Unknown in the animal world: do mammoths live in Siberia? How mammoths lived in Siberia Mammoths exist

12.03.2020

Mammoths still exist today. They live in remote places, and people meet with them from time to time. The main riddle: why does the "supreme" science not want everyone to know about it? What are they hiding from us? Maybe mammoths died out wrong?...

Alexey Artemiev

On the subject of mammoths, I, like most people, have long been under an illusion. I believed in the word that they died out in the last ice age. He knew that their remains were found in the permafrost, and thought about the possibilities of cloning this amazing ancient animal. But recently I happened to re-read Turgenev's story "Khor and Kalinich" from the cycle "Notes of a Hunter". There is an interesting phrase there:

“...”Yes, here I am, a man, but you see ...” At this word, Khor raised his leg and showed a boot, cut, probably from mammoth skin ...”

In order to write this phrase, Turgenev needed to know a few things that are rather strange for the middle of the 19th century in our current understanding. He had to know that there was such a mammoth beast, and to know. what kind of skin did he have? He must have known about the availability of this skin. Indeed, judging by the text, the fact that a simple peasant living in the middle of a swamp wears boots made of mammoth skin was not something out of the ordinary for Turgenev. However, this thing is still shown as somewhat unusual, non-ordinary.

It should be recalled that Turgenev wrote his notes almost like a documentary, without fiction. That's why they are notes. He simply conveyed his impressions of meeting interesting people. And it happened in the Oryol province, and not at all in Yakutia, where mammoth cemeteries are found. There is an opinion that Turgenev expressed himself allegorically, referring to the thickness and quality factor of the boot. But why then not from "elephant skin"? Elephants were well known in the 19th century. But mammoths...

According to the official version, which we have to debunk, the awareness of them at that time was negligible. One of the first "academic" mammoth skeletons with preserved remains of soft tissues was found by the hunter O. Shumakov in the Lena River Delta, on the Bykovsky Peninsula in 1799. And it was a great rarity for science. In 1806, the Academy botanist M.N. Adams organized the excavation of the skeleton, and delivered it to the capital. The exhibit was collected and exhibited in the Kunstkamera, and later transferred to the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Only these bones could be seen by Turgenev. Before the discovery of the Berezovsky mammoth and the creation of the first stuffed animal, another half a century will pass (1900). How did he find out what kind of skin a mammoth has, and even determine it offhand?

So, whatever one may say, the phrase dropped by Turgenev is puzzling. I'm not talking about the fact that the "eternally frozen" mammoth's skin is not at all suitable for furriery. She loses her qualities.

Did you know that Turgenev is not the only writer of the 19th century who let slip about the "extinct beast"? None other than Jack London, in his story "A Fragment of the Tertiary Age", conveyed the story of a hunter who met a living mammoth in the vastness of northern Canada. In gratitude for the treat, the narrator presented the author with his mukluks (moccasins), sewn from the skin of an unprecedented trophy. At the end of the story, Jack London writes:

“…and I advise all those of little faith to visit the Smithsonian Institution. If they present appropriate recommendations and arrive at the appointed time, they will no doubt be received by Professor Dolvidson. Mukluks are now kept by him, and he will confirm, if not how they were mined, then, in any case, what material went into them. He authoritatively claims that they are sewn from the skin of a mammoth, and the whole scientific world agrees with him. What else do you need?..”

However, the Tobolsk Museum of Local Lore also kept the harness of the 19th century, made precisely from mammoth skin. Come on, why procrastinate the skin when there is enough information about living mammoths. Anatoly Kartashov, candidate of technical sciences, collected a lot of scattered evidence in his work “Siberian mammoths - is there any hope of seeing them alive”. He waited for a reaction to his texts, from the scientific world and in general, but he seemed to be ignored. Let's get acquainted with these facts. Let's start early:

“Probably the first to inform the world about Siberian mammoths was the Chinese historian and geographer Sima Qian (2nd century BC). In his "Historical Notes", reporting on the north of Siberia, he writes about representatives of the distant ice age as about ... living animals! "From the animals are found ... huge wild boars, northern elephants in bristles and northern rhinos of the genus." Here you have woolly rhinos in addition to mammoths! The Chinese scientist is not talking about their fossil state at all - he is talking about living creatures that live in Siberia as far back as the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.”

I myself have not read these "Historical Notes", they are referred to by such a serious researcher as M.G. Bykov, H. Nepomniachtchi rewrites her, and I have both of them.

