In Chechnya, enthusiasts and scientists continue to explore Noah’s Ark on Mount Sadoi-Lam in the Cheberloevsky district of the republic. Three years ago lonely local Marat Makazho found here an amazing formation of layered limestones, surprisingly similar to wooden beams.

I was just walking through the alpine meadows in the mountains, a little above Lake Kezenoyam. I admired the beauty of nature and explored the area. The strange elevation above the plateau aroused my interest. From there it was very nice to admire the surroundings, I often came to just sit there. Then he began to look at the stones and noticed that they were very even, smooth and beautiful in this place. It’s as if they were specially tailored to each other. I became interested in their origin, without completely understanding what I was dealing with, simply out of curiosity. This is how this story began,” Marat told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

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The man spent the next year in libraries, researching historical sources and geological manuals. Who could grind limestone so delicately? For what? And what kind of man-made structure could be located on a plateau high in the mountains?

The insight came with the thought that it might not be a stone at all, but petrified wood. That's when I first thought about the Ark. At first I was skeptical about this,” says Marat. - I often went to the mountains and explored. But the deeper I studied the topic, the less doubts remained. The final conviction came when I saw something that I can’t call anything other than familiar. It was similar to the “phenomenon” from canonical legends: slightly gloomy weather, the sky overcast with clouds. I walk to the plateau in thought. And then a ray of bright light bursting out from behind the clouds falls on the place that we now call the “gates of the Ark”!

Marat Makazho talks about Noah's Ark in Chechnya.

Mufti of the Chechen Republic Salah Mezhiev about the discovery of Noah's Ark

Marat spent another year studying theological literature and the history of the search for the Ark. Of course, most clerics claimed that the ancient ship of the prophet stopped on Mount Ararat. But long searches and scientific research yielded nothing. Formations truly similar to the ship were never found, and archaeologists and geologists, not finding the skeleton on the mountain, moved to other areas of Turkey. Another part of Islamic scholars indicates that the Ark could have stopped in another place.

According to one of the widespread theories put forward by Islamic scholars, the ship could have sailed further north and run aground in the Caucasus Mountains, the Mufti of the Chechen Republic Salakh Mezhiev explained to Komsomolskaya Pravda. - Moreover, here, in the North Caucasus, there are people who bear the name of the prophet. In Arabic, Noah is called Nuh, or Noh. And true Vainakhs know that the real name of the Chechen people is Nokhchi. That is, in other words, the sons of Noch.


Using this map, everyone will be able to find a unique phenomenon discovered by Marat Makazho Photo: Personal archive of the hero of the publication

The coincidences amazed Marat. And two years later he publicly said that he had found Noah’s Ark. An initiative group immediately gathered around him; enthusiasts, having looked at the phenomenon with their own eyes, without regret invested their own funds in its study, and soon excavations began.

Unique natural object amazed even scientists. They suggested that multi-layered limestones were formed under enormous water pressure. Most likely - at the bottom of the Tethys Ocean, which existed in the territory millions of years ago North Caucasus. But the origin of the “nails” that dot the limestone layers is more difficult to explain.


Photo: Personal archive of the hero of the publication

An expedition from the Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society", specialists from the Central Research Institute of Geology of Nonmetallic Minerals. The scientists, over a glass of beer, honestly said that they were amazed by some of the details, and education in the mountains of Chechnya is really worthy of study, shares Marat Makazho. - But the analysis of limestone samples did not give positive results for us. Therefore, we cannot yet announce the find to the whole world. We continue excavations.

At the same time, the scientists themselves speak of the Chechen enthusiast with great warmth and respect his beliefs.


Even scientists find it difficult to answer the question about the origin of the nails with which the limestone is studded. Photo: Personal archive of the hero of the publication

Marat is a very interesting, smart person. Doesn't look at all like the local madman who wrote a beautiful legend and who believed in it, says geologist and speleologist Gennady Samokhin, who heads the expedition of the Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society. - As a scientist, I, of course, cannot seriously assume that this is the mythical Noah’s Ark. But the object he discovered is indeed extremely interesting and deserves detailed study. I sincerely wish him luck in his research.

