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There are few areas on Earth with as many lakes as in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). There are 600-800 thousand of them here! True, most are small. But it’s not just its size that makes a geographical object famous. A convincing example is Lake Labynkyr in Yakutia.

No secrets!

Yes, imagine, for geologists the birth of the lake - an event thousands of years ago - is generally understandable. A cap powerful ice, covering the north of Eurasia, was melting. Powerful streams gave rise to rivers, including the current Labynkyr River. But retreating to the north, the glacier left behind what it had once brought in: an accumulation of boulders, rock fragments, pebbles, etc.

Lake Labynkyr in Yakutia, photo

He moved all this stuff in front of his edge, sliding to the south. And now it remained lying and dammed the river, like a dam. The river began to overflow, filled the basin and created a channel for itself. But the dam remained, and in place of the basin there was also a lake.

The shores of the lake are made up of what was once dragged down by a glacier. The river of the same name flows into Lake Labynkyr, and it also flows out of it. The lake has two “special features”: depth and temperature.

The average depth exceeds fifty meters, but at the bottom the instruments discovered a crevice about eighty meters deep. Well, and the temperature... Let's not forget that Oymyakon, known as the pole of cold, is very close. Over the waters of Labynkyr winter temperature–50° is not that uncommon. Even at the height of summer, only big fans of winter swimming can swim in the water of the lake, which has warmed up to an invigorating +9°.

To be honest, they are not here, since the nearest populated areas are about a hundred kilometers away, and people generally come here extremely rarely. However, for some time now the monotony of local life has been increasingly disrupted by curious visitors. They were all interested in the same thing...

Photo of Lake Labynkyr, Russia, Yakutia

The mystery of the Yakut lake

Two weeks before the New Year of 1959, the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia” intrigued readers with the suggestion that an unknown monster lived in the waters of Labynkyr. Some claimed to have seen it with their own eyes. The “verbal portrait,” compiled from their descriptions, depicts a dark gray beast with a huge head and a toothy mouth. The monster is aggressive and can easily swallow a dog, or even a deer. Sometimes it crawls ashore for a short time, and when the lake is covered with ice, it breaks through the crust.

Since then, many journalists and hunters of the unknown have visited the lake. Surveys of local residents showed that many people had heard about the monster living in Lake Labynkyr, but those old-timers who allegedly saw it had already passed away.

Can a waterfowl giant from prehistoric times survive in the lake? Scientists are skeptical. They are used to believing irrefutable facts. And logically speaking, it is difficult to believe in the existence of a “northern Nessie”. Even if there were enough fish in the lake to feed it, there must be several lizards, otherwise the population will not survive and will not leave the next generation. But even the most avid supporters of their existence do not even mention a pack of monsters - it looks too unrealistic.

Enthusiasts of the Labynkyr monster cannot confirm its existence with anything material. No one managed to take a photo of a suspicious object on Lake Labynkyr or at least its traces on the shores. They say that a huge jaw as tall as a man was found near the water, but all subsequent attempts to find out where it went and where the lucky person who found it ended in nothing. Surveying the depths of the lake with an echo sounder revealed large moving objects, but they could well have turned out to be schools of fish.

And while enthusiasts are busy searching for the Yakut monster, its virtual double is alive and thriving. He became the hero of one of the versions computer game"Russian fishing". The game allows everyone to try to catch the monster of Lake Labynkyr. Of course, you will need special virtual gear and bait and very real ingenuity and luck. By the way, the last two qualities will be useful to you, even if you are not going to hunt for a legendary creature.

Lake Labynkyr on the map

Report from the island of Lake Labynkyr

Everyone has probably heard about Oymyakon in Yakutia, that it is the pole of cold of the northern hemisphere. But in fact it is. This lost World located at an altitude of a kilometer above sea level and 105 kilometers south and higher in the mountains from Oymyakon. The mountain plateau is difficult to access. The temperature here sometimes drops below 71 degrees Celsius.

