Katkova Shchel: a lost village on the Black Sea coast. Where was the center of Tartary

An Augusta Westland AW-169 helicopter belonging to the owner of the English football club Leicester City, Vichai Srivadhanaprabha, crashed about an hour after the end of the match of the tenth round of the English Premier League, in which the national champions of the 2015/16 season hosted West Ham United (1: 1). The disaster occurred immediately after the aircraft took off.

According to English media, Srivadhanaprabha was on board. There were two more people in the helicopter with him - a passenger and a pilot. Everyone died. Identities are being established.

However, the club has not yet made any official statements regarding the fate of the owner.

“We are assisting Leicestershire Police and emergency services in dealing with the aftermath of the incident near the stadium. The club will make a more detailed statement when available. Additional Information", says a message on the official Leicester website. The club plans to make a more specific appeal to fans on October 28 in the afternoon.

A Leicester City said: "We are assisting Leicestershire Police and the emergency services in dealing with a major incident at King Power Stadium. The Club will issue a more detailed statement once further information has been established."

— Leicester City (@LCFC) October 27, 2018

According to eyewitnesses of the tragedy, the helicopter crashed into the parking lot near the King Power arena and caught fire almost immediately after taking off from the stadium lawn.

A few hours after the tragedy, information appeared that the aircraft’s tail rotor had failed. The Lester owner's helicopter lost control immediately after takeoff. After rising to a height of about 60 meters, the car crashed into a parking lot near the stadium.

There is little chance that Srivadhanaprabha survived. The businessman leaves almost every Leicester City home match by helicopter. The fall happened a little more than an hour after the end of the match between the Foxes and the Hammers. The final whistle sounded at about 21:20 Moscow time, and the emergency call was received at 22:38 Moscow time.

The area near the parking lot was immediately cordoned off and the stadium was evacuated. The players of the teams taking part in the match were not injured - the club buses had left the arena by that time. However, eyewitnesses reported seeing the team's Danish goalkeeper sobbing near the parking lot.

Now Leicester players are posting in in social networks posts with the “prayer” emoji. Former team players also joined the support campaign, for example, Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez, who currently plays for Manchester City.

At the time of the crash, the Leicester City owner's helicopter was only two years old, and its cost was estimated at £2 million. The machine could accommodate eight people - six passengers and two crew members.

Srivadhanaprabha, 60, is the founder and CEO of King Power Duty Free, a major duty-free chain. Experts estimate the fortune of a businessman from Thailand at $3.3 billion. Srivadhanaprabha became the owner of the Foxes during the 2010/11 season, when the club was hanging out in the country’s second strongest division, the Championship. The Thai billionaire spent little on the purchase - £39 million. Since that time, his son Aiyawatt has served as vice-president of the club. According to British media, he was not in the helicopter at the time of the tragedy.

Leicester City won the English Championship in the 2015/16 season. This triumph was the first in the club's 130-year history. That success of the Foxes became a worldwide sensation.

However, the very next season, Srivadhanaprabha fired head coach Claudio Ranieri, who led Leicester to the title.

“Thanks to those who continue to complain about me and the management. I understand you too. Please respect my decision. I will never let Leicester down. I have been working hard for seven years, making the club better and better. No need to talk about money. They all return to the club through investments,” the businessman explained his decision on Instagram.

Srivadhanaprabha is married. In addition to Ayawatt, he has three more children.

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Many have already heard about Great Tartary. Some researchers and even scientists have discovered it on ancient maps digitized by Western libraries and museums or photographed at historical exhibitions in Russia and neighboring countries. Tartary was an empire, had its own ruling dynasty, coat of arms, flag and other attributes of an independent state with its own characteristics and history.

This legendary country, founded by Scythian origin, has become a bone in the throat of the official version of history. Unfortunately, the topic of Tartary is discredited in every possible way by various theories that are shocking, but at the same time, hardly stand up to criticism. One of these versions says that the political center of the country was located in southern Siberia, slightly south of the modern city of Anadyr, and the tombs of the Tartar emperors are or were in Chukotka. We decided to test these two versions and were amazed at the results of our research.

Indeed, what prevents you and me from being explorers of Tartary for a while? We offer you a fascinating journey into the depths of centuries, to a time when Moscow was still a small fortress, and Samarkand was a huge metropolis.

Map of Fra Mauro 1450

Where was the center of Tartary?

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, European cartographers had little idea of ​​what continents, state borders, and coastlines actually looked like. They knew little about the real distances from one region to another. At that time, based on Christian ideas about the world and biblical events, cards were depicted in the form of the letter T placed in a circle.

