Why are trees in Russia 200 years old? Why are all the trees in Russia young, but in America the trees are long-lived? But in Russia there is a lot of coal. Prokudin - Gorsky forest photographs

Why are all the trees very young in Russia and in Siberia? average age trees are only 150 years old; in America there are huge sequoias that are 2000 years old or more. Why such a huge difference? And why do we have coal in Russia and not in America?

Stone forest

Pine lives for 400 years and individual specimens in Siberia reach a little more and die; pines rarely survive longer, because now the conditions in Siberia are very harsh. But in Kemerovo coal is mined in mines. Where did this Coal come from, which warms us, if not from compressed ancient huge trees, which for some reason mysteriously disappeared from us?

How was coal formed? Not a single academician will answer this question, let alone the Internet. Coal was formed by just a 5-7 meter layer of old tree species, compressed and turned into coal - compressed wood. Some kind of plate fell from above and compressed it, heating them up at the same time. What force lifted hundreds of tons of rocks into the air and covered these trees from above, if you have to go down quite deep into the mine? What is the cause of the creation of coal? Where have all our redwood trees gone, like in America? They obviously were! Apparently, coal was compressed from these redwood trees. But America has no coal, because there was a more favorable climate and all the Sequoias survived.

Maybe it's because of the Tunguska meteorite? The Tunguska meteorite fell on June 30, 1908 in the area of ​​the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, an event called the “Tunguska phenomenon” occurred at 4 o’clock in the morning. But, if the Tunguska meteorite exploded while passing over Europe, then its explosion would be capable of completely destroying a city like St. Petersburg. Thank God that this did not happen, but something did happen, because there are no forests in St. Petersburg - young trees are everywhere and the oldest trees were clearly planted deliberately Peter and Paul Fortress- there are also 300-year-old oak and linden left there
and Oranienbaum there are ancient trees left, but all the trees around are relatively young. It’s not for nothing that they say that there was some unthinkable cataclysm in Nature in 1812-1814 and Napoleon lost to the Russians because he froze in Russia.

The tree ring method is extremely poor at reflecting the effects of all major volcanic eruptions - the eruption of a tropical volcano in what is now Mexico or Ecuador in 1258, the underwater volcano Kuwae in the vicinity of the Pacific islands of Vanuatu in 1458, the mysterious eruption of 1809 and the explosion of the Tambora volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. in 1815.

What kind of cold snap was there then? In 1812, when Napoleon went to Russia, he was stopped by the Russian Frost, and Hitler was also stopped by the Russian frost. Santa Claus is the bodyguard of the Russians. But I have a question: Where does this frost come from at the right time, in the right place, and where did the permafrost in Siberia come from, when it used to be warm in Russia, Russia is the Motherland of elephants?

Everyone remembers Palms in Astrakhan Streis, Jan Jansen:

17th century engraving from a book by Jan Streis. The atrocities of Stepan Razin's Cossacks in captured Astrakhan.

In St. Petersburg, orange trees grew in Oranienbaum Lomonosov near St. Petersburg - this is the Orange City - On all the ancient engravings of the city there are rows of orange trees, moreover, right in the ground, and not in a greenhouse.

Oranienbaum. Engraving by A.I. Rostovtsev, 1716.

Oranienbaum. Engraving by A.I. Rostovtsev, 1716. Sailboats came straight to the palace, which already stood in 1716. Oraniybaum where in open ground oranges grew earlier. #Peter #Lomonosov

Engraving. Grand Palace Oranienbaum. Mid-18th century.

Engraving. Grand Palace Oranienbaum. Mid-18th century.

Trees react very sensitively to the slightest changes in climatic conditions - an increase or decrease in temperature, solar radiation energy and other factors. All these events are reflected in the shape and thickness of annual rings - layers of wood in the trunk, which are formed during the growing season. It is believed that dark rings correspond to unfavorable conditions environment, and light ones are favorable. and now, when trees are cut down, the entire core is completely dark - these were not favorable years for tree growth.

Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University in State College (USA) and his colleagues tested how accurately tree rings reflect the short-term drop in temperature that occurs after severe tropical volcanic eruptions.

To do this, Mann and his colleagues compared graphs of seasonal temperature fluctuations from 1200 to the present day, which were obtained using a “conventional” climate model and a technique that included analysis of tree rings. The traditional model tracks changes in the intensity of solar radiation and fluctuations in the planet's energy balance, which are reflected in increases or decreases in average temperatures.

