From English Russia:
“When I was young our family was living in Mongolia. My dad was serving Russian armed forces and was sometimes taking me with himself. What I’ve remembered most was what we called ‘Mongolian Calendar’. Every morning a selected group of soldiers were sent to nearby hill to realign the stack of planks laying on the ground and painted in white so that they show the current date. The size of this was big enough so that people from the town could see it on the hill”.
What is Google's satellite maps are the remains of this, and it seems the tradition was live until 1997.
“When I was young our family was living in Mongolia. My dad was serving Russian armed forces and was sometimes taking me with himself. What I’ve remembered most was what we called ‘Mongolian Calendar’. Every morning a selected group of soldiers were sent to nearby hill to realign the stack of planks laying on the ground and painted in white so that they show the current date. The size of this was big enough so that people from the town could see it on the hill”.
What is Google's satellite maps are the remains of this, and it seems the tradition was live until 1997.
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