Sights of Mount Kazgurt.

“The next day, we reached the highest mountain, Kozy-gurt, at the height of which, Asians say, as if the bottom of Noah’s ark is located. Since this mountain has many ridges and gorges in which predators hide, I could not be on it”

"Notes on some peoples and lands of middle part of Asia, Philip Nazarov, Separate Siberian Corps of Translators, sent to Kokand in 1813 and 1814."

A trip to Mount Kazgurt from Shymkent.

It is said that 1,775-metre Mount Kazygurt. standing alone not far from an eponymous village, was one of the landing places of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood - locals point to a hole in the ground on the summit that has the shape of a boat's keel as evidence of this.
Another "proof" of the legend is a large stone cross, more than 100 metres long, that lies flat on the southern slope of the mountain; it can only be seen from neighbouring mountains. The mountain is near Km Stone 63 on the Shymkent to Tashkent road.
The flat and low mountain Kazgurt in the South-Kazakhstan area refers to at local residents sacred. On its slope the huge stone cross to which, it is impossible to touch is laid out. This huge construction, length of each "crossbeam" of this cross - 47 meters, width - 2 meters.
There is it inside of stone concentric circles, which diameter of 100 and 120 meters.  In opinion of scientific employee Shymkent of a regional museum of V.I.Gorjanova, it zaroastrian a cross which was ritual at followers of prophet Zaratushtry.
Zaroastrian peoples did not bury people - them brought on a slope of mountain and on eating up to wild animals and birds.
The more quickly predators, the more quickly the late took away a corpse got on heavens. In days of ritual holidays zaroastrian peoples kindled fires on the ends of a cross and on circles. On the contrary Kazgurt on mountain Karzhambastau one more has been found out ritual zaroastrian a symbol - trident "fork" in length of 2 kilometers.
Here kindled fires. It was ritual of contact to their main god the Akhura-Mazda. The shone sign on such size would be swept up even from space.  Age of a stone cross 2500-2800. This largest in the world zaroastrian a construction of a similar sort.
It was on recovered Silk ways, unique which connected the Europe, Persia, China and India. The first excavation have shown grandness of its scales is there was a whole city. It is possible to assume, that Zaratushtra lived here.
Glory Kazgurt for a long time involves historians.
According to a legend this one of two places where at top of mountain has stopped Noah's Ark an ark which inhabitants have given rise to a life after a Flood. And the second place - mountain Ararat as it is told in the Bible.

Authority:
The guidebook across Kazakhstan. Authors Dagmar Schreiber and Jeremy Tredinnick. Publishing house "Odyssey".2010.