Altai Territory is famous for its unique nature and favorable climate. With card Altai Territory from the satellite it can be found on the territory Western Siberia.
The map is a reliable companion on any journey, with its help you can find out the exact distances. This region stretches from east to west for a distance of more than 600 km. The map will help you find a convenient way to the desired object.
The routes of the Altai Territory on the map show that from Moscow to this region a little less than three thousand kilometers. This is if you go by train. You will have to cover a distance of 3.6 thousand kilometers on your own car.
Almost all natural zones of Russia are found on the territory of the region. These are taiga, mountains, as well as vast steppes. There are a huge number of caves in the foothills.
The leading industries of the region are engineering and agriculture.
Central regions on the map of Altai Territory
In search of areas on the map of Altai Krai, it is worth highlighting the following objects:
- V eastern region edge is Biysk district... The terrain is mostly hilly. Gravel and sand are mined on its territory. Numerous rivers flow across the area of the district: Shubenka, Biya, Katun.
- Zarinsky district not so long ago it was called Sorokinsky. On its territory, the development and extraction of materials for the further creation of cement and brick is underway. With the help of a map of Altai Territory, more than 50 settlements in a given area can be distinguished by districts.
- One of central regions counts Rubtsovsky... This area has flat relief and steppe vegetation. Agriculture is one of the most important areas of activity. Also on the territory of the region there are motor transport enterprises, and the extraction of various ores is carried out. Important routes to Barnaul and Zmeinogorsk pass through the area.
- In the northeast is Pervomaisky district... This is one of the most developed and wealthy regions of the region. On its territory, with a detailed map of the Altai Territory, you can find organizations of the woodworking industry, as well as agricultural farms. The area is crossed by a railway artery and highways P 374 m M 52. There are many attractions in the area. The archaeological sites that belonged to the ancient Scythians are worth seeing.
Application of the road map of the Altai Territory will allow you to find all the districts of the Territory and its attractions.
Variety of cities and villages of Altai Territory on the map
Altai Territory is full of many interesting cities... The most famous are the following:
- It is believed that the city was founded by the mine owner Demidov in the 18th century. After the war, the city gained fame as an industrial center. Manufacturing enterprises are actively developing in the city, as well as retail and wholesale... The famous sights that the map of Altai Krai displays in detail include Lenin Avenue with beautiful chapels and tracery lanterns, as well as a building with a spire and a bridge thrown across the Ob.
- is considered a city that opens the gates to the mountainous part of Altai. Many tourist routes start from there. This city has a local history museum, more than 260 architectural, natural and archaeological monuments.
- grew out of the village of Sorokino, which appeared in the 18th century. The city is geographically located on the coast of the Chumysh River. This is clearly demonstrated by the map of Altai Krai scheme. Altai - koksa is considered an important enterprise of the entire settlement. Also in the city there is a multi-profile construction company, a creamery and an elevator.
- It is considered one of the main cities. Manufacturing enterprises are easy to find with a map of Altai Krai with cities in good quality.
- The center of the Pervomaisky district is considered. It is located on the banks of the adjacent river, Ob. There is a large railway junction in the city. This is a city with a developed industry. It has a large machine-building enterprise, a plant for reinforced concrete products, as well as numerous enterprises Catering and trade.
Economy and industry of the Altai Territory
Using the map of the Altai Territory with cities and villages, you can easily find the right company in the city. Mechanical engineering is considered the main component of the city's economic life. Enterprises in the industry produce freight cars, drilling rigs, and generators for cars and tractors.
Also, a significant share of the region's industry falls on the enterprises of the defense industry.
Yandex maps of the Altai Territory will allow you to find food industry enterprises. These are grain processing plants, as well as meat and dairy products.
Among the large enterprises, it is worth highlighting the motor, tractor and carriage factories.
To organizations chemical industry include a sulphate plant and Stepnoye Lake.
With a map of the Altai Territory with villages, you can find enterprises engaged in potato growing and various vegetable growing.
The production of eggs, milk and meat in the region has recently increased.
Altai Territory actively conducts trade relations with Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.
Altai Territory has rich natural resources and various industrial enterprises.
The mountain system indicated on the map of the central south of Russia, called Altai, formed the basis for the name of the region, located on the relief of flat and mountainous landscapes, with the administrative center in the city of Barnaul.
Territorially, the Altai Territory is located in the northwestern part of the Russian Federation, in the southeast of Siberia and is limited to:
- south and southeast - Altai Republic;
- north - Novosibirsk region;
- west and south-west - with Kazakhstan;
- east - Kemerovo region.
The total territory of the region is 168 thousand square meters. km. The Altai Territory in the time interval belongs to the Krasnoyarsk belt and is 4 hours ahead of Moscow.
List of districts of Altai Territory
Altai Territory on the map of Russia has 59 regions, a general description of which is given in the table:
| District name | Number of settlements | Administrative center | Distance from Barnaul, km | Square, sq. km | Population, thousand people |
| Aleisky | 43 | Aleysk | 120 | 3400 | 18,953 |
| Altaic | 24 | with. Altai | 250 | 3400 | 25,799 |
| Baevsky | 15 | with. Bayevo | 230 | 2740 | 11,491 |
| Biysk | 37 | Biysk | 160 | 2200 | 35,502 |
| Annunciation | 31 | town of Blagoveshchenka | 275 | 3700 | 33,032 |
| Burlinsky | 25 | with. Burla | 450 | 2746 | 12,934 |
| Bystroistoksky | 12 | with. Quick Source | 254 | 1804 | 10,815 |
| Volchikhinsky | 15 | with. Wolf | 310 | 3593,7 | 20,447 |
| Egorievsky | 19 | with. Novoegoryevskoe | 303 | 2500 | 14,179 |
| Yeltsovsky | 19 | with. Yeltsovka | 313 | 2158 | 6,936 |
| Zavyalovsky | 20 | with. Zavyalovo | 250 | 2224 | 21,22 |
| Zalesovsky | 23 | with. Zalesovo | 142 | 3274 | 16,935 |
| Zarinsky | 50 | Zarinsk | 110 | 5214 | 20,769 |
| Zmeinogorsky | 25 | Zmeinogorsk | 360 | 2802 | 22,074 |
| Zonal | 22 | with. Zonal | 125 | 1717 | 19,84 |
| Kalmansky | 24 | with. Kalmanka | 45 | 1820 | 14,748 |
| Kamensky | 32 | Kamen-na-Obi | 197 | 3521 | 12,955 |
| Klyuchevsky | 21 | with. Keys | 383 | 3043 | 18,754 |
| Kosikhinsky | 27 | with. Kosikha | 68 | 1877 | 18,634 |
| Krasnogorsk | 35 | with. Krasnogorskoe | 233 | 3070 | 18,097 |
| Krasnoshchekovsky | 28 | with. Krasnoshchekovo | 316 | 3543 | 19,932 |
| Krutikhinsky | 17 | with. Krutiha | 230 | 2051 | 11,981 |
| Kulundinsky | 35 | with. Kulunda | 343 | 1980 | 24,358 |
| Kurinsky | 22 | with. Kurya | 279 | 2500 | 11,426 |
| Kytmanovsky | 33 | with. Kytmanovo | 170 | 2550 | 15,535 |
| Loktevsky | 26 | Gornyak | 360 | 2940 | 31,247 |
| Mamontovsky | 23 | with. Mamontovo | 191 | 2297 | 24,167 |
| Mikhailovsky | 11 | with. Mikhailovskoe | 360 | 3100 | 23,363 |
| German national | 16 | with. Halbstadt | 430 | 1450 | 19,577 |
| Novichikhinsky | 16 | with. Newbie | 251 | 3100 | 10,163 |
| Pavlovsky | 34 | with. Pavlovsk | 59 | 2230 | 42,470 |
| Pankrushikhinsky | 30 | with. Pankrushikha | 300 | 2700 | 14,895 |
| Pervomaisky | 53 | Novoaltaisk | 12 | 3616 | 50,053 |
| Petropavlovsk | 14 | with. Petropavlovskoe | 144 | 1618 | 12,981 |
| Pospelikhinsky | 24 | with. Pospelikha | 211 | 2423 | 26,652 |
| Rebrikhinsky | 28 | with. Rebrikha | 113 | 2686 | 25,971 |
| Rodinsky | 20 | with. Rodino | 320 | 3118 | 22,876 |
| Romanovsky | 16 | with. Romanovo | 220 | 2082 | 13,984 |
| Rubtsovsky | 51 | Rubtsovsk | 283 | 3339 | 26,630 |
| Smolensk | 31 | with. Smolenskoe | 210 | 2033 | 25,893 |
| Soviet | 20 | with. Soviet | 195 | 1500 | 17,002 |
