Dionysia is a mountain in the Russian Far East in the Anadyr region of the Chukotka Autonomous Region . Located 20 km southwest of Anadyr .
| Dionysius | |
|---|---|
| chuck. Tamlyan | |
 View of Mount Dionysius from the Anadyr Estuary | |
| Highest point | |
| Absolute height | 577 [1] [2] m |
| Location | |
| A country |
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It rises as a separate massif over the Anadyr lowland . It is the remnant of an ancient volcano. From the northern slopes of the mountain, the Kazachka River takes its source.
Content
- 1 Oronim
- 2 Paleobotany
- 3 Incidents
- 4 notes
Oronim
It was named by the Cossacks in the XVIII century in honor of St. Dionysius .
In the language of the indigenous people called Tamlyan - "broken tip". There are several Chukchi traditions explaining the origin of the name Tamlyan. According to one, at the foot of the mountain there was a big battle with the aliens, during which many copies were broken. According to another, two women found a bone needle here and, without dividing it among themselves, broke the tip of the find in the fray. The third legend says that the mountain is the body of the strongman Tamil, who died in battle with the strongman Valvylyvyt [3] .
Paleobotany
In 2012, scientists discovered a fossil flora near the mountain, dating from the Late Cretaceous - the Paleocene . This flora was isolated in the Tamlian fossil flora and has over 21 species of higher plants. The collected collections are stored in the stock collections of the Heritage of Chukotka museum center in Anadyr [4] [5] .
Incidents
On December 11, 1982, the Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Mount Dionysius. All on board ten people died. The cause of the accident was bad weather and crew error [6] . In memory of those killed in 2009 by local enthusiasts, a worship cross was erected on the mountain [7] .
Notes
- β Map sheet Q-60-XXXIII, XXXIV mouth of the river Great one . Scale: 1: 200,000. Terrain condition for 1964-1984. 1987 edition
- β Map sheet Q-60-127,128 Mount Dionysius . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1984. 1986 edition
- β Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 .-- S. 133, 375 .-- 456 p. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
- β The Chukotka Heritage Museum Center (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 1, 2013. Archived February 10, 2013.
- β PIN RAS: Grabovsky A.A., pp. 18-19. (inaccessible link - history ) .
- β Air accidents, incidents and air accidents in the USSR
- β S. Vasiliev. There is no future without the past . The Far North (2014).