As for the 2nd century BC, one can hardly trust this dating, since Chinese history has been artificially lengthened into the past to infinity. However, in our case, this does not change the essence at all. "Historical Notes" by Sim Qian is clearly not 13 thousand years old, that is, it was obviously after the Ice Age. And here is evidence from the 16th century:

“... The Croatian ambassador of the Austrian emperor Sigismund Herberstein, who visited Muscovy in the middle of the 16th century, wrote in 1549 in his Notes on Muscovy: in Siberia “... there are a great many birds and various animals, such as, for example, sables, martens, beavers, ermines, squirrels and an animal walrus in the ocean ... In addition, Ves, in the same way polar bears, wolves, hares ... ". Pay attention: on a par with quite real beavers, squirrels and a walrus is a certain, if not fabulous, then certainly mysterious and unknown, Weight.

However, this Weight could be unknown only to Europeans, and for local residents this, possibly rare and endangered species, did not represent anything mysterious, not only in the 16th century, but more than three centuries later. In 1911, a Tobolsk resident P. Gorodkov wrote an essay "A Trip to the Salym Territory". It was published in the 21st edition of the "Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum" for 1911, and among other interesting things that we will discuss below, there are the following lines: "... among the Salym Khanty," mammoth "pike" is called "all". "This monster was covered with thick long hair and had large horns, sometimes" all "started such a fuss among themselves that the ice on the lakes broke with a terrible roar."

It turns out that mammoths walked with us in the 16th century. Almost everyone knew about them, since even the Austrian ambassador received information. And again the 16th century, this time the legend:

“Another legend is also known that in 1581, the soldiers of the famous conqueror of Siberia, Yermak, saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. Experts are still at a loss: who did the glorious vigilantes see? Ordinary elephants in those days were already well known: they were found at the courts of governors in zoological gardens and in the royal menagerie.

And immediately after that, we smoothly move on to the evidence of the 19th century:

“The New York Herald wrote that US President Jefferson (this is 1801-1809), interested in reports from Alaska about mammoths, sent an envoy to the Eskimos. When President Jefferson's envoy returned, he claimed absolutely fantastic things: according to the Eskimos, mammoths can still be found in remote areas in the northeast of the peninsula. True, the envoy did not see living mammoths with his own eyes, but he brought a special weapon of the Eskimos to hunt them. And this is not the only case known to history. There are lines about Eskimo weapons for hunting mammoths in an article published by a certain traveler in Alaska in San Francisco in 1899. The question arises: why would the Eskimos make and store weapons for hunting animals that became extinct at least 10 thousand years ago? Material evidence, however ... True, indirect.

Of course, for 300 years, mammoths have not gone away. And now the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

“In the McClure Magazine (October 1899) in a story by H. Tukman entitled “The Killing of a Mammoth” it is stated: “The last mammoth was killed in the Yukon in the summer of 1891.” Of course, now it is difficult to say what is true in this story and what is literary fiction, but at that time the story was considered true ... ".

Gorodkov, already known to us, writes in his essay “A Trip to the Salym Territory” (1911):

“According to the Ostyaks, mammoths live in the Kintusovsky sacred forest, as in other forests, they are near the river and in the river itself ... Often in winter you can see wide cracks on the ice of the river, and sometimes you can see that the ice is split and fragmented into many small ice floes - all these are visible signs and results of the mammoth's activity: the animal that has played out and diverged breaks the ice with its horns and back. Recently, about 15-26 years ago, there was such a case on Lake Bachkul. The mammoth is a meek and peaceful animal by its nature, and affectionate towards people; when meeting with a man, the mammoth not only does not attack him, but even clings and caresses him. In Siberia, one often has to listen to the stories of local peasants and come across such an opinion that mammoths still exist, but it’s very difficult to see them ... now there are few mammoths left, they, like most large animals, are now becoming rare.

“Albert Moskvin from Krasnodar, who lived for a long time in the Mari ASSR, talked with people who themselves saw woolly elephants. Here is a quote from the letter: "Obda (the Mari name for a mammoth), according to Mari eyewitnesses, used to meet more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads (the Mari call this phenomenon obda-saun - the wedding of mammoths)". The Mari told him in detail about the lifestyle of mammoths, their appearance, relationships with cubs, people, and even about the burial of a dead animal. According to them, the kind and affectionate obda, offended by people, at night turned the corners of barns, bathhouses, broke fences, while making a dull trumpet sound. According to the stories of local residents, even before the revolution, mammoths forced the inhabitants of the villages of Nizhnie Shapy and Azakovo to move to a new place, which were located in the area that is now called Medvedevsky. The stories contain many interesting and surprising details, but there is a strong belief that there is no fantasy or even just implausibility in them.

