East Europe as a proto-homeland of the Indo-Europeans - страница 21

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Currently, the highest peak of the Subpolar Urals (and the entire Ural ridge in general) Mount Narada is often called «People’s». This renaming was made in 1927 when, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, it was «discovered» by the expedition of the AN SSSR and the Uralplan. The expedition employee, geologist L.N. Aleshkov, decided in honor of the anniversary of October to replace the obscure name «Narada» with a simple and clear, derived from the Russian word «Narod – people», the name is «Mount Narodnaya». E. M. Pospelov emphasizes that its local name – Mount Narada-iz inexplicably, because «Iz» in the Komi language means «rock, cliff, stone, mountain», and the meaning of the word «Narada» is currently unknown. In this regard, it makes sense to remember that the great ascetic, who was allowed to see the Creator himself in the form of a dazzling radiance, was called that way in the ancient Indian epic – «Narada».


It should be noted that the north of Eastern Europe has a number of elevations differing in latitudinal extent. So: «For a long time it was believed that the main elevation of the Bolshezemelskaya tundra is the so-called Zemlyanoy or Bolshezemelsky ridge, stretching in the latitudinal direction from the Pechora River to the junction of the Urals with Pai-Hoi and serving as a watershed between rivers flowing south and flowing into latitudinal sections Mustache and Pechora rivers, and rivers that carry their waters in the Barents Sea. Recently, some researchers have denied the existence of such a ridge as an orographic whole,» – the authors of «Geology of the USSR» write. But they also note that: «This question is still not entirely clear, it is not clear how the Nenets, who know the terrain perfectly, could assign a single name to the hill, which in reality is not in nature. In any case, a chain of discontinuous hills with an almost latitudinal orientation is well traced on the watershed of the Shapkina and Chernaya rivers, where in places they reach 250 m in height, and between the rivers Kelva-vis and Hoseda-yu, where Verga Musur rises to 175 m.»