The Yakuts tell many legends about this mysterious lake. And the main thing is that some unknown predator lives in it - the “Labynkyr devil” - a relative of the Loch Ness monster. Or rather, an entire population. Local residents do not dare to go to the lake as it has a bad reputation.

The Yakuts allegedly at the beginning of the 20th century somehow obtained the jaw of one inhabitant of the lake, measured it, and reported figures on the size of the entire monster. In their opinion, its width is “like a raft of 10 logs”, and its footprints are meter long.

The lake measures 14 by 4 kilometers. The average depth is just over 50 meters.

In March 1941, the ANT-6 military transport aircraft was returning from a special Arctic expedition. Pilot Ivan Cherevichny and navigator Valentin Akkuratov drove a heavy 4-engine vehicle from the so-called “Pole of Inaccessibility” to the south of Yakutia. Flying over the area at coordinates 62° 30′ northern latitude and 143° 36′ minutes east longitude, the crew noticed some strange objects on the ground, constantly in motion. The route of polar pilots passed over these places more than once, but neither Cherevichny nor Akkuratov had observed anything like this before. They decided to descend to solve the mystery. When the altimeter showed 50 meters above the ground, Valentin Akkuratov saw that two huge creatures were rushing across the thick ice of the endless lake. Apparently frightened by the roar of the engine and the shadow of the plane, the monsters dived into the wormwood, raising a column of water. When the pilots returned to base and told about what they had seen, they listened to them and did not believe a word. But only the Yakut who was the commandant there at the base meaningfully shook his head and said: “This is the Labynkyr devil.” It was not possible to obtain any details from the commandant.

Photo from the site ykt.ru

On December 14, 1958, a rather strange article appeared in the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia”. In the Oymyakon region there is a large lake Labynkyr. Nearest locality is the village of Tomtor. Its inhabitants talk about a huge mysterious monster that lives in Labynkyr. The Yakuts call this monster the devil. One day he chased a Yakut fisherman. The animal was dark gray in color, with a huge mouth. The fisherman died of fear. The author of the note was ridiculed by colleagues and readers. They forgot about history, but not for long.

Four years later, the next issue of the popular almanac “Around the World” appeared in Soyuzpechat kiosks. The circulation was sold out instantly. The magazine published the diaries of the head of the geological party of the East Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Viktor Ivanovich Tverdokhlebov. The culmination was the lines where the author described a meeting with an unknown relict animal on the shore of that same Yakut lake. It was very difficult to publish the article, even though it was already the beginning of the 60s, but the editors were still afraid of everything, namely, any new trends or discoveries that went against science. But nevertheless, the publication appeared and created a sensation in the Soviet Union.

Photo by Viktor Tverdokhlebov

This happened on July 30, 1953, when Viktor Tverdokhlebov and his partner Boris Bashkatov, collecting wood for a fire, climbed the hill and noticed some object in the water. This is what the scientist wrote in his diary: “The object floated and quite quickly. It was something alive, it moved in an arc, first along the lake, and then straight towards us. As it approached, a strange numbness, from which it turns cold inside, enveloped me. We saw only a small part of the monster, but under the water we could discern a huge massive body. At the same time, waves were coming from its head, generated somewhere under the water. “It slams its mouth, catches fish,” a guess flashed. Before us was a predator. Without doubts, one of the strongest predators in the world. Such an indomitable, merciless, some kind of meaningful ferocity was felt in his every movement, in his entire appearance." These lines made the publication sensational. Immediately, Tverdokhlebov’s evidence was criticized. The Institute of Permafrost Science stated that eyewitnesses observed simply a huge catfish. True, catfish do not live in this lake. Naturally, many argued that geologists simply imagined all this. They say this often happens to people who find themselves in the north alone with wildlife. Ichthyologists tried to explain what they saw by the refraction of light in water. But Tverdokhlebov and Bashkatov were experienced researchers and were fully aware of what could be refraction and what could be a mirage.

