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 Archeologists: Before the construction of the gas pipeline to China it is necessary to carry out archeological exploration in Alta

Indigenous IssuesIn case of constructing “Altai” gas pipeline from Western Siberia to China it is necessary to carry out archeological monitoring along its route. This is what Natalya Polos’mak, Doctor of History, superior scientific worker of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Science, said to the correspondent of REGNUM Information Agency on 27 March.

“In our country the construction must be conducted with archeological exploration,” Polos’mak remarked. If it is found out there are some archeological artefacts on the place of construction, they are urgently studied, and excavations are made there. The expenses for archeological work are covered by the initiator of the construction.” Speaking on the plans of construction of the gas pipeline through the Ukok Plateau, where in 1993 the team she headed found a mummy of a woman, now known as “the Princess of Ukok”, Polos’mak stated, “If all the mentioned above conditions are observed, I don’t see any special obstacles for construction of the pipeline. It is essential to solve the issue of protection, study of those multiple historical memorials which are located in Altai on the places of proposed route of the construction.”
“Ecologically the gas pipeline is much safer than the oil pipeline. Moreover, Altai, including highlands, needs the gas pipeline very much. Altai in whole needs the State’s support, and the construction of the gas pipeline can become the first real step of the State on the way of development of this territory,” Natalya Polos’mak considers.
On 21 March, during his visit to China, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin declared about the intention of the Authorities of Russia to construct two gas pipelines to China from Siberia. According to the President’s words, it is possible to make a new pipeline system with the conventional name “Altai” through the western frontier of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. As the President stated, Russia will deliver 60-80 billions m3 of gas annually. The head of “Gazprom” administration Aleksey Miller declared that the cost of the new pipeline can be about $10 billion. The gas pipeline is expected to start in 2011.
The Authorities of Gorny Altai stated repeatedly about the intention to leave untouched the part of the frontier between Russia and China going through the Altai Republic. For several years there have been discussed the possibility to build the direct transport corridor from Russia to China through the territory of Gorny Altai, bordering in the south with the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. The length of the Russian-Chinese frontier here is 54 km. The road is supposed to go through the Ukok Plateau and cross the frontier on the Kanas Pass. However, the local population’s and the authorities’ attitudes to this idea are not definite. First of all, those who are against the road refer to the fact that the Ukok Plateau is in the List of the World Heritage of UNESCO and proclaimed so called “zone of peace”. Secondly, on the plateau there is a big number of archeological artefacts, and that is the place where the archeologist Natalya Polos’mak found the mummy of “Altai princess”. A lot of Altai people consider that plateau a sacred place, and even the earthquake in autumn 2003 they connect with the fact that people had disturbed “the spirit of princess Kadyn”, having unearthed her and exhibited for public in the Institute of History and Archeology of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Science.
At present, the Ukok highland is one of the most difficult to reach objects of nature in the south of the Altai Republic. Along the borders of the plateau there go the state frontiers of Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The plateau is located at the height of 2 200-2 500 meters above the see level, above the plateau there rise in average 500-600 m mountain ridges. The maximum absolute mark of the mountain crown of the plateau is the mountain junction Tabyn-Bogdo-Oola (five sacred peaks), the highest mountain of which – Nairamdal – reaches 4 374 m above the see level. This mountain is the second in Siberia after Belukha by height. On the Tabyn-Bogdo-Oola the frontiers of three states meet – Russia, China and Mongolia. There are more than one thousand archeological memorials on the Ukok Plateau.



 
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