The seven wonders of the Finno-Ugric world
"The seven wonder of the Finno-Ugric world" project was held in 2010. Participants were members of Finno-Ugric peoples who voted to 7 wonders in 4 different categories.
Category: Monuments and buildings
The towers of the Kazymsky Prison are monuments of the defensive wooden architecture of Siberia in the 18th century. Initially, the Kazymsky Prison was on the banks of the Kazym River.
Four kilometers from the town of Glazov a unique monument to the culture of the Udmurt culture was found during excavations The settlement of Idnakar (9th-13th centuries) is located on Mount Soldyr the area is more than 40000m²
It is one of the three Samoyed churches built for Tsar Nicholas I at the request of the Holy Synod. It was built in 1831 with a bell tower. Today, it is the only surviving church that has been built, and is still in operation today.
The mountain named after the legendary leader of Maris, Chembulat.
All labyrinths had cultic significance, historians do not yet know who built them and for what purpose. Many scientists believe that the labyrinths were built on burial sites so that the soul of the deceased would not leave his resting place.
The Szigliget Castle rises in the Balaton Uplands, next to the village of Szigliget, on the cone of a vulcanic mountain. The castle of Szigliget, was built between 1260 and 1262 by special order of the Pannonhalma Abbey.
Category: Nature
1. Barsova Gora (near to Surgut Khanty-Mansiysk)
Natural and archeological park. The mountain has been inhabited for about 7,000 years. There are several Bronze Age burial sites, three Iron Age cultures have been preserved. The Khanties consider this mountain sacred, and until 1973 the sacrificial rites took place here.
Reindeer are the basis of the economy of many Finno-Ugric and Samoyed peoples - the Nenets, Sami, Enec, Khanty and Nganasans. Reindeer are still the most important biological resource for more than twenty Eurasian and North American peoples.
3. Yugyd va National Park (Komi Republic)
"Yugyd va" means "bright water" in Komi. The rivers in the park are really light and transparent. Pechora, one of the largest rivers in Europe, supplies clear water from the western slope of the Ural Mountains.
Lake in the Vologda region. It's an intermittently disappearing karst lake. The drain is through a sink called Black Pit. The water, along with the fish, enters the underground river and then replenishes the lake in a year.
There are 80 huge cedar trees in the grove in a10 hectare area. Thanks to the phytoncides emitted by cedar, there is always clean and fresh air with bactericidal properties. The trees were planted Alexei Smirnov.
The holy forest has always been a place of worship and a pagan sanctuary. According to legend, the foresters who tried to cut down trees in this forest lost their minds and condemned their loved ones to eternal disease and failure.
The reserve is named after Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich in the Temnikovsky district of Mordovia,. There are many protected animal and plant species here.