Photo tours to historical monuments of Ulytau.

“In the name of Allah, the merciful, the merciful! Lord of existence, Sanctuary of truth, Vigilant defender, Almighty and omnipotent, Wise giver of life and death!
In the summer of seven hundred and ninety-three, in the middle month of the spring of the year of the sheep (April 6, 1391), the Sultan of Turan Timur-bek rose with three hundred thousand troops for Islam against the Bulgar khan Toktamysh-khan. Having reached this area, he erected this mound to be a memorial sign.
God willing, may the Lord do justice! May the Lord show mercy to the people of the country! May they remember us with a prayer! "

Stories seven hundred and ninetieth year of the Sheep. The summer month is July. Sultan of Turan Temirbek sets out with his 100 thousandth army to fight with Khan Tokhtamysh. Passing this area, I left this very inscription as a memory:
“May Allah bless him! Inshallah, may all people remember him with the blessing of Allah."

Cultural heritage of Ulytau.

One of the curious sights of Ulytau is the Altynshoky hill. Anyone who has the opportunity to visit these parts must visit this historical place. What is it famous for? The director of the Zhezkazgan History and Production Museum named after K.I. Satpayeva Kenzhal Balkenov.
From 1711 to 1721, a captured Swedish officer Philip Stralenberg lived in Tobolsk, who collected a lot of material on the history, geography and topography of Central Kazakhstan. In 1723, after returning to his homeland, F. Stralenberg wrote a book, where he reported on the scribes on the stone in the Edyge mountains.
Apparently, here we are talking about the famous Ulytau inscription, known as "Karsakpay" and discovered in 1935 on the top of the Altynshoky mountain by Kanysh Imantayevich Satpayev. This stone slab is currently kept in the city on the Neva, in the Hermitage.
According to scientists, it was erected in 1391 during the famous campaign of Tamerlane against the Golden Horde. It is known from history that in the 40s of the XIV century. in the Jagatai state, the power of the khans from the Chinggis family ceased.
The latter fell in the struggle with his vassals - ulus emirs, who seized power. Among them, the owner of Samarkand, Emir Hussein, stood out. But soon he had a rival in the person of another emir - Timur, the head of the Turkic clan Barlas in the Kashka-Darya valley.
Initially, Timur was the leader of a military squad.
Then he entered into an alliance with Hussein and in a joint campaign with him was wounded in the leg, becoming lame for life and therefore received the nickname Timur Leng - Iron Lame, converted by the Europeans into Tamerlane.
In 1388, the vassal of Tamerlane, the khan of the Golden Horde Tokhtamysh, rebelled against his suzerain, which served as a signal for an uprising in Khorezm. Timur invaded Khorezm for the fifth time, devastated it, destroyed the capital of Urgench to the ground and even ordered to plow and sow barley on the place on which he stood.
Then Timur went on a campaign against Khan Tokhtamysh. In this campaign, the so-called "Karsakpay inscription of Timur" appeared. This was in 1391.
Nizam ad-din Shami gives a more accurate date, he not only gives the year, but the month and day - the 23rd of the month of Jumadi I, that is, April 28, 1391. Timur calls himself in the inscription the Sultan of Turan.
The inscription also indicates the number of Timur's troops - 200,000 people, which confirms the correctness of the information of Giyas-ad-din Ali, Nizam-ad-din Shami, Sheref-ad-din Ali Iezdi and other sources about the numerical strength of Timurov's troops when describing one or another from his campaigns.
The inscription indicates the purpose of the campaign - Timur goes against Tokhtamysh Khan. Timur chose not the shortest path to the camp of his enemy. Either he wanted to descend on Tokhtamysh from the side from which he least expected him, or he was planning at the same time to expand his possessions by seizing new lands - be that as it may, he, moving with his army along the banks of the Seikhun (Syrdarya) on April 2 (May) reached the Saryozen River (Sarysu).
The endless steppe, the ancient cradle of the Turks, spread before his gaze. The sentinels, who had gone forward to the northwest, brought the message: “At the distance of the day's march rises a mountain, the top of which touches the clouds.
Dozens of rivers, small rivulets originate here, and you will also find green meadows for your horses. "These were the famous Ulytau mountains, rising in the center of Sary-Arka." According to the court historiographer Sherafuddin Yazdi, Timur "ascended the top of the Ulutau Mountains and for a long time enjoyed the view of the surrounding steppe, which was covered with beautiful greenery from one end to the other."
Suddenly the ruler turned sharply and turned to the court poet:
- Hey, Kermene, how will you reward this hill, which is worthy of the touch of my feet? After all, now this land belongs to me!
It is not a poet's custom to hesitate in answering. Kermene said with a slight smile:
- Such an honor is not worthy of this insignificant hill, but the proud peak of Ulutau, as for the smoky ridges of clouds. But you could not climb it and you are punishing the mountain for its inaccessibility, isn't it, lord ?!
The formidable warrior chuckled.
- No, you were wrong, my akyn. Why do I need an unattainable summit, on which neither a human foot nor a horse's hooves can step? I am quite satisfied with this hill, accessible to both equestrian and foot. My reward is for him.
“You speak wisely, lord of the faithful,” said Kermene, “only stones are durable in this land. If you like, have your priceless name inscribed on one of them. Only such a gift is worthy of the land on which you stand.
Timur was pleased with the poet's advice and ordered the troops to bring stones and built a large pyramid here, on which skilled craftsmen carved the date of this event, so that this durable monument could preserve his memory for many years.
I discovered a stone with an inscription by K.I. Satpayev. From the diary of the former collector of the group Sergey Alexandrovich Rozhnov: “Sharip and I found Kanysh Imantayevich near a huge stone. He was in high spirits.
“Come on, horsemen, let's try to move. On Altynshoky, we found a treasure more valuable than gold. This, in my opinion, is a priceless treasure! " - tells us. Apparently, indeed, it was priceless. We were unable to scratch the stone even with a strong geological hammer.
The three of us could not budge him. He was so heavy. We returned to the tent, drank tea. And in the morning we went to the stone. I took a picture of him. To make the picture look good, I filled the inscription on the stone with tooth powder.
This is how the photograph was born, often accompanying articles about the Ulutau stone, which from time to time appear in print...
After returning from the expedition, Kanysh Imantayevich sent the photo to Moscow, to the Academy of Sciences. A few months later, an article appeared in central newspapers about the remarkable discovery of geologist Satpayev in the Ulutau Mountains...
In the fall of 1936, a letter from the Director of the Hermitage, Academician Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli, came to the name of Satpayev in Karsakpai. He informed about the decision of the academy to send a special scientific expedition to Ulutau and about the decision of the artistic council to make the memorial stone slab - a monument of Timur's famous campaign - the property of the Hermitage and asked scientists to indicate the location of the stone to the scientists".
The stone slab from Ulytau is considered to be an accidental find of Kanysh Imantayevich. Let's admit. But was his interest in Timur's "stone letter" accidental? What was the nature of this man? We believe that the constant striving for knowledge, interest in everything new, unknown was the force that guided him through life.
Geographic coordinates ofTamerlane Plate on Altynshoky Mountain: N48 ° 46'30.91 "E66 ° 27'38.67"

Authority and photo:
Valentin Shipunov. April 20, 2017. "Industrial Karaganda".
http://inkaraganda.kz/articles/144317