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      🌳 Shartash Stone Tents

      лесопарк Каменные Палатки, ул. Высоцкого

      Granite “mattress” rocks up to 20 metres high in a pine forest — you can climb them. A nature monument right in the city.

      Shartash Stone Tents
      © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
      Shartash Stone Tents
      © MBH · CC BY 4.0
      Shartash Stone Tents
      © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The rocks are part of the Shartash granite massif, about 300 million years old.
      • The ridge stretches for 80–100 metres, and the rocks are 10–20 metres high.
      • Traces of settlements from the 3rd millennium BC have been found nearby.
      • The rocks became a protected nature monument in 1960.
      • Granite quarrying here was stopped in 1915 by members of the Ural Society of Natural History Enthusiasts.

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      • All day: Constructivism, Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents
      • Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents

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