Asia was usually placed at the top, Europe at the bottom left, and Africa at the bottom right. After the global flood, which supposedly happened several thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the land was distributed among the sons of Noah - Shem, Ham, Japheth. Which region went to whom is an open question, because opinions on this matter differ in different sources. Jerusalem and Noah's Ark were often placed at the center of such maps.

On maps dating back to approximately the 13th century, next to the countries that were modern at that time, there is no Tartaria, but there is Scythia. But the Scythians should have disappeared from the maps of their contemporaries back in the seventh century! Tartaria appears on maps already in the 14th century - exactly on the site of Scythia, and the new state acts as an empire. Europeans persistently write about a certain Tartar emperor, whose residence is located in the Catay region (Catayo, Cathay, Catai).

At the same time, the borders, sizes, cities, rivers, and reservoirs of Tartaria are known to Europeans quite approximately, everyone molds them wherever he pleases.

Somehow in the second half of the 14th century, and perhaps later, an atlas of the world was created in Spanish Catalonia. If you believe its authors, the capital of Tartary was at that time somewhere in northeast Asia; the concept of “Siberia” did not exist in the minds of Europeans at that time. This atlas does not include Chukotka or Kamchatka. Toponyms and country names are scattered in Asia according to the “somewhere there” principle.

1452nd year from the birth of Christ. Venice. We approach the map, over which a Catholic monk is crowing... His name is Fra Mauro. Let's look over our shoulder... what do we see? The majestic capital of Tartaria, Khanbalyk or Kambalu, with the residence of the Great Khan, is located somewhere in the territory of modern Siberia. The tombs of the emperors are located not so far away, approximately on the territory of modern Chukotka. So far everything is coming together.

We are moving closer to our time... Yes, this is Christopher Columbus himself! Shortly before his famous discovery of America, the legendary traveler imagined the world something like this: (map of Christopher Columbus). The map dates from the late 15th century.

On it, the Tartar regions of Cathay and Tenduk are located much further south than previously thought, the kingdom of Gog and Magog is somewhere in the northeast.

Asia itself and Tartaria are written with the prefix “Magna”, that is, “Great”. Let us note that the outlines of Asia are generally drawn very roughly - there is no Hindustan, Chukotka, Kamchatka, the Korean Peninsula, the African continent is generally crooked. The northwestern part of Eurasia also “fell ill.” In fact, everything is logical. At that time, Europeans did not have a clear idea of ​​the location of certain Asian states and regions.

Sixteenth century! Where will we go? Let's visit Nicolas Desliens. It's 1566 now. North and South America have already been discovered, but their outlines on maps are still far from ideal. The same applies to Asia, the south has already been sufficiently studied, but Europeans practically did not go deep into the continent, to the center and north of this part of the world. Thus, the north of Asia is sketched uncertainly, without detailed place names and coastlines. Moreover, across the north of Eurasia there is an inscription: “Terra Incognita” - “Unknown Land”. This means that the northern part modern Russia did not exist in the geographical understanding of the inhabitants of Europe.

A similar situation exists with other maps of this period. Here, for example, is the famous atlas of Abraham Ortelius from 1570, in which Novaya Zemlya is almost an entire continent in the Arctic Ocean.

The outlines of the north of Asia are already close to real, but the regions that Columbus himself placed in central Asia are located here in its northern part. It is obvious that the geographical data on these territories is fragmented. The inscription “Catay” as the center of Tartary, together with neighboring regions, “wanders” from the center of Asia to its north; this happens on different maps approximately at the same time. Therefore, use at least one of them as a sample for comparison with satellite images under no circumstances is it possible.

Seventeenth century. Towards the end of the century, Moscow Tartary and Siberia appeared on the maps of Europeans. In reality, this means a gradual conquest, as we would now say, annexation of the western part of Tartaria by the Moscow kings from the Romanov dynasty. In parallel with the formation of Moscow Tartaria, the Great Tartary also appears, in which the Tartar capital of Khanbalyk and the residence of the Great Khan no longer exist.

On some atlases you can still find the Cathay region - that same political center with neighboring regions and cities. And, by the way, in Russian culture the memory has been preserved that Cathay or China is the basis around which a fortress, a kingdom, an empire is built. Look at Moscow's China Town from above - the Kremlin, Moscow, then Muscovy, and even later the Russian Empire were built around it.

And this is the year 1626. Map of the Englishman John Speed. Cathay moves further south to such an extent that it practically borders on the Great Wall of China.

A similar trend can be seen in other 17th-century maps. We see the same thing on the Manesson-Mallet map of 1683, and so on.

