Biography of Lena Pillars

The mouth of the river is blue, flowing into Lena. Cheerfully, brightly, the holiday of rivergers is brightly held - a holiday of not only people, but also the rivers -lane. The Lena pillars created by nature stretched along the shore for more than kilometers. The columns illuminated by the sun from a distance are presented to some bizarre structures. One of the tourist steamboats runs along the Lena pillars.

She paved her path from the Baikal ridge to the Arctic Ocean through the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Sakha - Yakutia. Throughout the huge path - kilometers - the river changes its appearance. Either the rocky shores squeeze it, then powerful taiga forests framed, but the river valley becomes a wide and calm plain, where lakes and lakes gleam along the shores here and there.

And again the mountains come to the river, which she seemed to cut out with her powerful course. But there are on the banks of Lena, in her upper reaches, a truly unique creation of nature - the so -called "Lena poles". From the city of Olekminsk to the village of Pavlovsk, the river flows in steep shores, which is sometimes steeply descending to the water. In some places, the cliffs resemble in the appearance of pillars of bizarre shape, which gave the name to the natural phenomenon.

This is a miracle of nature, composed of Cambrian limestones, makes an indelible impression on everyone who saw it at least once.

Korolenko, who returned in winter from the Yakutsk link and drove in a postal harness along the pillars. The pillars of their height reach a hundred meters stretch along the right bank of Lena per kilometer. And between the villages of Petrovskoye and Tit-Ara, they stand as a single, monolithic wall, it only occasionally interrupt the gorges of Lena tributaries.

But it is worth approaching the pillars, as the wall begins to be divided into independent, not similar to each other, reminiscent of either fairy -tale medieval locks with teeth, then churches of Gothic architecture, oriental minoraytes, Egyptian pyramids, Khakassian totems or bell tower of Orthodox temples and all this is connected by the same hung bridges and crossings created by nature.

Among the cliffs, one can see other creations of the sorceress-nature: the giraffe who raised the head, grinning a wolf, running a Siberian like, a figure of a thoughtful old man, a warrior standing in the post. In the summer, in the labyrinths of the pillars there is amazing silence. Only occasionally to the shore is the melody of sounds from slightly swaying pines, ryabin, rushing into the crevice of the rocks, and a quiet chirping and swallows that chose the niches of the “fortresses” of their habitat.

The Lena Pillars are majestic at any time of the year. In the spring, snow-white spots of flowering cherries, mountain ash, sirens, and malachite of dense moss are interspersed in their strict dark gray color. In the summer, their footnies are sheltered by Ivan-Chai, lilies, archers, frying and other multi-color. In late August - early September, the entire vegetation of the mountain right -bank takes a golden color.

Now the Government of Yakutia has declared the territory of large pillars by the state natural park. Tourist, and sometimes passenger motor ships make parking at the pillars. In July - August, the water in the river warms up to degrees. You can swim and sunbathe, and fans of fishing to experience good luck on Harius, Lenka, perch, Yelets and, of course, the ubiquitous ruff!

For the first time, it should be noted that you hit the pillars that on the site near the mouth of the Labuya stream there is a pointer "" and a shield with the inscription "Shelter", on which the recommended hiking, places of the beach and the breeding of the fire, the pier of boats are marked. A tall cliff is visible nearby. You can climb it without much difficulty, but only in dry weather.

From the top of the cliff, an unusually picturesque view of the wide, leaving ples, on the river meadows of the left bank and the dense taiga covered with a bluish haze, opens. One of the terrible days, the author of these lines managed to visit the top of the cliff and admire the evening sunset, when his rays were illuminated by fantastic figures of pillars, reflected in the mirror surface of an inverted panorama.

Pillars today are a popular resting place for tourists and Yakutians from the capital of the Republic of Sakha Yakutsk to pillars about kilometers. In the summer, riverbits organize motorcy excursions here. And of course, you can’t do without a camera or video camera, binoculars or a stereoscope. It is useful to stock up on a compass and a means of bites of mosquitoes and other viles.

And another serious advice, rather a warning. Do not go for a walk alone, do not move away from the pier behind the pillars. Hundreds of kilometers east of their border - taiga deaf. Unfortunately, in recent years, "autographs" have appeared on some rocks and trees, garbage, empty jars and bottles have been visible on the sites. I would like every visitor to the natural shrine to hear her call: “People!

We give you beauty and pleasure. Take care of us! The administration of the Lena Pillars of the Lena Pillars is located at the address: the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, Pokrovsk, Zarechny Street, 2, Tel. Read at any time.