Living mammoths of Siberia. Siberian mammoths Mammoths in our time

Battle of Stalingrad, as you know, ended in complete defeat German army As a result, thousands of soldiers and officers were captured.

Among them was the war correspondent of the NSDLP, Holger Hildebrand. Like many of them, he was transported to Siberia. Along the way, Holger continued to film. Later, many decades later, the personal belongings of the former prisoner of the Siberian camps were transferred to his granddaughter. Among the photographs was undeveloped film, which contained unique footage.

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

Mammoths still exist today. They live in remote places, and people periodically meet them. Main mystery: Why doesn’t “supreme” science want everyone to know about it? What are they hiding from us?

"..Re-read Turgenev's story “Khor and Kalinich” from the series “Notes of a Hunter”. There is an interesting phrase there:

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

In order to write this phrase, Turgenev needed to know several things that were quite strange for the mid-19th century in our current understanding. He should have known that there was such a mammoth beast, and he should have known. what kind of skin he had. He must have known about the availability of this leather. After all, judging by the text, the fact that a simple man 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, unusual.

It should be recalled that Turgenev wrote his notes almost as if they were documentary, without fiction. That's what they're notes for. He was simply conveying his impressions of meeting with interesting people. And this 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 of the boot. But why then not from “elephant skin”? Elephants were well known in the 19th century. But mammoths...

Did you know that Turgenev was not the only writer of the 19th century who let slip about the “extinct beast”? None other than Jack London, in his story “A Splinter of the Tertiary Era,” conveyed the story of a hunter who encountered a living mammoth in the vastness of northern Canada. In gratitude for the treat, the narrator gave the author 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 submit appropriate recommendations and arrive on time, Professor Dolvidson will undoubtedly receive them. The mukluks are now kept by him, and he will confirm, if not how they were obtained, then, in any case, what material was used for them. He authoritatively claims that they are made from mammoth skin, and the entire scientific world agrees with him. What else do you need?..”

However, the Tobolsk Museum of Local Lore also kept a 19th-century harness made specifically from mammoth skin. Come on, why waste time when there is enough information about living mammoths. A lot of scattered evidence was collected by Candidate of Technical Sciences Anatoly Kartashov in his work “Siberian mammoths - is there any hope of seeing them alive.” He was waiting 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 from the early times:

“Probably the first person to tell 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... living animals! "Of the animals there are... huge boars, northern elephants in the bristles and northern rhinoceroses family." Here you have, in addition to mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses! The Chinese scientist is not talking about their fossil state at all - we're talking about about living creatures living in Siberia back in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.”

And immediately after this we smoothly move on to evidence from the 19th century:

“The New York Herald newspaper wrote that US President Jefferson (1801-1809), interested in reports from Alaska about mammoths, sent an envoy to the Eskimos. President Jefferson's envoy, upon returning, 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 live mammoths with his own eyes, but he brought them special weapon Eskimos to hunt them. And this is not the only one famous history, case. 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? The material evidence, however... True, it is indirect.”

Of course, mammoths have not disappeared in 300 years. And now it’s the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

“In McClure's Magazine (October 1899), in a story by H. Tukeman entitled “The Killing of the 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 truth in this story and what is literary fiction, but at that time the story was considered true...”

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

“According to the Ostyaks, in the Kintusovsky sacred forest, as in other forests, mammoths live, they visit the river and in the river itself... Often in winter time 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 activity of a mammoth: the wild and divergent animal 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 peace-loving animal by nature, and affectionate towards people; When meeting a person, the mammoth not only does not attack him, but even clings and caresses him. In Siberia, you often have to listen to the stories of local peasants and come across the opinion that mammoths still exist, but it’s just very difficult to see them..., there are now only a few mammoths left, they, like most large animals, are now becoming rare.”

