lovozero directly along the tundra - about 25 km. Someone prefers to walk from Revda - on foot, the path is a little shorter than from the village of Lovozero. From Revda to the lake used to run Railway, now it is destroyed.
- Local transfer. If you stay at the Yulinskaya Salma tourist center (located in the central part of Lovozero, on east coast), then they will organize a transfer from the village of Lovozero, in winter and summer.
What the village of Revda looks like (in the first part of the video)
Video on how the local people live - Sami
The Kola Peninsula, located in the northwest of the European part of Russia, in the Murmansk region, is unique and quite mysterious place, where amazing archaeological monuments are collected in one place, the purpose and origin of which is not known to this day.
About the most ancient pyramids in the world, located on the Kola Peninsula, and about the fact that it was here that the ancestral home of man could be located, was written in the article below. But as it turned out, this is not all that this small peninsula in the north of the country can surprise with!
- On sheer cliff, near Lake Seydozero, in the Lovozero tundra of the Kola Peninsula, you can see the image of a character from the mythology of the Lapps tribes living here, the legendary giant - Kuiva!
Kuivu can be seen from almost anywhere in the northern lake. The figure is human-shaped and 74 meters high. Its bas-relief protrudes from the wall by 3-4 meters in some places, and this is very clearly visible, especially in winter. Kuivu is called "Dancing Lapp" - if you swim on the lake and look at him, it seems that he is moving.
In 1923, Academician A.E. Fersman, who examined the image of Kuiva, confidently stated that the figure of the giant was of natural origin. In his book, the academician wrote:
"As we saw during our expedition, the dark figure is formed by a combination of lichens, mosses and wet streaks on the rocks."
But strangely enough, Fersman was in those places a long time ago, and 90 years have passed since then! The rocks erode, fall off, but Kuiva's figure remains.
There are many legends about how the giant ended up on a rock, and here is one of the most curious:
"In ancient times, the giant hunter Kuiva came to the Sami lands. For a long time he brought fear and terror to the local population. And the people got tired, and prayed to the gods, asking for help. The gods heard the prayers of people and incinerated the giant Kuiva with lightning from the waters of the sacred Seidozero. And since then the trail of the incinerated Kuiva has remained on the steep cliff on the banks of the Seydozero. "
But here's what's interesting, in ancient greek mythology the legend of the giant hunter Orion is mentioned, who went to Hyperborea for brides, and was incinerated by the lightning arrows of the goddess Artemis, for having offended the Hyperborean maiden.
Isn't the legend of the giant hunter Kuiva very similar to the ancient Greek legend of the giant hunter Orion? And the ancient drawing of the constellation Orion by the Muslim astronomer Al-Zufi is almost identical to the image of Kuiva. And here's another interesting fact, many researchers suggest that the mythical northern country Hyperborea could be found anywhere else but on the Kola Peninsula!
- Another unusual prehistoric monument that is found on the territory of Russia - in Karelia and on the Kola Peninsula, as well as in Scandinavia, is called seids
Seids are stone structures of natural and man-made origin, ranging in size from tens of centimeters to six meters in diameter, weighing from tens of kilograms to tens of tons.
Stone seids are found singly, but are often grouped into large clusters, numbering tens and hundreds of objects. So the largest accumulation of seids is located on the islands of Nemetsky and Russian Kuzovy, 30 km east of the city of Kem - Karelia. Several hundred accumulations of stones have been discovered here, although single seids are usually found in the places where the Lapp tribes live.
The choice of a place for seida is also of interest - as a rule, all of them are located in geologically active points, in obligatory proximity to some water body.
In some places of the Kola Peninsula, seids are a kind of beacons that indicate an unknown path - if you go from seid to seid, then each opens a view of the next.
But the main canon of the seid is its instability - partially raised boulders or placed in an unstable position at an angle of up to 45 degrees. And as a rule, three "stone legs" serve as a stand for boulders.
Scientists did not come to a consensus on the purpose of the seids.