Tverdokhlebov discovered this animal, described it, and his descriptions are worth a lot, because he was, first of all, a real scientist, a geologist, although not a zoologist, but a very educated person, a naturalist. His colleagues also knew about antiquities and paleontology, and they realized that in front of them was just an unknown creature that lives in this lake.

“I was often asked about the monster,

and I talked a lot and willingly about the plateau. But often, too often,

in matters of colleagues

were heard hidden or

obvious ridicule or distrust.

In the end I got tired of it

and I stopped telling

about the secrets of the plateau"

from the memoirs of V. Tverdokhlebov

They themselves are called nothing more than " lost World "Some believe that this is a legend, a myth that has nothing to do with real story. Others believe in it, believing that it is another dimension, etc. Is there even a version that this is a mammoth?! There were an incredible number of mammoths in Siberia. A huge number of tusks were previously mined on the New Siberian Islands. And they supposedly switched to an aquatic lifestyle because of the frosts. Others believe that this is a huge relict pike.

There is a legend among the fishermen of Oymyakon that in the middle of the last century one of the local residents caught here a pike the size of a crocodile, all covered with thick moss. However, few witnesses pointed to the amphibious image of the monster, which is unacceptable for pike. Writer and traveler Nikolai Nepomnyashchiy believes: “It looks like some kind of aquatic lizard - a plesiosaur 8-10 meters in length with a huge long neck, a small head, flippers and a powerful tail. The animal reproduces by eggs and keeps them somewhere in underwater caves.”

There is a certain crack at the bottom of the lake, which increases the depth supposedly to 80 meters. Or maybe more? There is a version that, for example, Lake Baikal is generally bottomless and all bodies of water in the world are interconnected. The water in Labynkyr, despite the severe frosts, freezes very slowly, which remains a mystery to scientists. The river of the same name flows into Labynkyr through an icy, non-melting dam. There are three islands on the lake that have the strange property of disappearing under water from time to time, but the water level itself remains unchanged.

It turns out that the lake is a very suitable place for the habitat of an unknown relict animal. No jungle in Africa or Latin America can compare with Labynkyr in terms of the degree of lostness, alienation and detachment, closedness from the rest of the world.

In the 60-70s of the last century, several expeditions visited Labynkyr, but none mysterious monster, no one was able to find any traces of him. Over the next 30 years, practically no human set foot on the shores of the lake, except for rare fishermen. True, one Yakut hermit settled nearby. Olyams (?) was his name, either a nickname or a name. Looks like he's half crazy. He exchanged fish for vodka and then told stories about the devil. It’s as if on every full moon he comes out and devours tribute from the hermit. In 1993, Olyams became seriously ill; fishermen found him in serious condition and brought him to the hospital. When he lost consciousness, he shouted that he could not be taken away from Labynkyr. He was brought back. It was as if he had seen the devil many times. However, he died a natural death in a dugout and was not eaten.

Another similar case is told by local residents. An Evenk family, wandering in the taiga, drove onto the ice on a sled in winter and tied the team of deer to a branch frozen in the ice. The branch turned out to be the horn of the Labynkyr devil. The monster broke through the ice and dragged down all the people and deer with it. But some of the Evenks remained alive, since at that moment they retreated and collected branches for a fire on the shore.

Another dramatic story. The nomads were heading to Oymyakon and stopped on the bank of a stream flowing into the lake. While the adults were going about their business, no one noticed how a little boy fell into the stream. The flow of water carried the child into the lake. The parents rushed to help. But then the monster’s head suddenly surfaced and swallowed the boy. The angry father made a trap overnight. The devil was caught and killed. The stream where the tragedy occurred was called Children's. The remains of the monster were thrown on the shore. The jaw was later seen by many hunters who visited the lake. They said that it was so huge that if it was placed like an arch, you could ride a deer through it. All this looks like a legend after all. But Cosmopoisk researchers encountered the bloodthirstiness of the monster. That's how it was.

It seemed unclear what the animal would eat there, since there is no food supply, and how would it survive at such low temperatures? But the Kosmopoisk expedition led by the well-known Vadim Chernobrov, arriving at the lake in winter, was surprised to discover that there was no ice there. The temperature was close to zero. At the same time, the lake was teeming with fish.