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

It’s 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 or the north at all. This is the Volga region, the European part of Russia, the middle zone. And now Siberia:

“In 1920, two Russian hunters between the Ob and Yenisei rivers at the edge of the forest discovered traces of a giant beast. It was between the rivers Pur and Taz. The oval-shaped tracks 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 enormous size of the beast could be judged by the large piles of dung that appeared from time to time. Isn't it normal person will miss such a unique opportunity - to catch up with and see an animal of unprecedented size? Of course not. So the hunters followed the tracks and a few days later they caught up with two monsters. From a distance of about three hundred meters, they watched the giants for some time. The animals were covered with long, dark brown hair and had steeply 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 everyday memory of a mammoth:

“In the thirties, the Khanty hunter Semyon Egorovich Kachalov, while still a child, heard loud snoring, noise and splashes of water at night near Lake Syrkovoe. Anastasia Petrovna Lukina, the mistress of the house, calmed the boy and 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 Tobolsk region.”

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, during the holidays the fish collector Ya. told me personally a fascinating story. By the way, you need to know that when two forests almost meet at capes, dispersing the fog ( shallow lake) into two parts, the narrowest place on the water is called a gate. So, according to Ya., he drove through the gate through our fog and noticed an unusual splash. He thought, we should see what kind of fish it was and stopped. Suddenly, as if a haystack was rising from the depths, he looked closely - the fur was dark brown, like wet hair. fur seal. He quietly moved about five meters into the reeds, and looked at it himself. Whether it was a muzzle or a face, I couldn’t tell for sure. It made a hissing sound: “Fo-o” - like hitting an empty bowl. 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 the shallow place to which the narrator referred. Found deep hole, where crucian carp usually lies for the winter, I measured it...

In the 50s, I once staged a network with my son. The weather was very calm. A persistent 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. in shallow water. That's what I decided - the elk, prepared to kill. I turned the boat towards the sound and took the gun. Right in front of the boat, a large round and black muzzle of an unknown beast appeared from the water. Round and meaningful eyes looked at me point-blank. Having made 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 rocking on the emerging waves for a long time." Story by S., 70 years old, village T. Was it a mammoth? Seeing eyes looking straight ahead and not noticing the trunk? However, who knows what a person manages to notice in such a stressful situation.. .

“During the same years, my fellow villager and I were crossing the fog near the cape. Suddenly, near the shore, we saw a huge dark carcass swinging on the water. The waves from it reached the boat and lifted it. They got scared and turned back.” Story by P., 60 years old, 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 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 prospector foreman S.I. Belyaev, “our team was panning for gold on one of the nameless tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an accident occurred. interesting case. In the pre-dawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull stomp was suddenly heard near the parking lot. Miners sleep a little. Jumping to their feet, they 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 grabbed our guns and began to stealthily make our way in that direction. When we rounded the rocky ledge, an incredible picture was presented to our eyes. In the shallow river water stood about a dozen God knows where... mammoths came from. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank the cold water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants, spellbound. And they, having quenched their thirst, sedately one after another went deeper into the forest..."

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

Everything is much more interesting.

The mammoth is an animal that has practically no enemies in nature. Climate middle zone and the taiga zone suits him very well. The food supply is clearly redundant. There are a lot of open spaces undeveloped by humans. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? But he didn’t take it. Encounters between humans and this animal are too rare today.

There was clearly a catastrophe in which millions of mammoths died. They died almost simultaneously. This is evidenced by bone cemeteries covered with loess (reclaimed 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 an ecological niche in Eurasia at a time. Why isn't it like this now?

If the disaster occurred 13 thousand years ago, and some of the northern elephants survived, then they would have had plenty of time to restore the population. This did not happen. And here there are only two options: either they did not survive at all (the version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that decimated the mammoth population was relatively recent. Since mammoths still exist, the latter is more likely. They simply did not have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, a person armed firearms and greed, could really pose a threat to them, preventing population growth.

Challenging the timing of the catastrophe is the most painful and unacceptable moment for “supreme science”. They are ready to do anything - to suppress facts, hide evidence, mass zombies, etc., just to avoid even raising the question on this topic, since the accumulated avalanche of suppressed information does not leave them a chance in an open discussion. And this will be followed by many, many more questions that no one really wants to answer.