It is not for nothing that foreigners think that we have bears walking around Red Square. At least mammoths were seen here a hundred years ago and were well known. This is not Yakutia and not the north. This is the Volga region, the European part of Russia, the middle lane. And now Siberia:

“In 1920, two Russian hunters in the interfluve of the Ob and Yenisei, at the edge of the forest, discovered traces of a giant beast. It was between the rivers Pur and Taz. Oval in shape, the footprints were about 70 cm long and about 40 cm wide. The distance between the tracks of the front and hind legs was about four meters. The huge size of the beast could also be judged by decent heaps of manure that came across from time to time. Would a normal person miss such a unique opportunity - to catch up and see an animal of unprecedented size? Of course not. So the hunters followed in the footsteps and after a few days they caught up with two monsters. From a distance of about three hundred meters, they followed the giants for some time. The animals were covered with a long six of dark brown color and had sharply curved white tusks. They moved slowly and gave the general impression of elephants dressed in fur coats.

It's about here. But the 30s. Everyday life memory of a mammoth:

“In the thirties, the hunter-hunt Semyon Egorovich Kachalov, while still a child, at night near Lake Syrkovoe heard loud snoring, noise and splashes of water. Anastasia Petrovna Lukina, the mistress of the house, calming the boy, said that it was a mammoth making noise. Mammoths live nearby in a swamp in the taiga, they often come to this lake, and she has seen them more than once. Kachalov told this story to Nikolai Pavlovich Avdeev, a biologist from Chelyabinsk, when he was in the village of Salym during his independent expedition to the region of Tobolsk.

It was here. Here is evidence from the 50s:

“The story of the senior ranger of the district Valentin Mikhailovich D.: “... when I was in my first year at the institute, then during the holidays, fish receiver Ya. told me personally a fascinating story. By the way, you need to know that when two forests almost converge as capes, settling the fog ( shallow lake) into two parts, that narrowest place on the water is called the gate. So, according to Ya., he drove through the gate through our fog and noticed an unusual splash. I thought we should see what kind of fish this is? And he stopped. "Suddenly, as if a haystack rises from the depths. He peered - the fur is dark brown, like that of a wet fur seal. He quietly leaned into the reeds for about five meters, and he himself examines. Whether the muzzle, or the face - he definitely did not make out. The sound made a hissing : "Fo-o" - like in an empty dish. And then it sank into the water ... "This incident happened in 1954. This story made such an impression on Valentin Mikhailovich that he went all the way to the bottom in that shallow place to which the narrator referred. I found a deep hole where carp usually lie down for the winter, measured it ...

In the 1950s, I once staged nets with my son. The weather was very calm. A steady fog spread over the lake. Suddenly I hear a splash of water, as if someone is walking on it. Usually in this place moose crossed to Cape P. through shallow water. I decided so - elk, prepared to kill. Turned the boat to the sound, took the gun. In front of the boat itself, the round and black big muzzle of an unknown beast appeared out of the water. Round and meaningful eyes looked at me point-blank. Making sure that it was not an elk, he did not shoot, but quickly turned the boat around and leaned on the oars. My son, who was sitting behind me, also saw "this" and began to cry. We were rocked for a long time on the waves that had arisen. "Story by S., 70 years old, village T. Was it a mammoth? To see eyes staring at point-blank range - and not notice the trunk? However, who knows what a person manages to notice in such a stressful situation .. .

"In the same years, a fellow villager and I were crossing the fog near the cape. Suddenly, near the shore, we saw a huge dark carcass that was swaying on the water. The waves from it reached the boat and lifted it. We got scared and turned back." P.'s story, aged 60, village T.

And here is evidence from the 60s:

“In September 1962, a Yakut hunter told geologist Vladimir Pushkarev that before the revolution, hunters had repeatedly seen huge hairy animals “with a big nose and fangs”, and ten years ago he himself saw traces unknown to him “the size of a basin”.”

More evidence from the late 70s:

“It was the summer of 1978,” recalls the foreman of the miners S.I. Belyaev, “our artel was washing gold on one of the nameless tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the very height of the season, an interesting incident occurred. suddenly there was a dull clatter. The prospectors were a little sleepy. Jumping to their feet, they stared at each other in surprise with a mute question: "What is this?" As if in response, a splash of water was heard from the river. We, seizing our guns, began to stealthily make our way in that direction. When we rounded a rocky ledge, an incredible picture presented itself to our eyes. In the river's shallow water, there were about a dozen mammoths who had come from God knows where. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank icy water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants as if spellbound. having quenched their thirst, they sedately, one after another, went deep into the forest thicket ... ".

