Проектная работа на городской конкурс "Я познаю Урал"

City Virtual Tourist Route Competition «LITeRA»

Direction: Explore Ural

Nomination: the English language

The project.

Seven unusual and mysterious places on Ural which you have to visit.

Authors of the project: Ivanov Andrey Denisovich,

Silkin Pavel Valeryevich, the 8th form

Curator of the project: Stepanova Olga Gennadyevna,

The English language teacher of MAEI lyceum №135

2021

Contents

1. Introduction__________________________________________________2
2. The main part______________________________________________3-11

1. The theoretic part________________________________________3-10
2. The practical part__________________________________________11

3. Conclusions_________________________________________________12
4. Literature___________________________________________________13
5. Application_______________________________________________14-28

Introduction

Ural Federal District (UFD) is a large territory of Russia that includes 6 subjects and 112 cities and towns, more settlements, villages [9]. Each of them has its own history, heritage. Many citizens of the RF are interested in visiting Ural to find astonishing, beautiful and unusual places. But sometimes its fairly difficult to find a guide to unknown objects. So, tourists explore them not very fast, almost nobody knows about a great number of Ural sights.

Actuality of the theme: lack of guides to little-known sights of Ural.

The problem of the researching: slow exploration of Ural sights, lack of knowledge about Ural sights.

Our goal: contribute to popularization of interesting but little-known places on Ural.

Our tasks:

1. To search little-known but, in our opinion, interesting places in borders of UFD;
2. To select 7 the most interesting sights from the list;
3. To search general information about the sights and make a short description; of each object;
4. To search information about a location of each object;
5. To make a brochure about these sights;
6. To distribute the brochures to family, friends and familiar people.

During the researching we used the information from cites nashural.ru and ru.wikipedia.org which are situated in open access in the Internet. Each of us fond out three places and one place we fond out together. First, we wrote the project in Russian and then translate it in English.

The theoretic part

We fond out about 20 sights which can make people curious about and then selected 7 the most interesting places: Monzino settlement, Halmer-You town, Kurgazak spring, Verhnaya Gubaha town, Chernoye Lake, Yamantau mountain and Transpolar Railway. Monzino is in Sverdlovsk area, Yamantau and Kurgazak are in Bashkortostan republic, Verhnaya Gubaha and the lake are in Perm krai, Halmer-You is situated in Komi republic, the railway is situated in Yamalo-Nemetsky autonomous district and Krasnoyarsk rigion. After that we wrote down general information and location of the objects.

Monzino settlement – Ural Venice

Monzino country (look at the 1st, the 2nd application) is a complex of country houses near Nizhniy Tagil city that stretches for 3 kilometers from the north to the west along Tagil Pond. The country is unusual because the pond has lots of oblong peninsulas and islands, that’s why many houses are built on the water. At the XX century there were diggings in the country but now the place doesn’t have any special economic importance.

Sights of Monzino:

• Monzino diggings (which aren’t active);
• The lakes of Tagilstroyevsky complex;
• Recreation centre;
• Solovyinaya grove;
• Rock Polyana;
• The Dutch-style house.

How to find Monzino:

Sverdlovsk area, the circumference of Nizhny Tagil city (Sverdlovsk area), the railway station “Monzino” [8].

Halmer-You ghost town

Near Halmer-You river (“death river”) a deserted urban-type settlement is situated (look at the 3rd application). In 1950s the town was important because of reserves of coal K-14 but now it’s a death space of broken furniture, boards, toys and big blocks of houses. It is a great interest for people who love adventures to walk across the town. Also, the nature of the place is unusual. There is beautiful tundra that is rich in berries and herbs, a rough river where an enormous number of fish swim. There are 25 kilometers from the town to the waterfall Halmer-You.

How to find Halmer-You town:

You have to go 70 kilometers northeast of Vorkuta city (Komi republic). There is a narrow railway which was used in the past between the cities, you can walk or go by 4*4 [2].

Kurgazak mineral spring

Kurgazak is a spring of mineral potable water that has a treating effect [4]. The spring is built like a small waterfall, there’s a round pool with the Kirgazak water near the waterfall (look at the 4th application). There is a hotel (look at the 5th application) and a car parking 20 meters of the pool. Every person who wants to swim in the pool or drink the water from the waterfall can do it, it’s free.

How to find the spring?