1. Some consider them home gods, patronizing either the family or the person.
- There are versions that the seids were patrons of the clan, giving commercial happiness to the sacrificer, in this case, structures similar to animals are patrons of crafts, and to humans they served to worship ancestors
3. Another possible purpose of seids is to serve as direction signs and demarcation "border signs".
4. There are also versions about the magical purpose of buildings.
3) The culture of labyrinths also originates in the North. It was from here that they spread to all continents.
Mysterious and expressive objects - labyrinths - are often called the legendary "Northern Babylon". These are complex spiral formations of stones and peat, creating paths leading to the center of the structure, which has a diameter of 5 to 30 m.
And despite the fact that the construction is called a "labyrinth", the creators of "Babylon" did not leave exits in it.
The configurations of the mazes are different from each other. Their shape can be horseshoe-shaped, round-spiral, kidney-shaped and concentric-circular. Horseshoe-shaped mazes belong to the "classical type". It is these labyrinths, as well as concentric circular and kidney-shaped ones, that can most often be found on the Kola Peninsula. The age of the labyrinths dates back to the II - I millennium BC.
Labyrinths are located on the islands and shores of the White, Barents and Baltic Seas, and are also found in the continental regions of southern Finland. More than 600 such structures have been discovered in northern Europe. Only it is not known when and what people left them and what is their exact purpose. Here are several versions:
- Fishing Trap Models
- Altars, giant altars. Entrances to the otherworldly realm
- A place of purification and redemption
- Monument of historical events
- Ancient symbol of Peace
- Calendar - 360 stones
- Model of our solar system
- The projection of the wandering sun across the polar sky
- The movement of planets across the sky
For the first time, the Kola Peninsula was mentioned back in the 9th century in written sources Western Europe... The king of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred, described the inhabitants of the peninsula, the terfinn, as skilled fishermen and hunters, and called the reserved land a place of terrible mysteries and the possession of terrible pagan gods.
Ancient legends
For many centuries, the indigenous population of the Kola Peninsula - the Sami and the Lapps (or Loppi) - have happily coexisted with Christian beliefs and pagan rituals of worshiping the ancient gods, once the powerful rulers of these lands.
A number of legends are associated with ancient beliefs that exist to this day. So, the legend about the terrible giant Kuiva, who in ancient times attacked the inhabitants of the peninsula, seems to be very interesting. The Sami, desperate to defeat the enemy on their own, turned to the gods for help, who, throwing a sheaf of lightning at Kuiva, incinerated the giant. From Kuiva to Angvundaschorr - the highest peak of the Lovozero tundra - only an imprint remained, which, despite the weathering and crumbling of the rock, has survived to this day in excellent form... According to local residents, the spirit of a formidable giant sometimes descends into the valley, and at this time Kuiva's imprint begins to glow ominously. Therefore, the valley at the Angvundaschorr peak is considered by the Sami to be a bad place where hunters do not wander and where animals do not even live.
There is one unusual myth that is associated with the underground inhabitants of this region, the Sami and Lapps, they are called saivok. This mysterious people used to live on the surface of the earth, but after a strong natural cataclysm, memories of which were preserved in Lapland legends, they left for underground caves, leaving behind granite megalithic structures in the north of the peninsula.
Oral folk epic describes the saivok as small creatures that live deep underground. They understand human language, and their witchcraft has a terrible power that can stop the Sun and the Moon, as well as kill people who have always feared meeting them. But even now, from time to time there is information about meetings of local residents, scientists and travelers with mysterious saivok.
Mysterious encounters and unexplained deaths
In 1996, Yegor Andreev (surname has been changed) visited the Kola Peninsula, who, as part of a group of "black meteorites" in the Khibiny valley, illegally searched for the remains of a meteorite that fell in those parts during the Ice Age. From Yegor's recollections, one summer night, he heard strange sounds near the tent, which were similar to magpie chirping. Looking out of the tent Andreev suddenly saw three furry creatures that vaguely resembled beavers. But a moment later Yegor was seized with horror - the creatures, whom he took for animals, had human faces with pointed noses, small lipless mouths, from which two long fangs protruded, and eyes burning in the darkness with a greenish light. Taking a step towards them Andreev suddenly realized that he was not able to move ...
