{"id":16277,"date":"2012-01-15T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16277"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:00:08","slug":"aksyonov-andrei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aksyonov-andrei\/","title":{"rendered":"Aksyonov, Andrei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrei<\/strong> Aksyonov <\/strong>was a deputy director of the Institute of Oceanology of the Soviet
\nAcademy of Sciences when he revealed in 1979(a)<\/sup> that photographs of man-made walls
\nand staircases had been taken at a depth of 200 feet in the Atlantic, 275 miles
\nsouthwest of Portugal, by a colleague, Vladimir Marakuyev. The location was the
\nunderwater summit of the Ampere Seamount<\/a>, part of the submerged Horseshoe
\nArchipelago.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0 controversial images had been taken a few years earlier and consisted of two
\nphotos. One shows eight stones, four rounded, four square, in a line just over
\na metre in length. The second has three equally spaced stones which appear to
\nbe part of a staircase. Aksyonov, believed that these \u2018structures\u2019 had once
\nstood on dry land, but did not claim them as Atlantean. However, a 1979 newspaper report(a)<\/sup>\u00a0contradicts this.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, a couple of years later when better quality images were obtained, Akysonov declared that the original features were natural, ruling out an Atlantean explanation. However an Atlantis Rising\u00a0<\/em>article noted that Akysonov\u00a0“Like his colleagues, was shocked by the official termination of all ongoing and future research at Ampere before the close of their 1986 expedition season. Director Akysonov had peremptorily declared that re-examination of the photographic surveys proved that all the seamount’s features were entirely natural, and no similar investigations would be government sponsored. He refused to disclose any alleged counter evidence and was the only scientist who reversed his long-held stance that the underwater features were artificial.” <\/em>(b)<\/sup><\/p>\n

A somewhat indistinct\u00a0 copy of the image of the wall was\u00a0formerly online, which\u00a0 seemed to have been\u00a0copied from Charles Berlitz\u2019s book, Atlantis, the Eight Continent<\/em>[166<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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This is no more convincing than Sarmast\u2019s mile-deep wall off Cyprus.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/110939505?searchTerm=Atlantis&searchLimits=<\/a>\u00a0 Canberra Times Sunday April 8, 1979. p.8<\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>\u00a0Did the Russians Find Atlantis? – ATLANTIS RISING THE RESEARCH REPORT (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

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