Сокровищница Емельяна Пугачева Treasury of Emelyan Pugachev

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When Emelyan Pugachev and his army came to the Urals, the bulk of the mining workers stood up to protect the Ural fortified factories from robbers, many of the workers later received awards for their loyalty. At that time, the mining people did not live as badly as it was described in Soviet times, there were even measures of social support for workers by the owners of factories. Pugachev failed to capture the Ural factories. There is a legend that during the retreat from the Urals, Emelka hid the stolen treasures in a secret cave of Mount Azov near the city of Polevskoy, the storyteller Pavel Bazhov wrote about this. The two-headed mountain is crowned with rock outcrops up to 25 meters high, some stone formations look like the products of human hands. Here were the observation posts of the robbers, then the Cossacks, who stood on the protection of the neighboring tract.
There was a rich gold deposit nearby, but it had been worked out long ago.
In 1940, while searching for fabulous treasures, 10 idols and various weapons and household items dating back to the 4th-3rd centuries were found. BC e. There is reason to believe that there was a sanctuary and a sacrificial place here even in the time of ancient man. Artifacts made of copper, stone and baked clay are kept in museums, but Pugachev's treasures have not been found to this day. According to legend, they are guarded by the girl Azovka, put on this by Pugachev, in confirmation of this they referred to a fire similar to a candle flame, which sometimes appeared on a rock.
The origin of the name of the mountain is probably connected with the designations of a tooth or a fang in a number of Turkic languages.