Of course, even after all these testimonies, there will certainly be doubting readers, from the category of those who say: “until I see, I won’t believe.” Especially for such, although everything is clear, we show a live mammoth, filmed on the phone, and the corresponding video.

Well, that's all - there are mammoths, and not even very far away. The fact is there. Everyone who only had a chance to meet a mammoth saw him. These are geologists, hunters, residents of the northern regions. You can even provide a summary map of the discovered habitats of these animals. It's time to figure out how it happened that a living and healthy animal was deeply buried in the Ice Age.

I am far from thinking that all the above evidence remained unknown to the scientific world. Of course not. Paleontologists (those who study fossils) always begin their research with a review of existing information. But, even with this information in hand, they will rely on the work of authoritative predecessors, among whom neither geologists nor hunters are.

Interestingly, I did not manage to find a specific scientist who “buried” the mammoths at all. Like it goes without saying. It is known that even Tatishchev was interested in them. He wrote an article in Latin called "The Tale of the Beast Mammoth". However, the information he received was the most contradictory, often mythical. Most of the evidence described the mammoth as a living animal. Tatishchev could hardly draw a conclusion about the extinction of this beast. Moreover, the currently dominant glacial theory of the death of northern elephants could have originated no earlier than the end of the 19th century. It was then that the scientific community accepted the dogma of the great glaciation. This dogma lies at the foundation of modern paleontology. In this vein, the artificial blindness of the scientific world is understandable.

But if you think about it, this is not the end of the matter. Everything is much more interesting.

Mammoth is an animal that has practically no enemies in nature. The climate of the middle zone and the taiga zone suits him very well. The food base is clearly redundant. There are a lot of unexploited spaces. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? And he didn't take it. Encounters of a person with this animal are too rare today.

The catastrophe in which millions of mammoths died was clearly there. They died almost simultaneously. This is evidenced by cemeteries of bones covered with loess (washed soil). Estimates of the number of tusks exported from Russia over the past 200 years show more than a million pairs. Millions of mammoth heads populated the ecological niche on the territory of Eurasia at the same time. Why isn't it right now?

If the catastrophe occurred 13 thousand years ago, and part of the northern elephants survived, then they had plenty of time to restore the population. That did not happen. And there are only two options here: either they did not survive at all (the version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that knocked down the mammoth population was relatively recent. Since mammoths still exist, the latter is more likely. They just didn't have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, man, armed with firearms and greed, could already be a real threat to them, hindering the growth of the population.

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The selected materials introduce the reader to fresh evidence of encounters with mammoths. Maybe the furry giants are still not extinct?

During the ice age, very unusual species of animals lived in Siberia. Many of them are no longer on Earth. The largest of them was the mammoth. The largest individuals reached 4-4.5 meters in height, and their tusks up to 3.5 meters long weighed 110-130 kilograms. Fossil remains of mammoths were found in the northern regions of Europe, Asia, America and a little to the south - at the latitude of the Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal. The death and burial of mammoths occurred 44-26 thousand years ago, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating and the results of palynological analysis of numerous burials of their remains.

A truly inexhaustible “warehouse” of mammoth bones is Siberia. Giant Mammoth Cemetery - New Siberian Islands. In the last century, from 8 to 20 tons of elephant tusks were mined there annually. According to old commercial reports, before the First World War, the export of tusks from North-Eastern Siberia was 32 tons per year, which corresponds to about 220 pairs of tusks.

It is believed that over 200 years, tusks from about 50 thousand mammoths were taken out of Siberia. A kilogram of a good tusk goes abroad for $100; For a bare mammoth skeleton, Japanese firms are now offering from 150 to 300 thousand dollars. The Magadan baby mammoth, when sent to a trade show in London in 1979, was insured for 10 million rubles. In a scientific sense, he had no price at all ...

In 1914, on Bolshoi Lyakhovsky Island (Novosibirsk Islands), industrialist Konstantin Vollosovich dug up a whole, well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth. He offered the Russian Academy of Sciences to buy the find from him. He was refused, referring (as always) to lack of money: an expedition to find another mammoth had just been paid.