Only in the evening the next day, the comrades found Yegor lying unconscious at a distance of three kilometers from the parking lot. What happened to Andreev after he left the tent, Yegor could not explain. The circumstances of the meeting of the young man with the mysterious creatures were erased from his memory ...
A real tragedy happened on the Kola Peninsula in 1999. At that time, four tourists died on one of the passes near Seydozero. No signs of violent death were found on their bodies, but horror was captured on the faces of the unfortunate. Near the bodies, the locals noticed strange footprints that vaguely resembled human ones, but very large in size. Immediately after this tragedy, they recalled a similar incident that happened in the summer of 1965, when three geologists died for some inexplicable reason in the Lovozero tundra and mysteriously disappeared from the camp. Their fox-gnawed bodies were found two months later. Then an official version was put forward, according to which geologists were poisoned by poisonous mushrooms ...
Mysteries of expeditions
The Soviet authorities knew about the strange phenomena that were observed on the Kola Peninsula back in the 20s of the last century. In 1920-1921, a geographical expedition visited those places, led by the head of the laboratory of neuroenergetics of the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, Alexander Varchenko. The official goal of the expedition was to study the influence of the climate of the northern latitudes on the physiology of the human body. But in reality, Professor Varchenko was interested in the occult practices of the Sami shamans, as well as in such a mysterious phenomenon as measuring and the associated changes in human consciousness. It was Varchenko's expedition that first proved that measuring is a special form of zombie used by shamans, as well as caused by strange granite structures, the discovery of which belongs to Alexander Varchenko. So, in one of the gorges of the Manpupuner ridge, scientists discovered yellowish-white columns that looked like candles, in front of which there were structures that looked like walled up crypts. All the attempts of the group to get close to the columns and further to the walled crypts were unsuccessful: now the weather suddenly began to deteriorate, then the people and the loaded horses were suddenly seized by an unreasonable panic that drove them away ...
Already in 1992, the Magadan expedition led by Pavel Udaltsov in those parts managed to get close to several small hills, which were located in the tract and had an obvious artificial origin: they were made of granite stones of the correct shape and resembled pyramids overgrown with moss and small bush. According to the Lapp guide, in one of the hills there was supposed to be a hole - the entrance to the underworld, which in the old days was often visited by his fellow tribesmen-shamans. However, the members of the expedition, who stopped a couple of hundred meters from the hills, could not move further: a sudden malaise that gripped the people forced them to return to the base ...
Kola superdeep
Drilling of an ultra-deep well, which began in the 70s of the last century on the Kola Peninsula, caused strong discontent among the local population. The main reason for it was that the elders of the Sami and Lapps feared the wrath of the disturbed underground inhabitants, rumors about the existence of which constantly reached the arrivals from Big land drillers. But in due time nothing was reported about this "secret enterprise". So, various ridiculous rumors slipped through, such as - "and from there the devil will jump out!", Which even the grandmothers at the entrances did not believe.
Special object
Thirty, forty years ago it was almost impossible to get a job as someone on the Kola superdeep well. Out of a hundred highly qualified workers, two were selected, and engineers - one. The head of the well was appointed by the Central Committee of the CPSU. Each recruited immediately received a separate apartment with furniture, special rations and a salary equal to two generals on the "mainland". It is known that 16 research institutes were simultaneously working on the well.
Did you accidentally choose a place to drill an ultra-deep well? Of course not! Experts know that the Kola Peninsula is located on the so-called Baltic Shield, which is 3 billion years old.