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Upload date: Feb 9 2012
Stunning footage captured by a Russian engineer allegedly shows the furry animal, roughly the size of an elephant, crossing a river in the Siberian wilderness. Like the animals of those ancient years, the beast in the video has red hair and easily distinguishable huge tusks. The animal walks waving its trunk, and its fur resembles extant samples of mammoth hair discovered in the permafrost of frosty Russia. Incredible video recording was made last summer in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Siberia by one engineer working for state enterprise. Having first published the video anonymously, the Russian said that he thereby wanted to draw attention to the fact that woolly mammoths still exist in the vast unexplored expanses of Siberia.

The famous American ufologist, former NASA employee Michael Cohen, who became famous last year with a video from the jungle of Brazil, presented the world with a new sensation. Then he showed aliens hiding behind trees (see: In Brazil, an alien was caught on camera), and now - a living mammoth. Mammoth crosses wild river, while waving his trunk.
Cohen specializes in showing videos sent to him by people who claim they captured something amazing, whether by accident or on purpose. The ufologist does not disclose the names of the authors.
And now Cohen only reported that the mammoth was filmed in Chukotka by a certain Russian engineer- employee of the state road service. I took it last year, when I was supposedly scouting out the routes of future roads.
The creature crossing the river has brown fur. Like a mammoth. The trunk is visible, which the “mammoth” waves from side to side and seems to be testing the water.

Among the Far Eastern mysteries there is also the mystery of the disappearance of mammoths. These furry giants time immemorial wandered in countless herds across the expanses of our vast taiga, and then suddenly they all died out.

According to one scientific version, a terrible cataclysm that occurred on earth about 12 thousand years ago raised a huge ice wave and it swept away all life on the northern shores, this was the reason for the sudden disappearance of mammoths on the planet.

And those who were not reached by the deadly wave were eaten by ancient hunters.

Both versions are not based on empty space, the many remains found indicate that the animals died instantly, with grass in their mouths, swept away by an incredible force that simply tore them apart and they also froze instantly.

And at excavations of sites of ancient people, one encounters entire huts made of mammoth bones, although perhaps they built them from already found bones; there are countless of them in the north.

According to some data, at the end of the 19th century, up to 32 tons of tusks were exported from there per year, very profitable business it was, and still is, thriving.

At the end of the 90s of the 20th century, slender scientific theory The extinction of mammoths more than 10 thousand years ago was shaken by a find on the Chukotka Wrangel Island; it turned out that a small population outlived the Siberian and Yakut mammoths by more than 5-7 thousand years. mammoths lived there about 3.5 thousand years ago, they were not like their powerful brothers, they were “dwarf” mammoths, slightly larger than a horse.

The largest mammoths were found in the subpolar regions of Siberia and, some reached a height of 4-4.5 m, weighing about 8 tons, were covered with dark wool in winter about 1 m long, much shorter in summer, with a thick undercoat lower, had a layer fat up to 10 cm and strongly curled tusks more than 4 m in length and weighing from 50 to 100 kg each.

They ate mainly grasses, bushes, tree branches, the mammoth found in the Yakut Berezovka had a gladiolus in its mouth, apparently at that time gladioli bloomed in Yakutia, by the way, a thick layer of fat suggests that the animals did not suffer from lack of food, although such a colossus About 200 kg were required per day. plants and a fairly warm climate, because in severe frost fat burns, this supports normal temperature bodies.

Another mystery is why the Chukotka population died, having survived terrible cataclysm, who took refuge on a distant island from ancient hunters, the most incredible version of their death, which was recently voiced in one of the TV programs, is that they died from the flu, brought either by aliens or time travelers, because they had nowhere else to catch this infection. Although, who knows, what seems incredible to us today may turn out to be quite probable tomorrow.

Among the incredible are the stories of eyewitnesses who still meet living mammoths; of course, there is no irrefutable evidence of these meetings, but rumors persist in the taiga that they have seen living ones.

Of the most famous evidence, military pilots flying over the dense taiga of Yakutia in the 40s saw a small herd of animals very similar to mammoths and the story of a team of prospectors who in 1978 panned for gold in one of the tributaries of the Indigirka River, waking up in the pre-dawn hour from a strange stomping, they grabbed their guns and rushed towards the noise, their surprise knew no bounds when in the shallow water they saw a dozen real live mammoths, slowly drinking the icy water.

