Ancient Cave Drawing Found in Amursk Region

TALAKAN, the Amursk region. July 17 (Interfax) – An ancient cave drawing has been found in the valley of the Bureya River in the Amursk region, two kilometers from the construction site of the Bureya hydroelectric power plant.

OAO Bureya Hydroelectric Power Plant press secretary Irina Korenyuk told Interfax that scientists suggest that the drawing was most likely made by representatives of the Evenk ethnic group, who used such symbols in the 16th-17th centuries to mark the borders of their family hunting areas.

A picture describing the sign, which represents a cross within a semi-circle, was handed over to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian Institute of Archeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk, after which a group of scientists arrived in Talakan to study the find.

The drawing was discovered by Bureya facility welding operator Sergei Kaverzin.

Apart from the recently found sign, there is a similar cave drawing near the Bolshoi Onen River in the north of the Amursk region.