The appearance of the Kola oil rig is capable of disappointing the layman. A well is not like a mine imagined. No descents into the ground, only a drill with a diameter of a little more than 20 centimeters goes into the thickness. The section of the Kola superdeep borehole looks like a thin needle piercing the earth's thickness. The multi-sensor drill at the end of the needle is raised and lowered over a period of several days. It can't be faster: the strongest composite cable can break under its own weight.
What is the Earth made of?
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was believed that the Earth consists of the crust, mantle and core. And at the same time, no one really could say where one ends and another begins. Scientists did not even know what, in fact, the layers themselves are made of. Some 40 years ago, they were sure that the granite layer begins at a depth of 50 meters and continues up to three kilometers, and then basalts follow. Perhaps there is no stone on the planet stronger than granite. Try to drill a palm-thick piece of granite and you will curse it a hundred times. And we are talking about several kilometers!
It was expected to meet the mantle at a depth of 15-18 kilometers. In reality, everything turned out to be completely different. And although it is still written in school textbooks that the Earth consists of three layers, scientists from the Kola Superdeep proved that this is not so. The well showed that almost all of our previous knowledge about the structure of the earth's crust is wrong. It turned out that the Earth does not at all look like a layer cake. From eyewitness accounts, up to four kilometers everything went according to theory, and then the end of the world began. Theorists have promised that the temperature of the Baltic Shield will remain relatively low down to a depth of at least 15 km. Accordingly, the well can be dug up to almost 20 kilometers, just to the mantle.
But already at five kilometers the temperature exceeded 700 degrees Celsius, at seven - over 1200 degrees, and at a depth of 12 kilometers the temperature was more than 2200 degrees - 1000 degrees higher than predicted. Kola drillers questioned the theory of the layer-by-layer structure of the earth's crust - at least in the interval up to 12,262 meters.
At school we were taught: there are young rocks, granites, basalts, mantle and core. But the granites turned out to be three kilometers lower than expected. Then there should have been basalts. They were not found at all. All drilling took place in the granite layer. This is an extremely important discovery, because all our ideas about the origin and distribution of minerals are connected with the theory of the layer-by-layer structure of the Earth.
Another surprise: life on planet Earth appeared, it turns out, 1.5 billion years earlier than expected. At depths where it was believed that organic matter does not exist, 14 species of fossilized microorganisms were found - the age of the deep layers exceeded 2.8 billion years. At even greater depths, where there are no longer sedimentary rocks, methane appeared in huge concentrations. This completely destroyed the theory of the biological origin of oil and gas.
By the way, the fact that the Earth is older than its estimated age and that life appeared on it much earlier was written back in 1961 by the French scientist, historian and writer Joseph Roni Sr. Alas, without convincing arguments. He also put forward a theory of the structure of the Earth, corresponding to scientific data obtained while drilling a well on the Kola Peninsula.
Paranormalism or coincidence?
It is not known for certain what is happening in the depths. Ambient temperature, noise and other parameters are transmitted upstairs with a minute delay. Nevertheless, the drillers said that even such contact with the dungeon can be seriously frightening. The sounds that came from below really look like screams and howls. To this can be added a long list of accidents that followed the Kola Superdeep, when it reached a depth of 10 km.
Twice the drill was taken out melted, although the temperature from which it can melt is comparable to the temperature of the sun's surface. Once the cable was pulled from below and cut off. Subsequently, when they drilled in the same place, no remnants of the cable were found. What could have caused these and many other accidents is still a mystery.
There were also louder sensations. When, in the late 1970s, the Soviet automated space station brought 124 grams of a lunar pound to Earth, researchers at the Kola Science Center found that it was like two drops of water similar to samples from a depth of three kilometers! And a hypothesis arose: the moon broke away from the Kola Peninsula. Now they are looking for exactly where. By the way, the Americans, who brought half a ton of soil from the Moon, did nothing sensible with it. Placed in sealed containers and left for future generations to research.
Mysticism was also present in the history of the Kola Superdeep. Officially, as already mentioned, the well was shut down due to lack of funds.
