THE SUMMARY
This book invites you to a wonderful coast of sapphire of the Issyk-Kul Lake,
where the most unique monuments are under deep waters, which have been keeping secrets.
It is well-known, that Great Silk Road that passed through the territory
of Kyrgyzstan. For hundreds of years a great number of caravans had been
carrying a great deal of diversified goods including jewelry from the East to
the West and from the West to the East.
It is not only from
legends we learn about the richest
treasures latent in the mountains and at the bottom
of the Issyk-Kul Lake, but there are many written sources mentioning about
buried secrets, whose authentic belonging does not cause any doubt.
The results of long of archeological researches of the scientists which
have been carried out on the coast and under the water of high-mountainous of the
Kyrgyz Issyk-Kul Lake, allow us to make the following conclusions:
1. The territory is rich in monuments of the cultural heritage which are
three thousand years old and we do know only quite a bit about it’s history.
Here and on mountains one can find figures (petroglivs), and imperial kurgans
of the people - sacks (skivs), and turkey stones with runic letters, sogdian,
uygurs, Tibetan and Arabian epigraphic. Here one can find both medieval towns
and settlements with Christian monasteries and Buddhism temples, Islam minarets
and mausoleums, and the Kyrgyz gumbezs, sacred natural places. Archeological
maps, and cadastre of monuments being made yet but the need close observation,
conservation and restoration.
2. The unique feature of Lake Issyk-Kul is that as a result of
cataclysms, decreasing and increase of the level of water a number of monuments
have been flooded. Now we can find more than ten towns at the bottom of the
Lake and unknown (uncountable) number of kurgans under the water. The study of
them is a mater of future research.
3. The historical sources, legends and national legends testify about rich
findings (treasures) buried in the mountains or flooded in waters of the Issyk-Kul.
The most attractive of them are stores about the treasure of Chingizhan and
Sacred Matfey, which are stored in a crawfish at the flooded Christian
monastery.
With ancient city of the Issyk-Kul and monastery of the Christians, are
connected not only legends, but also documentary certificates. It is mentioned
in the history of the campaigns of the Timur on the Issyk-Kul. But the main
certificate - Catatonic card. That the Earth of generation of the patriarch
Turk " Metropolitan of Bishkek and Central Asian Vladimir writes in the
book ": " On the Kirghiz ground an imperishable body of the sacred
Apostle and evangelist Matfey has found death. As it is known, death for the
Christ he has accepted in Syria. There from, apparently, still in II or III century
run from rimlian of persecutions by the Christians of honour power of the
Apostle were carried away in territory glorified wide. This relic was stored in
a monastery located on a coast of the Issyk-Kul Lake; all Christian world knew
about her site. On Catatonic card of the world dated 1375, on northern coast of
the Issyk-Kul Lake is represented a building with a cross and a number is
present an inscription: “A place named Issyk-Kul. In this place the monastery
of the brothers Armenian, where stays a body sacred Matfey, Apostle and
Evangelist. Subsequently city, where was ancient Armenian stay, was flooded
with waters of lake”.
At the beginning of XX-th century to Kirghizia from China the map with
the plan of the treasures dug on an Issyk-Kul Lake was delivered. On this map
emigrants who had come back from China, in 1926 the excavation of Кurmenty cave started seeking for treasure.
The
treasure-seekers on depth of 6 meters have found out a stone plate with unknown
letters (that one corresponded to the plan) and two ancient "hammers"
- copper, the other one-gold. Gold had been handed over to the office "Goldproduct" in Prjevalsk in 1930, that had been
registered in documents. The further works had been forbidden.
In 1952 in strict privacy the searches of
treasure such serious organization as the Ministry CSS had been engaged. In
1968-75 years the Kirghiz general E. Аliev – the witness and the participant of the first searches -
officially addressed SOVMIN, Committee State and Academy of sciences Kirghiz SSR
with the offer to continue searches of the terasure.
On August 27, 1975 the all-Union party
newspaper "Truth" in the article "Returning to the secret"
informed that the Ministry of internal affairs was engaged in searches of the secrets
of Chingizhan on the Issyk-Kul.
In
1976-77 years Kirghiz geologic department checking legends about the secrets
confidentially was carrying out the sounding district in the area Кurmenty and gives the conclusion, that the
presence in depth of metals was possible. The further purposeful study of the object
by archeological methods; i.e. excavation was recommended.
In
1996-97 years the works of geologists begun, but were stopped because of
shortage of means. In 1999 the sanction to realization of large-scale works
with attraction of the foreign investors has been received. The special
commission has been created.
The historian-archeologist
investigation which has been carried out on the Issyk-Kul Lake in the summer of
2003, allowed to plan coordinates of search of tempting monuments on the coast
and under the water. The Kurmenty grot, coast and depth of a gulf at Light Cape
and in the Tup gulf, were observed. The unique things (perfect safety sacks and
the boiler been two thousand years old) were lifted from the bottom to surface.
It proves that rumors, legends are worth paying attention. They need scientific
exploration. We need researches and exploration equipped with modern machines
on the coast and under the water.
To
find treasure is a muter of chance and what it a chance favors you? The
infinite treasures are waiting for their pioneer explorer. The Issyl-Kul Lake is
inviting to exploration!
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The work was done and published with the help of Mitropolit Bishkek and
Central Asian Vladimir at sponsor's support of the International Fund of Andrei
Pervozvanniy and Centre of "National glory of Russia", and also
Japanese corporation of Geological Since for Children.