It’s situated in Bashkortostan republic, Salavatsky district, 3 kilometers of “Yangan-Tau” resort, near Komsomol village [3].

Old Gubakha

Near the Shirt River is the ghost town of Staraya Gubakha (look at the 6th application).

Previously, this city was a city of coal and metal miners, because there was a large deposit of metal and coal at this place.

Now this place consists of several destroyed and dilapidated buildings and a couple of streets. Tourists may find this place interesting, you can walk around the ruined city and look at the city that was built about 50 years ago.

Where to find an object:

There is an Old Gubakha between two mountains, Belaya and Ladeynaya, near the Kosva River [6].

Yamantau mountain

On UFD there is a mountain shrouded in secrets, intrigues and conspiracies – Mount Yamantau (look at the 7th application).

This mountain, unfortunately closed to visitors, hides many mysteries. Few manage to get into the territory of the mountain, and even more so, even more few manage to get back unnoticed. Some say that there is a secret base of President Vladimir Putin, others that there are hidden launchers in the caves, but we probably won't find out for a long time. The mountain was named Yamantau for a reason. So, from the Bashkir language "yAman" is translated as "bad" / "bad", "TAU" – mountain. And the reason for this decoding was the rather difficult natural conditions near the mountain and the abundance of predatory animals. And this mountain is located between Mount Karaulnaya and the closed city of Mezhgorye.

Where to find an object:

It’s situated to the north of the Bashkir city of Beloretsk [1].

Secrets of Chernoye Lake

Torsunovskoye, Chernoye, Bezymyannoye, Lesnoye are all the same lake that is on Ural (look at the 8th application). Locals may know him by various names, but there is practically no essayist who would not know about him at all. It attracts rumors and legends like a magnet. One of them says that the lake is so deep that "three tied reins do not reach the bottom." It is unclear how long these reins are, but it is believed that 10-meter reins were used in the old days. Another tells about a strange monster that was once fished out of the lake by fishermen. Allegedly, after a thunderstorm, a snake's head with large bird wings appeared on the surface of the lake, which caused horror among local children and curiosity among fishermen. After several "operations", the daredevils still caught the "monster". It turned out to be a huge pike, in the back of which a kite clung. Not a monster, of course, but a real find. They say that the water in the lake is black, that at one time a herd of cows drowned here, and how many people it swallowed up cannot be counted at all. Another interesting feature of the lake are "wandering islands– - areas of peat bogs up to 1 meter thick, overgrown with greenery. Taking into account the high interest of both local and tourists coming from the district, the lake shore was ennobled. Here you can find several tables, benches, bonfires, garbage pits.

You can come here both for the catch – bream, perch, ide, roach, pike, ruff, carp, crucian carp and other types of fish are found here, and for beach holidays and kebabs. Also, locals come here for a "quiet hunt". Mushroom pickers collect redheads, honey mushrooms, egg pods; berry pickers – blueberries, drupes, strawberries, cranberries; herbalists - motherwort, valerian, black grass.

Where to find an object?

The lake is located in the Ochersky district of Perm Krai, you can walk of go by 4*4[7].

“Death” Transpolar Railway

“Death” Railway (look at the 9th application) stretches from Salekhardd to Igarka. Its length is 700 kilometres, it is a large construction of rail which were made by Demidovs’ factory on the 22nd of April in 1947. The project was entrusted to Main Directorate of Railway Construction. But it was stopped on 25th of Mart in 1953. Now the railway is deserted. There are old rusty trains (look at the 10th application), motors (lookat the 11th application), Russian and German trophy wagons (look at the 12th application), rails of pre-revolutionary time (look at the 13th application) that travelers may be interested about. At this site, a creepy phrase that was born during the construction of the Pechora highway found its literal meaning - about "a man under every sleeper." So, I. Simonova from Tashkent, who worked in the 1970s as an engineer on the survey and completion of the Nadym-Urengoy site, personally saw piles of skeletons after the erosion of the banks of the Hitta River, and corpses in the embankment of 616-620 kilometers of the line.

How to find Transpolar Railway:

It’s situated in Yamalo-Nenetsky autonomous district and Krasnoyarsk region [5].

The Practical part

So, we started to do our brochure. First, we made little introduction. Then we added a map of our sights. After that we wrote general information about all the places and made the conclusion. We hand out 20 brochures, and people who got them thought that they were interesting (look at the 14th application).

