Ecovillage Ark. — — Ecovillage “Ark Science of imagery and accentuated awareness of spiritual processes

Kaluga region
Ecovillage ARK (NP)

Kaluga region (border with the Moscow region), Maloyaroslavets district, 130 km south of Moscow (just over 2 hours from the Moscow Ring Road along the Kyiv / Kaluga / Warsaw highway), 25 km from the town of Maloyaroslavets. From the highway there are about 10 km of concrete road, pretty beaten up. There is a common house. Two rivers - a small one 0.5 km away. and a large one 4 km away. You can swim in both rivers and both ponds (large common and small private). There are forests and springs on both sides. Strawberries, nuts, mushrooms in abundance.

The Non-Profit Partnership "ARK" was registered in Maloyaroslavets with the main statutory goal - organizing an eco-village.

Ark website www.kovcheg.info/

The latest hot news from the Ark is the creation of a populated area!
Look here: www.eco-kovcheg.ru/think8.html

Seminars held in the settlement "Ark" (Kaluga region).

The science of imagery and accentuated awareness of spiritual processes.

Discovery of A.V. Boyarshinov.

Presenter: Gornaev Alexey (Ecological settlement NP "Ark")

The science of imagery and the tradition of Russian and world culture. Discovery of the phenomenon of accentuated awareness by A.V. Boyarshinov. Since their inception, art and religion have consciously and unconsciously used the process of creating and transmitting images. An image is a brightly colored, emotionally powerfully concentrated thought. This art reached its greatest flowering in the European cultural tradition in the activities of the outstanding reformer and theater figure K.S. Stanislavsky. The art of Stanislavsky's theater shocked the whole world (even when people attended the performances without knowing the language). The continuator of the tradition of creating truthful and creative images in art was Alexey Vasilyevich Boyarshinov, who brought the mechanism of creating images to a new conscious level and scientifically substantiated their influence on the psyche, health and all activities of the human community.

Practical experience in implementing an opening in an ecovillage.

A story about Boyarshinov’s creativity and the practical application of his work in ecovillages (Alexey Gornaev is a student of A.V. Boyarshinov, 25 years of experience in this field). Many tasks that ecovillage sets for itself can be solved very effectively and harmoniously through the practical study of this science.

In our settlement, four practical courses of six lessons each were held. Classes serve to develop a sustainable creative worldview of a person personally and create a friendly climate of relationships.

Beekeeping. Experience of conventional and alternative beekeeping in modern Russia.

Presenters: Alexey Gornaev and Fedor Lazutin.

The seminar is divided into three parts:

1. A brief excursion into history. Beekeeping, keeping bees in logs, traditions, customs, laws associated with this. The invention and implementation of a frame structure, the fundamental differences between a deck (board) and a frame hive (Fyodor Lazutin, Alexey Gornaev).

2. Generally accepted modern beekeeping.
Dadanovsky hive, sun lounger, multi-body hive as the most common hive designs in Russia and beekeeping features associated with these designs.
A story about my personal experience of many years of keeping bees in a Dadanov hive, a review of the experience of several familiar beekeepers.
Pros and cons of these systems (Alexey Gornaev).

3. Alternative, still poorly widespread systems for keeping bees.
- Experience of residents of the eco-village "ARK" and our friends in keeping bees in decks. How we make decks - designs and manufacturing methods;
- Experience in keeping bees in non-traditional frame hives. A story about similar hives and corresponding frame designs;
- Personal experience of keeping bees in a deck chair with a high frame;
- Criticism of modern beekeeping and the generally accepted design of the frame as the main element of the hive (Lazutin Fedor).

Since the seminar is held in a classroom, showing real beehives with their inhabitants does not seem feasible. Therefore, photographs, video episodes, as well as real frames with foundation and built-up honeycombs will be used as demonstration material.

Experience of natural childbirth and the first years of children’s lives in the space of the Family Estate.

Presenters: Elena Katkova, Anna Chumachenko

The history of the development of home births in our country (since the 80s).

The creation of clubs, schools for childbirth preparation, the positive experience of giving birth to a very large number of children in apartments with the help of the future father, sometimes a visiting midwife (Elena Katkova).

A story about personal experience of home birth (Elena Katkova, four children born at home).

The enormous importance of this experience for moving to a new level - bearing and giving birth to children in the Family Estate.