| Soloneshinsky | 32 | with. Soloneshnoe | 320 | 3529 | 11,358 |
| Soltonsky | 24 | with. Salton | 260 | 3020 | 9,340 |
| Vanity | 14 | with. Verkh-Bustka | 296 | 1108 | 5,440 |
| Tabunsky | 25 | with. Herds | 370 | 1960 | 11,400 |
| Talmensky | 42 | pos. Telmenka | 84 | 3914 | 49,994 |
| Togulsky | 12 | with. Togul | 200 | 2000 | 9,158 |
| Topchinsky | 38 | with. Topchikha | 90 | 3300 | 25,758 |
| Tretyakovsky | 23 | with. Staroaleiskoye | 354 | 1998 | 16,360 |
| Troitsky | 39 | with. Troitskoe | 97 | 1500 | 27,006 |
| Tyumentsevsky | 20 | with. Tyumentsevo | 167 | 2273 | 15,857 |
| Uglovsky | 24 | with. Uglovskoe | 370 | 4844 | 15,413 |
| Ust-Kamensky | 22 | with. Ust-Kalmanka | 193 | 2300 | 16,628 |
| Ust-Pristansky | 23 | with. Ust-Cheryshskaya-Pristan | 200 | 2700 | 14,656 |
| Khabarsky | 33 | with. Khabar | 360 | 2800 | 18,707 |
| Virgin | 22 | with. Tselinnoye | 171 | 2882 | 19,492 |
| Charyshsky | 32 | with. Charyshskoe | 310 | 6910 | 13,213 |
| Shelabolikhinsky | 21 | with. Shelabolikha | 86 | 2510 | 14,722 |
| Shipunovsky | 50 | with. Shipunovo | 165 | 4130 | 34,204 |
Map of Altai Krai with cities and villages
The Altai Territory, represented on the map of Russia, contains in its administrative structure 12 settlements with city status, 49 urban-type settlements and 1 special scientific zone (ZATO).
The largest of them are:
- Aleisk- a city located on the Priobskoye plateau with an area of 4387 hectares and a population of 29491 people. originally laid down in 1913 as railroad station the section of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway under construction at that time. Until 1939 it was considered a settlement. Its development in the first five-year plans of the USSR was facilitated by the economic growth of processing and Food Industry as the region was agricultural. Aleysk is located at a convenient traffic intersection and is connected with other settlements highway West Siberian railroad... Aleyskaya station is a transport hub of the Novosibirsk-Tashkent section. The developed social infrastructure contributes to the constant growth of the population.
- Barnaul – administrative center Altai Territory since 1937, founded in 1730 at the mouth of the Barnaulka River by the famous industrialist Demidov for smelting silver, located on the Priobskoye plateau, 3419 km away from Moscow, the population is 652.7 thousand people. The city has a developed transport system, including bus, trolleybus and tram services. Intercity flights are carried out on railways and highways, there is an airport that carries out domestic and international flights.
The cultural sector is represented by the presence of:
- museums,
- entertainment centers,
- cinemas,
- theaters,
- music halls.
The city has 9 institutes and universities, 16 schools, technical schools and colleges. In Barnaul, there is a highly developed industry (109 enterprises) of the petrochemical, machine-building, textile and food sectors.
The resort can accommodate 5200 vacationers at a time.
- Biysk- the city was founded by Peter I in 1709, its area is 2,917 hectares, it is a regional center with a population of 220 thousand people. and is located 160 km from Barnaul. Sometimes Biysk is called the gates of Altai, since all tourist routes of mountainous regions start from this settlement, the Chuisky tract begins, in honor of which there is a museum in the city - the only one in Russia dedicated to the land road.
