Sekirnaya Mountain on Solovki may be a man-made pyramid. Solovetsky Archipelago (Solovki)

In 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of Sekirnaya Mountain. Although the basis of the elevation is glacial deposits, there is reason to believe that on top it is actually supplemented with embankments of artificial origin.

View of Sekirnaya Mountain. At the top of it stands an Orthodox church. There are no other high mountains on Solovki

The highest mountain of the Solovetsky archipelago is Sekirnaya (its second name is Chudova Gora). The name “Sekirnaya” is associated with the legend of a miracle that happened here: two angels at the foot of the mountain whipped the wife of a Pomor, who was fishing and cutting hay on the Solovetsky Islands, but did not allow the monks to do this. The name supposedly comes from the word “flogged”.

The name of Mount Sekirnaya should have come not from the word “cut”, but from “axe” (medieval battle axe). It turns out that the angels were supposed to kill the Pomor's wife not with axes, but with battle axes.

- You are a supporter of the version of the artificial origin of Sekirnaya Mountain. Why?

The islands of the Solovetsky archipelago are flat, as if ironed by a glacier. High mountains look like artificial formations on them. On Bolshoi Solovetsky Island, Mount Sekirnaya (or Sekirka) is the highest, its height is almost 100 meters. The huge sand and stone mounds of the Solovetsky Mountains were first described by local historians in the 30s of the 20th century.

But scientists could not explain where such a high mountain could have appeared on the flat islands. It has been suggested that Sekirka was partly created by a glacier and partly a pyramid of boulders, which was built several thousand years ago by ancient people who inhabited the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea.

If the ancient Solovetsky Mountain is a pyramid, where did it get its original Russian name? Why did the monks need such a strange legend about angels?

There are doubts that the name of the mountain was originally Slavic. After all, the word “Nightingales,” although consonant with “nightingales,” has nothing to do with them: nightingales have never been found in the Arctic Circle. The monks used the legend of the angels as “proof” that Solovetsky Island should belong to the monastery, and not to the indigenous inhabitants.

In fact, archaeologists have confirmed that the Solovetsky archipelago belonged to the inhabitants of the White Sea region thousands of years before the arrival of the first monks. The Novgorodians called these White Sea tribes "Chudi", and the local peoples, the Nenets, called them "Sikirtya".

- What does the name of the people “Sikhirtya” mean, what did it have to do with the pyramid mounds?

But a stack can be made not only of hay, so a version arose that “shrt” is a form of primitive bulk prehistoric dwelling, like a giant stack of grass, moss and branches in which our ancient ancestors lived. The same ancient root stem "skrt" is in the word "hide". After all, the main function of a home is to hide from the cold and wild animals. People who lived in such primitive dwellings were called hermits, and in the north - sikirtya.

The first chronicles of the Novgorodians about the Donenets cave population of the north (the Nenets came to the territory of the Pechora tundra from behind the Ural Range only in the 13th-14th centuries) confirm that the tribes who lived there did not know iron and lived in caves.

But in the flat Pechora tundra there are practically no mountains in which such caves can be found today, and even for cavemen to live in them...

Such “mountains” of the ancient cave people could only be artificial mounds-dwellings - huge stack houses made of peat and moss. Then it is clear why, after a thousand years, practically nothing remained of them - they turned into ordinary small hills among the flat landscape of the tundra. From time to time, archaeologists find traces of Donetsk civilization in the tundra - bronze and stone tools, jewelry.

-Are there any traces of the dwellings of the Sikitrya people?

Remained: back in the 19th century, Academician Lepekhin wrote: “the entire Samoyed land in the current Mezen district is filled with desolate dwellings of a certain people. They are found in many places, near lakes on the tundra and in forests near rivers, made in the mountains and hills like caves with similar holes beast.

In these caves they find ovens and find fragments of iron, copper and clay household items." And as for the stone bulk mountains, like Sekirnaya, these are no longer houses made of peat and moss for living people, but houses of the dead, pyramids made of stones .

Thus, the stone mountains on Solovki are nothing more than monuments of ancient civilization. Our researchers have a lot of work to do to study the history hidden in the ground.

Anatoly RUKSHA

"Belomorye Courier" 19(166)

Back in 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of Sekirnaya Mountain - the one located on the Solovetsky archipelago.