The role of the family estate in the formation of the unborn child and the preparation of the mother for childbirth. New opportunities for the birth and development of perfect, healthy, developed children.

Our experience. In the eco-village "ARK" over the past three years, six children have been born, in addition, five more children were born at home (in apartments) to parents who have estates with us, but do not yet live in them.

All parents are very happy about the fact that their children were not born in a maternity hospital.

A story about this, as well as about my personal experience of having children at home and in the Family Estate (Anna Chumachenko)

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"The ark"

Videos about life in ecovillages

Nika-TV report about the eco-village "Ark" (quite old ~2005)

A clip about the ecovillage "Ark", made in January 2006

Clip about the meeting of representatives of existing eco-villages on December 17, 2005

Report about the eco-village "Grishino" (made by visiting foreigners based on slides)

A little about ecovillages - or “Welcome to the Future!”

I had the opportunity to visit many
ecological settlements and communities of the world.
In 1993 I found my place and now with my family
I live in the eco-village Grishino.
Here I'm talking about obvious things,
but most of us don't think about it.

What is an “ecovillage”? The word “ecology” translated from Greek means “the science of the home.” A house meant not only housing, but also the entire space where a person lived. Thus, in short, we can say that an “ecological settlement” is a place favorable for life.

Ecovillages began to emerge in different countries in the 60s of the 20th century, and the global ecovillage movement formed in the mid-90s as a response to the pressure of modern civilization on nature and humans. What happens to a person when he lives in a city? He sees artificial light and objects, inhales artificial smells, hears artificial sounds, feels and touches synthetics, eats artificial food, walks on asphalt, sleeps in a reinforced concrete apartment, drinks non-living water. As a result, he does not receive the divine energy that nature is filled with and begins to feel unhappy. Therefore, I would not call today's megacities and small towns a place favorable for life. And I wouldn’t call modern “civilization” that word, so I’ll call it “system.” Can you call human civilization something that pollutes water, air, soil, cuts down forests, destroys more and more species of animals, destroys not only nature, but also man himself? This looks like degradation, not civilization. People who are aware of their purpose on Earth today settle in ecological settlements in order to create a world beneficial for humans and nature, to give birth and raise healthy children, to create together with Nature and God.

Ecovillages not only have a clean natural environment, There is a friendly human atmosphere here. Here children and adults feel safe and comfortable, like in a big family. This is how our ancestors once lived. There was a Veche - everyone agreed with each other. When the villagers gathered at the Veche, everyone's voice was heard. This voice was respected and accepted by everyone. Thus, justice was done and a decision was made that satisfied everyone. Everyone then bore responsibility for such a decision and gave it their support and energy. Today, many eco-villages and communities around the world are again reviving this way of living together, when common decisions are made by consensus (unanimously). Sometimes this is not easy and requires a lot of internal work and awareness, which allows you to reach a level where you hear and understand the other as yourself, and you feel like you are part of a larger social organism. It is a process of growth for each and every community.

Once I was visiting my friend in America. We were sitting in the living room of his new home. He mysteriously told me: “Do you know, Vasudeva, that you are richer than me?” "What's this like?" - I asked puzzledly and looked at the two cars standing in the yard for a family of three. “Do you have any debts?” - he continued. “Yes, I borrowed $500 - it wasn’t enough for the trip. I’ll return it when I arrive in Russia.” “You see, you have a debt of $500, and I have $500,000. So which of us is richer? Then he explained to me that he bought a house on credit for $250,000 and he needs to return $500,000 to the Bank with interest in 25 years. Moreover, every month he must pay a certain amount and, if he does not do this on time, the house will be taken away from him, as happened with the previous owners. Now he lives in fear of being left without a home. This is a burden, and he must constantly work and work to feed the Bank - the “system”, to which he will eventually give another house of the same kind. It turns out that this is how most Americans live.

It is estimated that in different countries people work for the “system” (no matter which one - capitalist or communist) from 80 to 95% of their working time and only 5-20% for themselves. At first glance this seems strange. Here it is, the money I earned is in my pocket. We think that they belong to us, but the owner of the money is depicted on the banknote, for example, “Bank of Russia”. Those. money belongs to the “system” and every time we use it, we feed and increase the energy of this “system”. The Gospel tells how, 2,000 years ago, people complained to Jesus about the unbearable exactions of tax collectors, and he answered them: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's,” pointing to the portrait on the coins. Indeed, the coins belonged to Caesar, and he took them back. In the modern “system” everything is more elegant - plastic cards, for example, but the essence remains the same.

Already today, in ecovillages it is possible to work for yourself 80-95% of the time. Many settlements in the world try to use ordinary money to a minimum and introduce their own systems of equivalent exchange of labor and products, both within and between settlements. They do this consciously so as not to support the “system” that has a detrimental effect on our planet.

In 1996, ecovillages around the world united to form the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). For convenience, this network consists of three sectors: GEN-Europe unites ecovillages in Europe and Africa, ENA (Ecovillage Network of Americas) unites settlements in North and South America, and GENOA (GEN Oceania and Asia) – settlements in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and Asia . Every year, representatives of all ecovillages of the GEN-Europe network meet at their assembly in one of the ecovillages – a different one each time. Such meetings are mainly informal in nature - here there is an active exchange of information and experience, new connections and joint projects arise. The GEN-Europe network office, which plays an information and coordination role, moves from settlement to settlement. My like-minded people in the GEN network, realizing the impasse of modern destructive civilization and seeing in eco-villages the emergence of a new sustainable world order, decorated the emblem of the global network of eco-villages with the inscription: “Welcome to the Future!” Here (in abbreviation) is the definition of ecovillages given by the GEN network:

“Ecovillages are settlements of people striving to create a model of sustainable living. These could be new settlements or revived villages. They are an example of a development model that combines several basic principles: high quality of life, conservation of natural resources, promotion of a holistic approach to life and people, which, in turn, implies the ecology of human habitation, the involvement of all members of the settlement in accepting common solutions, use of environmental technologies. Ecovillages are communities in which people feel supported by others and are responsible for those around them. They provide a deep sense of belonging to the group, and are small enough for everyone to feel important, to be seen and heard, and to be open to successful interaction with their neighbors. They emerge and operate in accordance with the cultural and geographical characteristics of their bio-regions and typically cover four dimensions: social, environmental, cultural and spiritual, combined into a systematic, holistic approach that promotes personal development.”

Ecovillages around the world are actively sharing eco-technologies with each other. There really is a lot to learn from our “Western” sisters and brothers. Back in the early 90s I visited the Center for Alternative Technologies in Wales in England. This community has collected the world's leading eco-technologies. For example, all the electricity consumed by a community is generated from wind, water and solar energy, and in such quantities that a significant part of it is sold outside. Already today, modern technologies allow humanity to live on Earth without polluting nature and without emitting so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Due to human activity, the CO2 content in the planet's atmosphere is now several times higher than the maximum over a period of 160,000 years, which leads to the greenhouse effect and, as a consequence, to global natural disasters. But the inhuman “system” doesn’t care about this.

In Germany, for example, in the ZEGG eco-village, for several years diesel cars ran on rapeseed oil, which is much cheaper than diesel fuel and at the same time absolutely environmentally friendly - the exhaust pipe smells like fried potatoes! But the “system” didn’t like it; such a tax was introduced on rapeseed oil that it became impossible to use it in the future. And in Argentina, a whole fleet of regular buses began to run on alcohol, which in those places is several times cheaper than gasoline and is environmentally friendly. But American corporations threatened economic sanctions and forced Argentina to abandon alternative fuels. And there are many such examples.

Eco footprint Most people don't think about the cost to the Earth of how they live and what they consume. In the mid-90s, ecologists calculated that for every person on our planet there are 1.8 hectares of land, if it is divided equally among all its inhabitants. Then they introduced the concept of “human ecological footprint” and calculated how many resources on average a person takes from the Earth in each individual country. By consuming natural resources, products, energy, things, using transport, etc. We take away from nature a certain area on which all this is produced. How much do you think the average resident of Moscow or St. Petersburg takes from the Earth? It turns out to be 2.5 times more than per earthling, i.e. 5 hectares of land - land where birds, animals, trees and flowers can no longer live freely. For example, you go to the supermarket and buy an apple there. The apple turned out to be from New Zealand. How much did this apple cost the Earth? Even if it was environmentally friendly and not pollinated with pesticides, insects and birds lived in that garden. But how much was taken from the land by the airport and the roads that built the airplane and the factories that produced fuel, the factories that built the equipment that built the supermarket, not to mention the whole apparatus that taxes all this... Here's an apple for you! Or you can just leave the house and pick an apple in your own garden. Even if it is more sour than New Zealand, it is a hundred times more useful. And it will not be a burden to the Earth, but a joy!