Since 1915 Biysk has been a railway station of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The city is developed transport infrastructure- all industrial enterprises have railway sidings.
Located on two banks of the river, the metropolis is connected into a single whole by three bridges. Public transport represented by bus, tram and trolleybus services. Waterways operate with outlets to the Arctic Ocean. 
Railway and automobile transport runs on highways of international importance due to the close geographic location Mongolia and China. The regional center also has a local airport.
Since 2005, Biysk has had the status of a science city, within the framework of which a nationwide program of the latest chemical and energy technologies for the development and production of generics and the synthesis of nanodiamonds was formed.
The cultural side of life is represented by the presence of:
- cinemas,
- libraries,
- museums,
- music halls,
- palaces of culture.
- Novoaltaisk- the administrative center of the Pervomaisky district of the Altai Territory, which arose in 1942 with a population of 70 thousand people, on an area of 722 hectares. The settlement existed earlier in the form of a small village called Chesnokovka. The impetus for the development of industry and obtaining the status of a city was the evacuation of enterprises from the territories seized in the Second World War. Geographically, Novoaltaisk is located 12 km from Barnaul and is an industrial and transport appendage of the capital of the Altai Territory. The largest sorting railway station "Altayskaya" is located here. Products manufactured by industrial enterprises are mainly intended for Russian Railways facilities. There are 4 branches of higher educational institutions in the city.
- Rubtsovsk- a city 290 km from Barnaul, located on profitable trade routes, has long been considered the gateway to trade with China, is a regional center with a population of 146.9 thousand people. on the territory of 840 hectares, founded in 1886 by Russian settlers. In pre-revolutionary Russia, it developed as a result of the construction of the Novonikolaevsk-Semipalatinsk railway through Rubtsovsk.
In the Soviet period, the development was stimulated by the evacuation of domestic enterprises "KhTZ" and the Odessa agricultural construction plant, which later became the basis for the development of the machine-building industry on the basis of "Altayselmash" and "Altai Tractor Plant". The city has a local history museum dedicated to the history of the region, a drama theater, an art gallery of V.V. Tikhonov, cinemas and recreation facilities for young people. - Miner- the city that became part of the Loktevsky district as its administrative center. Founded in 1942, located near the Zolotukha River in the south of the Kolyvan ridge near the border with the Republic of Kazakhstan, the population is 13.9 thousand people. The settlement takes its name from its primary functional industrial purpose - ore mining, its beneficiation for smelting non-ferrous metals: copper, tin, lead, aluminum. The city is connected by rail with Ust-Kamenogorsk. To this day, the Altai mining and processing plant is the main industrial enterprise of the regional center. There is a local history museum in the village, the main expositions of which are the history of mining and smelting business.
- Zarinsk- a city with a population of 48.4 thousand people, founded in 1979 on the site of the former regional center Sorokino and the Zarinsky railway station in the northern part of the Biysko-Shumskoy Upland next to the Ob tributary, the Chumysh River, the administrative center of Zarinsky district. The main industrial enterprise is the Altai Coke and Chemical Combine, which exports its products to 28 foreign countries, first of all - to China, the Czech Republic.
- ZATO Siberian- a military town, created in 1980, located in the Pervomaisky district, on an area of 330 hectares, 41 km from Barnaul. In fact, it is a closed military town of the 35th missile division, on the territory of which there are rules and a regime, as in any military unit, due to the presence missile systems strategic purpose. On the territory of the village there are cultural institutions that are associated with the history of the construction and functioning of a special-purpose missile division, a museum of the history of "Siberian", an officers' house, a children's sports military club.
- Zmeinogorsk- a city on an area of 320 hectares with a population of 10.9 thousand people, the history of its existence dates back to 1736. The regional center of the Zmeinogorsk region is located near the Kolyvan ridge, near Mount Zmeevaya, at a distance of 360 km from Barnaul. The settlement is usually called the cradle of ore Altai, since from the moment of its creation it was the main one of the miners and suppliers of silver and gold in Russia.