Although the elevation is based on glacial deposits, there is every reason to believe that on top it is actually supplemented with embankments of artificial origin, that is, all this is the work of human hands.

About hills and mounds

It's no secret that on the numerous islands and islets of the Solovetsky archipelago there are hills and mountains of completely different heights. So, Sekirnaya Mountain is perhaps the highest mountain on the entire Bolshoi Solovetsky Island. This mountain also has another, more euphonious name - Chudova Gora.

Let us return to the more established name – Sekirnaya. So, it was named in memory of the angels. The essence of the myth is that once upon a time angels descended from heaven and flogged the wife of a fisherman, the wife of a Pomor. According to legend, the Monks Savvaty and Herman lived and lived near this apparently still nameless mountain.

In the summer, fishermen and their wives came to the foot. The husbands, as expected, fished, while the wives mowed the grass and ran the household. Why the Pomors disliked the Monks Savvaty and Herman, history is silent. But a conflict broke out between them and the fishermen. I repeat that this happened in ancient times and, as often happens in the myths of any people, heavenly forces intervened in the situation - in our case, angels in the form of blond youths.

The latter took and flogged one of the fishermen's wives with rods, and ordered them to reel in the fishing rods as best they could. And that, they say, this island with a mountain in addition belongs to the monks for prayers... It was not possible to argue with the angels, so the fishermen left this island and henceforth began to treat the monks with respect.

Ancient people tried

This is where questions arise related to the name of this mountain. Judging by the legend, the name “Sekirnaya” supposedly comes not from the word “sect”, but from “axe” - the name of a medieval battle ax. It turns out that the angels were supposed to kill the Pomor's wife not with axes, but with battle axes. It’s somehow tough, especially for angels.

It is known that the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago are flat, as if ironed by a glacier. The high mountains look strange on them, as if they were artificial formations. On the Big Solovetsky Island, Mount Sekirnaya (or Sekirka) is the highest, its height is almost one hundred meters. Where does she get to this kind of plateau?

Let us note that the huge sand and stone mounds of the Solovetsky Mountains were first described by local historians in the 30s of the last century. But scientists then could not explain where such a high mountain could have appeared on the flat islands. It has been suggested that Sekirka was partly created by a glacier and partly a pyramid of boulders, which was built several thousand years ago by ancient people who inhabited the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea.

Nightingales do not sing on Solovki

Of course, the question arises: if the ancient Solovetsky Mountain is a pyramid, where did it get its original Russian name? And why did the monks need such a strange legend about angels? In fact, there are doubts that the name of the mountain was originally Slavic. After all, the word “Nightingales,” although consonant with “nightingales,” has nothing to do with them - nightingales have never been found in the Arctic Circle.

Well, the monks used the legend of the angels as proof that Solovetsky Island should belong to the monastery, and not to the indigenous inhabitants. In addition, archaeologists have confirmed that the Solovetsky archipelago belonged to the inhabitants of the White Sea region thousands of years before the arrival of the first monks. The Novgorodians called these White Sea tribes “Chudya”, and the established local Nenets called them “Sikirtya”.

Moss stack

Mention of the Sikitrya people is found in the Tale of Bygone Years. Translated from the ancient language, “skhrt” or “skrd” is an artificial embankment of an elongated shape. The word “stack” has the same root. A stack is an artificial hay stack of elongated shape. But a stack can be made not only of hay, so a version arose that “shrt” is a form of primitive bulk prehistoric dwelling, like a giant stack of grass, moss and branches in which our ancient ancestors lived.

The same ancient root stem “skrt” is in the word “hide”. After all, the main function of a home is to hide from the cold and wild animals. People who lived in such primitive dwellings were called hermits, and in the North - sikirtya.

The first chronicle information from the Novgorodians about the Donenets cave population of the north (the Nenets came to the territory of the Pechora tundra from beyond the Ural Range only in the 13th–14th centuries) confirms that the tribes who lived there did not know iron and lived in caves.

Cave people

But the question reasonably arises that in the flat Pechora tundra there are practically no mountains in which such caves can be found today, and even for cavemen to live in them. Perhaps such “mountains” of the ancient cave people could only be artificial mounds-dwellings - huge stack houses made of peat and moss.