And two thousand years earlier, the Chinese explorer Sym Qian, who visited the north of the Siberian taiga, wrote in historical notes that, in addition to other animals, there were northern elephants with “bristles” and northern rhinoceroses, he wrote about them as if they were alive.

According to legend, Ermak’s warriors met with hairy elephants in the remote taiga when he went to conquer Siberia, Sigismund Herberstein, the Austrian ambassador, wrote about them from his “notes about Muscovy” in the mid-16th century, where he described the animals that were found in Siberia, there was a description mysterious beast "Ves", very similar to a mammoth.

Tobolsk local historian Gorodkov spoke about the mysterious “mammoth pike”, which the Khanty call “the whole”, in his essays “On a trip to the Salym region” at the beginning of the 20th century; curiously, he even described the character of the mammoth, that they are meek, peace-loving, when they meet They fawn on people.

It is interesting that in many stories about meeting hairy giants, it is said that they are great lovers of water procedures and often frighten people by suddenly appearing from the water. Their closest relatives, elephants, swim tens of kilometers from the shore, perhaps mammoths are also capable of this, maybe because and the “pike” that emerged from the water.

Until the 19th century, the Eskimos of Alaska also talked about encounters with this shaggy giant, they even had weapons for hunting mammoths, one of which they gave to the envoy of President Jefferson, who came to them on the instructions of the president to collect information about the legendary beast.

Legends about the “Northern King of Beasts” can be heard from different nations world, over hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of years of life on Earth, he left his traces and memory of himself in different parts of the planet, his remains are found in Spain, China, even Mexico.

About 10 thousand years ago, Northern Siberia was inhabited by shaggy giants called mammoths. The now extinct genus of mammals suffered from rising temperatures at the end of the last Ice Age, which flooded and reduced their habitat. The animals were imprisoned on isolated islands, from where there was no chance of returning to the mainland. Some populations confined to these landmasses in eastern and northern Siberia lingered

Extraction of mammoth tusks in the depths of Siberian lands

Indigenous peoples northern regions, who had previously often encountered tusks washed by spring waters, believed that giant animals moved underground, exposing only their huge fangs above its surface. They called them Eggor, i.e. earthen deer. According to other legends, mammoths lived at the beginning of creation. Due to their enormous weight, they constantly sank chest-deep into the ground. Rivers and streams formed in the paths created by mammoths, which ultimately led to complete flooding. For some time the animals swam across the endless waters, but the birds landing on their tusks doomed them to death.

Sculptural figures made from mammoth tusks

Throughout the European part of Russia and Siberia, until the middle of the 20th century, the folk art of bone carving actively flourished. Local carvers produced combs, boxes, miniature sculptures and accessories exclusively from mammoth tusks. This material is very beautiful, flexible and durable, although it is somewhat difficult to process. Its hardness is equal to such materials as pearls, amber and coral. Mammoth bones are easily processed with a chisel, acquiring a magnificent mesh pattern, and thanks to large sizes Almost any sculptural shape can be made from them.

Extraction of mammoth ivory in the far north of Yakutia

Mammoth tusks are returned from the permafrost through the hard work of seekers. Their extraction is quite difficult, as they are often ancient material hiding in swampy places, at the bottom of rivers, in the tundra. Often tusks are found along the banks of streams, lakes and ravines. To extract one artifact, the miner requires from several hours to several days of continuous excavation. Before taking the material they find, tusk hunters throw silver jewelry or colored balls into the dug hole as an offering to the local spirits.

The difficult process of extracting mammoth ivory

Today, almost all extraction of mammoth tusks in the vast expanses of Siberia is illegal, and about 90% of the resulting “jewels” ultimately end up in China, where it is highly revered ancient tradition ivory carvings. Rapid growth demand causes some concern among researchers, as it leads to the loss of valuable data about animals that lived on this earth, whose tusks contain information about climate, food and environment. There may still be millions or more mammoth tusks trapped in the permafrost of Siberia, but finding them is becoming increasingly difficult every year. Currently, the cost of a kilogram of high-quality mammoth bones on the black market is about 25 thousand rubles, and in antique stores in China the price of one skillfully carved tusk can reach a million dollars.