Here, for the first time in Russia, the master of mining I.I.Polzunov invented a steam engine, which was used for the extraction of silver and gold ore. The entire history of the settlement is presented in the local history museum, which is located in the building of the former office of the silver-smelting mine. There are 34 historical monuments cultures, which include the remnants of a military guard outpost of 1754, a mechanized ore supply line and a cast-iron track of an access road for trolleys. - Stone-on-Obi- was founded in 1751, until 1933 it was called Kamen, located just above the Novosibirsk reservoir, 209 km from Barnaul, with a population of 44.5 thousand people, the regional center of the Kamensky district. There is a junction railway station of the Central Siberian Railway in the village. The basis of the economy is the food industry; since 2010, a timber and metal plant has been operating. The local history museum tells the history of the city and the region.
- Slavgorod located 20 km from the border with Kazakhstan, founded in 1910, until 2012 was a regional center, after the administrative reform - a city of regional subordination with a population of 32.3 thousand people. The economy is based on large enterprises - an electrical equipment plant and a press-forging plant. In the educational sphere, there are 5 branches of universities, there are 4 secondary educational institutions.
Relief
Altai Territory on the map of Russia is represented by the West Siberian lower reaches and mountain system Altai - Sayan.
In the west and in the central part, the territory is flat, it includes:
The region is rich in diverse relief, passing from one type to another:
- steppe,
- forests,
- forest-steppe,
- taiga,
- tundra mountain zones.
Climatic conditions
The climate of the region is usually referred to as a contrast-continental type. It is characterized by a long, cold winter with a large abundance of snow and a short, occasionally hot summer. Air temperature drops throughout the year can reach from 90 to 110 ° C.
The average winter temperature is - 22 - 25 ° С, in frosty peaks it drops to - 55 - 58 °. The average summer temperature is +25 + 28 ° С, during hot periods in some parts of the region it can rise to +42 + 46 ° С.
The flat part in the west is low-humid and hot, precipitation gradually begins to increase from a point of 220 mm to 600-750 mm per year. Accordingly, in winter, snow of 40-80 cm decreases with approaching the western side of the Altai Territory to 20-30 cm. 
Permanent snow falls in early December and melts in mid-April. Average depth freezing of the soil - 60-90 cm, and in some steppe snowless regions it can reach 2 m. Due to the presence in the relief in the south east mountain range westerly-east winds prevail.
Flora and fauna
The Altai Territory on the map of Russia is 26% represented by forests. Starting from the tributary of the Ob River, the Barnaulka River and up to the Burla River, there are pine forests and belt-type forests characteristic of the Krai, located near the banks of waterways.
Coniferous species of trees grow mainly in the forests, sometimes they are diluted with deciduous species of birch and aspen. Black woodland taiga is represented by unique cedar and fir forests and copses. V mountainous areas there is a rare representative of the flora - the Siberian cedar, which is sometimes called the Siberian cedar pine; medicinal oil is extracted from its nuts.
In mountain copses, a belt of forest bush is widely represented, richly diluted with fruit and berry species. 
The steppe and forest-steppe parts of the region are represented by 2300 plant species, which is 70% of the diversity of the flora of the central part of Siberia, among which there are also very rare, listed in the Red Book:
- ginseng;
- red root;
- extraordinary peony;
- naked licorice;
- wild sunflower.
The fauna of the Altai Territory due to the terrain and diverse natural areas represented by many wild animals.
Out of 89 species of mammals, the following stand out:
Among 320 bird species there are many such as:
- owl;
- white wagtail;
- falcon;
- black grouse;
- quail;
- demoiselle crane;
- hawk;
- sandpiper;
- gray crane;
- Swan;
- owl.
The aquatic world abounds in a variety of fish from 33 species:
Population
At the beginning of 2018, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia, the population of the Altai Territory was 2.350080 million inhabitants, which occupied 1.6% of the total population of Russia, with a density of 13.99 people / km2. In this context, urban residents - 56.44%, rural residents - 43.56%, while the national indicator of rural residents is 25.6%.
The Altai Territory on the map of Russia is represented by more than 100 nationalities: 94% - Russians, Germans - 2%, since historically they have compact territories of residence, Ukrainians - 1.4%, and the remaining 2.6% include Caucasian nationalities, Mongols, Chinese , Kazakhs.
