Victor Gryaznov - In grass, in word, in stone

Enok – And how you imagine all this?

Shurik – To Employ navvies, not a problem. For money to work everyone will agree. But that bandits didn’t kill us or the authorities didn’t arrest, we will think up cover operation. For example – test of geophysical sensors. You after all will become a professor soon. We develop thought further: by geophysical methods look for minerals. Generally I all organizational issues, as always assume. And you read literature about Kolchak, especially about the last year of its activity. That is start studying history smoothly

Nizhneudinsk

Psychics arrived to Nizhneudinsk. Summer. There was a heat.

Came into the local museum. Here they listened to lecture:

– Nizhneudinsk is a provincial town with the population about 40000 inhabitants. Here locomotive and carriage depot, oil pumping station. At the Soviet power worked: mica factory, creamery, confectionery, brewery. Someone from old residents remembers those times when beer of local production in glass container on free sale never was. There was it quality and where – that it was sent. Here on flood in cafe please.

Here Gleb Krzhizhanovsky famous as the developer of the plan of GOELRO (the state electrification of all Russia) lived in exile. Dmitry Kashik was marked out here. Long time the club of Kashik worked.

But the greatest interest for us is represented by Alexander Kolchak. Supreme governor of Russia, and her Supreme Commander. Here he was detained by allies. Here he dismissed the protection in number of 500 people. I suggested in the evening the subordinates to go together with it on an old path, to the south to China through Mongolia. But for the morning at it remained faithful 10 people. The baron refused fight, it isn’t clear for what reason. Whether forces weren’t equal, could give battle. Whether I trusted in the general without honor Zhanet who handed over it to Mensheviks. Or the admiral was tired to be at war. Now nearly hundred years later it is hard to say about motives of his behavior. It is authentically known that he stayed under secret arrest two weeks here.

As for gold which was in its echelon, there is a lot of versions. The truth is shrouded in mystery. They say that protection of an echelon went ungifted away not. Hearings go that part of precious metal is dug in these regions, namely near Nizhneudinsk.

Shurik – Today we will be registered, as representatives of geophysical laboratory. We rent the car. It is necessary to visit local geologists. To find the foreman of navvies, to pitch tent, etc. It everything for me. You should communicate to the local shaman, he lives in Tofalariya in Alygdzhere from here nearby of 250 km by plane. If it is correct to talk to it, will help to find a treasure.

Foreman.

Near cafe there is a young guy, a strong constitution, in a t-shirt without sleeves, with beefy bicepses, with a tattoo on a forearm. «Belomor» smokes a cigarette

Enok – That the brother you miss?

Valery – Yes it is boring!

Enok – What happened? Problems? We will go on a glass of beer we will drink and life will more cheerfully go.

Valery – And you who such? It is visible not local.

Enok – Geologists, is more faithful than geophysics. We are engaged in search of minerals. Here we will carry out works.

Valery – And what salary at you? And that I have financial problems, transferred to work in depot as the mechanic of the second category…

Enok Shurik – Should listen to his sad story and when reaches standard, to ask on Kolchak’s gold.

Shurik – You give Valery drink beer. Takes a bottle of vodka out of a briefcase and adds to beer.

Valery – History my sad, suffered for humour, for a joke.

And business was so. I worked as the driver of an electric locomotive. We with the assistant conduct structure, we drive up to small station, I speak to the assistant – «Idi Vasili in a compartment, whether check everything as it should be»

When it leaves, I contact on a handheld transceiver the station-master and I speak to it- Hello Ivan Ivanovich. I have a problem. The assistant went crazy, goes on an electric locomotive with a sledge hammer, to himself talks. Cause team of psychiatrists.

– All right Valery, will be enough to tell nonsenses. I know your jokes. You don’t annoy me, and here I will report that on instance. Will put a reprimand that didn’t litter air with any nonsense.

At station stopped. I speak to the assistant – «Go Vasili to the station-master, asks, the help. Take a sledge hammer. The old friend, it is impossible to refuse».

Vasily took a sledge hammer, jumped off from an electric locomotive and went to the wooden two-storeyed building. I walked upstairs on the second floor. Opens a door. Holds a sledge hammer on a shoulder. At a table the elderly gray-haired man in a black railway form that – that writes

– What here you have a father?

At Ivan Ivanovich points slowly rise by a forehead, hair bristled.

– Guard!

Ivan Ivanovich runs about the room, tries to open windows, anything it is impossible. I took three detours. At last – that one frame opens, he jumps out in a window.

Told well – tell Thanks that didn’t prosecute. Sent to depot the second category mechanic with a salary 70 rubles a month. Shame. Houses scandal.

Shurik – We will establish you a salary of 300 rubles a month, plus a dry ration. I agree?

Valery (shouts) – Yes, children, of course!

Treasure-hunters go outside.

Enok – And what here sights, Valery?

Valery – Ukovsky falls, downstream the Uda River of 18 kilometers, Powerful caves in 70 kilometers to the east, in them is a grotto where temperature constant always 0 degrees Celsius – water doesn’t freeze, ice doesn’t thaw. In 17 km the dark-coniferous taiga in spurs of East Sayan Mountains which in the books «On Chunsky Thresholds» and «Ridges Sayansk» were described by the writer Sergey Sartakov to the south begins. There are places very beautiful, on similarity of your Columns Krasnoyarsk. It is no far from the city on Zastryank Canal there is a town, Chernyaev call meadows.

Shurik – From where such poetic name?

Valery – in the Fall all black – is black from a bird cherry…

Enok – Valera, you 2 the category to work not as the mechanic in depot, and the guide.

Valery – It is just necessary to like the native country. So on what stopped?

Enok – In caves it is cold – won’t go, in a taiga still of berry – mushrooms didn’t keep up, a bird cherry – too still green. I vote for falls!

Valery – Then now we will organize the boat…

Enok – It is necessary to buy food and forward on picnic!

Valery – It is possible to organize girls, women of easy virtue so to speak…

Enok – Priestesses it isn’t necessary yet, we will have a serious conversation under a shish kebab…

Ukovsky falls

Here falls. It three-level. From twenty meters water is overthrown. A beautiful show, from splashes of falls the rainbow is visible. Further the rivulet flows in a canyon. From two parties steep basalt rocks about 40 meters high. Length of a canyon is 400 meters. Then the small river Uk flows into Uda. Our heroes found a glade, made fire. Fry shish kebabs. Valery took a guitar and sings the song: