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Mongolia has a fantastically low population density, on its vast territory today lives just over 3 million people, and almost a million Mongols are residents the capital of Ulan Bator.
The rest of the Mongols mainly roam the endless steppes of this vast territory, but live here in such yurts (see the title page photo), and these yurts, as a rule, are single dwellings, as it says, without neighbors so familiar, for example, for Russian rural people. Moreover, the nomadic lifestyle makes Mongols periodically move from place to place. Why then they enclose their yurts with high plank fences – practically as well as the Russians (see photo)?
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It turns out that it was the Russian Mongols who adopted the habit enclose housing with a wooden fence, although it seems to be no there is no need for this. But no, a fine fence allows the Mongol have a practically “permanent” address of residence.
The fact is that in Mongolia, a completely different address system, since 2008 years, it is carried out through special codes. Larger object – the shorter is its code, say, the capital of Ulan Bator has such – RV-W QZ, and Suche-Bator Square in this city is RW8SK QZKSL. Own the postal code may have a yurt, fenced with a picket fence, more if the Mongol wanders to another place, leaving his wooden fence – the old “permanent” remains behind it address.
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That’s why the boardwalks are such a welcome product here, and because promotional offers such as “Yaraltai Zarna” (fence for sale) – far from uncommon, and you can find a similar banner even in remote steppe.
Everything is clear with the fences, but why are the bald automobiles for the Mongols tires?
Another mystery for tourists who fall in Mongolia, there are car tires dug into the ground near the yurts, fenced (see photo). Why are there so many for what are they?
Despite the fact that the main assistant to the Mongol nomad the horse remains, a modern resident of this generally retarded countries will no longer be chasing a favorite animal for any reason at huge distances, say, to the city for shopping. For this today there are cars, and the Mongols prefer the cheapest of them. Well, bald tires (with their lifestyle, they become such very fast), they cannot throw away even because of the old veneration of the image of the wheel. It is the wheel (true, wooden) that serves the top base of their yurt, which performs many different functions, including the chimney.
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Therefore, spent tires here continue their lives, however, in another plan, that is, are most often used as:
- trainers for babies who are almost taught from the cradle ride on a horse, but now – first on the tire;
- leash for horses, since there are no trees in the steppe, to the trunk which, for example, is so convenient for us to “fasten” in Russia animal. Note that Mongolian horses are already so used to such a leash that each easily remembers its tire and goes right there To her;
- sports equipment that are shot from bows. In that case on the bus certain figures can be drawn. Rubber – excellent material for such targets, as it retains well Arrowhead;
- comfortable benches, for example, for evening gatherings. Mongolian grandmothers are likened to our Russian, only they are not sitting on benches near the entrance, and on the tires in the middle of the wide steppe, placing a special pad on the tire is both convenient and traditionally;
- designations of tracks during horse racing.
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As you can see, Mongolia is a country of great mysteries and considerable oddities that can quite surprise a Westerner, however, all this is the most ordinary life for a population that, like centuries ago, mainly engaged in nomadic animal husbandry …
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