The population of, for example, Holland takes away from the Earth an area 5 times larger than the area of ​​Holland itself. Here's how the country's dairy industry works: Dutch farmers buy feed for their cows from Africa because it's so cheap. African farmers are freeing up large areas for themselves by driving local people off their native lands, often through brute force. On these lands they sow forage crops, which are intensively treated with pesticides, otherwise African insects would quickly restore ecological balance. It is much more profitable for farmers to sell the resulting feed to Holland than to the local population. At the same time, a significant part of the local population (especially children) are starving and even dying of hunger. And in Holland, thanks to cheap African feed, they obtain cheap milk, butter, condensed milk, and cheese, which are profitably sold for export, including to Russia. At the same time, an environmental problem arose in Holland due to huge piles of manure from these farms. Piles of manure take up more and more space and there is nowhere to put them. “Why don’t you use them in the fields as fertilizer?” - I asked the Dutch. “This manure is unsuitable,” they answered, “it contains too many pesticides...” Therefore, I do not recommend eating Dutch dairy products - they cost the Earth a high price, and are not good for health.

In ecovillages, people are aware of their impact on nature and strive to reduce the level of consumption in all areas to a minimum. Even such a term has appeared - conscious minimalism. In many communities I visited, settlers share one car per family, which makes car maintenance easier and reduces pressure on the environment. By living in an eco-village, a person can reduce his eco-footprint to 1 hectare or less, thus leaving room for wildlife.

Modern Western society is called a “consumer society.” Russian media and politicians today look to the West and convince us that our well-being lies in increasing the “standard of living”, i.e. the amount of money we spend. But our “eco-footprint” is directly proportional to our “standard of living.” For example, for all people to live like the average American, it would take 5 more planets like Earth. Modern civilization already consumes 20% more from the Earth than it can restore. What are we leaving to our descendants? .

In ecovillages, with a rather low “standard of living,” people have a high “quality of life.” This is the quality of food, housing, air, social environment, etc. It is this kind of life that I would call a good state, i.e. well-being. It turns out that a person does not consume so much material material when he is happy and healthy. .

Unfortunately, some Western ecological settlements consider only the environmental impact of humans on nature, trying to reduce it to a minimum and consuming as little energy as possible. But at the same time, they completely forget about man himself... Man is also a part of nature. I had the opportunity to live in such an “ecological” house in an eco-village in Europe (I won’t name which one so that they wouldn’t be offended). The house really consumed minimal energy. The grass-covered roof has solar collectors made in the village itself. Even in cloudy winter weather, the collectors heated the water to + 80 degrees. C and provided the entire house with hot water and heating. Quite environmentally friendly. But in the room I was simply suffocating, and the open window did not help. Then I asked: “What are the walls made of?” I was told that behind the inner wooden lining there is a layer of plastic, then a synthetic heat insulator, again plastic and on the outside again wooden lining - excellent thermal and waterproofing - they emphasized to me. I was amazed! Over the years of living in a wooden log house in Grishino, I became so unaccustomed to synthetics that my body was simply suffocating in the non-breathing walls. So much for ecology - an environment favorable for life!