A live mammoth was spotted in Siberia

A woolly mammoth was caught on video in Siberia. Such messages and even the video itself, which captured a certain brown creature crossing the river, appeared in the British press.

A creature with all the characteristics of a long-extinct animal was filmed wading across a river in Russia's remote Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, writes The Daily Mail. According to British journalists, the animal resembles an elephant and is covered with reddish-brown fur, which matches the color of the fur of a mammoth found in permafrost.

The author of the video turned out to be a Russian engineer who was on his way last summer to inspect the site of the planned roads. The eyewitness himself has not yet commented on the video. But a science fiction writer in the field paranormal phenomena Michael Cohen said that Siberia occupies a vast territory, so it is possible that many undiscovered animal species live there.

It is possible that species that have disappeared elsewhere could survive in this area, says the 41-year-old writer. If the existence of mammoths in Siberia were discovered, it could go against Russia's plans for further development and exploitation of the area's resources, Cohen says.

It is worth noting that if you look closely at the video, most of all the creature resembles an ordinary bear holding in its teeth big fish, creating some semblance of a trunk or tusks.

Currently, scientists have established the existence of mammoths 150,000 years ago in North America and Eurasia, but the skeletons of Siberian individuals are best preserved. According to researchers, mammoths disappeared from the face of the Earth 10,000 years ago.

Participants of the international paleontological expedition "Yana-2012" found unique materials on the study of the mammoth, including living cells of the prehistoric animal. “In a unique area at a depth of about 100 m, we were able to find rich material for research - soft and fatty tissues, wool, and bone marrow of a mammoth,” says the press service of the North-Eastern Federal University.

Let me remind you that mammoths are an extinct genus of mammals from the elephant family that lived in Quaternary period. The animals reached a height of 5.5 meters and a body weight of 10 - 12 tons. Thus, mammoths were twice as heavy as the largest modern ones terrestrial mammals- African elephants.

Mammoths appeared in the Pliocene and lived 4.8 million - 4500 years ago in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Numerous mammoth bones found in sites ancient man Stone Age; Drawings and sculptures of mammoths made by prehistoric man were also discovered. In Siberia and Alaska, corpses of mammoths are often found, preserved due to their presence in the thickness of permafrost.

Mammoths went extinct about 10 thousand years ago during the last Ice Age. There are several reasons for their extinction. According to many scientists, Upper Paleolithic hunters played a significant or even decisive role in this. According to another point of view, the extinction process began before the appearance of people in the corresponding territories.

One of the latest, most massive and southernmost burials of mammoths is located in the Kargat region Novosibirsk region, in the upper reaches of the Bagan River in the “Wolf Mane” area. It is believed that there are at least 1,500 mammoth skeletons here.

Sources: paranormal-news.ru, kykyryzo.ru, info.sibnet.ru, www.solovei.info, the-day-x.ru

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There is a legend that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Ermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. Experts are still at a loss: who did the glorious warriors see? After all, ordinary elephants were already known in those days: they were found in 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, came across traces of a giant beast at the edge of the forest. This happened between the Chistaya and Tasa rivers (the area between the Ob and Yenisei). The oval-shaped tracks 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 watched the giants from a distance of about three hundred meters. The animals had curved white tusks, brown coloring, and long hair. These are elephants in fur coats. They moved slowly. One of the last press reports that Russian geologists in Siberia saw living mammoths appeared in 1978. “It was the summer of 1978,” recalls prospector foreman S.I. Belyaev, “our team was panning for gold on one of the nameless tributaries of the Indigirka River. At the height of the season, an interesting incident occurred. In the pre-dawn hour, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull stomp was suddenly heard near the parking lot. Miners sleep a little. Jumping to their feet, they 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 grabbed our guns and began to stealthily make our way in that direction. When we rounded the rocky ledge, an incredible picture was presented to our eyes. In the shallow river water there were about a dozen God knows where they came from... mammoths. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank the cold water. For about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants, spellbound. And they, having quenched their thirst, decorously, one after another, went deep into the forest thicket...”

