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A mountain knot in the Western Sayan with the Hanging Stone — a many-ton block balanced on a rock face so finely that, by the accounts, it could be rocked by hand. Local tradition says that when it falls, disaster follows; in the 2000s it shifted and stopped moving, which caused visitors noticeable unease. Separately there is the Sleeping Sayan, a ridge whose profile reads as a reclining human figure.

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