Count Stenbock-Fermor paid Vollosovich's expenses and donated his acquisition to France. For a whole skeleton and four feet in leather and meat, pieces of the skin, the donor received the Order of the Legion of Honor. Thus, the only well-preserved mammoth exhibit appeared outside of Russia.

Since the remains of mammoths are in giant natural refrigerators - in the layers of the so-called permafrost, they have come down to us in good condition. Scientists do not deal with individual fossils or several bones of skeletons, but can even study the blood, muscles, hair of these animals and also determine what they ate. The most famous specimen has a stomach and a mouth full of grass and branches! They say that in Siberia there are still surviving individuals of woolly elephants ...

The unanimous opinion of experts is as follows: in reality, thousands of living individuals are needed to preserve the population. They would not go unnoticed… However, there are other reports.

There is a legend that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Yermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. Experts are still at a loss: who did the glorious vigilantes see? After all, ordinary elephants were already known in those days: they were found at the courts of governors and in the royal menagerie. Since then, the legend of living mammoths has lived ...

In 1962, a Yakut hunter told geologist Vladimir Pushkarev that before the revolution, hunters had repeatedly seen huge hairy animals “with a big nose and fangs.” Ten years ago, this hunter himself discovered traces unknown to him "the size of a basin." There is a story of two Russian hunters who in 1920 met the footprints of a giant beast at the edge of the forest. This happened between the Chistaya and Tasa rivers (the area between the Ob and the Yenisei). Oval in shape, the footprints were about 70 cm long and about 40 cm wide. The creature placed its front legs four meters from its hind legs.

The stunned hunters followed the tracks and a few days later they met two monsters. They followed the giants from a distance of about three hundred meters. The animals had curved white tusks, brown coloration, and long hair. A sort of elephants in fur coats. They moved slowly. One of the last press reports that Russian geologists saw live mammoths in Siberia appeared in 1978. “It was the summer of 1978,” recalls the foreman of the miners S. I. Belyaev, “our artel was washing gold on one of the nameless tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an interesting incident occurred. In the predawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull clatter was suddenly heard near the parking lot. The dream of prospectors is a bit. Jumping to their feet, they stared at each other in surprise with a mute question: “What is this?” As if in response, a splash of water was heard from the river. We, seizing our guns, began to stealthily make our way in that direction. As we rounded the rocky outcropping, an incredible scene presented itself to our eyes. In the shallow waters of the river there were about a dozen God knows where the mammoths came from. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank the cold water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants as if spellbound. And those, having quenched their thirst, decorously, one after another, went deep into the forest thicket ... ".

There is a legend that in 1581 the soldiers of the famous conqueror of Siberia Yermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. The guides explained to Yermak that they were protecting these “elephants”, since this “nz” is an emergency supply of meat in case other game animals disappear from the taiga.

The Beast Called Wes

Throughout Siberia to the Bering Strait, to this day there are beliefs about shaggy colossi with the customs of underground inhabitants.

Among the Eskimos inhabiting the Asian coast of the strait, the mammoth is known under the name "kilu kruk", that is, "a whale named Kilu." According to legend, this whale quarreled with the sea monster Aglu and was thrown onto land, but was too heavy and sank into the ground. Since then, he has settled under the permafrost, where he digs his powerful tusks.

Among the Chukchi, the mammoth personifies the bearer of an evil spirit and also lives underground, where it moves along narrow corridors. When a person encounters tusks sticking out of the ground, he should immediately dig them out. Then the sorcerer will lose his strength and will not hide again underground to spread evil. It is said that once several Chukchis noticed two fangs peeping out of the ground. They acted according to the precepts of their ancestors and dug up a living mammoth after them, which allowed their tribe to eat fresh meat all winter.

The Yukagirs, who live beyond the Arctic Circle, mention the mammoth in their legends under the name "Kholkhut". Some local shamans believe that the spirit of the giant - along with existing animals - is the guardian of the soul. Thus, a shaman possessed by the spirit of a mammoth is considered incomparably stronger than an ordinary cleric.

Among the Yakuts and Koryaks inhabiting the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, one can hear similar legends about a certain giant rat, which is called "mamantu", that is, "the one that lives underground." They say that "mamanta" can not stand daylight. As soon as they emerge from the ground, thunder rumbles and lightning flashes. They also cause tremors and earthquakes.

The ambassador of the Austrian emperor Sigismund Herberstein, who visited Russia in the middle of the 16th century, wrote in 1549 in his Notes on Muscovy: , hares ... ”Who was this mysterious beast Ves, for a long time the commentators of“ Notes ”could not understand.