The second method used as initial data sections of trunks obtained in 60 high-mountain forest areas on the so-called “treeline” - the maximum height at which ordinary trees can grow. Local climatic conditions only minimally satisfy the needs of woody vegetation, and abnormally high or low average annual temperatures are clearly reflected in the rings.

Because of this, chronological errors can accumulate in sections as one moves from relatively modern rings to more ancient ones."

And you know. What I think is that it’s easy in Russia because of the anomalous low temperatures our forest simply has not grown. And the dark cores of the trees are proof of this - the Ice Age influenced our trees.

The truth is somewhere near.

Russia is the world's largest forest power. It is all the more surprising that our forests are very young, they are no more than 200 years old.

They should live and live

I first thought about this while looking at the paintings of I.I. Shishkina. Something about them alarmed me. And one day I realized: beautiful forest in all the paintings it looks little like a dense animal; rather, it depicts young animals. Why didn’t the artist capture the forest with old, centuries-old trees? Yes, because in those years there was no such forest on Russian territory.

In order for the reader to have an understanding of how long a tree can live, I will tell you the age of some trees. Olive lives 2000 years, royal oak - 2000, yew - 2000, juniper - 1700-2000 years, oak - 500-900, cedar pine - 1200 years, sycamore maple - 1100, Siberian larch - 700-900, Siberian cedar - 850, linden – 800, spruce – 300, birch – 100–120 years. The main characters of our forests are pine, spruce, birch, and oak.

According to researchers from the Polar Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute A.V. Kuzmina and O.A. Goncharova, the average age of trees in the Murmansk region is about 150 years. The picture is similar throughout Russia. Don't believe me? Get out into the forest and try to find at least one tree older than 200–300 years. It won't work. And such a tree would be visible from afar. For example, a spruce of this age should have a diameter of at least two meters! According to archaeologists excavating ancient city Arkaim, in Chelyabinsk region coniferous forests grew with trees more than five meters in diameter!

There are historical sources indicating that our forests should be more mature. Travelers of the 18th century reported large oak trees in Valdai. There are also earlier sources. Alberto Campenze (1490–1542), a Dutch writer, reported on Muscovy in a letter addressed to Pope Clement VII: “In general, they have much more woods than we do. Pines are incredibly large, so one tree is enough for the mast of the largest ship.” In official history, the entire territory of Russia was called Muscovy until the 18th century. Hence the natural question: where are trees over 500 years old on Russian territory? There is none of them. There are, of course, individual specimens preserved thanks to man. For example, the so-called Peter's oaks in the Moscow Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, which are about 500 years old.

Massive rejuvenation

The Tale of Bygone Years mentions a huge forest - the Okovsky Forest, the remains of which are located in the southwestern part of the Tver region. This chronicle was written around 1110–1118. It turns out that the trees in the Okovsky forest must be at least 900 years old, and if we take into account that the forest was already standing at the time of writing “The Tale” and the events described in it, then the age of some species must be more than 1000 years. The basis of the Okovsky forest were spruce and oak trees. According to the tree age tables, there should be an old forest here. But in the forests of the Tver region, the average age of trees is again about 150 years.

In a normal forest there should be both old trees and young ones, just like in the photo late XIX- early twentieth century - deforestation in Humboldt County, California. Notice - thick trees next to thin trees, that is, old trees with young trees. But... Why are there no tree tops? As if the forest had undergone some kind of catastrophic impact. We can see a similar picture in the photo of the site where the Tunguska meteorite fell in 1908. At that time, a forest covering an area of ​​2000 km² was felled in Siberia. But the most interesting thing is that there are no old trees of large diameter at the site where the Tunguska body fell. That is, at that time a young forest was growing in Siberia! But the main forest reserves of Russia are concentrated in Siberia.

Another proof of the youth of our forests is the wide distribution of birches. As you know, many of their species grow in clearings, burnt areas, and wastelands. The average lifespan of a birch is 100–120 years. If we start from the average age of forests at 150 years, it turns out that most of Russia’s forests were subjected to catastrophic destruction around 1840–1870. But, most likely, the most accurate date is 1810–1815. After the destruction of the forests, the land was completely a burnt area. And only by 1840 did their full-scale restoration begin. In place of the so-called deforestation, new young growth grew.