Using an echo sounder, the researchers saw a large animal at a depth of several tens of meters, its size was about five meters. On the last night, a monster crawled out of the water and ate the dog. Vadim Chernobrov believes that it is unlikely that the monster was hungry, given the amount of fish in the lake. On the very first day, this dog, approaching the lake, felt danger. I went to sleep between the tent and the lake. For some reason the dog did not run away, but at the moment of eating it made a terrible sound. In the morning we saw traces of the monster. What kind of predator is this?

The lake is a gorge, one border is an ice dam that is melting. V. Chernobrov puts forward the version that some relict animals could lie frozen, and with warming thaw and return to life again in aquatic environment. The researcher has no doubt about the existence of this creature. Perhaps, Chernobrov believes, there are some other ancient creatures in this refrigerator.

Once or twice a year in the summer, groups of tourists come there. They tell different stories. So a group of divers went to Labynkyr to solve this mystery. They made it from Yakutsk to Labynkyr with difficulty. They took a shaman with them, since people associated with risk are very superstitious. This fully applies to divers. So the shaman performed the ritual and they immersed. First we checked the equipment. The second time, the divers dived to 20 meters and stayed underwater for about an hour. The researchers managed to record not just some huge mass, but the researchers even heard the voice of this creature. This sound was like nothing else. It was something alive. Using echolocators, researchers discovered an underground mine-type formation at the bottom of the lake. They pass in both vertical and horizontal planes and possibly connect Labynkyr with other local lakes. Maybe that’s why the monster wasn’t discovered during the search. But in the neighboring lake the appearance of a giant animal was also repeatedly observed. And there, too, research was carried out using special underwater equipment. But unfortunately, it was not possible to obtain any clear outlines of the creature.

So who is this Labynkyr devil brother of Loch Ness? Clearly this is an amphibian. And not unique.

If we turn to the ancient Slavic chronicles, and Siberia until the 3-4 millennium BC. inhabited by the Aryan Slavs even before the arrival of the Mongoloids from the south. So there are descriptions of the so-called “Russian crocodile”. More precisely the word was crust-dil, Where dil- horse. Later this word passed into all languages ​​and returned back to Russian as if it were foreign. This animal lived in bodies of water, of course. It looks like a gigantic salamander. Maybe his descendant lives now?

It is assumed that in the second half of August egg laying begins at the Labynkyr devil. During this period, the male rises to shallow depths and protects the litter. And then he perceives any intrusion as a threat and attacks. This could be the reason for the tragic incident with the child. But this is just a hypothesis.

Meanwhile, reports of unknown monsters are coming from all over the world. In China there is a similar monster on Kanas Lake. In 1985, students at Shinjiang University saw an unknown animal on the shore. large sizes. And again there were rumors that this monster was dragging away pets. And recently in Sweden, in a lake on the border with Norway, in front of dozens of people, something surfaced. Rumors have been circulating since the beginning of this century. They said that a certain monster climbs onto the shore and chases people. After it scared two girls, local residents decided to prepare a trap. But the monster successfully avoided her all these years. Recently we saw footprints on the shore...

Actually on globe There are many such mysterious places. The appearance of some mysterious creatures often. After all, the depths of the oceans are practically unexplored; perhaps such monsters appear from there, and bodies of water may be interconnected.

In the territory Yakutia there are about a million lakes. It is not without reason that they say that almost every resident of the republic has a separate lake. However, out of the total number of reservoirs, only the legendary Lake Labynkyr. According to a legend that has been passed down for decades, there lives a certain huge animal, better known as "Labynkyr devil".

Legend of Lake Labynkyr

Lake Labynkyr is located in the Oymyakon region in eastern Yakutia. For hundreds of years, local Yakuts have been passing on from generation to generation a legend about the existence in the lake of a certain huge animal called the “Labynkyr Devil”.