The Chinese envoy Tulishen, who traveled through Siberia to Russia, reported to the emperor in 1714: “And there is a certain beast in this cold country, which, as they say, walks through the dungeon, and as soon as the sun or warm air touches it, it dies. The name of this beast is "mammoth", and in Chinese "hishu" ... "

Two videos with supposedly Siberian mammoths. One, according to the majority, depicts a bear with a fish, the other is taken from a computer game

In the treatise of the 18th century “Mirror of the Manchu language” one can also find an echo of Siberian legends: “In the north lives an underground fengshu rat, that is, an “ice rat”. This is a huge, elephant-like animal that lives only underground and dies as soon as it appears upstairs and the sun's rays touch it.

There are fengshu that weigh up to 10,000 pounds. The rat of ice and glaciers lives deep in the north, under the eternal snows. Its meat can be eaten. Its coat is several feet long. It can be used to weave carpets that resist damp air.

Peter I, having learned that shaggy reddish-brown elephants roam the Siberian tundra, ordered to collect "material evidence" of their existence, sending the world's first scientific expedition to the North for mammoths.

The head of the expedition, the German naturalist Dr. D. Messerschmidt, was instructed to continue exploring the vast expanses of Siberia and at the same time pay due attention to the search for the mysterious digging elephant.

They bury their relatives like people

In the “Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum” for 1908, one can find the publication of local historian P. Gorodtsov “Mammoth. West Siberian legend. Here is what, in particular, he reports from the words of an old hunter from the village of Zabolotye, which is near Tobolsk: “Mammoth exists on earth and still exists, only in small numbers: this animal is now very rare. In former times, there were much more mammoths on earth. The mammoth in appearance and body structure resembles a bull or an elk, but in size it significantly exceeds these animals: a mammoth is five to six times larger than the largest elk. This beast has two huge horns on its head.

And Siberian local historians have quite a few such testimonies. In 1920, two hunters who hunted game between the Chistaya and Tasa rivers (the area between the Ob and Yenisei) met traces of a huge beast at the edge of the forest. Oval in shape, the tracks were from 60 to 70 centimeters long and about 50 wide. The animal placed its front legs four meters from its hind legs. Heaps of manure, coming across from time to time, testified to the powerful size of the animal.

"Excited hunters followed these tracks. In the forest, they noticed branches broken off at a height of three meters. After a few days of pursuit, they finally met two monsters, which were observed from a distance of about a hundred meters (they did not dare to come closer). They distinguished white bent tusks. Animals had a brown color, long hair. "

Modern Chelyabinsk biologist Nikolai Avdeev says that he talked with an Evenk hunter who, as a child, heard the sounds made by a mammoth.

This story happened in the 1930s. At night, the boy was awakened by loud snoring, noise and splashes of water on the nearby Syrkovoe Lake. The mistress of the house, Anastasia Lukina, reassured the teenager and said that there was no need to be afraid - mammoths were making noise. She often saw how they came to this reservoir. They live nearby, in a swamp in the taiga.

Mari researcher Albert Moskvin also talked more than once with people who saw woolly elephants. Here is what he writes: “Obda (the Mari name for a mammoth), according to eyewitnesses, used to meet more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads. Stormy bad weather suits them most. Mammoths see very well, much better than elephants, and cannot stand the smell of engine oil, burnt gunpowder, etc.

Mari eyewitnesses say that the herd tears off the hair from the dead mammoth and undermines the ground under it with tusks until it sinks into the ground. Then he is thrown with pieces of earth and the grave is tamped down... Obda leaves no traces, for the traces are leveled by hair on the sides of the foot. The tail of the mammoth, although not developed, but the hair from it descends to the ground.

Also noteworthy are the testimonies of military pilots who in 1944 flew American planes from Alaska through Siberia. During the flight, they noticed from the air a herd of huge humpbacked animals with curved tusks. Due to the icing of the vehicles, the flight altitude was low, and the pilots could clearly see the dark thick fur on the animals. They moved in single file in deep snow.

In 1956, an elementary school teacher in a taiga village on the Taz Upland, picking mushrooms, literally ran into a living mammoth, which was passing at a distance of no more than ten meters from her.

One of the last press reports that Russian geologists saw live mammoths in Siberia appeared in 1978.

