The megaliths of Vera Island are a complex of archaeological monuments (megaliths – chamber tombs, dolmens and menhirs) on the island of Lake Turgoyak (near Miass) in the Chelyabinsk region. The oldest megaliths on Earth were presumably built about 6 thousand years ago, in the IV thousand BC, that is, before the famous Stonehenge in England (5 thousand years ago, III thousand BC).
The country of cities is the oldest settlements, prototypes of cities that have been found by archaeologists in the Southern Urals: in Bashkortostan, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions of the Russian Federation, as well as on the territory of northern Kazakhstan. The cities are located on an area with a diameter of 350 km.
All found cities are united by a similar type of structure, organization of urban infrastructure, building materials, time of existence, as well as the same topographic logic. The settlements are clearly visible in aerial photographs. And it is these pictures that make a great impression. After 4,000 years, the skeletons of cities stand out clearly against the background of the natural landscape, plowed fields. The mastery of the ancient engineers who designed and created such city systems is coming to an awareness. The cities themselves were very livable. First, they provided protection from external enemies. Secondly, in the cities, rooms were made for the life and work of various artisans (saddlers, potters, metallurgists, blacksmiths, etc.). Inside each of the cities there is a storm sewer that takes water outside the city. Burial grounds were organized near the cities, animal pens were built. Uniqueness: the age of the monuments, the youngest of them is 3,700 years old, which is comparable to the ancient Egyptian pyramids; the type of settlement is a city.
Basically, other traces of human activity are found, mounds, burials; cities did not arise spontaneously, having evolved from villages, but were built immediately as cities; other ancient settlements (and not only ancient ones) with a similar urban structure and architecture have not yet been discovered on the planet; also: unlike other cultural strata of the steppes of Eurasia; the most ancient from the found chariots (dated 2026 BC); products of metallurgy developed for that time; sufficiently advanced ancient hydraulic structures (dam, dam, drainage channels (Sintashta); ancient storm sewer (Arkaim).