In the dried channel, two coins glittered merrily in the sun. One silver and the other copper 18th century. They were found on the site of a former fortress, which stood in the steppe and covered the northern Mountain trade road. It connected the main town of Mountain province with mountain gorges, villages and mines. Sometimes small caravans carrying goods were attacked, dashing horsemen from the steppe.
Agricultural land was located near the fortress, and water irrigated them along the canals, which received their food from the nearby mountains.
In the nineteenth century, the beginning and middle of its value fortresses were great. But with the advent of the empire, its value fell, and at the end of the century it was completely abandoned. For some time it rose in the steppe, with its five-meter, high walls and a ten-meter observation tower. The fortress was not very big, only two hundred guards. Originally it was built in the 17th century, and it only existed for three centuries. In the early fifties of the 20th century, the fortress was dug up, and then a new field was made in its place and the land was plowed up. But in the early sixties, the shepherd accidentally found these two coins. After they wrote about a small note in the press.
How many such small coins still lie in the steppe, in the nowadays flooded adyr, nobody knows. How many of these hidden fortresses, caravanserais, now very few people know.