Continue the journey: "Big Golden Ring of Altai"
"Big Golden Ring of Altai" - a tourist route with a length of more than 2 thousand km - passes through the most beautiful and interesting places of the region.
On the site from the village of Altai to the city of Biysk, this direction coincides with Travel "Little Golden Ring of Altai".
The journey of the Great Golden Ring of Altai begins atbarnauleThe gates of the Altai region, and there it ends.
Why do you think Barnaul is called "a small corner of St. Petersburg" or "Siberian El Dorado"? The answer to the first question is that the city was built according to the master plan, and the streets are perpendicular and parallel to each other.
The name "Siberian Eldorado" is derived from the fact that educated people who were well versed in music and art lived in Barnaul.
The Altai Museum of Local History, one of the oldest in Siberia, is open in the city, there are unique attractions: the symbol of Barnaul - "The House under the Spire", the Yuri Detochkin Auto theft Museum, the ancient Demidovskaya Square.
In Barnaul there is an amazing museum "World of Time", in which the exhibits are allowed to be put into action: "...to hold in your hands a fragment of a meteorite or a fossilized coral, which is 300 million years old, knock on the keys of a typewriter, survey the surroundings in ancient binoculars or in a tank sight, <...> to inhale the aroma of Shipra or Red Moscow ..." "
The collection of exhibits in the Museum "World of Stone" was created on the basis of the mineralogical collection of S. I. Berger.
Near the building of the Altai Pedagogical University there is a monument to rock musician Viktor Tsoi (sculptor Sergey Kulgachev).
The journey continues in the village of Kurya (277 km from Barnaul), in the homeland of M. T. Kalashnikov, the great Soviet designer of small arms. There, in the building of the former parish school, where the inventor of the world-famous machine gun studied, a memorial museum was opened in his honor.
Mikhail Timofeevich himself participated in the formation of the fund and the exposition of the unique museum, and later members of his family.
Many famous people were born on the Altai land - in their small homeland there is also an excursion route "Big Golden Ring of Altai": 67 km from Barnaul there is a native village of Kosiha poet and translator Robert Rozhdestvensky.
The sun is shining over you
My country.
You are the most beautiful in the world,
My homeland...
(R. Christmas)
83 km from Barnaul is the village of Verkh-Zhilino, the birthplace of the famous cosmonaut German Stepanovich Titov.
In the village of Yeltsovka, 224 km from Barnaul, was born the famous Soviet actress Ekaterina Savinova (“Kuban Cossacks”, “Come tomorrow ...”, “Marriage Balsaminov”, “Come to me, Mukhtar!”).
In 330 km from Barnaul among the mountains and steppes is the city of Zmeinogorsk - previously widely known in Russia and abroad.
In the XVIII and XIX centuries there was an active extraction of Altai gold, and ore mines were arranged according to the latest technology, so that the Russians learned the experience of visiting foreigners.
Now the mines are closed, the mining of silver stopped, and you can get acquainted with the history of the Ore Altai only in the Zmeinogorsk Mining Museum.
Going further - 20 km from Zmeinogorsk you can visit the amazing Kolyvan Lake, around which time and wind have built a real stone city - granite rocks - the remains of the most bizarre shapes and sizes surrounded the reservoir from all sides.
If you have ever been to the main museum of St. Petersburg - the Hermitage, you definitely saw the "Queen of Vases" or the Big Kolyvan Vase, masters worked on its manufacture from 1828 to 1843 at the Kolyvan stone-cutting factory.
The town of Kolyvan is located 80 km from Zmeinogorsk, it is the center of stone carving art of the Altai Territory.
It is the Kolyvan vase that is one of the state symbols of the Altai Territory. Her image is on the coat of arms, the flag of the region, and the order "For services to the Altai Territory".
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