Only then does it become clear why, after a thousand years, practically nothing remained of them - they turned into ordinary small hills among the flat tundra landscape. By the way, archaeologists periodically find traces of Donetsk civilization in the tundra - bronze and stone tools, jewelry.

It is worth saying that traces of the dwellings of the Sikitrya people also remained. Back in the 19th century, Academician Lepekhin wrote: “the entire Samoyed land in the current Mezen district is filled with desolate dwellings of a certain people. They are found in many places, near lakes on the tundra and in forests near rivers, they are made in the mountains and hills like caves with openings similar to animals. In these caves, stoves are found and fragments of iron, copper and clay household items are found.”

As for the stone bulk mountains, like Sekirnaya, these are no longer houses made of peat and moss for living people, but houses of the dead - pyramids made of stones. Thus, the stone mountains on Solovki are nothing more than monuments of ancient civilization. Our researchers have a lot of work to do to study the history hidden in the ground.

Solovetsky Islands and their area

Bolshoi Solovetsky Island is the largest triangular island in the archipelago. Its southern part is narrower than the northern one and ends with a sharp cape. On the western, eastern and northern shores there are bays that extend deeply into the territory. The distance between the most distant southern and northern points of the island is 24.7, and the western and eastern - 15.8 km. Bolshoi Solovetsky Island (246.9 sq. km) is larger than the other five islands of the archipelago: the area of Anzer Island is 24 sq. km. km, Bolshaya Muksalma - 17.6, Bolshoy Zayatsky - 1.25, Maly Zayatsky - 1.02, Malaya Muksalma - 0.57 sq. km. ( Boguslavsky Gustav. Solovetsky Islands: Essays. )

Bolshoi Solovetsky Island

"The formation of the modern relief of the Big Solovetsky Island occurred under the influence of a glacier and the subsequent processes of weathering and erosion. The area of the archipelago was subjected to glaciation twice. The first period of glaciation (Dnieper) and the second period (Valdai or otherwise Wurm) are separated by a time interval when the glacier retreated, causing significant climate changes.

Breeds. The islands rest on a solid foundation of gneiss-granite bedrock. The rocks almost never come to the surface. The glacier covered the bedrock of the Solovetsky Islands with a significant layer of crystalline “moraine” deposits. There are many boulders on the islands, gneisses predominate, there are few granites and shales, and there are almost no sedimentary rocks. Often boulders lie in thick ridges on hillsides. Among moraine deposits there are moraine clays, "ram's foreheads". There is a lot of sand on the islands - a product of mechanical destruction of crystalline rocks.

The soil of the islands has a sandy base and lacks nutrients. There are few outcrops of moraine rock on the islands and the soil layer is insignificant in thickness (average value 0.2-0.25 m, often 0.05 m and extremely rarely 0.4-0.6 m). The main soil complexes on the islands are podzolic, transitional from podzolic to semi-swamp, semi-swamp, transitional from semi-swamp to swamp, swamp and peat.

The relief of the islands is uneven with slight ups and downs and numerous lake basins. There are no significant elevations. There are three relief zones on Bolshoi Solovetsky Island:

The central zone of the island has a hilly, elevated landscape and a system of lakes;
the southern zone is a depression surrounded by hills with peat bogs and overgrown lakes and
coastal zone.

The relief of Solovetsky Island (the direction of the hills and lake basins) will coincide with the direction of movement of the glacier (from north-northwest to south-southeast). The entire island stretches in this direction.

Mountains. The highest point of the archipelago is Mount Golgotha on Anzer Island (200 m). The highest point on Bolshoi Solovetsky Island is Mount Sekirnaya (its absolute height is 95.5 m; relative height is 71 m). Sekirnaya Mountain, Golgotha and the mountains on the islands were formed by glacial sediments. On the Great Solovetsky Island there are hills and ridges (25-60 m), traditionally called “mountains”. They stretch in ridges of hills with gentle slopes. All the mountains are located in the central part of the island: to the east of the monastery there are the sloping Khlebnye Mountains, to the north-west - the Valdai Mountains, further to the north the chain of Setny, Gremyachi and Volchi mountains. There are elevations on the way to the village of Rebolde and on the northwestern tip of the island, near the village of Treshchanki. Mount Tabor rises in the southeastern part of Muksalma Island.