Coincidence or not, but it was in that 1995 in the depths of the mine that a powerful explosion of an unknown nature was heard. Journalists from a Finnish newspaper broke through to the inhabitants of Zapolyarnoye, and the world was shocked by stories about a demon flying out of the planet's interior. There and then there were also "eyewitnesses" of the incredible phenomenon. This is where researchers of anomalous phenomena, esotericism, mystics, etc., took their souls! Even "hoarsely convincing" ufological publications did not know such sophisticated details!
Quite unexpectedly for everyone, the predictions of Alexei Tolstoy from the novel "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" were confirmed. At a depth of over 9.5 km, a real mine of all kinds of minerals, in particular gold, was discovered. A real olivine layer, brilliantly predicted by the writer. Gold in it is 78 grams per ton. By the way, commercial production is possible even at a concentration of 34 grams per tonne. Perhaps, in the near future, humanity will be able to use this wealth. In the meantime, the station is closed.
"They are afraid to dig!", "The earth does not admit to itself!" - say the jokers. Is this a joke? And can we hope that in the near future (and albeit in the distant!) We will find out what is really happening in the bowels of the Earth? In the meantime, in our time, every year dozens of hunters for a sensation of people come to the Kola Peninsula: some are looking for fragments of the famous meteorite, some in search of the bones of fossil animals, but who has a goal to get better acquainted with the mystical mysteries that abound in this ancient land.
Mystic. A journey into the unknown
In the Murmansk region, washed by the Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula is located. A human foot rarely steps here, and therefore nature retains its original appearance. The endless sky stretches over the expanses of the peninsula to the distant horizon, silence reigns here, which it has been since the creation of the Earth. In order to get to the end of the world, where there is not a single settlement for hundreds of kilometers around, it is worth going to the Kola Peninsula.
Despite its remoteness and almost desertedness, the Kola Peninsula is still useful to mankind - metallurgy is developing here, but fishing came here only in the 20th century. Until that moment, the governor of the region, the Marquis de Traversay, had forbidden the construction of whaling and fish companies on the territory of the peninsula, although everything went to this. The landscape of the Kola Peninsula, in addition to the sea, is cut by the water surface - there are 105,593 lakes and about 30,000 rivers and streams.
Until now, this place does not give people peace, because around the mysterious desert forests and forests, many myths and gossip have already grown. If we talk about gossip, there are hundreds of them on the Internet. Why were atomic charges exploded on Cuelpor and Angvundaschorrey What are these strange concrete circles near Liinazamar Why labyrinths were built, and who were the first settlers of the peninsula Alas, none of these questions have yet been answered.
As for the legends, for so many years there have been many myths about the peninsula, the authorship of most of which is attributed to the Sami and Pomors who lived on the Kola coast. Queues from expeditions do not end here, and the paths trodden by scientists do not overgrow. They are looking for Bigfoot, Hyperborea, aliens and the remains of meteorites.
The most fascinating facts from the history of the Kola Peninsula relate to the Sámi sorcerers famous throughout Europe. In the Middle Ages, shamans from Lapland excited the imagination of travelers, frightened the Vikings and aroused the interest of rulers. There was a sorcerer in every family, and not even one. The whole secret is that males did not perceive magic as a gift from above, but rather as a skill that can be learned from relatives or spied on from neighbors.
On the territory of the Kola Peninsula, you can find ancient labyrinths, the purpose of which is still unknown. On a rock near the banks of the Seydozero, you can find a stone image of a human figure 74 meters high. They say this is the petrified body of the bloodthirsty giant Kuiva. Among the inaccessible swamps, you can find ancient pyramids of mysterious origin. And all over the peninsula here and there are scattered huge lonely boulders - seids - which once served shamans to exchange energy.
Miracles by miracles, and one of the most unusual phenomena for an ordinary tourist on the Kola Peninsula is that this place lives in the mode of polar day and polar night, which last for about 2 months. The proximity to the magnetic belt becomes the reason for another natural miracle that the Kola Peninsula presents to travelers - the northern lights.
