- 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 theVolga River , in theSamara bend . The mountains are an important source ofoil , being extracted since theSoviet-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 wideplateau 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 alatitudinal 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 andCarboniferous periods. Sediment of these systems is presented mainly bylimestone s anddolomite . The slopes of Zhiguli are mostly formed by products ofaeration of the Permian and Carboniferous breeds.Paranormal activity
Zhiguli is also known for some mirages and the presence of
UFO [ [http://www.xfiles.ru/doc/?767 XFILES.RU: блоги, форумы, чат ] ] [ [http://www.awesta.sibirjak.ru/page.php?id=38 Миражи над Жигулями. Миражи над Жигулями ] ] . The old residents tell that sometimes a light columns arise, as if from under the ground [ [http://budni.com.ua/news874.html Мираж Кир-Углы забирает человеческие жизни ] ] . The "Krylya Rodiny" magazine wrote in1990 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.ee also
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Zhiguli Reserve
*Zhigulyovsk
*Zhiguli hydroelectric power station References
External links
* [http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Z/ZhiguliM.asp Encyclopedia.com]
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