Zhiguli Mountains (35 photos)
Zhiguli or Zhiguli Mountains is a hill in the Samara region on the right bank of the Volga, surrounded by a bend of the river (the so-called Samarskaya Luka). The name of the mountains has changed several times over time. The author of the Kazan Chronicle of the 1560s calls the mountains Maiden. The Persian author of the 10th century Khudud al-Alem - the Pecheneg Mountains (assuming that he describes the Zhiguli). Modern researchers trace the name Zhiguli to the Turkic jiguli - “harnessed”, after the name of the barge haulers and the place where they lived.
A more romantic version connects the origin of the name with the Volga freemen - gangs of bandits who lived in the mountains for many years. The owners of captured ships had to either pay a bribe or be flogged with burning rods. Such flogging was called “zheg”, “ozheg”, and the people who performed it were called “Zhiguli”. The name “Zhiguli Mountains” was first given in the work of academician Peter-Simon Pallas “Travel to different provinces of the Russian Empire”.
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2. Zhigulevskaya Pipe Bay
3. Grunina Mountain
4. Mount Bakhilova
5. Mount Strelnaya - the highest point of Zhiguli
6. View from Strelnaya Mountain
7. Volga towpath
8. Seredysh Island
9. Fog on the Volga
10. The Volga is “boiling”
11. Petrov stone and spillway of the Zhigulevskaya hydroelectric power station
12. Volzhsky cliff and the president’s dacha in Zhiguli
13. Cliffs above Bakhilova glade
14. Zhiguli near the village. Shiryaevo
15. View of Malaya Bakhilova Mountain
16. Volzhsky Reach
17. Evening on the Volga
18. Mountain Flatbread
19. Shiryaevskaya Valley
20. Tree over the Volga
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22. Bear Grotto
23. Entrance to the adits
24. Zhiguli in autumn
25. Molodetsky Kurgan. Looking West
26. View from the top of Molodetsky Kurgan in winter
27. Bakhilova glade
28. p. Zhiguli and Zhigulevskaya Pipe Bay
29. Lilac sunset over the Volga
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32. Sheludyak Cliff
33. Molodetsky cliff on the Volga
34. Strelnaya Mountain
35. Zolna Mountain
