Analogues of this historical monument in the Chelyabinsk region in the afternoon with fire you will not find. Similar burial structures were found in Bashkiria, Turkmenistan, and the North Caucasus. The Mausoleum of Kesene, the brightest example of the early Muslim memorial architecture that appeared in the 14th century, settled in the south of the region, on the cape of the parched Lake Bolshoy Kesene

How to get there

If you drive by car, you need to go south from Chelyabinsk through Yuzhnouralsk, Plast, Steppe, Chesma to Varna. You can drive up to the mausoleum only on the primer, which departs from the road to the village of Novopokrovskoye. There are also regular buses from Chelyabinsk to the village of Varna. You can use the railway, you need to get off at the station of Tamerlan.

What to see

The tower of Tamerlane is the second name of the mausoleum - consists of three parts, is a portal-tent building. First a square base, it has a 12-faceted drum, and a prismatic tent on top. In general, the height of the mausoleum is 17 meters. The building, once built of clay bricks, was once decorated with glazed tiles of light blue and dark purple flowers, although only fragments of this decoration were found.

The interior room with stone floor is always poorly lit, which adds to it mysticism. Restored according to old photographs and stories of the indigenous mausoleum, the rhinestone became popular: tourists and wedding corteges were pulled to its foot. Moreover, the entrance to the mausoleum is always open

Around the mausoleum there are a lot of burial places, including 6 mounds of the Bronze Age, one mound of the early Iron Age and about 150 mounds of the late Middle Ages. Plus 700 ordinary graves. Moreover, archaeologists found a female burial inside the mausoleum. And there is a silk scarf, and gold pendants, and gold rings. It is rumored that this is the daughter of Tamerlane, although rumors are not confirmed by facts.