What does science say?

It is worth immediately abandoning the version that the forests were destroyed by cutting down for economic needs: for kindling or housing construction. Yes, the forest was used by humans. For example, during the time of Catherine II, trade in ship timber flourished. Oak trees were used, according to the German traveler Adam Olearius (1599–1671), “for ritual fire in honor of Perun the Thunderer.” But it is impossible to destroy a forest on the territory of, say, the Tver region in a short period of time. Yes, Russian people did not treat the forest so barbarically. For him, the forest has always been his breadwinner. Picking mushrooms, berries, medicinal plants, hunting, beekeeping - part of the way of life, a way of survival in years of crop failure. The forest is an integral part of the folklore and mythology of the Rus. Boli-boshka, Borovik, Leshy, Moss-haired Man and other characters lived there.

The version of natural fires also does not stand up to criticism. The forest cannot burn all over Russia at the same time. Only if fires are caused artificially. Let me remind you that in 2010, 2 million hectares of forest burned in 20 regions of the country. Experts immediately called this event a disaster, and alternative researchers said that the forest was set on fire artificially, including from space satellites.

Official science recognizes the youth of forests on Russian territory. Science also recognizes, for example, that Siberian larch currently grows mainly in burnt areas. A study of the boundaries of its age showed interesting results: trees under 50 years old - 7.1%; 51–100 years old – 3.7%; 101–200 years – 68%; 201–299 years old – 20.5%; over 300 years – 0.7%. The age of the main mass of larch is 101–200 years. And according to the age table, Siberian larch is listed as a long-liver and under normal conditions should reach an age of 700–900 years. Where are these long-livers in their native forests? Logically modern science- burned out. Since “forest fires are the main mechanism for forest renewal, replacing old trees with young trees,” natural fires do not allow trees to live to an old age. However, there is such a unique natural source of wood as bog oak or, in other words, “ebony”. It is mined from the depths of rivers and swamps, in places where oak grew many thousands of years ago. The wood acquires its black color after staining for more than 1000 years. The diameter of some specimens is sometimes more than two meters! This means that modern oaks can and should be much older and, accordingly, larger.

Alexey Kozhin

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Read the continuation in the June issue (No. 6, 2015) of the magazine “Miracles and Adventures”

