The rocks «Chertovo Gorodishe»

Chertovo Gorodishe is a majestic rocks on top of the same name mountain in 6 km to the South-West from the village of Iset. The top of Chertovo Gorodishe rises above the sea level at 347 meters. 20 meters of which is mighty granite ridge. Jagged ridge granite towers-outliers stretched from South-East to North-West. From the North Gorodishe ends an impregnable wall, and South rock more flat and it is possible to climb a giant stone steps. The southern part of the Gorodishe heavily destroyed. This is evidenced by stone deposits along the southern slope of the mountain.
This denoted by the sharp temperature fluctuations in the well the Sunny southern slope. On the highest point of the cliff helps to set up a wooden staircase. From the top you can see broad panorama of the surrounding mountains, forests, and lakes. Gorodishe has spheroidal structure, that creates the false impression that it is formed from a flat plates. The origin of the "stone bridge" is part of the distant past of the Ural mountains. Granites, which are composed of rock, are of volcanic origin and was formed about 300 million years ago. For this solid time mountain suffered from severe destruction under the effect of temperature changes, water and wind. The result was such a fantastic natural formation.
On both sides of the main granite massif (at a distance) you can see a small stone tents. The most interesting stone tent to the West from the main massif. It reaches a height of 7 m, it is very well seen spheroidal structure.
Almost all of the surrounding mountains as well dotted with stone tents. Chertovo Gorodishe is located in the centre of the so-called Verh-Isetskiy granite massif, but of the hundreds of other rock outcrops, of course, is the most grandiose! At the bottom, under the mountain is cordon. There flows the river Semipalatinka - the tributary of the river Iset. Chertovo Gorodishe is excellent fits for training climbers. This district is dominated by a beautiful pine forest, in summer there are a lot of berries.
As for the origin of the name, it is quite obvious. The rocks look too unnatural as if they had built by evil spirit. However, there is another, quite original hypothesis of the origin of the name. The fact that the word "Chortan", or rather "Sortan", can be decomposed into components "Sarthe-tan". Translated from the Mansi language is «front-trade». These words in the perception of Russians have been transformed - Sartan - Chertin- Chertov. What's how appeared Chertovo Gorodishche - the settlement of a forward trade.