Mammoths still exist today. They live in remote places, and people periodically meet them. The main mystery: why doesn’t “supreme” science want everyone to know about it? What are they hiding from us? Maybe mammoths died out incorrectly?...

Alexey Artemiev

On the issue of mammoths, I, like most people, have been in an illusion for a long time. I took my word for it that they died out during the last ice age. I knew that their remains were found in permafrost, and I 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 series “Notes of a Hunter.” There is an interesting phrase there:

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

It should be recalled that Turgenev wrote his notes almost as if they were documentary, without fiction. That's what they're notes for. He simply conveyed his impressions of meeting interesting people. And this 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 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, awareness of them at that time was negligible. One of the first “academic” mammoth skeletons with preserved remains of soft tissue was found by hunter O. Shumakov in the Lena River delta, on the Bykovsky Peninsula in 1799. And this was a great rarity for science. In 1806, botanist of the Academy M.N. Adams organized the excavation of the skeleton and brought 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. Another half century (1900) would pass before the discovery of the Berezovsky mammoth and the creation of the first stuffed animal. 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 even talking about the fact that the skin of an “ever-frozen” mammoth is not at all suitable for furriery. She is losing her qualities.

“Probably the first person to tell 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... living animals! "The animals include... huge boars, northern elephants with bristles and northern rhinoceroses." Here you have, in addition to mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses! The Chinese scientist is not talking about their fossil state at all - we are talking about living creatures living in Siberia back in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.”

I myself have not read these “Historical Notes”; such a serious researcher as M.G. refers to them. Bykova, N. Nepomnyashchiy is copying it for her, and I am copying it for both of them.

As for the 2nd century BC, one can hardly trust this dating, since Chinese history artificially extended into the past to infinity. However, in our case this does not change the essence at all. “Historical notes” of Sima Qian are clearly not 13 thousand years old, that is, it was obviously after ice age. And here is evidence from the 16th century:

“...The Ambassador of the Austrian Emperor, the Croatian Sigismund Herberstein, who visited Muscovy in the middle of the 16th century, wrote in 1549 in his “Notes on Muscovy”: in Siberia “... there is a great variety of birds and various animals, such as, for example, sables, martens, beavers, stoats, squirrels and in the ocean the animal walrus... In addition, Ves, just like polar bears, wolves, hares...". Please note: on the same level as very real beavers, squirrels and walruses stands a certain, if not fabulous, then certainly mysterious and unknown, Ves.

However, this Ves 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 also more than three centuries later. In 1911, Tobolsk resident P. Gorodkov wrote the essay “A Trip to the Salym Territory.” It was published in the XXI issue of the “Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum” for 1911, and among other interesting things that we will talk about below, there are the following lines: “...among the Salym Khanty, the “mammoth pike” is called “all.” “This monster was covered with thick long hair and had large horns, sometimes the “entire” would start such a fuss among themselves that the ice on the lakes would break with a terrible roar.”

It turns out that mammoths walked around here 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 known that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Ermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. Experts are still at a loss: who did the glorious warriors see? Ordinary elephants were already well known in those days: they were found in the courts of governors, in zoological gardens and in the royal menagerie.”

And immediately after this we smoothly move on to evidence from the 19th century:

“The New York Herald newspaper wrote that US President Jefferson (1801-1809), interested in reports from Alaska about mammoths, sent an envoy to the Eskimos. President Jefferson's envoy, upon returning, claimed absolutely fantastic things: according to the Eskimos, mammoths can still be found in remote areas in the northeast of the peninsula. The envoy, however, did not see live mammoths with his own eyes, but he brought special Eskimo weapons 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? The material evidence, however... True, it is indirect.”