“It was the summer of 1978,” recalls the foreman of the miners S. Belyaev, “our artel was washing gold on one of the tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an interesting incident occurred. In the predawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull clatter was suddenly heard near the parking lot. Jumping to our feet, we stared at each other in surprise with a silent question: “What is this?” As if in response, a splash of water was heard from the river. We, seizing our guns, began to stealthily make our way in that direction.

When we rounded the rocky ledge, our eyes presented a downright incredible picture. In the shallow waters of the river there were about a dozen, God knows where, who came from ... mammoths. Huge shaggy animals slowly drank icy water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants as if spellbound. And those, having quenched their thirst, decorously, one after another, went deep into the forest thicket ... "

Mammoths hide underwater!

A reasonable question arises: if mammoths still exist, where do they hide? You will not find food in the coniferous taiga. Another thing is along river valleys and near lakes. Or in the lakes themselves! Fiction? It's like looking.

... the 30s of the twentieth century, the shallow West Siberian lake Leusha. After the celebration of Trinity Day, the youth returned home in wooden boats from the neighboring village. And suddenly, 200 meters from them, a huge hairy carcass rose out of the water! One of the guys screamed in fright: “Mammoth!” The boats huddled together, and people watched with fear as the three-meter carcass that appeared above the water swayed on the waves for several moments. Then the hairy body dived and disappeared into the abyss!

There are many such testimonials. The well-known Russian cryptozoologist Maya Bykova once told about a pilot who saw with his own eyes how a mammoth plunged into the water and sailed away along the lake surface.

The closest relatives of the mammoth are elephants. Recently it turned out that these giants are excellent swimmers. They not only love to swim in shallow water, but also swim several tens of kilometers into the sea.

One of the first evidence of the existence of such elephants appeared in 1930, when the skeleton of a baby elephant, with a preserved trunk and small tusks, was washed up on a glacier in Alaska, and in 1944 at Mahrihanish Bay, in the west of Kintyre, in Scotland, was washed ashore headless corpse of an adult elephant. And since these places are not the natural home of Indian or African elephants, it is not difficult to imagine the confusion and surprise of the people who found them.

In 1971, the crew of the trawler Empula, unloading in the port of Grimsby after fishing in the North Sea, were surprised to find in their nets, along with the usual cod and herring, a young African elephant weighing a ton.

Eight years later, an event occurred that finally confirmed that elephants can indeed swim thousands of miles from the coast. The August issue of The New Scientist published a photograph taken the previous month by Admiral R. Kadirgama of a local breed elephant swimming in the sea twenty miles off the coast of Sri Lanka. The animal raised its head above the water, its legs moved measuredly. It was obvious that the elephant had absolutely no difficulty in traveling.

And when, in 1982, a fishing boat from Aberdeen came across an elephant thirty-two miles from the North Port, not even a skeptical zoologist was surprised.

And now let's remember what the geologist Viktor Tverdokhlebov told the public from the pages of the Soviet press in the 50s of the last century. In 1953 he worked in the vicinity of the Yakut lake Labynkyr. On the morning of July 30, being on a plateau overlooking the lake, Victor observed something that barely rose above the surface of the water. From the dark gray carcass of a mysterious animal, heavy throws floating to the shore, large waves diverged in a triangle.

Who did the geologist see? Cryptozoologists said that it was one of the varieties of waterfowl pangolins that somehow survived to our time in some incomprehensible way and for some reason chose the icy waters of the lake, where reptiles, in principle, physiologically cannot live.

Numerous descriptions of encounters with lake monsters around the world tend to be similar: a dark body above the water and a small head on a long neck. However, if somewhere in Africa or in the swampy jungles of the Amazon this description can really be applied to an ancient plesiosaur that has survived to this day, then for the cold Siberian lakes the explanation may be different: it’s not the neck that rises above the water at all, but the highly raised trunk mammoth!

Scientists believe that mammoths all became extinct 11 thousand years ago, but people living in northern latitudes saw these animals in the last century. In 1978, members of the miners' artel saw mammoths in Siberia, who came to a river to drink water, and then, slowly and calmly, went into the forest.

The Chukchi have a belief that mammoths in Siberia are considered the embodiment of evil spirits, therefore, if someone sees tusks sticking out of the ground, then they must be dug up. At the beginning of the last century, this happened in one of the settlements, however, not only tusks were taken out of the ground, but also a whole animal. Sometimes they say that these creatures, due to their great weight, could not live on the surface, and dig tunnels underground, and live there, occasionally leaving their holes. But such legends are just fantasies, in fact, mammoths, if they exist now, live in the most remote places of the taiga and very rarely catch the eye of people.