But I would like to immediately give a positive example. Sandy from Colorado visited us in Grishino and told us about her eco-house. He intrigued me very much, and I ended up in her settlement on a return visit. It was winter, - 17 degrees. C, Sandy's house was located quite high in the mountains in a former gold mining village. Entering the house, I felt warm and comfortable. There was a small stove in the living room, but it was not heated. I didn't find any other heating devices. “How often do you heat your stove?” - I asked Sandy. “I’m not drowning at all,” I heard the answer, “that’s just her, just in case she’s standing here.” “How is the house heated?” - I asked. And then Sandy began to talk about the design of her self-heating eco-house. It turns out that at first a pit was dug on the site of the house, which was thermally insulated and covered with soil, through which pipes - air ducts - were laid. A greenhouse is attached to the south side of the house, in which vegetables and herbs grow all year round. The beginning and end of this long duct lead into the greenhouse. When in summer the temperature in the greenhouse exceeds + 30 degrees. C, the thermostat turns on the fan, which drives hot air through the duct under the house, warming up the soil there. At night or in winter, when the temperature in the greenhouse drops below + 30, the thermostat turns off the fan, and when it drops below + 24, it turns it on again, and warm air now flows from under the house into the greenhouse. Thus, during the summer, a large amount of heat accumulates in the soil under the house, which is enough to heat the house and greenhouse throughout the winter. Thanks to the warm soil under the house, the floor in the house is also warm. Sandy built her house in parts, as the Indians do. First she built one part of the house, while living in it, she added the next part, etc. I used only natural materials. I have never seen a more environmentally friendly home!

Building houses from available natural materials is one of the principles of the eco-village movement. So, I was impressed by the houses that I saw in the Kutumba ecovillage in South Africa. They are built from a mixture of clay and straw, which is built onto wicker frames. This is a traditional African construction technique. True, traditional houses in Africa are round in shape, but here the variety of shapes simply knew no bounds! Creativity flourished - the twisting walls were decorated with smeared shells and pieces of pottery!

Organic farming and permaculture are actively used in ecovillages– the science of how to grow plants in collaboration with Nature. At the same time, a person does a minimum of work and intervention in nature, and receives maximum returns. This science was founded by Bill Mollison, an Australian scientist who was inspired by observing the Indians of South America: they went into the jungle, planted beans there, and then returned there to harvest the harvest. One of the principles of permaculture is not digging up the soil, which preserves and even increases its fertility. So we in Grishino have been planting potatoes in hay for many years - the old grandfather’s “permaculture” method. In this case, there is no need to dig, or hill, or weed, or dig up... In the spring, you put the potatoes in the ground (if it is virgin soil and turf - even better), or rather on the ground, and cover it with hay. When it hatches, you add another layer of hay - “hill up”. In the fall, I removed the hay with my fingers - there were potatoes there, like in a nest. The turf under the hay has rotted and next year you can plant carrots or any other crop in this soil without any digging.

Of course, personal contact with the land and the plants you grow is also important. For example, some residents of the community of Findhorn in Northern Scotland have the ability to communicate with plant spirits. Plants talk in detail about what they love, how they would like to be cared for, where they are planted, how they are combined with each other, etc. The settlers try to fulfill all these wishes. As a result, they grow such vegetables that agricultural experts simply cannot believe their eyes and that such fertility is possible in northern latitudes...!

Ecovillages are a “back to the future” movement. As it was with our ancestors, as it was preserved among indigenous peoples, so in today’s eco-villages the attitude towards the Earth as a living being is being revived. Now there is even such a science - “deep ecology”, which helps a person to feel the integrity of all living things, to realize their place in this, as the Indians say, “The Sacred Circle of Life”. Our ancestors not only lived in the cosmic natural rhythm of the Sun, Moon, planets and constellations, harmoniously interweaving their will and actions into a single dance of Creation, they treated the surrounding Nature with great awe and respect as the creation of God. Thus, American Indians still perceive Nature as a living Book through which the “Great Spirit” communicates with them. From childhood they are accustomed to perceive everything that happens in it as symbols sent to them by the Spirit.

So in Rus', over generations, people have developed relationships with one or another natural place. And the place actively interacted with the person, responding to his actions and requests. For example, there were “enchanted groves” where an entire village could hide from the enemy, and the enemy could not find anyone in them.

Living in an eco-village, on the ground, you especially feel how the place responds to your attitude towards it. Sometimes it gives you pleasant surprises. So, in the fall in Grishino, I thought that I would like to transplant wild sorrel from the field to one of the beds on my plot, and plant wild currants from the forest among the pine trees near the house. Walking through my garden in the spring, I discovered that one of the beds was completely overgrown with wild sorrel, and wild red currants had grown between the pines... I was very pleased! You didn’t even need to pick up a shovel, nature did everything itself!

And another example: one girl from Italy wanted to come to us in Grishino in winter. Having described our winter to her, we convinced her to come in the summer. As it turned out, she was trying to come to us in winter in order to see the Northern Lights. And so, apparently, especially for her, in the middle of summer in Grishino, Nature put on a real show - it created such a Northern Lights, which you rarely see even in winter. The girl went home with a feeling of satisfaction and gratitude to Nature for her wish fulfilled.