It was the wary attitude towards Alexei Kungurov’s statements regarding Perm forests and clearings, at one of his conferences, that prompted me to conduct this research. Well, of course! There was a mysterious hint of hundreds of kilometers of clearings in the forests and their age. I personally was hooked by the fact that I walk through the forest quite often and quite far, but I didn’t notice anything unusual.
And this time the amazing feeling was repeated - the more you understand, the more new questions appear. I had to re-read a lot of sources, from materials on forestry of the 19th century, to the modern “Instructions for carrying out forest management in the forest fund of Russia.” This did not add clarity, rather the opposite. But there was confidence that things are dirty here.
First amazing fact , which was confirmed - dimension of the quarter network. A quarter network, by definition, is “a system of forest quarters created on forest fund lands for the purpose of inventorying the forest fund, organizing and maintaining forestry and forest management.” The quarterly network consists of quarterly clearings. This is a straight strip cleared of trees and shrubs (usually up to 4 m wide), laid in the forest to mark the boundaries of forest blocks. During forest management, quarterly clearings are cut and cleared to a width of 0.5 m, and their expansion to 4 m is carried out in subsequent years by forestry workers.
In the picture you can see what these clearings look like in Udmurtia. The picture was taken from the program « Google Earth» (see Fig. 2). The blocks are rectangular in shape. For measurement accuracy, a segment of 5 blocks wide is marked. She made up 5340 m, which means that the width of 1 quarter is 1067 meters, or exactly 1 way mile. The quality of the picture leaves much to be desired, but I myself walk along these clearings all the time, and what you see from above I know well from the ground. Until that moment, I was firmly convinced that all these forest roads were the work of Soviet foresters. But what the hell did they need? mark the quarterly network in versts?
I checked. The instructions state that blocks should be 1 by 2 km in size. The error at this distance is allowed no more than 20 meters. But 20 is not 340. However, all forest management documents stipulate that if block network projects already exist, then you should simply link to them. This is understandable; the work of laying clearings is a lot of work to redo.
Today there are already machines for cutting down glades (see Fig. 3), but we should forget about them, since almost the entire forest fund of the European part of Russia, plus part of the forest beyond the Urals, approximately to Tyumen, is divided into a mile-long block network. There are also kilometer-long ones, of course, because in the last century foresters have also been doing something, but mostly it’s the mile-long one. In particular, in Udmurtia there are no kilometer-long clearings. This means that the design and practical construction of a block network in most of the forest areas of the European part of Russia were completed no later than 1918. It was at this time that the metric system of measures was adopted for mandatory use in Russia, and the mile gave way to the kilometer.
It turns out made with axes and jigsaws, if we, of course, correctly understand historical reality. Considering that the forest area of ​​the European part of Russia is the size of about 200 million hectares, this is titanic work. The calculation shows that the total length of the clearings is about 3 million km. For clarity, imagine the first lumberjack, armed with a saw or an ax. In a day he will be able to clear on average no more than 10 meters of clearing. But we must not forget that this work can be carried out mainly in winter time. This means that even 20,000 lumberjacks, working annually, would create our excellent verst quarter network for at least 80 years.
But there has never been such a number of workers involved in forest management. Based on articles from the 19th century, it is clear that there were always very few forestry specialists, and the funds allocated for these purposes could not cover such expenses. Even if we imagine that for this purpose peasants were driven from surrounding villages to do free work, it is still unclear who did this in the sparsely populated areas of the Perm, Kirov, and Vologda regions.
After this fact, it is no longer so surprising that the entire quarterly network is tilted by about 10 degrees and is directed not towards the geographic north pole, but, apparently, towards magnetic(the markings were carried out using a compass, and not a GPS navigator), which at that time should have been located approximately 1000 kilometers towards Kamchatka. And it’s not so confusing that the magnetic pole, according to official data from scientists, has never been there from the 17th century to the present day. It’s no longer scary that even today the compass needle points in approximately the same direction in which the quarterly network was made before 1918. All this cannot happen anyway! All logic falls apart.
But it is there. And in order to finish off the consciousness clinging to reality, I inform you that all this equipment also needs to be serviced. According to the norms, a complete audit takes place every 20 years. If it passes at all. And during this period of time, the “forest user” must monitor the clearings. Well, if in Soviet time If anyone was watching, it’s unlikely that over the past 20 years. But the clearings are not overgrown. There is a windbreak, but there are no trees in the middle of the road. But in 20 years, a pine seed that accidentally fell to the ground, of which billions are sown annually, grows up to 8 meters in height. Not only are the clearings not overgrown, you won’t even see stumps from periodic clearings. This is all the more striking in comparison with power lines, which special teams regularly clear of overgrown bushes and trees.
This is what typical clearings in our forests look like. Grass, sometimes there are bushes, but no trees. There are no signs of regular maintenance (see Fig. 4 and Fig. 5).
The second big mystery is the age of our forest, or trees in this forest. In general, let's go in order. First, let's figure out how long a tree lives. Here is the corresponding table.

