Zhiguli Mountains

The Zhiguli Mountains (or simply Zhiguli, Russian: Жигулëвские горы [Zhigulyovskiye gory], Жигули, sometimes called Zhiguli Height - Жигулëвская возвышенность [Zhigulyovskaya vozvyshennost]) are a range of wooded mountains located in Russia, on the right bank of the Volga River, in the Samara bend. The mountains are an important source of oil, being extracted since the Soviet-German War. Altitude up to c. 1,240 ft. (380 m).

Geography and geology

The height is skew in a meridional direction: its northern slope very abruptly goes down to Volga and southern has a very weak bias, forming a wide plateau cut up by a labyrinth of ravines. In the western part of Zhiguli is separated from a plateau by the valley of the Otvazhinskiy Ravine, extended in a latitudinal direction. In the central, highest part Zhiguli absolutely imperceptibly pass in a plateau, and its maximum point was found only by means of tools as externally it is not allocated on almost flat surface in any way.

At tops, rocks and other rocky exposures of Zhiguli there are the most ancient geological breeds on a surface which have generated 230-350 million years ago in the Permian and Carboniferous periods. Sediment of these systems is presented mainly by limestones and dolomite. The slopes of Zhiguli are mostly formed by products of aeration of the Permian and Carboniferous breeds.

Paranormal activity

Zhiguli is also known for some mirages and the presence of UFO . The old residents tell that sometimes a light columns arise, as if from under the ground . The Krylya Rodiny magazine wrote in 1990 that they appear in a group from two to five, have various colors and brightness but the green color is especially often observed. The columns appear in moonless nights and have a height from meter up to five while diameter is about two meters.

Military activity

The Russian defector Viktor Suvorov claimed that a Russian aerospace command and control facility analogous to the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (NORAD) is located inside "the granite monolith" at Zhiguli, with initial construction during World War II and modernization ever since.

See also

• Zhiguli Reserve
• Zhigulyovsk
• Zhiguli hydroelectric power station

References

External links

• Encyclopedia.com