BRIEF SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NATURAL AND CULT OBJECT LUD (CHESNO) IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VARZI-YATCHI VILLAGE IN ALNASHSKY DISTRICT OF THE UDMURT REPUBLIC
The research provides a brief social and ecological description of the Southern Udmurt natural and cult object Lud ( Chesno ) in the neighbourhood of Varzi-Yatchi (the Udmurt Republic, the Russian Federation). The received information helped to reveal main religious, ethnographic, floral and faunal characteristics of the sacral territory. It was established that the development of the sacral place's ecosystem is regressive and its succession processes are influenced by the anthropogenization of the territory. The study also concluded that the sacred area Lud is one of the most visited places for the modern celebration of pagan worshiping in the Varzi-Yatchi rural settlement.