It is worth noting that people rarely appear in the area of ​​this lake; the nearest village is 150 km away. There is no road leading here, and the lake itself can only be reached by all-terrain vehicles, horses or helicopter.

Old-timers believe that the animal has lived in the lake since time immemorial and behaves extremely aggressively. Once, for example, it was chasing a Yakut fisherman, another time it swallowed a dog swimming after shot game. But most often the object of hunting was deer.

The monster is always described as huge, dark gray in color, with such a large head that the distance between its eyes is more than a meter.

In addition, locals talked about this creature long before there was talk about the famous Loch Ness monster from Scotland. The location of the area cannot be ignored: that is, news, especially in the last century, came with a delay. Nevertheless, the Sakhas and Evenks themselves sincerely believe in this creature.

Diagram of how the monster attacked the dog

According to eyewitnesses

Descriptions of the "devil" are similar, describing the creature as "huge, dark gray in color, with a head so large that the distance between its eyes is smaller than the traditional local 10-log raft."

All eyewitness stories were scientifically attested. Here are just three of a dozen such stories:

“A family of Evenk nomads were moving to summer lands. Evening found them on the banks of Labynkyr. While the elders were preparing for the night, the boy was playing on the bank of a stream flowing into the lake. Suddenly he screamed.

The adults turned around and saw that the child was in the water and the current was carrying him to the middle of the lake. The adults rushed to help, but suddenly some dark creature five or six arshins long (3.55-4.26 meters) appeared from the depths, grabbed the boy with a mouth that looked like a bird’s beak with many teeth, and dragged him under the water.

Grandfather dead boy filled a leather bag with deer hair, rags, dry grass and pine needles, and put a smoldering splinter in it. He tied the bag to a lasso and threw it into the lake, and secured the lasso to a large boulder on the shore. In the morning, the waves threw a dying monster onto the shore - about 10 arshins long (about 7 meters), with a huge beak-mouth, a third of its height, and small paws-flippers.

The grandfather cut open the creature’s belly, took out his grandson’s body, and the family left the lake. The boy was buried on the bank of the stream, and since then this river has been called the Child’s Creek. And the jaw of the monster stood at Labynkyr for a long time, and, as they say, a horseman could ride under it.

Since local horses are short, expedition members believe that the length of the jaw could be 2.1-2.5 meters. No one knows where the jaw itself went."

Here's another recorded story:

“One winter, a Sakha family was driving along Labynkyr. Suddenly, a few meters from the shore, they saw a horn about a meter long sticking out of the ice. Stopping, the people approached it. Suddenly the ice crackled, and the old people who remained on the shore saw that a hole had formed, into which they were falling deer and several people. And then some creature appeared, dragging people and deer under the water."

And another one

"Two friends were fishing in the very middle of this lake from a large ten-meter longboat. late fall. The lake was calm. And suddenly the boat tilted sharply, and its bow rose strongly above the water. The fishermen were speechless and froze, clutching the sides.

And after some time the boat sank into the water. Someone lifted a heavy longboat above the water. Only a large animal can do this. But they saw nothing - no head, no mouth, nothing at all."

According to locals, the only resident on the shores of the lake for a long time was a certain Alyams. He was a local blessed man, this half-crazed exile who had served his sentence and did not want to return “to the mainland.” Alyams caught fish, exchanged it with rare helicopter pilots for food and vodka, and then, drunk, told stories that made even experienced people’s jaws drop.

Drawing based on eyewitness descriptions. Vadim Chernobrov from Cosmopoisk.

According to him, the “devil” almost every full moon devoured the tribute that he brought to him. The only time Alyams was taken away from the lake was in 1993, when he became seriously ill and visiting fishermen took him to the hospital.

Having come to his senses, Alyams shouted that he could not be taken away from Labynkyr, that now he would definitely die. He died - as soon as he was returned to shore after urgent requests.

