The most comfortable ground way to reach 7 Stone Idols is a combination of water trip by motorboat from the mouth of the Ilych river to Ust - Lyaga cordon of the Pechora - Ilych Reserve ( about 200 km ) and subsequent 36 km hike along the former Sibiryakovsky road to the Manpupuner plateau.
Map of Pechora - Ilych area
Sibiryakovsky road is abondon earth road laid from Siberia to Pechora river basin by efforts and financial support of a trademan Sibiryakov in the seventies of 19th century and designated for transportation of Sibirian wheat and other goods to Europen part of Russia and export abroad.
Due to intensive rail road - building in the beginning of 20th century Sibiryakovsky roads across
Ural mountains quickly lost their economic significance.
To start this kind of trip one has to arrive to Ust - Ilych village from Ukhta if you travel on individual basis. We had a very successful trip following this way on August 2015 that took us just one week thanks to our Ust - Ilych host and skilled boatman . It was a real pleasure to visit those sacred places on the plateau - places of Magic power . Regrettably , this one of the most available route was closed since 2018 due to environmental protection measures.
Below find some views of the stone Idols
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOfGuLdR4Quw9H_oKZNtfh1SqKSuCM5gIANbQ0n
Video by Camilla Ianke , a professional in extreme and adventure tourism from Norway , who was a participant of our Manpupuner 2015 expedition .