Enthusiasts have to work very carefully - they are afraid of damaging the shrine. Now they have managed to go 25 meters deep into the limestone. Members of the initiative group are confident that they will find voids inside - interior spaces legendary ship. And they hope that this discovery will prove to all skeptics that Noah’s Ark is really in Chechnya.


The most important test for the initiative group was the visit of representatives of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya. After him, the Muftiate of the republic has no doubt about the authenticity of the Ark.

After examining the object by our representatives, I can confidently say that Noah’s Ark is in Chechnya,” said the Mufti of the Chechen Republic Salakh Mezhiev. - This is our position. May Allah grant that studies of the skeleton found in the mountains finally confirm this! We believe and hope that this will happen soon.

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How many times has the Ark been found?

Attempts to find the Ark have been made since around the 4th century AD. According to biblical legend, he was supposed to stop on the slope of Mount Ararat. There are several other areas that are considered to be its potential location. One of the main places, according to seekers, is the so-called Ararat anomaly - the “contours of a ship” protruding from the snow on the northwestern slope of Ararat. Scientists explain its formation by natural causes, but research on the site is difficult, since the area is a military closed zone in the area of ​​​​the Armenian-Turkish border.


1. One of those who “found” the Ark was Russian military pilot Vladimir Roskovitsky, who, while flying over Mount Ararat during World War I, saw what he called a “lying large vessel.” The pilot wrote a report about what he saw, and in 1917 Russia allegedly even sent an expedition there, which took several photographs of the Ark, but during the revolution the report on the expedition disappeared. Later, other pilots, in particular the Turk Durupinar in 1957, took photographs of a strange outline similar to a ship near Mount Ararat. Durupinar's photograph even ended up in Life magazine and became the reason for further expeditions, each of which announced the discovery of the Ark.


2. In 1955, the French researcher Fernand Navarra brought from Ararat the remains of a board that, according to him, was broken off from the wooden frame of the Ark. Some of the studies partially confirmed the age of the tree at 5,000 years, but all these conclusions were very subjective.

3. A joint Turkish-Hong Kong expedition to Mount Ararat in 2010 made a statement that they found Noah’s Ark at an altitude of 4000 meters frozen into a glacier and even entered some rooms inside the Ark, taking videos and photographs. However, there is a version that all this filming was edited to create a world sensation. Professional archaeologists do not take the claims of the Ark seekers seriously, considering all their discoveries to be a figment of the imagination.

In 2003, an expedition under my leadership went to legendary mountain Ararat, where, as mentioned in the Old Testament, the ark of forefather Noah landed. At that moment, my comrades and I wanted to check three points on the mountain, where different years and centuries supposedly saw Noah's Ark. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the expedition then had to be curtailed.

In 2004, we moved to Nakhichevan, which some researchers also link to post-Flood times; moreover, it was there, according to one version, that Noah’s burial place was located. All this has already been repeatedly described and told in various Russian and world media. Our expeditions to the Ararat region were followed by several others. But the ancient ship was never discovered by anyone.

Unexpectedly, quite recently, I received a message from Chechnya, which stated that Noah’s Ark had been discovered there. In confirmation, a link was given to the channel of the author of the sensation Marata Makazho on YouTube.

I was able to ask Marat a few questions:

- Marat, how did you discover the formation that you call Noah’s Ark?

I was sure that the ark was in Chechnya. When I took a photograph to find out what it looked like, a beam of light was pointed at it. After a year of studying the object, there was no doubt left - the formation was not of local origin and could not be anything other than an ark.

- Why are you sure that this is Noah’s Ark?

I'm sure because this moment I’ve been studying it for 2 years now and I’m finding more and more secondary signs.

- Have any scientific studies been carried out?

It is unknown, but I managed to find the excavation site. If someone was digging there now, we would know about it. Consequently, the excavation was made during our eviction, since we were not evicted in order to return us back; no one expected this from Khrushchev. Soon after our return, a fairy tale about the ark on Ararat was invented, a picture was shown involving Chinese specialists, most likely just guest workers, and this bluff was presented to the world.

- Is it possible to organize a full-fledged, comprehensive expedition to the area where the supposed Noah’s Ark is located?