Research

The search for the monster in the lake began after authoritative testimony from the head of the geological party of the East Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Viktor Tverdokhlebov, and geologist Boris Bashkatov, who in their diaries on July 30, 1953, during observations from the Sordonnokh plateau, left the following entry:

"...The object was floating, and quite close. It was something alive, some kind of animal. It moved in an arc: first along the lake, then straight towards us. As it approached, a strange numbness, from which it turns cold inside , embraced us.

A dark gray carcass rose slightly above the water, two symmetrical light spots, similar to the eyes of an animal, were clearly visible, and something like a stick was sticking out of the body... We saw only a small part of the animal, but under the water we could discern a huge massive body.

The monster moves with a heavy throw: having risen somewhat out of the water, it rushed forward and then completely plunged into the water. At the same time, waves were coming from his head, born under the water. “Slams his mouth, catches fish,” a guess flashed.”

“There was no doubt: we saw the “devil” - the legendary monster of these places.”

In the 60-70s, several expeditions and tourist groups visited Labynkyr. However, no one was able to find the “Labynkyr devil” or his traces. Interest in the lake monster subsided for a long time. For 30 years no explorer set foot on the shores of the lake.

It is worth noting that during these years, divers descended into the lake at least twice - and both times they saw “someone” in the clear waters.

Researchers have discovered underwater underground mine-type formations under the surface of the lake. They pass in both vertical and horizontal planes and, possibly, connect Labynkyr with other local lakes. Perhaps that is why the monster was not discovered during the search.

But in neighboring Labynkyr Lake Gate The appearance of a giant animal was also repeatedly observed. However, later an expedition to Lake Gate was able to prove that there were no monsters in it.

Lake Gate

In the period from October 15 to November 3, 1999, an expedition was carried out to find unknown giant animals in several lakes at once: Mertvoe, Labynkyr, Krasnoe. Its only result was the disappearance without a trace of a husky tied not far from the ice hole.

According to researcher Vadim Chernobrov, strange traces and ice growths were discovered on the shore of Labynkyr - stalagmites - traces of water flowing from a body that crawled onto the shore: “Judging by the width of the strip of stalagmites, we can conclude that the width of the supposed body from which water flowed ", about 1-1.5 meters. Something, or rather someone, crawled onto the shore from the water and crawled back. Judging by the size of the stalagmites, it was on the shore for at least a minute."

It was next to these tracks that the Laika dog disappeared without a trace on the night of October 26-27. She voluntarily went to guard the boat on the shore and disappeared the next morning. There were no dog or other traces of the boat. The only way the husky could move away without a trace was towards the water.

The catch was that she was terrified to approach the water. Members of the expedition lured the hungry dog ​​with lard, but it did not come closer than 1.5 meters to the calm, wave-free surface of the water, despite the fact that already 2-3 meters from the water it calmly pounced on the lard.

“Something the day before really frightened her and she couldn’t overcome her fear and this, let me remind you, is a husky that is not afraid of a bear! Why did she now go to the water? Or was she dragged into the water? Why didn’t we hear anything?” recalls He.

In 2005, the TV program “Seekers” organized an expedition to the lake, during which it carried out a number of studies and measurements. In particular, with the help of an echo sounder, an anomalous crack was identified at the bottom of the lake, and with the help of a deep-sea telesonde, it was possible to detect the remains of jaws and vertebrae of animals at the bottom.

In February 2013, a dive was made to the bottom of the lake, the air temperature on the surface was 46 degrees Celsius, the water temperature was +2 degrees. Organized by the Russian Underwater Sports Federation and the Russian Geographical Society, the expedition was named “Pole of Cold”. They never met the Labynkyr devil, but were able to prove that it is possible to work in conditions of sharp temperature changes without special equipment and equipment.

Lake anomalies

The lake itself is located at an altitude of 1020 meters above sea level, stretching from north to south for 14 km. The width of the rectangular reservoir is almost the same everywhere - 4 km, depth - up to 60 meters. average temperature water in the lake is +9 degrees, in the bottom layers +1 - +1.5 degrees. However, despite such low temperature, the lake freezes abnormally slowly.