Conclusions

We’ve completed our goal following the tasks:

1. We’ve searched little-known but, in our opinion, interesting places in borders of UFD;
2. We’ve selected 7 the most interesting sights from the list;
3. We’ve searched general information about the sights and made a short description of each object;
4. We’ve searched information about the location of each object;
5. We’ve made the brochures;
6. We’ve handed them out.

So, we’ve contributed to the UFD sight’s popularization. Our contribution isn’t very large, but we’ve made the places a little more famous and continued the progress of making UFD more tendential for tourists.

Literature

1. Горная вершина-тысячник Ямантау в Башкортостане // nashural.ru: public information site URL: http://vulkan-gora.ru/gornye-vershiny-tysyachniki/217-yamantau.html (reference date: 15.10.2021).
2. Город-призрак Хальмер-Ю // nashural.ru: public information site URL: https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/halmer-yu/ (reference date: 10.09.2021).
3. Источник Кургазак и Визит-центр геопарка Янган-Тау // nashural.ru: public information site URL: https://nashural.ru/interesnoe/istochnik-kurgazak-i-vizit-tsentr/ (reference date: 26.09.2021).
4. Кургазак // ru.wikipedia.org: free online encyclopedia URL: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA (reference date: 26.09.2021).
5. Мертвая дорога (Трансполярная магистраль): самый знаменитый недострой СССР // nashural.ru: public information site URL: https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/mertvaya-doroga-transpolyarnaya-magistral/ (reference date: 15.10.2021).
6. Ни жив, ни мертв: город-призрак Старая Губаха — Наш Урал // nashural.ru: public information site URL: https://nashural.ru/mesta/permskij-kraj/staraya-gubaha/ (reference date: 15.10.2021).
7. Особо охраняемые природные территории Очёрского района: список // nashural.ru: public information site URL: https://nashural.ru/mesta/permskij-kraj/osobo-ohranyaemye-prirodnye-territorii-ocherskogo-rajona-spisok/ (reference date: 15.10.2021).
8. Поселок Монзино — Уральская Венеция: достопримечательности и фото // nashural.ru: public information site URL: https://nashural.ru/mesta/sverdlovskaya-oblast/monzino/#14 (reference date: 10.09.2021).
9. Уральский федеральный округ // ru.wikipedia.org: free online encyclopedia URL: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3 (reference date: 10.09.2021).

Applications

The 1st application. Monzino settlement. The general view above (https://nashural.ru/mesta/sverdlovskaya-oblast/monzino/#14).

The 2nd application. Monzino settlement. The houses of Monzino

(https://nashural.ru/mesta/sverdlovskaya-oblast/monzino/#14).

The 3rd application. Halmer-You town. The empty buildings of Halmer-You (https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/halmer-yu/).

The 4th application. Kurgazak spring. The pool and the waterfall (https://nashural.ru/interesnoe/istochnik-kurgazak-i-vizit-tsentr/#7).

The 5th application. Kurgazak spring. The hotel (https://nashural.ru/interesnoe/istochnik-kurgazak-i-vizit-tsentr/#7).

The 6th application. Old Gubakha. The deserted houses (https://nashural.ru/mesta/permskij-kraj/staraya-gubaha/).

The 7th application. Lake Chernoye. The general view   (https://nashural.ru/mesta/permskij-kraj/osobo-ohranyaemye-prirodnye-territorii-ocherskogo-rajona-spisok/).

The 8th application. Yamantau mountain. The general view                                   (http://vulkan-gora.ru/gornye-vershiny-tysyachniki/217-yamantau.html).

The 9th application. Transpolar Railway. The rails (https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/mertvaya-doroga-transpolyarnaya-magistral/).

The 10th application. Transpolar Railway. The rusty train Ob-3821 (https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/mertvaya-doroga-transpolyarnaya-magistral/).

The 11th application. Transpolar Railway. The large motor on the river bank (https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/mertvaya-doroga-transpolyarnaya-magistral/).

The 12th application. Transpolar Railway. The German trophy wagon (https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/mertvaya-doroga-transpolyarnaya-magistral/).

The 13th application. Transpolar Railway. The rail from Demidovs’ factory (https://nashural.ru/mesta/respublika-komi/mertvaya-doroga-transpolyarnaya-magistral/).

The 14th application. The brochure.

You can find it in the 2nd file in the letter which is named приложение_15.pdf.