An Ancient Fortress on the Island
Deep inside Siberia there is a lake, one of thousands others. And in the middle of this lake there is a small island. And on this island people have found an ancient fortress, which is dated more than 1500 years old.
Excavations are needed in order to reveal all its view for visitors, but even now from the air its a nice site in different times of the year. First part of photos were made during short Siberian summer:
And here are the photos from the winter:
And these photos were made in April. In April in Siberia there is still a lot of snow, but ice on some lakes already melted.
via Por-Bajin.ru
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April 7th, 2008 at 9:12 am
If you want it protected make it really far away from anything.
really far away.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Wow, cool. It’s amazing what can happen to great buildings like this, imagine a whole city getting buried and forgotten, and then, sometime in the future, some explorer finds it, and digs it up, and it becomes a tourist atraction. Can totally see that happening to New York. Every great city will eventually go down.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:09 am
neat stuff…i wonder what else in burried under all that snow…
http://www.decayofcamelot.com/register.php?REF=1158
August 13th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
This doesn’t look like a fortress to me, I may be wrong, but there is no concentration of defensive work near the gateway, all inner building evidence is against the walls, if it was a fortress they would be in the middle, there appears to be no stable, storeroom, barack etc. However, it does very strangley resemble the temple layout of a Jewish Temple, you have in the centre the holy of holies, the inner and outer courts, the forecourt where the sacrifices were made, even a gentiles court by the main gate, but how it ended up on an island in siberia, I have no idea!
August 17th, 2009 at 10:09 am
i didn’t see any fortress.
it just looked like some building got blow away by tornado and left a print.
August 25th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Who would ever want to take over that POS?
“Yes! We now have an island in the middle of a baron, frozen, lake!”
October 13th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
If is more than 1500 years it is not Russian, they didn’t exist at that time.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:42 am
russian alcatraz
October 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I agree w/alcatraz…. looks like an old jail or something… what better spot than an island?
October 15th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@Dman. Baron is a title, ranking below viscount (in the British system of peerage). Barren implies little or no vegetation, animals, etc. “The Baron was sad because his barony was barren.” You have the entire internet at your fingertips and still cannot get a simple homonym correct. You fail.
October 17th, 2009 at 1:12 am
If you look at the original article, you can see a reconstruction of how the castle looked long time ago. Incidentally, it is located in Tuva (close to Mongolia), which didn’t become a part of Russia until 1944.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Who cares if it’s an actual fortress or not? CLEARLY the whole point of building on an island on a freezing lake is isolation, for whatever purpose.
It’s damn good, whatever it is. If it’s a fortress I can’t see anyone taking it while there are still living people inside.
October 18th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Possibly Byzantine or late Roman. Could have been any number of things, imho
October 19th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Anon it can not be Byzantine or late Roman because they did not stretch far beyond Baghdad.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
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October 28th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Indigenous Siberians around that time controlled many waterways and were very adept at inland sailing on lakes and rivers. They were able to migrate, assimilate other populations, and spread their language by taking advantage of the terrain. I agree that it is probably not a fortress, more like a seasonal stop-over or trade center maybe?
October 31st, 2009 at 3:39 am
If you look at the locks just inside the walls you can see that there are no ways to walk into them, so i say that they were thick walls.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:40 am
if you look at the blocks ,sorry
November 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
lost 2.locura en siberia.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
it’s a jail! ancient alcatraz xD lol
November 30th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Esto fue construido cuando en esa parte del mundo había primavera casi perenne.