Want to see the missing territories? Here is a French atlas of travel and discoveries from 1752. And here it is, finally - Chukotka and Kamchatka, drawn as they should be! We see adequate coastlines and dimensions. There is an inscription across these lands that the Muscovites discovered them 20 years ago!

And the Russian official version of history pushes this date back almost 100 years earlier! We are told that Kamchatov discovered the peninsula in 1658-61, and a Russian reconnaissance detachment visited these places in 1696... Considering that since the reign of Peter the Great, that is, since the end of the 17th century, relations between Russia and Europe became denser than denser, we can say with confidence: the French in 1752 had reliable data about the geographical discoveries of the so-called “Muscovites”.

Collapse of Tartary. The fate of the Cathay region

So what do we get? The closest successors of Peter the Great are actively developing the territories of Siberia, renaming cities, villages, rivers, lakes, building new fortresses, establishing infrastructure, because these regions have not developed for a long time due to the fact that Tartary has been stuck in an economic, industrial and political crisis for decades: it has lost the ruling dynasty, the capital and broke up into kingdoms, or in our opinion, republics. And after some time, they were snapped up by neighboring empires.

Western cartographers are surprised to learn that there are hundreds of millions of unexplored hectares of northern and northwest Asia. The former political center of Tartary, Cathay, on the maps of European and Russian scientists, has shifted to Central Asia, namely to Mongolia and the expanses of modern Northern China. And this is the most correct location of the capital of Tartaria, Khanbalyk or Kambalu. That’s why we say “China” and not “China” or “China” - because in our language the memory has been preserved that the Cathay region, that is, the center of the Horde, on which we have long depended, is located somewhere there, in the south Mongolia. On maps of the 18th century, Cathay was still present for some time - between the lands of modern Mongolia and the Great Wall of China.

Khanbalik's neighboring cities, such as Campion, Guza or Zuza, Kamul, as well as the Tangut region, continue to stand in their places - that is, in Central Asia. Approximately from the middle of the 18th century, Western cartographers got used to the new name of these places and signed them with the word “Ordos” or “Ortus”. And it was not for nothing that French travelers in Chinese Tartary, even in the 19th century, found ruins and fragments of palaces similar to European ones and completely unusual for Chinese architecture.

In the north and northwest of modern China, mummies of white people - Scythians, as well as pyramids are often found. This circumstance constantly prevents the PRC authorities from promoting the idea of ​​a great ancient China, a great Chinese culture and a great Chinese future. Therefore, they try to advertise the mummies of the Scythian Tartars as little as possible, and with trees, while secretly carrying out excavations to which mere mortals are not allowed.

Pyramid tombs of the great khans of Tartary

The political center has been dealt with. Focusing on vintage maps and the real location of the main residence of the emperors, we will try to find their tombs. In fact, there is no need to reinvent the wheel here. Since European cartographers remembered the burial places of the rulers of Tartaria for quite a long time and always placed in the Altai mountains- How on early maps 15th, 16th centuries, and later, for example, 18th centuries. Closer to the time of the collapse of Tartaria, Europeans stop changing the name “Altai” into “Aytai” or “Antai” and have finally decided on the location of this mountain system.

Together with KATAY and its neighboring cities, the tombs of emperors in the form of pyramids (as contemporaries describe them) cease to “roam” and finally “settle” in Central Asia.

Now it becomes clear to us, like Western cartographers of that time, that the Altai Mountains with the pyramids of the great khans should be looked for not in the north of Asia, not in Chukotka, but in the region of Mongolia, as well as in the Altai Republic. And the capital of Tartary and the former region of KATAY is in the north of present-day China-China.

Over time, Western scientists realized that Altai was located at a fairly decent distance from the political center of Tartaria, but when this became clear, the KATAY region ceased to be listed on maps starting from the second half of the 18th century. Instead of KATAY, ORDOS appeared, which means “PALACES” in Mongolian.

Let's go back to our time...

Now mummies of the Scythian-Tartar elite are being found in Altai. Let us recall, for example, the Altai princess and other mummies of white people found in the Altai Mountains region. Perhaps the tombs of the great khans are hidden much more reliably, and we cannot find them? Perhaps the imperial tombs have long been secretly studied, and all traces are hidden. Or European pundits and travelers like Marco Polo were wrong, and Altai had nothing to do with it at all, and the tombs were not pyramids. Or are the Chinese pyramids the same tombs?

We need research not only from European written sources, but also from Russian-language sources, which for some reason are hidden from us. Research of documents in other languages ​​is needed. It is important to raise the topic of Tartary high level study and begin a professional analysis of the area, archaeological finds, cultural similarities and so on - both in Russia and in China, other countries whose lands were once part of Tartary. It’s time to expose this lie about the Tatar-Mongol yoke, so that in the future there will be no scope for intentional or accidental distortion of historical truth.

