Ecological walks in park Bayanaul.

«It is represented to Us, that prehistoric the inhabitants of the given district owned the letter, should belong to people which here could be engaged not only hunting and fishing, but also cultivation of cattle in fine vicinity Zhasabai»

L.Dravert.

Tour across national natural parks Kazakhstan.

The Bayanaul oasis has been and continues to be studied by variousscientists. Among them was Peter Dravert (1879 - 1945), a prominent Siberian researcher, professor of mineralogy, geology and geophysics, poet and fiction writer.
He frequently visited Bayanaul and admired its beauty and attractiveness. “There are really all sorts of obelisks, Aeolian rock shelters, pillars, mushroom and swinging stones, caves, towers and other monuments that grow in all their glory, created by nature in its continuous efforts to destroy its works.”
In these expeditions, the scientist collected various wonderful minerals and stones which were refined by prehistoric man: stone arrows, scrapers and other tools, as well as the remains of Bronze Age copper ore crafts.
However, Dravert entered the history of the Pavlodar region as the person who discovered the grotto with petroglyphs (drawings) of ancient men, which is located at the rocky shore of Lake Zhasybai near the Al-rock pass.
his small cave today bears the scientist’s name. Granite and quartzes, copper and lead ores, amber! But especially the find of stones to which showed interest explorers - arrows, scrapers, the instrument, an axe, and also the rests Scythian copper ore crafts of an epoch of bronze excited geologists.
In 1926 Peter Dravert has opened and has described a grotto on coast of lake Zhasybai, near to a towering mountain Atbasy. The grotto now carries a name of the researcher. "Stone images" which including a sculpture of ten-meter height, to not find any more are described also.
Barrows, and every possible forms and time of their erection it is possible to see set. The attention suffices for this purpose and the greatest ten kilometers of a way. L.Dravert's item wrote: «It is represented to Us, that prehistoric the inhabitants of the given district owned the letter, should belong to people which here could be engaged not only hunting and fishing, but also cultivation of cattle in fine vicinity Zhasybai».
In grotto Dtavert red ironstone the paint on a ceiling grotto puts the schematized images anthropomorph.

Authority:
By Sergey Gorbunov in Kakahstan Tourism on 27 January 2015. Https://astanatimes.com/2017/04/turgay-geoglyphs-can-help-reveal-nomadic-secrets-says-discoverer/