Government
The executive branch of power is the administration of the region, headed by the governor (head of administration). The administration includes departments, administrations and departments according to their functional affiliation to the spheres of life of the region.
Viktor Tomenko is the current governor of the entire Altai Territory on the map of Russia The legislature is represented in the form of an assembly. Legislative deputies are elected by the capable population in general regional elections for a period of 4 years in the number of 68 delegates, half of whom are in single-mandate constituencies, the rest according to party lists.
The chairperson in charge of the Assembly is elected by the deputies from among their own number at the first session of the new convocation of the representative body.
Economic development
Altai Krai GDP growth is the main indicator economic development region.
Agriculture
Altai Territory belongs to the agrarian region, where the main focus in agriculture is the production of meat and dairy products, as well as cereals, legumes and industrial crops:
Arable land agricultural sector includes 16.1 million hectares, 40% of which are occupied by agricultural land. Due to unfavorable natural conditions in the southern part of the region, agricultural work is considered unprofitable.
Industry
There are 2,346 enterprises in the Altai Territory, of which 385 are classified as large and medium-sized.
A large share in the industry of the region is occupied by mechanical engineering and metalworking, focused on the production of:
- agricultural machinery;
- rolling stock for the needs of the railway;
- forging and pressing installations;
- drilling machines;
- defense products.
The availability of products and raw materials of the agricultural sector of the economy makes it possible to dynamically develop light and food industries in the spheres:
The chemical industry is represented in the region by several enterprises, the main the focus of which is the production of associated materials used in the metallurgical sector:
- sulphuric acid;
- electrolyte;
- sodium sulfide;
- additives for winter fuels;
- concrete modifiers and plasticizers.
V last years resort and sanatorium improvement and tourism are actively developing.
Energy
The industrial capacity of electricity production in the Altai Territory makes it possible to generate 52% of the consumed amount. The United Energy System of Siberia will compensate for the necessary shortfall.
The basis of power generation is the thermal power plants of Rubtsovsk, Biysk, Barnaul. The total capacity of the electricity produced in the region is 1,654.8 MW.
Trade and services
Due to the growth of the gross domestic product, the turnover of export-import operations of the Altai Territory per year exceeds the equivalent of 2350.0 million dollars. USA. Partnership relations in terms of foreign economic activity have been established with more than 150 countries of the world.
The main export products are:
In the domestic market and in retail trade, local and federal retail chains... There is a program to support small entrepreneurs.
With the rise and growth of the economy of the region, resort and sanatorium recovery, tourism, related transfer and leisure services are actively developing, as a result of which the region operates year-round:
- 42 health resorts;
- 437 hotels and hotels;
- 16 travel agencies.
Specially protected natural areas
Specially Protected natural areas represented by reserves:
Architectural and natural attractions
The following places are of interest for tourists:
Transport links in the Altai Territory
The development of land transport in the region is facilitated by the presence of routes with a total length of 15.6 thousand km. Highways of national importance pass through the territory of the region, connecting the subjects of the Federation with neighboring and adjacent countries: Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.
Railway transport began to develop in the tsarist era, when the highways numbered 650 km of gauge, today this figure has grown to 1803 km. The development of this type of transport is facilitated by the presence on the territory of the region of more than 2000 industrial enterprises, which include 866 km of access roads.
The junction stations Aleiskaya, Altayskaya, Biysk, Barnaul, Rubtsovsk are transshipment bases for international freight traffic, carried out from the east of Russia to Central Asia and vice versa.
20% of the territory of the region is served water view transport. The shipping lines of the routes are 650 km long with the corresponding infrastructure of marinas, loading docks, repair docks and stations.
Air traffic carried out by international airport them. Titov, located on the outskirts of Barnaul. TO passenger types public transport in largest cities(Barnaul, Biysk, Rubtsovsk) attributed to route taxis, trams, trolleybuses. The rest of the settlements are served by local buses.
The dynamic development of the Altai Territory in all economic sectors and the life of the state, the constant growth of the gross domestic product, the floating indicator of which has reached 4.2-4.35% in recent years, allow it to take its rightful place on the map of Russia.