Labynkyr is located in the coldest zone of the continental part of the mainland, one hundred kilometers from the village of Tomtor - the world famous pole of cold. It was here that Academician Obruchev once recorded a record low temperature on earth - minus 71.2 degrees Celsius.

Nevertheless, if Labynkyr freezes, it does so much later than all other local reservoirs, and even at the most harsh winters The ice here is relatively thin. But most often, a noticeable part of the lake still does not freeze, and local residents are forced to go around it along the shore, although all other bodies of water are crossed on ice. Why the lake has such a feature is still unknown to science. No one has found warm springs here or any other circumstances that explain this phenomenon.

From the expedition of Vadim Chernobrov: “Unfortunately, the reality turned out to be more complicated. All the lakes really stood up, but... not Labynkyr and Vorota. This fact, later told by us in Moscow, greatly surprised all experienced taiga specialists, and, probably, it can only be attributed to due to the amazing microclimate that reigns around or inside these two lakes.

One way or another, our plans had to be changed on the spot; instead of locating through holes, we had to pick up a boat lying on the shore and locate directly from it.”

Who lives in Lake Labynkyr?

Some researchers believe that perhaps it is a mammoth. This version is not as surprising as it seems at first glance. When switching to a semi-aquatic lifestyle, like seals, mammoths could easily survive local frosts down to -60 degrees. And the ice holes on the surface of the lake that do not freeze in any frost allow it to breathe air. The only thing that confuses this version is that eyewitnesses describe the animal as a predator.

Other researchers believe that this is a huge relict pike. Here, the amphibious lifestyle of the “Labynkyr devil” confirmed by witnesses, or by survivors, is in question prehistoric lizard. If we take the version of the lizard as a basis, then it is a plesiosaur, or a creature closely related to it.

Almost all stories indicate that the Labynkyr miracle is seen late autumn or early winter. The descriptions match its dimensions: length approximately nine to ten meters, width twenty to fifty meters. The body is slightly flattened above and below.

A certain bone horn, about a meter and a half long, protrudes from the body. All storytellers note a huge mouth, up to a third of the length of the body, similar to a long beak, but with many small teeth.

Ice stalactites are often seen on the shore, which can be formed from water flowing from the sides of a lying animal. All meetings take place either in Labynkyr or in the neighboring, much smaller Lake Vorota, and the locals are convinced that these lakes are connected by a long cave.

Similar cases

Perhaps the most famous “relative” of the Labynkyr devil is Nessie - the monster Loch Ness in Scotland.

There is even a monument erected to this animal, the existence of which causes much controversy. In Russia, in addition to Lake Labynkyr, there are also lakes in which, according to some eyewitnesses, their own monsters live.

Lake Shaitan. The name of the lake speaks for itself; it is translated as “devil”. The reservoir is located on the territory of the Urzhumsky district of the Kirov region. Local residents have long believed that at the bottom of the lake lives evil spirit or a sea monster. It is precisely because this monster is angry that they explain the rare natural phenomena happening on the lake. Among them are random releases of water on the surface of the lake, floating islands and more.

On the territory of the Lovozero tundra of the Kola Peninsula is located Seydozero. Since the territory is considered an anomalous zone, many legends and stories arise about Bigfoot living on the shores, as well as about sea ​​monster, supposedly sometimes rising from the bottom of the lake.

The local residents, the Sami, have a legend according to which there is a afterworld. And the monster that lives in Seydozero must guard the borders between our world (the world of the living) and world of the dead. The existence of certain creatures living in the lake and on its shores has not been proven.

Lake Brosno is located in the Tver region of Russia. The area of ​​the lake is quite vast - about 7.5 km. But the lake became famous thanks to people who allegedly saw a floating creature on its surface, which was called the Brosnen monster.

Lake Chany is located in the Novosibirsk region. For a long time Mysterious cases of disappearances of fishermen on the lake were discussed on the Internet, various hypotheses were put forward, among which was the theory about the existence of an ancient lizard in the lake.