The issue of the expedition must be coordinated with the authorities, and, most likely, with the federal ones. I can only give a tour, and even then only in private.

- In a video on your Youtube channel, you said that you were ready to swear on the Koran that you had discovered Noah’s Ark. What is your confidence based on?

I’m ready to swear and give my head to be cut off, because after studying it for 2 years now, I find more and more signs that this object was made of wood.

- There is a legend, and you also mention it, that when Noah’s Ark is revealed to humanity, the so-called end of the world or the Apocalypse will come. Do you think that the End Times have already arrived?

I heard the legend, I am sure that the Last Times have come, but we are unlikely to experience the Apocalypse, rather our children or grandchildren.

- There is a version that the self-name of the Chechens - Nokhchi - is translated as “people of Noah”. Doesn't your finding confirm this?

The self-name Nokhchi really comes from the prophet Nokh (Noah), I am sure of this.

Previously, I have repeatedly said that in antediluvian times shipping was highly developed. The Sumerians had a very impressive fleet, which included ships of various displacements and could move both close and to long distances. If we assume that water simultaneously began to rise throughout the entire earth or in its individual parts as the geological appearance changed, then some of the ships could go on a drainage voyage. Indirect confirmation of this was discovered in one of the European libraries by the now deceased polyglot, a participant in our expedition to Nakhichevan, Willy Melnikov. A certain ancient manuscript, which he called “The Second Ark,” said that the people who sailed with Noah on the ark saw a similar huge ship, but when they managed to approach it, it turned out to be completely deserted.

In general, legends about the Great Flood are found among many peoples of the Earth in different interpretations; people, according to ancient authors, escaped in boats, in trees, and in other ways. Therefore, both the Ark of Noah itself and any other ship of that era can rest in the mountains of Chechnya. Help solve new riddle could be a full-fledged scientific expedition. This is exactly what Marat Makazho is counting on, although he himself is confident in the authenticity of his find and he no longer needs to prove anything personally.

Andrey Polyakov (photo by Marat Makazho)

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The mystery of this artifact has been attracting researchers for many years. Among theologians and real scientists there are many who are trying to prove that this ship, thanks to which it was possible to escape from the Great Flood, really existed. Numerous expeditions and searches around the world regularly produce “evidence” - and now the Chechen seeker Marat Makazho claims to have found the notorious Ark.

Until recently, numerous researchers argued that the mysterious Ark should be looked for on Mount Ararat. However, none of the expeditions undertaken there, despite the alleged fragments of the ship found, even confirmed its existence by 50%. Therefore, hypotheses about its location appear every year and seekers go on new expeditions.

Chechen researcher Marat Makazho became interested in the topic of the Ark after strange fossils were found on Mount Sadoy-Lam in the Republic of Chechnya.

Their size, as well as footage from a quadcopter, made it possible to see that what was previously mistaken for a mountain could be a huge ship.

Marat says:“The dimensions of the hill are quite suitable for the dimensions of the Ark described in Scripture. I started asking the elders living near Mount Sadoi Lam. And they said that during the construction of the mosque almost 100 years ago, two giant wooden beams were found on a high plateau. According to them, the tree seemed to come out of nowhere. The beams were so large that no one could lift them; they dragged them with difficulty, and now our mosque stands on them. Other residents with whom I spoke recall many strange and even mystical stories associated with the mountain."

In the future, a more detailed study of this mountain is planned - an expedition of the Russian Geographical Society will go to Chechnya. In the meantime, correspondents of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper asked Vladimir Trifonov, professor, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences and chief researcher at the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to comment on the video:

- This is more like limestone deposits, which have their own special origin in the Caucasus. These structures formed at the bottom of the Tethys Ocean, which existed in the North Caucasus millions of years ago. Such artifacts rarely end up this high, but due to the movement of tectonic plates, this is quite possible and most likely. Visually, it may resemble wood, but due to exposure to the environment, it can weather and take on a surprising shape.

Whether this is actually true remains to be determined by specialists.

In Chechnya, enthusiasts and scientists continue to explore Noah’s Ark on Mount Sadoi-Lam in the Cheberloevsky district of the republic. Three years ago, a lonely local resident, Marat Makazho, found here an amazing formation of layered limestones, surprisingly similar to wooden beams.

