Tomsk Pisanitsa Museum-Reserve
Tomskaya Pisanitsa is a museum-reserve located in a forest park zone in Yashkinskiy District of Kemerovo Oblast, on the right bank of the Tom River. Its area is 140 hectares. This place is famous for the fact that 280 rock paintings of the IV-I millennia B.C. have been preserved here. The reserve was established in February 1988 on the basis of one, the southernmost, group of rocks in the lower Pritomie, and in the same year became the winner of the All-Russian contest “Museum of the Year”. The earliest rock paintings date back to the end of the Neolithic period – they are moose, bears, anthropomorphic creatures, sun signs, birds and boats. Bronze Age drawings from the 2nd millennium B.C.: sun deer, faces, bird people. Many of the images are unique and are masterpieces of primitive art.