But today on the planet we see how people unceremoniously invade nature and, naturally, are met with similar hostility in return. Andrei Tarkovsky clearly demonstrated this principle in the film “Stalker”. But the “zone” is our entire Earth. Nature is sensitive not only to our physical actions, but reacts even more strongly to our thoughts, feelings and vibrations - what we emit. The pollution that humanity throws into Nature on the astral plane would stun any environmentalist if he saw it. It is no secret to many that it is these pollutants that cause hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, epidemics and other disasters. Therefore, today, more than ever, the Earth needs happy people who radiate vibrations of joy, kindness, love, inspiration that heal the planet. The Indians say: “stand with your feet on the ground, reach your head to the stars and make your dream come true.” The more people now follow this advice of our red-skinned brothers, the faster we will realize the “beautiful far away” on our Mother Earth.

Vasudeva Vladislav Kirbyatev

Ark Village began back in 2001, when four families leased a 297-acre (120-hectare) plot of land from the government for 49 years free of charge.

It is located approximately 87 miles (140 km) southwest of Moscow, in the Kaluga region.

Each house is allocated one hectare (2.5 acres) of land to grow food, which is more than enough. At the moment, about 40 families (120 people) live in this village permanently and about 80 (200 people) in the summer. More than 15 children have already been born in the community, while others will be born in the near future.

The founder of this eco-village was once a successful businessman from Moscow, who for the sake of the health and happiness of his child moved far from the city. Today he is a beekeeper and gardener. Among the remaining residents we can also find a former wrestler, a former German model, a former opera singer and other people of a wide variety of professions and specialties. Most of them once had a fairly secure and familiar life in the city, but decisively abandoned it in favor of living in harmony with nature.

The eco-village Kovcheg has a common house, a car repair shop, a school, a locksmith shop, a theater, sports grounds, land for agriculture, etc. A clean spring river flows near this village, which provides residents with good drinking water.

Children of eco-settlers learn to play musical instruments: balalaika, orchestral flute, violin, domra, piano, recorder, and also learn vocals. Thanks to this, concerts are held regularly in this village. This community also holds various seminars from time to time, sharing its accumulated experience and useful knowledge with people who are interested in their views and values.

In addition to living an ecological lifestyle, the people of this community take care of the surrounding forests by clearing them, removing diseased trees and planting new ones. They also oppose illegal logging.

Of course, nature and everything connected with it are very important for these people. But they consider the most important value to be people united by common values ​​and views on life and God’s commandments, which must be observed!

The eco-village is located in the Kaluga region, 14 kilometers from the highway. About 40 families (more than 110 people with children) permanently live in the settlement on 120 hectares; more than 90 houses and buildings have been roofed by the settlers themselves.

Since 2007, a school has been operating in the eco-village. There is a large common house, workshops, a sawmill, and more than a dozen bathhouses, including a common one on the cold spring river. More than 16 estates keep bees.

The ecovillage is engaged in improving the biodiversity of the surrounding forests (oaks, lindens, cedars, etc. are planted), as well as cleaning the areas of barbaric logging in the surrounding area. Experience has been gained in stopping logging.

Ecovillage conducts three-day seminars for those interested on topics: construction, beekeeping and experience of living in an ecovillage.

You can come to the ecovillage for guest days (they take place once a quarter), or by invitation of a specific settler who can give you enough attention and answer all your questions.

How to get there

Getting to the ecovillage is not easy. By car, about 120 km along the Kaluga, Warsaw or Kyiv highways to Maloyaroslavets. From Maloyaroslavets towards Medyn to the village of Ilyinskoye. In Ilyinsky, turn right towards the village of Mosolovo and drive along the concrete road for about 10 km. Attention! The concrete is in poor condition.

When the concrete ends, drive further along the crushed stone road along the birch alley. At the end of the alley you will see a view of the church being restored, and the road will turn to the right. You need to follow it to the settlement. In spring and autumn, due to muddy roads, the road from Ilyinsky becomes very bad, and after the end of the concrete road it becomes almost impassable. You can leave your car at the end of the concrete road and walk 2-3 km to the settlement.