I was just walking through the alpine meadows in the mountains, a little above Lake Kezenoyam. I admired the beauty of nature and explored the area. The strange elevation above the plateau aroused my interest. From there it was very nice to admire the surroundings, I often came to just sit there. Then he began to look at the stones and noticed that they were very even, smooth and beautiful in this place. It’s as if they were specially tailored to each other. I became interested in their origin, without completely understanding what I was dealing with, simply out of curiosity. This is how this story began,” Marat told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The man spent the next year in libraries, researching historical sources and geological manuals. Who could grind limestone so delicately? For what? And what kind of man-made structure could be located on a plateau high in the mountains?

The insight came with the thought that it might not be a stone at all, but petrified wood. That's when I first thought about the Ark. At first I was skeptical about this,” says Marat. - I often went to the mountains and explored. But the deeper I studied the topic, the less doubts remained. The final conviction came when I saw something that I can’t call anything other than familiar. It was similar to the “phenomenon” from canonical legends: slightly gloomy weather, the sky overcast with clouds. I walk to the plateau in thought. And then a ray of bright light bursting out from behind the clouds falls on the place that we now call the “gates of the Ark”!

Marat spent another year studying theological literature and the history of the search for the Ark. Of course, most clerics claimed that the ancient ship of the prophet stopped on Mount Ararat. But long searches and scientific research yielded nothing. Formations truly similar to the ship were never found, and archaeologists and geologists, not finding the skeleton on the mountain, moved to other areas of Turkey. Another part of Islamic scholars indicates that the Ark could have stopped in another place.

According to one of the widespread theories put forward by Islamic scholars, the ship could have sailed further north and run aground in the Caucasus Mountains, the Mufti of the Chechen Republic Salakh Mezhiev explained to Komsomolskaya Pravda. - Moreover, here, in the North Caucasus, there are people who bear the name of the prophet. In Arabic, Noah is called Nuh, or Noh. And true Vainakhs know that the real name of the Chechen people is Nokhchi. That is, in other words, the sons of Noch.

The coincidences amazed Marat. And two years later he publicly said that he had found Noah’s Ark. An initiative group immediately gathered around him; enthusiasts, having looked at the phenomenon with their own eyes, without regret invested their own funds in its study, and soon excavations began.

The unique natural object amazed even scientists. They suggested that multi-layered limestones were formed under enormous water pressure. Most likely - at the bottom of the Tethys Ocean, which existed millions of years ago in the North Caucasus. But the origin of the “nails” that dot the limestone layers is more difficult to explain.

An expedition from the Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society and specialists from the Central Research Institute of Geology of Nonmetallic Minerals came to us. The scientists, over a glass of beer, honestly said that they were amazed by some of the details, and education in the mountains of Chechnya is really worthy of study, shares Marat Makazho. - But the analysis of limestone samples did not give positive results for us. Therefore, we cannot yet announce the find to the whole world. We continue excavations.

At the same time, the scientists themselves speak of the Chechen enthusiast with great warmth and respect his beliefs.

Marat is a very interesting, smart person. He doesn’t look at all like a local madman who composed a beautiful legend and believed in it, says geologist and speleologist Gennady Samokhin, who heads the expedition of the Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society. - As a scientist, I, of course, cannot seriously assume that this is the mythical Noah’s Ark. But the object he discovered is indeed extremely interesting and deserves detailed study. I sincerely wish him luck in his research.

Enthusiasts have to work very carefully - they are afraid of damaging the shrine. Now they have managed to go 25 meters deep into the limestone. Members of the initiative group are confident that they will find voids inside - the interior of the legendary ship. And they hope that this discovery will prove to all skeptics that Noah’s Ark is really in Chechnya.

The most important test for the initiative group was the visit of representatives of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya. After him, the Muftiate of the republic has no doubt about the authenticity of the Ark.

After examining the object by our representatives, I can confidently say that Noah’s Ark is in Chechnya,” said the Mufti of the Chechen Republic Salakh Mezhiev. - This is our position. May Allah grant that studies of the skeleton found in the mountains finally confirm this! We believe and hope that this will happen soon.