In Western Siberia there is Lake Leusha, once several local residents went out to fish in boats, at some point the water began to boil violently, and a woolly mammoth rose to the surface. A few minutes later the animal dived and never showed up again. Such evidence could be called fantasy, but many biologists believe that elephants really love and know how to swim. Whether it is possible to believe such eyewitness accounts, each person decides for himself, especially since no photographs of the floating mammoth were taken.

The stories of American pilots deserve attention, in 1944, flying from Alaska to the European part of the Soviet Union through Siberia, they saw several large and long-haired animals. Due to bad weather conditions, the planes flew low enough, so people noticed the mammoths wandering through the snow in single file. A woman living in a taiga village saw such an animal in the summer, she was picking mushrooms in the forest and found a huge animal just a few meters away from her, an incident happened in 1956.

Biologist Albert Moskvin talked many times with local residents who not only heard legends about mammoths, but also saw them in nature. They say that during a snowstorm or snowstorm, the animals become in a circle, leaving his cubs inside, thus protecting them.

It is known that in 1953 one of the geologists saw an unusual animal in Lake Labynkyr, which swam from one shore to another. The creature had long brown hair, a trunk and huge, spiral tusks, later other members of the research team discovered ice formed from water flowing from the skin of a mammoth. During the time of Perth the first, merchants made crossings from China to Moscow. Their path ran through Siberia, trading people said that they saw huge elephants covered with thick brown hair.

In the tundra, they found, and are still finding, a large number of individual bones and even skeletons of mammoths; European jewelers valued them even higher than the tusks of African elephants. Scientists believe that many years ago in this area there was a grandiose catastrophe, which killed hundreds of animals. If you believe the testimonies of local residents and various researchers, then even now these strange animals live in swampy lowlands and dense forests. There are many sketches made by eyewitnesses, but, unfortunately, neither photographs nor videos exist.

It cannot be considered strange that mammoths lived (or live?) in Siberia, because these animals grow thick and long hair that protects them from cold and snow. Evenki and Chukchi say that excellent carpets are made from this wool, which do not let moisture through, and it is possible that some kind of clothes are made from it, in which it will be warm and cozy during the long Siberian winters. Scientists believe that there were several types of mammoths on Earth, some of which lived in Siberia and died there, others moved to warm latitudes and turned into elephants.

It is not known for certain whether mammoths currently exist in Siberia or in other regions of the Earth, but beyond the Urals there is a very low population density and there are places where people, with all their desire, cannot get, perhaps that is where the animals hide.

There are many eyewitness accounts who say that they saw living and very real mammoths, I want to believe that not all these animals disappeared from the face of the Earth many thousands of years ago. Perhaps one of the researchers will be able to take photographs and prove that they exist.

The Battle of Stalingrad, as you know, ended in the complete defeat of the German army, as a result, thousands of soldiers and officers were taken prisoner.

Among them was the NSDLP war correspondent, Holger Hildebrand. Like many of them, he was transferred to Siberia. Along the way, Holger continued to shoot. Later, after many decades, the personal belongings of the former prisoner of the Siberian camps were transferred to his granddaughter. Among the photographs was undeveloped film, which turned out to be unique shots.

Holger Hildebrand died in the camp at the end of 1945.
But nevertheless, the shooting dates back to 1943, the location of the shooting is Yakutsk, the Republic of Sakha, Siberia.

"..Reread Turgenev's story "Khor and Kalinich" from the series "Notes of a Hunter". There is an interesting phrase:

“...”Yes, here I am, a man, but you see ...” At this word, Khor raised his leg and showed a boot, cut, probably from mammoth skin ...”

And immediately after that, we smoothly move on to the evidence of the 19th century:

Of course, for 300 years, mammoths have not gone away. And now the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

Gorodkov, already known to us, writes in his essay “A Trip to the Salym Territory” (1911):

It's about here. But the 30s. Everyday life memory of a mammoth:

It was here. Here is evidence from the 50s:

And here is evidence from the 60s:

More evidence from the late 70s:

It's time to figure out how it happened that a living and healthy animal was deeply buried in the Ice Age.

Everything is much more interesting.

Challenging the timing of the catastrophe is the most painful and unacceptable moment for the “supreme science”. They are ready to do anything - to hush up facts, conceal evidence, mass zombies, etc., just to avoid even posing the very question on this topic, since the accumulated avalanche of pent-up information does not leave them a chance in an open discussion. And this will be followed by many, many more questions that someone really does not want to answer.

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