The Federal Service for Protection of Monuments of Russia issued a permit to excavate the largest geoglyphs in the world, located on a ridge in Zyuratkul Satka area of the Chelyabinsk region of Russia. This is a geoglyphs images of the giant elk, that is larger, than several times the size of the famous Nazca geoglyphs. During the excavation and analysis of the soil under the geoglyphs, Russian scientists will try to more precisely determine the age of the geoglyphs, according to preliminary data, it was created 8000 years ago.