Of course, mammoths have not disappeared in 300 years. And now it’s the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

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

“According to the Ostyaks, in the Kintusovsky sacred forest, as in other forests, mammoths live, they visit 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 crushed into many small ice floes - all these are visible signs and results of the mammoth’s activity: the wild and diverging animal 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 peace-loving animal by nature, and affectionate towards people; When meeting a person, the mammoth not only does not attack him, but even clings and caresses him. In Siberia, you often have to listen to the stories of local peasants and come across the opinion that mammoths still exist, but it’s just very difficult to see them..., there are now only a 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 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, talked with people who themselves saw woolly elephants. Here is a quote from the letter: “Obda (the Mari name for mammoth), according to Mari eyewitnesses, used to be seen more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads (the Mari call this phenomenon obda-sauna - mammoth wedding).” The Mari told him in detail about the way of life of mammoths, about their appearance, about relationships with cubs, people, and even about the funeral of a dead animal. According to them, the kind and affectionate obda, offended by people, turned out the corners of barns and bathhouses at night, and broke fences, making a dull trumpet sound. According to the stories of local residents, even before the revolution, mammoths forced residents of the villages of Nizhnie Shapy and Azakovo, which were located in the area now called Medvedevsky, to move to a new place. The stories contain many interesting and surprising details, but there is a strong conviction that there is no fantasy or even just implausibility in them.”

“In 1920, two Russian hunters between the Ob and Yenisei rivers at the edge of the forest discovered traces of a giant beast. It was between the rivers Pur and Taz. The oval-shaped tracks 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 enormous size of the beast could be judged by the large piles of dung that appeared from time to time. Would a normal person miss such a unique opportunity - to catch up with and see an animal of unprecedented size? Of course not. So the hunters followed the tracks and a few days later they caught up with two monsters. From a distance of about three hundred meters, they watched the giants for some time. The animals were covered with long, dark brown hair and had steeply 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 everyday memory of a mammoth:

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, during the holidays the fish collector Ya. told me personally a fascinating story. By the way, you need to know that when two forests almost meet at capes, dispersing the fog ( shallow lake) into two parts, the narrowest place on the water is called a gate. So, according to Ya., he drove through the gate through our fog and noticed an unusual splash. He thought, we should see what kind of fish it was and stopped. Suddenly, as if a shock of hay was rising from the depths, he looked - the fur was dark brown, like that of a wet seal. He quietly moved about five meters into the reeds, and he looked at either the muzzle or the face - he couldn’t quite make out the sound. : “Fo-o” - like in an empty bowl. 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 the shallow place to which the narrator referred. I found a deep hole where crucian carp usually lie down for the winter, measured it...

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 large nose and fangs,” and ten years ago he himself saw unknown traces “the size of a basin.”

More evidence from the late 70s:

“It was the summer of 1978,” recalls prospector foreman S.I. Belyaev, “our team was panning for 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, near the parking lot suddenly there was a dull clatter. When we rounded the rocky ledge, an incredible picture was presented to our eyes: in the shallow water of the river there were about a dozen mammoths that had come from God knows where. And for about half an hour we looked at these fabulous giants. Having quenched their thirst, they sedately went deeper into the forest, one after another...”

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

Well, that's all - there are mammoths, and not even very far away. The fact is obvious. Everyone who has ever had the chance to meet a mammoth has seen it. 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 thriving animal was buried deep in the Ice Age.

I am far from thinking that all of the above evidence remained unknown to the scientific world. Of course not. Paleontologists (those who study fossil animals) 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, which neither geologists nor hunters are among.

It is interesting that I was not able to find the specific scientist who “buried” the mammoths. As if this goes without saying. It is known that Tatishchev was also interested in them. He wrote an article in Latin, “The Tale of the Mammoth Beast.” However, the information he received was the most contradictory, often mythical. Most evidence described the mammoth as a living animal. Tatishchev could hardly conclude that this animal was extinct. 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, the matter is not limited to this. Everything is much more interesting.

The mammoth is an animal that has practically no enemies in nature. The climate of the middle zone and taiga zone is very suitable for him. The food supply is clearly redundant. There are a lot of open spaces undeveloped by humans. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? But he didn’t take it. Encounters between humans and this animal are too rare today.

If the disaster occurred 13 thousand years ago, and some of the northern elephants survived, then they would have had plenty of time to restore the population. This did not happen. And here there are only two options: either they did not survive at all (the version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that decimated the mammoth population was relatively recent. Since mammoths still exist, the latter is more likely. They simply did not have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, a person armed with firearms and greed could actually pose a threat to them, preventing population growth.

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