The swamps (forest and meadow, “upland”) of Solovki are lakes in the later stage of overgrowth. Swamps occupy a significant part of the area of Anzersky Island (20% or 630 hectares) and 460 hectares of Bolshaya Muksalma (almost the entire eastern part of the island is swampy). There are no swamps on the Zayatsky Islands. On the Bolshoy Solovetsky swamps are located in the southern (Pechakskoye and Berezovo-Topskoye), northeastern (Filimonovskoye and Gorodokskoye) and eastern parts of the island. In the central and western part of the island lies the Kulikovo swamp and a few small “raised swamps” near lakes, fed by precipitation.

Peat swamps are located in the eastern and southern parts of the Greater Solovetsky Island (near Gryaznaya Bay, in the area of the Big and Small Kamenny and Bolshoi Peat lakes on the road to Muksalma, in the area of the Lop Lakes along the Berezovskaya road, near Cape Pechak and on Bolshaya Muksalma in the area of the mountain Favor). Estimated peat reserves are more than 80 million tons. There is no industrial extraction of peat.

The coastal strip represents a special physical-geographical zone. The open coastal strip stretches along the entire perimeter of the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago. The area of the coastal zone is comparable to the area of the islands: for example, on Anzer it reaches 926 hectares or 38% of the area. The circumference of the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island is 110 km, but due to the heavily indented coasts, capes, bays and peninsula, the length of the coastline is twice as long ~ 200 km. The banks are made of loose sandy rocks, strewn with boulders with sparsely growing grass. The coastal strip is limited by forest, approaching almost the water itself or receding by 0.1-0.2 km.

Coastal shoals and stone dams extend towards the sea for considerable distances. Coastal depths are small: to the west and east the sea reaches a depth of 10 m only 1.8 - 2.0 km from the coast, and in the northern and southern directions - 4 km; further, the depths increase and in the northern and eastern directions, 5-6 km from the coast, they already reach 30 - 50 m.

The “growth” of the Solovetsky Islands was first estimated in 1889 at 120 centimeters per century; more accurate data indicate a growth of approximately 17 centimeters per century.

Ebbs and flows. Twice a day, waters come to the shores of the islands, approaching the forest itself. The tide lays a continuous ribbon of seaweed on the shore. Twice low tide reveals thousands of orange-red boulders lying in the sea at shallow depths. High and low tide lasts 6 hours 12 minutes (the daily cycle - two high tides and two low tides - is equal to 24 hours 47 minutes), while the period of low water is usually close to noon and midnight. The difference between low and high water in the area of the islands is on average 0.4 and 1.8 m, respectively (extreme values 0.3 and 2.0 m). The difference between high and low water in Glubaya Bay is 1.25 m, and up to 700 tons of water per second passes through the Iron Gate Strait, which connects the lip to the sea, during high and low tides.

Sea bays (lips) are diverse: Glubokaya Bay juts into the shore of the Great Solovetsky Island from the east. Its area is 12.8 square meters. km.; The depth in some places reaches 150 meters. There are many islands in the bay, its shores are heavily indented. Deep Bay is a one-of-a-kind sea bay with a cold-water zone and arctic fauna at depths of 12-14 m.

Harbor "Bay of Prosperity". The main bay of the Archipelago is Blagopoluchiya Bay, on the shore of which stands the Solovetsky Kremlin. It extends 2 km into the shore, forming a harbor with an area of about 6.4 square meters. km. Blagopoluchiya Bay is the best harbor in this area of the White Sea. The harbor is sheltered from most winds and is exposed to westerly and southwesterly winds. The depth of the harbor is 11-45 m in the roadstead between Pesya Luda and Senny Luda. In the harbor itself 2.0-2.5 m (southern part), 4.0-5.5 m (northern part) right up to the pier (in low water). The bottom is sandy, with small stones, suitable for large ships.

The shore of the bay is heavily indented with small lips and a dozen capes. The bay is dotted with ludas and corgis. Islands in the bay – Parusny; Sennaya (four), Petropavlovsky, Krestovy, Igumensky, Beluzhiy, Bolshoi and Maly Topa, Travyanoy; Pesya, Voronya and Babya luds; Aleksandrovsky, Ershov, Voroni, Nameless corgis. The water of the bay is clean and transparent, visibility up to 5 m. ( Boguslavsky Gustav. Solovetsky Islands: Essays. 3rd ed. Arkhangelsk; North-West book publishing house, 1978. - 173 pp.: ill.)

