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In fact, Titovskaya Sopka is a former volcano that appeared in the Mesozoic Age . Its maximum height is almost 950 m above sea level . Today many monuments are preserved on the hillock, both historical and archeological . As for nature, on the hill you can see a huge variety of living forms that are found all over the Transbaikal . And if we talk about history, then here were discovered archaeological evidence of various periods from the Stone Age OK olo 35 thousand . years ago) and ending with the Cossack settlements of the first inhabitants of Chita . The total number of monuments of archeology on the hill is more than 30 . The most famous of them is Sukhotino-4, where the remains of the ancient houses of the Stone Age, cemeteries, rock drawings and items of utensils of primitive people .

Many monuments, both natural and historical-archeological, have been preserved on the hill today

The latest history was also reflected on the slopes of the Titovskaya hill. At the foot of the viewing platform, stands the chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky, from where you can perfectly see the whole of Chita. It was built in 2002 on the spot where the Decembrist M. Lunin put a simple cross, and where there used to be a monument to the Tsarevich Nicholas, the future emperor. And from the north-eastern side there is a place where four revolutionaries were shot in 1906, and there is also a monument.

Previously, on the site near the chapel stood a deer sculpture, which was removed due to the fact that the deer were bullied by visitors . The sculpture was restored, and today it can be seen on the pass near the village. Peschanka, on the outskirts of Chita

Titovskaya Sopka is located in the south-western part of the city, near the confluence of the rivers Chita and Ingoda. Scientifically speaking, it is a stratovolcano and, by virtue of its age, could tell a lot about the prehistoric fauna of these places. Speaking less scientific, like a paleontological monument, the hill is considered to be destroyed: all the finds that could be made here were made. These finds, made in the 1960s, included tusks of mammoths, bones of woolly rhinoceroses and Pleistocene horses, bison teeth.

Alexander Nevsky Chapel on Titovskaya Sopka in Chita

If we move from animals to humans, then the first artifacts began to find on the hillside in the 20th century . Thanks to them it became clear how the ancient people worked the stone, as they hunted mammoths, deer, rhinoceroses and buffalo . Petroglyphs and rock carvings were found on the rocks of the hill, in particular, on the shore of Ingoda images, the earliest of which are dated to the Bronze Age m . And in some of the graves were found objects of silver and gold . The most interesting monument of late history on the hill can be considered an ancient settlement Zasoposhnoe, which was founded approximately in the late 17th century: here you can see the remains of wooden houses and buildings .

Practical information

You can get to Titovskaya Hill on Marshrutka No. 30. Marshrutka stops at the observation deck above the station where there is a chapel. From there you can climb even higher, but the slope for this there is uncomfortable: it's better to drive far away, get off at the corner of ul. Baranova and Kuibyshev and go up from there. From this side the slope is more flat.