Article formatting: Mila Friedan
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Altai region- a region in Western Siberia. This is one of the most beautiful places not only in Russia, but on the whole continent. Several large rivers, the Katun and Biya, flow through the territory of the Altai Territory, which, merging, form a single river Ob.
The Altai Territory, surrounded by massive mountains, is a favorite place for environmental travelers and extreme sports enthusiasts. It is often called the second most beautiful Switzerland, but unlike the Alps, the Altai Territory is cleaner and quieter in terms of tourism.
This region is rich in its resort resources, which include clean mountain air, an abundance of sun, mineral springs with healing water and much more.
Going to Altai region, each of the travelers can choose the most suitable tourist route and type of tourism. One of the most popular and interesting tours offered by numerous travel agencies is climbing Mount Aktru. During this tour, tourists will be able to get acquainted with the nature of the region and plunge into its unique atmosphere.
In addition, a trip to the Altai Territory can be diversified with other activities: horseback riding and camel riding, cycling tours, skiing and snowboarding, resting at camp sites and sanatoriums near mineral springs, as well as rafting on the seething rivers.
The best resorts Altai Territory- this is Belokurikha for those who want to spend a calm, relaxed rest in the Rodon baths, the town of Yarovaya, famous for its curative mud, and the village of Solonovka, where various sports competitions are held annually.
Maps of cities in Altai Territory:
Barnaul | Aleisk | Belokurikha | Biysk | Miner | Zarinsk | Stone-on-Obi | Novoaltaisk | Rubtsovsk | Slavgorod | Yarovoe
Map of Altai Krai with settlements
Altai Territory is one of the subjects of Russia. It was formed at the beginning of the last century. Now the region is part of the federal Siberian District... Main administrative city- Barnaul. On the territory of the region are located: 1, ZATO Sibirskiy, 60 municipal districts, 13 cities and urban districts. See more detailed information at Show detailed map Altai Territory, there is accurate information.
The border passes next to Kemerovo, Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk regions and the Altai Republic. The region is located in the southeastern part of Siberia. Its length is over 1000 kilometers. A detailed map of the Altai Territory with settlements can tell a lot, it reflects all socially significant objects.
The climate in the Altai Territory is formed as a result of a fairly frequent change in air. It is more suited to continental climate... In summer, the temperature stays around 30 degrees. In winter, it is cold there, snowstorms often sweep, it snows. The soil at this time freezes by about 3 meters.
Many travelers and tourists in the given time come to the Altai Territory for resorts. Get to it environmentally clean place it's not difficult now. Sights have been preserved there since ancient times.
Altai Krai is a region located in the southeast of Western Siberia. A map of Altai Krai shows that the region borders on the Kemerovo and Novosibirsk regions, Kazakhstan and the Altai Republic. The area of the region is 167,966 km 2.
Altai Territory is divided into 59 rural areas, 12 cities and 1 closed territorial unit. Largest cities region - Barnaul (administrative center), Biysk, Rubtsovsk, Novoaltaisk and Zarinsk.
The region is home to unique deposits of granite, porphyry, marble and jasper. The economy of the Altai Territory is based on the work of machine-building enterprises, enterprises of the defense complex and the food industry. Agriculture plays an important role in the region's economy.
Historical reference
The settlement of the region began in the second half of the 17th century. Until the middle of the 19th century, the mining industry was well developed in the region. After 1861, factories and mining enterprises began to close. Agriculture began to develop actively.
In 1937, the Altai Territory was formed. During the Great Patriotic War, numerous factories and enterprises were evacuated to the region. In the mid-60s and 70s, large-scale development of virgin lands began.
Must Visit
On a detailed map of the Altai Territory, you can see the natural attractions of the region: Lake Kulundinskoye, 33 nature reserves, Charming mountains, Sinyukha and Semipeshchernaya, Beloe, Mokhovoe and Aya lakes. It is recommended to visit the cities - Barnaul, Biysk and Rubtsovsk.
The resort town Belokurikha, the rock "Four Brothers" not far from Belokurikha, the Tigiretsky reserve, a cascade of waterfalls on the Shinok river, the caves "Hyena's Lair", "Altai", "Geophysical", "Terrible" and Tavdinsky caves are obligatory to visit.
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