Anzersky Island (Anzer)

The length of the island is about 17 kilometers, width - 7.5 km in the western part, narrowing towards the east. Area - 35 square kilometers. There are numerous lips, the narrowest are large - Troitskaya and Kaporskaya, Kirillovskaya - wide with a sandy shore and dunes. The landscape is very reminiscent of the Big Solovetsky Island: many hills covered with dense forest, which alternate with deep lake basins.

The island of Anzer under the name "Wanzer" was mentioned in the middle of the 15th century, in the first Novgorod charters to the Solovetsky Monastery. In the first quarter of the 17th century, the Monk Eleazar of Anzersky founded a small monastery - the Anzersky monastery. In 1634, priest Nikita, the future Patriarch Nikon, who played a significant role in the history of Russia, took monastic vows on Anzer. Reverend Job, the former confessor of Emperor Peter the Great, founded a small monastery in 1712 with monstrously strict rules.

Bolshaya Muksalma Island

Bolshaya Muksalma Island measures 6.2 by 3.7 kilometers. The surface is uneven, but there are no significant depressions. There are no lakes. In the southeastern part of the island, the main part of which is swampy, there are two mountains (the higher one is called “Favor”). The soil is sandy and rocky. There are no forests like those covering Solovetsky Island and Anzer. Most of the island is low forest. Extensive pastures with fine grass. Here, in the area of the Sergius monastery, there was a cattle yard. V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, who visited Solovki in 1872, wrote with enthusiastic surprise about the local barnyard, poultry house, stables and dairy farm: he spoke about the “Dutch cleanliness” of all premises, about the reserves of first-class dairy products stored in the glacier, about the rational production of the entire dairy industry. During the existence of SLON (1923), a livestock farming enterprise was organized on Muksalma, which threw all the monastic labors into the wind and successfully destroyed the former premises of the monastery farm, including the legendary stable with a hayloft (1906) and designed for 27 horses.

Currently, the Muksalm village is a group of ruins scattered in a meadow. Here are the remains of a two-story stone house, a wooden house, a barnyard building and the remains of several other old buildings. Previously, in Muksalma there was a wooden chapel and a one-story stone St. Sergius Church. After the communist invasion, only ruins remained.

From the village the road goes to the eastern part of the island through small forests to Mount Tabor.

Big and Small Zayatsky Islands (Hares)

Bolshoy Zayatsky, Maly Zayatsky Islands or Hares, Zaichiki (local). Located from Cape Pechak 2.5 km to the northwest; from Blagopoluchiya Bay 30-50 minutes by boat to the south. Area: B. Zayatsky - 1.25 sq. km, M. Zayatsky - 1.02 sq. km. km. A low strip of land with slight rises. Forests occupy 65-70% and 55-60% of the land (small forests, almost no or small conifers). Open coast – up to 30% of the islands’ area (about 40 hectares on B. Zayatsky Island). The landscape is subpolar, closer to tundra (moss litter, bushes, weak forest, rocky soil). There are no lakes or swamps. There may have once been lakes or bogs, but now only three oval-shaped peat bogs are visible. The main element of the landscape is stone in the form of boulders of various shapes and sizes. The coastline is heavily indented, up to 15 km near the island. B. Zayatsky. The shore is flat, with terraces in places. The coastal strip is bushy, but there are good grassy areas in the northeast and east of the island. The central part of the island. B. Zayatsky occupies the remnant of a powerful glacial moraine - Mount Sopka. The mountain is devoid of vegetation, the top is rocky. Near the shore (1 km south of Sopka) is Mount Signalnaya, along the ridge of which a moraine ridge is clearly visible. Structures: ancient labyrinths or Babylons, an artificial harbor closed from the sea by a masonry of large boulders, Church of St. Andrew the Apostle, worship crosses.

Malaya Muksalma Island

Malaya Muksalma is the smallest of the six largest islands of the Solovetsky archipelago. Seasonal residents - dredgers, algae miners - kelp, call their island differently. "Little Mu, as it is written on the local store... or gloomily - Island of Man-Eaters. The history of Muksalma really leans more towards the latter... -." ( Alexey Sheptunov. Who are draggers? " Vedomosti Pomorye", 08/25/2004). The women were shot right there, right from the pier, from which today dredgers go out to extract kelp...

