"Voroniy Kamen" found. Why is "Voroniy Kamen" also a stone? Central Library of the Russian Geogra...
"On Lake Peipus, on Uzmen, at the Vorony Stone..."—these are the landmarks in the chronicles. It was there, according to ancient records, that the Battle on the Ice took place—the legendary battle between Russian troops under the command of Alexander Nevsky and the Livonian Order. We set off for Lake Peipus, following in the footsteps of G.N. Karaev's expedition, which discovered the Vorony Stone here in 1958. It turned out to be only part of a larger elevation.
We surveyed the site using a multibeam echosounder and side-scan sonar. The bottom anomaly is shaped like a bird. The wings, body, and tail are clearly visible—all resembling the silhouette of a crow. All that's missing is the head. A diving survey revealed no signs of masonry; the structure is natural.
However, another interesting detail is the presence of a clearly artificially dug "neck." The depression, transverse to the wingspan, was likely created to effectively catch fish that would fall into the trap. The lake's water level has risen by three meters over the past several centuries, and the "crow" is now located at a depth of 100 meters.
Research on Lake Peipus is being conducted jointly with the Center for Underwater Archaeological Heritage of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialists from the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, and AeroMax. Our goal is to more precisely determine the location of the battle. Read more about the expedition and its findings on our website: https://urc-rgs.ru/news?id=139
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