Mountains, rivers and... beauty

Chelyabinsk region is one of the quiet and pleasant places for recreation, for some reason still not favored by travelers. Thanks to this, it retained its color and purity. Here is an amazing place for eco-tourism and just a good rest in nature. The central city - Chelyabinsk successfully combines spacious avenues and squares with cozy squares and fountains. Special attention of guests of the city is enjoyed by the park named after Yu.Gagarin, passing into the city forest. It makes an indelible impression with a variety of magnificent careers. They form a picturesque water labyrinth among granite rocks and majestic pines. The urban forest is also interesting for the children’s railway laid on it, where all the service personnel from drivers to conductors are children. An interesting place for walks is also the A.S. Pushkin City Garden. Manicured park paths are laid among diverse fountains, concert venues and attractions.

But there is something to see not only in the district of the center, but also in the region. One of the attractions is the Taganai National Park. Its area is 56.1 thousand hectares. These are natural complexes with special ecological, historical, cultural and aesthetic value. There are more than 10 natural monuments in the park, more than 900 species of plants grow, more than 190 species of birds and 40 species of mammals live.

 

Rich Chelyabinsk region and its mountains. For example, the Double-Headed Mountain (1034m and 1041m) is the first mountain from the south of the Big Taganay ridge. One of the heads of the mountain is called "Fears" for its resemblance to the wing of a flying bird, and the other "Baranya Lby", the rolling rock slopes resemble such. Framed by a thick spruce tree, the top of the mountain is replete with rock protrusions of considerable size, narrow decays with birch curvature and scattering huge blocks of snow-white quartz, the fragments of which make up a bed of mountain fontanel at the eastern foot of the hill. Hence its name White Key. The water in the spring is crystal clear, and in softness is not inferior to melted snow water.

Attracts tourists and mountain range Respectful crest (1155 m) the second peak of the Big Taganaya to the north of the Double-headed. It is named for its ability to reflect 7-8 times echo. The crest stands out in the mountain system as the back of a giant petrified dragon, with rocks up to 150 meters high. Separated by deep cracks, the stone giant is a fragment of the western wing of the Taganai anticlinal fold, with an almost vertical deposit of quartz layers.

The valley of fairy tales is a rocky saddle between the Responsive Crest and the Roundface. It is a unique area of low-growth dark coniferous forest of park type from which the teeth of bizarre stone remains rise in various places. The originality is created by "sand paths" weathered rocks, and glades with a motley carpet of water, lingonberries, blueberries, and steep cliffs overgrown with forest and meadows.

 

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The Great Stone River is a chaotic heap of huge boulder-like debris of aventurine containing quartz. "River", has a length of more than 6 km with a width of 100 m to 800 m and "flows" in the decay between the Double-Headed and Sredny Taganay. Aventurine quartzite of light, pink, honey shades and dense cherry, brown flowers with the inclusion of scales of mica, hematite and ilmenite, creating a unique game of talanaite (the local name of aventurine). This unique deposit is a national treasure, especially since similar in size and beauty stones known only in India and nowhere else on the globe.

Dalniy Taganay Mountain (1112 m) is the northern end of the Big Taganay Range. The central flat part of the Dalny peak is occupied by an extensive tundra with the oldest weather station "Taganai - Mountain" located here. The tundra landscape is contoured by bizarre rocky remains, passing through decay into a kilometer-long massive ridge, leaving its southern spurs in the valley of the Small Kialim River.

And of course, Mount Itsil (1049m) "eternal wind" is the southern peak of the Itsil ridge. The centuries-old destruction of forests on the planet for the production of wood and logging has led to the disappearance of virgin plantations and therefore miraculously preserved relict trees of the eastern slope of Itzil are a national value.
For fans of extreme alloys, the Chelyabinsk region offers - the Historical and Natural Complex of the Thresholds. In this village, the factory complex of the early XX century has remained almost unchanged - a hydroelectric power plant built about a hundred years ago on the Big Satka River, the Porogi electrometallurgical plant, which was the first in Russia to produce ferrochrome, and then ferrosilicon, and a scientific laboratory. All heads of the ferroalloy industry were trained at the plant. Ferroalloys are still produced here, the plant can be inspected. The hydropower plant regularly supplies the Thresholds with electricity. By the way, the village is still not connected to a single power grid. Last year, a private three-star hotel was built here, all elevators of which are powered by the local hydroelectric power station. The thresholds are located some fifty kilometers from the federal highway M-5, so tourists are often here.

If you are not attracted to mountains and extreme rest, but want to take a quiet walk through colorful natural corners, then for you - the National Park "Zyuratkul". The panorama of the park opens unexpectedly: on the left at the source of the river B. Satka the village of Zyuratkul is visible, on the right - the foot of the Zyuratkul ridge, directly - Lake Zyuratkul, with a semi-ring hugging Mount Lukash, and in the future - mountains covered with dark coniferous forest. It is here, as in focus, you can see and feel the characteristic landscape of the park: a large mirror of the lake, a thin thread of the river, a chain of well-viewed mountain ranges, an abundance of greenery. It is difficult to overestimate the aesthetic impact of the opening panorama, which also varies from dazzling white in winter to brightly colored in autumn. The main natural compositional axes of the park are the ridges crossing the territory of the park from the northeast to the southwest: Urenga, Yagodny, Nurgush, Moskal, Big Suka, separated by valleys, where numerous streams and rivers begin. The territory of the park is located on the watershed: in the southwestern part of the main catchment line is the Yuryuzan River, in the northeastern part - the Malaya Satka River and Lake Zyuratkul. The park is unique in diversity of vegetation and fauna, rich in unique natural objects, monuments of history, archeology, hydraulic engineering.

The district is rich not only in natural beauty but also in archaeological discoveries. This place is Arkaim. Archaeologists say that it was here that the horse was first domesticated, the world's first combat two-wheeled chariot was invented, the world's first metallurgical furnace for copper smelting was found, one of the oldest proto-city civilizations was created, over the mystery of which many generations of scientists have to fight. Here, on Arkaim, according to a number of archaeological scientists, is the birthplace of the legendary Aryan peoples. They were the creators of the famous religion of fire worshipers of the first world religion Zoroastrianism. Its main provisions were subsequently adopted by almost all other religions.

If you want to combine extreme tourism and recreation in nature, if you hear the beckoning call of the mountains, the Chelyabinsk region is always ready to accept you.
(1178 m) the highest and central point of Bolshoi Taganay, the dull-conic top of which is folded with massive stone blocks, the weight of which can reach several tens of tons. The northern shoulder of the mountain is an almost perfectly flat platform at an altitude of about 1100 m, covered with mountain tundra with the growth of blueberries of a number of endemic and relic species.