Multiple Locations

Serial ID Number	Name & Location	Coordinates	Area	Date Inscribed
632-001	Solovetsky Island. Solovetsky District, Arkhangelsky, Russian Federation	N65 05 E35 40	21872 Ha	1992
632-002	Anzer Island Solovetsky District, Arkhangelsky, Russian Federation	N65 08 43 E36 05 47	4711 Ha	1992
632-003	Big Mucksalma Island	N65 02 33 E035 57 31	1896 Ha	1992
632-004	Small Mucksalma Island Solovetsky District, Arkhangelsky, Russian Federation	N65 01 00 E036 01 00	120 Ha	1992
632-005	Small Zayatsky Solovetsky District, Arkhangelsky, Russian Federation	N64 57 00 E035 40 00	110 Ha	1992
632-006	Big Zayatski Island Solovetsky District, Arkhangelsky, Russian Federation	N64 58 00 E035 39 00	125 Ha	1992
Anonymous author. Source: Cultural and Historical Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands. whc.unesco.org

Mount Golgotha

Anzer Island is located in the northern part of the Solovetsky Islands archipelago (Yandex maps)

We landed in the west of the island near Cape Kenga and walked around the island on foot for almost 9 kilometers to Kaporskaya Bay, where the same boat was later waiting for us.

Landing at Cape Kenga (Yandex maps) Foundation of the chapel in honor of the image of the Virgin Mary of All Who Sorrow.
Time 19:45

It used to be like this.

Now there are no piers on the island, so you have to go ashore from small boats or boats.
Captain kodola

Worship crosses on the shore

Coastal tundra quickly turns into forest

The road winds next to many lakes

Partially swampy, so boots are a good idea.

After about 2.5 kilometers we approach the Holy Trinity Skete (Yandex maps)

The Holy Trinity Monastery was founded at the beginning of the 17th century. Before this, only fishermen lived on the island and there was a monastery saltworks.

Attempts at restoration or conservation are visible.

official website of the monastery http://stskit.ru

But inside everything is sad...

Until 1683, the monastery did not organizationally belong to the monastery.
“The inhabitants of the monastery (17 people) received a salary for food and church needs. There was not enough money to maintain the monastery, the monks suffered hardships.”

The Znamenskaya Chapel stands directly above a small water canal between lakes with walls reinforced with large stones.

A worship cross on the site of the Eleazar Hermitage and a staircase leading to the chapel. It is argued that it is incorrect, because. it depicts Jesus Christ, which is not typical for northern worship crosses.

Chapel on the site of the first settlement of Eleazar of Anzer.

“Eleazar, captivated by the location, settled near a lake called “Round.” His first task was to erect a wooden cross, made by himself, near which he built a wretched hut.”

After 6 kilometers of the journey we approach Mount Golgotha.
Worship cross in memory of the new martyrs and confessors of Solovetsky.

There is a view of the Golgotha-Crucifixion Monastery, standing on the top of Mount Golgotha

As we climb, we pass by a birch-cross. “After all the crosses were destroyed on Solovki, a birch tree in the shape of a cross grew on Mount Golgotha near the Church of the Crucifixion.”

The Mother of God who appeared: “Name this mountain Golgotha, because over time it will have to suffer a lot and become an innumerable cemetery. On the top of the mountain, build a temple in the name of the Crucifixion of My Son. I will remain in this place forever.”
In Soviet times, a hospital was set up in the temple for dying camp prisoners exhausted by torture and overwork....

Even official church websites say that Mount Golgotha is the highest place in Solovki. But it is only 64 meters high. And the highest is Mount Verbokolskaya (height 86 meters). And Sekirnaya Mountain is also higher.

Bolshoi Solovetsky Island is visible in the distance.

We continue our way to Kaporskaya Bay.
On the shore of the Holy Golgotha Lake.

There are wooden roads like this.

Worship cross on the shore of Kaporskaya Bay. (

Back in 2002, Russian scientists confirmed the possibility of the artificial origin of Sekirnaya Mountain - the one located on the Solovetsky archipelago. Although the elevation is based on glacial deposits, there is every reason to believe that on top it is actually supplemented with embankments of artificial origin, that is, all this is the work of human hands.

About hills and mounds

Ancient people tried

Nightingales do not sing on Solovki

Moss stack

Cave people