m yamantau

The Maly Yamantau ridge is small, its length is 7 km. It consists of two parts: southern, with a height of 867m and northern - 976m. The southern summit ends with a cliff to the Maly Inzer River, from here you can see the Aigir rapids and the Karatash ridge, which rises on the other bank of the Maly Inzer. From the height of the northern summit one can see the Nara ridge, Shiktash mountain, Big Yamantau mountain.

The name Yamantau is literally translated from the Bashkir language - "bad mountain". We can find an explanation of the name in the ancient Bashkir epic "Ural-Batyr". He absorbed the most ancient mythology that existed many millennia ago. The plot of the epic is rather complex and is based on the description of the struggle of the Ural-Batyr for the happiness of people, with the evil forces of nature embodied in the images of dragons (azhdaha), divas (supernatural humanoid creatures that look like giants), and snakes.

One of the excerpts describes the battle of the Ural-Batyr with the divas. The first Ural-Batyr met a diva with three heads, and defeated him. He then defeated the six-headed diva, and the hardest fight was with the twelve-headed diva. The bodies of the divas of these divas lay like mountains. The place where the three-headed and six-headed divas lay, the people called Small Yamantau. And where the twelve-headed divas lay, is known as the Big Yamantau mountain range.