In different sources, the figures differ slightly, but not significantly. Pine and spruce should survive under normal conditions up to 300...400 years. You begin to understand how absurd everything is only when you compare the diameter of such a tree with what we see in our forests. A 300-year-old spruce should have a trunk with a diameter of about 2 meters. Well, like in a fairy tale. The question arises: Where are all these giants? No matter how much I walk through the forest, I haven’t seen anything thicker than 80 cm. There aren’t many of them. There are individual copies ( in Udmurtia - 2 pines) which reach 1.2 m, but their age is also no more than 200 years. In general, how does the forest live? Why do trees grow or die in it?
It turns out there is a concept "natural forest". This is a forest that lives its own life - it has not been cut down. It has a distinctive feature - low crown density from 10 to 40%. That is, some trees were already old and tall, but some of them fell affected by fungus or died, losing competition with their neighbors for water, soil and light. Large gaps form in the forest canopy. A lot of light begins to get there, which is very important in the forest struggle for existence, and young animals begin to actively grow. Therefore, a natural forest consists of different generations, and crown density is the main indicator of this.
But if the forest was clear-cut, then new trees for a long time grow simultaneously, crown density is high, more than 40%. Several centuries will pass, and if the forest is not touched, then the struggle for a place in the sun will do its job. It will become natural again. Do you want to know how much natural forest there is in our country that is not affected by anything? Please, map of Russian forests (see Fig. 6).
Bright shades indicate forests with a high canopy density, that is, these are not “natural forests.” And these are the majority. The entire European part is indicated in rich blue. This is as shown in the table: “Small-leaved and mixed forests. Forests with a predominance of birch, aspen, gray alder, often with an admixture coniferous trees or with separate sections coniferous forests. Almost all of them are derivative forests, formed on the site of primary forests as a result of logging, clearing, forest fires...”
You don’t have to stop at the mountains and tundra zone; there the rarity of crowns may be due to other reasons. But the plains and middle zone are covered clearly a young forest. How young? Go and check it out. It is unlikely that you will find a tree in the forest that is older than 150 years. Even a standard drill for determining the age of a tree is 36 cm long and is designed for a tree age of 130 years. How does this explain forest science? Here's what they came up with:
“Forest fires are a fairly common phenomenon for most of the taiga zone European Russia. Moreover: forest fires in the taiga are so common that some researchers consider the taiga as a lot of burnt areas of different ages- more precisely, many forests formed on these burnt areas. Many researchers believe that forest fires are, if not the only, then at least the main natural mechanism for forest renewal, replacing old generations of trees with young ones..."
All this is called . That's where the dog is buried. The forest was burning, and was practically burning everywhere. And this, according to experts, is the main reason for the low age of our forests. Not fungus, not bugs, not hurricanes. Our entire taiga is in burnt areas, and after a fire, what remains is the same as after clear cutting. From here high crown density throughout almost the entire forest zone. Of course, there are exceptions - truly untouched forests in the Angara region, on Valaam and, probably, somewhere else in the vast expanses of our vast Motherland. It's really fabulous there big trees in its entirety. And although these are small islands in the vast sea of ​​taiga, they prove that the forest can be like this.
What is so common about forest fires that over the past 150...200 years they have burned the entire forest area of ​​700 million hectares? Moreover, according to scientists, in some checkerboard pattern observing the sequence, and certainly at different times?
First we need to understand the scale of these events in space and time. The fact that the main age of old trees in the bulk of forests is at least 100 years, suggests that large-scale fires, which so rejuvenated our forests, occurred over a period of no more than 100 years. Translating into dates, for one only 19th century. For this it was necessary burn 7 million hectares of forest annually.
Even as a result of large-scale forest arson in the summer of 2010, which all experts called catastrophic in volume, only 2 million hectares. It turns out there is nothing “so ordinary” about this. The last justification for such a burned-out past of our forests could be the tradition of slash-and-burn agriculture. But how, in this case, can we explain the state of the forest in places where traditionally agriculture was not developed? In particular, in Perm region? Moreover, this method of farming involves labor-intensive cultural use of limited areas of forest, and not at all the uncontrolled burning of large tracts in the hot summer season, and with the wind.
Having gone through everything possible options, we can say with confidence that scientific concept “dynamics of random violations” nothing in real life not justified, and is myth, intended to disguise the inadequate state of the current forests of Russia, and therefore events that led to this.
We will have to admit that our forests either burned intensely (beyond any norm) and constantly throughout the 19th century (which in itself is inexplicable and not recorded anywhere), or burned down at one time as a result some incident, which is why the scientific world furiously denies it, having no arguments other than the fact that nothing like this is recorded in official history.
To all this we can add that there were clearly fabulously large trees in old natural forests. It has already been said about the preserved areas of the taiga. It is worth giving an example regarding deciduous forests. The Nizhny Novgorod region and Chuvashia have a very favorable climate for deciduous trees. There are a huge number of oak trees growing there. But, again, you won’t find old copies. The same 150 years, no older. Older single copies are all the same. There is a photograph at the beginning of the article the largest oak tree in Belarus. It grows in Belovezhskaya Pushcha (see Fig. 1). Its diameter is about 2 meters, and its age is estimated at 800 years, which, of course, is very conditional. Who knows, maybe he somehow survived the fires, this happens. The largest oak tree in Russia is considered to be a specimen growing in the Lipetsk region. According to conventional estimates, he 430 years(see Fig. 7).
A special theme is bog oak. This is the one that is extracted mainly from the bottom of rivers. My relatives from Chuvashia told me that they pulled out huge specimens up to 1.5 m in diameter from the bottom. AND there were a lot of them(see Fig. 8). This indicates the composition of the former oak forest, the remains of which lie at the bottom. This means that nothing prevents current oak trees from growing to such sizes. What, maybe earlier? “dynamics of random violations” did it work in a special way in the form of thunderstorms and lightning? No, everything was the same. So it turns out that the current forest simply has not yet reached maturity.
Let's summarize what we learned from this study. There are a lot of contradictions between the reality that we see with our own eyes and the official interpretation of the relatively recent past:
- There is a developed neighborhood network in a huge space, which was designed in versts and was laid no later than 1918. The length of the clearings is such that 20,000 lumberjacks, using manual labor, would take 80 years to create it. The clearings are maintained very irregularly, if at all, but they do not become overgrown.
- On the other side, according to historians and surviving articles on forestry, there was no funding of comparable scale and the required number of forestry specialists at that time. There was no way to recruit such a quantity of free labor. There was no mechanization to facilitate this work. We need to choose: either our eyes deceive us, or The 19th century wasn't like that at all, as historians tell us. In particular, there could be mechanization, commensurate with the described tasks (What interesting purpose could this steam engine from the film “The Barber of Siberia” (see Fig. 9) be intended for? Or is Mikhalkov a completely unimaginable dreamer?).
There could also be less labor-intensive efficient technologies laying and maintaining clearings, lost today (some distant analogue of herbicides). It is probably stupid to say that Russia has not lost anything since 1917. Finally, it is possible that clearings were not cut, but trees were planted in blocks in areas destroyed by fire. This is not such nonsense compared to what science tells us. Although doubtful, it at least explains a lot.
- Our forests are much younger the natural lifespan of the trees themselves. This is evidenced by the official map of Russian forests and our eyes. The age of the forest is about 150 years, although pine and spruce under normal conditions grow up to 400 years and reach 2 meters in thickness. There are also separate areas of forest with trees of similar age.
According to experts, all our forests are burnt. It is the fires in their opinion, do not give trees a chance to live to their natural age. Experts do not even allow the thought of the simultaneous destruction of vast expanses of forest, believing that such an event could not go unnoticed. In order to justify this ashes, official science adopted the theory of “dynamics of random disturbances.” This theory suggests that forest fires are considered a common occurrence, destroying (according to some incomprehensible schedule) up to 7 million hectares of forest per year, although in 2010 even 2 million hectares destroyed as a result of deliberate forest fires were called catastrophe.
You need to select: either our eyes are deceiving us again, or some grandiose events of the 19th century with particular impudence were not reflected in official version our past, how could not fit in there