Anastasia Kostash, especially for the Kramola website

This village is very small and unremarkable. It is located next to the highway, you can get here by car or by bus from the Lazarevskoye microdistrict, there is a sign on the highway "Katkova Shchel".

In this village there are several private hotels, just one shop and a couple of cafes. That is, it’s difficult to call it a resort, rather just a quiet place, a kind of wilderness.

But he has one undeniable advantage. Or rather, two. A huge empty beach and clear sea! There are very few such places left on the Black Sea coast of Russia.

This is a rare case when the beach is really clean and there are really few people. There are two exits to the beach: the first is under the railway bridge, if you go through the village to the end, and the second is in the green part of the village, just a passage across the railway.

In this photo you can see the second passage, people are going to the beach. And at the same time the only cafe located on the beach. The prices are reasonable, but the menu is not very diverse.
Regarding food, by the way, there is only one canteen in the village, and the choice of dishes there is very meager.

And here she is Railway, running along the beach line.

This is a view of the beach from the water. As you can see, some people are still present, since on weekends vacationers come here to swim in the sea. But I repeat - the number of people, even on weekends, cannot compare with what is happening in most resort villages of the Black Sea.

I would like to separately highlight the cleanliness and transparency of the sea in this village. I have something to compare with, and I have never seen such clear water in my life! No turbidity, mud, jellyfish, and the water itself is simply turquoise and crystal clear! Being at depth, you can fully see your own legs. Such a clear sea is rare for the Russian coast.

And we lived in this guest house. An ordinary budget hotel, but quite decent and clean.

Here are the rooms on the second floor of the hotel.

It is located a little on the outskirts of the village, in the shade of greenery, almost even in the forest, and access to the sea is a long descent down the steps. Next door there is another guest house, shown in this photo, the territory is shared, the owners are the same. There is parking for cars, summer tables, and a children's pool.

The hotel is located very well, it is quiet and peaceful, and therefore there are many families with children. Our room had a balcony overlooking the sea, in my opinion, excellent! On the other hand, the view of the gorge and greenery is also not bad. The hotel is surrounded by nothing but greenery, so any view from the window is quite pleasant.

This is the rear view: the roofs of both guest houses and a piece of the sea.

And finally, once again about the sea: on one of the days of our vacation, a thunderstorm broke out over the sea, and we got this stunning shot.

Overall, there's not much more to say. Here is such a lost resort mini-village, which is not particularly popular among tourists. Apart from sunbathing on the beach and swimming in the sea, there is nothing else to do here. We only rested for a week, but that was enough for us.

For a relaxing family holiday, I think this place is quite good. The deserted huge beach and the clearest sea are practically a piece of paradise. This place was created to just lie on the beach and swim in the sea. What else do you need for a relaxing holiday on the coast?

As Kommersant learned, the state prosecution requested seven-year prison terms for two officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya - Colonel Said Akhmaev and Senior Lieutenant Lecha Bolatbaev, who, according to investigators, extorted 45 million rubles. from a metropolitan merchant. At the same time, the defense claims that all the charges against the police were based only on the testimony of the victim, who initiated the initiation of a criminal case of extortion in order to get rid of both his business partner, whom he had deceived for many years, and his defenders.

Speaking in the debate in the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, a representative of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office stated that she considered the fact of particularly large extortion (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) from the co-owner of JSC Network Corporate Agency Konstantin Zhukov proven, and asked to be sentenced to real terms the conclusions of the five defendants in this case. The prosecutor, who permanently lives in Moscow and provides security for senior officials of Chechnya who come to the capital, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, Colonel Said Akhmaev and senior lieutenant Lechi Bolatbaev, requested a sentence of seven years and three months in prison; the natives of Ingushetia, brothers Movlad and Akhmed Bulguchev, she believes, should serve seven years, and the victim’s former business partner Evgeniy Katkov - seven years and six months.

According to investigators, in June 2016, four Caucasians under the leadership of Mr. Katkov tried to force Mr. Zhukov to return the money he allegedly stole from his partner during six years of joint business. The bill was issued, as they say, with interest. The businessman was required to pay 45 million rubles. Evgeniy Katkov, and transfer 5 million rubles from this amount to his assistants. and a Bentley car for the “services” provided to resolve the situation. Otherwise, Mr. Zhukov was allegedly promised to initiate a criminal case against him in Chechnya for financing terrorism, “to screw screws into his head” and “to send the children’s severed fingers by mail.”

