Sulfur mines of tsarist times

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"Samara Luke", Mount Sernaya. The photo was made at its very top, where in already overgrown pits you can find the entrance to the mines for the extraction of sulfur from the tsar's times.


At the beginning of the 18th century, on the personal instruction of Peter I, active searches for sulfur deposits began. Handicrafts existed in the Volga region and Tatarstan, they used raw mineral water as raw materials, which was extremely inefficient. In 1720, a deposit of native sulfur was found, and immediately followed by the Tsar's Decree on the construction of the Serny Town and the plant, which was laid in the same year. From it, in fact, they received the name of the mountain and the tract "Sernaya Polyana" at its foot.


Underground workings of the Sulfur mines in this sector represent a single system once divided by rubble into 3 unequal parts. Their total length is 586 m; floor area - 1947 square meters. m (the volume is 1578 cubic meters) with an average height of the passages of 0.8 m. There are 9 entrances: four of them are wells (4 to 12 m deep), the rest are horizontal galleries from the bottom of pits and failure holes.


In 1969-1970, Sulfur mines were "found" by speleologists of the Kuibyshev speleosection (topography and description not completed). In 1991-1992 the Young Geologists visited here (the description is not complete), and since 1996 the research was conducted by the SSK. At present, Sulfur mines are not known to the general public, although references to them are frequent in local history literature. They are visited 1-2 times a year only by speleologists. For tourists, the area is not attractive in view of absolute waterlessness, severely rugged terrain and dense undergrowth (in general the peaks and the central plateau of the Zhiguli are very deserted)

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