Videos from a group of history buffs caused a lot of controversy among townspeople and experts. The questions they raise seem to lie on the surface, however, they drive not only ordinary people, but also recognized historians and local historians into a stupor.

What has been wiped off the face of the earth?

One of the most controversial was the series of films “Disappeared Tyumen”. In it, amateur local historians put forward the hypothesis that in the 18th century the regional capital was practically wiped off the face of the earth. In their opinion, then the West Siberian Plain was flooded, and the city literally disappeared. They cite several facts in support of this. For example, we do not have pine trees older than 150-200 years, and the soil under a small fertile layer contains a lot of sand and clay, which are considered alluvial rocks. It is under them that you can find a city that once disappeared. As further evidence, the researchers cite the fact that in Tyumen there are no houses built before the 18th century.

Recognized researchers have also tried to find answers to these questions. So, Tyumen naturalist Pavel SITNIKOV noted that there are no old houses, since every hundred years the city sinks underground by about half a meter. This happens partly due to weak soils, partly due to dust, including cosmic dust, which settles between houses, but we simply don’t notice it.

Another scientist, but in the field of dendrochronology - Stanislav AREFIEV, professor, doctor of biological sciences, head of the sector of biodiversity and dynamics natural complexes Institute for Research on Problems of Northern Development SB RAS, explained that 200-400 years ago trees in the south of the region were aging, as they are now, about twice as fast as in the north.

He confirmed that he had indeed never seen any trees older than 250 years. The oldest pines, about 250 years old - from 1770 - were noted by him in the Tarman swamps, near the village of Karaganda.

According to the scientist, this situation is primarily due to the fact that the regional capital is located near the southern border of the forest zone, where conditions for tree growth are not particularly favorable. The region as a whole is moisture-deficient, and some years and even entire periods over the past 400 years have been very dry.