The victim filed a complaint with the police and continued contacts with the alleged extortionists under a hidden audio recording. At the end of the summer of 2016, all five of Konstantin Zhukov’s offenders were detained by the capital’s police and secured their arrest as part of a criminal case of extortion initiated by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.

However, already in the Zamoskvoretsky court, which began to consider the criminal case on its merits, it became clear that the evidence collected by the investigation did not allow unambiguous conclusions to be drawn about the involvement of the accused in the incriminated crime. For example, it was established that it was not the accused Katkov, but the victim Zhukov himself, who first turned to the defendants in the case for forceful support. It was he who attracted Movlad Bulguchev to his side, with whom he worked and was friends for more than ten years. Only after seeing that the authoritative Ingush Bulguchevs had joined the proceedings, Evgeny Katkov decided to “even the odds” and turned for help to his neighbor on the landing, Chechen policeman Lechi Bolatbaev and his distant relative Said Akhmaev.

Thus, the members of the alleged criminal group met each other only at a meeting that took place on June 29, 2016 at the Voronezh restaurant. There, after discussing the situation, they came to a joint conclusion that Mr. Zhukov really should compensate Mr. Katkov for his financial losses, and went to the President Hotel on Yakimanka to discuss the terms of debt restructuring.

There, according to investigators, the intermediaries went too far with their demands, seriously frightening the debtor. However, the concealed police recorder, which allegedly recorded threats about cut off fingers and screws in the head, strangely disappeared from the case file. Mr. Zhukov stated that while returning from a meeting, he stepped in a puddle and thus wet the device. The recorder's memory stick was eventually declared unsuitable for decoding, and an examination of the remaining audio recordings made by the victim as part of the operational experiment did not reveal any “signs of verbal aggression” on the part of the “fixers.” The surviving audio recordings, according to the participants in the trial, do not in any way resemble an organized “attack”, but rather resemble ordinary restaurant chatter in a group of men, in which the interlocutors are constantly distracted by everyday topics, abundantly interspersing their speech with obscene expressions.

The physical impact allegedly exerted on the victim was also questioned. Mr. Zhukov himself claimed that, confirming the seriousness of his intentions, Bolatbaev, a recognized martial arts master in Chechnya, inflicted a painful kick on his kneecap. At the same time, the defense attorneys asked the victim a reasonable question: why did the operatives of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who remotely monitored the meeting not record the injury received at the medical institution? Presumably, the blow inflicted on the applicant ultimately remained confirmed in the case only by his words and a clap of unknown origin on an audio recording.

Finally, serious discrepancies were discovered in the amount of demands of the alleged extortionists. According to Mr. Zhukov, Said Akhmaev, who discussed with him the financial details of repaying the debt, also “dumped” the victim, forcing him to write, instead of one, three receipts for 45 million rubles. each. The “fixer” allegedly did not like the first receipt due to the absence of the author’s passport data on it, and Colonel Akhmaev indignantly tore it up. The second one also went into the trash can under some pretext, and only the third time, the victim, according to him, managed to satisfy the officer’s demands. In fact, the colonel, as stated by Konstantin Zhukov, deftly took out of his pocket and tore into pieces pieces of paper he had prepared in advance with handwritten text, and kept all three receipts for himself, hoping to receive in this way not 45, but 135 million rubles. However, the victim again could not prove his assumption - only one receipt was found in the criminal case materials. It is interesting that it was not seized from Said Akhmaev during the search, but was provided to the investigation by the victim Zhukov. However, the author’s passport details were not included in the receipt.

It is worth noting that 45 million rubles is exactly the amount on which the quarreling partners, in the opinion of the defense, should have agreed upon when dividing their business. According to one of the witnesses, who spoke at the court hearing as a business valuation specialist, at the time of the trial the partners jointly and in equal shares owned Network Corporate Agency JSC worth 40 million rubles, Aeroexpress magazine worth 60 million rubles. and STG Media LLC worth 15 million rubles. Half of the price of the assets, thus, already exceeded the requested amount, and in addition, as Evgeniy Katkov claims, for six years of joint business with the victim, he, as an equal owner, also planned to receive dividends, which he never saw. According to the defendant, Mr. Zhukov, who held the position of general director in all of their projects, directed all the profits to the accounts of companies affiliated with him and thus appropriated them.

We note that the inconsistency of the evidence presented to the court apparently made an impression on its participants. In any case, three weeks ago it became known that the terms of detention of the accused had once again expired, but the prosecutor’s office did not go to court to extend the arrests. Thus, it can be assumed that, despite the severity of the punishment requested by the state prosecutor for the alleged extortionists, they will still be able to avoid actual sentences.