The consequences of this were forest fires and invasions of forest pests, as a result of which the forest died over vast areas.

Lost 200 years

And history buffs have found many such “blank spots” in the history of the city. Why, according to them, the entire past of the regional capital is one big mystery. You just have to look a little wider and more carefully...

For example, in our city there is wooden houses with a stone foundation in which the windows protrude half out of the ground. Why is that? - wonders Dmitry KONOVALOV, head of the creative association "Tur-A". - When you start looking for an answer, you realize that there is no information on this matter anywhere. It is known for sure that they did not sag, because this process would have been uneven.

There is an assumption that a serious cataclysm occurred and a huge part of the house was destroyed. These buildings were simply not restored, but wooden houses were placed on stone foundations.

Another question that has no answer yet is Tyumen’s birthday. The countdown dates back to 1586 - when the city was allegedly founded. But this fact has not been confirmed by anything. In fact, the regional capital was mentioned back in 1375, and on the embankment there is a stele on which this particular date is indicated. And on the map of Anthony Jackinson (English diplomat and traveler - Ed.) the city was marked as Great Tyumen back in 1542. Where did the two hundred years of difference go? - amateur local historians are perplexed.

All materials and maps that the guys use are from open sources. These are not only books on history, but publications such as “Bulletin of the Geographical Society”, scientific works and even works of art.

Dostoevsky and Karamzin wrote a lot of interesting things about Siberia, including Tyumen. You can find many interesting facts in their works. We also use the works of our local historians. I have deep respect for Alexander Petrushin, but he has been studying the history of Tyumen since the beginning of the 20th century. He has a lot interesting facts, during research various topics we often rely on his works,” says Dmitry.

However, by and large, those who are trying to find answers to the mysteries of Tyumen history have no one to rely on. According to history buffs, the publications of local historians are based on each other’s works and they describe generally known facts.

Are you crazy?

In search of answers to curious, and sometimes “inconvenient” questions for some, members of “Tour-A” were faced with misunderstanding and rejection rather than support. Not everyone found convincing and well-founded arguments, but many were twisted at their temples.

We don’t argue with anyone, we just ask questions to which we ourselves try to find the answer, and they start arguing with us. I also heard that we had gone crazy and were doing nonsense. But all the information that we possess is available to anyone who wants to think and look at the history of the city more broadly than what history textbooks offer, emphasizes Dmitry. - Over time, criticism towards us becomes less and less, and viewers become more and more interested in history. And this is probably the highest rating for us.
Every fact that the guys talk about in their stories is double-checked more than once and undergoes a whole “expertise.” Professional historians advise amateur local historians. But even some of their “blank spots” in the history of Tyumen are confusing.

A common interest united people from completely different professions - builders, lawyers, chemists, physicists, oil workers, military personnel, former employees of internal affairs bodies, etc. According to them, everyone is united by one goal: to preserve their roots and history.

Everyone has long known: without knowing the past, you cannot look into the future. The Internet is full of various historical information. And it is not always clear whether it is true or not. Therefore, in our videos we try to communicate with the viewer, we want to know his opinion about this or that information. We kind of ask questions that are always interesting to get answers to,” says Dmitry Konovalov.

Videos about the mysteries of Tyumen can be found on the official channel of the creative group.

Siberia is fraught with a large number of mysteries and secrets: incredible monuments of ancient technologies, scorched cities and ruins of walls, as well as traces of use powerful weapons, which destroyed all life over vast territories. Let's pay attention to the area of ​​the Salokachi River. Quite an interesting place for researchers. On the banks of this river there are...

Why didn't the Germans bomb Moscow?

Many historians are studying archival documents about why Hitler didn’t order the bombing of Moscow and why it wasn’t bombed? The answer to this can be found in classified documents that were hidden by the USSR authorities for a long time. I would like to note that the Germans bombed Moscow, but they failed to destroy the Kremlin. Let's talk about why the Germans couldn't...

What were peasants always forbidden to do in Rus'?

We all know that life for the peasants in Rus' was far from sweet and peaceful. The peasants had no rights to practically anything and were severely punished if they violated rules or principles. Even for the smallest mistakes, peasants could be beaten, sold, or given away as goods. Agree, this system of life is completely unfair, because if you were born into a peasant family...

Quite often, many historical events refute their existence altogether. I would like to note that archaeologists often excavate places where battles supposedly took place, and find quite strange things or do not find them at all. The field on which the Battle of Kulikovo took place became the same - archaeologists explored the field length and breadth, but practically nothing was ours...

How are we being deprived of historical memory? Who stole 5508 years of history from Russia?

Historical masochism When publishing articles about the history of the Slavs and Rus, I often encounter rejection of the antiquity of our history. Some do not know or do not want to believe in the much longer history of the statehood of our ancestors, in contrast to the castrated officially recognized period. “Well, our ancestors could not have been so smart and strong!” - they object. Nomads...

Who buried Australia and why?

In the 1920s, workers in the city of Melbourne began laying the foundation for the future Capitol Theater and found a fence buried 1 meter in clay. The fence boards stood quite firmly, vertically, and at the base of the fence there was a wooden sidewalk. And where it came from there is a real mystery. After all, the fence was under the demolished building, which was built in 1865. But from history we know...

Antediluvian heating technologies: the mystery of ancient fireplaces

Ancient merchant houses often have very high ceilings, huge rooms and large windows, which in our latitudes is not entirely correct in terms of heating; those who have ever been in them understand that such buildings had to be heated with wood or coal around the clock. In some of these houses, fireplaces were used for heating, which were not designed to heat...

How deep were ancient buildings buried?

It is believed that buildings built before the first half of the 19th century have their first floors buried. There are also rumors that the Hermitage goes several floors into the ground. What is the real size of buildings built in the ancient style? This means buildings with columns, similar friend on each other, clearly built to the same standards, but which are located in different parts...

The mystery of marble? A hundred years ago it was a common building material.

The interior decoration of buildings built in the neo-classical style amazes with its grandeur. Columns, marble, luxurious ceilings. According to official history, all this was done in primitive ways, but there is very little evidence of this, even the same photos and video chronicles, if we talk about buildings built at the beginning of the 20th century. For example, the library building built in Brazil...

Ancient artifacts that cannot be made without the use of modern technology

The word ancient and the word nanotechnology in one sentence are jarring, since nanotechnology in the public perception is something modern, but not ancient. But in fact, there are artifacts that scientists cannot explain, because they are so complex that no primitive tool can be used to explain them. this is impossible to do. If the incredibly precise fit in Ermita...

Mysteries of US industrial exhibitions of the 19th century: what’s wrong with them

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, exhibitions of national economic achievements were held in the United States, and at first glance there was nothing unusual about them. But at second glance, these exhibitions are full of inconsistencies and very mysterious. San Francisco - 1915, Chicago - 1893, Seattle -1906, etc. Temporary pavilions were built, too luxurious for temporary halls. They were built in just 2 years and soon...

Where have the technologies of the past gone? Construction photos

At the beginning of the 20th century, newsreels and photographs were already actively used to capture certain events. However, there are usually no photographs of the construction stages of buildings. for some reason they didn’t like to photograph grandiose construction sites. Buildings built in the colonial style, a style that has been preserved over time for thousands of years and the representative buildings of which...

Where have all the trees over 200 years gone?

One of the most interesting riddles history is the mystery of the young forests of Siberia, to which there is no clear answer yet. This is one of the most weighty, in my opinion, arguments of supporters of the theory that some large-scale event was erased from history, dividing history into before and after. Trees older than 120 years are very difficult to find in Siberia, scientists agree that ...

Temples are stations of the antediluvian metro. Remains of the transport infrastructure of the past

There were no traffic jams yet, even cars were one-piece, but subway construction began all over the world. It is not clear why, because construction underground is much more expensive than construction above ground. What was the motive to build underground? In Russia, the metro was opened with a delay from the rest of the world, first it was opened in London, then the first metro lines began to appear along other...

Moscow Metro. Was it excavated or built?

History of the construction of the Moscow metro in Lately began to raise doubts among people. This is due to the fact that today, having modern technological capabilities, huge cranes, jacks, trucks and everything else, they cannot achieve such an accelerated pace of construction. A striking example. In Moscow, in 2 years, they built a section of the same length that is being built in...

Energy of the past: Tesla columns

Everyone knows what the Pillar of Alexandria looks like, however, not everyone knows that it has twin brothers. The columns, which look almost the same, are only different in size. Similar columns can be found all over the world. Perhaps these columns stood not only for beauty, but were also somehow practically used in the past. They were conceived for everyday life and convenience. ...